On this day in sport - August 13 - Sport

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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.