1965 in sports

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=Auto Racing=

*Stock car racing:
**Fred Lorenzen wins the Daytona 500
**NASCAR Championship - Ned Jarrett
*Indianapolis 500 - Jimmy Clark
*USAC Racing - Mario Andretti
*Formula One Champion - Jimmy Clark of Great Britain
*24 hours of Le Mans:
**the team of Jochen Rindt / Masten Gregory won, driving a Ferrari 275LM
*Rally racing - the team of Timo Mäkinen / Paul Easter won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Mini Cooper S
*Drag racing:
**Don Garlits won the NHRA, "Top Fuel" Championship
**Maynard Rupp won "Top Fuel" at the NHRA World Finals

Basketball

*NCAA Men's Basketball Championship:
**UCLA wins 91-80

* NBA Finals:
**Boston Celtics win 4 games to 1 over the Los Angeles Lakers

Boxing

*March 30 - Jose Torres won the Light Heavyweight Championship of the World, stopping Willie Pastrano in nine rounds, at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Cricket

* Imperial Cricket Conference is renamed to International Cricket Conference and new rules are adopted to permit the election of countries from outside the Commonwealth of Nations.

=Cue sports (pool, snooker, carom billiards)=

*The World Five-pins Championship is inaugurated in Santa Fé, Argentina — Manuel Gomez (of Argentina) takes the title.

Cycling

*Giro d'Italia won by Vittorio Adorni of Italy
*Tour de France - Felice Gimondi of Italy
*World Cycling Championship: Tom Simpson of Great Britain

Field Hockey

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

Figure skating

*World Figure Skating Championships
**Men's champion: Alain Calmat, France
**Ladies' champion: Petra Burka, Canada
**Pair skating champions: Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov, Soviet Union
**Ice dancing champions: Eva Romanová & Pavel Roman, Czechoslovakia

=Football (American)=

*AFL Championship Buffalo Bills won 23-0 over the San Diego Chargers
*NFL Championship: Green Bay Packers won 23-12 over the Cleveland Browns in 1966

Football (Australian rules football)

* Victorian Football League
** Essendon wins the 69th VFL Premiership (Essendon 14.21 (105) d St Kilda 9.16 (70))
** Brownlow Medal awarded to Ian Stewart (St Kilda) and Noel Teasdale (North Melbourne)

=Football (Canadian)=

* Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats win 22-16 over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
* Vanier Cup: Toronto Varsity Blues win 14-7 over the Alberta Golden Bears
* Canadian Junior Championship: Notre-Dame-de-Grace Maple Leafs win 2-1 over the Edmonton Huskies

Football (Soccer)

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*England - FA Cup: Liverpool won 2 - 1 (aet) over Leeds United

Golf

Men's professional
*April 5-8 - Masters Tournament - Jack Nicklaus shoots a Masters record 271 (17 under par) to win by nine strokes.
*June 18-21 - U.S. Open - Gary Player becomes the third golfer in history to win all four professional majors.
*July 6-9 - British Open - Peter Thomson
*August 12-15 - PGA Championship - Dave Marr
*PGA Tour money leader - Jack Nicklaus - $140,752
*Ryder Cup - United States wins 19½ to 12½ over Britain in team golf.Men's amateur
*British Amateur - Michael Bonallack
*U.S. Amateur - Bob MurphyWomen's professional
*Women's Western Open - Susie Maxwell
*LPGA Championship - Sandra Haynie
*U.S. Women's Open - Carol Mann
*Titleholders Championship - Kathy Whitworth
*LPGA Tour money leader - Kathy Whitworth - $28,658

=Thoroughbred Horse Racing=

*Australia - Melbourne Cup - Light Fingers
*Canada - Queen's Plate - Whistling Sea
*France - Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - Sea Bird II
*Ireland - Irish Derby Stakes - Meadow Court

