Olympic Sports (Part 11) - On This Day ·

31 Aug 2024, 00:00

Events in Sport

Events 1001 - 1,075 of 1,075

2018-02-12 Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst becomes first Winter Olympian to win an individual gold medal in 4 straight Games with victory in the 1,500m at Pyeongchang; first speed skater to win 10 Olympic medals
2018-02-13 After winning Olympic gold in the women's curling in Sochi (2014), Canadian Kaitlyn Lawes wins the mixed doubles with dual gold medallist John Morris in Pyeongchang

Olympic Gold

2018-02-14 American snowboarder Shaun White wins an unprecedented 3rd Olympic halfpipe gold medal (previous 2006, 10) at the Pyeongchang Winter Games

Olympics Postponed

2020-03-24 Japan's Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announces postponement of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games until summer of 2021 because of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic

2020-03-30 International Olympic Committee announces postponed 2020 Summer Olympic Games will be held July 23-August 8 in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic

Ben Ainslie Sails to Gold

2020-09-29 Ben Ainslie wins the Olympic gold medal in the Laser class, beating previous Laser Olympic champion Robert Scheidt

2020-12-07 Breaking, the competitive form of breakdancing, confirmed as an Olympic sport for the Paris 2024 games
2021-02-19 In a softening of 4-year WADA ban on Russia from all international sport, Russia to compete under acronym "ROC" after name of the Russian Olympic Committee
2021-06-06 US Open Women's Golf, Olympic GC Lake Course: Yuka Saso of the Philippines sinks 10-foot birdie putt on 3rd playoff hole to edge Japan's Nasa Hataoka; becomes 2nd teenager to win the event
2021-07-23 XXXII Summer Olympic Games officially open at the Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan
2021-07-25 Japanese judokas Uta Abe (women's 52kg) and brother Hifumi (men's 66kg) make history as first siblings to win Olympic gold medals in different events on same day at the Tokyo Games
2021-07-25 Japanese skateboarder Yuto Horigome wins the sport's inaugural Olympic gold medal in the men's street section at the Tokyo Games
2021-07-25 USA's men's basketball team see their 25-game Olympic winning streak end; beaten 83-76 by France in first round match in Tokyo

Simone Biles Withdraws

2021-07-27 American gymnast and four-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles withdraws from the women's team final at the Tokyo Games citing need to focus on her mental health; also misses individual finals

2021-07-27 Fiji retains Olympic Rugby Sevens title with 27-12 win over New Zealand in Tokyo; only second gold in the country's Olympic history
2021-07-27 Ítalo Ferreira of Brazil and American Carissa Moore claim inaugural men's and women's surfing gold medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games
2021-07-27 Triathlete Flora Duffy claims historic first ever Olympic gold medal for Bermuda in the women's event at the Tokyo Games
2021-07-28 19-year-old gymnast Daiki Hashimoto of Japan becomes youngest Olympic men's artistic individual all-around champion in history at the Tokyo Games
2021-07-28 Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus claims Olympic double by winning women's 200m freestyle in OR 1:53.50 in Tokyo; she had beaten American superstar Katie Ledecki in 400m 2 days earlier
2021-07-29 Australian canoeist Jessicas Fox with 109.96s wins inaugural women's C-1 slalom gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games

Emma McKeon

2021-07-29 Australian swimmer Emma McKeon wins the blue riband 100m freestyle gold medal in OR 51.96 at the Tokyo Olympics; her 8th career Olympic medal

2021-07-29 Croatian rowing brothers Martin and Valent Sinković team to win coxless pair gold at the Tokyo Olympics; pair's second Olympic gold after winning double sculls in 2016
2021-07-29 Following Simone Biles' withdrawal, teammate Sunisa Lee becomes first Hmong-American Olympic champion in any sport when she wins women's artistic individual all-around gymnastics gold in Tokyo
2021-07-29 Russian backstroke swimmer Evgeny Rylov wraps up the 100/200m double with OR 1:53.27 in the longer event at the Tokyo Olympic Games
2021-07-31 Australian swimmer Kaylee McKeown wins gold in 200m backstroke to complete 100/200 double at the Tokyo Olympic Games

