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J López-Maeso

Individual Speedway World Championship

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Replay of the latter stages of the 1981 Grand National BBC Sport

The 1981 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1981 Big Ten Conference football season. They participated as members of the Big Ten Conference. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana.

1981 Idaho State Bengals football team

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Tulasne

A Pattison
T Delatte
B Manson

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Tim Mayotte

Nunes

1981 Grand Prix (tennis)

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Southern Conference

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J Kriek

H Pfister
Brian Teacher

National Champions

Madrid, Spain

Ycaza
Proisy

1981 Irish hunger strike

Edwards
Noah

P Dent

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R Simpson

QB Randy Wright

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Linebacker

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C Freyss

J Bates

Furman Paladins

1981 Grand Marnier Tennis Games - Singles

Nichols
Damiani

Bnei Yehuda

Steve Alatorre

Houston Astros

B Martin

Houston Oilers

J Brown

M Martinez

Pecci, Sr.

The 1981 Grand National was the 135th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 4 April 1981.It is remembered for the winning horse Aldaniti, who had recovered from chronic leg problems, and his jockey Bob Champion, who had recovered from cancer. Aldaniti's injuries dated back to 1976, while Champion had been diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1979. However, Aldaniti was nursed back to optimum form ahead of the race, and Champion overcame lengthy hospitalisation and chemotherapy to win the National by a distance of four lengths. In second place was the 8/1 favourite, Spartan Missile, ridden by 54-year-old amateur jockey and grandfather John Thorne.The story of Bob Champion and Aldaniti was made into a film Champions, with John Hurt portraying Champion. The film is based on Champion's book Champion's Story, which he co-wrote with close friend and racing journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Powell.

The 1981 Handsworth riots were three days of rioting that took place in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England in July 1981. The major outbreak of violence took place on the night of Friday 10/11 July, with smaller disturbances on the following two nights.The riots were characterised by the Scarman report into the 1981 riots in England as "copycat riots" – taking place after the Brixton riots in London, and around the same time as the Toxteth riots in Liverpool and the Moss Side riots in Manchester – though some have argued that this is an oversimplification. The immediate flashpoint was an attack on a locally well-known Police Superintendent who was trying to calm rumours of an impending march by the right-wing National Front. The following disturbances resulted in 121 arrests and 40 injuries to police officers, alongside widespread damage to property.Before the riots Handsworth had been considered to be a good example of successful community policing, though local Black British youths later disputed the claim that relations between them and the police had been amicable: around 40% of them had been stopped and searched over the previous 12 months. Handsworth had a mixed population of white, black and Asian residents, but surveys after the riots showed little evidence of significant racial tension. A week before the riots, during the weekend that saw CS gas used against rioters for the first time on the British Mainland in Toxteth, Liverpool, a reporter from The Times had visited a festival in Handsworth Park and found "8,000 people, black and white" in "a spirit as amiable and peaceful as a rural village fete". The most common reasons for the riots reported by participants were unemployment, boredom and the imitation of events elsewhere.

Sanford Stadium • Athens, Georgia

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M Orantes

P Složil

The 1981 IPSC Handgun World Shoot V held in Johannesburg, South Africa, was the 5th Handgun World Shoot, and was won by Ross Seyfried of United States, using a relatively stock firearm compared to the highly tuned firearms of many other shooters. Well known in the U.S., Ross had previously won the 1978 U.S. National Championship, and was member of the US National Team who placed second in the previous 1979 World Shoot.

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R Gehring

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First Round
W Redondo

N Odizor

Martin

Dec 19

Y Noah

K Warwick

The 1981 Hawthorn Football Club season was the clubs 57th season in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Bill Tripp

C Edwards

R Frawley

1981 Handsworth riots

The 1981 IIHF European U18 Championship was the fourteenth playing of the IIHF European Junior Championships.

