Sports year 1906

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Sports year 1906
The Olympic Intermediate Games take place in Athens .
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Events

Olympic games

• April 22nd to May 2nd : The Olympic Intermediate Games take place in Athens .

badminton

The climax of the badminton year 1906 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	Norman Wood	Ethel Thomson Larcombe	Henry Norman Marrett George Alan Thomas	Ethel B. Thomson Meriel Lucas	George Alan Thomas Ethel B. Thomson
Irish Open	Henry Norman Marrett	-	Henry Norman Marrett Albert Davis Prebble	-	Norman Wood Hazel Hogarth

balloon ride

James Gordon Bennett Jr.

The 1906 Cup

• September 30 : On the initiative of the American newspaper publisher and sports enthusiast James Gordon Bennett junior , the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett , a race for gas balloons, is held for the first time in Paris . The Americans Frank Purdy Lahm and Henry Hersey are the first winners.

Soccer

• April 22nd: AC Milan become Italian champions.
• May 14th: FC Winterthur becomes champions in Switzerland.
• May 27th: VfB Leipzig becomes German football champions.
• The Liverpool wins his second English championship.

Cycling

• July 4th to 29th : Tour de France 1906 : René Pottier from France wins ahead of Georges Passerieu .

• The cycle race around the Harz Mountains will be held for the first time.
• UCI track world championships 1906

Motorsport

Alessandro Cagno at the Targa Florio 1906

• May 6 : Ten automobiles take part in the first Targa Florio , a long-distance race on public mountain roads in Sicily. The initiator and namesake of the race is the entrepreneur Count Vincenzo Florio. The winner is Alessandro Cagno with the Fabbrica Automobili Itala team .

• 1906 Grand Prix season

Wrestling

• At the German wrestling championships , wrestling is in weight classes for the first time.

rowing

• Cambridge defeated Oxford in the boat race .

rugby

• March 17 : Wales wins the 1906 Home Nations Championship .

Winter sports

• January 27 : Rudolf Gundersen , Norway, runs the 500 meter speed skating in Davos in 44.8 s.

• World Figure Skating Championships 1906
• European figure skating championship 1906

Founding of clubs

• June 13 : The Akademicki Klub Footballowy football club is founded in Cracow after teams from Lwów, where the first football teams in Poland originated, visited Cracow.
• July 1st : The Portuguese sports club Sporting Lisbon is founded.
• November 18th : The Swedish sports club Järva IS is founded.
• December 3rd : FC Turin is founded.

• SC Wacker Wien is founded in Vienna-Meidling .
• The fencing and athletics association VAC Budapest is founded.

Born

January to April

• January 6th : Arie van der Pluym , Dutch motorcycle racer († 1934 )
• January 17 : Guillermo Stábile , Argentinian football player († 1966 )
• January 25 : Toni Ulmen , German motorcycle and automobile racer († 1976 )
• January 26th : Guglielmo Sandri Italian automobile and motorcycle racing driver († 1961 )

• February 8 : Richard Hofmann , German soccer player († 1983 )
• February 15 : Jan Pijnenburg , Dutch cyclist († 1979 )
• February 16 : Vera Menchik , Czech-British chess player, first world chess champion in history († 1944 )
• February 24 : Ludwig Stubbendorff , German rider († 1941 )
• February 27 : Milo Barus , German strength athlete († 1977 )

• March 4 : Georges Ronsse , Belgian cyclist († 1969 )
• March 18 : Karl Sesta , Austrian football player († 1974 )
• March 23 : José Della Torre , Argentinian football player and coach († 1979 )
• March 27 : Cecil Purdy , Australian chess player († 1979 )
• March 29 : James Bausch , American track and field athlete and American football player († 1974 )

• April 1 : Josef Giggenbach , German motorcycle racer († 1980 )
• April 4 : Willy Falck Hansen , Danish racing cyclist († 1978 )
• April 8 : Adolf Schön , German racing cyclist († 1987 )
• April 11 : Renato Cesarini , Italian-Argentinian football player and coach († 1969 )
• April 23 : Jorge Pelikan , Czech-Argentine chess master († 1984 )

