Sports year 1862

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Sports year 1862
Logo of the OEAV today
The Austrian Alpine Club is founded in Vienna .
chronology
22nd of January In Trysil , the first competition is in Ski Jumping performed.
22nd of January The Bolzano gymnastics club is founded in 1862 .
February 12th Miroslav Tyrš founds the Slavic gymnastics movement Sokol .
12. April Oxford wins the Boat Race against Cambridge .
June 28th Adolf Anderssen wins the chess tournament on the occasion of the Great London Exposition .
June 30th Abraham Roth and Edmund von Fellenberg manage the first ascent of the Doldenhorn .
July 18th The Dent Blanche in the Valais Alps is climbed for the first time.
30th July The Täschhorn in the Valais Alps is climbed for the first time.
4th of August The Buxtehude gymnastics and sports club is founded.
20th of August The Weinheim gymnastics club is founded.
August 23 Melchior Anderegg and Leslie Stephen are the first to climb Monte Disgrazia .
30th of October The Hermannstadt gymnastics club is founded.
November 19th The Austrian Alpine Club is founded.
December 29th The first football game will be played on Bramall Lane in Sheffield .

Events

Rockclimbing

Leslie Stephen about 1860

Boxing

  • Jem Mace defends his title as English champion against Tom King . In the same year, however, King wins a rematch and becomes the new heavyweight champion.

fencing

Soccer

golf

athletics

horse race

polo

  • The Calcutta Polo Club , the oldest still existing polo club in the world, is founded by British soldiers in India.

rowing

On April 12th, Oxford wins the 19th Boat Race against Cambridge in a time of 24'04 ″.

The London Rowing Club wins the Grand Challenge Cup of the Henley Royal Regatta in London.

chess

Adolf Anderssen

sailing

Sport shooting

Tin medal Federal Shooting Frankfurt 1862
  • July 13th to 21st : The German Shooting Federation, founded in the previous year, holds the First German Shooting Festival in Frankfurt am Main . 8,000 shooters from 9 nations come together at 100 shooting ranges. The federal shooting is to take place every three years in the future.

do gymnastics

Fügner in Sokol uniform, drawing Jan Vilímek
Tyrš in Sokol uniform, drawing by Jan Vilímek

Winter sports

Ball on the Victoria Rink , 1865

Born

Date of birth saved

Exact date of birth unknown

Died

Jim Creighton

See also

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