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On This Day in Sport (20 April 2011):
1887: Count Jules Philippe Albert de Dion won the
world's first motor race using mechanical power. He averaged a speed
of 37mph (59.5kmh) over the 19.3 mile (31km) course.
1981: Steve Davis won the first of his six world
snooker titles by beating Doug Mountjoy 18-12 in the final at the
Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
2001: Manchester United's Teddy Sheringham was voted
Football Writers' Association Player of the Year. He was the first
English player since Alan Shearer in 1994 to win the award.
2003: Jockey Richard Johnson rode his 1,000th domestic
winner, on Quedex at Stratford.
2004: Football pundit Ron Atkinson resigned from ITV
Sport after making a racist comment following a Champions League game
between Chelsea and Monaco when he thought he was off-air.
2005: Huddersfield half-back Sean Penkywicz and
Warrington winger Phil Berry were both banned for two years after
testing positive for prohibited substances stanozolol and nandrolone respectively.
2006: Cardiff's Sophia Gardens was awarded an Ashes
Test in 2009 at the expense of Old Trafford in a shock decision by
the England and Wales Cricket Board. The Oval, Edgbaston, Headingley
and Lord's were the other venues named. |
