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» : For an extensive coverage see 2005 in athletics (track and field)
Track
International Races
April 10 — Rotterdam Marathon, Netherlands
May 15 — Enschede Marathon, Netherlands
August 13 — IAAF World Championships Marathon, Helsinki, Finland
August 14 — IAAF World Championships Marathon, Helsinki, Finland
December 4 — Fukuoka Marathon, Japan
National Champions
April 10 — Debrecen, Hungary
April 10 — Rotterdam, Netherlands
April 17 — London, England
April 24 — Helsinki, Finland
May 29 — Ottawa, Canada
July 3 — Brisbane, Australia
Paris Dakar Rally winners
- Motorcycle: Cyril Despres, France, KTM 660 Rally, Team Gauloises KTM, Time 47:27:31, Penalty 9:00
- Car: Stéphane Peterhansel, Jean-Paul Cottret, France, Mitsubishi Pajero Evo, Team Mitsubishi Motor Sports, Time 52:31:39, Penalty n/a
- Truck: Firdaus Kabirov, Aydar Belyaev, Andrei Mokeev, Russia, Kamaz 4911, Team Kamaz-Master, Time 71:13:55, Penalty n/a
World Rally Championship
National Basketball Association
The San Antonio Spurs win their third NBA title in the past seven years, defeating the Detroit Pistons in the first seven-game NBA Finals in eleven years. Tim Duncan was named NBA Finals MVP for the third time in his career. Only three others have accomplished this feat. (Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Shaquille O'Neal. The match-up between the Spurs and Pistons, though panned by the media and low-rated, is the first NBA Finals to match the last two NBA champions in over a decade.
Phil Jackson comes out of retirement and rejoins the Los Angeles Lakers.
Due to backlash against its players, the NBA institutes a controversial dress code, requiring business casual attire at all team functions.
for more, see 2005 NBA Playoffs and 2005 NBA Finals
NCAA Champions
Men's Division I: North Carolina defeats Illinois 75-70 in the Championship Game. It is Tar Heels coach Roy Williams's first national title.
Women's Division I: Baylor defeats Michigan State 84-62 in the final. It is the first Women's National Title game in several years to not involve either Tennessee or UConn. Baylor coach Kim Mulkey-Robertson becomes the first woman to win NCAA Division I basketball titles as a player and coach.
Men's Division II: Virginia Union defeats Bryant 63-58 in the final.
Women's Division II: Washburn defeats Seattle Pacific 70-53 in the final.
Men's Division III: Wisconsin-Stevens Point defeats Rochester 73-49 in the final.
Women's Division III: Millikin defeats Randolph-Macon 70-50 in the final.
International Competitions
August 17 - August 21 - Australia wins the Oceania Championship
August 15 - August 24 - Angola wins the African Championship, defeating Senegal 70-61 in final.
September 8 - September 16 - China wins the Asia Championship
September 16 - September 25 - Greece wins the European Championship
Other Professional competitions
January 31 – February 11 - The Barangay Ginebra Kings defeated the Talk N' Text Phone Pals, 4 games to 2, in the 2004-05 Philippine Basketball Association All Filipino Cup Finals.
April 13 – April 24 - Defending champions Guangdong Southern Tigers defeat the Jiangsu Dragons 3 games to 2 in the best-of-five Chinese Basketball Association finals.
May 8 - Maccabi Tel Aviv successfully defends the Euroleague title, defeating TAU Cerámica of Spain 90-78 in the final.
May 30 – June 5 - Maccabi Tel Aviv sweeps (3-0) the Hapoel Tel Aviv in the playoff finals of the Israel Premier League.
June 12 - Strasbourg defeat Nancy 72-68 in the French Pro A Championship play-offs Final.
June 8 – June 16 - Fortitudo Bologna defeat Olimpia Milano in the Italian Serie A Championship Finals: 3 games to 1.
July 1 – July 10 - The San Miguel Beermen defeated the Talk N' Text Phone Pals, 4 games to 1, in the 2005 Philippine Basketball Association Fiesta Conference Finals.
National Basketball League (Australia): Sydney Kings defeated the Wollongong Hawks 3-0 in a best-of-five finals series.
