2005 Canadian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Michael Schumacher became the first driver to take his scheduled pitstop, refuelling on lap 12 to drop from 6th to 12th position. Three laps later, Button and Ralf Schumacher showed their hands, also entering the pits for more fuel. Button dropped from 3rd to 7th, leaving the two Renaults to lead from the two McLarens. On lap 21, the first of the two-stoppers pitted, with Felipe Massa, Nick Heidfeld and Klien all entering pitlane. The following lap, Sato entered his garage, apparently retiring from the race with gearbox trouble.


2005 Canadian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Lap 24 saw the first of the leaders pit, with championship contenders Alonso and Räikkönen refuelling, before both of their teammates pitted on the following lap. On exiting the pits, Montoya went too fast on cold tyres, leaving the track and allowing Alonso to retain 2nd position. Karthikeyan hit the wall at the back end of the circuit, forcing him to retire from the race. Mark Webber, up to 7th position through a very long first stint, pitted on lap 28, and fed back into the race 9th, just ahead of Massa, Heidfeld and Ralf Schumacher. On the following lap, Webber went wide onto the grass, and in attempting to make up time, braked too late into the hairpin, running very wide and losing 3 positions. Barrichello became the final driver to pit on lap 31, dropping from 8th to 12th.


2005 Canadian Grand Prix, Report, Race
After following close behind for several laps, and appearing to be quicker, Alonso passed teammate Fisichella for the lead on lap 33, but Fisichella obviously had a technical problem, as Montoya easily passed him on the same lap. Fisichella entered the pits to retire at the end of the lap, with hydraulic system problems. On lap 34, both Button and Michael Schumacher took their second stops, retaining 4th and 5th positions. On lap 35, Alonso led from Montoya, Räikkönen, Button, Schumacher and Jarno Trulli.


2005 Canadian Grand Prix, Report, Race
However, on lap 39, Alonso ran wide at the exit of turn 4 and hit the outside wall, damaging his suspension and forcing him to retire from the race. This left Montoya in the lead, followed by Räikkönen. After following Massa for several laps, Heidfeld's BMW engine failed, allowing Ralf Schumacher into 7th and Webber to 8th. Takuma Sato rejoined the race 24 laps behind, after the B.A.R team fixed his car in order to gain him a slightly better starting position in qualifying for the following grand prix.


2005 Canadian Grand Prix, Report, Race
On lap 49, the gap from Montoya to Räikkönen was reduced to around 3 seconds. Button, under pressure from Michael Schumacher, made a mistake at the final chicane, hitting the inside kerb heavily, which forced him into the "wall of champions" on the outside. Button was forced to retire from the race, handing 3rd position to Schumacher, and causing the deployment of the safety car as Button's car was in a dangerous position. Every car took the opportunity to pit besides Montoya, who was forced to stay out an extra lap while Räikkönen was refuelled.


2005 Canadian Grand Prix, Report, Race
On exiting the pits, Montoya re-entered the race under the safety car, which had just led the train of cars through turns 1 and 2. Montoya slipped into 2nd, slightly ahead of David Coulthard on track, although the Red Bull Racing driver had been lapped. Before the restart, Räikkönen led from Montoya, Michael Schumacher, Trulli, Webber, Massa, Barrichello and Ralf Schumacher. As the safety car re-entered the pits, Webber made a mistake into turn 1, allowing both Massa and Barrichello through, although the Sauber driver was forced wide and Barrichello moved into 5th. Soon after, it was announced that Montoya was under investigation by the stewards, and he was black-flagged (disqualified) from the race for exiting the pits while a red light was showing (as the safety car was on the pit straight), making it his 2nd consecutive disqualification in Canada.


2005 Canadian Grand Prix, Report, Race
As the race entered the closing stages, Michael Schumacher closed in on Räikkönen, who was troubled by a misaligned steering wheel. Trulli appeared to be having trouble with his brakes, and retired when they failed, leaving Barrichello in a comfortable 3rd position. However, Barrichello made a small error, allowing Massa to close up behind, but Webber was also close to Massa. Meanwhile, Takuma Sato appeared to have a mechanical failure which forced him to spin at the hairpin, before the rear of his car caught fire due to overheating.


2005 Canadian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Räikkönen was able to retain his 1-second gap back to Schumacher to take the race win, with Barrichello more than 30 seconds behind in 3rd position. Webber was close to Massa into the final corner, but was unable to pass, leaving Massa to take a valuable 4th position and 5 championship points. Completing the pointscorers were Ralf Schumacher, Coulthard and Klien. The result meant Räikkönen reduced the gap in the championship standings to just 22 points, and the double-podium for Ferrari allowed them to close up in the constructors championship.


2005 Canadian Junior Curling Championships
The 2005 Kärcher Canadian Junior Curling Championships were held February 5-13 at the Capital Winter Club and the Lady Beaverbrook Rink in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The winning teams represented Canada at the 2005 World Junior Curling Championships.


2005 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Ontario
The Teranet Ontario Junior Curling Championships were held January 5-9 at the Peterborough Curling Club in Peterborough.


2005 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Ontario
Erin Morrissey of the Rideau Curling Club defeated Laura Payne from the Prescott Curling Club in the women's final. Payne had beaten the Leslie Bishop rink from the Weston club in Toronto 8-5 in the semifinals.


2005 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Ontario
In the men's final, Mark Bice of Sarnia defeated Mike Callan of Oakville 9-3.


2005 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship
The 2005 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship was held November 21-28, 2004 at the Prince Albert Golf and Country Club in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.


2005 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship
The 2005 Mixed was the 2nd Canadian Mixed Championship to be held in the 2004 calendar year, as the Canadian Curling Association moved the event from the Spring to the Fall. The Mixed has been held in the Fall ever since, and has been referred to the following calendar year ever since. The event also changed playoff formats, moving from the page playoff system to a 3-team playoff.


2005 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship
Newfoundland and Labrador won its first ever Mixed championship, as Mark Nichols, sister Shelley Nichols, Brent Hamilton and Jennifer Guzzwell from the St. John's Curling Club won the championship, defeating Saskatchewan in the final.


2005 Canadian National Challenge Cup
The 2005 Canadian National Challenge Cup was won by Scarborough G.S. United


2005 Canadian National Challenge Cup
October 10, 2005 in Edmonton, Alberta. Scarborough GS United 3 (Calixterio, T. Kouzmanis, Haitham)Edmonton Green and Gold 2 (Korthuij, Diaz)HT: Att: Ref: John De la Cruz


2005 Canadian National Challenge Cup, Rosters, Edmonton Green & Gold
Edmonton (Squad): Jordan Robinson, Devon Fraser, Jarin Myskiw, Neil Morrow, Jamie Belous, Troy Hart,Kenny Nutt, Damir Jesis, Nikola Vignjevic, Jordan Gillespie, Mark Korthuij, Ben Drummond, Sam Lam,Vikray Kaushail, Quenton Zalazar, Brett Bacheln, Ian Diaz, Erit Pinnell, Herman Braich, Matteo Saccomano.


