1976 in sports

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Stock car racing:
February 15 David Pearson won the Daytona 500
NASCAR Championship - Cale Yarborough
Indianapolis 500 - Johnny Rutherford
USAC Racing - Gordon Johncock won the season championship
Formula One Championship:
James Hunt of Britain
Niki Lauda's famous accident occurred during the German Grand Prix at Nürburgring.
24 hours of Le Mans: the team of Jacky Ickx / Gijs van Lennep won, driving a Porsche 936
Rally racing - the team of Sandro Munari / Mario Manucci won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Lancia Stratos HF
Drag racing: Shirley Muldowney won "Top Fuel" at the NHRA World Finals

April 25 - Chicago Cubs outfielder Rick Monday rescues an American flag just as two protestors are about to burn it in the outfield during a game at Dodger Stadium.
Sparky Lyle breaks Hoyt Wilhelm's American League record of 154 career saves.
World Series: The Cincinnati Reds (aka the "Big Red Machine") sweep the New York Yankees, 4 games to 0, to win their second straight championship.

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship:
Indiana wins 86-68 over Michigan

NBA Finals:
Boston Celtics win 4 games to 2 over the Phoenix Suns

October 26-Outdoor Basketball Association debuts

October 8 in São Paulo, Brazil, former world featherweight champion Eder Jofre fought his last fight, outpointing Mexico's Octavio (Famoso) Gomez in ten rounds.

Giro d'Italia won by Felice Gimondi of Italy
Tour de France - Lucien Van Impe of Belgium
World Cycling Championship: Freddy Maertens of Belgium

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Champion:
Gerald Riley won with lead dogs: Puppy* & Sugar

Olympic Games (Men's Competition) in Montréal, Canada
* Gold Medal: New Zealand
* Silver Medal: Australia
* Bronze Medal: Pakistan

Women's World Cup in Berlin, West Germany
* Gold Medal: West Germany
* Silver Medal: Argentina
* Bronze Medal: The Netherlands

March 13 - In an international women's field hockey match at Wembley Stadium,England. England beat Scotland 3-0.

World Figure Skating Championships:
Men's champion: John Curry, Britain
Women's champion: Dorothy Hamill, United States
*Pairs champions: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Saizew, Soviet Union

Super Bowl X:January 18 Pittsburgh Steelers won 21-17 over the Dallas Cowboys
Pittsburgh Panthers are voted NCAA Football National Champions.

Victorian Football League
* Hawthorn wins the 80th VFL Premiership (Hawthorn 13.22 (100) d North Melbourne 10.10 (70))
* Brownlow Medal awarded to Graham Moss (Essendon)

Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders won 23-20 over the Saskatchewan Roughriders
Vanier Cup: Western Ontario Mustangs won 29-13 over the Acadia Axmen

England - FA Cup: Southampton won 1-0 over Manchester United
Italy - Torino win Serie A for the first time since the Superga air disaster wiped out the team 27 years before.
1976 European Championship - Czechoslovakia beat West Germany 5-3 on penalties to win , after the game had ended 2-2 after extra time.

Men's Golf
Grand Slam of golf results:
#May - The Masters - Ray Floyd
#June - US Open - Jerry Pate
#July - British Open - Johnny Miller
#August - PGA Championship - Dave Stockton

PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Jack Nicklaus - $266,439
Women's Golf
US Women's Open - JoAnne Carner
LPGA Championship - Betty Burfeindt
Judy Rankin is the leading money winner on the LPGA tour. With total earnings of $150,734, she is the first to ever earn more than $100,000 in a season.

