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Austrian athlete and graphic designer [200] Marie Provazníková: 1890–1991: 100: Czechoslovak sports official active in the Sokol movement [201] Maurice Racca: 1922–2023: 100: French Olympic sport shooter [202] Marko Račič: 1920–2022: 102: Slovenian Olympic athlete [203] Ted Radcliffe: 1902–2005: 103: American Negro league baseball ...
On 15 November, Bradman made 172 against them for an Australian XI at Sydney, his 100th first-class century. [149] The first non-Englishman to achieve the milestone, Bradman remains the only Australian to have done so. [ 150 ]
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.
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 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.
During the last century, women in sports have been making an impact and serving as inspirations to those who wish to accomplish the same. The 36 most iconic female athletes of the past century ...
In 1999, the Major League Baseball All-Century Team was chosen by popular vote of fans. To select the team, a panel of experts first compiled a list of the 100 greatest Major League Baseball (MLB) players from the 20th century. Over two million fans then voted on the players using paper and online ballots. [1]
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 ...