2005 Canadian National Challenge Cup, Rosters, Scarborough G.S. United
Scarboro (Squad): Courtney Campbell, Courtney Brown, Tony Marshall, Valentine Anozie, Emil Calixterio,Ryan Dummett, Decio Rego, Thomas Kouzmanis, Jonathan Westmass, Sultan Haitham,Shawn Long, Ron Belfon, Lyndon Hooper, John Williams, Wayne Morgan, Jermaine Coleman, Shaun Griffith, Richard Kirwan, Gus Kouzmanis, Lester Bruno.


2005 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials
The 2005 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials were held from December 3 to 11 at the Halifax Metro Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The winning teams represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.


2005 Canadian Open of Curling
The 2005 Canadian Open curling Grand Slam tournament was held January 27–30, 2005 at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba.


2005 Canadian Open of Curling
The final was an all-Edmonton match between Kevin Martin's rink and his rivals, the Randy Ferbey rink. Martin won the game 8-7, taking home $30,000 for his team.


2005 Canadian Open of Curling, Tie breakers
The scores for the tie breaker matches were as follows:


2005 Canadian Paralympic Athletics Championships
The 2005 Canadian Paralympic Athletics Championships is a disabled athletics competition held in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada in 2005.


2005 Canadian Professional Soccer League season
The 2005 Canadian Professional Soccer League season was the 8th season for the Canadian Professional Soccer League. The season began on May 21, 2005 and concluded on October 10, 2005 with Oakville Blue Devils defeating Vaughan Shooters 2-1 to win their first CPSL Championship. The final was played at Esther Shiner Stadium, which gave North York Astros a playoff wildcard match. In the regular season the Vaughan Shooters won their first Eastern Conference title, while Hamilton Thunder secured their third Western Conference title. The league increased in membership with the return of the Laval Dynamites. For the first time in the league's history the CPSL introduced a Women's Canada Cup tournament, which included 6 district all-star teams from the existing men's soccer districts.


2005 Canadian Professional Soccer League season, Changes from 2004 season
The season saw the resignation of chairman/president Vince Ursini in order to fully devote his time to his Ontario Soccer Association duties. His replacement was the CPSL management consultant Cary Kaplan to the newly created position of CPSL Commissioner. The league increased to 12 teams with the return of Laval Dynamites, while the Metro Lions relocated to the Halton Region territory to form the Oakville Blue Devils. The Brampton Hitmen were sold to Joe Fuliere, and renamed the team to the Brampton Stallions.


2005 Canadian Professional Soccer League season, All-Star Game
The 2005 CPSL all-star match was against Rangers F.C. of the Scottish Premier League who were in Canada for a nine-day training camp before kicking off their season. The game was played at Varsity Stadium, but was closed to the public being only open to people associated to the league.


2005 Canadian Professional Soccer League season, Awards
The annual CPSL awards ceremony was held at the La Contessa Banquet Hall on October 9, 2005 in North York, Toronto. This was the first awards ceremony where the awards were distributed equally without a majority winner. Vaughan, Windsor, London, and North York each went home with two awards. Vaughan's Desmond Humphrey was voted the MVP, while team owner Tony De Thomasis was given the President of the Year award. London City went home with the Goalkeeper and Rookie of the Year awards with Haidar Al-Shaibani and Dennis Peeters as its recipients.


2005 Canadian Professional Soccer League season, Awards
Former Detroit Titans alumni Aaron Byrd of Windsor Border Stars won the Golden Boot. Windsor's Fil Rocca was voted the Defender of the Year. The Coach of the Year went to former S.League, and USL A-League veteran Dejan Gluscevic, who went on to manage various national youth teams in Asia. North York Astros also received their first Fair Play award. Andrzej Jasinski the match official for the championship final was voted the Referee of the Year.


2005 Canadian Professional Soccer League season, Women's Canada Cup
A women's league debuted in 2005 which featured 6 all-star teams from the existing municipal soccer districts where the men's team competed. Throughout the regular season they played in 10 matches with London City Selects winning the regular season title. The finals featured London City against York Region Lady Shooters, where York Region won the championship.


2005 Canadian Senior Curling Championships
The 2005 Canadian Senior Curling Championships were held March 19 to 27 at the East St. Paul Curling Club in East St. Paul, Manitoba. The winning teams represented Canada at the 2006 World Senior Curling Championships.


2005 Canadian electoral calendar
This is a list of elections in Canada in 2005. Included are provincial, municipal and  federal elections, by-elections on any level, referendums and party leadership races at any level.


2005 Canadian federal budget
The 2005 Canadian federal budget was the budget of the Government of Canada for the 2005–2006 fiscal year. It was presented on February 23, 2005, by Finance Minister Ralph Goodale. It was the first Canadian federal budget presented by a minority government since the budget of the Joe Clark Progressive Conservative government in 1979, which was defeated by the opposition parties.


2005 Canadian federal budget
Having fewer than half the seats in the House of Commons of Canada meant that the governing Liberal Party of Canada had to win the support of members of other parties for the 2005 budget to pass. Without that support, the budget would have been defeated, and new elections would likely have been called.


2005 Canadian federal budget
In the 2005–06 fiscal year, the government had a large surplus of expected revenues over expenses, making the government able to fund a wide array of new initiatives. The budget bill (C-43) received Royal Assent on June 28, 2005. In order to gain the necessary support of the New Democratic Party (NDP) the budget was amended (Bill C-48) and given assent three weeks later following considerable debate.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Details of the budget
The budget was the eighth balanced budget in a row presented by the Liberal government. It contained minor tax cuts for both businesses and individuals over a five-year period. These cuts, however, were mostly scheduled to begin in the latter years of the five-year period, which meant that the majority of them were unlikely to occur before the next election was held.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Details of the budget, Expenditures
The budget also contained $12.7 billion for the Department of National Defence over the following five years. However, not all of this money was new funding and, as with most of the budget, it was back-loaded. The total new funding for 2006 was to be $500 million.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Details of the budget, Expenditures
Start-up money was provided for Canada's efforts to comply with the Kyoto Accord and for a national child care program. Additional funding was provided for cities, health care, and foreign aid. Some cuts were made. The Air Travel Complaints Commissioner was abolished, and foreign aid to Thailand, Malaysia, and all countries now in the European Union was ended. In total, $11 billion in savings are expected.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Reactions, Opposition parties, Initial response by opposition parties
The Conservative Party, the largest opposition party, surprised many by announcing that it would support the budget immediately after it was read in the House of Commons. Party leader Stephen Harper described it as "better than expected", and described its focus on tax cuts and defence spending as being in line with Conservative policy. It is highly unusual for the official opposition to vote in favour of the government's budget. However, Harper later changed his position on the budget, and his party joined with the NDP and the Bloc Québécois in the largest abstention in Canadian history.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Reactions, Opposition parties, Initial response by opposition parties
The Bloc Québécois and party leader Gilles Duceppe, who were demanding an overhaul to employment insurance and the elimination of the fiscal imbalance, voted against the budget.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Reactions, Opposition parties, Initial response by opposition parties
The New Democratic Party voted against the budget on first reading. Leader Jack Layton agreed with Harper that it was a "conservative budget" and was especially critical of the corporate tax cuts and the limited new funding for social programs.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Reactions, Opposition parties, Changes following the Liberal-NDP deal
Prior to the second reading the political situation changed dramatically due to Jean Brault's explosive testimony at the Gomery Inquiry. Stephen Harper announced that the Liberals had lost the moral authority to govern and vowed to bring down the government. Thus when the budget came to its second reading the Conservatives rallied against it. In order to ensure the continued confidence of the House, the Liberals struck a deal with the NDP to amend the budget. This amendment called for a reduction of the foreseen corporate tax cuts and $4.6 billion in additional spending on social programs.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Reactions, Opposition parties, Changes following the Liberal-NDP deal
Despite the NDP support, the government remained in a precarious position, requiring the support of all three independent Members of Parliament (MPs). On May 17, Conservative MP Belinda Stronach crossed the floor to the Liberals, giving them a crucial extra vote. Soon after, Liberal polling numbers ended their slide and began to recover. Two Conservative MPs from Newfoundland and Labrador, Loyola Hearn and Norman Doyle, were also pressured by provincial premier Danny Williams to vote in favour of the budget, as it included the provisions of the government's recent Atlantic Accords. The Conservatives eventually announced that they would vote in favour of the main budget bill, containing the Atlantic Accord, but would vote against the second bill containing the NDP amendments.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Reactions, Business community and labour unions
The budget was criticized by many labour unions and interest groups:


2005 Canadian federal budget, Reactions, Business community and labour unions
The budget was not received warmly by the business community:


2005 Canadian federal budget, Reactions, Provinces
The péquiste Bernard Landry, leader of the Official Opposition in Quebec, strongly criticized the budget, even saying that the Premier of Quebec Jean Charest had been cheated by the budget. He notably criticized Jean Charest for not standing up to Ottawa on fiscal imbalance and the federal government for its intrusion in provincial competencies, notably in childcare. François Legault, PQ's finance critic, also criticized the increase in defence spending and the tax cuts to wealthy individuals.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Voting in the House of Commons
After Stronach's move, the government could count on the same number of votes as the opposition: the Liberals, the NDP and independent MP Carolyn Parrish supported the budget, while the Conservatives and the Bloc opposed it. The fate of the government thus hung on the decisions of the other two independent MPs: David Kilgour and Chuck Cadman. The government needed the support of at least one of the two to continue to enjoy the confidence of the House. Cadman was suffering from malignant melanoma, and before the day of the vote it was not clear whether or not he would be able to attend.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Voting in the House of Commons
On May 19, a vote was held for second reading of Bill C-43 (the main budget), and Bill C-48 (the amendments). The main budget bill passed on a vote of 250 to 54, with only the Bloc Québécois voting against. The second bill received a vote of 152 Yea and 152 Nay. The Conservatives and Bloc Québécois voted against second reading, while the Liberals and NDP voted in favour. Conservative MP Darrel Stinson was unable to attend the vote due to cancer surgery, so Liberal MP Peter Adams agreed to sit out as a courtesy.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Voting in the House of Commons
Independent MP Kilgour voted against the budget, while Parrish and Cadman voted in favour. In the event of a tied vote, the Speaker casts the tie-breaking vote. According to parliamentary convention, the Speaker votes, whenever possible, for the continuation of debate. Thus, the Speaker voted in favour of second reading, "to allow the House time for further debate so that it can make its own decision at some future time."


2005 Canadian federal budget, Voting in the House of Commons
The Speaker's vote allowed Martin to maintain the confidence of the House by 153–152. It was the first time in Canadian history that the Speaker had cast a vote on a confidence motion concerning the Prime Minister.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Voting in the House of Commons
Allegations were later made in a book by Vancouver journalist Tom Zytaruk in early 2008 that the Conservative Party attempted to get Cadman to support the Conservative's positions by offering him a $1 million life insurance policy. Conservative leader and Prime Minister at the time of the allegations Stephen Harper denied that the party bribed Cadman. As of February 2008, the allegations have not been proven.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Voting in the House of Commons
After this vote, the Conservatives admitted their defeat and backed away from their pledge to bring down the government. On June 14, a series of 16 votes were held pertaining to the budget: one for concurring in the committee report for Bill C-43 and dozens of amendments and other motions. As many as 15 were considered confidence votes and could have triggered an election if one was lost. Several opposition members were absent. The government won each vote, virtually guaranteeing that no election would be held in the summer of 2005.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Voting in the House of Commons
Two days later, Bill C-43 was finally passed and moved to the Senate. Meanwhile, the NDP amendments came out of committee and debate was launched.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Voting in the House of Commons
On June 23, the House voted to extend the session into the summer to deal with C-48 and with the same-sex marriage bill (Bill C-38). Then, in a late-night session, after several Conservative members had already left the house, the Liberals, NDP, and Bloc voted to invoke closure on the debate. The Liberals and NDP then voted in favour of passing Bill C-48, defeating the Conservatives and Bloc by a margin of 5 votes. The outcome upset Conservative MPs and left the same-sex marriage bill as the only major business to be dealt with during the extended session in the House. It, too, was passed on June 28, allowing the House to call a recess.


2005 Canadian federal budget, Voting in the House of Commons
The bills moved to the Senate. Bill C-43 was still in committee hearing stage on the morning of June 28, but Liberal senators rushed the bill through the legislative process all day, allowing it to receive Royal Assent before the day was over.


2005 Cannes Film Festival
The 58th Cannes Film Festival started on 11 May and ran until 22 May 2005. Twenty movies from 13 countries were selected to compete. The awards were announced on 21 May. The Palme d'Or went to the Belgian film L'Enfant by Dardenne brothers.


2005 Cannes Film Festival
The festival opened with Lemming, directed by Dominik Moll and closed with Chromophobia, directed by Martha Fiennes. Cécile de France was the mistress of ceremonies.


2005 Cannes Film Festival, Juries, Main competition
The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2005 Official Selection:


2005 Cannes Film Festival, Juries, Un Certain Regard
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 2005 Un Certain Regard:


2005 Cannes Film Festival, Juries, Cinéfondation and short films
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the Cinéfondation and short films competition:


2005 Cannes Film Festival, Juries, Camera d'Or
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 2005 Camera d'Or:


2005 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Un Certain Regard
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:


2005 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Films out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:


2005 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Cinéfondation
The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:


2005 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Short film competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:


2005 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, International Critics' Week
The following films were screened for the 44th International Critics' Week (44e Semaine de la Critique):


2005 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 2005 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):


2005 Cannes Film Festival, Awards, Official awards
The following films and people received the 2005 Official selection awards:


2005 Canoe Slalom World Cup
The 2005 Canoe Slalom World Cup was a series of eight races in 4 canoeing and kayaking categories organized by the International Canoe Federation (ICF). It was the 18th edition. The series consisted of 4 continental championships (European, Pan American, Oceania and Asian), 3 world cup races and the world championships.