Australia - Melbourne Cup - Van der Hum
Canada - Queen's Plate - Norcliffe
France - Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - Ivanjica
Ireland - Irish Derby Stakes - Malacate

English Triple Crown Races:
#Two Thousand Guineas Stakes - Wollow
#Epsom Derby - Empery
#St. Leger Stakes - Crow

United States Triple Crown Races:
#Kentucky Derby - Bold Forbes
#Preakness Stakes - Elocutionist
#Belmont Stakes - Bold Forbes

United States Pacing Triple Crown races:
#Cane Pace - Keystone Ore
#Little Brown Jug - Keystone Ore
#Messenger Stakes - Windshield Wiper

United States Trotting Triple Crown races:
#Hambletonian - Steve Lobell
#Yonkers Trot - Steve Lobell
#Kentucky Futurity - Quick Pay

Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
Pacers: Carclew
Trotters: Bay Johnny

Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer during the regular season: Guy Lafleur, Montreal Canadiens

Hart Memorial Trophy for the NHL's Most Valuable Player: Bobby Clarke - Philadelphia Flyers

Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens win 4 games to 0 over the Philadelphia Flyers

World Hockey Championship:
* Men's champion: Czechoslovakia defeated the Soviet Union

Alpine Skiing
The men's overall season champion: Ingemar Stenmark, Sweden
The women's overall season champion: Rosi Mittermaier, W. Germany

World Snooker Championship: Ray Reardon beats Alex Higgins 27-16
World rankings are introduced. Ray Reardon becomes the first world number one, for 1976/77.

Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
#Australian Open - Mark Edmondson
#French Open - Adriano Panatta
#Wimbledon championships - Björn Borg
#US Open - Jimmy Connors

Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
#Australian Open - Evonne Goolagong Cawley
#French Open - Sue Barker
#Wimbledon championships - Chris Evert
#US Open - Chris Evert

Davis Cup: Italy wins 4-1 over Chile in world tennis.

1976 Summer Olympics takes place in Montreal, Canada
USSR wins the most medals (125), and the most gold medals (49).

1976 Winter Olympics takes place in Innsbruck, Austria
USSR wins the most medals (27), and the most gold medals (13).

Fifth Pan Arab Games held in Damascus, Syria

Births

January

January 1 — Melanie Clewlow, British field hockey player
January 2 — Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist
January 4 — Ezequiel Paulón, Argentine field hockey defender
January 6 — Amy Gillett, Australian rower and cyclist (d. 2005)
January 6 — Chun Lee-kyung, South Korean short track speed skater
January 6 — Jeremy Linn, American swimmer
January 7 — Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player National League Cy Young Award
January 10 — Remy Bonjasky, Surinam-born K1-fighter from The Netherlands
January 11 — Bindi Kullar, Canadian field hockey player
January 12 — Krešimir Čač, Croatian butterfly swimmer
January 16 — Martina Moravcová, Slovak swimmer
January 16 — Germán Orozco, Argentine field hockey defender
January 18 — Lars Paaske, Danish badminton player
January 20 — Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
January 22 — Stefan van Dijk, Dutch cyclist
January 29 — Karsten Kroon, Dutch cyclist

February

February 2 — Steven Dewick, Australian backstroke swimmer
February 2 — James Hickman, English swimmer
February 3 — Cătălin Hâldan, Romanian football (soccer) player (d. 2000)
February 5 — Sione Jongstra, Dutch triathlete
February 13 — Chantal de Bruijn, Dutch field hockey player
February 15 — Oscar Freire, Spanish cyclist
February 18 — Chanda Rubin, American tennis player
February 26 — Anna Bennett, English field hockey player
February 26 — Attila Vari, Hungarian water polo player
February 27 — Ludovic Capelle, Belgian cyclist
February 28 — Adam Pine, Australian freestyle and butterfly swimmer

March

March 4 — Vic Wunderle, American archer
March 5 — Wayne Denne, South African field hockey player
March 5 — Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
March 5 — Sergey Mihaylov, Uzbek boxer
March 6 — Antoine Dénériaz, French alpine skier
March 9 — Anier García, Cuban athlete
March 24 — Peyton Manning, NFL player, league co-MVP in 2003
March 10 — Lieja Tunks, Dutch athlete
March 14 — Brendon Dedekind, South African swimmer
March 14 — Sarah Ulmer, New Zealand cyclist
March 17 — Alvaro Recoba, Uruguay football (soccer) player
March 19 — Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov, Kazakh boxer
March 19 — Franziska Gude, German field hockey midfielder
March 19 — Alessandro Nesta, Italian football (soccer) player
March 20 — Julia Zwehl, German field hockey goalkeeper
March 21 — Han Hyung-Bae, South Korean field hockey player
March 22 — Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
March 25 — Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian heavyweight boxer
March 29 — Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist
March 29 — Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
March 31 — Graeme Smith, Scottish freestyle swimmer

