Sports year 1908

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Sports year 1908
The French Lucien Petit-Breton wins the Tour de France for the second time .	At the games of the IV. Olympiad , competitions in a winter sport are held for the first time.
Marathon runner Dorando Pietri becomes the tragic hero of the London Olympics.
chronology

Events

Olympic games

• March 16 : The Austrian Olympic Committee is founded.

British athletes march in during the opening ceremony

Wyndham neck shaft at the finish of the "ghost race" of the Olympic Games

• April 27 to October 31 : The Games of the IV Olympiad will take place in London , including competitions in figure skating.
• April 27 to June 21 : The "Spring Games" of the Olympic Games are held. There will be competitions in rackets (April 27th), indoor tennis (May 6th to 14th), Jeu de Paume (May 18th to 28th) and polo (June 18th and 21st).
• July 6th to 25th : The so-called "Summer Games" of the Olympic Games are held, in which around 2/3 of the total competitions are held.
• July 27th to August 29th : The "Nautical Games" of the Olympic Games are held. They include the sports of sailing (July 27th to 29th and August 11th to 12th), rowing (July 28th to 31st) and motor boat racing (August 28th to 29th).
• October 19 to 31 : The so-called "Winter Games" include competitions in boxing , figure skating , hockey , football , lacrosse , rugby and the final banquet.

Ulrich Salchow , Sweden, at the Olympic Games

• October 28th / 29th : As part of the Olympic Games, competitions in a winter sport will be held for the first time, figure skating . The Swede Ulrich Salchow wins in the men's race ahead of his compatriots Richard Johansson and Per Thorén . The winner of the one-off special figures for men is the Russian Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Kolomenkin-Panin , who previously submitted an unsuccessful protest against Salchow.

badminton

The climax of the badminton year 1908 were the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open and the French Open .

International events

event	Men's singles	Ladies singles	Men's doubles	Ladies doubles	Mixed
All of England	Henry Norman Marrett	Meriel Lucas	Henry Norman Marrett George Alan Thomas	GL Murray Meriel Lucas	Norman Wood Meriel Lucas
French Open	Frank Chesterton	Margaret Larminie	Frank Chesterton Stewart Marsden Massey	Margaret Larminie Lavinia Clara Radeglia	Frank Chesterton Margaret Larminie
Irish Open	Arthur Cave	-	Blayney Hamilton Thomas D. Good	Meriel Lucas Margaret Larminie	Blayney Hamilton Meriel Lucas
Scottish Open	Frank Chesterton	-	Frank Chesterton Hugh Comyn	Meriel Lucas, G.L. Murray	Frank Chesterton Meriel Lucas

baseball

The Cubs 1908 with mascots

• The Chicago Cubs win the 1908 World Series against the Detroit Tigers . It will be her last World Series win in 108 years.

Soccer

• February 3rd : The football club Podosferikos Omilos Athinon is founded in Athens .
• March 9th : Disgruntled cosmopolitan members of the Milan Cricket and Football Club found the Football Club Internazionale Milano , in which, unlike the nationalist Milan CFC , non-Italians are allowed to play.

Swiss team

German team and supervisor

• April 5 : The first official international match of the German national soccer team , the international soccer game Switzerland - Germany 1908 , ends with a 5-3 victory for Switzerland .
• May 27 : In the Brussels suburb of Anderlecht founding of the at Sporting Club Anderlecht .
• July 19 : Young people from the Rotterdam district of Feijenoord found the football club Wilhelmina Rotterdam .

• The workers' sports club SC Adler Pankow is founded.

athletics

Athletics records

Sprint and middle distance run

• May 30th : Harold Wilson , Great Britain, runs the men's 1500 meters in 3: 59.8 minutes.
• July 21 : Mel Sheppard , USA, runs the men's 800 meters in 1: 52.8 min.
• August 23 : Siina Simola , Finland, runs the women's 100 meters in 13.9 seconds.

Long distance running and marathon

• May 13 : Arthur Robinson , Great Britain, runs the men's 5000 meters in 15: 01.2 minutes.
• July 24th : John Hayes , USA, runs the men's marathon in 2:55:19 h.

Hurdles

• July 22nd : Charles Bacon , USA, runs the men's 400 meter hurdles in 55 seconds.
• July 25 : Forrest Smithson , USA, ran the men's 110 meter hurdles in 15 seconds.
• August 22nd : Charles Bacon , USA, runs the men's 400 meter hurdles in 55 seconds.