2005 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Final standings
The winner of each world cup race was awarded 30 points. Semifinalists were guaranteed at least 5 points and paddlers eliminated in heats received 2 points each. The continental championships had a lesser status with the winner earning 20 points, semifinalists at least 2 points and all others were awarded 1 point for participation. Because the continental championships were not open to all countries, every athlete could only compete in one of them. The world championships points scale was the same as for the world cups multiplied by a factor of 1.5. That meant the world champion earned 45 points, semifinalists got at least 7.5 points and paddlers eliminated in heats received 3 points apiece. If two or more athletes or boats were equal on points, the ranking was determined by their positions at the world championships.


2005 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, 2005 Continental Cup Oceania
Continental Cup Oceania took place in Mangahao, New Zealand from 29 to 30 January. The C1 event did not count for the world cup and the C2 event was not held.


2005 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, 2005 European Championships
The European Championships took place at the Tacen Whitewater Course, Slovenia from 24 to 26 June.


2005 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, 2005 Asia Canoe Slalom Championships
The Asia Canoe Slalom Championships took place in Naein-chun, South Korea from 1 to 2 July.


2005 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, World Cup Race 1
The first regular world cup race of the series took place at the Hellinikon Olympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre in Athens, Greece from 8 to 10 July.


2005 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, World Cup Race 2
World Cup Race 2 took place at the Augsburg Eiskanal, Germany from 15 to 17 July.


2005 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, World Cup Race 3
World Cup Race 3 took place at the Segre Olympic Park in La Seu d'Urgell, Spain from 23 to 24 July.


2005 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, 2005 Pan American Championships
The Pan American Championships took place on the Kern River in California from 26 to 27 August.


2005 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, 2005 World Championships
The World Championships took place at the Penrith Whitewater Stadium, Australia from 29 September to 3 October.


2005 Canoe Sprint European Championships
The 2005 Canoe Sprint European Championships were held in Poznań, Poland.


2005 Cape Verdean Football Championships
The 2005 Cape Verdean Football Championship season was the 26th of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. Its started on 14 May and finished on 16 July, earlier than the last season. The tournament was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation. FC Derby won the 3rd title and did not receive entry to the 2006 CAF Champions League. No second place club would also receive entry to the 2006 CAF Confederation Cup


2005 Cape Verdean Football Championships, Overview
Sporting Clube da Praia was the defending team of the title. A total of 12 clubs participated in the competition, one from each island league and one who won the last season's title. The season would be the first to have 12 titles for Sporting Praia.


2005 Cape Verdean Football Championships, Overview
Also it was the only time that a participant from Boa Vista (Desportivo Estância Baixo) came from the Rabil area and Estância de Baixo and the first time that a participant from the north of Santiago was from the municipality of Calheta de São Miguel and was Flor Jovem.


2005 Cape Verdean Football Championships, Overview
The season would break national records even in scoring, the annual goal totals was 146, Derby scored a record 10-1 against Académica from Porto Novo, later Sporting Praia first scored 6 against Morabeza two weeks later scored a record 13 against Estância Baixo, they would score 6 again in the semis and removing Sal Rei from the finals. Other high scoring matches were Académica from Fogo scored 6 against Morabeza and Derby scored 7 points against Morabeza.


2005 Cape Verdean Football Championships, Overview
Sporting Praia had a record of 35 goals scored (24 in the regular season) and remains unbeaten as of 2016, while Derby scored a record 32 goals (23 in the regular season) . Also in the competition record was the scorer Zé di Tchétcha of Sporting Praia who scored 14 goals and remains unbeaten as of 2015. The Flor Jovem-Paulense match was cancelled and neither two would advance into the playoffs.


2005 Cape Verdean Football Championships, Overview
Two clubs from Santo Antão who played in the same group had their first meeting since the break-up into the two zones.


2005 Capital One Bowl
The 2005 Capital One Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the LSU Tigers on January 1, 2005, at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. Spread bettors favored LSU by seven points, but Iowa won, 30–25, when quarterback Drew Tate completed a 56-yard pass to wide receiver Warren Holloway for a touchdown as time expired. The game was part of the 2004 college football season and was the concluding game of the season for both teams.


2005 Capital One Bowl
Prior to the game, LSU head coach Nick Saban announced that he was leaving LSU to become the head coach for the Miami Dolphins. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz also drew attention from NFL teams, but ultimately signed a contract extension through 2012. Saban and Ferentz worked together in 1993 and 1994 as assistants to Bill Belichick with the Cleveland Browns.


2005 Capital One Bowl
The game had 70,229 fans in attendance; Tate was named the game's Most Valuable Player.


2005 Capital One Bowl
LSU became the first defending BCS national champion to lose a non-BCS bowl the following year by losing this game.


2005 Capital One Bowl, Teams
The game was played between the LSU Tigers of the Southeastern Conference and the Iowa Hawkeyes of the Big Ten Conference. It was the first meeting between the two programs.


2005 Capital One Bowl, Teams, LSU Tigers
LSU entered the bowl with a 9–2 record (6–2 in conference).


2005 Capital One Bowl, Teams, Iowa Hawkeyes
Iowa entered the bowl with a 9–2 record (7–1 in conference). The Hawkeyes were co-Big Ten champions with Michigan; however, the Wolverines were granted the Big Ten's automatic BCS bid due to their 30–17 victory over Iowa on September 25, 2004.


2005 Capital One Bowl, Game summary, Statistics
In total yardage, the teams were fairly equal; LSU had 346 yards to Iowa's 334. The Tigers held advantages many statistical categories, such as first downs, rushing yards, turnovers and time of possession. The Hawkeyes held the advantage in passing yards, 287–228.


2005 Capital One Bowl, Game summary, Statistics
Tate was the game's leading passer, throwing for all 287 of Iowa's passing yards. JaMarcus Russell was LSU's leading passer, throwing for 128 yards and two touchdowns, both to Skyler Green. Iowa's Jonathan Babineaux led the game in sacks, with three. Babineaux also led the game in tackles for loss, with 4.5. LSU intercepted Tate twice during the game; Marcus Randall was intercepted once by the Hawkeyes. Both teams fumbled the ball once, though neither time was the ball recovered by the other team.


2005 Capital One Bowl, Game summary, Statistics
In special teams play, Iowa's David Bradley punted the ball six times for 295 yards, a 49.2-yard average. LSU's Chris Jackson punted the ball four times for 181 yards, a 45.2-yard average. Jackson was also two-for-two in field goal kicking; Iowa's Kyle Schlicher was one-for-one in that regard. Green had the game's longest return of any kind, taking a kickoff return 58 yards.


2005 Capital One Bowl, Game summary, Statistics
Saban finished his five-year tenure at LSU 48-16. He returned to college football, and the SEC, two years after this game by accepting the head coaching position at Alabama. The Crimson Tide are 2-0 in the Capital One/Citrus Bowl under Saban, defeating Michigan State 49-7 in 2011 and Michigan 35-16 in 2020.


2005 Capital One Bowl, Game summary, Statistics
Two days after the game, LSU named Oklahoma State coach Les Miles to succeed Saban. Miles went 114-34 at LSU over 11-plus seasons, highlighted by a national championship in 2007. Miles' Tigers lost the 2010 game to Penn State 19-17. The Tigers won the December 2016 game 29-9 over Louisville and lost the 2018 game 21-17 to Notre Dame under current coach Ed Orgeron.


