Sport Events in August 2000
Aug. 4:
Alec Stewart hits a century in his 100th test against West Indies at Old Trafford.
Aug. 5:
Lala Amarnath (88), former Indian cricketer passed away in New Delhi.
Aug. 6:
Sundararajan Kidambi becomes the new International Master in the Beil Open chess championship at Biel.
Aug. 10:
Arjuna Ranatunga, former Srilanka cricket captain, retires from international cricket.
Aug. 11:
Koneru Humpy is crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.
West Indies cricket team lifts the under-15 World Cup in London.
Aug. 12:
Holyfield lifts WBA heavy weight boxing title and becomes the first four time heavy weight champion.
Neelam Jaswant Singh heaves the discus to a National mark (59.53m) in the Travancore National circuit athletics meet in Thiurvananthapuram.
Aug. 16:
For the first time, a one day international cricket tournament is played between South Africa and Australia at the Colonial Indoor stadium in Melbourne.
Aug. 21:
Tiger Woods becomes the second player in history to win the Majors in a single season. The first one was Ben Hogan in 1953; Woods also becomes the first player to defend his US PGA title in 63 years.
Aug. 26:
Vijay Kumar wins the Hindu Open golf championship at the Cosmopolitan Club in Chennai.
Aug. 27:
K. Sasikiran wins the Pentamedia Grandmaster chess tournament in Chennai.
Mika Hakkinen wins the Belgian Formula one Grand Prix in SPA- Francorchamps (Belgium).