Hawks used real race car drivers in the film, including the 1930 Indianapolis 500 winner Billy Arnold.

* June 5 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1930 )

* Sinclair Lewis -- American novelist and playwright, 1930 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, first American to win the Prize for Literature

* George E. Smith ( born 1930 ), winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his work on the charge-coupled device.

With Ludwig Quidde ( Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1927 ) and others the party had a pacifist wing which left the Democrats in 1930.

* up to 1930, the winner was the player who had played the fewest games ;

* after 1930, the winner was the player who had the most 3-vote games ; then, if still tied, the most 2-vote games.

The Grand Prize trophy was awarded to the winner of the Indianapolis 500 between 1930 and 1936, when it was replaced by the Borg-Warner Trophy.

They include Welterweight Boxing Champion Storer College ( 1925 – 27 ); High Jump champion, Howard University Inter-Scholastic Games ( 1926 ); Gold Medalist in Cross Country, Storer College ( 1927 ); Back-stroke Swimming Champion and No. 3 swimmer in Freestyle Relay team, Howard University ( 1928 ); Captain, Lincoln University Soccer Team ( 1930 ); Winner Two Miles Run, Central Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association Championships at Hampton Institute Virginia ( 1931 ); Bronze Medalist, Richmond Cross Country Marathon ( 1931 ); Gold Medalist in the 1, 000 yard run, One Mile Run and Three Mile Run, Catedonian Games in Brooklyn, NY ( 1932 ); Silver Trophy winner in the Half Mile race, and Silver Cup winner in the One Mile Race, Democratic Field Day Championships, New Haven, Connecticut ( 1933 ); Runner-up ( with G. K. Dorgu ) at the Lagos Tennis Men ’ s Double Championships ( Division B 1938 ); anchor man for the ZAC team which won the 50 yards Freestyle Relay at the Lagos Swimming Championships ( 1939 ).

In 1930 the Football League winner v. FA Cup winner returned, and with a few exceptions, this format has remained to the present day.

In October 1930, while Wright was living near Tampa, Florida, he wrote a letter to The Evening Independent newspaper, boasted that he had written a fine lipogrammatic work, and suggested the paper hold a lipogram competition, with $ 250 for the winner.

In 1930, he was the winner of a bronze medal in the Public Schools Essay Competition organized by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

He has other noteworthy horses in his pedigree like Gallant Fox, winner of 1930 Triple Crown and sire of the 1935 Triple Crown Winner Omaha, as well as English Derby winner Mahmoud.

In 1930, Marseille lost against Sète, which would be the winner, in the semi-final round.

In October 1930 Wright approached the Evening Independent newspaper and proposed it sponsor a lipogram writing competition, with $ 250 for the winner.

* Paul Jones ( horse ) ( 1917 – 1930 ), American Thoroughbred racehorse and winner of 1920 Kentucky Derby

He was the son of 1930 U. S. Triple Crown winner Gallant Fox and the mare Flambino.

The inaugural winner of the award was golfer Bobby Jones, winner of 13 majors between 1923 and 1930.

Pyotr Grigoryevich Bolotnikov (; born 8 March 1930 ) is a former Soviet athlete, one of the world's best stayers of the early 1960s, winner of 10, 000 m at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Earnhardt also became the first repeat winner of the annual all-star race, The Winston.

" Earnhardt led most of the race and looked to have victory in hand, but fatigue finally took its toll and Earnhardt ended up 6th, behind race winner Geoff Bodine.

The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").

The race is known in the United States as " The Most Exciting Two Minutes In Sports " or " The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports " for its approximate duration, and is also called " The Run for the Roses " for the blanket of roses draped over the winner.

The 1904 race was won by Elwood, the first Derby starter and winner owned by a woman, Laska Durnell.

* 1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.

After the declaration of weights for the Melbourne Cup, the winner of any handicap flat race of the advertised value of A $ 55, 000 or over to the winner, or an internationally recognised Listed, Group, or Graded handicap flat race, shall carry such additional weight ( if any ), for each win, as the VRC Handicapper shall determine.

The overall leader in each event wears the white points leaders jersey at each race, with the overall winner at the end of the season keeping the jersey and wearing it at the World Championships.

The Women's version of the event is held over 500 m. Other than the race distance this is the same as the men's Kilo event, with the fastest rider over the distance declared the winner.

The winner of the race is the one to have the most points at the end of the race.

The structure and timing of points races varies greatly, but the winner is determined by the accumulation of points and not necessarily the rider crossing the line first at the end of the race.

** Tom Sneva, American former race car driver and Indianapolis 500 winner

** Ruffian, an American champion thoroughbred racehorse breaks down in a match race against Kentucky Derby winner, Foolish Pleasure.

** Indianapolis 500: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0. 16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps.

** James Moore, winner of the first ever cycle race ( b. 1849 )

* January 14 – James Moore, winner of the first ever cycle race ( d. 1935 )

However Prost has also stated that he has no intention of racing at the famous Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar race held annually near Le Mans, France due to concerns about the skill and experience of other drivers along the nature of the multiple class racing that occurs at Le Mans, a factor that was supported by Scotsman and two time LeMans winner Allan McNish's horror crash in the Audi R18 in the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Having made it up to third place in the race, he suffered brake troubles and fell back to fifth at the finish, two laps behind the winner, Guy Moll.

Scott Vogel, winner of the 1987 race and Wally Henry who won the race in 1992.

The Wally Hayward medal, named after five-time winner Wally Hayward, was added in 2007 for runners finishing in under 6hrs.

* Wally Ballou, an inept news reporter, man-on-the-street interviewer, " and winner of 16 diction awards ," whose opening transmission almost invariably begins with an " up-cut " with him starting early, before his microphone was live, as in "– ly Ballou here ".

* Walter " Wally " Peeler, WWI soldier, Victoria Cross and British Empire Medal winner and first custodian of the Shrine of Remembrance

Back with Roush again for the 1985 season, Ribbs scored seven victories and became the leading money winner in Trans-Am series history, yet finished second in points, as teammate Wally Dallenbach, Jr. used his consistently higher finishes to take the championship.

Led by NL MVP Frank Robinson, they were buoyed by three other factors: the maturation of young players such as outfielder Vada Pinson and pitchers Jim O ' Toole, Ken Hunt and Jim Maloney ; the acquisition of key contributors such as pitcher Joey Jay ( who became a 20-game winner ) and third baseman Gene Freese ; and surprise slugging and clutch hitting performances by first baseman Gordy Coleman, Jerry Lynch ( one the greatest pinchhitters in baseball history ), and veteran Wally Post.

The winner on this occasion was Progressive Conservative Wally McKenzie.