Sport Events in October 1999
Oct. 3
India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian junior athletic championship which concluded in Singapore.
Oct. 4
Curtain rung down on the VIII SAF Games in Kathmandu. India topped the medals tally.
Rest of India won the Zal Irani Trophy in Bangalore.
Oct. 7
Long-jumper Sanjay Kumar Rai became the first Indian man to go over the eight-metre twice when he leapt to a personal best of 8.02m at the National athletic Circuit meet in Mumbai and sound a fresh threat to T. C. Yohannan's two-decade old National record of 8.07m.
Oct. 9
Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion.
Oct. 12
New Zealand Test bowler Gavin Larsen announced in Wellington his retirement from first class cricket.
NBA legend Wilt Chamberlain passed away in Bel Air, L.A..
Oct. 16
Geet Sethi bagged the Fred Davis award as the ``Billiards Player of the Year 1998-99''.
Indian women claimed bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang.
Oct. 17
Indian men bagged bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang.
Dingko Singh won the bantam weight gold while Services' Ramanand was adjudged the best boxer in the National boxing championship which concluded in Shimla.
Chiranjeev Milkha Singh won the Lexus international golf tournament in Bangkok.
Oct. 22
Australian tennis great John Bromwich, winner of two Australian singles and finalist at Wimbledon in 1948, died in Geelong, near Melbourne.
Martin Donnelly, one of New Zealand's greatest cricketers, passed away in Sydney.
Oct. 23
At 13 years, 10 months and 13 days, China's Xiangzhi Bu became the youngest to qualify for the chess Grandmaster title when he completed his third GM norm by jointly winning the Qingdao Daily Cup at Qingdao in China.
Oct. 25
Renowned golfer Payne Stewart was killed in plane crash in South Dakota.
Oct. 28
Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy announced his retirement in Melbourne.