- 1950 in sports
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cp=19th century
c=20th century
cf=21st centuryyp1=1947
yp2=1948
yp3=1949
year=1950
ya1=1951
ya2=1952
ya3=1953
dp3=1920s
dp2=1930s
dp1=1940s
d=1950s
da=0
dn1=1960s
dn2=1970s
dn3=1980s|Athletics
Marathon
International Races
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August 23 — flagicon|BEL European Championships Marathon,Brussels, Belgium
**Men's Winner: Jack Holden (ENG) 2:32:14*
December 10 — flagicon|JPNFukuoka Marathon ,Japan
**Men's Winner:Shunji Koyanagi (JPN) 2:30:47National Champions
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May 21 — flagicon|USAUnited States
** Men's Winner: — 2:45:55*
July 22 — flagicon|NEDNetherlands
** Men's Winner:Adri Moons — 2:58:12*
July 22 — flagicon|ENGEngland
** Men's Winner: Jack Holden — 2:31:03*
July 23 — flagicon|FINFinland
** Men's Winner:Vilho Partanen — 2:39:59*
August 5 — flagicon|GERGermany
** Men's Winner:Wilfried Hogrefe — 2:46:48*
August 28 — flagicon|CANCanada
** Men's Winner: Paul Collins — 2:45:11*
October 8 — flagicon|JPNJapan
** Men's Winner:Yoshikazu Noda — 2:47:17*
September 24 — flagicon|HUNHungary
** Men's Winner:Mihály Esztergomi — 2:37:25*
NASCAR Championship -Bill Rexford
*AAA Racing:
**Henry Banks won the series championship
**Johnnie Parsons won theIndianapolis 500
*Formula One Champion: The first World Championship for drivers under the jurisdiction of the "Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile " (FIA) is contested. The first race of the World Championship series is the British Grand Prix won byGiuseppe Farina , driving an Alfa Romeo. Farina would go on to become the first FIA World Champion.
*24 hours of Le Mans -Louis Rosier /Jean-Louis Rosier driving aTalbot-Lago
*Rally racing :
**M. Becquart /H. Secret won theMonte Carlo Rally driving a Hotchkiss
*Drag racing -June 19 : The first commercial drag strip, the Santa Ana Drags, begins at Orange County Airport (nowJohn Wayne Airport ) in Santa Ana, in SouthernCalifornia . Admission is 50 cents -- or 75 cents if the ticket holder wanted to watch the mechanics work.Baseball *
World Series :New York Yankees win 4 games to 0 over thePhiladelphia Phillies Basketball *
First FIBA World Championship .Argentina World ChampionBoxing *January in
London ,Joey Maxim won the light-heavyweight world title, stopping championFreddie Mills in 10 rounds.*
September 27 -Ezzard Charles retains his World Heavyweight Championship with a 15 round unanimous decision overJoe Louis inNew York City .BOBCycling *
Giro d'Italia -Hugo Koblet ofSwitzerland
*Tour de France -Ferdinand Kubler ofSwitzerland
*Vuelta a España –Emilio Rodriguez ofSpain
*World Cycling Championship -Briek Schotte ofBelgium Figure skating *
World Figure Skating Championships :
**Men's champion:Dick Button ,United States
**Ladies' champion:Aja Zanova ,Czechoslovakia
**Pair skating champions:Karol Kennedy & Michael Kennedy,United States
=Football (American)=*NFL Championship:
Cleveland Browns win 30-28 over theLos Angeles Rams
*Oklahoma Sooners -college football champions.Football (Australian rules football )*
Victorian Football League
** Essendon wins the 54th VFL Premiership (Essendon 13.14 (92) d North Melbourne 7.12 (54))
**Brownlow Medal awarded toAllan Ruthven (Fitzroy)
=Football (Canadian)=*
Grey Cup :Toronto Argonauts win 13-0 over theWinnipeg Blue Bombers Football (soccer) FIFA World Cup *1950 World Cup held in
Brazil . Uruguay are the winners after beating Brazil in the final group decider.
