17 june in sport

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June 17 (day of the year or in case of leap year) in sport.

June 16 in sport - in sport - 18 June in sport

Events

1760:
(Box): After a decade of very controversial rule (arranged matches...), English boxer Jack Slack was defeated by Bill Stevens.

1851:
(Baseball): New York Knickerbockers hit the Washington Club: 22-20.

1901-1950
1928:
(Carsport): victory of Woolf Barnato and Bernard Rubin at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
1933:
(Autoport): departure of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
1934:
(Carsport): Luigi Chinetti and Philippe Etancelin won the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
(Autoport): Grand Prix automobile de Penya-Rhin.
1939:
(Autoport): departure of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
1941:
(Athletics): Lester Steers sets a new world record for high jump at .
1945:
(Football): FC Rouen became the French football champion by beating Lyon 4-0 in Colombes.

1951-2000
1951:
(Motorsport): Third Grand Prix of the 1951 season in Belgium, won by Giuseppe Farina on Alfa Romeo.
1962:
(Motorsport): Scottish driver Jim Clark wins his first World Formula 1 Championship victory at the Belgian Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit.
1970:
(Athletics): Wolfgang Nordwig brings the world record for pole jumping to .
(Football): anthology semifinal in Mexico's World Cup football between Germany and Italy. 1 goal at 0 until the last minute, the Germans managed to equalize thanks to a goal from the Milan AC defender Karl-Heinz Schnellinger during the game stops. Five goals will be scored during the two half-times of an exceptional extension, at the end of which the Italians end up winning 4 goals at 3, after several reversals of situation. One player was particularly prominent, German captain Franz Beckenbauer, who remained on the field with his arm in scarf, after disembarking shoulder to shoulder.
1973:
(Football): The Lyon Olympique wins the Coupe de France at Parc des Princes by beating FC Nantes 2-1 in the final thanks to the goals of Dobrivoje Trivić and Bernard Lacombe. Lyon had successively eliminated Bordeaux, Marseille and Avignon.
(Form 1) : Grand Prix automobile de Sweden.
1978:
(Form 1) : Grand Prix automobile de Sweden.
1984:
(Form 1): Grand Prix automobile du Canada.
1994:
(Football): Opening of the United States World Cup.
1995:
(Motorsport): start of the sixty-third edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
2000:
(Natation): American swimmer Tom Malchow beats the butterfly world record in Charlotte in 1 min 55s 18/100.
(Autoport): Departure of the sixty-eighth edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

2004:
(Football): in Leiria, Portugal, the French team makes a bare match