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Sports year 1904
Because of their embedding in the world exhibition, the III. Olympic Games show little audience interest.
chronology

Events

Olympic games

• July 1 to November 23 : In St. Louis the III. Olympic Games take place.

• The Canadian Olympic Committee is established.

American football

• Canton Bulldogs American football team is formed in Canton, Ohio .

badminton

The climax of the badminton year 1904 were the All England and the Irish Open .

International events

event	Men's singles	Ladies singles	Men's doubles	Ladies doubles	Mixed
All of England	Henry Norman Marrett	Ethel B. Thomson	Albert Davis Prebble Henry Norman Marrett	Ethel B. Thomson Meriel Lucas	Henry Norman Marrett Dorothea K. Douglass
Irish Open	Blayney Hamilton	-	Blayney Hamilton Thomas D. Good	Meriel Lucas Ethel B. Thomson	LU Ransford Mabel Hardy

Soccer

• February 28 : The Portuguese football club Benfica Lisbon is founded.
• March 18 : After the dissolution of the Austrian Football Union , the Austrian Football Association is founded in Vienna .
• March 27th : By beating Juventus Turin 1-0 , Genoa wins its sixth championship in Italy in 1893 .
• April 17th : FC St. Gallen becomes Swiss champions.
• May 4th : The Gelsenkirchen Schalke 04 football club is founded.
• May 21 : FIFA is founded.
• May 29th : The final of the German championship between defending champions VfB Leipzig and Britannia 92 Berlin is canceled due to a dispute about the venue.
• August 12 : The football club Electro Club is founded in the Brazilian city ​​of Botafogo , which in the same year merges with the local rowing club to form the football and regatta club Botafogo FR .
• September 18 : America FC is founded in Rio de Janeiro.
• October 4th : The sports club HB Tórshavn is founded in the Faroe Islands .

• Sheffield Wednesday becomes English champion.

athletics

National Athletics Championships

• German Athletics Championships 1904

Athletics world records

Long distance running

• June 5 : Alfred Shrubb , Great Britain, runs the men's 10,000 meters in 31: 02.4 min.
• June 19 : Louis de Fleurac , France, runs the men's 3000 meters in 9: 02.4 min.

Jump disciplines

• April 23 : Norman Dole , USA, jumps 3.69 m in the men's pole vault .
• July 6 : Ray Ewry , USA, jumps 3.476 m in the standing long jump .

Cycling

• July 2nd - 24th : Henry Cornet from France wins the second edition of the Tour de France , which takes place on the same route as the tour last year .

• UCI track world championships 1904

Motorsport

• Motor racing year 1904

rowing

• Cambridge defeated Oxford in the boat race .

Wrestling / swinging

• 23 May : World wrestling championships are held for the first time in Vienna .

• Unofficial European Wrestling Championships 1904
• The Brünigschwinget is held for the first time.

rugby

• March 19 : Scotland wins the 1904 Home Nations Championship .

swim

• German swimming championships 1904

Winter sports

• World figure skating championship 1904
• European figure skating championship 1904

Born

First half of the year

• January 15 : Jim Bowdoin , American football player († 1969 )
• 0February 4 : Josef Klein , German motorcycle racer († 1973 )
• February 15 : Antonin Magne , French cyclist († 1983 )
• February 22nd : Ernst Jakob Henne , German motor sportsman († 2005 )
• February 27 : André Leducq , French cyclist († 1980 )

• 0March 3 : Werner Storz , German athlete († 1982 )
• 0March 9 : Bobby Kohlrausch , German racing car driver († 1953 )
• March 10 : Oran Pape , American football player and police officer († 1936 )
• March 13 : August Heim , German fencer († 1976 )
• March 17 : Walfried Winkler , German motorcycle racer († 1982 )
• March 26 : Attilio Ferraris , Italian football player († 1947 )

• 0April 8 : Karl Scherm , German football player († 1977 )
• April 14 : Hans Schumann , German motorcycle racer († 1968 )