Tomáš Šmíd

L Palin
J Higueras

Fibak

'''C Dunk

Eberhard

1981 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships

T Garcia

G Holroyd
'''M Purcell

1981 Grand Marnier Tennis Games

Mayer

T Moor

Big Eight

Borg

'''B Mitton

Oct 17

Flamengo

Case

H Theissen

S Stewart

'''R Gehring

Restrepo

''' P Složil

1981 Ireland rugby union tour of South Africa

1981 Geneva Open - Singles

R Stadler

B Maze
Eliot Teltscher

S Mayer

F Taygan

Ross Seyfried

T Gullikson

Sep 19

Second Round

Moor

B Taróczy

Hapoel Tel Aviv

Mckown

The 1981 Hang Ten 400 was an endurance race for Group C Touring Cars. The event, Round 3 of the 1981 Australian Endurance Championship, was staged on 13 September over 119 laps of the 3.1 km Sandown Park circuit in Victoria, Australia. The field was divided into four engine capacity classes:Class A : 3001 to 6000 ccClass B : 2001 to 3000 ccClass C : 1601 to 2000 ccClass D : Up to 1600 ccOf the 55 cars which started the event, 26 were classified as finishers.Peter Brock drove his Marlboro Holden Dealer Team VC Commodore to his record 6th consecutive Sandown endurance win, and his 7th victory overall. Reigning ATCC champion Dick Johnson finished 2nd after starting from pole in his Tru-Blu Ford XD Falcon after two spins thanks to an experiment with Shock absorber gone wrong. Third over the line was the Roadways Gown Hindhaugh VC Commodore of Steven Harrington and Garth Wigston.Colin Bond and Steve Masterton were the winners of Class B in their Ford Capri, while Sydney's Peter Williamson was the winner of Class C Toyota Celica. The winners of Class D were Craig Bradtke and Rod Stevens driving a Mitsubishi Lancer.

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1981 Honduras national football team results

1981 Israel Super Cup

World Championship Tennis

Georgia 17-7

Semifinals

1981 Indonesian Grand Prix

P Rennert
C Pasarell

J Chatman

Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

N Saviano

Pocatello, ID -

P Du Pré

Joakim Nyström
''' B Borg

Eastern Washington -

1981 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season

Big Eight Conference

The 1981 Grand National was the 135th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 4 April 1981.It is remembered for the winning horse Aldaniti, who had recovered from chronic leg problems, and his jockey Bob Champion, who had recovered from cancer. Aldaniti's injuries dated back to 1976, while Champion had been diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1979.

LII Gran Premio d'Italia

Sep 26

1981 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship

Luna
Taróczy

Holiday Bowl

The 1981 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 33rd F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.

Illinois Fighting Illini

S Smith

AUB

Sinai

The 1981 Hall of Fame Classic was a college football postseason bowl game between the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Kansas Jayhawks.

The 1981 Italian Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts. For the second time in the history of the tournament the men and women competed in different locations. The men's event was held at the traditional location of Foro Italico in Rome, while the women played in Perugia. It was the 38th edition of the tournament.

BBC commentator Peter O'Sullevan describes the climax of the race
Bob Champion

V Pecci

1981 General strike in Bielsko-Biała

Ivan Lendl

Finals series

Teltscher
Naegelen

Oklahoma State

M Bauer

Brigham Young University

Mel Purcell

The 1981 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 13 September 1981.Formula One returned to the Monza circuit after a year's absence; the year previous's Italian Grand Prix had been held at the Imola circuit.Coming into Italy, both Nelson Piquet and Carlos Reutemann were tied on points in the Drivers' Championship; Reutemann would eventually leave with the lead. Alain Prost was also becoming a challenger for the world title, having been challenging both leaders in the recent races.The race would be known for the first time a Toleman-Hart qualified and finished in a race with Brian Henton qualifying the car in 23rd place.

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C Roger-Vasselin
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Nov 21

Purcell
Günthardt

''' T Šmíd

Offensive: Jim McMahon

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1981 Irish Hunger Strike

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Wisconsin

QB Gary Kubiak, Texas A&M

1981 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

Texas A&M

The 1981 Garden State Bowl, part of the 1981 bowl game season, took place on December 13, 1981, at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The competing teams were the Tennessee Volunteers, representing the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and the Wisconsin Badgers, representing the Big Ten Conference (Big 10). In what was the final edition of the game, Tennessee won 28–21.

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Bruce Manson
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Leconte
Fillol, Sr.

F.I.M.Grand Prix motorcycle racingseason

Southeastern Conference

B Walts

The 3rd IAAF World Cup in Athletics was an international track and field sporting event sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations, held on September 4–6, 1981, at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy.

McEnroe

The 1981 IPSC Handgun World Shoot V held in Johannesburg, South Africa, was the 5th Handgun World Shoot, and was won by Ross Seyfried of United States, using a relatively stock firearm compared to the highly tuned firearms of many other shooters. Well known in the U.S., Ross had previously won the 1978 U.S. National Championship, and was member of the US National Team who placed second in the previous 1979 World Shoot. The 1981 championship showed the Americans return with a vengeance when both Ross Seyfried took the individual World Title and the US National Team took gold in the team classification.

The 1981 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament ran from 25 May until 7 June. It was the 80th staging of the French Open, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1981.

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C Mayotte

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1981 ICF Flatwater Racing World Championships

Italy

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Roger-Vasselin
McNamara

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Moretton

'''R Frawley

Cyclone Stadium

The 1981 Geneva Open was a tennis tournament played on clay courts that was part of the 1981 Volvo Grand Prix. It was played at Geneva in Switzerland and began on September 21, 1981.

