1911 in sports

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• 2.1 January to April
• 2.2 from May to August
• 2.3 from September to December
• 2.4 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Badminton

• All England 1911
• French Open 1911
• Irish Open 1911
• Scottish Open 1911

Fencing

Football

• April 29: The Association Brandenburgischer ball game clubs is based on pressure of the DFB by the Federation of Associations Association of Berlin ballgame clubs, Maerkischer Football Association and Association of Berlin Athletics clubs.

• German football championship in 1910/11: Berlin TUFC Viktoria 89 wins the final on June 4, against VfB Leipzig 3:1. The Berlin Willi Worpitzky is top scorer.
• The Lower Austrian Football Association is organizing the first official Austrian football championship, are admitted to the only Viennese clubs.
• The merger of the Frankfurt pioneer clubs Frankfurter FC Victoria in 1899 and formed the Frankfurt Frankfurt Kickers FV, forerunner of Eintracht Frankfurt.

Athletics

Athletics records

• April 3: Ellen Hayes, USA, jumps in the triple jump of the Ladies in Sweet Briar 10.21 m and thus the first woman to ten meters.
• May 30: Dan Ahearn, USA, jump in the triple jump of 15.52 meters gentlemen. This distance is recognized one year later than the first official world record in this discipline.
• June 4: Hermann Müller, Germany, the 20,000 meters walking the men going in 1:38:43 h
• November 16: Jean Bouin, France, running the 10,000 meters in the men's 30:58,8 min.

Motorsport

• May 30: At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the first time the 500-mile race at Indianapolis will take place. The winner is Ray Harroun Marmon Wasp on a, which requires for the 500 miles 6 hours, 42 minutes and 11 seconds. Corresponding to an average speed of 116.89 km / h The race leads in the U.S. to a motorsport euphoria and is considering the construction of many other Speedway routes to be.

Cycling

• 2 to 30 July: After the Pyrenees stages of the previous year have been a great publishing success, the Tour de France in 1911 for the first time also leads through the Alps. 56 of 84 drivers do not reach the destination in Paris. Gustave Garrigou is overall winner after his toughest competitors Paul Duboc a water bottle with an obviously toxic substance has been passed on the track. Duboc is Second, despite the incident.
• Summer: UCI Track World Championships 1911 in Rome. The German Cycling Federation does not take to disagreements with the International Cycling Union Union Cycliste Internationale and part leads in early December its own " world championships " in Dresden by.
• The Distanzradfahrt Wien-Berlin is carried out for the third time.

Wrestling

• March 25 to 28: Wrestling World Championships 1911 in Helsinki
• Four tournaments in Stuttgart, Berlin, Dresden and Vienna for themselves claim to be Wrestling World Championships, they are now considered unofficial Wrestling World Championships 1911.
• Ringer's European Championships 1911

Rowing

Rugby

• January 2 to March 5: Five Nations 1911 Rugby Union: Tournament winner is Wales, which against all other participating for the first time the Grand Slam creates with victories, with wins against all British teams and the Triple Crown.

Chess

• The game Capablanca - Bernstein, San Sebastián 1911 is one of the most famous games in chess history. The standing at the beginning of his career, José Raúl Capablanca Cubans defeated the Russians Ossip Bernstein, who has previously expressed reservations about his participation.

Swimming

Swimming Championships

• German Swimming Championships 1911

Swimming Records

Winter sports

Bobsleigh / Luge

• November 5: The German Bobsleigh Federation is founded.
• 26th December: The German luge covenant is founded. The two clubs are summarized in 1949 in the Bobsleigh and Luge Federation for Germany.

Hockey

Figure skating

• January 22: At the World Figure Skating Championships in 1911 for men the Hungarian Lily Kronberger wins for the second time after 1908, the German - Finnish pair Ludowika splitter and Walter Jakobsson wins pair skating. .
• February 12: The Swede Per Thorén wins the European Figure Skating Championships 1911 in St. Petersburg.

• February 3: The Swede Ulrich Salchow is at the World Figure Skating Championships in Berlin for the tenth time world champion in figure skating men.

Speed skating records

• FEBRUARY 4: Nikolay Strunnikov, Russian Empire, running in Kristiania (Oslo ), the 5,000 -meter speed skating in 8:37,2 min.

Ski Jumping

• The American Anders Haugen achieved in ski jumping on the Wolverine Hill in Ironwood, United States, the length of 46.3 meters.
• The Austrian Paula von Lamberg, " the flying Countess " achieves on the shady mountain hill in Kitzbühel " in long skirt and impeccable attitude " a jump distance of 22 meters.

Club -ups

• June 3: The workers' sports club SV Berlin Sparta is founded.

Others

• The Olimpijski komitet Rossii is founded.

