1896 in sports

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• 2.1 January to April
• 2.2 May-December
• 2.3 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Olympic games

Fencing

• September 23: German Fencing Championships 1896 in Berlin

Football and other " turf sports "

• MAY 5: The 1st FC Pforzheim is founded.
• MAY 13: VfB Leipzig is founded.
• MAY 25: The German Football Club Prague is founded.
• June 15: The Magdeburg FC Viktoria 1896 is founded.
• July 7: The association Leipziger Ball Game Clubs is founded.

• September 5: Several high school students and students in Munich founded the "Society for turf sports " Terra Pila, which later became the 1st Munich FC 1896 develops. At the beginning is played primarily baseball and boxing ball on the Theresienwiese. When the club turns to the football, is not known.

• Aston Villa is the second time English champions.
• The Berliner FC favorite from 1896 is founded.
• The hockey club SC Munich is founded.

Athletics

• The American Ray Ewry as of the first official world record in the state high jump with 1,613 m.

Motorsport

• The London Brighton Run is first performed.

Cycling

• AUGUST 28: The race Around Berlin is first held.

• The cycle race Rund um Köln is first held.
• Railway Road Cycling World Championships 1896
• The cycling race Paris -Roubaix is first held.
• The cycling race Paris -Tours is first held.
• The worker solidarity cycling association based in Offenbach am Main.

Rowing

• MARCH 28: Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race in 20'01 ".

Rugby

Chess

• January 4: Harry Nelson Pillsbury and Emanuel Lasker playing the game Pillsbury - Lasker, St. Petersburg 1896.
• November 7: The World Chess Championship 1896 between Emanuel Lasker and Wilhelm Steinitz begins. It lasts until 14 January 1897.

Swimming

• February 2: The Magdeburg Swimming Club from 1896 is founded.

• German Swimming Championships 1896

Gymnastics

• The Free Turnerschaft Frankfurt am Main is founded.

Winter sports

• World Figure Skating Championships 1896

Born

January to April

• March 2: Clair Bee, American basketball coach († 1983)
• March 6: August Werner, German National Team Football Player († 1968)
• MARCH 13: Erich Sichting, German politician, anti-fascist and sports official († 1946)
• March 14: Walter Krause, German footballer († 1948)
• March 21: Ernst Günthersburgpark Galler, German racing driver and fighter pilot († 1940)
• MARCH 24: Stefan Rosenbauer, German fencer and photographer († 1967)

May to December

• May 2: Norman Ross, American swimmer († 1953)
• May 2: Árpád Vajda, Hungarian chess player († 1967)
• May 7: Kathleen McKane Godfree, English tennis player († 1992)

• June 2: Fritjof Svensson, Swedish wrestler († 1961)
• JUNE 10: József Viola, Hungarian football player and coach († 1949)

• JULY 26: Tim Birkin, British racing driver († 1933)
• August 12: Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestlers and 31 Yokozuna († 1960)

• September 5: Albert Becker, Austrian chess master († 1984)
• September 13: Jake Lanum, U.S. American football player († 1968)
• September 20: Friedrich Sämisch, German chess player († 1975)
• SEPTEMBER 29: Sven Lundgren, Swedish athlete († 1960)

• October 7: Paulino Alcántara, Spanish - Filipino footballer († 1964)
• OCTOBER 19: Nat Holman, American basketball player and coach († 1995)

Exact date of birth unknown

• Rupert Karner, Austrian motorcycle racer († 1928)

Died

• June 29: Marmaduke Wyvill, English aristocrat, politician and chess master (* 1814)
• July 23: Arthur Linton, Welsh cyclist (* 1868)
• August 10: Otto Lilienthal, German pioneer of sliding and muscle power flight ( * 1848)