Hockenheim in 1981

SoCon Champions

The 1981 Intercontinental Cup was held in Canada. Eight teams competed in the tournament which was won by the United States national baseball team.

Oct 10

Fagel

SWE

1981 Indiana Hoosiers football team

The 1981 Camel GT Championship season was the 11th season of the IMSA GT Championship auto racing series. It was a series for GTX class Group 5 cars and GTO and GTU class Grand tourer cars. It began January 31, 1981, and ended November 29, 1981, after sixteen rounds.

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1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Junior men's race

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The 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Madrid, Spain, at the Hippodromo de la Zarzuela on March 28, 1981. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.Complete results for men, junior men, women, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.

M Davis
J Hayes

Liverpool

R Lutz

B Kleege

1981 Hardy Cup

Bengoechea

G Hardie

1981 IAAF World Cup

Moore

B Teacher

QB Steve Alatorre

Australia

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An exhibition of 'Formula' cars at Ancol Circuit in Jakarta, Indonesia.The Indonesian Government and Jakarta Racing Club invited the Australian team, with Pit stop crew, to attend the Indonesian Grand Prix for motor cycles.

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D Stockton

Glickstein
Fillol
Testerman

1981 Iowa State Cyclones football team

E Schurmann

Van Patten

''' Tomáš Šmíd

National League

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Gildemeister

Ron Cook

1981 Grammys

Stuttgarter Kickers

S Birner

Giménez

V Amaya

The 1981 Grand Marnier Tennis Games was a men's professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 6th edition of the Indian Wells Masters and was part of the 1981 Volvo Grand Prix. It was played at the La Quinta Resort and Club in La Quinta, California in the United States and was held from February 16 through February 22, 1981.

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T Šmíd

Oct 31

G Fritz

Lendl

The 1981 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1981 Big Ten Conference football season.

The 1981 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Hockenheimring on August 2, 1981. The race was notable for a memorable battle between Alain Prost and Alan Jones.

Badgers

The 1981 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship

1981 Hawthorn Football Club season

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QB John Bond

Connors
Cano

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Hocevar
Higueras
Pérez
Dibbs

'''N Saviano

Barazzutti

* Offensive Coordinator – Jim Shofner
* Offensive Backs – Elijah Pitts
* Receivers – Andy Bourgeois
* Offensive Line – Ray Callahan

Big Sky Conference

1981 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

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An exhibition of 'Formula' cars at Ancol Circuit in Jakarta, Indonesia.The Indonesian Government and Jakarta Racing Club invited the Australian team, with Pit stop crew, to attend the Indonesian Grand Prix for motor cycles. Team Manager and co-ordinator was John Lanyon, well known as manager of the Ansett Elfin Team.The Team consisted of Grahame Blee (Cheetah Mk6/GE-Toyota), Tom Crozier (Cheetah Mk7/GE-Toyota), Tom Crozier (Cheetah Mk7/Gemini), Bob Prendergast (Cheetah Mk7/Golf), Hugh Gartley (Cheetah Mk7/Toyota), Peter Beehag (Cheetah Mk7/Golf) and David Crabtree (Cheetah Mk6/Ford). Brian Shead, designer and constructor of the Cheetah cars, was on hand to look after the cars, and several other Australian Formula Two drivers were also along to give a helping hand.Along with the Aussies were two Asian drivers - well known Singapore Pacific driver, Sonny Rajah, trying out his new Ralt RT4, and local Indonesian, Tinton Soeprapto, driving the ex-Graeme Lawrence March Formula Pacific car.

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Cougars

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Joe Zuger

Haillet

The 1981 Israel Super Cup was the 11th Israel Super Cup (16th, including unofficial matches, as the competition wasn't played within the Israel Football Association in its first 5 editions, until 1969), an annual Israel football match played between the winners of the previous season's Top Division and Israel State Cup.The match was played between Hapoel Tel Aviv, champions of the 1980–81 Liga Leumit and Bnei Yehuda, winners of the 1980–81 Israel State Cup.This was Hapoel's 5th Israel Super Cup appearance and Bnei Yehuda's second (both including unofficial matches).
The 1981 Israel Super Cup was the 11th Israel Super Cup (16th, including unofficial matches, as the competition wasn't played within the Israel Football Association in its first 5 editions, until 1969), an annual Israel football match played between the winners of the previous season's Top Division and Israel State Cup.The match was played between Hapoel Tel Aviv, champions of the 1980–81 Liga Leumit and Bnei Yehuda, winners of the 1980–81 Israel State Cup.This was Hapoel's 5th Israel Super Cup appearance and Bnei Yehuda's second (both including unofficial matches). At the match, played at Bloomfield Stadium, Hapoel Tel Aviv won 1–0.

