From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1965 in sports
1965 in sports
1965 in sports describes the year’s events in world sport. • Canadian Junior Championship – Notre-Dame-de-
Centuries:
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century Grace Maple Leafs win 2-1 over the Edmonton
Huskies
Decades:
Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:
Years: 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 Cricket
• Imperial Cricket Conference is renamed to
American football International Cricket Conference and new rules are
adopted to permit the election of countries from
• AFL Championship Buffalo Bills won 23-0 over the
outside the Commonwealth of Nations.
San Diego Chargers
• NFL Championship – Green Bay Packers won 23-12
over the Cleveland Browns on January 2, 1966 Cue sports (pool, snooker, car-
om billiards)
Association football • The World Five-pins Championship is inaugurated in
Santa Fé, Argentina – Manuel Gomez (of Argentina)
England takes the title.
• FA Cup final – Liverpool won 2-1 (aet) versus Leeds
United
Cycling
Australian rules football • Giro d’Italia won by Vittorio Adorni of Italy
• Tour de France - Felice Gimondi of Italy
• Victorian Football League • World Cycling Championship – Tom Simpson of
• Essendon wins the 69th VFL Premiership Great Britain
(Essendon 14.21 (105) d St Kilda 9.16 (70))
• Brownlow Medal awarded to Ian Stewart (St
Kilda) and Noel Teasdale (North Melbourne) Field Hockey
• March 13 - In an international women’s field hockey
Basketball match at Wembley Stadium,England. South Africa
beat England 2-1.
• NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship –
• UCLA wins 91-80
• NBA Finals – Figure skating
• Boston Celtics win 4 games to 1 over the Los • World Figure Skating Championships
Angeles Lakers • Men’s champion: Alain Calmat, France
• Ladies’ champion: Petra Burka, Canada
Boxing • Pair skating champions: Ludmila Belousova &
Oleg Protopopov, Soviet Union
• March 30 – José Torres won the Light Heavyweight • Ice dancing champions: Eva Romanová & Pavel
Championship of the World, stopping Willie Pastrano Roman, Czechoslovakia
in nine rounds, at New York’s Madison Square
Garden.
Golf
Canadian football Men’s professional
• Masters Tournament - Jack Nicklaus shoots a
• Grey Cup – Hamilton Tiger-Cats win 22-16 over the Masters record 271 (17 under par) to win by nine
Winnipeg Blue Bombers strokes.
• Vanier Cup – Toronto Varsity Blues win 14-7 over • U.S. Open - Gary Player becomes the third golfer in
the Alberta Golden Bears history to win all four professional majors.
• British Open - Peter Thomson
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• PGA Championship - Dave Marr • Hart Memorial Trophy for the NHL’s Most Valuable
• PGA Tour money leader - Jack Nicklaus - $140,752 Player: Bobby Hull, Chicago Black Hawks
• Ryder Cup - United States wins 19½ to 12½ over • Stanley Cup – Montreal Canadiens won 4 games to 3
Britain in team golf. over the Chicago Black Hawks
Men’s amateur • World Hockey Championship –
• British Amateur - Michael Bonallack • Men’s champion: Soviet Union defeated
• U.S. Amateur - Bob Murphy Czechoslovakia
Women’s professional • NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey Championship - Michigan
• Women’s Western Open - Susie Maxwell Technological University Huskies defeat Boston
• LPGA Championship - Sandra Haynie College Eagles 8-2 in Providence, Rhode Island
• U.S. Women’s Open - Carol Mann
• Titleholders Championship - Kathy Whitworth
• LPGA Tour money leader - Kathy Whitworth -
Motor racing
$28,658 • Stock car racing –
• Fred Lorenzen wins the Daytona 500 in the #28
Ford for Holman and Moody.
Harness racing • Fred Lorenzen wins the World 600 in the #28
• Bret Hanover wins the United States Pacing Triple Ford for Holman and Moody.
