1868 in sports
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Events
Crocket / Tennis
- The All England Croquet Club was founded. A little later he takes next croquet tennis on in his program.
Golf
- Young Tom Morris wins at the age of 17 years for the first time The Open Championship in golf. Here, the first hole-in -one succeeds on the eighth hole at Prestwick.
Football
Equestrian
Cycling
- MAY 31: The Briton James Moore wins in the Parc de Saint-Cloud, near Paris, one of the first bicycle race. The race goes over the distance of 1,200 meters.
- November 1: All four participants take in Bordeaux from the first all-female competition in cycling at the Parc Bordelais.
Rowing
- April 4: Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race in 20'56 ".
- JULY 24: Harvard defeated Yale in the Harvard - Yale Regatta in 17'48 .5 ".
Sailing
- In Hamburg, the North German Regatta Association is founded.
Gymnastics
- Theodor Georgii and Ferdinand Goetz found the German Gymnastics Association. the merger of gymnastics clubs in Germany and the German gymnastics clubs in nearby countries, for example in Prague.
Winter sports
- Norwegian Sondre Norheim reached the ski jumping on the Telemarkbakken in Skien, Norway, width of 19.5 meters and thus represents the first official World's ski jumping record.
Born
- January 2: Arthur Gore, British tennis player († 1928)
- MARCH 19: Senda Berenson Abbott, American sports teacher († 1954)
- October 7: Fred Hovey, American tennis player († 1945)
- November 28: Arthur Linton, Welsh cyclist († 1896)
- December 24: Emanuel Lasker, German chess player, world champion from 1894 to 1921 († 1941)
- December 24: Richard Teichmann, German chess master († 1925)