May to August

• 0May 9 : Reinhard Cherubim , German chess player, chess journalist, chess official († 1980 )
• May 26 : Mauri Rose , American racing driver († 1981 )
• May 27 : Friedrich Messerschmidt (1906–1929), German motorcycle racer († 1929 )
• May 30 : Rudolf Hasse , German automobile racing driver († 1942 )

• 0June 5 : Eraldo Monzeglio , Italian football player and coach († 1981 )
• 0June 6 : Stu Clancy , American football player († 1965 )
• 0June 6th : Octave Dayen , French cyclist († 1987 )
• 0June 9 : Rudolf Wolke , German racing cyclist († 1979 )
• June 10 : Paul Krewer , German racing cyclist († 1997 )
• June 11 : Leo Steinweg , German motorcycle racer († 1945 )
• June 27 : Günther Bartels , German motorcycle racer († 1983 )

• 0July 2 : Séra Martin , French athlete († 1993 )
• 0July 6th : Cuth Harrison , British Formula 1 racing driver († 1981 )
• July 24 : Gianfranco Comotti , Italian racing driver († 1963 )
• July 30th : Alex Thépot , French football player († 1989 )
• July 30 : Richard Krebs , German athlete († 1996 )

• 0August 4th : Robert Mazaud , French racing car driver († 1946 )
• August 12 : Harry Hopman , Australian tennis player († 1985 )
• August 16 : George Connor , American racing driver († 2001 )
• August 20 : Henry Austin , English tennis player († 2000 )
• August 24 : Ludwig Wenz , German football player († 1968 )
• August 27 : Eino Penttilä , Finnish javelin thrower († 1982 )
• August 29 : Sepp Müller , German motorcycle racer († 1963 )
• August 31 : Raymond Sommer , French racing driver († 1950 )

September to December

• 0September 8 : Fritz Schilgen , German athlete († 2005 )
• 0September 9 : Harri Larva , Finnish middle-distance runner and Olympic champion († 1980 )
• September 14 : Flávio Costa , Brazilian soccer player and coach († 1999 )
• September 20 : Philip Stuart Milner-Barry , British chess master († 1995 )
• September 22nd : Gustav Schäfer , German rower and Olympic champion († 1991 )
• September 27 : Jef Dervaes , Belgian cyclist († 1986 )

• 0October 4 : Eitel Cantoni , Uruguayan racing car driver († 1997 )
• 0October 9 : Tex Irvin , American football player († 1978 )
• October 11 : Earl Clark , American football player and coach († 1978 )
• October 12 : Anderl Heckmair , German mountaineer and guide († 2005 )
• October 12 : Piero Taruffi , Italian racing driver († 1988 )
• October 17th : Hans Haas , Austrian weightlifter and Olympic champion († 1973 )
• October 26 : Primo Carnera , Italian heavyweight boxer († 1967 )
• October 30 : Giuseppe Farina , Italian racing driver, first Formula 1 world champion († 1966 )

• November 13 : Willibald Kreß , German football player († 1989 )
• November 22 : Jørgen Juve , Norwegian football player († 1983 )
• November 26th : Maximilian zu Hardegg , Austrian nobleman and racing car driver († 1931 )
• November 29 : Käthe Krauss , German athlete and Olympian († 1970 )

• 0December 4 : Toni Babl , German motorcycle racer († 1936 )
• 0December 4th : Richard Wahl , German fencer († 1982 )
• 0December 9 : Hans Mock , German and Austrian football player († 1982 )
• December 10 : Jules Ladoumègue , French athlete († 1973 )
• December 11 : Pietro Serantoni , Italian football player and coach († 1964 )
• December 28 : Leni Schmidt , German sprinter († 1985 )
• December 31 : Erna Bogen , Hungarian fencer († 2002 )

Day unknown

• Juan Zanelli , Chilean racing car driver and resistance fighter in World War II († 1944 )

Died

• April 19 : Spencer Gore , English tennis and cricket player (* 1850 )
• June 17th : Harry Nelson Pillsbury , American chess player (* 1872 )

See also

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