2005 Caribbean Cup
The 2005 Caribbean Cup (known as the Digicel Caribbean Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the thirteenth edition of the Caribbean Cup hosted by Barbados and won by Jamaica. In all 30 countries participated (6 withdrew).


2005 Caribbean Cup, Qualifying tournament, First qualifying round (Group stage), Group A
Group A Qualifier:  Saint-Martin w/o  Sint Maarten (Sint Maarten withdrew)


2005 Caribbean Cup, Qualifying tournament, First qualifying round (Group stage), Group C
Bahamas qualified but they also withdrew; their place was taken by Guyana. The participants were supposed to be:  Cuba,  Netherlands Antilles,  Guyana,  Dominican Republic, and the matches were planned to be played in Cuba. However, Netherlands Antilles, Guyana, Dominican Republic all withdrew later, and so Cuba won the group automatically.


2005 Caribbean Cup, Qualifying tournament, First qualifying round (Group stage), Group D
Group D qualifier:  Guyana both through  Suriname. The matches were scheduled to be played on 5 and 11 September but Guyana were requested to replace the Bahamas from Group C who withdrew so Suriname was drawn into Group D.


2005 Caribbean Cup, Qualifying tournament, First qualifying round (Group stage), Group E
Played in Saint Vincent; originally planned for Cayman Islands, but rescheduled due to hurricane damage


2005 Caribbean Cup, Qualifying tournament, First qualifying round (Group stage), Group E
NB: Bermuda have protested the eligibility of three BVI players (Montgomery Butler, Avondale Williams, Venton James) as being Saint Vincentians.


2005 Caribbean Cup, Qualifying tournament, First qualifying round (Group stage), Group F
Group F qualifier:  Antigua and Barbuda w/o  Anguilla (Anguilla withdrew)


2005 Caribbean Cup, Final round
Jamaica, Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago qualified for CONCACAF Gold Cup 2005


2005 Caribbean Series
The forty-seventh edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was played in 2005. It was held from February 1 through February 6 featuring the champion baseball teams of the Dominican Republic, Águilas Cibaeñas; Mexico, Venados de Mazatlán; Puerto Rico, Indios de Mayagüez, and Venezuela, Tigres de Aragua. The Series was held at Estadio Teodoro Mariscal in Mazatlán, Mexico.


2005 Carolina Challenge Cup
The 2005 Carolina Challenge Cup was a four-team round robin pre-season competition hosted by the Charleston Battery. It was the second edition of the tournament.


2005 Carolina Panthers season
The 2005 season was the Carolina Panthers' 11th in the National Football League (NFL) and their fourth under head coach John Fox. It was also the team's ninth season at Bank of America Stadium. They improved on their 7–9 record from 2004, going 11–5, and made it to the playoffs for the first time since their Super Bowl appearance in 2003. They eventually fell to the Seattle Seahawks 34–14 in the NFC Championship Game.


2005 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, Wild Card Round
The Panthers forced five turnovers, limited the Giants to only 109 yards of total offense, and became the first club to shut out a home playoff team since the Los Angeles Rams shut out the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1979 NFC Championship Game. Although the Giants entered the game with Pro Bowler Tiki Barber starting at running back, the Panthers running game, featuring DeShaun Foster and Nick Goings, outgained the Giants 223 yards to 41 on the ground. Carolina wide receiver Steve Smith caught 10 passes for 84 yards and scored two touchdowns, a 22-yard reception and a 12-yard run, while kicker John Kasay added three field goals and Foster rushed for 151 yards. Meanwhile, quarterback Eli Manning threw three interceptions in his first playoff start.


2005 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, Wild Card Round
After the first five possessions of the game ended with punts, Carolina drove 77 yards in 12 plays and scored with Jake Delhomme's 22-yard touchdown pass to Smith. On Carolina's next possession, they were forced to punt, but New York safety Gibril Wilson muffed the kick and Panthers defensive back Dante Wesley recovered the ball at the Giants 15-yard line, setting up a 31-yard Kasay field goal to increase the lead to 10–0.


2005 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, Wild Card Round
Carolina dominated the second half, intercepting Eli Manning three times. Midway through the third quarter, Ken Lucas intercepted a pass from Manning and returned it 14 yards to the Giants 12-yard line, setting up Delhomme's 12-yard touchdown pass to Smith on the next play. On New York's next drive, a 17-yard pass interference penalty on Lucas nullified his second interception and gave the Giants a first down at the Panthers 43-yard line. But two plays later, Manning's pass was intercepted by Marlon McCree at the 18.


2005 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, Wild Card Round
On the Panthers ensuing drive, Foster rushed three times for 44 yards, and Delhomme completed a 25-yard pass to Keary Colbert, moving the ball to the Giants 27-yard line where Kasay's 45-yard field goal made the score 20–0. Then five plays after the kickoff, McCree recorded his second interception on the Panthers 44-yard line. Carolina subsequently closed out the scoring with a 14-play, 55-yard drive that ended with Kasay's third field goal with 2:40 left in the game.


2005 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, Divisional Round
The Panthers recorded 434 yards of total offense, and avenged a 13–3 regular season defeat by the Bears, to advance to their third NFC Championship Game in their eleven-year existence. Carolina receiver Steve Smith caught 12 passes for 219 yards and 2 touchdowns, the first coming 55 seconds into the contest, and rushed for 26 yards. Panthers kicker John Kasay contributed three second-quarter field goals, while quarterback Jake Delhomme threw for 319 yards and 3 touchdowns. The Panthers managed to hold off the Bears, however the team lost key running back DeShaun Foster to a broken ankle in the third quarter (which would severely cripple their running game in the NFC Championship match up to the Seahawks.)


2005 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, Divisional Round
The Panthers got the ball first and scored quickly. Jamal Robertson returned the opening kickoff 34 yards to the 40-yard line, and one play later, Delhomme threw a 58-yard touchdown pass to Smith. Later on, Smith's 46-yard reception set up a 20-yard field goal on the first play of the second quarter, increasing their lead to 10–0. On their next drive, Carolina had a chance to increase their lead even more after Delhomme completed passes to Drew Carter for gains of 14 and 29 yards, moving the ball to the Bears 23-yard line.


2005 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, Divisional Round
But linebacker Brian Urlacher ended the drive by intercepting a pass from Delhomme at the 10. However, the Panthers forced another punt and scored with a second field goal from Kasay. Bears quarterback Rex Grossman completed 5 passes for 62 yards on a 67-yard drive that ended with a 1-yard touchdown run by Adrian Peterson cutting the score to 13–7. But Carolina stormed right back, driving 51 yards and scoring with Kasay's third field goal on the last play of the first half.


2005 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, Divisional Round
After the second half kickoff, a 24-yard run by Bears halfback Thomas Jones moved the ball to the Panthers 41-yard line. Then Grossman went to work, completing two passes to Bernard Berrian for 29 yards before finishing the drive with a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Desmond Clark. But after an exchange of punts, Delhomme threw a 39-yard touchdown pass to Smith, and the Panthers retook their 9-point lead.