1st Mixed-Gender Olympic Swim Event

2021-07-31 First mixed-gender event to feature in Olympic swim program; Great Britain team of Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy & Anna Hopkin wins mixed 4×100m medley relay in WR 3:37.58 in Tokyo

2021-08-01 Italian Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar avoid a jump-off by agreeing to share the long jump gold medal after tying on 2.37m at the Tokyo Olympic Games

Elaine Thompson-Herah

2021-08-03 Jamaican athlete Elaine Thompson-Herah wins 200m gold in Tokyo to become the first female to claim the 100/200m double at consecutive Olympic Games

2021-08-03 New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington wins her third straight Olympic K-1 200m title at the Tokyo Games; also wins K-2 500m for her 4th career Olympic gold medal
2021-08-05 New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington wins her third Olympic gold medal of the Tokyo Games by winning K-1 500m; 5th career gold for Carrington
2021-08-06 Faith Kipyegon of Kenya retains her Olympic 1,500m title in OR 3:53.11 at the Tokyo Olympics
2021-08-07 As part of the winning American 4×400m relay team in Tokyo, Allyson Felix takes her total to 11 Olympic medals; becomes the most decorated female Olympian in track and field history
2021-08-07 Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra makes history winning his country’s first-ever Olympic track and field gold with 87.58m in Tokyo

USA Win Men's Basketball

2021-08-07 Kevin Durant with 29 points leads USA to his third and the team's 4th consecutive Olympic men's basketball gold medal with an 87-82 win over France in Tokyo

Basketball Gold for US Women

2021-08-08 USA women's basketball team wins it's record extending 7th consecutive Olympic gold medal with 90-75 win over Japan in Tokyo; guards Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi each win their 5th straight gold

2021-08-08 XXXII Summer Olympic Games officially close at the Japan National Stadium, Tokyo
2021-11-09 105-year-old Julia Hawkins sets a world record as the first woman and first American her age to run 100 meters at Louisiana Senior Olympic Games [1]
2022-02-04 XXIV Olympic Winter Games open in Beijing, China
2022-02-08 Austrian alpine skier Matthias Mayer narrowly retains his Olympic Super-G title from American Ryan Cochran-Siegle at the Beijing Winter Games; Mayer's 3rd Olympic gold medal
2022-02-20 XXIV Olympic Winter Games close in Beijing, China; Norway finishes with record 16 gold medals

Mo Farah's Story

2022-07-11 UK Olympic gold medalist Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK as a child, from Djibouti, to work as a domestic servant [1]

2023-10-06 American Simone Biles wins all-round gold at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, - becoming the most decorated gymnast ever with 34 world and Olympic medals [1]
2024-07-26 XXXIII Summer Olympic Games officially open along the River Seine and at Jardins du Trocadéro, in front of the Eiffel Tower, Paris
2024-07-31 China's Pan Zhanle sets one of only 2 new WRs in the Paris Olympic swim meet with 46.40 in the 100m freestyle final ahead of Australia's Kyle Chalmers and David Popovici of Romania
2024-08-02 Australian Kaylee McKeown joins Roland Matthes of Germany (1968, 72) as the only swimmers to achieve the Olympic 100/200m backstroke double when McKeown wins the 200m event in Paris
2024-08-03 In a major upset in athletics, Julien Alfred edges race favourite Sha'Carri Richardson of the US for the women's 100m gold medal at the Paris Olympics; St Lucia's first-ever Olympic medal
2024-08-04 American swimmer Bobby Finke sets a new 1,500m WR 14:30.67 to successfully defend his Olympic title at the Paris Games
2024-08-04 The US mixed 4 × 100m medley relay team of Ryan Murphy, Nic Fink, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske win gold in a new WR 3:37.43 at the Paris Olympic Games
2024-08-11 XXXIII Summer Olympic Games officially close at the Stade de France, Paris

