Sports year 1909
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Events
badminton
The climax of the badminton year 1909 were the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open and the French Open .
International events
Soccer
- In Germany, the first Crown Prince Cup is being played in football with seven associations . The winner of the 1908/09 Kronprinzenpokal will be the Verband Mitteldeutscher Ballspiel-Vereine in the final against Berlin on April 18 .
hockey
- December 31 : The German Hockey Association is founded in Bonn .
athletics
Athletics records
- August 21 : Ralph Rose (USA) hits 15.54 m in the men's shot put , becoming the first to break the 50-foot mark, a record that will hold for 16 years.
- August 31 : Thure Johannsson (Sweden) runs the men's marathon in 2:40:35 h.
- Charlotte Hand (USA) jumps 8.80 m in the women's triple jump in Poughkeepsie.
Cycling
- March 15 : The first Six Days of cycling in Europe, the Berlin Six Day Race is in the Berlin exhibition halls at the zoo started.
- May 13 : The first Giro d'Italia starts in Milan , which Luigi Ganna wins on May 30 after having covered eight stages .
- July 5 - August 1 : Luxembourg's François Faber wins the 1909 Tour de France . This makes him the first non-French to win this stage race .
- July 18 : Nine spectators are killed and over 40 people are seriously injured in the race track disaster in Berlin caused by the fall of the pacemaker Werner Krüger on the Berlin “Botanischer Garten” cycle track . This accident is the worst that has ever happened in cycling in Germany .
- August 29 : The Berlin – Cottbus – Berlin cycle race is held for the first time.
- August: UCI Track World Championships 1909
- October: Giovanni Cuniolo wins the Lombardy Tour .
- The Olympia's Tour in the Netherlands is being held for the first time.
Wrestling
rowing
rugby
- December 4th : The first Gray Cup , the championship final of the Canadian Rugby Union, later the Canadian Football League , is played. The first winner is the University of Toronto .
swim
Swimming records
- April 18 : Robert Andersson , Sweden, swims the 200 meter chest in 03: 08.3.
- June 27 : Oskar Schiele , German Empire, swims the 200 meters back in 03: 04.4.
- September 30th : Félicien Courbet , Belgium, swims the 100 meter chest in 01: 22.6.
Winter sports
ice Hockey
- The Coupe de Chamonix is held for the first time. The Princes Ice Hockey Club from England wins the tournament with four wins from as many games.
- The English ice hockey team and the Scottish ice hockey team are founded.
figure skating
- World Figure Skating Championships 1909
- European figure skating championship 1909
- Ulrich Salchow invents the jump named after him .
Speed skating records
- January 30th : Oscar Mathisen , Norway, runs the 1000 meter speed skating in Davos in 1: 31.8 minutes, a record that will last until 1930 .
Nordic skiing
- 6. bis 14. February : In Stockholm, after 1901 and 1905 again Nordic games performed.
- The Norwegian Oscar Gundersen reached 42 meters while ski jumping on the Chippewa Falls Ski Jumps in Chippewa Falls, USA.
- The Norwegian Harald Smith reached 43 meters in ski jumping on the Campo Smith trampolino in Bardonecchia, Italy.
- The Norwegian Harald Smith reached 45 meters in ski jumping on the Bolgenschanze in Davos, Switzerland.
Founding of clubs
- April 1st : FC Thuringia Weida is founded.
- April 4th : The Brazilian football club SC Internacional is founded in Porto Alegre .
- May 1st : The Graz soccer club "Sturm" is founded in Pestalozzistraße in Graz. The name supposedly comes from the storm prevailing in Graz at that time .
- September 5th : The sports club SV Viktoria 09 Stolp is founded.
- September 7th : The Sociedad de Fútbol football club is founded in San Sebastián , Basque .
- September 16 : The constituent general assembly of the Jewish sports club SC Hakoah Vienna takes place in Vienna .
- October 12 : The Coritiba Football Club is founded. On October 23, he will play his first official game.
- December 19 : The Borussia Dortmund ball game club is founded.
- The multi-sport club Helsingin Kisa-Veikot in Helsinki is founded.
Sports facilities
- October 24th : The Stade de Paris opens in the French capital .
- November 10 : The world's first outdoor art ice rink opens in Austria as the Engelmann ice rink in the Vienna district of Hernals . The Hockey in Vienna thus receives a strong upswing. The system was designed by the active engineer Eduard Engelmann junior . It will later become the venue of EK Engelmann Vienna .
Others
- October 26th : The Comité Olímpico de Portugal is founded.