*United States defeats England 1-0 in one of the great upsets in sports historyEngland
* First Division - Portsmouth win the 1949-50 title.
*FA Cup : Arsenal beat Liverpool 2-0 man u also ate a donutGolf Men's professional
*April 6-9 -Masters Tournament -Jimmy Demaret
*June 8-11 - U.S. Open -Ben Hogan
*June 27 -PGA Championship -Chandler Harper
*July 4-7 - British Open -Bobby Locke
*PGA Tour money leader -Sam Snead - $35,759 Men's amateur
*British Amateur -Frank Stranahan
*U.S. Amateur -Sam Urzetta Women's professional
*Thirteen women golfers found the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).
*Women's Western Open -Babe Zaharias
*U.S. Women's Open -Babe Zaharias
*Titleholders Championship -Babe Zaharias
*Babe Zaharias named Woman Athlete of the Half-Century by the Associated Press.
*LPGA Tour money leader -Babe Zaharias - $14,800*The United States
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded inSaratoga Springs, New York .*
Australia -Melbourne Cup -Comic Court
*Canada -Queen's Plate - McGill
*France -Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe -Tantieme
*Ireland -Irish Derby Stakes -Dark Warrior *English Triple Crown Races:
*#2,000 Guineas Stakes - Palestine
*#Epsom Derby -Galcador
*#St. Leger Stakes - Talma*United States Triple Crown Races:
*#May 6 -Kentucky Derby -Middleground
*#Preakness Stakes -Hill Prince
*#Belmont Stakes -Middleground *
Little Brown Jug for pacers -Dudley Hanover
*Hambletonian for trotters -Lusty Song *
Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship :
**Pacers:Captain Sandy :PP LPIce Hockey *
Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer during the regular season:Ted Lindsay ,Detroit Red Wings *
Hart Memorial Trophy : for the NHL's Most Valuable Player:Charlie Rayner ,New York Rangers *
Stanley Cup :Detroit Red Wings win 4 games to 3 over theNew York Rangers *
World Hockey Championship
** Men's champion:Canada 'sEdmonton Mercurys *
NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship -Colorado College Tigers defeatBoston University Terriers 13-4 inColorado Springs, CO Snooker *
World Snooker Championship : Walter Donaldson beats Fred Davis 51-46.Tennis *
Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
*#Australian Open -Frank Sedgman
*#French Open -Budge Patty
*#Wimbledon championships -Budge Patty
*#US Open -Arthur Larsen *
Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
*#Australian Open -Louise Brough
*#French Open -Doris Hart
*#Wimbledon championships -Louise Brough
*#US Open -Margaret Osborne duPont *
Davis Cup in world tennis:Australia won 4 to 1 over theUnited States Multi-sport event s*British Empire Games held in
Auckland
*Coaches Poll established to rank top 20 American college football and basketball teamsAwards
*Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year:
Jim Konstanty ,Major League Baseball
*Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, LPGA golfBirths
January
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January 3 —Robert Oliver , New Zealand road and track cyclist
*January 15 —Marius Trésor , French football player
*January 18 —Gilles Villeneuve , Canadian F1 race driver (d.1982 )
*January 19 —Eshetu Tura , Ethiopian long-distance runnerFebruary
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February 7 —Mauro Bellugi , Italian football player
*February 10 —Mark Spitz , American swimmimg Olympic champion
*February 13 —Rita Marchisio , Italian long-distance runner
*February 14 —Phil Dent , Australian tennis player
*February 22 —Julius Erving , American basketball Hall of Famer
*February 25 —Francisco Fernández-Ochoa , Spanish alpine skier (d.2006 )March
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March 9 —Danny Sullivan , American automobile racer
*March 13 —Joe Bugner , British and Australian heavyweight boxer
*March 21 —Anders Linderoth , Swedish football player
*March 28 —Roland Andersson , Swedish football playerApril
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April 1 —Paolo Conti , Italian football player
*April 8 —Grzegorz Lato , Polish football player
*April 14 —Joseph Nzau , Kenyan long-distance runner
