August 1991 in Sports History

Events in Sport

Aug 5 Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union breaks his own world pole vault record (6.10m) in Malmö Sweden
Aug 6 American softball pitcher Debbie Doom strikes out 17 in her 2nd consecutive perfect game at the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba; beats Nicaragua, 8-0

World Record

Aug 7 American team of Carl Lewis, Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell & Dennis Mitchell set 4 x 100m relay world record of 37.67 seconds in Zürich, Switzerland

Aug 8 With two months left, White Sox set new home attendance (2,150,951)
Aug 10 NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53

PGA Championship

Aug 11 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Crooked Stick GC: John Daly wins by 3 strokes from fellow American Bruce Lietzke

Sports History

Aug 12 Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon & Marshall

Aug 13 American Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60) at the World Championships in Perth, Australia

Sports History

Aug 14 MLB Minnesota Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 HR

Aug 17 Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983
Aug 20 Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29)

Sports History

Aug 20 Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million

Aug 22 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100m backstroke (1:00.31)
Aug 23 3rd Athletics World Championships open at Tokyo, Japan
Aug 24 Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0
Aug 25 Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds
Aug 25 Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games
Aug 25 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62)
Aug 25 Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53)
Aug 26 Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0

Baseball Record

Aug 28 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martínez both perfect game pitcher

Aug 30 Dan O'Brien sets US decathlon record with 8,812 points
Aug 30 Mike Powell of US sets then long jump record at 29' 4½" (8.95m)
Aug 31 Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3

Birthdays in Sport

Aug 18 Liz Cambage, Australian basketball center (WNBA single game record 53), born in London, England
Aug 31 Shi Tingmao, Chinese diver (4 x Olympic gold 3m springboard, 3m synchro 2016, 2020; 8 x World C'ship gold), born in Chongqing, China