1949 in sport

Chronology of the sport

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Automobile

  • the French Jean Trévoux gains the Car rally Monte Carlo over a Hotchkiss.
  • 24 hours of Mans: Ferrari gains the 24:00 with the pilots Luigi Chinetti and Peter Seldon.
  • Red Byron gains the first championship of the series NASCAR with an entire amount of 5.800 $ (USD).
  • Grand Prix of Monaco, Great Britain, Swiss, France and Italy. In addition to these five national races, 26 other Grand Prix take place including 7 in France. In order to proceed to a sorting between all these races, a championship of the world of pilots is created. The first edition of this championship will be held in 1950.

Baseball

  • February 7th: Joe Di Maggio sign a contract of: 100000 dollars with the New York Yankees.
  • the New York Yankees gain the World Series vis-a-vis the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Basketball

  • the Mineapolis Lakers are champions NBA by beating in finales the Washington Capitols 4 handles with 2.
  • ACE Villeurbanne champion of France.

Cycling

Football

  • April 30th: Wolverhampton Wanderers gains the Coupe of England vis-a-vis Leicester City, 3-1.
  • May 8th: RC Paris gains the Coupe de France vis-a-vis the Lille OSC, 5-2.
  • the Stade of Rheims is champion of France
  • Portsmouth FC is champion of England
  • Torino is champion of Italy
  • VFR Mannheim is champion of Germany
  • FC Barcelona is champion of Spain
  • Rangers champion of Scotland

American football

Canadian Football

Golf

  • the South-African Bobby Locke gains the British Open of golf
  • the American Cary Middlecoff gains US the Open
  • the American Sam Snead gains the tournament of the USPGA
  • the American Sam Snead gains the tournament of Masters.

Hockey

Walk

  • June 24th: After 12 years of interruption, resumption of the race Paris-Strasbourg with the walk, whose French Gilbert Roger gains the 13th edition by traversing the 520 km of the way in 73 hours 51 minutes, with the average of 7,041 km/h.

Motor bike

  • Speed (championship of the world)
    • 500 cm: The British Leslie Graham on AJS.
    • 350 cm: The British Freddie Frith on Velocette.
    • 250 cm: The Italian Bruno Ruffo on Motor bike Guzzi.
    • 125 cm: The Italian Nello Pagani on World.
    • motorcycle combination: The British Eric Olivier on Norton.
  • Moto-cross (Moto-cross of the nations)
    • Great Britain gains this test by team.
  • Endurance

Rugby with XIII

  • April 22nd, Journal officiel de la R3epublique fran1caise: delegation of powers given to the French federation of Play to XIII and suppression of that given to the French League of Rugby to XIII, (ordinance and stopped 1945,1946,1949)

  • Marseilles champion of France.

Rugby with XV

  • the Ireland gains the Tournoi.
  • Lancashire champion of England of the counties.
  • Castres Olympic is champion of France.

Tennis

  • Tournament of Roland-Garros.
    • the American Frank Parker is essential into simple men.
    • American the Margeret Osborne is essential into simple women.
  • Tournament of Wimbledon.
    • the American Ted Schroeder is essential into simple men.
    • American the Louise Brough is essential into simple women.
  • US Open.
    • the American Ricardo Gaonzales is essential into simple men.
    • American the Margaret Of the Bridge is essential into simple women.
  • Coupe Davis: the USA beats Australia: 4 - 1

Births

Principal deaths

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