May 7 – Diego Corrales defeats José Luis Castillo by 10th round knockout, for the WBO-WBC lightweight title unification. Both men were exchanging a brutal amount of punishment throughout the fight, before a dramatic tenth round in which Corrales scored a TKO after getting knocked down twice. The fight was highly regarded as one of the greatest of all-time and won Ring Magazine fight of the year.
July 16– Jermain Taylor, 2000 US Olympic Boxing Bronze Medalist, defeats Bernard Hopkins for the Undisputed Middleweight Title ending Hopkins' 10 year Title Rein. Hopkins made 20 successful title defenses before losing to Taylor, that's the current record in the Middleweight Division, Carlos Monzon is in second with 14 successful defenses.
November 13 to 20 – World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Mianyang, People's Republic of China
See also 2005 in cricket and 2005 English cricket season.
January 10 - The ICC World XI (344 for 8) beat the ACC Asian XI (232) by 112 runs to win the first of two scheduled one-day internationals for the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal; the second was never played. It is the first time an ODI has been played that hasn't been between two cricketing nations.
January 10 - Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by 226 runs to record their first ever test match victory.
July 2 - England and Australia tie the deciding NatWest Series trophy match at Lord's Cricket Ground.
August 11 - Shane Warne becomes the first bowler to take 600 Test wickets.
September 12 - England win The Ashes.
Giro d'Italia - Maglia rosa (Overall winner): Paolo Savoldelli (Italy, Discovery Channel Team)
Tour de France
Vuelta a España
World Championship in Madrid, Spain
Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas-Bianchi) clinch UCI ProTour title
UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Sankt Wendel, Germany (January 29–30)
World Competitions
Men's Champions Trophy in Chennai, India
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Men's Champions Challenge in Alexandria, Egypt
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Women's Champions Trophy in Canberra, Australia
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Women's Champions Challenge in Virginia Beach, United States
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Regional Competitions
Men's European Nations Cup in Leipzig, Germany
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Men's European Nations Trophy in Rome, Italy
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Women's European Nations Cup in Dublin, Ireland
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Women's European Nations Trophy in Baku, Azerbaijan
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World Figure Skating Championships, Moscow, Russia
Australian Football League
2005 Australian Football International Cup won by New Zealand
World Club Challenge - Leeds Rhinos defeat Canterbury Bulldogs 39-32.
National Rugby League - Wests Tigers claim their first title, defeating the North Queensland Cowboys 30-16.
Super League - Bradford Bulls defeat Leeds Rhinos 15-6.
State of Origin - The New South Wales Blues win the series 2-1 over the Queensland Maroons.
Rugby League Tri-Nations - New Zealand defeat Australia in the Tri-Nations final 24-0.
2005 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand - The Lions suffer a 3-0 whitewash to the All Blacks, as well as losing to the New Zealand Māori side. It was the first time in 22 years that a Lions side had lost every test match on tour.
Rugby World Cup Sevens 2005 (Hong Kong Sevens) - Fiji defeat New Zealand 29-19 in the final.
Six Nations - Wales win the Grand Slam.
Tri Nations - New Zealand wins for the 6th time. The All Blacks also picked up the Bledisloe Cup in the process.
Heineken Cup - Toulouse defeat Stade Français 18-12 in the final.
World Sevens Series - New Zealand
Super 12 - The Crusaders defeat the Waratahs 35-25 in the final.
Zurich Premiership (England) - Leicester Tigers win the league, Wasps win the playoffs.
Celtic League (Ireland, Scotland, Wales) - Ospreys
Top 16 (France) - Biarritz defeat Stade Français 37-34 in the final.
National Provincial Championship (New Zealand)
- Division One: Auckland defeat Otago 39-11 in the final.
- Division Two: Hawke's Bay win their fourth Division Two title in five years.
- Division Three: Wairarapa-Bush win the title.
Currie Cup (South Africa) - Cheetahs defeat Blue Bulls 29-25 in the final.
In the November Tests, the All Blacks (New Zealand) score a "Grand Slam" by defeating all four Home Nations (Wales, Ireland, England, Scotland) while on tour. This is the first such Grand Slam for a Southern Hemisphere team since Australia did so in 1984, and the first for the All Blacks since 1978.
International Rugby Board year-end awards:
» :For an extensive coverage see 2005 in football (soccer)
May 18: UEFA Cup Final - CSKA Moscow became the first Russian club to win a major European club competition, defeating Sporting Lisbon 3-1 at Sporting's home field in Lisbon.