Birthdays in Sport

Birthdays 1001 - 1,100 of 2,799

1950-08-16 Hasely Crawford, Trinidad, 100m runner (Olympic gold 1976)
1950-08-24 Frank Murray, Australian field hockey national coach (Olympic silver 1992, 96)
1950-08-27 Cynthia Potter, American diver (Olympic bronze 3m springboard 1976) and broadcaster (NBC Sports), born in Houston, Texas
1950-09-20 Gábor Csapó, Hungarian water polo player (Olympic gold 1976, bronze 1980; World C'ship gold 1973), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2022)
1950-10-13 Annegret Richter-Irrang, German sprinter (Olympic gold 1972), born in Dortmund, Germany
1950-10-14 Sheila Young Ochowicz, American speed skater (1976 Olympic gold, silver, and bronze), and track cyclist, born in Birmingham, Michigan
1950-11-03 Karen Stives, American equestrian rider (Olympic gold team, silver individual 1984), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2015)
1950-11-11 Rex Sellers, New Zealand yachtsman (Olympic gold Tornado class 1984), born in Nelson, New Zealand
1950-11-17 Roland Matthes, German swimmer (Olympic gold 100, 200m backstroke 1968, 72; WR x 19), born in Pößneck, Thuringia, Germany
1950-11-21 Alberto Juantorena, Cuba, 400m dash (Olympic gold 1976)
1950-12-03 Alberto Juantorena, Cuban athlete (Olympic gold 400m/800m [WR 1:43.50] 1976; only athlete to win that double), born in Santiago de Cuba
1950-12-29 Géza Csapó, Hungarian sprint canoeist (6 x World C'ship gold; Olympic silver K-1 1000m 1976, bronze 1972), born in Szolnok, Hungary (d. 2022)
1950-12-31 Inge Helten, German athlete (Olympic silver FRG 4x100m relay, bronze 100m 1976; WR 100m 11.04s 1976), born in Sinzig, Germany
1951-01-04 Barbara Ann Cochran, American slalom skier (Olympic gold 1972), born in Claremont, New Hampshire
1951-01-14 Gil Pak Jong, North Korean judoka (Olympic-1976)
1951-01-17 Rolando Thoeni, Italian slalom (Olympic bronze 1972), born in Trafoi

1951-01-17 Yury Zaitsev, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR 110kg 1976), born in Pobedino, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia (d. 2022)
1951-01-22 Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (Olympic gold men's singles 1972; World C'ships gold 1971, 72, 73), born in Bratislava, Slovakia (d. 1989)
1951-01-23 Margaret Johnson Bailes, American 4x100 runner (Olympic gold 1968), born in The Bronx, New York
1951-01-23 Michael R. Matz, American horse trainer & equestrian (Olympic silver 1996), born in Collegeville, Pennsylvania
1951-01-26 Jarmila Kratochvilova, Czech athlete (World C'ship gold 400/800m 1983; Olympic silver 400m 1980), born in Golčův Jeníkov, Czech Republic
1951-02-03 Felipe Munoz, Mexican 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic gold 1968)
1951-02-07 Manfred Schumann, German FR, bobsled (Olympic-silver/bronze-1976)
1951-02-22 Elaine Tanner, Canadian swimmer (WR 220yd butterfly, 440yd IM, 100/200m backstroke; Olympic silver 100/200m backstroke 1968), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1951-02-28 Gustavo Thoeni, Italian giant slalom (Olympic gold 1972)
1951-03-30 Anton Tkáč, Slovak track cyclist (Olympic gold Czechoslovakia men's match sprint 1976; World C'ship gold 1974, 78), born in Lozorno, Slovakia (d. 2022)
1951-04-13 Beatrix "Trixie" Schuba, Austrian figure skater considered to be one of the best compulsory figure skaters ever (Olympic gold 1972), born in Vienna, Austria
1951-04-30 Danuta Rosani, Polish discus thrower (Olympic 1976) disqualified for drugs
1951-05-06 Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov, Kazakh Greco-Roman wrestler (Olympic gold, light-flyweight 1980; World C'ship gold 1981), born in Tegistik, Kazakhstan (d. 2020)
1951-05-12 Gunnar Larsson, Swedish swimmer (Olympic gold 200/400m medley,1972; World C'ship gold 200m medley, 1973), born in Malmö, Sweden
1951-05-18 Angela Voigt, German athlete (Olympic gold GDR long jump 1976), born in Weferlingen, Germany (d. 2013)

