1999 in sports

1999 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

Years in sports

1999 in sports

  • Motorsport
  • Racquetball
  • Sailing
  • Skiing
  • Rugby league‎
  • Rugby union
  • Snooker
    • 1998–99
    • 1999–00
  • Squash
  • Table tennis
  • Tennis
  • Triathlon
  • Volleyball
  • Weightlifting

Alpine skiing

American football

Artistic gymnastics

Association football

Athletics

Baseball

Basketball

Boxing

Canadian football

Cricket

Curling

Cycling

Dogsled racing

Field hockey
  • Men's Champions Trophy: Australia
  • Women's Champions Trophy: Australia

Figure skating

Gaelic Athletic Association

Golf

Men's professional

Amateur – Graeme Storm

Women's professional

Handball

Harness racing

Horse racing

Steeplechases

Flat races

Ice hockey

Lacrosse

Mixed martial arts

The following is a list of major noteworthy MMA events during 1999 in chronological order.

Date Event Alternate Name/s Location Attendance PPV Buyrate Notes
January 8 UFC 18: The Road to the Heavyweight Title N/A New Orleans, Louisiana, US N/A N/A This event featured the American debut of Bas Rutten. Who previously fought exclusively for Pancrase in Japan.
March 5 UFC 19: Ultimate Young Guns N/A Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, US N/A N/A Following the main event, Tito Ortiz insulted the Lion's Den team. This led to a long rivalry between Ortiz and Ken Shamrock.
April 29 Pride 5 N/A Nagoya, Japan N/A N/A First Pride FC event to be promoted by Dream Stage Entertainment, who took over Kakutougi Revolution Spirits.
May 7 UFC 20: Battle for the Gold N/A Birmingham, Alabama, US N/A N/A N/A
July 4 Pride 6 N/A Yokohama, Japan N/A N/A Event featured seven MMA bouts and one karate bout between Hiroki Kurosawa and Nobuaki Kakuda.
July 16 UFC 21: Return of the Champions N/A Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US N/A N/A UFC rule change, Introduction of five-minute rounds. preliminary bouts consist of two rounds, non-title bouts consist of three rounds, and title bouts consist of five rounds. Introduction of 10-point must system.
September 12 Pride 7 N/A Yokohama, Japan 10,031 N/A N/A
September 24 UFC 22: Only One Can be Champion N/A Lake Charles, Louisiana, US N/A N/A Following this event, UFC parent company SEG stopped releasing events on home video until UFC 30 with new owners Zuffa.
November 19 UFC 23: Ultimate Japan 2 N/A Tokyo, Japan N/A N/A This event featured a four man "Japanese" tournament, held to crown the first ever UFC Japan Champion. The tournament was the first in the UFC since UFC 17, and the last ever tournament held by the UFC.
November 21 Pride 8 N/A Tokyo, Japan N/A N/A N/A

Motorsport
Main articles: 1999 in motorsport and List of 1999 motorsport champions

Radiosport
  • First IARU Region II Amateur Radio Direction Finding Championships held in Portland, Oregon, US This is the first IARU sanctioned international ARDF competition in the Americas.
  • Third High Speed Telegraphy World Championship held in Pordenone, Italy.

Rugby league
  • April 23 at Sydney, Australia – 1999 ANZAC test match is won by Australia 20–14 against New Zealand at Stadium Australia before 30,245.
  • June 23 at Brisbane, Australia – 1999 State of Origin is retained by Queensland as the third and deciding match of the series is drawn 10 – 10 with New South Wales.
  • September 19 in Australia – last game of the 1999 Telstra Premiership is played, including the final NRL matches as stand alone entities for the Balmain Tigers and Western Suburbs Magpies who would later merge to form the Wests Tigers.
  • September 26 at Sydney, Australia – 1999 NRL season culminates in the Melbourne Storm's 20 – 18 win against the St George Illawarra Dragons in the grand final
  • October 9 at Manchester, England – Super League IV culminates in St. Helens' 8 – 6 win against the Bradford Bulls in the grand final.
  • November 1 at Auckland, New Zealand – 1999 Tri–Nations culminates in Australia's 22 – 20 win against New Zealand in the final.

Rugby union

Snooker

Swimming
  • Fourth World Short Course Championships, held in Hong Kong, China (April 1 – 4)
    • Australia wins the most medals (27), and the most gold medals (9)
  • 24th European LC Championships, held in Istanbul, Turkey (July 26 – August 1)
    • Germany wins the most medals (23), and the most gold medals (11)
  • XIII Pan American Games, held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (August 2 – 7)
  • Eighth Pan Pacific Championships, held in Sydney, Australia (August 22 – 29)
  • Third European SC Championships, held in Lisboa, Portugal (December 9 – 12)
    • Germany wins the most medals (26), Sweden the most gold medals (9)
  • February 17 – Australia's Susie O'Neill snapped the oldest world record in the books, clocking 2:05.37 in the women's 200m butterfly (short course) at a World Cup meet in Malmö, Sweden. The old mark, set by Mary T. Meagher on January 2, 1981, stood at 2:05.65.
  • September 2 – Susie O'Neill breaks her own world record in the women's 200m butterfly (short course) at a meet in Canberra, Australia, clocking 2:04.43

Taekwondo

Tennis

Volleyball
  • Men's World League: Italy
  • Women's World Grand Prix: Russia
  • Men's European Championship: Italy
  • Women's European Championship: Russia

Water polo
  • Men's European Championship: Hungary
  • Men's World Cup: Hungary
  • Women's European Championship: Italy
  • Women's World Cup: Netherlands

Multi-sport events

Awards

References
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  4. "Michael Johnson World Record". Athletic Poetics. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  5. Mukherjee, Abhishek. "Rajiv Nayyar plays longest First-Class innings, bats 1,015 minutes". cricketcountry.com. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
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