1965 in sports

1965 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

1965 Bandy World Championship on a contemporary Soviet stamp.

American football

Association football

England

Australian rules football

Bandy

  • 1965 Bandy World Championship is won by host nation  Soviet Union.

Baseball

Basketball

Boxing

Canadian football

Cricket

Cue sports (pool, snooker, carom billiards)

Cycling

Field Hockey

  • March 13 – In an international women's field hockey match at Wembley Stadium, England. South Africa beat England 2–1.

Figure skating

Golf

Men's professional

Men's amateur

Women's professional

Harness racing

  • Bret Hanover wins the United States Pacing Triple Crown races –
    1. Cane Pace – Bret Hanover
    2. Little Brown Jug – Bret Hanover
    3. Messenger Stakes – Bret Hanover
  • United States Trotting Triple Crown races –
    1. Hambletonian – Egyptian Candor
    2. Yonkers Trot – Noble Victory
    3. Kentucky Futurity – Armbro Flight
  • Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship –
    • Pacers: Jay Ar
    • Trotters: Poupette

Horse racing

Steeplechases

Flat races

Ice hockey

Motorsport

Pickleball

Radiosport

Rugby league

  • 1965 New Zealand rugby league season
  • 1965 NSWRFL season: St George wins the tenth of a record eleven consecutive premierships in the NSWRL. They were not to win again until 1977, then in 1979 which was their last premiership before their 1999 merger with the Illawarra Steelers.
  • 1964–65 Northern Rugby Football League season / 1965–66 Northern Rugby Football League season

Rugby union

  • 71st Five Nations Championship series is won by Wales

Snooker

Swimming

  • 1 March – The Amateur Swimming Union of Australia stuns the nation with its decision that Olympic champion and 1964 Australian of the Year Dawn Fraser will be banned from all amateur competition for ten years. The decision follows an inquiry into Fraser's alleged misbehaviour during the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
  • August 15 – US swimmer Kenis Moore breaks the world record in the women's 200m butterfly (long course) during a meet in Maumee, Ohio, clocking 2:26.3.
  • August 21 – Dutch swimming star Ada Kok breaks the world record in the women's 200m butterfly (long course) for the first time, during a meet in Leiden, clocking 2:25.8.
  • September 12 – Ada Kok from the Netherlands betters her own world record in the women's 200m butterfly (long course), during a meet in Groningen, clocking 2:25.3.

Tennis

Australia

England

France

USA

Davis Cup

Multi-sport events

Awards

References

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  3. "Epsom Derby | History, Winners, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
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