1965 Bandy World Championship on a contemporary Soviet stamp.

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

American football

Association football

England

Australian rules football

Bandy

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

Horse racing

Steeplechases

Flat races

Ice hockey

Motorsport

Pickleball

Radiosport

Rugby league

Rugby union

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

  1. Price, Mike (30 April 2015). "Memories of Liverpool lifting the FA Cup in 1965". liverpoolecho. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  2. "Berning, Susie Maxwell | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture". www.okhistory.org. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. "Epsom Derby | History, Winners, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
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