*April 24 —Henryk Maculewicz , Polish football player
*April 26 —Elizabeth Chase , Zimbabwean field hockey player
*April 27 —Paolino Pulici , Italian football playerMay
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May 9 —James Butts , American triple jumper
* May 9 —Louk Sanders , Dutch tennis player
*May 15 —Renate Stecher , East German athlete
*May 18 —Rodney Milburn , American hurdlerJune
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June 3 —Marlene Elejarde , Cuban 4x100m runner (d.1980 )
*June 3 — Douglas Rodríguez, Cuban boxer
*June 5 —Bonifacio Avila , Colombian boxer
*June 5 —Adrian Cosma , Romanian handball player
*June 11 —Pokey Watson , American backstroke swimmer
*June 13 — Chris Taylor, American freestyle wrestler (d.1979 )
*June 15 — István Szabó, Hungarian canoer
*June 18 —Annelie Ehrhardt , Germann 100m hurdler
*June 25 —Tatyana Averina , Soviet speed skater
*July 12 —Gilles Meloche , Canadian hockey player
*June 27 —Benjamin Peterson , American heavyweight boxerJuly
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July 6 —Sultan Rakhmanov , Soviet weightlifter
*July 9 —Adriano Panatta , Italian tennis player
*July 13 —Rod Dixon , New Zealand middle distance runner
*July 16 —Dennis Priestley , British darts player
*July 18 —Sandor Pinter , Hungarian football player
*July 21 —Ubaldo Fillol , Argentinian football goalkeeper
*July 23 —Ramon Quiroga , Peruvian football goalkeeper
*July 29 —Maricica Puică , Romanian middle distance athleteAugust
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August 3 —Waldemar Cierpinski , German marathon runner
*August 4 —Alex Olmedo , Peru-born tennis player from the United States
*August 5 —Rosi Mittermaier , German alpine skier
*August 7 —David Wottle , American track and field athlete
*August 8 —Mart Bras , Dutch water polo player and referee
*August 12 —Shirley Haig , New Zealand field hockey player
*August 17 —Vasudevan Baskaran , Indian field hockey player and coach
*August 22 —Celia Breckenridge , British lacrosse player
*August 28 —Robert Kasting , Canadian butterfly and freestyle swimmereptember
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September 12 —Juan Francisco Rodríguez , Spanish boxer
*September 16 —Raisa Smekhnova , Soviet long-distance runner
*September 18 —Phil Bayton , British road cyclist
*September 23 —David Torosyan , Soviet-Armenian boxer
*September 24 —Duane Bobick , American boxerOctober
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October 3 —Andrzej Szarmach , Polish football player
*October 5 —Hugo Hovenkamp , Dutch football player
*October 12 —Miguel Oviedo , Argentinian football player
*October 13 —Annegret Richter , German athlete
*October 14 —Kurt Jara , Austrian football player
*October 24 —Asa Hartford , Scottish football playerNovember
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November 1 —Jan Evert Veer , Dutch water polo player
*November 4 —Benny Wendt , Swedish football player
*November 11 —Rex Sellers , New Zealand yachtsman
*November 16 —Héctor Baley , Argentinian football player
*November 17 —Roland Matthes , East German backstroke swimmer
*November 22 —Lyman Bostock , American Major League Baseball player
* November 22 —Domingo Tibaduiza , Colombian long-distance runner
*November 26 —Dieter Burdenski , German football goalkeeperDecember
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December 3 —Alberto Juantorena , Cuban athlete
*December 3 —Peter Trump , German field hockey player
*December 4 —Vladimir Bure , Soviet swimmer
*December 27 —Roberto Bettega , Italian football (soccer) player
*December 28 —Patrick Burris , American judokaDeaths
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April 16 -Arnaud Massy , champion golfer
*September 23 -Sam Barry , Hall of Fame basketball coach
*October 9 -George Hainsworth , NHLHockey Hall of Fame , goaltender
*November 4 -Grover Cleveland Alexander ,Major League Baseball pitcher (1911-1930)
*November 30 -Billy Burch ,Hockey Hall of Fame player
*December 5 -Bill Dahlen ,Major League Baseball player (1891-1911)
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