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Austrian athlete and graphic designer [201] Marie Provazníková: 1890–1991: 100: Czechoslovak sports official active in the Sokol movement [202] Maurice Racca: 1922–2023: 100: French Olympic sport shooter [203] Marko Račič: 1920–2022: 102: Slovenian Olympic athlete [204] Ted Radcliffe: 1902–2005: 103: American Negro league baseball ...
Hobbs made a good start to the 1919 season and, despite a brief spell of failure through over-aggression, [153] batted consistently. He scored a double century for Surrey against a touring Australian Imperial Forces cricket team and centuries in each of the three Gentlemen v Players matches—the only player ever to do so in one season.
In the sport of cricket, a batsman is said to have scored a century when they reach a score of 100 or more runs in an innings without being dismissed. In first-class cricket , the highest form of the game below international level , a total of 25 players have achieved the feat on a hundred or more occasions.
Jesse Owens won four gold medals to become the most successful athlete of any sport in the entire Olympics — a record that would stand until 1984 when another African-American track-and-field ...
In February 2023, she once again made headlines all over the world and became a media sensation for her athleticism she showcased during the USATF Masters 5K Championships with a scintillating run duration of 59 minutes and 6 seconds, literally crossing the race line marginally within less than an hour (by the barest of all margins) to complete ...
While most of these athletes and personalities changed the world many decades ago, there are still several black athletes who are achieving firsts in their sports today. Below, learn more about 19 ...
Excluding the two centuries not considered first-class by some modern statisticians, Grace's hundredth century came later in the same month when he scored 169 for Gloucestershire against Middlesex at Lord's. He scored his final first-class century in July 1904 for London County, reaching 166 against the Marylebone Cricket Club. He played first ...
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