1886 in sports

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The Sport 1886 lists events, records and championships in the world of sports worldwide.

• 2.1 First half of
• 2.2 Second half of
• 2.3 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

International events

Rowing

• April 3: Cambridge defeated Oxford in the Boat Race in 22'03 ".

Rugby

• Scotland and England are jointly declared winners of the Home Nations Championship 1886, after the tournament has been canceled due to a dispute of the associations.

Chess

• In the World Chess Championship 1886 Wilhelm Steinitz against Johannes Hermann Zukertort wins and becomes the first world chess champion. Here, invented by Johann Jacob Loewenthal demonstration board is first used for the audience.

Tennis

• At the event at Wimbledon wins William Renshaw of Great Britain against his fellow countryman Herbert Lawford 6-0 5-7 6-3 6-4.
• In the women's Englishwoman Blanche Bingley defeated her compatriot Maud Watson 6-3 6-3.

National Championships

Hockey

• On December 8, the world's first Ice Hockey Championship League, the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada Montreal is formed.

Swimming

• German Swimming Championships 1886

Club -ups

• The Rowing Club RC Germania Tegel in 1886 is founded.
• The Washington Nationals Baseball Team is founded.

Records

Athletics records

• August 23: The Englishman Walter George, who recently switched to the professionals due to lack of competition running in the " Race of the century " against the Scots William Cummings mile ( 1609.36 m) of the men in 4:12 3 / 4 minutes, a time that will be offered in 1915 by the American Norman Taber.

Ski Jumping

• John Nordgården of Norway jumps on the Flatdalbakken Seljord, Norway, 26 meters.

Born

First half year

• March 5: Paul Radmilovic, British water polo player and swimmer, Olympic champion († 1968)
• MARCH 12: Vittorio Pozzo, Italian football player and coach († 1968)
• March 14: Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist († 1964)
• MARCH 19: Ali Sami Yen, founder of the Turkish football club " Galatasaray Spor Kulübü " († 1951)

Second half- year

• August 6: Edward Dahl, Swedish athlete († 1961)
• August 7: Lothar Budzinski - Kreth, German football player († 1955)
• August 9: Jops Reeman, Dutch soccer player († 1959)
• AUGUST 19: Paul Preuss, Austrian mountaineer († 1913)
• August 24: Miloslav Fleischmann, Czech ice hockey player († 1955)

• September 4: Georg Krogmann, German national football team († 1915)
• SEPTEMBER 9: Erwin Voellmy, Swiss chess master and mathematician († 1951)
• September 25: May Sutton, American tennis player († 1975)
• September 27: Lucien Gaudin, French fencer and Olympic champion († 1934)

• October 8: Wim Groskamp, Dutch soccer player († 1974)
• OCTOBER 13: Ben Stom, Dutch soccer player († 1965)
• OCTOBER 19: Adolf Werner, German football player ( b. 1975 )
• OCTOBER 26: Hanns Braun, German athlete († 1918)
• OCTOBER 28: Frans de Bruyn Kops, Dutch soccer player († 1979)

• NOV 7: Aaron Nimzowitsch, Latvian chess player and theorist († 1935)
• NOVEMBER 12: Günter Dyhrenfurth, Swiss mountaineer and geologist († 1975)

• December 4: Jan Thomée, Dutch soccer player († 1954)
• December 20: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player († 1974)
• December 21: Fritz Baumgarten, German footballer († 1961)
• December 24: Peco Bauwens, German football player and official of the DFB († 1963)

Exact date of birth unknown

• Sydney Bailey, English cyclist