April

April 1 — Clarence Seedorf, Dutch football (soccer) player
April 3 — Nicolas Escudé, French tennis player
April 5 — Aleksei Budõlin, Estonian judoka
April 5 — Kim Collins, Saint Kitts and Nevis athlete
April 5 — David Staniforth, South African field hockey goalkeeper
April 8 — Tieme Klompe, Dutch football (soccer) player
April 10 — John van Lottum, Dutch tennis player
April 13 — Nami Miyazaki, Japanese field hockey goalkeeper
April 14 — Baeden Choppy, Australian field hockey striker
April 18 — Andrew Ilie, Romanian-born tennis player from Australia
April 20 — Big Ben, world champion show-jumping horse
April 24 — Steve Finnan, Irish football (soccer) player
April 25 — Tim Duncan, basketball player, two-time NBA MVP
April 25 — Rainer Schuettler, German tennis player
April 26 — Wijan Ponlid, Thai boxer
April 26 — Peter Short, Canadian field hockey player
April 23 — Dirk van 't Klooster, Dutch baseball player
April 27 — Olaf Tufte, Norwegian rower
April 27 — Walter Pandiani, Uruguay football (soccer) player
April 28 — Sylwia Nowak, Polish figure skater

May

May 1 — Patricia Stokkers, Dutch swimmer
May 3 — Juan Pablo Hourquebie, Argentine field hockey defender
May 6 — Adam Commens, Australian field hockey midfielder
May 6 — Ivan de la Peña, Spanish football (soccer) player
May 8 — Kim Christiansen, Norwegian snowboarder
May 9 — Mitesh Patel, New Zealand field hockey player
May 10 — Romain Barnier, French freestyle swimmer
May 13 — Hamid Ait Bighrade, Moroccan boxer
May 15 — Tyler Walker, American baseball player
May 17 — Daniel Komen, Kenyan runner
May 17 — Kirsten Vlieghuis, Dutch freestyle swimmer
May 21 — Graham Dunlop, Scottish field hockey player
May 25 — Stefan Holm, Swedish athlete
May 27 — Bianca Netzler, Australian field hockey player
May 31 — Mashona Washington, American tennis player

June

June 1 — Niniwa Roberts, New Zealand field hockey striker
June 1 — Lars Conrad, German freestyle swimmer
June 3 — Jens Kruppa, German swimmer
June 4 — Nenad Zimonjić, Serbian tennis player
June 6 — Hamza Yerlikaya, Turkish Greco-Roman style wrestler
June 8 — Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
June 8 — Jennifer Rodriguez, Cuban-American speed skater
June 9 — Laurence Godfrey (archer), British archer
June 17 — Carolina Pascual, Spanish rhythmic gymnast
June 21 — Sander van der Weide, Dutch field hockey player
June 23 — Paola Suarez, Argentine tennis player
June 23 — Patrick Vieira, French football (soccer) player
June 25 — Neil Walker, American swimmer
June 28 — Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player

July

July 1 — Patrick Kluivert, Dutch football (soccer) player
July 1 — Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch football (soccer) player
July 4 — Marcelo Romero, Uruguay football (soccer) player
July 5 — Nuno Gomes, Portuguese football (soccer) player
July 5 — Brent Livermore, Australian field hockey midfielder
July 6 — Nikki Hudson, Australian field hockey striker
July 9 — Jochem Uytdehaage, Dutch speed skater
July 16 — Anna Smashnova, Belarusian-born tennis player from Israel
July 22 — Moira Senior, New Zealand field hockey striker
July 23 — Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
July 31 — Louise Jöhncke, Swedish swimmer
July 31 — Paulo Wanchope, Costarican football (soccer) player

