Dimitri Ferrero, published on Saturday 09 May 2020 at 12h00
The world of sport being on forced break due to a coronavirus pandemic, the editorial staff invites you to relive the major events in the history of sport date by date. Today is May 9 which is in the spotlight.
Event
1978: PSV Eindhoven conquers SC Bastia
PSV Eindhoven wins the UEFA Cup final against SC Bastia (3-0 over both games). After Reims (twice) and AS Saint-Étienne, the Sporting Club de Bastia becomes the third French club to fail in the final of a European Cup.
Births
Jupp Heynckes (football) born in 1945
Jupp Heynckes played as a striker, mainly at Borussia Mönchengladbach during the 1960s and 1970s. He won four German championships, a German Cup and the UEFA Cup in 1975. He is still playing today Today the third top scorer in Bundesliga history with 220 goals. With the German selection, he won the World Cup in 1974. He became a coach at the end of his career. On the sidelines, Heynckes won four Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich and two Champions Leagues (with Real Madrid in 1997-1998 and with Bayern Munich in 2012-2013).
Marie-José Pérec (athletics) born in 1968
Marie-José Pérec is considered the greatest athlete in the history of French athletics. During her career, she won three Olympic gold medals: one in 1992 at the Barcelona Games over 400 meters and two at the Atlanta Games in 1996 over 400 meters and 200 meters. Thanks to this performance, the Frenchwoman becomes the first athlete, men and women combined, to have won, in two consecutive Olympic Games, the title over 400 meters. Sixteen years after the announcement of the end of her career, Marie-José Pérec still holds the French records for the 200m (21:99, 1996), the 400m (48:25, 1996), the 400m hurdles (53:21 , 1995) and the 4 × 400 meter relay (3 min 22 s 34, 1994).
Death
Anthony Wilding (tennis) died in 1915
This New Zealand tennis player has won Wimbledon four times in singles and four times in doubles. He also won the Australian Open twice in singles and once in doubles. He is one of three players in the history of tennis who had to play eight games (instead of seven generally) to win a Grand Slam tournament. During the First World War, Wilding enlisted in the Royal Marines in the Navy. He died at the front in 1915 in Pas-de-Calais. Since 1978, Anthony Wilding has been a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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