Note — many sporting events did not take place because of World War II

1941 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

American football

Association football

Australian rules football

Baseball

Basketball

NBL Championship

Events

Boxing

Events

  • The highlight of the year is the World Heavyweight title fight between two current world champions, Joe Louis and Billy Conn, won by Louis with a 13th-round knockout.

Lineal world champions[1]

Cricket

England and South Africa

India

Australia

  • During the 1940–41 season, although the Sheffield Shield is not contested, a number of interstate cricket matches are played for patriotic funding. For the 1941–42 season, seven three-day interstate matches are scheduled but only one is played before the urgency of the Pacific War puts an end to Australian first-class cricket until November 1945.

New Zealand and West Indies

  • New Zealand abandons the Plunket Shield for 1940–41 but here, and in the West Indies, a small number of first-class matches are arranged and played each season until after the war without being part of an official competition.

Cycling

Tour de France

  • not contested due to World War II[2]

Giro d'Italia

  • not contested due to World War II

Figure skating

World Figure Skating Championships

  • not contested due to World War II

Golf

Men's professional

Men's amateur

Women's professional

Horse racing

Steeplechases

Hurdle races

Flat races

Ice hockey

Motorsport

Rowing

The Boat Race

Rugby league

Rugby union

Speed skating

Speed Skating World Championships

  • not contested due to World War II

Tennis

Australia

England

France

USA

Davis Cup

  • 1941 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – not contested

Awards

References

  1. Cyber Boxing Zone
  2. "Cycling-Tour de France list of winners". Eurosport UK. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  3. Young, William H.; Young, Nancy K. (17 September 2010). World War II and the Postwar Years in America: A Historical and Cultural Encyclopedia [2 volumes]: A Historical and Cultural Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 361. ISBN 978-0-313-35653-7.
  4. "Epsom Derby | History, Winners, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
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