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ITA

The 1981 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Nottingham, Great Britain.The men's competition consisted of six Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for the women, all in kayak.This was the sixteenth championships in canoe sprint.

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The 1981 Hardy Cup was the 1981 edition of the Canadian intermediate senior ice hockey championship.

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The 1981 Hang Ten 400 was an endurance race for Group C Touring Cars. The event, Round 3 of the 1981 Australian Endurance Championship, was staged on 13 September over 119 laps of the 3.1 km Sandown Park circuit in Victoria, Australia.

University of Tennessee

Permanent racing facility

The 1981 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 24th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 32nd overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 1st place in the East division for the second consecutive year with an 11–4–1 record. They lost the East Final to the heavy underdog Ottawa Rough Riders team that finished 5–11–0. In the first season of full inter-division play, the Tiger-Cats finished with a 6–0 record against the East Division, outscoring their opponents 197 to 71.

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Gattiker

S. N. Embiricos

Werder Bremen

Mizlou

Casa

Argentina

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Bulldogs

1981 Houston Astros season

R Ycaza

* Defensive Coordinator – Dick Nolan
* Defensive Line – Joe Galat
* Linebackers – Dick Selcer
* Defensive Backs – Bob Gambold

Terry Moor
B Mitton

Björn Borg
Krishnan
José Luis Clerc

Thaddus McFadden

1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

C Dibley

1981 Garden State Bowl

The 1981 Houston Oilers season was the franchise's 22nd overall and the 12th in the National Football League (NFL). Bum Phillips was fired as head coach during the off season for failing to reach the Super Bowl, and replaced by Ed Biles. However, the Oilers defensive problems would catch up with them as they finished with a disappointing 7-9 record, as Earl Campbell fought through injuries to rush for 1,376 yards.

Krulevitz

1981 Italian Open (tennis)

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* Owner/Chairman of the Board/President – Bud Adams
* Executive Vice President/General Manager – Ladd Herzeg

Clay / outdoor

France

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1981 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

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Rosalyn Fairbank Nideffer / Tayna Harford

Intercontinental Final

The 1981 Individual Speedway World Championship.1981 was the last of a record 26 times that London's famous Wembley Stadium hosted the World Final (and the final time the stadium would be used for Motorcycle speedway). In future years when the final was held in England, it would be held at the Odsal Stadium in Bradford until the advent of the Speedway Grand Prix series in 1995. The 1981 Final was held before a reported crowd of 92,500 - just shy of the Wembley record of 95,000 set at the 1938 World Final.Bruce Penhall became the first American to win the World Championship since Jack Milne in 1937. As a past World Championship winner at Wembley, the 74-year-old Milne was a special guest at the event and saw Penhall end America's 44 year Individual World Championship drought. Though he remained undefeated until his last ride when he only needed to finish 3rd to win the Championship (he finished that race in second behind his rival Kenny Carter), Penhall was forced to work hard for his maiden World Championship. In both Heat 7 and Heat 14 he was second for over 3½ laps behind Ole Olsen and Tommy Knudsen respectively before passing both in the run to the line. Olsen would defeat Knudsen in a runoff for second and third places after both finished on 12 points. The triple World Champion gaining some revenge on his younger countryman after Knudsen had defeated Olsen in the first heat of the meeting.In Heat 6, Denmark's future triple World Champion Erik Gundersen set the 4 lap record of 66.8 seconds for the 345 metres (377 yards) long track when he defeated eventual 3rd placed rider Tommy Knudsen (Denmark), Jiří Štancl (Czechoslovakia) and Zenon Plech (Poland). As this was the final speedway meeting at Wembley it will forever be the track record.

The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during The Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners.

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The 1981 Idaho State Bengals football team represented Idaho State University in the 1981 NCAA Division I-AA football season.

Lewis
Clerc
Ganzábal

J Alexander

The 1981 Handsworth riots were three days of rioting that took place in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England in July 1981.

CSK

Volunteers

Sep 12

1981 Grand National

AUT

1981 French Open - Women's Doubles

1981 Grand Marnier Tennis Games - Doubles

Ireland

Sanders

Jess Cole

1981 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

On December 15, 1981, the Iraqi Shi'a Islamist group al-Dawa carried out a suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The explosion leveled the embassy and killed 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon, and injured 110 others.The attack is considered by some to be the first modern suicide bombing, and presaged the 1983 United States embassy bombing and the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.

Waltke

Tiger-Cats seasons

1981 French Open – Women's singles

Indiana Hoosiers

I Dupasquier

1981 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

UGA

Brent Pirow

The 1981 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University during the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season. They played their home games at Cyclone Stadium in Ames, Iowa. They participated as members of the Big Eight Conference. The team was coached by head coach Donnie Duncan. The offensive coordinator was Mack Brown.

