April 2008 in Sports - 13 April 2008 (Sunday)

13 April 2008 (Sunday)

• Auto racing:

• Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters: Round 1 at Hockenheimring, Germany

(1) Mattias Ekström (2) Timo Scheider (3) Tom Kristensen

• NASCAR Sprint Cup: Subway Fresh Fit 500 in Avondale, Arizona

(1) Jimmie Johnson (2) Clint Bowyer (3) Denny Hamlin

• Cricket
  • South African cricket team in India in 2007-08
    • 3rd Test- India 325 (99.4 ov.) & 64/2 (13.1 ov.) beat South Africa 265 (87.3 ov.) & 121 (55.5 ov.) by 8 wickets
      • Series tied at 1–1.
  • Bangladesh cricket team in Pakistan in 2008
    • 3rd ODI- Pakistan 308/8 (50 ov.) beat Bangladesh 285/7 (50 ov.) by 23 runs

• Cycling
  • UCI ProTour: Paris–Roubaix in France
    • (1) Tom Boonen (2) Fabian Cancellara (3) Alessandro Ballan

• Golf:
  • South African Trevor Immelman wins The Masters, his first major, by three shots over Tiger Woods.
  • LPGA: Lorena Ochoa wins the Corona Championship in her home country of Mexico by 11 strokes, in the process qualifying for the World Golf Hall of Fame, though she cannot be inducted until 2012.

• Motorcycle racing:
  • Moto GP F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship: Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix, at Autódromo do Estoril in Estoril, Portugal.

  (1) Jorge Lorenzo (2) Dani Pedrosa (3) Valentino Rossi

Lorenzo becomes the youngest ever winner in 500cc/MotoGP.