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1920 in sports

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1920 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

  • First women's international football game takes place between a French team and an English team with 25,000 spectators in attendance.[1]

England

Germany

Men's 100 metres

VFL Premiership

South Australian Football League

West Australian Football League

Sweden

World Series

Major League Baseball

Negro leagues

Italy

Events

Lineal world champions[3]

Grey Cup

Events

  • Post-war recovery continues and an English team goes to Australia in November to commence the first Test series since the war.
  • Derbyshire suffer the ignominy of a perfectly bad season, losing all seventeen county matches with any play. This is the second and last time this has occurred in county cricket, and the only time in the official County Championship.

England

Australia

India

New Zealand

South Africa

West Indies

Tour de France

Giro d'Italia

Olympic Games (Men's Competition)[5]

  • Gold Medal – Great Britain
  • Silver Medal – Denmark
  • Bronze Medal – Belgium

World Figure Skating Championships

  • The championships are not contested

1920 Summer Olympics

Major tournaments

Other tournaments

Events

England

Australia

Canada

France

Ireland

USA

Events

  • Ice hockey is held at the 1920 Summer Olympics and is the second winter sport to feature at the Olympics — 4 years before the inaugural Winter Games is held

1920 Summer Olympics

  • Gold Medal – Canada
  • Silver Medal – USA
  • Bronze Medal – Czechoslovakia

Stanley Cup

Events

1920 Summer Olympics

  • The 1920 Summer Olympics takes place in Antwerp
  • The 1916 Summer Olympics planned for Berlin having been cancelled due to World War I, the 1920 Games are awarded to Antwerp to "honour the suffering of the Belgian people"
  • United States wins the most medals (95) and the most gold medals (41)

The Boat Race

England

Australia

Five Nations Championship

Speed Skating World Championships

  • not contested

Australia

England

France

USA

Davis Cup

America's Cup

References

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  1. ^ Dunmore, Tom (2011). Historical dictionary of soccer. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. pp. 16–17. ISBN 9780810873957.
  2. ^ Abrams, Roger I. (12 October 2010). Sports Justice: The Law and the Business of Sports. UPNE. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-55553-735-7.
  3. ^ Cyber Boxing Zone
  4. ^ "Cycling-Tour de France list of winners". Eurosport UK. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Olympedia – Hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics". www.olympedia.org. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Epsom Derby | History, Winners, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2 January 2022.