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1936 – The American athlete Jesse Owens wins his 2nd gold medal at the Berlin Olympic Games; Bat German Luz Long in the long jump final with an Olympic record.
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1982 – Joel Youngblood becomes the only player in the history of the major league to play and to obtain successes for two different teams in two different cities the same day. In the afternoon, its success took place in the winning round of the New York put in a 7-4 victory in Chicago. After the match, he exchanged the Montreal exhibitions and played in Philadelphia that night. He enters the game in the right field in the fourth round and later obtained a single.
1984 – Carl Lewis won the 100 meters in 9.99 seconds at the Los Angeles summer games. American teammate Sam Grady won the money in 10.19 and Ben Johnson from Canada obtained bronze with a time of 10.22.
1985 – Tom Seaver, 40, becomes the 17th winner of 300 games in the history of the major league with a six strikers – all in simple – while the Chicago White Sox beat the New York 4-1 Yankees.
1985 – Rod Carew of California Angels obtained his 3,000th blow in a 6-5 victory against the Twins of Minnesota, his first team of major leagues.
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1996 – Laura Davies pulled a 66 sous 66 for a two -step victory over Nancy Lopez and Karrie Webb in the Du Maurier Classic.
1996 – The Atlanta Olympic Games end with the superb KO Gold -Oddal of the US David Reid boxer and the game of the women’s team in Brazil. Reid captures the only boxing gold in America, overthrowing Cuban Alfredo Duvergel, while American women come to a 111-87 victory behind Lisa Leslie’s 29 points. A record of 11,000 athletes from 197 countries makes it the biggest Olympic games.
2007 – Alex Rodriguez, 32, becomes the youngest player in the history of the MLB to reach 500 circuits.
2011 – Cappie Pondexter scores 15 points to lead New York after Chicago 59-49, and the Liberty holds the sky to a WNBA record a point in the fourth quarter.
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2012 – Michael Phelps wins another gold medal while the United States won the Medley relay at the London Olympic Games. Phelps leaves sport with a record of 18 gold medals and 22 medals in total. During these matches, he won four gold medals and two referees.
2012 – Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova 6-0, 6-1 to join Steffi Graf as only women to finish the Golden Slam – winning the Olympic Games and the Four Majors. In a male semi-final match, Roger Federer surmounts Juan Martin Del Potro in a final set of 19-17 and won his first single Olympic medal. The Canadian equestrian Ian Millar goes up in Olympic history by participating in its 10th games – the most of all the athletes.
2013 – Missy Franklin claims her sixth record gold medal on the last day of the world championships in Barcelona, becoming the most successful swimmer of all time during a global meeting. Franklin eclipses the record shared by Tracy Caulkins – which won five times in 1978 – and Libby Trickett, who did it in 2007.
2013 – Stacy Lewis wins the Women’s British Open after a last day of marathon. Lewis finishes with a pair of birdies on the old course in St. Andrews and ends with a 72 pair-by-diameter. It is his second major on LPGA tour, and he ends a record sequence of 10 consecutive majors won by Asian players. Forced to play 36 holes, Lewis is the only peer player or better from the last 21 groups that have turned off.
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2018 – The British swimmer Adam Peaty improves his own world record at 100 meters brews at 57.1 seconds at the European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.
2021 – Sydney McLaughlin sets a world record in the female hedges of the 400m, 51.46, for a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
2024 – At the Paris Olympic Games, Noah Lyles becomes the first American sprinter to win the 100m gold medal in 20 years; His time 9,784 is Kishane Thompson de la Jamaica per 0.005s
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