Born
January to April
- January 1 : Marcel Balsa , French racing car driver († 1984 )
- January 2 : Riccardo Cassin , Italian mountaineer and entrepreneur († 2009 )
- January 3 : Ruth Engelhard , German athlete († 1975 )
- January 4th : Cilly Aussem , German tennis player († 1963 )
- January 13 : Helm Glöckler , German automobile racing driver († 1993 )
- January 15 : Hans Esser , German fencer († unknown)
- January 19 : Ewald Kluge , German motorcycle racer († 1964 )
- January 25 : Reinhold Munzenberg , German soccer player († 1986 )
- January 31 : Gregor Hradetzky , Austrian canoeist († 1985 )
- February 9 : Fergus Anderson , British motorcycle racer († 1956 )
- February 11 : Max Baer , American boxer († 1959 )
- February 18 : Matti Järvinen , Finnish javelin thrower († 1985 )
- February 21 : Auguste Jordan , Austrian and French soccer player († 1990 )
- February 22nd : Danny Biasone , American NBA team owner, basketball pioneer († 1992 )
- March 5 : Floyd Davis , American racing car driver († 1977 )
- March 6 : Bill Schindler , American racing driver († 1952 )
- March 18 : Wolfgang Weber , German chess player († 1981 )
- March 19 : Attilio Demaría , Argentine-Italian football player and coach († 1990 )
- March 19 : Rudolf Hiden , Austrian and French football player († 1973 )
- April 1 : William Whitehouse , British racing driver († 1957 )
- April 5 : Erwin Wegner , German athlete († 1945 )
- April 6 : Hermann Lang , German racing driver († 1987 )
- April 10 : Clarke Hinkle , American football player († 1988 )
- April 12 : Jean Trémoulet , French racing car driver and resistance fighter († 1944 )
- April 19 : Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander , Irish chess master († 1974 )
May to August
- May 7 : Erich Metze , German racing cyclist († 1952 )
- May 16 : Luigi Villoresi , Italian Formula 1 racing driver († 1997 )
- May 17 : Karl Schäfer , Austrian figure skater († 1976 )
- May 17 : Werner Widmayer , German national soccer player († 1942 )
- May 18 : Fred Perry , British table tennis and tennis player († 1995 )
- May 26 : Matt Busby , Scottish football player and coach († 1994 )
- May 30th : Freddie Frith , British motorcycle racer († 1988 )
- May 31 : Milt Gantenbein , American football player († 1988 )
- June 3 : Karl Bohmann , Austrian motorcycle racer († 1999 )
- June 26 : Max Eisinger , German chess player († 1989 )
- July 7th : Gottfried von Cramm , German tennis player († 1976 )
- July 9 : Max Klankermeier , German motorcycle and automobile racer († 1996 )
- July 13 : Baruch Harold Wood , English chess master († 1989 )
- July 22nd : Dorino Serafini , Italian automobile and motorcycle racing driver († 2000 )
- July 23 : Lisa Gelius , German athlete († 2006 )
- August 3 : Eduard Hundt , German soccer player († 2002 )
- August 4th : Glenn Cunningham , American athlete († 1988 )
- August 13 : Wilhelmina von Bremen , American athlete († 1976 )
- August 20 : Konrad von Wangenheim , German rider († 1953 )
- August 20 : Olga Rubzowa , Russian chess player († 1994 )
- August 25 : Eileen Hiscock , British athlete († 1958 )
- August 27 : Sylvère Maes , Belgian cyclist († 1966 )
September to December
- September 6 : Severino Minelli , Swiss football player († 1994 )
- September 8th : Alfred Kunze , lecturer for soccer at DHfK Leipzig and soccer coach († 1996 )
- September 8 : Hermann Steuri , Swiss mountain guide and ski racer († 2001 )
- September 9 : Arthur Jonath , German athlete († 1963 )
- September 10 : Evelyne Hall , American athlete and Olympian († 1993 )
- September 29 : Abraham Tokazier , Finnish sprinter († 1976 )
- October 8 : Bill Hewitt , American football player († 1947 )
- October 14 : Bernd Rosemeyer , German automobile and motorcycle racing driver († 1938 )
- October 20th : José Farías Ríos , Peruvian athlete
- October 24 : Bill Carr , American sprinter and Olympic champion († 1966 )
- November 2 : Boško Milenković , Yugoslav racing driver († 1955)
- November 11th : Piero Scotti , Italian racing driver († 1976 )
- November 15 : Auguste Hargus , German athlete († 1995 )
- November 21 : Hermann Paul Müller , German automobile and motorcycle racing driver († 1975 )
- November 24th : Otto Adam , German fencer († 1977 )
- November 26th : Fritz Buchloh , German soccer player († 1998 )
- November 29th : Stefan Skoumal , German and Austrian soccer player († 1983 )
- December 1 : Hans-Heinrich Sievert , German athlete and Olympic participant († 1963 )
- December 2 : Pietro Arcari , Italian football player († 1988 )
- December 4th : Marcel Guimbretiere , French cyclist († 1970 )
- December 5 : Herman Murray , Canadian ice hockey player († 1998 )
- December 9 : Leonhard Joa , German racing driver († 1981 )
- December 11th : John Wyer , British motorsport team owner and race director († 1989 )
- December 13 : Eugen Bjørnstad , Norwegian racing car driver († 1992 )
- December 13 : George Christensen , American football player († 1968 )
- December 17 : Edward Smouha , British sprinter († 1992 )
- December 21 : Erik Haps , Belgian motorcycle racer († 1934 )
- December 21 : Hermann Heemsoth , German correspondence chess grandmaster († 2006 )
- December 26th : Oldřich Nejedlý , Czechoslovak football player († 1990 )
- December 27th : Lou Brero , American racing driver († 1957 )
Date unknown
- Charly Jellen , Austrian racing driver and entrepreneur († 1934 )
Died
- March 8 : Léon Théry , French racing driver (* 1879 )
- July 21 : Karel Verbist , Belgian cyclist (* 1883 )
See also
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