2008 in sports

2008 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

American football

Archery

  • 2008 Meteksan Archery World Cup takes place at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Leading medal winners are USA, Italy and Russia.

Association football

Australian rules football

  • Papua New Guinea win the 2008 Australian Football International Cup defeating New Zealand 7.12.54 to 7.4.46 in the Grand Final. A special 'Peace Team' composed of local Israeli and Palestinian players competed in the tournament.
  • Hawthorn defeat Geelong 18.7.115 to 11.23.89 in the 2008 AFL Grand Final to win their tenth premiership. The crowd of 100,012 at the MCG is the largest at a VFL/AFL Grand Final since the 1986 VFL Grand Final.
  • North Ballarat defeat Port Melbourne 18.12.120 to 11.9.75 in the 2008 VFL Grand Final at the Telstra Dome. This is the club's first VFL premiership in its 13th season in the league.

Baseball

Basketball

Bowls

  • April – World Indoor Singles and Mixed Pairs Championship held at Bowls Stadium, Swansea

Boxing

  • February 23 – Wladimir Klitschko defeats WBO heavyweight champion Sultan Ibragimov at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to unify the IBF and WBO Heavyweight titles. The Klitschko-Ibragimov fight was the first heavyweight unification bout since Holyfield-Lewis in 1999.
  • March 8 – David Haye achieves a TKO of Enzo Maccarinelli in the second round in a unification fight for the WBC, WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles.
  • April 19 – Joe Calzaghe, fighting for the first time in the US, wins a 12-round split decision over Bernard Hopkins for the latter's world light heavyweight title
  • June 28 – Manny Pacquiao defeats David Díaz via 9th-round knockout to take the WBC lightweight crown, his 4th world title in 4 divisions.
  • October 18 – Bernard Hopkins beats then-undefeated Kelly Pavlik via unanimous decision. Throughout the fight, Hopkins, although 17 years older than Pavlik, managed to outwork and outhustle Pavlik throughout the fight.
  • November 8 – Joe Calzaghe remains unbeaten after 46 fights with a 12-round unanimous decision over Roy Jones Jr. at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
  • December 6 – Manny Pacquiao defeats Oscar De La Hoya after eight rounds in a fight billed as "The Dream Match" in Las Vegas, when De La Hoya couldn't answer the bell for the ninth round. It was officially a technical knockout.

Canadian football

Cycling

Road Cycling

Grand Tours:

2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Men's Events Winner
Sprint  Chris Hoy (GBR)
Keirin  Chris Hoy (GBR)
1 km time trial  Teun Mulder (NED)
Points race  Vasil Kiryienka (BLR)
Individual pursuit  Bradley Wiggins (GBR)
Scratch  Aliaksandr Lisouski (BLR)
Team sprint  France
Grégory Baugé
Kévin Sireau
Arnaud Tournant
Team pursuit  United Kingdom
Edward Clancy
Geraint Thomas
Paul Manning
Bradley Wiggins
Madison  United Kingdom
Mark Cavendish
Bradley Wiggins
Omnium  Hayden Godfrey (NZL)
Women's Events Winner
Sprint  Victoria Pendleton (GBR)
Keirin  Jennie Reed (USA)
500 m time trial  Lisandra Guerra (CUB)
Points race  Marianne Vos (NED)
Individual pursuit  Rebecca Romero (GBR)
Scratch  Ellen van Dijk (NED)
Team sprint  United Kingdom
Victoria Pendleton
Shanaze Reade

Competition aerobatics

  • Mikhail Mamistov won the 16th FAI European Aerobatic Championships in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic[1][2]
  • Ferenc Tóth won the 9th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships in Radom.[3]

Cricket

Curling

Diving

  • FINA Diving World Cup concludes with China taking 7 gold and 4 silver medals

Figure skating

Floorball

  • Men's World Floorball Championships
  • Women's under-19 World Floorball Championships
    • Champion:   Switzerland
  • EuroFloorball Cup 2007–08
    • Men's champion: Sweden AIK IBF
    • Women's champion: Switzerland UHC Dietlikon
  • EuroFloorball Cup 2008

Gliding

  • The winners of the 30th FAI World Gliding Championships in Lüsse are Michael Sommer (Open Class), György Gulyas (15m Class) and Olivier Darroze (18m Class).[4]
  • Laurent Couture (World Class), Michael Buchthal (Standard Class) and Matthias Sturm (Club Class) won the gold medals in the 30th FAI World Gliding Championships in Rieti, Italy.[5][6]

Golf

Handball

Horse racing

Steeplechases

Flat races

Ice hockey

Lacrosse

Mixed martial arts

The following is a list of major noteworthy MMA events by month.

