1985 in Sport (Part 2)

Events 101 - 200 of 223

• May 29 29th European Cup: Juventus beats Liverpool 1-0 at Brussels
• May 30 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 1
• May 31 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
• Jun 1 Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwickshire

• Jun 3 Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
• Jun 5 Steve Cauthen wins aboard Slip Anchor at Epsom Downs to become the only jockey to win both the Kentucky Derby (1978) and The Derby
• Jun 8 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
• Jun 9 39th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
• Jun 9 Alice Miller wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship

• Jun 14 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles

• Jun 16 85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
• Jun 16 T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open
• Jun 16 Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis
• Jun 18 Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs

• Jun 23 Alice Miller wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
• Jun 23 Laffit Pincay Jr becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million
• Jun 30 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
• Jun 30 6th US Senior Golf Open: Miller Barber wins by 4 strokes from Roberto De Vincenzo for back-to-back Seniors Open titles

• Jul 6 Mom's Command wins the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont to clinch American thoroughbred racing's Triple Tiara for fillies

• Jul 8 Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red

• Jul 14 40th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker
• Jul 16 56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn
• Jul 16 All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (San Diego Padres)
• Jul 21 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St George
• Jul 21 Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
• Jul 21 72nd Tour de France won by Bernard Hinault of France

• Jul 28 L Brock, Enos Slaughter, A Vaughan, & H Wilhelm inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
• Aug 1 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning of 9-8 loss v Cubs to set a NL rookie record 74
• Aug 2 England captain David Gower scores his 5,000th run in Test cricket during the drawn 4th Test v Australia at Old Trafford
• Aug 4 Scott Verplank beats Jim Thorpe in Western Open playoff, first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since Gene Littler 1954
• Aug 4 New York Yankees retire champion Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Phil Rizzuto's #10
• Aug 4 Future Hall of Fame infielder Rod Carew of the California Angels singles off Minnesota's Frank Viola to collect his MLB 3,000th career hit; Angels win, 6–5
• Aug 4 Tom Seaver of Chicago White Sox becomes 17th pitcher to win 300 MLB career games, beating New York, 4-1; 54,032 at Yankee Stadium
• Aug 6 MLB Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
• Aug 8 Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993
• Aug 10 Oakland A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle)
• Aug 10 Uno Lindstron of Sweden juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
• Aug 11 PGA Championship, Cherry Hills CC: Hubert Green wins by 2 strokes from fellow American Lee Trevino
• Aug 11 Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
• Aug 12 Balt Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
• Aug 18 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf


• Aug 18 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
• Aug 20 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
• Aug 22 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
• Aug 23 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
• Aug 25 Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)

• Aug 27 Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years 8 days old is youngest to win a US Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
• Aug 31 Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
• Sep 1 Bill Elliott claims a $1 million bonus for winning 3 of the 4 crown jewel races on the NASCAR schedule: the Daytona 500, Winston 500 and Southern 500
• Sep 1 Dutch cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes the oldest road race elite world champion at 38 years, 8 months, 29 days; beats Greg Lamonde & Marino Argentin in Giavera del Montello
• Sep 3 England cricket swing bowler Richard Ellison with 5 for 76 helps dismiss Australia for 129 in 6th Test win at the Oval; England regains Ashes 3-1
• Sep 3 NY Mets catcher Gary Carter smashes 3 consecutive HRs in an 8-3 win v San Diego Padres at Jack Murphy Stadium
• Sep 4 Russian Igor Paklin sets new high jump world record at 2.41m in Kobe, Japan
• Sep 4 NY Mets catcher Gary Carter's 2 HRs in a 9-2 win in San Diego ties MLB record of 5 HRs in 2 games

• Sep 11 Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India
• Sep 11 Pete Rose of Cincinnati Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record
• Sep 15 26th Ryder Cup: Europe beat US, 16½-11½ at The Belfry, England
• Sep 15 Yanks trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro
• Sep 20 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players

• Sep 22 Billy Martin's right arm is broken by pitcher Ed Whitson
• Sep 22 Val Skinner wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
• Sep 22 St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man

• Sep 29 Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)
• Oct 4 Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
• Oct 6 Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
• Oct 16 KC Royals & St Louis Cardinals win their league championships
• Oct 16 MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 games to 2
• Oct 16 MLB American League Championship: Kansas City Royals beat Toronto Blue Jays, 4 games to 3
• Oct 17 Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager
• Oct 22 Bret Saberhagen gives KC Royals their 1st win leading to their World Series title
• Oct 26 On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the World Series

• Oct 27 15th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34
• Oct 27 16th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34
• Oct 27 Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
• Oct 27 KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
• Oct 31 Last day in Test cricket for Pakistan's Zaheer Abbas
• Nov 2 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
• Nov 3 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
• Nov 3 36th Formula One WDC: Alain Prost wins by 20 points