Crown races – • NASCAR Championship - Ned Jarrett in the
1. Cane Pace - Bret Hanover Bondy Long-owned Ford
2. Little Brown Jug - Bret Hanover • USAC Racing
3. Messenger Stakes - Bret Hanover • 30 May – Jim Clark (Great Britain) wins the 50th
• United States Trotting Triple Crown races – running of the Indianapolis 500 in Lotus
1. Hambletonian - Egyptian Candor 38-Cosworth, with a winning margin of one lap.
2. Yonkers Trot - Noble Victory It is the first mid-engined car to win.
3. Kentucky Futurity - Armbro Flight • Mario Andretti wins the driving championship
• Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing • Formula One – Jim Clark (Great Britain) is two-time
Championship – World Drivers’ Champion, driving a Lotus 25-Climax.
• Pacers: Jay Ar • 24 hours of Le Mans – Jochen Rindt / Masten Gregory
• Trotters: Poupette win, sharing a Ferrari 275LM
• Rally racing - the team of Timo Mäkinen / Paul
Horse racing Easter won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Mini
Cooper S
Steeplechases • Drag racing –
• Cheltenham Gold Cup – Arkle • Don Garlits wins his first NHRA Top Fuel Dragster
• Grand National – Jay Trump Championship
Flat races • Maynard Rupp wins Top Fuel at the NHRA World
• Australia – Melbourne Cup won by Light Fingers Finals
• Canada – Queen’s Plate won by Whistling Sea
• France – Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe won by Sea Bird II
• Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Meadow Court
Radiosport
• English Triple Crown Races: • Fourth Amateur Radio Direction Finding European
1. 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Niksar Championship held in Warsaw, Poland.
2. Epsom Derby – Sea Bird II
3. St. Leger Stakes – Provoke
• United States Triple Crown Races:
Rugby union
1. Kentucky Derby – Lucky Debonair • 71st Five Nations Championship series is won by
2. Preakness Stakes – Tom Rolfe Wales
3. Belmont Stakes – Hail To All
Snooker
Ice hockey • World Snooker Championship challenge matches:
• Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL’s leading • John Pulman beats Fred Davis 37-36
scorer during the regular season: Stan Mikita, • John Pulman beats Rex Williams 25-22
Chicago Black Hawks • John Pulman beats Fred Van Rensburg 39-12
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Swimming France
• French Men’s Singles Championship –
• August 15 – US swimmer Kenis Moore breaks the • French Women’s Singles Championship –
world record in the women’s 200m butterfly (long USA
course) during a meet in Maumee, Ohio, clocking • American Men’s Singles Championship –
2:26.3.
2:26.3 • American Women’s Singles Championship –
• August 21 – Dutch swimming star Ada Kok breaks the Davis Cup
world record in the women’s 200m butterfly (long • 1965 Davis Cup – Australia 4–1 Spain at
course) for the first time, during a meet in Leiden, White City Stadium (grass) Sydney, Australia
2:25.8.
clocking 2:25.8
• September 12 – Ada Kok from the Netherlands
betters her own world record in the women’s 200m Multi-sport events
butterfly (long course), during a meet in Groningen, • First All-Africa Games held in Brazzaville, Republic of
2:25.3.
clocking 2:25.3 the Congo
• Fourth Pan Arab Games held in Cairo, Egypt
Tennis • Fourth Summer Universiade held in Budapest,
Hungary
Australia
• Australian Men’s Singles Championship – Roy
Emerson (Australia) defeats Fred Stolle (Australia) Awards
6–3, 6–4, 6–2 • ABC’s Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year: Jim
• Australian Women’s Singles Championship – Clark, Formula One champion and Indianapolis 500
Margaret Smith Court (Australia) defeats Lesley winner
Turner Bowrey (Australia) 6–3, 6–2 • Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Sandy
England Koufax, Major League Baseball
• Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championship – Roy • Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year – Kathy
Emerson (Australia) defeats Fred Stolle (Australia) Whitworth, LPGA golf
6–4, 12–10, 4–6, 6–3
• Wimbledon Women’s Singles Championship – Maria
Bueno (Brazil) defeats Margaret Smith Court References
(Australia) 6–4, 7–9, 6–3
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