August 2005 in sports
See also: 2005 in sports
- Boxing
- In a split decision, Jermain Taylor upset defending champion Bernard Hopkins winning the undisputed middleweight championship in Las Vegas, Nevada. (AP/ Yahoo! Sports)
- 2004 Olympics silver-medallist Amir Khan wins his debut professional bout in Bolton.
- Golf: The Open Championship
- Tiger Woods scrambled to a one-under-par 71 and retain a lead that was reduced to two strokes after three rounds on The Old Course at St Andrews. José María Olazábal was in second place after a two-under-par score of 70. (The Open website)
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 14, 220.5 km from Agde to Ax-3 Domaines. The Tour enters the Pyrenees, and the stage is won by Georg Totschnig (Gerolsteiner) in 5 hrs 43 min 43 sec, followed 56 seconds later by Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) who managed to completely drop the rest of his team. Ivan Basso (Team CSC) finished third in +58 seconds, with Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) +1 min 16 secs, Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) and Floyd Landis (Phonak) both at +1 min 31 secs and Francisco Mancebo (Illes Balears) and Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) both at +1 min 47 secs.
- In the General Classification, at 55 hours 58 minutes 17 seconds Lance Armstrong increases his lead over Michael Rasmussen to +1 min 41 secs, with Ivan Basso (+2 min 46 secs), Jan Ullrich (+4 min 34 secs), Levi Leipheimer (+4 min 45 secs), Floyd Landis and Francisco Mancebo (both +5 min 03 secs), Andreas Klöden (+5 min 38 secs), Alexander Vinokourov (+7 min 09 secs), and Christophe Moreau (+8 min 37 secs). (Le Tour.)
- Poker
- Lebanese-born Joseph Hachem, a former chiropractor who now resides in Melbourne, Australia, won the richest prize in poker history, $7.5 million (US) at the $10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em main event at the 2005 World Series of Poker. He defeated investment banker Steve Dennemann with a 3-to-7 straight on the flop. Denneman recieved $4.5 million as the runner up, and John "Tex" Barch finished third to receive $2.5 million. In all, he outlasted 5,618 other players, an all-time record for a poker tournament. (World Series of Poker website.)
- Baseball
- Rafael Palmeiro of the Baltimore Orioles records the 3,000th hit of his career, an RBI double off of Seattle Mariners pitcher Joel Piñeiro, to become the 26th player to reach the mark. He joins Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Eddie Murray as the only players with 3,000 hits and 500 home runs. (AP/ESPN)
- Golf
- At The Open Championship at The Old Course at St Andrews, Tiger Woods extended his lead in the event to four strokes, this day over sentimental favourite Colin Montgomerie. Jack Nicklaus, in what would turn out to be his final competetive round of golf as a professional, would miss the cut shooting a par 72, but will end his career after a birdie on the 18th hole and a two-round total three strokes over par. Also missing the cut was defending champion Todd Hamilton, shooting two over par. (AP/Yahoo! Sports)
- Michelle Wie lost her quarter-final match at the U. S. Public Links Men's Championship, and will not qualify for The Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia next April. (AP/ESPN)
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Robbie McEwen (AUS) won Stage 13 from Miramas to Montpellier (173.5 km) in 3:43:24. Lance Armstrong finished 33rd, and retains the maillot jaune as he keeps a lead of 35 seconds over his compitiion, Denmark's Michael Rasmussen. (OLN)
- Golf: The Open Championship
- Tiger Woods leads after the first round at The Old Course at St Andrews with a six-under par 66. Jack Nicklaus, playing in his final competitve event at this year's Open Championship on The Old Course, shot a three-over par 75.(AP/ESPN)
- Baseball
- The San Francisco Giants defeated their hated rivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4-3, to win their 10,000th game in the club's history, the most of any professional sports franchise.
- Football: UEFA Cup 2005-06 First Qualifying Round, first leg.