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Birthdays 101 - 200 of 246

• May 16 Anja Mittag, German footballer
• May 16 Corey Perry, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 17 Matt Ryan, American football player
• May 21 Andrew Miller, Major League Baseball player
• May 22 Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
• May 22 Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 23 Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer
• May 24 Tim Bridgman, British racing driver
• May 27 Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
• May 31 Ian Vouyoukas, Greek basketball player
• Jun 1 Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
• Jun 1 Nick Young, American basketball player
• Jun 4 Lukas Podolski, Polish-born footballer
• Jun 4 Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
• Jun 5 Kenny De Ketele, Belgian cyclist
• Jun 8 Alexandre Despatie, French-Canadian diver
• Jun 9 Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers), born in Brooklyn, New York
• Jun 10 Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• Jun 10 Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer
• Jun 12 Sam Thaiday, Australian professional rugby league player
• Jun 13 Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
• Jun 13 Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver
• Jun 14 Andrew Bonner, Scottish football player
• Jun 14 Andy Soucek, Spanish racing driver
• Jun 17 Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot professional tennis player
• Jun 17 Rafael Sóbis, Brazilian footballer
• Jun 20 Souleymane Mamam, Togolese footballer
• Jun 20 Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player
• Jun 21 Anthony Morelli, American football player
• Jun 21 Byron Schammer, AFL footballer
• Jun 22 Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Greek-Cameroonian basketball player
• Jun 27 Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player (US Open 2004, French Open 2009), born in St. Petersburg, Russia
• Jun 27 Nico Rosberg, German Finnish race car driver (F1 Champion 2016), born in Wiesbaden, West Germany
• Jun 27 James Hook, Welsh rugby player, born in Port Talbot, Wales
• Jun 28 Phil Bardsley, English football player
• Jun 29 Quintin Demps, American football player

• Jun 30 Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
• Jun 30 Cody Runnels, American wrestler
• Jul 1 Chris Perez, American MLB reliever (All Star 2011-12), born in Bradenton, Florida
• Jul 2 Rhett Bomar, American football player
• Jul 2 Chad Henne, American football player
• Jul 9 Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
• Jul 9 Ashley Young, English footballer
• Jul 10 Mario Gómez, German footballer
• Jul 13 Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
• Jul 17 Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
• Jul 21 Von Wafer, American basketball player
• Jul 22 Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
• Jul 23 Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer
• Jul 24 Patrice Bergeron, Canadian hockey player
• Jul 25 Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian race car driver, born in Heidelberg, West Germany
• Jul 26 Gaël Clichy, French footballer (İstanbul Başakşehir), born in Toulouse, France
• Jul 30 Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
• Aug 3 Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league footballer, born in Auckland, New Zealand
• Aug 4 Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
• Aug 4 Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
• Aug 4 Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player
• Aug 5 Laurent Ciman, Belgian footballer
• Aug 5 Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer
• Aug 8 Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican football player
• Aug 9 Luca Filippi, Italian racing driver
• Aug 9 Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
• Aug 9 JaMarcus Russell, American football player
• Aug 10 Roy O'Donovan, Irish footballer
• Aug 14 Christian Gentner, German footballer
• Aug 30 Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
• Aug 30 Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
• Aug 30 Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
• Aug 30 Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
• Sep 3 Scott Carson, English footballer
• Sep 3 Kelvin Wilson, English footballer
• Sep 5 Ryan Guy, American soccer player, born in Carlsbad, California
• Sep 6 Ali Ashfaq, Maldivian footballer, born in Malé, Maldives
• Sep 6 Alberto Valerio, Brazilian racing driver, born in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Sep 7 Rafinha [Márcio Rafael Ferreira de Souza], Brazilian footballer, born in Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
• Sep 9 Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer
• Sep 9 J.R. Smith, American basketball player
• Sep 11 Shaun Livingston, American basketball player, born in Peoria, Illinois
• Sep 11 Zack Stortini, Canadian ice hockey player, born in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada
• Sep 12 Jack Wilkinson, English footballer (Hartlepool United), born in Beverley, England
• Sep 13 Keyunta Dawson, American NFL linebacker, born in Shreveport, Louisiana
• Sep 14 Delmon Young, American baseball player
• Sep 17 Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
• Sep 17 Brendan Clarke, Irish Soccer Player with St. Patrick's Athletic
• Sep 17 Tomáš Berdych, Czech tennis player (13 ATP Tour titles), born in Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic
• Sep 17 Mason Raymond, Canadian ice hockey player
• Sep 19 Brittany Lincicome, American golfer (ANA Inspiration 2009, 15), born in St. Petersburg, Florida
• Sep 22 Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
• Sep 23 Brian Brohm, American football player
• Sep 23 Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player
• Sep 23 Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer
• Sep 23 Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
• Sep 29 Calvin Johnson, American football player
• Oct 1 Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricket batsman (Bangladesh 24 Tests ), born in Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Oct 1 Tim Deasy, English footballer
• Oct 2 Craig Davis, Wide Receiver for the San Diego Chargers
• Oct 7 Evan Longoria, American baseball player
• Oct 10 Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
• Oct 12 Mike Green, Canadian ice hockey player

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