Sports year 1868
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Events
Crocket / tennis
- The All England Croquet Club is founded. A little later he takes next croquet and tennis into his program.
golf
- Young Tom Morris wins for the first time at the age of 17 years The Open Championship in golf . He manages the first hole-in-one on the eighth hole in Prestwick .
Soccer
- 1. bis 15. February : Sheffield Wednesday win the Cromwell Cup , the second football tournament at Bramall Lane in Sheffield.
Equestrian sport
- May 17th : The Berlin racecourse Hoppegarten is put into operation in Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten in the presence of King Wilhelm I.
Cycling
- May 31 : Briton James Moore wins one of the first cycle races in the Parc de Saint-Cloud near Paris . The race goes over a distance of 1,200 meters.
- November 1st : Four participants in Bordeaux hold the first all-female cycling competition in the Parc Bordelais.
rowing
- April 4th : Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race in 20'56 ″.
- July 24 : Harvard defeats Yale in the Harvard-Yale regatta in 17'48.5 ″.
sailing
- The North German Regatta Association is founded in Hamburg .
do gymnastics
- Theodor Georgii and Ferdinand Goetz found the German Gymnastics Association . as an amalgamation of the gymnastics clubs in Germany and also the German gymnastics clubs in nearby countries, for example in Prague.
Winter sports
Statue of Sondre Norheim in his birthplace Morgedal
- The Norwegian Sondre Norheim reached the width of 19.5 meters in ski jumping on the Telemarkbakken in Skien , Norway, and thus set the first official ski jumping world record.
Born
- January 2 : Arthur Gore , British tennis player († 1928 )
- March 19 : Senda Berenson Abbott , American sports teacher († 1954 )
- March 29 : Selwyn Edge , British racing car driver († 1940 )
- March 31 : Viktor Voss , German tennis player († 1936 )
- May 13 : Sumner Paine , American marksman († 1904 )
- June 6 : Dawid Janowski , Polish chess player († 1927 )
- August 11 : Georg Sorge , German cyclist and bicycle manufacturer († 1954 )
- September 4 : Franz Gerger , Austrian cyclist († 1937 )
- October 7th : Fred Hovey , American tennis player († 1945 )
- October 28 : James Connolly , American athlete, first modern Olympic champion († 1957 )
- November 4 : Camille Jenatzy , Belgian racing driver and designer († 1913 )
- November 28 : Arthur Linton , Welsh cyclist († 1896 )
- December 23 : Richard Teichmann , German chess master († 1925 )
- December 24th : Emanuel Lasker , German chess player, 1894–1921 world champion († 1941 )
See also
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