Jump disciplines

• June 13 : Walter Dray , USA, jumps 3.9 m in the men's pole vault .
• July 25 : Tim Ahearne , Ireland, jumps 14.92 m in the men's triple jump .

Cycling

• May 17th : The Karreveld cycle track opens.
• July 13th to August 9th : Tour de France 1908
• July 26th : 1908 UCI Track World Championships for Amateurs
• July 30th to August 2nd : 1908 UCI Track World Championships for professionals

Parade and group photo of the Vienna-Berlin winners in 1908

• The distance bike ride Vienna – Berlin is held a second time after 1893 . The winner is the German Hans Ludwig .
• The Tour of Belgium will be held for the first time.

Wrestling

• World Wrestling Championships 1908

rowing

• Cambridge defeated Oxford in the boat race .

rugby

• Home Nations Championship in 1908 the Rugby Union

chess

• World Chess Championship 1908

swim

Swimming records

• July 16 : Henry Taylor , Great Britain, swims the 400 meter freestyle at the Olympic Games in 5: 36.8 minutes.
• July 17th : Arno Bieberstein , German Empire, swims the 100 meters back at the Olympic Games in 1: 24.6 min.
• July 18th : Frederick Holman , Great Britain, swims the 200 meter chest in 3: 09.2 min at the Olympic Games .
• July 20th : Charles Daniels , United States, swims the 100 meter freestyle in 1: 05.6 min at the Olympic Games.
• July 24 : John Derbyshire , Paul Radmilovic , William Foster and Henry Taylor , Great Britain, swim the 4 × 200 meter freestyle in 10: 55.6 min at the Olympic Games.
• July 25 : Henry Taylor , Great Britain, swims the 1500 meter freestyle at the Olympic Games in 22: 48.4 minutes.
• October 18th : Martha Gerstung , German Empire, swims the 100 meter freestyle of women in 1: 35.0 min.
• November 11th : Otto Scheff , Austria-Hungary, swims the 200 meter freestyle in 2: 31.6 minutes.

Winter sports

ice Hockey

• May 15 : The Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace is founded in Paris by representatives from Belgium, England, Switzerland and the host France. Bohemia joins in the same year. Representatives of Germany and Russia are also invited, but they do not appear at the founding meeting. The Frenchman Louis Magnus is elected first president.
• December 8th : The Koninklijke Belgische IJshockey Federatie is founded.

figure skating

• World Figure Skating Championships 1908
• European figure skating championships 1908

Speed ​​skating records

• February 9 : Johan Vikander , Finland, and Sigurd Mathisen , Norway, run the 500 meter speed skating in Davos in 44.4 seconds each on the same day .
• February 9 : Oscar Mathisen , Norway, runs the 1500 meters in Davos in 2: 20.8 minutes.

Skiing

• December 11th : The Swedish Ski Association is launched.

Born

January to April

• January 13 : Enrico Paoli , Italian chess player († 2005 )
• January 26th : Gideon Ståhlberg , Swedish chess player († 1967 )
• January 29 : Grete Heublein , German athlete and Olympian († 1997 )
• January 31 : Bill Cantrell , American racing driver († 1996 )

• February 11 : Wuert Engelmann , American football player († 1979 )
• February 18 : Hans Kahrmann , German motorcycle racer († 1973 )
• February 26 : Jean-Pierre Wimille , French racing driver († 1949 )
• February 28 : Albert Scherrer , Swiss racing driver († 1986 )

• 0March 1 : Fritz Riedel , German worker sportsman and resistance fighter († 1944 )
• 0March 5 : Ludwig Goldbrunner , German football player († 1981 )
• 0March 6 : Ollie Sansen , American football player († 1987 )
• March 11th : Matti Sippala , Finnish javelin thrower († 1997 )
• March 12th : Kurt Stöpel , German cyclist († 1997 )
• March 22nd : Jack Crawford , Australian tennis player († 1991 )
• March 26th : Hilde Sperling , German tennis player († 1981 )
• March 28 : Max von Arco-Zinneberg , German automobile racing driver († 1937 )
• March 31 : Ferry Dusika , Austrian cyclist († 1984 )
• 0April 3 : Anna Sipos , Hungarian table tennis player († 1972 )
• 0April 5 : Heinz Vopel , German racing cyclist († 1959 )
• 0April 7th : Günther Groenhoff , German gliding pioneer († 1932 )
• April 11 : Robert O'Brien , American racing car driver († 1987 )
• April 24 : Inga Gentzel , Swedish athlete and Olympian († 1991 )
• April 27 : Carlo Felice Trossi , Italian racing driver († 1949 )
• April 28 : Ethel Catherwood , Canadian athlete († 1987 )