Born

January to April

• January 03: Fritz Huschke von Hanstein, German racing driver († 1996)
• 04 January: Enrico Lorenzetti, Italian motorcycle racer († 1989)
• January 06: Friedrich Hendrix, German athlete († 1941)
• January 06: Hein Thorn Prikker, German motorcycle racer († 1998)
• January 16: Roger Lapébie, French cyclist († 1996)
• JANUARY 18: Hans- Hilmar Staudte, German chess master and problem composer († 1979)
• January 27: Alfons Dorfner, Austrian canoeist († 1982)
• January 27: Mildred Fizzell, Canadian athlete († 1993)

• February 01: Michael Murach, German amateur boxer († 1941)
• February 07: Rudolf Raftl, Austrian Football Goalie ( † 1994)
• FEBRUARY 12: Hermione Schröder, German athlete († 1978)
• FEBRUARY 18: Hans Woellke, German athlete († 1943)
• FEBRUARY 19: Bill Bowerman, American coach and entrepreneur († 1999)
• FEBRUARY 26: Cor Wals, Dutch cyclist and member of the Waffen -SS († 1994)

• March 01: Harry Golombek, British grandmaster in chess († 1995)
• March 04: Carl Forberg, American race car driver († 2000)
• March 08: William Sandner, German speed skater († 1984)
• March 14: Karl Neckermann, German athlete († 1984)
• MARCH 16: Bob Foster, British motorcycle racer († 1982)
• MARCH 26: Lennart Atterwall, Swedish javelin thrower († 2001)
• MARCH 28: Consalvo Sanesi, Italian Formula 1 driver († 1998)
• MARCH 28: Heinrich Sonnrein, German football player and goalkeeper († 1944)
• March 30: Heini Dittmar, German glider († 1960)

• April 03: Theo Schuster, German chess player and chess journalist († 1998)
• April 11: Stanisław Walasiewicz, Polish- American track and field athlete († 1980)
• April 13: Eric Oliver, British motorcycle racer († 1980)
• APRIL 23: Bruno Valfrid Ahlberg, Finnish boxer († 1966)

May to August

• May 05: Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess grandmaster († 2010)
• MAY 12: William Leichum, German athlete († 1941)
• MAY 17: Alberic O'Kelly de Galway, Belgian chess master and the third correspondence chess world champion († 1980)
• MAY 23: Betty Nuthall, English tennis player († 1983)

• June 04: Billy Fiske, bobsledder, Olympic champion († 1940)
• June 07: Mario Perazzolo, Italian footballer and coach († 2001)
• June 15: Jack McCracken, American basketball player († 1958)
• 20 June: Paul Pietsch, German racing driver and publisher
• JUNE 24: Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine racing driver († 1995)
• June 26: Mildred Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer († 1956)

• July 02: Reginald Parnell, English F1 racing driver and team manager († 1964)
• 07 July: Jesse Carver, English footballer and coach († 2003)
• 07 July: Marcel Reymond, Swiss ski jumper
• JULY 25: Len Duncan, American race car driver († 1998)
• JULY 21: Walter Lohmann, German cyclists ( † 1993)
• JULY 28: Gerhard Stöck, German track and field athlete and Olympic champion († 1985)

• 06 August: Annibale Frossi, Italian footballer and coach († 1999)
• August 17: Mikhail Botvinnik Moissejewitsch, Russian chess grandmaster († 1995)
• August 18: Wolfgang Dess Ecker, German track and field athlete and Olympian († 1973)
• AUGUST 21: Gedeon Barcza, Hungarian chess player († 1986)
• August 23: Betty Robinson, American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist († 1999)
• August 23: Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper († 1998)
• August 24: Victor Barna, Hungarian table tennis player († 1972)
• AUGUST 26: Mario Celoria, Italian footballer († 1984)
• August 30: Hermann Stork, German diver († 1962)

September to December

• SEPTEMBER 8: Lee Wallard, American race car driver († 1963)
• September 14: Leslie Graham, British motorcycle racer († 1953)
• September 23: Franz Wagner, German and Austrian football player († 1975)
• September 28: Ellsworth Vines, American tennis player († 1994)
• September 30: Ed Danowski, American football player († 1997)

• October 2: Tilly Fleischer, German athlete († 2005)
• October 3: Ljubisa Brocic, Yugoslav football coach († 1995)
• 4 October: Hermann Nattkämper, German footballer († 2005)
• October 11: Nello Pagani, an Italian motorcycle and race car driver († 2003)
• OCTOBER 11: Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine track and field athlete and Olympic champion († 1983)
• October 30: Ernst Feick, President of the German Handball Federation († 2007)

Exact date of birth unknown

• Rudolf Heydel, German race car driver († 1936)

Died