On this day in sport - August 13
1948: Boris Stankovic of Yugoslavia went into the record books as the first
footballer to be sent off at Wembley. He received his marching orders in the
final of the Olympic football tournament which Sweden won 3-2.
1995: Colin Montgomerie lost a play-off for the US PGA Championship in Los
Angeles to Australian Steve Elkington. The Scot had been beaten in a play-off
for the US Open the previous year, was second again in 1997 and has yet to win a
major.
1997: Denmark's Wilson Kipketer beat Sebastian Coe's 16-year-old world 800
metres record when he clocked one minute 41.24 seconds in Zurich. A month
earlier, the Kenya-born runner had equalled Coe's old mark of 1:41.73 in
Stockholm.
Kipketer (right) in action
1999: Steffi Graf announced her immediate retirement from tennis. The German -
who spent a record 377 successive weeks as world number one - claimed 22 grand
slams in all, seven coming at Wimbledon.
2004: Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez confirmed Michael Owen would sign for
Real Madrid.
2007: Wayne Rooney was ruled out for two months after suffering a fractured
foot in Manchester United's Barclays Premier League opener against Reading.