- Baskimi 0 – 0 Zepce
- Birkirkara 0 – 2 APOEL
- Sant Julià 0 – 5 Rapid Bucharest
- Teuta 3 – 1 Široki Brijeg
- Elbasani 1 – 1 Vardar
- Omonia 3 – 0 Hibernians
- Domagnano 0 – 5 Domzale
- Ferencváros 0 – 2 MTZ-RIPO
- Banants 2 – 3 Lokomotivi Tbilisi
- Torpedo Kutaisi 0 – 1 BATE Borisov
- Vaduz 2 – 0 Dacia Chisinau
- Baku 1 – 0 Žilina
- Mainz 05 4 – 0 MIKA
- Nistru Otaci 3 – 1 Khazar Lenkoran
- Longford Town 2 – 0 Carmarthen Town
- Ekranas 0 – 2 Cork City
- ÍBV 1 – 1 B36
- Allianssi 3 – 0 Pétange
- Linfield 1 – 0 Ventspils
- NSÍ 0 – 3 Metalurgs
- Etzella 0 – 4 Keflavik
- Portadown 1 – 2 Viking Stavanger
- TVMK 1 – 1 MyPa
- Rhyl 2 – 1 Atlantas
- EfB 1 – 2 Flora Tallinn
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 12 of the Tour, 187 km from Briançon to Digne les Bains. Before the stage begins, maillot vert competition leader Tom Boonen withdraws from the race following his fall in yesterday's stage. 166 riders remain in the race. Appropriately for Bastille Day, the stage is won by a Frenchman, David Moncoutie (Cofidis) in 4 hr 20 min 06 sec, followed by Sandy Casar (Francaise Des Jeux), Angel Vicioso (LSW), Patrice Halgand (Credit Agricole), Jose Luis Arrieta, Franco Pellizotti and Axel Merckx, all at +57 secs. The General Classification remains unchanged, Lance Armstrong finished in the peloton in 41st place, 10 mins 32 seconds behind Moncoutie. (Le Tour)
- Ice hockey: NHL labor dispute
- The National Hockey League and its players' union, the NHL Players Association, have reached a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement that will end the league's 10-month lockout. The six-year agreement is subject to approval by the league's Board of Governors on 14 July and by the NHLPA membership on 21 July. (TSN)
- Football: UEFA Champions League 2005-06 - First Qualifying Round, first leg
- Haka 1 – 0 Pyunik (UEFA.com)
- Dudelange 0 – 1 Zrinjski (UEFA.com)
- Glentoran 1 – 2 Shelbourne (UEFA.com)
- HB Tórshavn 2 – 4 Kaunas (UEFA.com)
- Liverpool 3 – 0 TNS (UEFA.com)
- Gorica 2 – 0 Tirana (UEFA.com)
- Cycling: 2005 Tour de France
- Stage 11 of the Tour, 173 km from Courchevel to Briançon. Before the stage begins, Italian rider Dario Frigo is excluded and arrested when performance enhancing drugs are discovered in his wifes' car. In the first stage to have not one but two "Hors Categorie" climbs (the highest categorisation for mountains, indicating maximum difficulty), the Col de la Madeleine (2000 m) and the Col du Galibier (2645 m - the highest point of this years' Tour) T-Mobile's Kazakh rider Alexander Vinokourov wins in a sprint, just ahead of Colombian Santiago Botero. Lance Armstrong's group finishes one minute and a quarter behind, so the American keeps the Maillot Jaune, while its former wearer, Jens Voigt of CSC is eliminated for not finishing within the time limit.
- Armstrong remains 38 seconds ahead of Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank), and his next closest rival is Christophe Moreau. The only majorly movement in the general classification is Vinokourov making up some time on the leaders. The other jerseys have not changed hands, and the lanterne rouge, the last placed rider in the race (presently Iker Flores) is more than two and a quarter hours down on Armstrong. (Le Tour)
- Baseball: MLB All-Star Game
- American League 7 — National League 5. Miguel Tejada (Orioles, AL) is named All-Star Game MVP.
