1892 in sports

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Events

American Football

Football

Cycling

  • April: The race Liège -Bastogne -Liège is first held. It is the oldest still discharged one-day races and is considered one of the five so-called monuments of cycling.
  • The International Cyclists' Association is founded.

Chess

Winter sports

  • January 24: The Austrian Eduard Engelmann Jr. is the winner of the European Figure Skating Championships in 1892.
  • January 31: In Oslo takes place the first ski jumping competition at Holmenkollen. The Norwegian Arne Ustvedt wins with a jump of 21.5 meters.

Speed ​​skating records

  • February 28: Einar Halvorsen, Norway, 500 meters speed skating runs in Hamar in 50.2 sec
  • February 28: Einar Halvorsen, Norway, 5,000 meters speed skating runs in Hamar in 9:10,2 min.

More events

Born

First half year

  • January 2: Edoardo Agnelli, Italian industrialist and president of Juventus († 1935)
  • January 6: Leonid Kubbel, Russian chess player († 1942)
  • JANUARY 14: Paul Forell, German footballer († 1959)
  • JANUARY 15: Hobey Baker, American professional ice hockey player († 1918)
  • JANUARY 25: Toni Bauhofer German automobile and motorcycle racer († 1968)
  • February 8: Elizabeth Ryan, American tennis player († 1979)
  • February 9: Joseph Braunstein, Austrian musician, writer, mountaineer († 1996)
  • March 9: Paul Suter, Swiss cyclist († 1966)
  • MARCH 28: Gustave Ganay, French cyclist († 1926)
  • May 6: Ernst Eikhof, German national football team († 1978)
  • MAY 14: Kaarlo Edvin Mäkinen, Finnish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist († 1980)
  • MAY 19: Christian Werner, German race car driver († 1932)
  • MAY 23: Hans Dulfer, German climbers († 1915)
  • June 8: Giuseppe Campari, Italian racing driver († 1933)

Second half- year

  • August 5: Marius Hiller, German - Argentine football († 1964)
  • August 8: Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer († 1922)
  • August 11: Gerrit Bouwmeester, Dutch soccer player († 1961)
  • 4 October: Luis Trenker, Tyrolean mountaineer, actor and writer († 1990)
  • OCTOBER 11: Karl Hähnel, German track and field athlete and Olympian († 1966)
  • October 14: Piet Bouman, a Dutch footballer
  • OCTOBER 21: Otto mink, German football player and coach of the first kingdom of DFB († 1949)
  • October 31: Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine, Russian chess player and fourth World Chess Champion († 1946)
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