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Table of contents 1 Athletics 2 Cricket 3 Curling 4 Golf 5 Ice Hockey 6 Luge 7 Skating 8 Skiing & Snowboarding 9 Swimming 10 Tennis 11 Scheduled Events Athletics Cross Country January 3 - Winners from the 2004 Great Winter Run X-country race at Newcastle, England: Women's 6.3km: Tirunesh Dibada, Ethiopia 21:01 Men's 8.0km: Sileshi Sihine, Ethiopia 26:15 Cricket February 9 - February 17 - under-19 cricket World Cup in Bangladesh Curling January 10- Canada Cup Women's Final: Colleen Jones 8-7 Sherry Anderson January 11- Men's Final: Randy Ferbey 10-3 John Morris Golf January 11 - Mercedes Championships winner: Stuart Appleby, $1,060,000 (66-67-66-71--270) January 15 - At the age of 14, golf prodigy Michelle Wie becomes the youngest woman (and only the fourth overall) to play at a PGA Tour event, shooting a +2 72 at the Sony Open at Waialae Country Club. Ice Hockey January 4 - Under 17 World Championship at St. John's Gold Medal Game: Ontario 5-2 Pacific Bronze Medal Game: Team Quebec 3-2 United States January 5 - World Junior Hockey Championship at Helsinki, Finland Gold Medal Game: United States 4-3 Canada Bronze Medal Game: Finland 2-1 Czech Republic Luge January 4 - European Luge Championships at Oberhof, Germany Men's Doubles winner: Steffen Skel and Steffen Woeller, Germany, 1:22.633 Women's Singles winner: Silke Kraushaar, Germany, 1:22.995 Skating Long track speed skating January 2 - Winners at the 2003 Canada Post All Round Canadian Championships at Calgary: Men's 500m: Mike Ireland, Winnipeg 34.58 seconds Men's 1000m: Jeremy Wootherspoon, Red Deer, Alberta 1:08.90 Women's 500m: Krisy Myers, Lloydminster, Saskatchewan 39.43 Women's 1000m: Kristy Myers 1:18.16 January 3 Men's 500m: Casey Fitzrandolph, Madison, Wisconsin 35.27 seconds Men's 1500m: Jay Morrison, Fort St. John, British Columbia 1:46.96 Women's 500m: Kerry Simpson, Melville, Saskatchewan 39.67 Women's 1500m: Kristina Groves, Ottawa 1:59.25 Figure skating January 9 - BMO Financial Group Canadian figure skating championships at Edmonton Junior Ice dance winners: Tessa Virtue, (London) and Scott Moir (Ilderton, Ontario), 2.8 factored placements Junior Pairs winners: Jessica Dube, (Drummondville, Quebec) and Bryce Davison, (Cambridge, Ontario), 1.5 factored placements January 10- Junior Women's singes winner: Myriane Samson, (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec), 1.5 factored placements January 11- Senior Ice Dance winners: Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon, (Boisbriand, Quebec), 2.0 Short track speed skating January 10- World junior short-track speed skating championships at Beijing Men's 500m winner: Ho-Suk Lee, South Korea 42.542 seconds Women's 500m winner: Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, Canada 45.689 seconds January 11- Men's 1000m winner: Ki-Deok Kwon, South Korea 1:28.682 Women's 1000m winner: Yun-Mi Kang, South Korea 1:36.040 Skiing & Snowboarding Biathlon January 10- World Cup Biathalon event at Pokljuka, Slovenia winner, men's 12.5km pursuit: Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Norway, 36:18.8 January 14- World Cup Biathalon event at Ruhpolding, Germany winner, Women's 4x6K Relay winner: Germany, 1:18:37 January 15 Men's 4x7.5K Relay winner: Belarus, 1:43:43.71 Cross-country skiing January 10- World Cup men's cross-country skiing competition at Otepaa, Finland winner, 30km mass start: Frode Estil, Norway, 1:15:18.1 Downhill skiing January 4 - Men's World Cup Slalom Competition at Flachau, Austria winner: Kalle Palander, Finland, 1:42.24 January 4 - Women's World Cip Giant Slalom Competition at Megeve, France winner: Alexandra Meissnitzer, Austria 1:24.98 January 10 - Men's World Cup downhill race at Chamonix, France winner: Stephane Eberharter, Austria 1:59.08 January 10- Women's World Cup downhill ski race at Veysonnaz, Switzerland winner: Renate Goetschl, Austria 1:38.58 January 11- Men's World Cup slalom at Chamonix, France winner: Giorgio Rocca, Italy 1:29.09 Freestyle skiing January 10- Ericsson World Freestyle skiing competition at Mont Tremblant, Quebec Women's Moguls winner: Stephanie St. Pierre, Canada 24.25 points Men's Moguls winner: Marc-Andre Moreau, Canada 25.14 points Giant slalom January 3 - Men's World Cup Giant Slalom Competition at Flachau, Austria winner: Benjamin Raich, Austria, 2:22.54 Nordic skiing January 4 - Nordic combined World Cup event at Schonach, Germany winner: Todd Lodwick, United States, 34:29.5 Ski jumping January 1 - The traditional New Year's Ski Jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The