- Football: UEFA Champions League 2005-06 - First Qualifying Round, first leg
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 10 of the Tour, 181 km from Grenoble to Courchevel. In the first stage to have a mountain finish Team Discovery Channel powers Lance Armstrong back into the maillot jaune. Alejandro Valverde (IBA) wins the stage with Armstrong recording the same time. Michael Rasmussen finished nine seconds later. In the General Classification, Armstrong now leads at 37 hours 11 minutes 04 seconds, followed by Rasmussen (+38 sec), Ivan Basso (+2 min 40 sec), Christophe Moreau (+2 min 42 sec), Valverde (+3 min 16 sec), Levi Leipheimer (+3 min 58 sec), Francisco Mancebo (+4 min 00 sec), and Jan Ullrich (+4 min 02 sec). (Guardian), (Le Tour)
- Baseball: Home Run Derby
- Bobby Abreu, representing his home country of Venezuela and the Philadelphia Phillies, hits a record 24 home runs in the first round and a total of 41 to win the annual contest at Detroit's Comerica Park.
- Cycling: Tour de France
- A rest day. Action would resume the next day.
- Golf:
- Champions Tour: Peter Jacobsen records his second senior major victory in the Senior Players Championship with an overall score of 15-under. (PGATOUR.com)
- PGA TOUR: Sean O'Hair records his first-ever PGA TOUR win in the John Deere Classic with an overall tournament score of 16-under, defeating runners-up Robert Damron and Hank Kuehne, who finish at 15-under. (PGATOUR.com)
- Auto racing:
- NASCAR Nextel Cup: Dale Earnhardt Jr. shakes himself out of a slump and wins the USG Sheetrock 400 at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois.
- Formula One: Juan Pablo Montoya wins the 2005 British Grand Prix, defeating Fernando Alonso and Montoya's McLaren Mercedes teammate Kimi Räikkönen. (Formula1.com)
- Champ Car World Series: Former Formula One driver Justin Wilson record his first-ever Champ Car win in the Molson Indy Toronto. (ChampCarWorldSeries.com)
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 9 of the Tour, 171 km from Gerardmer to Mulhouse. After a breakaway of 167 kilometres, Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) wins the stage in 4 hours 8 minutes 20 seconds, 3 minutes 4 seconds ahead of Christophe Moreau (Crédit Agricole) and Jens Voigt (Team CSC) who takes the maillot jaune from Lance Armstrong. The peloton arrives 6 minutes 4 seconds after Rasmussen. The first maillot jaune wearer of this year's race, David Zabriskie (Team CSC) retires because of the injuries he sustained in his fall in the time trial in stage 4. Rasmussen also substantially extends his lead in the King of the Mountains competition, winning all 30 points in the Ballon d'Alsace for the maillot á pois. In the General Classification, Voigt now leads at 32 hours 18 minutes 23 seconds, followed by Moreau (+1 min 50 sec), Armstrong (+2 min 18 sec), Rasmussen (+2 min 43 sec), Alexander Vinokourov (+3 min 20 sec) and Bobby Julich (+3 min 25 sec). Monday is a rest day. (Le Tour)
- Boxing:
- Hector Camacho beats Raul Munoz by a ten round unanimous decision in Tucson, Arizona, and a small riot takes place after the fight. Julio Cesar Chavez had to be escorted off the fight's arena by security. Hector Camacho Jr. also wins a fight. [1]
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 8 of the Tour, 231.5 km from Pforzheim, Germany to Gerardmer, ends in an apparent photographic dead heat between Pieter Weening (Rabobank) and Andreas Klöden (T-Mobile Team) in 5 hours 3 minutes 54 seconds, eventually awarded to Weening by .0002 of a second, the smallest victory margin ever. Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile Team) finished in 6th place.
