July 2005 in Sports - 16 July 2005

16 July 2005

• Auto racing
  • IndyCar Series: Dario Franchitti won the Firestone Indy 200 at Nashville Superspeedway in Lebanon, Tennessee. (indycar.com)
• Boxing
  • In a split decision, Jermain Taylor upset defending champion Bernard Hopkins to win the undisputed middleweight championship in Las Vegas. (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 Dannenmann with a 3-to-7 straight on the flop. Dannenmann received $4.5 million as the runner up, and John "Tex" Barch finished third to receive $2.5 million. In all, Hachem outlasted 5,618 other players, an all-time record for a poker tournament. (World Series of Poker website.)