*English Triple Crown Races:
*#2,000 Guineas Stakes - Niksar
*#Epsom Derby - Sea Bird II
*#St. Leger Stakes - Provoke

*United States Triple Crown Races:
*#May 1 - Kentucky Derby - Lucky Debonair
*#Preakness Stakes - Tom Rolfe
*#Belmont Stakes - Hail To All (Held at Aqueduct)

=Harness Racing=

*Bret Hanover wins the United States Pacing Triple Crown races:
*#Cane Pace - Bret Hanover
*#Little Brown Jug - Bret Hanover
*#Messenger Stakes - Bret Hanover

*United States Trotting Triple Crown races:
*#Hambletonian - Egyptian Candor
*#Yonkers Trot - Noble Victory
*#Kentucky Futurity - Armbro Flight

*Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
**Pacers: Jay Ar
**Trotters: Poupette

Ice Hockey

*Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer during the regular season: Stan Mikita, Chicago Black Hawks

*Hart Memorial Trophy for the NHL's Most Valuable Player: Bobby Hull, Chicago Black Hawks

*Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens won 4 games to 3 over the Chicago Black Hawks

*World Hockey Championship:
** Men's champion: Soviet Union defeated Czechoslovakia

*NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship - Michigan Technological University Huskies defeat Boston College Eagles 8-2 in Providence, RI

Radiosport

*Fourth Amateur Radio Direction Finding European Championship held in Warsaw, Poland.

Snooker

*World Snooker Championship challenge matches:
**John Pulman beats Fred Davis 37-36
**John Pulman beats Rex Williams 25-22
**John Pulman beats Fred Van Rensburg 39-12

Swimming

* 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

*Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
*#Australian Open - Roy Emerson
*#French Open - Fred Stolle
*#Wimbledon championships - Roy Emerson
*#US Open - Manuel Santana

*Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
*#Australian Open - Margaret Smith
*#French Open - Lesley Turner Bowrey
*#Wimbledon championships - Margaret Smith
*#US Open - Margaret Smith

*Davis Cup: Australia won 4-1 over Spain in world tennis.

Multi-sport events

* First All-Africa Games held in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

* Fourth Pan Arab Games held in Cairo, Egypt

* Fourth Summer Universiade held in Budapest, Hungary

Awards

*ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year: Jim Clark, race car driver
*Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year: Sandy Koufax, Major League Baseball
*Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year: Kathy Whitworth, LPGA golf

Births

January

*January 1 — Rafael Ramos, Puerto Rican boxer
*January 1 — Yuri Sapega, Belarusian volleyball player (d. 2005)
*January 3 — Ricardo Prado, Brazilian medley swimmer
*January 5 — Patrik Sjöberg, Swedish high jumper
*January 8 — Wendy Fuller, Canadian diver
*January 9 — Andrei Nazarov, Estonian decathlete
*January 10 — John Radovonich, New Zealand field hockey player
*January 11 — Roland Scholten, Dutch darts player
*January 15 — Francis Hoenselaar, Dutch darts player
*January 18 — John Talen, Dutch road cyclist
*January 22 — Ana Ida Alvares, Brazilian volleyball player
*January 23 — Tim Berrett, Canadian race walker
*January 25 — Pascal Lefévre, French javelin thrower
*January 26 — Beat Gähwiler, Swiss decathlete
*January 27 — Marc van Belkum, Dutch water polo player
*January 28 — Tom Ponting, Canadian butterfly swimmer
*January 29 — Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player
*January 29 — Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis coach and player

February

*February 1 — Mohammed Achik, Moroccan amateur boxer
*February 3 — Shuichi Morita, Japanese long-distance runner
*February 4 — John van Loen, Dutch football (soccer) striker
*February 5 — Tarik Benhabiles, Algerian-French tennis player
*February 6 — Robin van Helden, Dutch middle-distance runner
*February 7 — Joseph Gikonyo, Kenyan athlete
*February 9 — Igor Malkov, Soviet speedskater
*February 11 — Angie Ridgeway, American golfer
*February 14 — Suharyadi Suharyadi, Indonesian tennis player
*February 15 — Gustavo Quinteros, Bolivian football (soccer) coach and player
*February 18 — Theo Meijer, Dutch judoka
*February 15 — Jamie Smith, New Zealand field hockey player
*February 19 — Andrew Jameson, English sports commentator and swimmer
*February 19 — Nuramgomed Shanavazov, Soviet boxer
*February 19 — Michael Westphal, German tennis player