1951-06-01 Henty Boucha, Ojibwa-American NHL and WHA ice hockey forward, 1972-77 (Olympic silver, 1972; Detroit Red Wings and 3 other teams), born in Warroad, Minnesota (d. 2023)
1951-06-10 Burglinde Pollak, East German pentathlete (Olympic bronze 1972), born in Werder, East Germany
1951-06-24 Ivar Formo, Norwegian cross country skier (Olympic gold 50k 1976), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 2006)
1951-06-24 Raelene Boyle, Australian athlete (Olympic silver 200m 1968, 72; 100m 1972), born in Melbourne, Australia
1951-07-14 Judi Brown, American 400m hurdler (Olympic silver 1984), born in East Lansing, Michigan
1951-07-20 Larry Black, 4x100 runner (Olympic gold 1972), born in Miami, Florida
1951-07-28 Doug Collins, American basketball shooting guard (NBA All-Star 1976–79; Philadelphia 76ers), coach (Chicago, Detroit, Washington, Philadelphia) and broadcaster (CBS, NBC, TNT, TBS, ABC/ESPN), born in Christopher, Illinois
1951-08-07 Gary Hall, American swimmer (Olympic silver 400m medley 1968, 200m butterfly 1972, bronze 100m butterfly 1976; 5 x WR), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1951-08-12 Hector Rodriguez, Cuban judoka (Olympic gold 1976)
1951-08-13 Gwen Cheeseman, American field hockey goalie (Olympic bronze, 1984), born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
1951-08-17 Alan Minter, English boxer (world middleweight champion 1980), born in Crawley, England (d. 2020)
1951-08-21 Bernhard Germeshausen, German bobsledder (Olympic gold x 4 GDR 1976, 80), born in Heilbad Heiligenstadt, Germany (d. 2022)
1951-09-21 Bruce Arena, American soccer coach (Olympic gold 1996), born in Brooklyn, New York
1951-09-29 Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler (youngest to win individual Olympic Gold at 17 in 1968), born in Cumberland, Australia
1951-09-30 Catie Ball, American 100m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic-4X4 gold-1968)

1952-10-07 Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast (9 x Olympic medalist USSR, 4 x gold [3 x team, 1 x All Around]; 7 x World C'ship gold), born in Grozny, Russia
1952-10-14 Nikolai Adrianov, Soviet-Russian gymnast (Olympic-4 gold/2 silver/bronze-1976), born in Vladimir, Russia (d. 2011)
1952-11-17 Roman Codreanu, Romania, wrestler (Olympic-1980)
1952-11-21 Eamonn Coghlan, Irish 1500m runner (Olympic 4th 76)
1952-12-12 Cathy Rigby (McCoy), American gymnast (Olympics, 1968 & 1972), stage actress (Peter Pan), and sports commentator, born in Long Beach, California
1952-12-21 Steve Furniss, American swimmer (WR men's 200m IM 2:06.32 1974; Olympic bronze 1972), born in Madison, Wisconsin
1952-12-29 Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet/Russian gymnast (Olympic gold 1972, 76, 80), born in Vladimir, Russia (d. 2011)
1953-01-03 Angelo Parisi, French judoka (Olympic gold heavyweight 1980), born in Arpino, Italy
1953-01-13 Luann Ryon, American archer (Olympic gold women's individual 1976), born in Long Beach, California (d. 2022)
1953-01-22 Karen Moe, American swimmer (Olympic gold 200m butterfly 1972), born in Del Monte, Philippines
1953-02-01 Andy Mill, American alpine skier (non-placed Olympics, World C'ships; ex-husband of tennis player Chris Evert), born in Fort Collins, Colorado
1953-02-27 Oleg Moliboga, Ukrainian volleyball player (Olympic gold USSR 1980, silver 1976; World C'ship gold 1978, 82), born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine (d. 2022)
1953-03-14 Tim McKee, American 400m medley swimmer (Olympic silver 1972)
1953-03-19 Hans Rinn, German DR, 2 man lugist (Olympic gold 1976, 80)
1953-03-21 Emilio Correa, Cuban boxer (Olympic gold welterweight 1972; World C'ship gold 1974), born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba (d. 2024)
1953-04-06 Janet Lynn, ice skater (Olympic bronze 1972)

Olympic Sports (Part 11) - On This Day