2005 in sports

2005 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

Alpine skiing

  • Alpine Skiing World Cup

American football

Association football

Australian rules football

Athletics

  • June 14 – Men's 100 metresAsafa Powell of Jamaica sets a new world record of 9.77 at the Athens Olympic Stadium.
  • June 19 – European Cup
    • Men's overall standings – Germany
    • Women's overall standings – Russia
  • August – World Championships held in Helsinki
  • IAAF Golden League – Russian triple jumper Tatyana Lebedeva is the sole winner of the US$1 million jackpot divided among all athletes who win their event at each of six designated meets.
  • December 13 – The Court of Arbitration for Sport bans American Tim Montgomery for two years in a case stemming from his involvement with the controversial "sports nutrition" center BALCO. Although Montgomery never tested positive for drugs, CAS found the circumstantial evidence against him overwhelming. It also struck all his results since 2001 from the records, including a then world-record time of 9.78.

Baseball

Basketball

Bowling

Boxing

  • 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 reign. Hopkins made 20 successful title defenses before losing to Taylor, the current record in the middleweight division, Carlos Monzón is second with 14 successful defenses.
  • 13 to November 20 – World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Mianyang, People's Republic of China

Canadian football

Cricket

  • January 10 – 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 has not 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.

Cycling

Road bicycle racing

Cyclo-cross

Field hockey

Figure skating

Floorball

  • Women's World Floorball Championships
    • Champion: Switzerland
  • Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships
    • Champion: Sweden
  • European Cup
    • Men's champion: SV Wiler-Ersigen
    • Women's champion: RA Rychenberg

Gaelic Athletic Association

Gliding

  • World Gliding Championships (Women's), Klix, Germany
    • 15-metre Class Winner: Mette Pedersen, Denmark; Glider: Alexander Schleicher ASW 27B
    • Standard Class Winner: Jana Veprekova, Czech Republic; Glider: Rolladen-Schneider LS8-b
    • Club Class Winner: Hana Vokrinkova, Czech Republic; Glider: Schempp-Hirth Standard Cirrus
  • World Gliding Championships (Junior), Husbands Bosworth, United Kingdom
    • Standard Class Winner: Mark Parker, Great Britain; Glider: Rolladen-Schneider LS8
    • Club Class Winner: Christoph Nacke, Germany; Glider: Rolladen-Schneider LS1

Golf

Men's professional

Men's amateur

Women's professional

Handball

Horse racing

Steeplechases

Flat races

Ice hockey

Lacrosse

Major League Lacrosse (USA)

  • Baltimore Bayhawks defeated Long Island Lizards 15–9 to win the Steinfeld Cup.
  • MLL announces four expansion teams to start play in the 2006 season and create a Western Conference: Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

National Lacrosse League

NCAA Division I (US Collegiate)

European lacrosse

  • November 10 – Austrian Lacrosse Association (ÖLAXV) is founded.

Mixed martial arts

The following is a list of major noteworthy MMA events during 2005 in chronological order.

Radiosport

Rugby league

Rugby union

Snooker

Sumo

  • Asashōryū Akinori wins all six basho (tournament) in 2005 (a new record) and wins eighty-four bouts (out of ninety) setting a new record for victories in a single year. His seventh straight basho championship is also a new record.

Swimming

  • 11th World LC Championships held in Montreal
  • 23rd Summer Universiade held in İzmir, Turkey
  • 9th European SC Championships held in Trieste, Italy
    • Germany wins the most medals (13); Germany and Poland win the most gold medals (5)

Taekwondo

  • World Championships held in Madrid, Spain

Tennis

Triathlon

  • ITU World Championships held in Gamagōri, Japan

Volleyball

  • Men's World League: Brazil
  • Women's World Grand Prix: Brazil

Water polo

Weightlifting

  • World Championships held in Doha, Qatar
  • European Championships held in Sofia, Bulgaria

Multi-sport events

Awards

References

  1. "Epsom Derby | History, Winners, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
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