- In the General Classification Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) still leads in 28 hours 6 minutes 17 seconds (earning his 71st maillot jaune, the 78-day record of Bernard Hinault looking increasingly approachable), followed 1 minute later by Jens Voigt (Team CSC), Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile Team) 1 minute 2 seconds behind Armstrong, and Bobby Julich (Team CSC) 1 minute 7 seconds behind the leader.
- Two other jerseys changed hands today: Michael Rasmussen of Rabobank will wear the King of the Mountains jersey, the maillot á pois, and Yaroslav Popovych loses the white jersey for young riders to Vladimir Karpets of Illes Balears by one second.(BBC) (Le Tour)
- Rugby union: The British and Irish Lions' tour of New Zealand ends with a 38-19 defeat by the All Blacks in Auckland. The All Blacks sweep the three-Test series 3-0, leaving the Lions without a Test win for the first time since their 1983 tour of New Zealand. (BBC)
- Golf:
- Michelle Wie misses the cut at the PGA John Deere Classic, held in Silvis, Illinois. Wie shot a 70 in the second round, preventing her from becoming the first female golfer in tour history to play into the weekend. (AP/Yahoo!)
- Olympics:
- Baseball and softball will be dropped from the Olympic docket of sports in time for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Two of the sports being considered to replace them are golf and rugby sevens. However, IOC president Jacques Rogge says these sports are not gone from the Games forever. Update: squash and karate were nominated to replace baseball and softball, but did not get the 2/3 majority needed to become Olympic sports. (Yahoo! Asia)
- Cycling: Tour de France
- On the day that saw the Tour de France divert into Germany, Stage 7 between Lunéville and Karlsruhe was won in a disorganised sprint finish by Robbie McEwen, with Magnus Backstedt second and Bernhard Eisel third. Tom Boonen had his worst sprint finish so far, finishing in seventh place. The big names finished in the peloton, losing no time, Jan Ullrich in 45th place, Lance Armstrong in 53rd place, and Alexander Vinokourov in 65th place. Armstrong and George Hincapie are still in first and second, Hincapie being 55 seconds back, with Vinokourov third, 62 seconds behind Armstrong in the GC. (BBC)
- Canada 0-1 Costa Rica
- Cuba 1-4 USA
- Cycling: Tour de France
- On a day that saw a driving rainstorm which led to several large pile-ups, including one with 500 meters to go, Italian Lorenzo Bernucci of Fassa Bortolo was able to escape the crashes and come in first in Stage 6 of the Tour de France. Lance Armstrong and George Hincapie are still in first and second, Hincapie being 55 seconds back, but a strong second-place finish in today's stage from Alexander Vinokourov puts him in third in the GC. (OLN)
- Ice hockey:
- Both the National Hockey League and its players' union have denied a report in today's Los Angeles Times that they have reached a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement that will end the league's current lockout. (AP/ESPN)
- Colombia 0-1 Panama
- Trinidad and Tobago 1-1 Honduras
- Olympics:
- The International Olympic Committee names London, UK as the site of the 2012 Summer Olympics. (BBC) (ABC) (CNN)
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Amid cold and windy conditions, Australian Robbie McEwen was the winner of Stage 5 of the Tour de France, beating green jersey rivals Tom Boonen and Thor Hushovd at the finish. In the general classification, Lance Armstrong retains the maillot jaune and his 55-second cushion over his teammate and countryman George Hincapie. (BBC)
- Cycling: Tour de France
- In the fastest team time trial ever, Team Discovery Channel wins Stage 4 of the Tour de France, between Tours and Blois, in a record 1:10:39, 2 seconds ahead of Team CSC. Lance Armstrong takes the maillot jaune away from David Zabriskie, who suffered a crash just outside of the 1km-to go marker. Lance's Discovery Channel teammate, George Hincapie, is 2nd, 55 seconds back. Zabriskie is now ninth, more than a minute back of the six-time champion. (BBC) (Le Tour)
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Tom Boonen of Belgium wins stage 3 of the Tour de France, sprinting past his rivals on the line. Robbie McEwen, who finished 3rd was relegated to 186th place by the commissaires for hindering Stuart O'Grady's line in the sprint finish. David Zabriskie retains the maillot jaune for a third day, retaining a 2-second lead over Lance Armstrong. (BBC)
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Tom Boonen of Belgium wins the first stage proper (stage 2) of the Tour de France, sprinting past his rivals on the line. He thus takes Armstrong's Green Jersey while Zabriskie retains the maillot jaune. An attack by last year's hero, Thomas Voeckler, puts him in the King of the Mountains jersey.