May 25: UEFA Champions League Final - Liverpool defeated A.C. Milan 3-2 on penalties after a 3-3 draw in Istanbul to win Europe's top prize for the 5th time.
August 31: Boca Juniors (Argentina) won the Recopa Sudamericana 2005 4-3 on aggregate over Once Caldas (Colombia). (First leg in Buenos Aires 3-1, second leg in Manizales 1-2)
December 11: Opening game of the first FIFA World Club Championship, a six team tournament replacing the former Intercontinental Cup. In the final one week later Brazilian team São Paulo won the competition narrowly beating UEFA Champions Liverpool 1-0.
December 18: Boca Juniors defeated UNAM Pumas on penalties after the second leg game for the Copa Sudamericana 2005.
December 19: Ronaldinho (Brazil, for male footballer) and Birgit Prinz (Germany, for female footballer) were elected FIFA World Player of the Year.
April 16 - The annual congress of the Gaelic Athletic Association votes to open up Croke Park and allow soccer and rugby to be played there under certain circumstances. It is expected that this will pave the way for the Republic of Ireland national football team and the Irish national rugby union team to use Croke Park during the redevelopment of their home ground, Lansdowne Road.
Camogie
- All-Ireland Camogie Champion: Cork
- National Camogie League: Galway
Gaelic football
Ladies' Gaelic football
- All-Ireland Senior Football Champion: Cork
- National Football League: Cork
Hurling
Gliding
World Gliding Championships (Women's), Klix, Germany
World Gliding Championships (Junior), Husbands Bosworth, United Kingdom
Golf
Major championships
7-10 April: The Masters - Tiger Woods defeated fellow American Chris DiMarco at the first playoff hole to claim his 4th Masters title, and his 9th major. He temporarily returned to Number 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings.
16-19 June: U.S. Open - Michael Campbell came from behind in the fourth round to win his first major with an even par score by two strokes over Tiger Woods. He was the first New Zealander to win a major since Bob Charles won the British Open in 1963.
14-17 July: The Open Championship - Tiger Woods leads wire-to-wire at the historic Old Course at St Andrews and wins his second Open Championship, and 10th major, by 5 strokes. Woods becomes only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to win each major more than once. Jack Nicklaus had a historic farewell to professional golf at the 18th hole on July 15.
11-15 August: PGA Championship - Phil Mickelson wins his second major championship, scoring a birdie on the final hole to win the tournament by one stroke (-4, 276) over Thomas Bjørn and Steve Elkington on the lower course of the Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey. The tournament concluded Monday after a rain delay on Sunday.
Women's majors
March: Kraft Nabisco Championship - Annika Sörenstam won her eighth major.
June: LPGA Championship - Annika Sörenstam cruised to a three shot win to claim her second major of the year and ninth of her career. Fifteen-year-old Michelle Wie was runner-up.
June: U.S. Women's Open - Birdie Kim holes a 30-yard sand shot on the 72nd hole to set the stage for a two-shot win over teenage amateurs Morgan Pressel and Brittany Lang. This was the first LPGA win for the previously little-known Korean.
July: Women's British Open - Another little-known Korean, Jeong Jang, wins her first LPGA tournament.
Money list/order of merit winners
PGA Tour - Tiger Woods: $10,628,024 final money list
European Tour - Colin Montgomerie: €2,794,222.84 final order of merit
LPGA Tour - Annika Sörenstam: $2,588,240.final money list
Champions Tour - Dana Quigley: $2,170,258 final money list
Other happenings
6 March: Tiger Woods wins the Ford Championship at Doral and returns to Number 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings.
20 March: Vijay Singh's tied second place finish at the Bay Hill Invitational restores him to Number 1 after just two weeks.
22 May: Vijay Singh returns to Number 1. Neither he nor Woods played the previous weekend, but Singh lost fewer old points than did Woods, enabling him to surpass Woods.
12 June: Woods and Singh exchange places atop the World Rankings for the last time, with Woods opening a substantial advantage by early July.
Awards
PGA Tour Player of the Year: Tiger Woods
PGA Tour leading money winner: Tiger Woods
PGA Tour rookie of the year: Sean O'Hair
Handball
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