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Sports year 1889
At the world chess championship in 1889 , Wilhelm Steinitz successfully defended his title against Michail Tschigorin .

Events

Alpinism

Hans Meyer in front of the base camp on Kilimanjaro

• October 6th : The Leipzig geographer Hans Meyer and the Austrian alpinist Ludwig Purtscheller succeed in the first ascent of the Kibo , the highest peak of the Kilimanjaro massif.

Boxing / fencing

• John L. Sullivan defeated Johnny Kilraine in the last title fight in history under the London Prize Ring Rules in heavyweight boxing after 75 rounds by knockout.
• The fencing company Basel is founded.

Soccer

• March 22nd : The English football club Sheffield United is founded.
• April 20 : Preston North End becomes the first English football champion . In the same year the team also wins the FA Cup .
• May 18 : Dansk Boldspil-Union is founded in Denmark , one of the oldest football associations in the world.
• June 6th : The Berlin Thorball and Football Club Viktoria from 1889 is founded as the fourth football club in the German capital .
• December 8th : The Nederlandsche Voetbal- en Athletic Bond is founded in the Netherlands .

• The Football Alliance is founded in England to compete with The Football League .
• The Northern Irish football club Glenavon FC is founded.

golf

• Willie Park Jr. wins for the second time since 1887 The Open Championship in golf .

rowing

• March 30th : Cambridge defeats Oxford in the Boat Race in 20'14 ".

• The Swedish rowing club Hammarby Roddförening is founded.

chess

• January 20th bis 24. February : In the World Chess Championship 1889 defended Wilhelm Steinitz its 1,886 -won title successfully against Mikhail Chigorin .
• August 24th : Emanuel Lasker wins the chess game Lasker - Bauer, Amsterdam 1889 against Johann Hermann Bauer by a double bishop sacrifice.

sailing

• The annual Travemuende Week starts with the race between two Hamburg merchants .

Others

• April 30th : The sporting part of the fourth Olympics in Athens opens.
• The French athletics association Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques is opening up to other sports.

Born

January to June

• 0January 7th : Hans Johner , Swiss chess player and musician († 1975 )
• January 22nd : Henri Pélissier , French cyclist († 1935 )

• 0February 1 : Anton Cargnelli , Austrian football player and coach († 1974 )
• February 14 : Bartolomeo Costantini , Italian aviator and racing car driver († 1941 )
• February 25 : Albin Stenroos , Finnish marathon runner and Olympic champion († 1971 )

• March 16 : Hans Riso , German football player († after 1913)
• March 16 : Reggie Walker , South African athlete and Olympic champion († 1951 )
• March 19 : Grigori Jakowlewitsch Löwenfisch , Soviet chess player († 1961 )
• March 24 : Albert Hill , British athlete and Olympic champion († 1969 )
• March 31 : Adolf Jäger , German football player († 1944 )

• 0April 1 : Hermann Felsner , Austrian football coach († 1977 )
• 0April 5 : Mestre Pastinha , Brazilian martial artist and founder of Capoeira de Angola († 1981 )
• April 14 : Efim Bogolyubov , Ukrainian-German chess grandmaster († 1952 )
• April 19 : Joe Dawson , American racing car driver († 1946 )
• April 20 : Tonny Kessler , Dutch football player († 1960 )
• April 29 : Jan van der Sluis , Dutch football player († 1952 )
• April 30th : Ernest Pasquier , French pacemaker

• 0May 3 : Gottfried Fuchs , German football player († 1972 )
• 0May 8 : Louis "Luigi" Marie Van Hege , Belgian football player and bobsledder († 1975 )
• May 26 : Victor Linart , Belgian cyclist († 1977 )
• May 28 : Richard Réti , Austro-Hungarian chess player († 1929 )

• 0June 2 : Jozef Van Bever , Belgian cyclist († 1954 )
• June 12 : Otto Merz , German automobile racing driver († 1933 )
• June 14 : Amedeo Ruggeri , Italian motorcycle and automobile racing driver († 1932 )
• June 21 : Ralph Craig , American athlete († 1972 )
• June 24 : Howard Wilcox , American racing car driver († 1923 )

July to December

• 0July 9 : Jan Kok , Dutch football player († 1958 )
• July 29th : Lajos Asztalos , Hungarian chess player and chess author († 1956 )
• July 31 : Gustav Schumm , German football player and official († 1966 )

• August 23 : Louis Villeneuve , French racing car driver († 1969 )
• August 26 : Caberto Conelli , Italian racing car driver and nobleman († 1974 )
• August 26 : Richard Rau , German athlete and Olympic participant († 1945 )

• September 20 : Charles Reidpath , American city architect, athlete and Olympic champion († 1975 )

• October 11 : Imre Schlosser , Hungarian football player († 1959 )
• October 26 : Karl Saldow , German racing cyclist († 1951 )
• October 30 : Gustav Bark , Swiss football player

• 0November 1 : Huldreich Heusser , German racing car driver († 1928 )
• 0November 6 : Gabriel Hanot , French football player and journalist († 1968 )
• November 11 : Marcel Buysse , Belgian cyclist († 1939 )
• November 16 : Emil Oberle , German football player († 1955 )

• 0December 2 : Arvo Ossian Aaltonen , Finnish swimmer († 1949 )
• 0December 3 : Spencer Wishart , American racing driver († 1914 )
• 0December 4 : Jack Ernst , American football player († 1968 )
• 0December 9th : Hannes Kolehmainen , Finnish long-distance runner († 1966 )
• December 12th : Otto Scheff , Austrian freestyle swimmer († 1956 )
• December 13 : Bernhard Villinger , German doctor, athlete, film pioneer and researcher († 1967 )

See also

Portal: Sport  - Overview of Wikipedia content on sport

Web links

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