May to August

• 0May 4 : Wolrad Eberle , German athlete († 1949 )
• May 12 : Alejandro Scopelli Casanova , Argentinian-Italian soccer player and soccer coach († 1987 )
• May 15 : Emil Joseph Diemer , German chess player († 1990 )
• May 17 : Pierre Louis-Dreyfus , French banker and racing car driver († 2011 )
• May 19 : Percy Williams , Canadian athlete († 1982 )
• May 22 : Gustav Jaenecke , German ice hockey and tennis player († 1985 )

• 0June 5th : Franco Rol , Italian racing driver († 1977 )
• 0June 6 : Giovanni Bracco , Italian racing driver († 1968 )
• 0June 6 : Rudolf Gramlich , German football player († 1988 )
• June 10 : Karl Gußner , German football player († 1985 )
• June 11 : Karl Hein , German athlete († 1982 )
• June 16 : Hans Jakob , German soccer player († 1994 )
• June 18 : Karl Hohmann , German football player († 1974 )
• June 29th : Fritz Feierabend , Swiss bobsleigh athlete († 1978 )
• June 29 : Erik Lundqvist , Swedish javelin thrower († 1963 )

• 0July 8 : Franz-Josef Binder , Austrian motorcycle racing driver and development engineer († 1960 )
• July 11th : Fritz Steuri , Swiss mountain guide and skier († 1953 )
• July 13 : Dorothy Round , English tennis player († 1982 )

• 0August 6 : Helen Jacobs , American tennis player († 1997 )
• 0August 8 : Lloyd Burdick , American football player († 1945 )
• August 10 : Lauri Lehtinen , Finnish athlete and Olympic champion († 1973 )
• August 11 : Ragnar Sunnqvist , Swedish motorcycle racer († 1954 )
• August 20 : Beattie Feathers , American football player and coach († 1979 )
• August 22nd : Erwin Thiesies , German national rugby player and as a coach seventeen-times GDR champion in rugby († 1993 )
• August 23 : Josef Bugala , Austrian football player († 1999 )
• August 31 : Herbert Dill , German athlete and Olympic participant († 1944 )

September to December

• 0September 6th : Max Danz , German sports official († 2000 )
• 0September 7 : Paul Brown , American football coach († 1991 )
• September 13 : Carlos Peucelle , Argentinian football player and coach († 1990 )
• September 21 : George Simpson , American athlete and Olympian († 1961 )
• September 29 : Eddie Tolan , American sprinter and Olympic champion († 1967 )

• 0October 8 : Vyacheslav Ragosin , Soviet chess player († 1962 )
• October 17 : Walter Bäumer , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver († 1941 )
• October 17 : Jan van Hout , Dutch cyclist and resistance fighter († 1945 )

• 0November 3 : Bronko Nagurski , Canadian American football player († 1990 )
• November 15 : Carlo Abarth , Austrian racing driver and tuner († 1979 )
• November 17 : Pietro Sernagiotto , Brazilian-Italian football player († 1957 )
• November 21 : Salo Flohr , Czechoslovak-Soviet chess master († 1983 )
• November 25 : Gustavo Marzi , Italian fencer († 1966 )

• 0December 6 : Miklós Szabó , Hungarian middle-distance runner († 2000 )
• 0December 7th : John Doeg , American tennis player († 1978 )
• 0December 9 : Sigmund Haringer , German football player († 1975 )
• December 10 : Marino 'Mario' Evaristo , Argentine footballer († 1998 )
• December 15 : Walter Glöckler , German automobile and motorcycle racing driver and automobile designer († 1988 )
• December 16 : Sonja Graf , German chess player († 1965 )
• December 18 : Hans Scheele , German athlete († 1941 )
• December 22nd : Paula Mollenhauer , German athlete († 1988 )
• December 26 : Ralph Hill , American athlete († 1994 )

Date unknown

• Percy Hunt , British motorcycle racer. († unknown)

Died

• January 6th : George Dixon , Canadian boxer, first black world champion in history (* 1870 )
• January 25 : Mikhail Chigorin , Russian chess master (* 1850 )
• April 11th : Henry Edward Bird , English chess player (* 1829 )
• July 11th : Friedrich Adolf Traun , German tennis player and Olympic champion (* 1876 )
• July 20 : Demetrius Vikelas , Greek sports official and first President of the IOC (* 1835 )

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