20th August:
1920 - Allen Woodring wins Olympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
1922 - First Women’s World Games is conducted over one-day at the Pershing Stadium in Paris
1930 - Australia are all out for 695 in the deciding Test at The Oval. Their top score, a 232, set the seal on the young Don Bradman’s triumphant first tour of England. It was his last knock of a series in which he scored 974 runs, still a world record, including three scores of over 200. Australia went on to win by an innings and regain the Ashes
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Don Bradman at the 1930 Ashes in England where he amassed a world-record 974 series tally[/caption]
1930 - Death of the first batsman to score a Test century, which is understating it a bit. Against England in Melbourne in 1876-77, Charles Bannerman faced the first ball in Test cricket, scored the first run, the first fifty, and the first hundred. By the time he retired hurt with a damaged finger, he had made 165 of Australia’s total of 245
2006 - The first forfeited Test. Pakistan were upset after Darrell Hair docked them five runs and changed the ball after claiming they had tampered with it on the fourth day of the final Test at The Oval. Pakistan debated the matter at tea and refused to come out for the final session. By the time they decided to resume, the umpires had called time and awarded the game to England
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The first forfeited Test was recorded on 20 August 2006 in London[/caption]
2008 - Russian long-distance swimmer Larisa Ilchenko wins inaugural women’s open water marathon of 10 km in 1:59:27.7 seconds at the Beijing Olympics
2008 - Jamaica sprint legend Usain Bolt wins the 200 m at Beijing Olympics, in new world-record time of 19.30 seconds
2009 - At the Athletics World Championships in Berlin, Bolt renews 200 m world record, with a time of 19.19 seconds
2016 - Star British runner Mo Farah wins the men’s 5,000 m in 13:03.30 seconds at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. He won 10,000 m gold too in Rio, after clinching the gold for the same two events in the previous London Summer Olympics
21 August:
1931 - Legendary US baseball player Babe Ruth hits his 600th home run as New York Yankees beat Saint Louis Browns 11-7
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On 21 August 1985, Mary Decker runs one mile in a world record time[/caption]
1985 - Mary Decker runs one mile in a world record time of 4:16.71 seconds