• 0May 4th : Bruno Wolke , German racing cyclist († 1973 )
• 0May 5 : Robert Kronfeld , Austrian glider pilot († 1948 )
• 0May 9 : Pol Demeuter , Belgian motorcycle racer († 1934 )
• May 15 : Georg Knöpfle , German soccer player and soccer coach († 1987 )
• May 15 : Emmi Haux , German athlete († 1987 )
• May 27 : Chuhei Nambu , Japanese athlete and Olympic champion († 1997 )

• 0June 2 : František Plánička , Czech football player († 1996 )
• 0June 2 : Johnny Weissmüller , American swimmer and film actor († 1984 )
• 0June 4th : Henry Grob , Swiss chess master († 1974 )
• 0June 9 : Herdis McCrary , American football player († 1981 )
• June 14 : Woldemar Gerschler , German athletics coach († 1982 )
• June 18 : Clive Dunfee , German athletics trainer († 1932 )
• June 29 : Allie Morrison , American wrestler and Olympic champion († 1966 )
• June 29 : Arthur Müller , German motorcycle racer († 1983 )

Second half of the year

• 0July 2nd : René Lacoste , French tennis player and fashion designer († 1996 )
• 0July 3 : Lauri Virtanen , Finnish long-distance runner († 1982 )

• 0August 2 : Werner Seelenbinder , German wrestler and communist († 1944 )
• 0August 6 : Henry Iba , American basketball coach († 1993 )
• 0August 8 : Achille Varzi , Italian racing driver († 1948 )
• 0August 9 : Weston Adams , American sports official († 1973 )
• August 10 : Karl Helling , German chess player († 1937 )
• August 20 : Hans-Georg Lindenstaedt , German table tennis player († 1975 )
• August 25 : Jimmy Slattery , American light heavyweight boxer († 1960 )

• 0September 7th : Daniel Prenn , German tennis and table tennis player († 1991 )
• 0September 9 : Feroze Khan , Pakistani hockey player and Olympic champion († 2005 )
• September 13 : Luigi Bertolini , Italian football player († 1977 )
• September 14 : Paul Buschenhagen , German cyclist († 1993 )
• September 16 : Oscar Guldager , Danish cyclist († 1986 )
• September 28 : Giulio Gaudini , Italian fencer († 1948 )

• 0October 1 : Hans Brunke , German soccer player († 1985 )
• 0October 1 : Milly Reuter , German golfer, track and field athlete and Olympic participant († 1976 )
• 0October 7th : Armando Castellazzi , Italian football player and coach († 1968 )
• 0October 8 : Yves Giraud-Cabantous , French racing driver († 1973 )
• October 19 : Viktor Rausch , German racing cyclist († 1985 )
• October 26 : Virgilio Felice Levratto , Italian football player and coach († 1968 )

• 0November 5 : Alfredo Brilhante da Costa , Brazilian soccer player († 1980 )
• 0November 7th : Gino Rossetti , Italian football player († 1992 )
• November 10 : André Raynaud , French cyclist († 1937 )
• November 19 : Antonio Vojak , Italian football player and coach († 1977 )
• November 23 : Ludwig Rellstab , German chess player († 1983 )
• November 25th : Toni Ortelli , Italian alpinist, conductor and composer († 2000 )
• November 25 : Lillian Copeland , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1964 )

• 0December 8 : Marty Barry , Canadian ice hockey player († 1969 )
• 0December 8 : Wilmer Allison , American tennis player († 1977 )
• December 14 : Emmerich Nagy , Austrian motorcycle racer († 1929 )
• December 27 : René Bonnet , French racing driver and vehicle designer († 1983 )

Died

• February 28 : Levegh (Alfred Velghe), French racing driver (* 1870 )
• April 18 : Sumner Paine , American marksman (* 1868 )
• July 2nd : Henri Béconnais , French racing driver (* 1869 )

• November 4 : Alexander Panschin , Russian speed skater and figure skater (* 1863 )
• November 21 : Jimmy Michael , Welsh cyclist (* 1877 )
• December 12th : Emanuel Schiffers , Russian chess master (* 1850 )

See also

Portal: Sport  - Overview of Wikipedia content on sport

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