March

*March 1 — Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
*March 3 — Dragan Stojković, Serbian football (soccer) player
*March 5 — Pargat Singh, Indian field hockey player
*March 8 — Ferenc Csipes, Hungarian canoer
*March 11 — Eric Jelen, German tennis player
*March 13 — Heidemarie Bártová, Czech diver
*March 14 — Laura Agront, Puerto Rican high jumper
*March 14 — Caroline Foot, British butterfly swimmer
*March 14 — Tatyana Polovinskaya, Ukrainian long-distance runner
*March 15 — Lester Ellis, England-born Australian boxer
*March 15 — Marcel Gery, Canadian butterfly swimmer
*March 15 — Pascal Tayot, French judoka
*March 17 — Sven Lodziewski, East German freestyle swimmer
*March 24 — Marian Vajda, Czech tennis player
*March 25 — Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper and president of the Bulgarian olympic committee
*March 25 — Dwight Walton, Canadian basketball player
*March 25 — Mary Wayte, American freestyle swimmer
*March 26 — Alejandro Diz, Argentine volleyball player
*March 29 — Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete
*March 29 — Jozef Regec, Slovak cyclist

April

*April 1 — Brian Nielsen, Danish boxer
*April 2 — Martin van der Horst, Dutch volleyball player
*April 4 — Gail Jonson, New Zealand swimmer
*April 6 — Lieve Slegers, Belgian long-distance runner
*April 7 — Alexander Mronz, German tennis player
*April 8 — Remco Pielstroom, Dutch water polo player
*April 9 — Paolo Canè, Italian tennis player
*April 11 — Chris Pridham, Canadian tennis player
*April 12 — Neil Cochran, Scottish swimmer
*April 14 — Li Huirong, Chinese long and triple jumper
*April 14 — Alfredo Shahanga, Tanzanian long-distance runner
*April 16 — Caren Kemner, American volleyball player
*April 20 — Marco Lietti, Italian road cyclist
*April 20 — Rolf Sørensen, Danish road cyclist
*April 21 — Edwin Benne, Dutch volleyball player
*April 21 — Thomas Helmer, German football (soccer) player
*April 22 — Carmel Clark, New Zealand swimmer
*April 24 — Peter Stevenhaagen, Dutch road bicycle racer
*April 26 — Albertina Dias, Portuguese long-distance runner
*April 27 — Rolando Vera, Ecuadorian long-distance runner

May

*May 2 — Gennadiy Prigoda, Russian freestyle swimmer
*May 5 — Leslie Law, British eventer
*May 5 — Zhao Youfeng, Chinese long-distance runner
*May 8 — Kelcie Banks, US boxer
*May 9 — Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player
*May 10 — Greg Fasala, Australian freestyle swimmer
*May 13 — Jo Thompson, British field hockey goalkeeper
*May 22 — Clare Taylor, English cricketer
*May 22 — Theresa Zabell, Spanish sailor
*May 25 — Sue Metcalfe, English cricketer
*May 26 — Christophe Kalfayan, French freestyle swimmer
*May 28 — Catherine Tanvier, French tennis player
*May 29 — Claudio Zulianello, Argentine volleyball player

