1894 in sports
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- 2.1 Exact date of birth unknown
Events
Olympic games
- June 23: Pierre de Coubertin founded on the Olympic Congress in Paris, the International Olympic Committee with the aim of reviving the Olympic Games.
- William Milligan Sloane founded the American Honorary Committee for the Olympic Games in 1896 with the goal of bringing an American team at the first Olympic Games of the modern age in Athens in 1896 at the start.
Baseball
- In Sioux City, Iowa Sioux City Cornhuskers baseball team is founded. In the fall, the team of Charles Comiskey, the former coach of the Cincinnati Reds is bought, and moved under the name St. Paul Saints to St. Paul, Minnesota.
Football and Cricket
- The Karlsruher FC Phoenix is founded.
Motorsport
- July 22: The first race in car racing takes place more than 126 miles from Paris to Rouen and back. 15 of the 100 registered cars to reach the goal. The winner, Albert de Dion will be disqualified.
Cycling
- On the Buffalo Velodrome in Paris, the first Bol d'Or is held.
- The Vélodrome de Vincennes is built and conducted the first Grand Prix de Paris here. First winner is the American George A. Banker.
- The Grand Prix de l' UVF was first performed.
Rings / swing
- The founding chair of the Federal Association is decided.
Rowing
Chess
- MAY 26: Emanuel Lasker, after his match victory over world chess champion Wilhelm Steinitz.
Winter sports
Hockey
- March 22: The first final of the Stanley Cup will be held. The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association wins the trophy, each with a 1-0 victory against the Montreal Victorias and the Ottawa Capitals.
Figure skating
- January 28: In the European Figure Skating Championships 1894 in Vienna, the Austrian Eduard Engelmann Jr. wins ahead of his compatriot Gustav hills and the Hungarian Tibor of Földváry.
Speed skating records
- January 7: Frithiof Ericson, Sweden, the 10,000 meter speed skating runs in Stockholm in 19:22,8 min.
- JANUARY 21: Oscar Fredriksen, Norway, 500 meters speed skating runs in Oslo in 47.8 sec
- FEBRUARY 10: Jaap Eden, the Netherlands, the 10,000 meter speed skating runs in Stockholm in 19:12,4 min.
- February 24: The Norwegians Alfred Næss and Einar Halvorsen run on the same day the 500 meter speed skating in Hamar respectively in 47.0 sec
- February 24: Peder Østlund, Norway, the 1500 meter speed skating runs in Hamar in 2:31,4 min.
- February 24: Einar Halvorsen, Norway, the 1500 meter speed skating runs in Hamar in 2:29,6 min.
- February 24: Peder Østlund, Norway, the 1500 meter speed skating runs in Hamar in 2:28,8 min.
- FEBRUARY 25: Jaap Eden, Netherlands, 5,000 meters speed skating runs in Hamar in 8:37,6 min, a record that will hold until 1911.
Skiing
- Toni Schruf organized in Miirzzuschlag a winter sports exhibition and thus makes the skiing in Central Europe popular.
Born
- September 26: Ralph Scott, U.S. American football player and coach († 1936)
- 4 October: Frans G. Bengtsson, Swedish author and chess player († 1954)
- OCTOBER 5: Bevil Rudd, South African track and field athlete and Olympic champion († 1948)
- November 2: Bill Johnston, American tennis player († 1946)
- November 18: Earl Eby, American athlete († 1970)
- December 28, Hermanis Matisons, Latvian chess player († 1932)
Exact date of birth unknown
Died
- Nick Ross, Scottish footballer (* 1863)