2005 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, Divisional Round
Early in the fourth quarter, Chicago's Jason McKie scored a 3-yard touchdown run to cut their deficit to 23–21. But Delhomme led the Panthers right back, completing five passes for 45 yards and scoring with a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kris Mangum. After an exchange of punts, the Bears drove into Carolina territory, but defensive back Ken Lucas put the game away by intercepting a pass from Grossman on the Panthers 22-yard line.


2005 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, Conference Championship
The Seahawks forced four turnovers, and allowed only 36 rushing yards and 14 points, as they advanced to their first Super Bowl trip in the team's 30-year history. Meanwhile, running back Shaun Alexander, coming off his divisional round injury, rushed for a franchise playoff record 134 yards and 2 touchdowns.


2005 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, Conference Championship
Midway through the first quarter, the Seahawks drove 57 yards in five plays, featuring a 28-yard reception by Seneca Wallace, and scored with quarterback Matt Hasselbeck's 17-yard touchdown pass to Jerramy Stevens. Then three plays after the ensuing kickoff, linebacker Lofa Tatupu intercepted a pass from Jake Delhomme and returned it 22 yards to the Panthers 20-yard line, setting up a field goal from Josh Brown.


2005 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, Conference Championship
The next time Carolina got the ball, Delhomme was intercepted again, this time by Marquand Manuel, who returned it 32 yards to the Panthers 17-yard line, setting up Alexander's 1-yard touchdown run that increased Seattle's lead to 17–0 on the first play of the second quarter. The Panthers eventually cut the score to 17–7 on Steve Smith's 59-yard punt return for a touchdown with 9:56 left in the first half.


2005 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, Conference Championship
The Seahawks scored another 17 unanswered points. On their first drive after the punt return touchdown, that moved the ball 57 yards and scored with a 39-yard field goal from Brown. Brown missed a field goal on the Seahawks next possession, but on the first drive of the second half, they score with Hasselbeck's 20-yard touchdown pass Darrell Jackson. Then in the fourth quarter, they put the game completely out of reach with a 53-yard drive that ended with Alexander's second touchdown. Carolina responded with a 47-yard touchdown pass from Delhomme to receiver Drew Carter, cutting the score to 34–14, but by then there was only 5 minutes left in the game.


2005 Carrickfergus Borough Council election
Elections to Carrickfergus Borough Council were held on 5 May 2005 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 17 councillors.


2005 Carrickfergus Borough Council election, Districts results, Carrick Castle
2001: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent2005: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent2001-2005 Change: No change


2005 Carrickfergus Borough Council election, Districts results, Kilroot
2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent2005: 3 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from Alliance


2005 Carrickfergus Borough Council election, Districts results, Knockagh Monument
2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance2005: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from Alliance


2005 Castlereagh Borough Council election
Elections to Castlereagh Borough Council were held on 5 May 2005 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 23 councillors.


2005 Castlereagh Borough Council election, Districts results, Castlereagh Central
2001: 3 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x PUP2005: 4 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from PUP


2005 Castlereagh Borough Council election, Districts results, Castlereagh East
2001: 4 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent2005: 5 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from Independent


2005 Castlereagh Borough Council election, Districts results, Castlereagh South
2001: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance2005: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from UUP


2005 Castlereagh Borough Council election, Districts results, Castlereagh West
2001: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP2005: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP2001-2005 Change: No change


2005 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2005 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2005 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 10–12 June 2005 at the Circuit de Catalunya located in Montmeló, Catalonia, Spain.


2005 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (motoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round six has concluded.


2005 Catalunya GP2 Series round
The 2005 Spanish GP2 round was a GP2 Series motor race held on 7 May and 8 May 2005 at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. It was the second race of the 2005 GP2 Series season. The race was used to support the 2005 Spanish Grand Prix.


2005 Catalunya GP2 Series round
The first race was won by Gianmaria Bruni for Coloni Motorsport, with Scott Speed second for iSport International and Heikki Kovalainen finishing third for Arden International.


2005 Catalunya GP2 Series round
The second race was won by José María López for DAMS, with Nelson Ángelo Piquet for Hitech/Piquet Racing and Scott Speed also on the podium.


2005 Categoría Primera A season
The 2005 Categoría Primera A season is the 58th season of Colombia's top-flight football league.


2005 Categoría Primera A season, Campeonato Apertura
The Copa Mustang 2005-I is the first tournament of the year for the Colombian League. This new season will include the new team Boyacá Chicó; changing its name from Chico FC, they also moved to a new city Tunja from Bogotá. The season began on February 12, and concluded on June 26.


2005 Categoría Primera A season, Campeonato Apertura, Semifinals
The second phase of the 2005-I tournament consisted of two groups of 4 teams semifinals. This was disputed by the best eight teams from the first phase of the tournament. the winners of each group will face on the finals to define a champion.


2005 Categoría Primera A season, Campeonato Finalización
The Copa Mustang 2005-II was the second tournament of the season of Colombian Professional Football, first division in Colombian football. The season began on July 10 and finished December 18.


2005 Categoría Primera A season, Campeonato Finalización, Semifinals
The second phase of the 2006 tournament consisted of two groups of 4 teams semifinals. This was disputed by the best eight teams from the first phase of the tournament. the winners of each group will face on the finals to define a champion.


2005 Caymanian general election
General elections were held in the Cayman Islands on 11 May 2005.


2005 Caymanian general election
They were won by the People's Progressive Movement, which took 10 of the 15 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Following the elections, Kurt Tibbetts was re-elected as the Leader of Government Business.


2005 Cebu's 5th congressional district special election
A special election for Cebu's 5th district seat in the House of Representatives of the Philippines was held on May 30, 2005.


2005 Cebu's 5th congressional district special election, Background
In 2004, representative Joseph Ace Durano (Lakas-CMD) was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as Secretary of Tourism. Durano accepted the appointment on November 30, 2004, which caused his seat to be vacated. As a result, the House of Representatives issued a resolution on March 2, 2005, declaring the seat vacant, paving way for the Commission on Elections to call an election on May 30, 2005. Candidates filed their certificates of candidacy from April 22 to 28. Campaign period was from April 29 to May 28.


2005 Cebu's 5th congressional district special election, Result
Durano's brother, Ramon Durano VI of the Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC), won convincingly to keep the seat within the Durano family, winning in all 891 polling precincts in the district's ten towns and Danao. His grandfather, Ramon Durano, Sr., previously held the seat from 1949 to 1971 (the area was districted as Cebu's 1st district at that time). Ramon VI's father, Ramon Durano III, then mayor of Danao, later became congressman and then represented the district for three consecutive terms from 1987 to 1998, before Joseph Ace succeeded him.


2005 Cebu's 5th congressional district special election, Result
Joseph Ace was on his second term when he was appointed Tourism secretary. Even before the votes were cast, Durano's opponent, Dean Severo Dosado, was quoted as having said he did not think he was going to win. He and the other candidate, Wilfredo Tuadles, did not field any poll watchers.


