1957 in sport

Chronology of the sport

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Athletics

  • April 28th: The American Bob Gutowski establishes new world records of the Saut to the pole by crossing 4 m 78.

  • June 16th: The American athlete Bob Gutowski improves his world records of the jump to the pole with a jump of 4 m 819.
  • October 13rd: With Rome, the Russian Vladimir Kuts became the fastest man of the world on {{Formatnum: 5000}} meters, traversing the distance in 13 ' 35". It improved one second eight tenth the time of the Britannique Gordon Pirie, former holder of the record.

Automobile

  • June 23rd: The crew Ron Flockhart - Ivor Bueb, over Standard Jaguar D, gains the 24 hours of Mans, with the time average of 183,2 km/h. For the first time of the history of the 24 hours of Mans, 200 km/h of average on a lathe of circuit are beaten by Hawthorn, on Ferrari, with 203,015 km/h.

  • August 4th: At the evening of GP of Germany, disputed over the circuit of Nürburgring, at the conclusion of it obtained the 24e (and last) victory of its career, the Argentin Juan Manuel Fangio gains - whereas there remain still two races to be disputed - its fifth title (including four consecutive) of World champion of Formula 1 at the wheel of a Maserati.

  • Buck Baker gains the championship of the series NASCAR with an entire amount of $24,712 (USD).

Baseball

Basketball

  • the Boston Celtics are champions NBA by beating in finales the St Louis Hawks 4 handles with 3.
  • ACE Villeurbanne champion of France.

Boxing

  • January 2nd: the American Gene Fulmer becomes world champion of the average weights to boxing by beating Ray Sugar Robinson, holder of the title, at the points in 15 rounds.
  • 1 {{er}} May: in Chicago Stadium, Ray Sugar Robinson becomes world champion for the fourth time by inflicting with Gene Fulmer the first KB of its career.
  • May 30th: at the Cycle-racing track of Vigorelli of Milan, the French Charles Humez preserves his championship of Europe of the average weights of boxing by beating at the points the Italian Italo Scorticchini.
  • July 29th: the champion Floyd Patterson preserves his championship of the world of the heavy trucks at boxing by beating Tommy Jackson by stop of the referee to the 10th round with New York.
  • August 22nd: the champion Floyd Patterson preserves his championship of the world of the heavy trucks at boxing by beating Pete Rademacher by K.O with the 6th round with Seattle.
  • September 23rd: with the Yankee Stadium of New York, the Italy N Carmen Basilio beats Ray Sugar Robinson at the points and becomes world champion of the average weights of boxing.

Cycling

  • February 24th: the French André Dufraisse gains the title this world champion of Cyclo-cross to Edelaere (Beautiful).

  • July 14th: at the time of the 16th stage of the Tour de France cyclist, between Barcelona and Ax-the-Thermal baths, the journalist Alex Virot, to defer to Radio-Luxembourg, and its motorcyclist Rene Wagner, are crushed mortally in a ditch.

  • August 18th: with the Cycle-racing track of Vigorelli of Milan, the cyclist Frenchwoman Renee Vissac adapts the world records of the hour by traversing 38,569 km.

Fencing

  • September 24th: With Paris, the French Armand Mouyal becomes world champion of Escrime to the sword. Victorious of all its adversaries, he succumbs on the last, the Italy N Giuseppe Delfino, which does not prevent it from removing the world title of the speciality.

Football

  • March 17th: Match of anthology to the Stage Cycle-racing track of Marseilles, where O.M accommodates Saint-Etienne. To the half-time, the Olympian ones lead 3 to 0 thanks to a “hat-trick” of the Swedish attacker Gunnar Andersson. With the return of the cloakrooms, in six minutes, its counterpart inhabitant of Saint-Etienne Rachid Mekloufi carries out the same performance to equalize. But Andersson misleads Claude Abbes fourth once and gives the victory to the OM. A match of legend and an exploit moreover for that which remains still today the best striker of the history of the OM with 170 marked goals.
  • May 15th: Stanley Matthews makes its last appearance under the shirt of the team of England, after 23 years of career and 54 selections, at the time of the English victory 4-1 against the Denmark with Copenhagen in match cash for the eliminating heats of the World cup of 1958.
  • May 30th: First retransmission of a football game on line in Spain: At the Bernabeu stage, in front of 125.000 spectators, the Real Madrid gains its second Cut of Europe of football by beating AC Fiorentina by 2-0.
  • June: The three year old contract which authorized the SPOKE to be diffused in evening of the extracts of matches comes to a end. The authorities of Italian football claim 100 million per annum, whereas the SPOKE does not propose of it that 30… It is the crisis and Calcio closes its stages with the cameras of TV and even with the retransmissions radios.
  • September: Matt Busby, trainer of Manchester United, claims for its players the same regards that the movie stars have: “The footballers must be paid on their value. No the remuneration, not of television. ”
  • December 22nd: in Hanover, in match revenge of the finale of the Cut of football world 1954, Germany beats Hungary 1-0.

American football

Hockey

Figure skating

Rugby with XIII

  • XIII Catalan champion of France.
  • the Australia gains the World cup.

Rugby with XV

  • the England gains the Tournoi by signing a Large Slam.
  • FC Doors is champion of France.

Tennis

  • July 5th: finally tennis tournament of Wimbledon, Australian the Lewis Hoad beats her compatriot Ashley Cooper.

Births

Death

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