Year 1992 in Sports History (Part 2)

Events in Sport

Events 101 - 200 of 323

• Apr 16 NY Rangers win team record 50th game
• Apr 18 Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown)

• Apr 19 PGA Seniors' Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National GC: Lee Trevino beats Mike Hill by 1 stroke for his 3rd seniors major title
• Apr 20 96th Boston Marathon: Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya repeats in 2:08:14 for his 3rd title; Olga Markova first Russian women's champion in 2:23:43

• Apr 26 NFL Draft: University of Washington defensive end Steve Emtman from first pick by Indianapolis Colts
• Apr 27 NY Mets trade David Cone to Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Kent

• May 3 Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17
• May 6 NY Met Anthony Young begins losing streak of at least 26 games
• May 6 Werder Bremen of Germany win 32nd European Cup winner's Cup against AS Monaco of France 2-0 in Lisbon

• May 16 117th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6


• May 16 America's Cup: America Team USA defeats Il Moro di Venezia 4-1 to win in San Diego

• May 17 Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk)
• May 20 36th European Cup: Barcelona beats Sampdoria 1-0 at London
• May 22 California Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in New Jersey
• May 22 NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Chicago Blackhawks beat Edmonton Oilers, 4 games to 0
• May 23 NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game
• May 23 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 0

• May 24 Despite trailing 7-1, NY Yanks tie Milwaukee Brewers & then score 1 in 9th to avoid 5th straight extra inning game
• May 25 NY Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inn, beat Brewers 13-7
• May 29 NY Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games

• May 30 Minn Twin Bert Blyleven is 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old
• May 30 NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
• Jun 1 Stanley Cup Final, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Chicago Blackhawks, 6-5 for a 3-1 series win; 2nd consecutive title for Penguins

• Jun 6 America West Arena opens in Phoenix, Arizona; home court of NBA Phoenix Suns
• Jun 6 124th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26
• Jun 6 NY Mets first baseman Eddie Murray records his 1,510th run batted in during 15-1 thrashing of Pittsburgh Pirates to pass Mickey Mantle as all-time RBI leader among MLB switch-hitters


• Jun 6 WLAF World Bowl 2, Olympic Stadium, Montreal: Sacramento Surge beats Orlando Thunder, 21-17

• Jun 7 French Open Men's Tennis: American Jim Courier retains title; beats Petr Korda of Czechoslovakia 7-5, 6-2, 6-1
• Jun 8 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time
• Jun 11 Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
• Jun 11 Tracy Austin, 29, is youngest inductee of International Tennis Hall of Fame
• Jun 11 US Olympic baseball team plays 1st exhibition game, beat Venezuela 20-0

• Jun 15 Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers' save record with #342
• Jun 16 Colorado Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game
• Jun 16 Red Sox Jeff Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yanks 1-0) [1]

• Jun 18 Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their 1st draft
• Jun 18 Tampa Bay Lightning make goalie Wendell Young their 1st draft

• Jun 19 NY Yankees 1st game in Baltimore Oriole's Camden Yards
• Jun 20 Kelly Saunders is 2nd female baseball PA announcer (Baltimore Orioles)

• Jun 20 NHL Draft: ZPS Zlin (Czechoslovakia) defenceman Roman Hamrlik first pick by Tampa Bay Lightning
• Jun 21 US Open Men's Golf, Pebble Beach GL: Perennial runner-up Tom Kite breaks through for his only major title, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Jeff Sluman

• Jun 24 Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball

• Jun 26 UEFA European Championship Final, Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden: In a huge upset Denmark beats Germany, 2-0
• Jun 27 193rd ranked Andrei Olhovskiy of Russia defeats #1 seed Jim Courier 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the 3rd round at Wimbledon
• Jun 27 Dan O'Brien fails on pole vault & eliminated from Olympics decathlon
• Jun 28 US Dream Team beats Cuba in 1st exhibition basketball game, 133-57
• Jun 29 A's Dennis Eckersley sets record of 26th straight save of season

• Jun 30 1st pay bathrooms in US open: 25 cents (NYC)

• Jul 7 South Africa beats Cameroon 1-0 in Durban in first FIFA sanctioned match after nearly 20 years international isolation, apartheid

• Jul 8 Florida Marlins unveil their uniform
• Jul 10 John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners
• Jul 10 US Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons
• Jul 12 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Larry Laoretti wins by 4 strokes ahead of Jim Colbert for his lone professional victory
• Jul 14 63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, SD

• Jul 19 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1)

• Jul 19 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Frankfurt, Germany: Germany wins 2nd title with 2-1 win over Spain; Steffi Graf clinches final 6-4, 6-2 against Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
• Jul 24 Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93)
• Jul 25 25th Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain

• Jul 26 Tour de France: Miguel Induráin of Spain defends his title by 4' 35" from Italian Claudio Chiappucci; Laurent Jalabert points winner
• Jul 27 Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Republican National Convention
• Jul 27 Japanese swimmer Kyoko Iwasaki wins the 200m breaststroke in Barcelona to become the youngest to win an Olympic gold medal at 14 years-6 days
• Jul 28 Groundbreaking of Fla Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium
• Jul 29 Yevgeni Sadovyi of the Unified Team swims world 400m record (3:45.00) to wrap up 200-400m freestyle double at the Barcelona Olympics
• Jul 29 Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek of Poland (5,559 points) beats Hungarian Attila Mizsér by 113 points to win the Pentathlon gold at the Barcelona Olympics; Poland also wins teams gold
• Jul 30 Yael Arad becomes Israel's first ever Olympic medalist when she wins silver in the women's 61kg judo in Barcelona; 20th anniversary of Munich massacre and 500th anniversary of Alhambra Decree
• Jul 31 Three world record swims on final night session at the Barcelona Olympics; Australian Kieren Perkins 1,500m (14:43.4); Tamás Darnyi of Hungary 200m backstroke (1:59.36); China's Yang Wenyi women's 50m freestyle (24.79)
• Jul 31 Hungarian swimmer Krisztina Egerszegi earns her 3rd gold medal of the Barcelona Olympics winning 200m backstroke for the 100-200 double along with 400m I/M gold
• Aug 1 British athlete Linford Christie (32) becomes the oldest man to win an Olympic 100m gold medal edging Frankie Fredericks in Barcelona
• Aug 1 American sprinter Gail Devers wins an incredibly close blanket finish in the women's 100m at the Barcelona Olympics, with 5 athletes within 0.06 seconds of Devers (10.82)

• Aug 2 American Jacki Joyner-Kersee becomes first athlete to win consecutive gold medals in the gruelling heptathlon with a 199 point win over Irina Belova (Soviet Union) at the Barcelona Olympics
• Aug 2 Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus becomes the first gymnast to win 6 gold medals at one Olympics in Barcelona, also first to win 4 gold in one day's competition (pommel, vault, rings & parallel bars)
• Aug 4 The diving competition at the Barcelona Olympics concludes with Chinese athletes dominant, winning 3 of 4 gold medals contested - American Mark Lenzi wins 3m springbaord
• Aug 4 In its debut at the Barcelona Olympics the badminton singles gold medals are both won by Indonesian athletes, whilst both men's & women's doubles go to South Korea

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