2005 Cebu's 5th congressional district special election, Result
The low turnout (48.56%) was blamed on the non-inclusion of areas outside the district in the special holiday for the election. Another factor was the nonexistence of campaign materials from the candidates. The turnout in Liloan, the town with the lowest turnout at 31.78%, was blamed on the town fiesta that prevented the electorate from voting.


2005 Cebu's 5th congressional district special election, Result
Dosado described the election as a "waste of money" and blamed Joseph Ace for it.


2005 Cellular South Cup – Doubles
Åsa Svensson and Meilen Tu were the defending champions, but Svensson was no longer active in the WTA Tour, having played her last professional match in October 2004. Tu partnered with Teryn Ashley and lost in first round to Yuliya Beygelzimer and Alina Jidkova.


2005 Cellular South Cup – Doubles
Miho Saeki and Yuka Yoshida won the title by defeating Laura Granville and Abigail Spears 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


2005 Cellular South Cup – Singles
Vera Zvonareva was the defending champion and successfully defended her title by defeating Meghann Shaughnessy 7–6(7–3), 6–2 in the final.


2005 Central African general election
General elections were held in the Central African Republic on March 13, 2005 to elect the President and National Assembly. A second round was held for both elections on May 8, marking the end of the transitional process that began with the seizure of power by François Bozizé in a March 2003 coup, overthrowing President Ange-Félix Patassé. A new constitution was approved in a referendum in December 2004 and took effect the same month.


2005 Central African general election
The presidential elections saw Bozizé attempt to win a five-year term after two years as transitional leader, alongside ten other candidates, with Patassé excluded from running. As no candidate received over 50% of the vote in the first round, a runoff was held between Bozizé and former Prime Minister Martin Ziguélé, resulting in a victory for Bozizé, who received 64.6% of the vote. He was inaugurated on 11 June.


2005 Central African general election
In the simultaneous parliamentary elections, the National Convergence "Kwa Na Kwa" party emerged as the largest in the National Assembly, winning 42 of the 105 seats, whilst the Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People emerged as the second-largest party with 12 seats.


2005 Central African general election, Background
The elections had originally been planned for December 2004 or January 2005, with the election date announced on August 28, 2004: January 30, 2005, with a run-off date of February 27. The elections were, however, subsequently delayed to February 13 by a decree of president Bozizé in mid-December 2004. In late January 2005, they were delayed further by one month to March 13. They were held on this date, and the second round of the elections, initially scheduled for May 1, took place on May 8.


2005 Central African general election, Candidates
After taking power with the seizure of the capital, Bangui, on March 15, 2003, Bozizé said that his rule was a transitional period, and that he would step down at the end of the transition. In 2004, however, speculation increased that he intended to run in the presidential election that would mark the end of the transition, with many of his supporters calling on him to run. Eventually, following a referendum on a new constitution on December 5, 2004, Bozizé announced his candidacy in the presidential election as an independent candidate on December 11, 2004, while speaking to supporters. He cited what he considered the will of the people in his decision:


2005 Central African general election, Candidates
Ten other candidates also contested the presidential election, including one former president and three former prime ministers. André Kolingba, who ruled the Central African Republic from 1981 until his defeat in the 1993 election, was the candidate of the Central African Democratic Rally (Rassemblement démocratique centrafricain). He came in second in the September 1999 election, although Patassé defeated him by a wide margin.


2005 Central African general election, Candidates
Abel Goumba also ran as the candidate of the Patriotic Front for Progress (Front patriotique pour le progrès); a long-time politician, he served as prime minister in the late 1950s and again from March to December 2003, following Bozizé's seizure of power, subsequently becoming vice-president under Bozizé until being dismissed shortly after the first round of the election. He previously ran for president in 1981, 1993, and 1999; in 1993 he came in second place and was defeated by Patassé in the run-off. Additionally, Martin Ziguélé, who was prime minister from 2001 to 2003 (Patassé's last prime minister prior to his ouster), contested the election, along with Jean-Paul Ngoupandé of the National Unity Party (Parti de l'unité nationale), who was prime minister from 1996 to 1997.


2005 Central African general election, Candidates
The other candidates were former defense minister Jean-Jacques Démafouth, the lawyer Henri Pouzère, who was previously a presidential candidate in 1999, then taking about 4% of the vote, Charles Massi of the Democratic Forum for Modernity (Forum démocratique pour la modernité), also a 1999 candidate, then taking a little over 1% of the vote, Olivier Gabirault of the Alliance for Democracy and Progress (l'Alliance pour la démocratie et le progrès), Auguste Boukanga of the Union for Renewal and Development (l'Union pour la Renaissance et le développement) and Pasteur Josué Binoua.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
In late March 2004, the National Transitional Council voted by a large majority in favor of a bill setting up a body to oversee the planned elections, the Commission électorale mixte indépendante (CEMI), which was initially planned to have 45 to 60 members. This was re-examined by National Transitional Council at the government's request in April 2004, and on April 30, Bozizé issued the decree promulgating it.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
On May 24, 2004, Bozizé approved 30 members of CEMI who had been chosen by three groups: political parties, professional groups, and the national administration. Each of these three groups chose 10 of the members, although the country's 44 parties took some time to reach a compromise on who should be their 10 members. The 31st and last member of CEMI, its president, was not named at this time, however. The 30 members were sworn in on June 4. Jean Willybiro-Sako was subsequently chosen as president of the commission, selected out of four candidates, two of whom were nominated by the prime minister and two by the president of the National Transitional Council.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
Earlier in the year, Alpha Oumar Konaré, the chairman of the commission of the African Union and former president of Mali, reportedly urged Bozizé not to stand for election. Bozizé gave an interview to Radio France Internationale on May 17 in which he refused to say whether or not he would run, but he confirmed that Konaré had spoken to him about it, while criticizing Konaré for what he called interference in the country's affairs, and wondering whether he had consulted the opinions of the Central African people before getting involved. He stressed that the matter would depend on the will of the people. Some of his supporters campaigned prominently for him to stand. About 5,000 people walked in Bangui on June 19 to support his candidacy; Bozizé thanked them and asked for time to reflect.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
An electoral census was conducted from October 16 to October 29, 2004; it was initially planned to end on October 24 but was extended for several days.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
In November 2004, former president Ange-Félix Patassé, who was living in exile in Togo following his 2003 ousting by Bozizé, was nominated as the presidential candidate of his party, the Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People (Mouvement pour la Libération du Peuple Centrafricain, MLPC). In December, Abel Goumba and Henri Pouzère submitted applications to run.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
On December 30, the transitional constitutional court decided that all but five candidates—Bozizé, André Kolingba, Abel Goumba, Henri Pouzère, and former minister Auguste Boukanga—would be excluded from running for various reasons. Patassé was among the seven who were barred, which the court said was due to problems with his birth certificate, as well as with his land title. In rejecting the candidacy of Jean-Jacques Démafouth, it said that there was a conflict between the date of birth given on his birth certificate (October 3, 1950) and that given in his declaration of candidacy and criminal record (October 3, 1959). The other candidates who were rejected were Martin Ziguélé, Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Charles Massi, Olivier Gabirault, and Pasteur Josué Binoua.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
Prior to the court's decision, three of the 15 initial candidates had already withdrawn from the race, leaving only 12 candidacies to judge. Fidèle Gouandjika, who took less than 1% of the vote in the 1999 presidential election, withdrew in favor of Bozizé on December 23.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
Joseph Bendounga, a former mayor of Bangui and an opponent of Bozizé's transitional government, announced his withdrawal on the morning of December 30 because he could not pay the required guarantee of five million CFA francs; he had been named as a candidate by his party, the Democratic Movement for Renewal and Development in Central Africa, in May 2004. Enoch Dérant-Lakoué, who was prime minister for several months in 1993 and took a little more than 1% in the 1999 election, withdrew as well.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
The court's decision caused controversy and was followed by demands for the annulment of the decision and the dissolution of the court. Although the chairman of the court, Marcel Malonga, reaffirmed the decision on state radio on January 3, 2005, Bozizé made a conciliatory gesture on January 4 by announcing that three of the disqualified candidates would be permitted to run: Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Martin Ziguélé, and Charles Massi. In this decision, he invoked presidential powers available to him according to the new constitution, citing Article 22.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
At the same time, however, he maintained the exclusion of the remaining four candidates, and in a reference to Patassé, who is accused of stealing 70 billion CFA francs from the national treasury, he said that he thought candidates who were "the subject of judicial proceedings, for violent and economic crimes, should be permanently rejected". This did not resolve the dispute, however, and the three he approved refused to accept his validation of their candidacies, accusing Bozizé of trying to divide the opposition.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
All seven of the initially barred candidates continued to demand the dissolution of the court and also put forward a request for the invalidation of Bozizé's own candidacy. A few days later, Bozizé fired the justice minister, Lea Koyassoum-Doumta (also secretary-general of Ngoupandé's party), after she made a statement critical of the government. Bozizé sharply criticized the seven candidates in a speech in the city of Mobaye on January 15, which was carried on state radio, accusing them of "nothing more or less than sorcery" and "madness, bad faith, coupled with a dose of misinformation". He further said that, in contrast to them, his policy "does not aim at destroying the country, it is not based on violence, lies, betrayal, manipulation or strikes".