August

August 2 — Reyes Estévez, Spanish athlete
August 4 — Paul Goldstein, American tennis player
August 6 — Luke Milligan, English tennis player
August 7 — Timme Hoyng, Dutch field hockey player
August 9 — Rogier Wassen, Dutch tennis player
August 15 — Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football (soccer) player
August 18 — Thomas Malchow, US swimmer
August 23 — LaTasha Colander, US track and field sprint athlete
August 26 — Sébastien Vieilledent, French rower
August 27 — Carlos Moya, Spanish tennis player
August 27 — Mark Webber, Australian Formula 1-driver
August 29 — Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish football (soccer) player
August 29 — Chris Renaud, Canadian backstroke swimmer

September

September 1 — Ivano Brugnetti, Italian race walker
September 6 — Francisco Sánchez, Venezuelan swimmer
September 7 — Carmel Bakurski, Australian field hockey player
September 8 — Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player
September 10 — Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
September 10 — Reinder Nummerdor, Dutch volleybal player
September 12 — Jolanda Čeplak, Slovenian middle distance athlete
September 14 — Joshua Ilika, Mexican swimmer
September 20 — Michael Ballack, German football (soccer) player
September 22 — Ronaldo, Brazilian football (soccer) player
September 23 — James Nation, New Zealand field hockey player
September 25 — Melissa Collins, Canadian water polo player
September 27 — Francesco Totti, Italian football (soccer) player
September 29 — Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
September 29 — Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football (soccer) player

October

October 2 — Angus Shelford, New Zealand boxer
October 3 — Tommy Kafri, Hungary-born track and field athlete from Israel
October 3 — Denys Sylant'yev, Ukrainian swimmer
October 4 — Danilo Ikodinović, Serbian water polo player
October 6 — Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov, Russian boxer
October 8 — Galo Blanco, Spanish tennis player
October 8 — Renate Groenewold, Dutch speed skater
October 10 — Bob Burnquist, Brazilian skateboarder
October 12 — Julie Towers, Australian field hockey player
October 16 — Marcela Acuña, Argentine female boxer
October 14 — Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
October 18 — Kjell Carlström, Finnish cyclist
October 19 — Ranjeev Deol, Canadian field hockey player
October 22 — Alexander Abt, Russian figure skater
October 23 — Julie Howard, Canadian swimmer

November

November 4 — Alexander Popp, British-born tennis player
November 7 — Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
November 8 — Sylvia Karres, Dutch field hockey player
November 13 — Bob de Jong, Dutch speed skater
November 13 — Albina Akhatova, Russian biathlete
November 14 — Jesse Brinkley, American boxer
November 14 — Ramon Delgado, Paraguayan tennis player
November 15 — Jessica Amey, Canadian butterfly swimmer
November 16 — Martijn Zuijdweg, Dutch swimmer
November 18 — Matt Welsh, Australian swimmer
November 28 — Gordan Kožulj, Croatian swimmer

December

December 11 — Laszlo Bodrogi, Hungarian cyclist
December 11 — Timmy Simons, Belgian football player
December 14 — Petter Hansson, Swedish football player
December 14 — Peter Gade, Danish badminton player
December 19 — Redouane Bouchtouk, Moroccan boxer
December 19 — Theo Lucius, Dutch football player
December 22 — Stephen Mowlam, Australian field hockey goalkeeper
December 23 — Joanna Hayes, American athlete
December 24 — Marion Rodewald, German field hockey defender
December 25 — Percy Isenia, Dutch baseball player
December 30 — Hadi Al Somayli, Saudi Arabian athlete

Deaths

January 5 — Károly Takács (65), Hungarian pistol shooter (b. 1910)
January 18 – Ad Verhoeven, Dutch football (soccer) player
February 2 – Harry Elliott, English cricket wicketkeeper (b. 1891)
March 6 – Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
March 11 – Larry Gardner, Major League Baseball player (1908-1924)
May 22 – Oscar Bonavena, Argentinian heavyweight boxer (b. 1942)
May 30 – Max Carey, Major League Baseball player (1910-1929)
June 15 – Jimmy Dykes, Major League Baseball player (1918-1939)
July 5 — Kevin O'Halloran (39), Australian freestyle swimmer (b. 1937)
September 25 – Red Faber, Major League Baseball, pitcher (1914-1933)

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