1984 in sports

Auto Racing

• Stock car racing:
  • Cale Yarborough[?] won the Daytona 500
  • NASCAR Championship - Terry Labonte[?]
• Indianapolis 500 - Rick Mears[?]
• CART Racing - Mario Andretti[?] won the season championship
• Formula One Championship - Niki Lauda of Austria
• 24 hours of Le Mans:
  • the team of Klaus Ludwig[?] / Henri Pescarolo[?] won, driving a Porsche 956
• Rally racing - the team of Walter Rohrl[?] / Christian Geistdorfer[?] won the Monte Carlo Rally driving an Audi Quattro[?]
• Drag racing - Joe Amato[?] won the NHRA "Top Fuel" championship.

Baseball

• World Series: - Detroit Tigers win 4 games to 1 over the San Diego Padres

Basketball

• NCAA Men's Basketball Championship:
  • Georgetown wins 84-75 over Houston

• NBA Finals:
  • Boston Celtics won 4 games to 3 over the Los Angeles Lakers

Boxing

• March 31 - Wilfredo Gomez defeats Juan Laporte by a decision in 12 rounds to conquer the WBC's world Featherweight crown.

Cycling

• Giro d'Italia won by Francesco Moser[?] of Italy
• Tour de France - Laurent Fignon[?] of France
• World Cycling Championship: Claude Criquielion[?] of Belgium

Figure Skating

• World Figure Skating Championships:
  • Men's champion: Scott Hamilton[?], (United States)
  • Women's champion: Katarina Witt, (Germany)
  • Pairs champions: Barbara Underhill[?] & Paul Martini[?], (Canada)

Football (Soccer)

• England - FA Cup: Everton won 2-0 over Watford

Football (American)

• Super Bowl XVIII: Los Angeles Raiders won 38-9 over the Washington Redskins

Canadian Football League

• Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers won 47-17 over the Hamilton Tiger Cats[?]
• Vanier Cup: Guelph Gryphons[?] won 22-13 over the Mount Allison Mounties[?]

Golf

Men's Golf

• Grand Slam of golf results:
  1. May - The Masters - Ben Crenshaw[?]
  2. June - US Open - Fuzzy Zoeller[?]
  3. July - British Open - Seve Ballesteros[?]
  4. August - PGA Championship - Lee Trevino[?]

• PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Tom Watson[?] - $476,260
• PGA Champions Tour leading money winner: Don January[?] - $328,597

Women's Golf

• US Women's Open - Hollis Stacy[?]
• LPGA Championship - Patty Sheehan[?]
• Betsy King[?]: leading money winner on the LPGA tour, earning $266,771

Thoroughbred Horse Racing

• Australia - Melbourne Cup - Black Knight[?]
• Canada - Queen's Plate - Key to the Moon[?]
• France - Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - Sagace[?]
• Ireland - Irish Derby Stakes - El Gran Senor[?]

• English Triple Crown Races:
  1. Two Thousand Guineas Stakes - El Gran Senor[?]
  2. Epsom Derby - Secreto[?]
  3. St. Leger Stakes - Commanche Run[?]

• United States Triple Crown Races:
  1. Kentucky Derby - Swale[?]
  2. Preakness Stakes - Gate Dancer[?]
  3. Belmont Stakes - Swale[?]

Harness Racing

• North America Cup - the inaugural event won by Legal Notice[?]

• United States Pacing Triple Crown races:
  1. Cane Pace - On The Road Again[?]
  2. Little Brown Jug - Colt Fortysix[?]
  3. Messenger Stakes - Troublemaker[?]

• United States Trotting Triple Crown races:
  1. Hambletonian - Historic Freight[?]
  2. Yonkers Trot
  3. Kentucky Futurity - Fancy Crown[?]

• Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
  • Pacers: Gammalite[?]
  • Trotters: Sir Castleton[?]

Ice Hockey

• Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer during the regular season: Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oilers

• Hart Memorial Trophy for the NHL's Most Valuable Player: Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oilers

• Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers won 4 games to 1 over the New York Islanders

• World Hockey Championship:
  • Men's champion: (vacant) - the USSR won the Olympic Gold Medal
  • Junior Men's champion: USSR defeated Finland

Skiing

• Alpine Skiing
  • The men's overall season champion: Pirmin Zurbriggen[?], Switzerland
  • The women's overall season champion: Erika Hess[?], Switzerland
• At the Winter Olympics, Bill Johnson becomes the 1st American to win the gold medal in downhill skiing.

Tennis

• Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
  1. Australian Open - Mats Wilander
  2. French Open - Ivan Lendl[?]
  3. Wimbledon championships - John McEnroe[?]
  4. US Open - John McEnroe[?]

• Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
  1. Australian Open - Chris Evert
  2. French Open - Martina Navratilova
  3. Wimbledon championships - Martina Navratilova
  4. US Open - Martina Navratilova

• Davis Cup: Sweden wins 4-1 over the United States in world tennis.

General sporting events

• February 8 - 1984 Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

• Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Champion:
  • Dean Osmar[?] won with lead dogs: Red & Bullet

• July 28 - 1984 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles, California

• Embassy World Snooker Championship[?]:
  • Steve Davis[?] won 18-16 over Jimmy White[?]

Births

Deaths

• January 19 - Max Bentley[?], ice hockey star, Chicago Blackhawks (1940-1954)
• April 27 - Piet Kraak[?], Dutch soccer player
• June 17 - Swale[?], race horse and the Kentucky Derby winner, collapses & dies
• August 25 - Waite Hoyt[?], Major League Baseball pitcher, (1918-1938)
• October 1 - Walter Alston[?], manager of baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers
• September 7 - Joe Cronin[?], Major League Baseball player/executive, (1926-1945)