Georgia 10-7

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Heinz Günthardt / Balázs Taróczy

The 1981 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 13 September 1981.Formula One returned to the Monza circuit after a year's absence; the year previous's Italian Grand Prix had been held at the Imola circuit.Coming into Italy, both Nelson Piquet and Carlos Reutemann were tied on points in the Drivers' Championship; Reutemann would eventually leave with the lead.

Järryd

Rubio Vázquez

Kodeš

Lost East Final

Moscow, ID -

The 1981 Volvo Grand Prix was the only men's professional tennis circuit held that year. It consisted of the four Grand Slam tournaments and the Grand Prix tournaments. The World Championship Tennis (WCT) Tour was incorporated into the Grand Prix circuit. The WCT tour consisted of eight regular tournaments, a season's final, three tournaments categorized as special events and a doubles championship. In total 89 tournaments were held divided over 29 countries.

Nov 07

1981 Intertoto Cup

* Head Coach – Ed Biles

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Gottfried

John Shaw

RushTD

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The 1981 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Bala, Wales, Great Britain under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. The mixed C-2 event was reinstated after not being held at the previous championships.

AGF

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C Dunk
P Kronk

Oct 24

Ray Scott and Al DeRogatis

1981 Italy rugby union tour of Australia

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Paris , France

Jeff Borowiak

D Perez

W Popp

Složil

The Houston Astros' 1981 season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Houston Astros attempting to win the National League West.

1981 French Open - Women's Singles

Rory Chappell

Memorial Stadium

Simonsson

1981 Geneva Open – Singles

P Portes

1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

The 1981 Furman Paladins football team represented the Furman Paladins of Furman University during the 1981 college football season.

Magnelli

Budućnost

Oilers seasons
The 1981 Houston Oilers season was the franchise's 22nd overall and the 12th in the National Football League (NFL). Bum Phillips was fired as head coach during the off season for failing to reach the Super Bowl, and replaced by Ed Biles. However, the Oilers defensive problems would catch up with them as they finished with a disappointing 7-9 record, as Earl Campbell fought through injuries to rush for 1,376 yards. After a fast 4-2 start, Houston would struggle in the second half, going 3-7 in their final 10 games, including a critical loss to the New Orleans Saints, who finished 4-12 in 1981.

The 1981 Formula One season was the 35th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1981 FIA Formula One World Championship which was contested over a fifteen race series that commenced on 15 March and ended on 17 October.

Italian

Dalla-Fontana

ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007

1981 Israeli bombing

The 1981 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1981 Big Ten Conference football season. In their second year under head coach Mike White, the Illini compiled a 7–4 record and finished in three-way tie for third place in the Big Ten Conference.The team's offensive leaders were quarterback Tony Eason with 3,360 passing yards, running back Calvin Thomas with 390 rushing yards, and wide receiver Oliver Williams with 760 receiving yards. Several Illinois players ranked among the Big Ten leaders, including the following:Tony Eason led the conference with 248 pass completions, a 61.1 pass completion percentage, 3,360 passing yards, a 140.0 passing efficiency rating, 20 passing touchdowns, 14 interceptions, and 3,331 total yards.Oliver Williams ranked third in the conference with six receiving touchdowns and 20.0 yards per reception and ranked fifth in the conference with 760 receiving yards.Kirby Wilson ranked second in the conference with 546 kickoff return yards.Mike Bass ranked third in the conference with 33 extra points made, fifth with 10 field goals and a 58.8% field goal percentage, and sixth with 63 points scored.

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football

J Austin
Quarterfinals

B Boileau

Hank Pfister

J Delaney

1981 IIHF European U18 Championship

1981 IPSC Handgun World Shoot

The 1981 Intercontinental Cup was an association football match between Liverpool of England and Flamengo of Brazil on 13 December 1981 at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, the annual Intercontinental Cup contested between the winners of the European Cup and Copa Libertadores. Flamengo went on to play the Intercontinental Cup after having won the first ever Libertadores Cup they played.

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

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1981 Hunger Strike

Panatta

D Siegler

Manuel Orantes

M Estep

The 1981 Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played December 18, 1981, in San Diego, California. It was part of the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season. It featured the 14th ranked BYU Cougars, and the 20th ranked Washington State Cougars.

