1883 in sports
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Events
Rugby
Rowing
Chess
- April 26-June 23: The strong field at London Chess Johannes Hermann Zukertort wins ahead of Wilhelm Steinitz. The two players fighting three years later at the World Chess Championship. Zukertort played at the tournament the match Zukertort - Blackburne, London 1883 against Joseph Henry Blackburne, referred to by both later as one of their best games.
Swimming
- July 24: When trying for a prize of £ 12,000 to swim through the Whirlpool Rapids of the Niagara River, is pulled Matthew Webb by a swirl in the depth. Four days later his body is found. Around eight years ago, it was Webb succeeded first scheduling, to swim across the English Channel without tools.
- German Swimming Championships 1883
Tennis
- 7 to 16 July: Wimbledon Championships 1883
Winter sports
- The first official sled race is conducted on a natural track in Switzerland.
Club -ups
- February 24: The Vienna Cyclisten Club, the oldest sports club in Austria, was founded as a pure cycling club.
- The baseball team Philadelphia Qakers is founded.
- The baseball team New York Gotham is founded.
Born
- January 9: William Garbutt, English footballer and coach († 1964)
- January 11: Carlo Maffei, Italian motorcycle racer († 1921)
- JANUARY 13: Nate Cartmell, American track and field athlete and Olympian († 1967)
- JANUARY 15: Lucien Pothier, French cyclist († 1957)
- JANUARY 26: Kees Bekker, Dutch soccer player († 1964)
- January 27: Bok de Korver, Dutch soccer player († 1957)
- February 6: Louis Darragon, French cyclist († 1918)
- March 1: Arthur Pasquier, French cyclist and pacemaker ( † 1963)
- May 2: Alessandro Cagno, Italian racing driver († 1971)
- MAY 5: Rudolf Spielmann, Austrian chess grandmaster († 1942)
- May 10: Victor Johnson, British cyclist, an Olympic gold medalist and world champion († 1951)
- May 10: Heinz Hennig, German chess player († 1947)
- MAY 11: Karel Heijting, Dutch soccer player († 1951)
- MAY 18: Ernst Jordan, German footballer († 1948)
- September 5: Mel Sheppard, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion († 1942)
- September 12: Walter Rutt, German cyclists ( † 1964)
- September 16: Cyrille Van Hauwaert, Belgian cyclist († 1974)
- SEPTEMBER 24: Lawson Robertson, American track and field athlete and coach († 1951)
- November 2: Willem Boerdam, Dutch soccer player († 1966)
- NOVEMBER 5: Louis Otten, Dutch footballer and physician († 1946)
- Rem Fowler, a British motorcycle racer († 1963)
Died
- JULY 24: Matthew Webb, a British long- distance swimmers (* 1848)