1947 IN SPORTS

==Athletics

Contents

Awards

Births

Deaths

=Marathon===

★ August 20 — Enschede Marathon, Netherlands

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★ Men's Winner: Eero Riikonen (FIN) 2:44:13

★ December 7 — Fukuoka Marathon, Japan

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★ Men's Winner: Toshikazu Wada (JPN) 2:45:45
==Auto racing==

★ Wally Parks founds the Southern California Timing Association, to better organize drag racing.
==Baseball==

★ Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American baseball player in Major League Baseball.

★ April 27 - Babe Ruth day was celebrated all across the Major Leagues, Babe himself appeared in Yankee Stadium. Although stricken with throat cancer, Ruth said to the audeince "The only real game I think in the world is baseball."

★ World Series - New York Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers 4 games to 3.
==Boxing==

★ Rocky Graziano defeats Tony Zale to win boxing’s world middleweight championship.

★ December 5 - Joe Louis defeats Jersey Joe Walcott to retain his heavyweight championship
==Figure skating==

★ World Figure Skating Championships

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★ Men's champion: Hans Gerschwiler, Switzerland

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★ Ladies' champion: Barbara Ann Scott, Canada

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★ Pair skating champions: Micheline Lannoy & Pierre Baugniet, Belgium
== Football (NFL) ==

★ The Chicago Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Eagles 28-21.
==Football (Australian)==

★ Victorian Football League

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★ Carlton wins the 51st VFL Premiership (Carlton 13.8 (86) d Essendon 11.17 (83))

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★ Brownlow Medal awarded to Bert Deacon (Carlton)
==Football (soccer)==

England

★ First Division - Liverpool win the 1946-47 title.

★ FA Cup - Charlton Athletic beat Burnley 1-0 after extra time
== Horse Racing ==

★ Kentucky Derby - Jet Pilot

★ Preakness - Faultless: this race is remembered for Clem McCarthy calling Jet Pilot the winner when in reality it was Faultless, a true major radio blunder

★ Belmont Stakes - Phalanx
==Snooker==

★ World Snooker Championship: Walter Donaldson beats Fred Davis 82-63.

Awards

★ Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year: Johnny Lujack, College football

★ Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, LPGA golf

Births

★ January 20 — Cyrille Guimard, French racing cyclist

★ January 31 — Nolan Ryan, Baseball Hall of Famer

★ February 1 — Gaston Rahier, Belgian motocross racer (d. 2005)

★ February 5 — Darrell Waltrip, American automobile racer and broadcaster

★ February 28 — Włodzimierz Lubański, Polish football (soccer) striker

★ March 3 — Ian O'Brien, Australian breaststroke swimmer

★ March 7 — Walter Röhrl, German car racer

★ March 10 — Zachary Zorn, American swimmer

★ April 5 — Đurđica Bjedov, Yugoslav breaststroke swimmer

★ April 15 — Onny Parun, New Zealand tennis player

★ May 21 — Hans Hoogveld, Dutch water polo player

★ May 27 — Branko Oblak, Slovenian football (soccer) player and coach

★ May 29 — Peter Lown, UK-born Canadian field hockey player

★ June 2 — Giorgio Cagnotto, Italian diver

★ June 2 — Sonia Robertson and Sandra Chick, Zimbabwean field hockey players and twin sisters

★ June 6 — Marion Coakes, English equestrian show jumper

★ June 19 — James Mason, Australian field hockey player

★ June 27 — Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)

★ July 24 — Jacques Fouroux, French rugby union player (d. 2005)

★ August 26 — Jan Krekels, Dutch cyclist

★ September 7 — Wim Hermsen, Dutch water polo player

★ September 8 — Amos Biwott, Kenyan athlete

★ September 20 — Victor Zilberman, Romanian boxer

★ September 25 — Ali Parvin, Iranian football (soccer) player

★ September 27 — Jan Borren, Dutch-born New Zealand field hockey player and coach

★ October 3 — Carroll Morgan, Canadian heavyweight boxer

★ October 6 — Klaus Dibiasi, Italian diver

★ October 8 — Emiel Puttemans, Belgian middle- and long-distance runner

★ October 11 — Alan Pascoe, British athlete

★ October 23 — Kazimierz Deyna, Polish football (soccer) player (d. 1989)

★ November 1 — Rolando Garbey, Cuban boxer

★ November 5 — Oleg Antropov, Soviet volleyball player

★ November 17 — Keith Remfry, British judoka

★ December 5 — Ain Roost, Swedish-Canadian discus thrower

★ December 16 — Vincent Matthews, American track and field athlete

Deaths

★ January 20: Josh Gibson, famed Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35.