Sports year 1893
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Events
badminton
The Badminton Association was founded by 14 clubs on September 12th, 1893 to create uniformity in badminton rules. At this point in time, a badminton field can differ in length, for example, by up to three meters. Colonel SSC Dolby, who becomes the first president and is also Honorary Treasurer and Honorary Secretary, does great service to the association.
Cricket, soccer
- March 23 : The 1st Hanau Football Club in 1893 is founded.
- May 11 : The sports club Minerva 93 Berlin is founded.
- June 4th : The Southwest German Football Union is founded in Baden-Baden .
- June 29th : The Altona Cricket Club 1893 is founded.
- September 7 : In Genoa arises with the Genoa Cricket and Football Club , the oldest now Italian football club .
- September 9 : The FV Stuttgart is founded.
- September 28 : The Portuguese football club FC Porto is founded.
- October 1st : The Berlin goal and football club Rapide is founded in Niederschönhausen near Berlin.
- November 15 : The football club FC Basel is founded.
- November 16 : The football club Sparta Prague is founded under the name AC Královské Vinohrady .
- The Czech football club ČFK Kickers is founded.
Cycling
- May 11th : The Buffalo Velodrome opens in Paris. Here Henri Desgrange sets the first hour record without a pacemaker. Also in May, Georges Cassignard set a new world record over 1 km with a standing start with 1:28 min.
- June 29th / 30th : The endurance bike ride Vienna – Berlin ends with a victory for Bayern Josef Fischer . This most important German and Austrian bike race before the First World War triggered a boom in bicycles .
- August 11th / 12th : At the track cycling world championships in 1893 the American Arthur Augustus Zimmerman becomes the first world champion over the 10 km and the sprint race. The South African Laurens Smitz Meintjes became the first world champion in the stand-up race .
- On September 27 comes Charles Terront after a 14-day voyage from St. Petersburg , take the Buffalo cycling track in Paris.
- The Paris-Brussels cycle race will be held for the first time.
do gymnastics
- May 2nd : The Workers' Gymnastics Federation is founded after the socialist laws are repealed in Germany .
Winter sports
Championships / competitions
- 21 / January 22 : In the European Figure Skating Championships in 1893 , it is the first major judges scandal in history. The results are annulled in 1895.
- February 2 : In Mürzzuschlag , Austria , the first alpine ski race in Central Europe is held on the initiative of the innkeeper Toni Schruf .
- March 17 : The Montréal Amateur Athletic Association wins the first Stanley Cup without a challenger.
- The Dutchman Jaap Eden wins the first official speed skating world championship .
Records
Speed skating world records
- January 11th : Jaap Eden , Netherlands, runs the 1500 meter speed skating in Groningen in 2: 35.0 min.
- January 14th : Oskar Fredriksen , Norway, runs the 10,000 meter speed skating in Amsterdam in 20: 21.4 minutes.
- February 5 : Alfred Næss , Norway, runs the 500 meter speed skating in Hamar in 49.4 seconds and is the first person to run under 50 seconds.
- February 13th : Halfdan Nielsen , Norway, runs the 10,000 meter speed skating in Stockholm in 19: 47.4 minutes, making it the first person to run under 20 minutes.
- February 25th : Peder Østlund , Norway, runs the 1500 meter speed skating in Hamar in 2: 32.6 minutes.
- February 26th : The Norwegians Einar Halvorsen and Alfred Næss run the 500 meter speed skating in Hamar in 48.0 s each on the same day.
- February 26th : Einar Halvorsen , Norway, runs the 5000 meter speed skating in Hamar in 9: 07.0 min.
Ski jumping
- Torjus Hemmestveit , Norway, reached 31.4 meters in ski jumping .
Founding of clubs
- November 16 : Dissatisfied athletes from AC Prague found the AC Královské Vinohrady ice sports club , from which Sparta Prague emerged after a few years .
Other events
- March 21 : The first women's basketball game takes place at Smith College in Massachusetts on the initiative of Senda Berenson Abbott .
- March 22nd : Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race in 18'45 ″.
- April 6th / 7th : The boxing match Andy Bowen against Jack Burke remained without a winner after 110 rounds and 7 hours 19 minutes. It is the longest boxing match in history.
- June 13 : The world's first female golf tournament takes place in Lytham St Annes . Lady Margaret Scott is the winner of the first British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship .
Born
- January 8 : Herbert Ernst , German motorcycle racer and entrepreneur († after 1954 )
- January 15 : Urho Peltonen , Finnish javelin thrower († 1950 )
- January 27 : Oskar Friman , Finnish wrestler († 1933 )
- February 10 : William Tilden , American tennis player († 1953 )
- February 13 : Alfréd Schaffer , Hungarian football player and coach († 1945 )
- March 4 : Aleksanteri Toivola , Finnish wrestler († 1987 )
- March 5 : Guus de Serière , Dutch football player († 1980 )
- March 9 : Roland Jacobi , Hungarian table tennis player († 1951 )
- March 16 : Théodore Le Du , French racing car driver († 1966 )
- March 18 : Costante Girardengo , Italian racing cyclist († 1987 )
- March 24th : Gastone Brilli-Peri , Italian cyclist, motorcycle and automobile racer († 1930 )
- March 29 : Amílcar Barbuy , Italian-Brazilian football player and coach († 1965 )
- April 17th : Marguerite Broquedis , French tennis player († 1993 )
- April 21 : Rocky Kansas , American lightweight boxer of Italian origin († 1954 )
- April 30th : Gyula Breyer , Hungarian chess master († 1921 )
- May 10 : György Négyesy , Hungarian chess player († 1992 )
- May 17 : Kurt Diemer , German soccer player († 1953 )
- May 31 : Jos van Son , Dutch football player († 1956 )
- June 19 : Pierre Bacqueyrisses , French entrepreneur and racing car driver († 1949 )
- August 18 : Burleigh Grimes , American athlete († 1985 )
- August 31 : Georg Thumshirn , German motorcycle racer († 1955 )
- September 2 : Ilse Friedleben , German tennis player († 1963 )
- October 1 : Yip Man , Chinese Wing Chun Grand Master († 1972 )
- October 5th : Lajos Czeizler , Hungarian football coach († 1969 )
- November 5 : Raymond Dubly , French football player († 1988 )
- November 11 : Paul von Guilleaume , German automobile racing driver and motorsport official († 1970 )
- November 14 : Tommy Milton , American racing driver († 1962 )
- November 21 : Ernst Grünfeld , Austrian chess grandmaster († 1962 )
- December 2 : Walter Risse , German football player († 1969 )
- December 23 : Hans Schmidt , German soccer player and coach († 1971 )
- December 24th : Wout Buitenweg , Dutch football player († 1976 )
Died
- June 15 : Ferenc Erkel , Hungarian composer and chess player (* 1810 )
- September 28th : Georges Cassignard , French cyclist (* 1873 )
See also
Web links
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