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McNamee

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E Edwards

Molenbeek

Washington State

1981 French Open – Men's Singles
Vilas

BEL

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Big Ten Conference

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SEC

Junior men's race at the 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

E Teltscher

1981 Georgia Bulldogs football team

Senior women's race at the 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

The 1981 Giro d'Italia was the 64th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours races. The Giro started in Brescia, on 13 May, with a 6.6 km (4.1 mi) prologue and concluded in Verona, on 7 June, with a 42 km (26.1 mi) individual time trial. A total of 130 riders from thirteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Italian Giovanni Battaglin of the Inoxpran team. The second and third places were taken by Swede Tommy Prim and Italian Giuseppe Saronni, respectively.Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Gis Gelati-Campagnolo's Saronni won the points classification, Claudio Bortolotto of Santini-Selle Italia won the mountains classification, and Hoonved-Bottecchia's Giuseppe Faraca completed the Giro as the best neo-professional in the general classification, finishing eleventh overall. Bianchi-Piaggio finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. In addition, Bianchi-Piaggio won the team points classification.

Rinaldini

In the 1981 Intertoto Cup no knock-out rounds were contested, and therefore no winner was declared.

Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Potier

Clay / Outdoor

The 1981 Intercontinental Cup was an association football match between Liverpool of England and Flamengo of Brazil on 13 December 1981 at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, the annual Intercontinental Cup contested between the winners of the European Cup and Copa Libertadores. Flamengo went on to play the Intercontinental Cup after having won the first ever Libertadores Cup they played. Liverpool were also appearing in their first Intercontinental Cup, having declined to take part in 1977 and 1978 after they won the European Cup.The teams had qualified for the competition by winning their continent's primary cup competition. Liverpool qualified by winning the primary European cup competition, the European Cup. They won the 1980–81 European Cup defeating Spanish team Real Madrid 1–0 in the final. Flamengo qualified by winning the primary South American cup competition, the Copa Libertadores. They beat Chilean team Cobreloa 2–0 in a playoff after the previous ties finished 2–2 on points to win the 1981 Copa Libertadores.

Ismail

1981 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship

Dec 05

1981 IIHF World U20 Championship

M Wilander

Aubone
Van't Hof

J Norbäck

1981 IndyCar season

Big Sky Champions

Rubio Vásquez

DEN

Bertolucci
Bedel

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'''F Buehning

1981 Grand Marnier Tennis Games – Doubles
Final

T Wilkison

Washington State University

XLIIGroßer Preis von Deutschland

1981 Italian Grand Prix

Portes

Oct 03

1981 IMSA GT Championship

F.I.M. Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

Garden State Bowl

The 1980 Intercontinental Final was the seventh running of the Intercontinental Final as part of the qualification for the 1981 Speedway World Championship.

1981 Holiday Bowl

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West Germany

University of Wisconsin–Madison

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1981 Grammies

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The 1980 Intercontinental Final was the seventh running of the Intercontinental Final as part of the qualification for the 1981 Speedway World Championship. The 1981 Final was run on 5 July on a wet night at the Speedway Center (owned by triple World Champion Ole Olsen) in Vojens, Denmark, and was the last qualifying stage for riders from Scandinavia, the USA and from the Commonwealth nations for the World Final to be held at the Wembley Stadium in London, England.American star Bruce Penhall signalled his intentions by dominating the meeting with a 15-point maximum in difficult conditions. Rising Danes Erik Gundersen (Penhall's team mate at Cradley Heath) and Hans Nielsen delighted the home crowd by finishing in second and third with Nielsen defeating Kenny Carter in a runoff for third place. Considered something of a spent force as he was nearing the end of his career, but racing on the track that he part owns (English television commentator Dave Lanning called it a swamp due to the conditions), Ole Olsen also gave the crowd in Vojens something to cheer as he scored 6 points to claim the final spot in the World Final at Wembley. In another bonus for Danish speedway, 1980 European Under-21 Champion Tommy Knudsen made it four Danes going to the World Final when he finished in 6th place, while another local Preben Eriksen claimed the World Final reserve spot. The other World Final qualifiers were Dave Jessup, Jan Andersson, Chris Morton, Larry Ross and reigning World Champion Michael Lee.The meeting was controversial. The notorious weather in Vojens struck and after the first round of heats the riders voted 14-2 not to return to the track due to the wet conditions (only track owner Olsen and Hans Nielsen wanted to continue). After a 90-minute delay the FIM referee threatened the riders with disqualification from the meeting if they did not continue racing. A compromise was eventually reached and the track was tested by two local junior riders, following which the meeting resumed, though the riders continued to voice their concerns led by Penhall despite he being the one rider who seemed to come to grips with the conditions, and six time World Champion Ivan Mauger. After the meeting both Penhall and Mauger publicly criticised the Polish referee on British television for not listening to the riders about the condition of the track, with Mauger claiming that the referee feigned not being able to speak English when he refused to speak to the riders (Mauger contended that he had dealt with this particular referee in the past and that he did indeed speak English).5 July Vojens, Vojens Speedway CenterQualification: Top 11 plus 1 reserve to the World Final in London, England

Harold Solomon

SEC co-champion

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R Cano

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1981 Golden Raspberry Award

FRG

Aldaniti

The 1981 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season.