June

*June 1 — Raúl Diago, Cuban volleyball player
*June 2 — Franjo Arapović, Croatian basketball player
*June 2 — Jens-Peter Herold, German middle-distance runner
*June 2 — Manuel Silvestre, Spanish water polo player
*June 3 — Inna Frolova, Ukrainian rower
*June 3 — Hans Kroes, Dutch freestyle and backstroke swimmer
* June 3 — Helen Plimmer, English cricketer
* June 5 — Carlos Eluaiza, Argentine flyweight boxer
* June 7 — Martin Teffer, Dutch volleyball player and coach
*June 11 — Rogelio Marcelo, Cuban boxer
*June 15 — Morten Christensen, Danish tennis player
* June 15 — Lars Hinneburg, East German freestyle swimmer
* June 15 — Bernard Hopkins, US boxer
*June 17 — Dan Jansen, American speedskater
*June 17 — Gianluca Pozzi, Italian tennis player
*June 19 — Gary Vandermeulen, Canadian freestyle swimmer
*June 20 — Edward Klass, American water polo player
*June 22 — Daphne Jongejans, Dutch female diver
*June 22 — Lubomir Moravčík, Slovak football (soccer) player
*June 23 — Clarence Knickman, American road bicycle racer
*June 24 — Patrick Jeffrey, American diver
*June 25 — Julie Daigneault, Canadian freestyle swimmer
*June 26 — Gaye Porteous, Canadian field hockey player
*June 26 — Patrick Tolhoek, Dutch road bicycle racer and mountainbiker
*June 27 — Oscar Vega, Spanish boxer

July

*July 7 — Jan Wagenaar, Dutch water polo player
*July 18 — Marjon Wijnsma, Dutch heptathlete
*July 21 — Patricia Guerra, Spanish sailor
*July 21 — Ibrahim Bilali, Kenyan flyweight boxer
*July 26 — Michael Rascher, Canadian rower
*July 27 — Jose Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan soccer goal keeper
*July 29 — Paresh Patel, New Zealand field hockey player
*July 30 — Leonel Álvarez, Colombian football (soccer) midfielder

August

*August 3 — Jordi Sans, Spanish water polo player
*August 6 — Alejandro Doherty, Argentine field hockey player
*August 9 — Mark Andrews, Canadian freestyle swimmer
*August 9 — Claudia Novelo, Mexican synchronized swimmer
*August 10 — Namjilyn Bayarsaikhan, Mongolian boxer
*August 10 — Mike E. Smith, American jockey
*August 11 — Sergio Vigil, Argentine field hockey player and coach
*August 12 — Conny van Bentum, Dutch freestyle swimmer
*August 14 — Ian Brown, Australian freestyle swimmer
*August 18 — Nils Rudolph, German freestyle swimmer
*August 19 — James Tomkins, Australian rower
*August 22 — Patricia Hy-Boulais, Canadian tennis player
*August 24 — Petra Vaideanu, Romanian heptathlete
*August 28 — Aramis Naglić, Croatian basketball player

eptember

*September 1 — Mercedes Calderón, Cuban volleyball player
*September 11 — Jean-Philippe Fleurian, French tennis player
*September 12 — Silke Hörner, East German swimmer
*September 16 — Karlheinz Riedle, German football (soccer) player
*September 17 — Rodolfo Massi, Italian road bicycle racer
*September 20 — Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen, Danish badminton player
*September 24 — Sharon Hanson, American heptathlete
*September 25 — Scottie Pippen, American NBA basketball player
*September 27 — Alan Brahmst, German-born field hockey defender from Canada
*September 28 — Peter Sarafinyuk, Ukrainian long-distance runner