Large Hill event was won by Sigurd Pettersen of Norway with 253.8 points. January 4 - Four Hills ski jumping tournament at Innsbruck, Austria. K120 winner: Peter Zonta, Slovenia, 265.2 points Super-G January 11 - Women's World Cup super-G at Veysonnaz, Switzerland winner: Hilde Gerg, Germany, 1:21.34 January 14 - Women's World Cup super-G at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy winner: Genevieve Simard, Canada, 13.05 Snowboarding January 3 - World Cup men's "big air" snowboarding competition at Klagenfurt, Austria winner: Aleksi Vanninen, Finland, 1,000 points January 6 - World Cup snowboard parallel slalom at Bad Gastein, Austria Men's winner: Dejan Josir, Slovenia, 1,000 Women's winner: Jagna Kolasinska-Marczulajtis, Poland, 1,000 January 10: World Cup giant slalom race at L'Alpe d'Huez, France Men's Parallel Giant Slalom winner: Urs Eiselin, Switzerland, 1,000 Women's Parallel Giant Slalom winner: Daniela Meuli, Switzerland, 1,000 Swimming January 13- World Cup sort-course swimming competition at Stockholm, Sweden winners: Men's 50m butterfly: Mike Mintenko, Canada 23.75 Men's 100m freestyle: Jason Lezak, United States 47.24 Men's 100m IM: Kosuke Kitajima, Japan 53.71 Men's 400m freestyle: Yuri Prilokov, Russia 3:41.10 Men's 400m IM: Brian Johns, Canada 4:09.92 Men's 50m breaststroke: Ed Moses, United States 27.10 Men's 200m breaststroke: Ed Moses, United States 2:04.54 Men's 200m butterfly: Takeshi Matsuda, Japan 1:52.67 Women's 50m backstroke: Chang Gao, China 27.61 January 14- Men's 200m backstroke: Evgeny Aleshin, Russia 1:53.21 Men's 100m butterfly: Andriy Serdinov, Ukraine 51.66 Men's 200m freestyle: Ryk Neethling, South Africa 1:23.85 Men's 1,500m freestyle: Yuri Prilukov, Russia 14:46.59 Men's 200m IM: Kosuke Kitajima, Japan 1:56.68 Tennis January 9th- Qatar ExxonMobil Open at Doha, Qatar Doubles Final: Martin Damm and Cyril Suk, (Czech Republic) defeats Andy Roddick (United States) and Stefan Koubek (Austria) 6-2, 6-4 January 10 Singles Final: Nicolas Escude, France def. Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia 6-3, 7-6 January 10- WTA Uncle Tobys at Gold Coast, Australia Singles Final: Ai Sugiyama, Japan def. Nadia Petrova, Russia 1-6, 6-1, 6-4 Doubles Final: Svetlana Kuznetsova and Elena Likhovtseva (Russia) def. Liezel Huber (South Africa) and Magdalena Maleeva (Bulgaria) 6-3, 6-4 January 10- Hopman Cup indoor tournament at Perth, Australia results: United States def. Slovakia, 2-1 Lindsay Davenport, United States def. Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia 6-3, 6-1 Karol Kucera, Slovakia def. James Blake, United States 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 Lindsay Davenport and James Blake, United States def. Daniela Hantuchova and Karol Kucera, Slovakia 6-2, 6-3 January 10- WTA Tour ASB Classic at Auckland, New Zealand Singles Final: Eleni Daniilidou, Greece def. Ashley Harkleroad, United States 6-3, 6-2 Doubles Final: Mervana Jugic-Salkic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Jelena Kostanic (Croatia) def. Paola Suarez (Argentina) and Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spain) 7-6, 3-6, 6-1 January 11- ATP TATA Open at Madras, India Singles Final: Carlos Moya, Spain def. Paradorn Srichaphan, Thailand 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 Doubles Final: Rafael Nadal and Tommy Robredo (Spain) def. Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram (Israel) 7-6, 4-6, 6-3 January 11- ATP AAPT Championship at Adelaide, Australia Singles Final: Dominik Hrbaty, Slovakia def. Michael Llodra, France 6-4, 6-0 Doubles Final: Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan (United States) def. Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra (France) 7-5, 6-3 Scheduled Events January 22 to February 1 - The European Men's Handball Championship in Slovenia are expected to be held. January 31 to February 5 - The 5th Asian women's hockey championship will be held in New Delhi February 9 to February 17 - under-19 cricket World Cup to be held in Bangladesh May 16 to May 23 - The European Men's Unihockey Championship in Switzerland are expected to be held. June 12 to July 4 - The UEFA EURO 2004, the European football competition, will be held in Portugal; see the competition's website. August 13 to August 29 - The 2004 Summer Olympics are expected to take place in Athens, Greece this year; See their website. September 17 to September 28 - The 2004 Summer Paralympics are expected to take place in Athens, Greece this year; See their website. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.