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Santini

Don Washington

Zico

1981 Individual Speedway World Championship

Georgia 24-7

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Mississippi State

Eastern Kentucky Colonels

Goven

Moscow, ID

Independence Bowl

1981 Hamilton Tiger–Cats season

Kronk

1981 Iraqi embassy bombing

Auburn

Z Kuharszky

Hoonved-Bottecchia

1981 Geneva Open - Doubles

Mizlou Television Network

The 1981 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship was the 11th edition of the Greenlandic Men's Football Championship. The final round was held in Sisimiut. It was won by Nuuk IL for the second time in its history.

Big Sky

IFK Göteborg

1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Senior men's race

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M Riessen

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Butler 20-yard field goal

R Venter

Manson
Jimmy Connors

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1981 Grand Prix Masters

1981 French Open - Men's Singles

K Meiler

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XLII Großer Preis von Deutschland

Rolf Gehring

'''Jimmy Connors

Standard Liège

1981 Geneva Open

Edmondson

Big Ten

González
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Tennessee

1981 German Grand Prix

The 1981 France rugby union tour of Australia was a series of matches played by the France national rugby union team in Australia in June 1981. The French team lost both their international matches against the Australia national rugby union team.

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Eastern Kentucky

Jayhawks

ASISU MiniDome

Kibbie Dome

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Hall of Fame Classic

1981 Grand Marnier Tennis Games – Singles

Rome, Italy
Hans Gildemeister / Andrés Gómez

Norbäck

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ABC

Jeff Nault

Balázs Taróczy

1981 Houston Oilers season

NOR

John McEnroe

South Africa

LB Mike Green, Oklahoma State

Torre

Cheb

1981 Grammy Awards

Wet/ Dry

Leland Kendall

Fromm

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1981 French Open

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1981 Indy 500

1981 Intercontinental Cup (basketball)

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1981 Hang Ten 400

Georgia

Idaho Vandals

1981 Heineken Open – Singles

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Víctor Pecci, Sr.
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1981 Idaho Vandals football team

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P Arraya

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J Cooper

Claude Matthews

1981 Intercontinental Cup

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The1981 Italy rugby union tour of Australia was a series of matches played between June and August 1981 in Australia by in Australia by Italy national rugby union team. No test matches was played. It was the first visit to Australia by an Italian rugby team, and follow after one year the tour of New Zealand and Pacific.

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Grand Prix

1981 Indy Car season

1981 France rugby union tour of Australia

1981 Heineken Open - Singles

IMSA GT Championship

Hjertquist

Hana Mandlíková

Other

Mike Plaxco

S Docherty

1981 IMSA GT Championship season

Dry and sunny

1981 Italian Open

1981 Independence Bowl

Bloomington, IN

1981 Intercontinental Final

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1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

Caujolle
Meyer

Perugia, Italy

Peter Rennert

Sep 05

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Senior men's race at the 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

Wiener Sportclub

Johnstone

Marching bands

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BYU

1981 Furman Paladins football team

Match programme cover, depicting Kenny Dalglish and Zico

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Third Round

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Georgia Bulldogs

Candy Reynolds / Paula Smith

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P Bertolucci

Freyss

Andrea Jaeger / James Arias

Hamilton Tiger-Cats

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Auburn 7-3

JL Damiani

1981 French Open - women's singles

C Delaney

1981 French Open - Women's singles

R Meyer

T Tulasne

1981 Formula One season

Iowa State Cyclones

B Derlin

Team Events

Josh Gifford

Vizcaíno

Peter McNamara

1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Senior women's race

Schneider
Stefanki

1981 Genie Award

Brown 46-yard pass from Belue

Chris Evert-Lloyd

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Dominguez

1981 Golden Raspberry Awards

Zugarelli
Giammalva

Each winner of the 1981 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.The 1981 awards were the first time that separate awards were presented for poetry and drama, which had previously competed in a single "poetry or drama" category.

Motta

Georgia 24-13

1981 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship

Popp

1981 Governor General's Awards

Yannick Noah

Steve Grad

M Günthardt

J Nyström

1981 Giro d'Italia

Ames, Iowa

Solomon

The 1981 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1981 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Vandals, led by fourth-year head coach Jerry Davitch, were members of the Big Sky Conference and played their home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus in Moscow, Idaho.Led by sophomore quarterback Ken Hobart in the veer offense, the Vandals finished 3–8 in the regular season and 0–7 in the Big Sky to finish last. Idaho lost to rival Boise State for the fifth straight year, but it was the Broncos' last win over Idaho until 1994, as the Vandals won a dozen straight in the interim.After a fifth straight loss and no wins in six conference games, Davitch was fired nine days before the final game against Boise State. Several weeks later Dennis Erickson was hired and immediately turned the Vandal program around in 1982, reaching the quarterfinals of the 12-team Division I-AA playoffs.In 1981, Idaho State and Boise State were the top two teams in the Big Sky and both advanced to the 8-team Division I-AA playoffs and won their first round games. Boise State was stopped at home in the semifinals by Eastern Kentucky, whom Idaho State defeated the following week in Texas to win the national title.

