1965 in sports

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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

World Series: Los Angeles Dodgers win 4 games to 3 over the Minnesota Twins. The Series MVP was Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

World Figure Skating Championships:
Men's champion: Alain Calmat, (France)
Women's champion: Petra Burka, (Canada)
*Pairs champions: Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov, (Soviet Union)

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

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)

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: NDG Maple Leafs win 2-1 over the Edmonton Huskies

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

Men's Golf
Grand Slam of golf results:
#May - The Masters - Jack Nicklaus
#June - US Open - Gary Player
#July - British Open - Peter Thomson
#August - PGA Championship - Dave Marr

PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Jack Nicklaus - $140,752

Ryder Cup: United States wins 19½ to 12½ over Britain in world team golf.
Women's Golf
US Women's Open - Carol Mann
LPGA Championship - Sandra Haynie
Kathy Whitworth: leading money winner on the LPGA tour, earning $28,658

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:
#Two Thousand Guineas Stakes - Niksar
#Epsom Derby - Sea-Bird
#St. Leger Stakes - Provoke

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

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
#Kentucky Futurity

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

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

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

Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens won 4 games to 3 over the Chicago Blackhawks

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

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

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

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
#Wimbledon championships - Margaret Smith
#US Open - Margaret Smith

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

First All-Africa Games held in Brazzaville, Congo

Fourth Pan Arab Games held in Cairo, Egypt

Fourth Summer Universiade held in Budapest, Hungary

Births

January

January 5 — Patrik Sjöberg, Swedish high jumper
January 11 — Roland Scholten, Dutch darts player
January 25 — Dominik Hasek, Czech ice hockey player
January 27 — Marc van Belkum, Dutch water polo player
January 28 — Tom Ponting, Canadian butterfly swimmer
January 29 — Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis coach and player

February

February 4 — John van Loen, Dutch football (soccer) striker
February 5 — Tarik Benhabiles, Algerian-French tennis player
February 7 — Joseph Gikonyo, Kenyan athlete
February 9 — Igor Malkov, Soviet speedskater
February 11 — Angie Ridgeway, golfer
February 14 — Suharyadi Suharyadi, Indonesian tennis player
February 15 — Gustavo Quinteros, Bolivian football (soccer) coach and player
February 19 — Michael Westphal, German tennis player

March

March 1 — Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
March 3 — Dragan Stojković, Serbian football (soccer) player
March 8 — Ferenc Csipes, Hungarian canoer
March 11 — Eric Jelen, German tennis player
March 15 — Marcel Gery, Canadian butterfly swimmer
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 29 — Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete

April

April 1 — Brian Nielsen, Danish boxer
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 20 — Rolf Sørensen, Danish cyclist
April 21 — Thomas Helmer, German football (soccer) player

May

May 2 — Gennadiy Prigoda, Russian freestyle swimmer
May 5 — Leslie Law, British eventer
May 9 — Steve Yzerman, 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 25 — Sue Metcalfe, English cricketer
May 28 — Catherine Tanvier, French tennis player

June

June 2 — Jens-Peter Herold, German middle-distance runner
June 3 — Hans Kroes, Dutch freestyle and backstroke swimmer
June 3 — Helen Plimmer, English cricketer
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 22 — Lubomir Moravčík, Slovak football (soccer) player

July

July 7 — Jan Wagenaar, Dutch water polo player
July 30 — Leonel Álvarez, Colombian football (soccer) midfielder

August

August 9 — Mark Andrews, Canadian freestyle swimmer
August 10 — Namjil Bayarsaikhan, Mongolian boxer
August 10 — Mike E. Smith, Hall of Fame 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 19 — James Tomkins, Australian rower
August 22 — Patricia Hy-Boulais, Canadian tennis player

September

September 11 — Jean-Philippe Fleurian, French tennis player
September 12 — Silke Hörner, East German swimmer
September 16 — Karlheinz Riedle, German football (soccer) player
September 20 — Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen, Danish badminton player
September 25 — Scottie Pippen, American NBA player
September 27 — Alan Brahmst, German-born field hockey defender from Canada

October

October 1 — Andreas Keller, German field hockey player
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, ice hockey player
October 8 — Matt Biondi, American swimmer
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 27 — Atlee Mahorn, Jamaica-born Canadian sprinter

November

November 7 — Sigrun Wodars, East German middle distance athlete
November 17 — Eric Amend, American tennis player
November 17 — Grant Connell, Canadian tennis player
November 21 — Jon Kelly, Canadian butterfly swimmer
November 26 — Peter Konyegwachie, Nigerian boxer
November 27 — Kathleen Heddle, Canadian rower
November 29 — Joanne Broadbent, Australian cricketer

December

December 3 — Katarina Witt, German figure skater
December 14 — Aljoša Asanović, Croatian football (soccer) player
December 14 — Craig Biggio, American baseball player
December 17 — Jasna Šekarić, Serbian sport shooter
December 18 — Igor Milanovic, Yugoslav waterpolo player
December 19 — Chito Martinez, Belize-born baseball player
December 20 — Rich Gannon, American football quarterback
December 22 — Bryan Shelton, American tennis player
December 30 — Essam Abd El Fatah, Egyptian football (soccer) referee
December 31 — Ilana Berger, Israeli tennis player

Deaths

January 11 — Wally Pipp, Major League Baseball player, (1913-1928)
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

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