1958 in sport

Chronology of the sport

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Automobile

  • nonwell informed or unknown Dates :

    • Mike Hawthorn gains the Championnat of the world of Formula 1 at the wheel of a Ferrari.
    • Lee Petty gains the championship of the series NASCAR with an entire amount of $20,600 (USD).

Athletics

  • April 6th: American athlete Al Oerter establishes new world records of the throwing the discus to Arkansas, while launching his machine to 61 m 72
  • June 22nd: The Rumanian athlete Jolanda Balas establishes new female world records of high jump, with a jump of 1 m 80.
  • August 28th: The Australian athlete Herbert Elliott beats the world records of the 1500 m into 3 min 36 S.

Baseball

  • the New York Yankees gain the World Series vis-a-vis Milwaukee Braves.

Basketball

  • the St Louis Hawks are champions NBA by beating in finales the Boston Celtics 4 handles with 2.
  • Mézières champion of France.

Boxing

  • August 18th: At Los Angeles, the American boxer Floyd Patterson preserves his championship of the world of the heavy trucks, by beating his compatriot Roy Harris with the 12th round.
  • October 4th: The German boxer “Bubi” Scholz becomes world champion in the category of the average weights, by beating the French Charles Humez, by k.o with the 12th round.
  • December 10th: The American boxer archie Moore goes to the carpet four times, but remains world champion of heavy-light while beating by k.o., with the Forum of Montreal, the Canadian Yvon Durelle.

Cycling

Football

  • February 2nd: The plane bringing back the team of Manchester United from Belgrade to London is crushed in Munich. Momentary blackjacks, including seven players of the British team, find death. The day before, Manchester United had torn off its qualification for the semi-finals of the Cut of Europe of the clubs champions, after a tie (3-3) against the Red Star Belgrade.

  • May 28th: With Brussels, the Real Madrid gains its 3rd Coupe of Europe of the clubs champions of football by beating the Milan AC.
  • June 24th. Retransmission on line by the tele Frenchwoman of the semi-final of the World cup, France - Brazil. One estimates at 8 million the number of French who attended this meeting. One keeps in memory the assemblies in front of the stores of television sets per hour of the match… To note that world Swedish is the first World cup diffused in Mondiovision.
  • Football world cup in Sweden. The June 29th, the Brésil gains the championship of the world thanks to the young person Pelé (17 years). The France is classified in the third place, Just Fontaine marked 13 goals, record of a final stage, which was not beaten yet.

  • the Stade of Rheims is champion of France and gains the Coupe de France.

American football

Gymnastic

  • July 13rd: The Russian Boris Chakline and his compatriot Larissa Latynina gain the individual contests of the championships of the world of gymnastics in Moscow.

Hockey

Rugby with XIII

  • Albi champion of France.

Rugby with XV

  • the England gains the Tournoi.
  • FC Doors is champion of France.

Alpine skiing

Tennis

Volley ball

  • September 11th: To Prague, Czechoslovakia allocates the championship of Europe of volley ball in front of Romania and the USSR. At the ladies, the USSR carries it in front of Czechoslovakia and Poland.

Births

Death

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