- Tennis: Wimbledon
- Roger Federer wins his third successive Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles championship, defeating second seed Andy Roddick 6-2 7-6(2) 6-4. (BBC Sport)
- Cara Black and Liezel Huber defeat Svetlana Kuznetsova and Amélie Mauresmo 6-2 6-1 to win the Ladies' Doubles. (BBC)
- Mahesh Bhupathi and Mary Pierce win the Mixed Doubles over Paul Hanley and Tatiana Perebiynis, 6-4 6-2. (Wimbledon.org - official site)
- Auto racing:
- Formula 1: Fernando Alonso wins the 2005 French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours, leading every single lap. (Formula1.com)
- NASCAR: In a race that ends well into the morning because of a rain delay, Tony Stewart picks up his second straight Nextel Cup Series victory by winning the Pepsi 400 at the Daytona International Speedway in Florida. (NASCAR.com)
- Cycling: Tour de France
- The 2005 Tour de France starts from Noirmoutier, in France's Vendee region. The 19.5 km opening time trial is won by American David Zabriskie, with hot favourite Lance Armstrong (also USA) in second place - thus taking the year's first Green Jersey. This is the second successive time Armstrong has done this.
- Tennis: Wimbledon
- Venus Williams wins the Ladies' Singles for the third time, defeating fellow American Lindsay Davenport 4-6 7-6(4) 9-7. The match is the longest women's final by time in the history of the tournament, lasting 2:45. (BBC)
- In the completion of the suspended Gentlemen's semifinal, Andy Roddick defeats Thomas Johansson 6-7(6) 6-2 7-6(10) 7-6(5). Roddick will face Roger Federer in the Men's final on Sunday. (BBC Sport)
- Stephen Huss (Australia) and Wesley Moodie (South Africa) defeat American twins Bob and Mike Bryan 7-6(4) 6-3 6-7(2) 6-3 to win the Gentlemen's Doubles. They become the first qualifiers ever to win this event at Wimbledon. (BBC)
- Boxing: Mexican super lightweight Martin Sanchez dies of injuries sustained in his July 1 bout against Rustam Nugaev of Russia. Nugaev had knocked out Sanchez in the ninth round of their Las Vegas match. Sanchez walked out of the ring under his own power, but was rushed into surgery after showing signs of brain damage. MSNBC.
- Cricket: Australia and England share the NatWest Series trophy after a crowd-pleaser at Lord's. Both sides made 196, England scoring two leg byes off the last ball to tie the game, after being 33 for 5.
- Rugby union:
- In the second Test of the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand, the Lions are resoundingly defeated by the All Blacks 48-18. With the win, the All Blacks clinch a series win. Fly-half Daniel Carter scores 33 of the All Blacks' points, a record for an All Blacks player against the Lions. (BBC)
- Australia defeat France 37-31 in a one-off Test in Brisbane. (BBC)
- Baseball: Kenny Rogers is suspended for 20 games and fined an undisclosed amount for his tirade that sent cameraman Larry Rodriguez to the hospital on Wednesday. (Yahoo!)
- Tennis: Today's first match at Wimbledon was the conclusion of the Davenport vs. Mauresmo match. Davenport prevailed despite a fight from Mauresmo, 6-7(5) 7-6(4) 6-4. In the Men's semi-final World #1 Roger Federer defeated World #2 Lleyton Hewitt in straight sets 6-3 6-4 7-6(5) in a very powerful performance from the top seed. (BBC Sport)
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