1961 in sports

1961 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

Years in sports: 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years: 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964

American football

Association football

England

Australian rules football

  • Victorian Football League
    • August 12: Richmond becomes the only team to fail to kick a goal in a match since 1921, scoring only 0.8 (8) to St. Kilda's 12.19 (91).
    • September 23: Hawthorn wins the 65th VFL pennant and its first, beating Footscray 13.16 (94) to 7.9 (51)
    • John James wins the 34th Brownlow Medal

Bandy

Baseball

Basketball

  • NCAA Men's Basketball Championship –
    • Cincinnati wins 70-65 over Ohio St.
  • NBA Finals
  • The twelfth European basketball championship, Eurobasket 1961, is won by Soviet Union.

Boxing

Canadian football

Cycling

Figure skating

  • The World Figure Skating Championships in Prague are cancelled after the entire USA team of skaters, officials, leaders and chaperones are killed in a plane crash on 15 February en route to the competition.
  • Among the dead are:
    • Bradley Lord (21), USA men's figure skating champion;
    • Maribel Vinson-Owen, USA women's figure skating champion and coach;
    • Maribel Yerxa Owen (20), USA women's figure skating champion;
    • Laurence Owen (16), USA women's figure skating champion.

Golf

Men's professional

Men's amateur

Women's professional

Harness racing

Horse racing

Steeplechases

Flat races

Ice hockey

Motorsport

Radiosport

  • First European Amateur Radio Direction Finding Championships held in Stockholm, Sweden. This event was the first organized international competition in the sport.

Rugby league

Rugby union

Swimming

  • August 13 – USA's Becky Collins breaks the world record in the women's 200m butterfly (long course) during a meet in Philadelphia2:32.8.
  • August 19 – US swimmer Carl Robie takes over the world record in the men's 200m butterfly (long course) from his compatriot Michael Troy at a meet in Los Angeles, clocking 2:12.6.

Tennis

Australia

  • Australian Men's Singles Championship – Roy Emerson (Australia) defeats Rod Laver (Australia) 1–6, 6–3, 7–5, 6–4
  • Australian Women's Singles Championship – Margaret Smith Court (Australia) defeats Jan Lehane O'Neill (Australia) 6–1, 6–4

England

  • Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Rod Laver (Australia) defeats Chuck McKinley (USA) 6–3, 6–1, 6–4
  • Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Angela Mortimer Barrett (Great Britain) defeats Christine Truman Janes (Great Britain) 4–6, 6–4, 7–5

France

  • French Men's Singles Championship –
  • French Women's Singles Championship –

USA

  • American Men's Singles Championship –
  • American Women's Singles Championship –

Davis Cup

Multi-sport events

  • Pan Arab Games held in Casablanca, Morocco
  • Second Summer Universiade held in Sofia, Bulgaria

Awards

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References

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