October

*October 1 — Andreas Keller, German field hockey player
*October 2 — Hans Markström, Swedish ice speed skater
*October 3 — Annemarie Verstappen, Dutch freestyle swimmer
*October 3 — Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
*October 4 — Trudy Kilkolly, New Zealand field hockey player
*October 5 — Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
*October 5 — Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
*October 8 — Matt Biondi, American swimmer
*October 9 — Dionicio Cerón, Mexican long-distance runner
*October 9 — Marco Martinelli, Italian volleyball player and coach
*October 11 — Kumi Araki, Japanese long-distance runner
*October 11 — Julianne McNamara, American artistic gymnast
*October 11 — Henriëtte Weersing, Dutch volleyball player
*October 12 — Henry Akinwande, Nigeria-born British heavyweight boxer
*October 14 — Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
*October 18 — Petra Müller, East German athlete
*October 20 — Amos Mansdorf, Israeli tennis player
*October 20 — Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey goaltender
*October 21 — Christopher Duplanty, American water polo goalkeeper
*October 22 — Mark Epton, English flyweight boxer
*October 23 — David Bédard, Canadian diver
*October 23 — Michael O'Brien, American freestyle swimmer
*October 23 — Andreas Zülow, East-German boxer
*October 27 — Atlee Mahorn, Jamaica-born Canadian sprinter

November

*November 3 — Blanca Jaime, Mexican long-distance runner
*November 5 — Andrew Crosby, Canadian rower
*November 7 — Sigrun Wodars, East German middle distance athlete
*November 12 — Michelle Rohl, American race walker
*November 16 — Mika Aaltonen, Finnish football (soccer) player
*November 17 — Eric Amend, American tennis player
*November 17 — Grant Connell, Canadian tennis player
*November 17 — Frank Moreno, Cuban judoka
*November 18 — Fabio Diez, Argentinian-Spanish beach volleyball player
*November 20 — John Graham, Canadian track and field athlete
*November 21 — Jon Kelly, Canadian butterfly swimmer
*November 24 — Nyla Carroll, New Zealand long-distance runner
*November 24 — Mike Gebhardt, American sailboard racer
*November 26 — Peter Konyegwachie, Nigerian boxer
*November 27 — Kathleen Heddle, Canadian rower
*November 29 — Joanne Broadbent, Australian cricketer
*November 30 — Rosa Fuentes, Mexican freestyle swimmer

December

*December 1 — Jamie Pagendam, Canadian boxer
*December 3 — Katarina Witt, German figure skater
*December 10 — Annamaria Solazzi, Italian beach volleyball player
*December 12 — Andrew Eyapan, Kenyan long-distance runner
*December 12 — Sandra Levy, Canadian field hockey player
*December 14 — Aljoša Asanović, Croatian football (soccer) player
*December 14 — Craig Biggio, American baseball player
*December 15 — Luis Martínez, Puerto Rican judoka
*December 17 — Jasna Šekarić, Serbian sport shooter
*December 18 — Anna Doig, New Zealand swimmer
*December 18 — Igor Milanovic, Yugoslav waterpolo player
*December 18 — Brian Walton, Canadian track cyclist
*December 19 — Chito Martinez, Belize-born baseball player
*December 20 — Rich Gannon, American football quarterback
*December 22 — Bryan Shelton, American tennis player
*December 24 — Laureano Ramírez, Dominican boxer
*December 26 — Kathleen Nord, East German butterfly swimmer
*December 30 — Essam Abd El Fatah, Egyptian football (soccer) referee
*December 31 — Ilana Berger, Israeli tennis player
*December 31 — Ken Carpenter, American road bicycle racer and track cyclist

Deaths

*January 11 — Wally Pipp, Major League Baseball player, (1913-1928)
*January 19 — Arnold Luhaäär (59), Estonian weightlifter (b. 1905)
* February 26 — Julius Skutnabb (75), Finnish speed skater (b. 1889)
*March 5 — Pepper Martin, Major League Baseball player, (1928-1944)
*March 6 — Wally Schang, Major League Baseball player, (1913-1931)
*March 17 — Amos Alonzo Stagg, baseball, basketball and American football coach and player
*March 29 — Eric Brook, English footballer (b. 1907)
*March 29 — Heinrich Schomburgk, German tennis player (b. 1885)
*March 30 — Jack Hatfield, British swimmer and water polo player (b. 1893)
*September 9 — Louis Baillon, British field hockey player