January

1/19 – UFC 80: Rapid Fire

1/23 – UFC Fight Night: Swick vs Burkman

1/25 – ShoXC 4

February

2/1 – Strikeforce: Young Guns II

2/2 – UFC 81: Breaking Point

2/13 – WEC 32: Condit vs. Prater

2/16 – EliteXC: Street Certified

2/23 – Strikeforce: At The Dome

2/29 – IFL: Las Vegas (Start of 2008 IFL season)

March

3/1 – UFC 82: Pride of a Champion

3/5 – World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 1 (Sengoku Raiden Championship's first event)

3/15 – DREAM.1 (DREAM's first event)

3/21 – ShoXC 5

3/26 – WEC 33: Marshall vs. Stann

3/29 – Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Le

April

4/2 – UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Lauzon

4/4 – IFL: New Blood, New Battles 2

4/5 – ShoXC 6

4/11 YAMMA Pit Fighting 1 (YAMMA Pit Fighting's first and only event)

4/19 – UFC 83: Serra vs. St-Pierre 2

4/29 – DREAM.2

May

5/11 – DREAM.3

5/16 – IFL: Connecticut (Last IFL event; 2008 Season never completely finished)

5/18 – World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 2

5/24 – UFC 84: Ill Will

5/31 – EliteXC: Primetime

June

6/1 – WEC 34: Faber vs. Pulver

6/7 – UFC 85: Bedlam

6/8 – World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 3

6/14 – EliteXC: Return of the King

6/15 – DREAM.4

6/21 – The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest Finale

6/27 – Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Thomson

July

7/5 – UFC 86: Jackson vs. Griffin

7/19 – UFC: Silva vs. Irvin

7/19 – Affliction: Banned (Affliction's first event)

7/21 – DREAM.5

7/26 – EliteXC: Unfinished Business

August

8/3 – WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura

8/9 – UFC 87: Seek And Destroy

8/15 – ShoXC 7

8/24 – World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 4

September

9/6 – UFC 88: Breakthrough

9/13 – Strikeforce: Young Guns III

9/17 – UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Neer

9/20 – Strikeforce: At The Mansion II

9/23 – DREAM.6

9/26 – ShoXC 8

9/28 – World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 5

October

10/3 – Strikeforce: Payback

10/4 – EliteXC: Heat

10/10 – ShoXC 9 (Last EliteXC event)

10/18 – UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben

10/25 – UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté

November

11/1 – World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 6

11/5 – WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown

11/15 – UFC 91: Couture vs. Lesnar

11/21 – Strikeforce: Destruction

December

12/3 – WEC 37: Torres vs. Tapia

12/10 – UFC: Fight for the Troops

12/13 – The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs Team Mir Finale

12/27 – UFC 92: The Ultimate 2008

12/31 – Dynamite!! 2008 (Event featured ten DREAM MMA bouts and eight K-1 kickboxing bouts)

Olympic Games

Paragliding

  • Greg Blondeau won the 10th FAI European Paragliding Championship in Niš, Serbia. Ewa Wisnierska won the gold medal in the female category.[9]

Polo

  • Chile defeats Brazil to win the 2008 World Polo Championship in México

Radiosport

Rotorcraft

  • Viktor Korotaev (pilot) and Nikolay Burov (co-pilot) won the 13th World Helicopter Championship in Eisenach.[10]

Rowing

Rugby league

Rugby union

Ski mountaineering

  • 2008 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering held at Portes du Soleil, Switzerland

Tennis

Rafael Nadal claimed the World No. 1 ranking for the first time, on August 18, replacing Roger Federer

Water polo

Weightlifting

References

  1. FAI Sporting Calendar: Aerobatic Competitions Archived February 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine – accessed February 17, 2008
  2. "EAC2008 results". Archived from the original on November 13, 2008. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
  3. FAI: European Glider Aerobatic Championships 2008 – accessed 2008-08-21 Archived January 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  4. 30th World Gliding Championships 2008 in Lüsse – accessed August 21, 2008
  5. FAI Sporting Calendar: Gliding Competitions – accessed 2008-02-17 Archived February 1, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  6. SoaringSpot: results of the 30th FAI World Gliding Championships in Rieti, Italy Archived February 4, 2013, at archive.today – accessed July 21, 2008
  7. "Epsom Derby | History, Winners, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  8. Logue, Brian (August 13, 2008). "ILF, IFWLA Merge to Form FIL". Lacrosse Magazine. Archived from the original on August 17, 2008. Retrieved November 15, 2008.
  9. EUPGSerbia2008: results – accessed 2008-07-21 Archived June 4, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  10. Final results of the 13th World Helicopter Championship – accessed 2008-08-22
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