July 2005 in Sports - 10 July 2005

10 July 2005

• 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 on 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)