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The 1981 Individual Speedway World Championship.1981 was the last of a record 26 times that London's famous Wembley Stadium hosted the World Final (and the final time the stadium would be used for Motorcycle speedway). In future years when the final was held in England, it would be held at the Odsal Stadium in Bradford until the advent of the Speedway Grand Prix series in 1995.

The 1981 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1981 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Vandals, led by fourth-year head coach Jerry Davitch, were members of the Big Sky Conference and played their home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus in Moscow, Idaho.Led by sophomore quarterback Ken Hobart in the veer offense, the Vandals finished 3–8 in the regular season and 0–7 in the Big Sky to finish last.

The 1981 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held on 3 and 4 October 1981 in the streets of Valencia, Spain. The event was also known as IAAF Race Walking World Cup.Complete results were published.

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Defensive back

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López-Maeso
Guerrero

B Nichols

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1981 Golden Raspberries

The 1981 Formula One season was the 35th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1981 FIA Formula One World Championship which was contested over a fifteen race series that commenced on 15 March and ended on 17 October. Formula One cars also contested the 1981 South African Grand Prix, although this was technically a Formula Libre race and was not part of the Formula One World Championship.The 1981 championship was the inaugural FIA Formula One World Championship, replacing the former World Championship for Drivers. Nelson Piquet won the Drivers' Championship, claiming the first of his three Formula One titles and Williams won the Constructors' Championship.

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SoCon

1981 Geneva Open – Doubles

1981 Heineken Open

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ISR

1981 Grey Cup

1981 Irish General Election

Sanford Stadium

Feigl

Larry Jones

Aggies

Gehring

Idaho State Bengals

The 1981 Volvo Grand Prix was the only men's professional tennis circuit held that year. It consisted of the four Grand Slam tournaments and the Grand Prix tournaments. The World Championship Tennis (WCT) Tour was incorporated into the Grand Prix circuit. The WCT tour consisted of eight regular tournaments, a season's final, three tournaments categorized as special events and a doubles championship. In total 89 tournaments were held divided over 29 countries. The circuit was administered by the Men's International Professional Tennis Council (MIPTC).

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Beauford 1-yard run
Athens, GA

The 1981 Idaho State Bengals football team represented Idaho State University in the 1981 NCAA Division I-AA football season. A charter member of the Big Sky Conference, the Bengals were led by second year head coach Dave Kragthorpe and played their home games at the ASISU MiniDome, later renamed Holt Arena, an indoor venue on campus in Pocatello, Idaho.Led by senior quarterback Mike Machurek, the Bengals won the Big Sky Championship with a 6–1 record, and were 9–1 overall in the regular season. They hosted the first two rounds of the eight-team I-AA playoffs, and won their only national championship in football at the Pioneer Bowl in Wichita Falls, Texas. ISU defeated Eastern Kentucky 34–23 to finish the season with a 12–1 overall record.

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Cowboys

Nigel Sears

1981 Formula 1 season

Edwards 7-yard run

Maynetto

Kansas

Pocatello, ID

1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

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Bahrami

SUI

G S Malin

P Rebolledo

Walker 2-yard run
Georgia 3-0

1981 Hall of Fame Classic

Mark Doran

1981 Genie Awards

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H Günthardt

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The 1981 Italian Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts. For the second time in the history of the tournament the men and women competed in different locations. The men's event was held at the traditional location of Foro Italico in Rome, while the women played in Perugia. It was the 38th edition of the tournament. The men's tournament was part of the 1981 Volvo Grand Prix while the women's tournament was part of the Toyota Series (Category 3). The women's event was played from 4 May through 10 May 1981 while the men's event was organized from 18 May through 24 May 1981. Third-seeded José Luis Clerc won the men's singles title and the accompanying $24,000 first-prize money. The women's singles title was won by first-seeded Chris Evert-Lloyd, her fourth Italian Open title after 1974, 1975 and 1980.

1981 Intercontinental Cup (baseball)

The 1981 Giro d'Italia was the 64th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours races. The Giro started in Brescia, on 13 May, with a 6.6 km (4.1 mi) prologue and concluded in Verona, on 7 June, with a 42 km (26.1 mi) individual time trial. A total of 130 riders from thirteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Italian Giovanni Battaglin of the Inoxpran team.

1981 French Open – women's singles

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