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
Amidst this tension and controversy, the seven excluded candidates, along with the originally accepted candidates Kolingba and Goumba, called for the mediation of Gabonese president Omar Bongo. On January 22, the matter was effectively resolved through the signing by Bozizé and his rivals of an agreement in Libreville, which allowed all the candidates except Patassé to participate and brought the total number of candidates to 11. According to the agreement, Patassé would remain barred because he was the subject of judicial proceedings.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
The date of the election was also delayed to March 13, and it was agreed that the constitutional court would not be dissolved, but that it would lose powers regarding the election, which would instead go to CEMI. Subsequently, although Patassé rejected the agreement—saying that he had not authorized Luc Apollinaire Dondon, the first vice-president of the MLPC, to sign it—the MLPC announced on January 26 that it would support the candidacy of Ziguélé, who had previously been running as an independent.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
An official list of candidates, including 11 of them and excluding only Patassé, was published by the election commission on January 26, following the agreement.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
Elections were also held to fill the 105 seats of the national assembly, whose members will serve five-year terms. Initially, 261 of 970 candidates were barred from running by the electoral commission on January 10, but on January 21 a court ruling permitted 219 of the 261 to run, bringing the number of candidates to 928. Bozizé's wife Monique was among the 709 candidates who were initially approved on January 10.


2005 Central African general election, Events and controversy
The 2005 election marked the first time that the country's voters used a single ballot in each of the two polls, presidential and parliamentary, and an awareness campaign about this was launched on February 2, continuing until February 26. Previously, a multiple ballot system had been used in elections. Subsequently, the campaign for the elections began on the morning of February 26 and lasted until midnight on March 11.


2005 Central African general election, First round aftermath
Partial results (28.9% of polling stations, or 1,198 out of 4,145 stations) from the election on March 18 put Bozizé in the lead with about 55% of the votes, according to the election commission: 184,734 out of 334,732 votes counted were for Bozizé. This was over 140,000 votes more than his nearest rivals, Ziguélé and Kolingba, who took 12.86% (43,058 votes) and 12.65% (42,374 votes) of the vote respectively.


2005 Central African general election, First round aftermath
The opposition Union of Active Forces of the Nation (l'Union des forces vives de la Nation, UFVN), a grouping of Bozizé's rivals, denounced the elections on the grounds of alleged fraud and irregularities, and it called for the elections to be declared null. On the other hand, election observers endorsed the vote as free and fair.


2005 Central African general election, First round aftermath
On March 31, official results were announced: Bozizé came in first with just under 43% of the votes, while Ziguélé came in second with 23.5%. Turnout among voters was said to have been 68.27%. Since no candidate won a majority, a second-round presidential vote was required between Bozizé and Ziguélé.


2005 Central African general election, First round aftermath
In the parliamentary election, contested by a total of 909 candidates, 17 of the 105 seats were won outright in the first round; the remainder were decided by the results of the second round. Convergence Kwa Na Kwa, the coalition supporting Bozizé, did not win any seats in the first round. Among those who did win seats were Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, also a presidential candidate, and Mireille Kolingba, the wife of presidential candidate André Kolingba. Three of the presidential candidates who were defeated in the first round, Abel Goumba, Charles Massi, and Henri Pouzère, ran in the parliamentary second round.


2005 Central African general election, First round aftermath
In voting that was taking place abroad in Paris, voters destroyed election materials and results there were cancelled as a result.


2005 Central African general election, Second round
The run-off between Bozizé and Ziguélé, initially scheduled to take place on May 1, was postponed to May 8. The reason for the postponement was to avoid interference with the marking of Labour Day on May 1. Campaigning took place from April 23 to May 6.


2005 Central African general election, Second round
Theoretically, as all the opposition candidates (except Auguste Boukanga) were part of the UFVN, there was, based on the mathematical results of the first round, a majority against Bozizé. However, support for Ziguélé in the UFVN was not unconditional. Josué Binoua refused to endorse either candidate, while Ngoupandé, Massi and Goumba backed Bozizé. Kolingba, the third-place finisher, did not endorse either candidate.


2005 Central African general election, Second round
Early results from CEMI on May 12 showed Bozizé with a strong lead. In Bangui, he was said to have received 103,446 votes, while Ziguélé took 42,959. He also was credited with 79.5% of the vote in Ombella-M'Poko province (where his wife Monique also won the seat she was contesting, constituency Bimbo 2) and 93.7% in Lobaye province. Subsequently, partial results from CEMI on May 16 showed Bozizé with slightly more than 60% of the total vote, according to results from 1,698 of the country's 4,161 polling stations. The head of CEMI, Jean Willybiro-Sako, said that CEMI had 15 days from the election to make the final results public, and that the inauguration of the winner would follow 45 days after the results were proclaimed; CEMI's mandate was also to come to an end at that time.


2005 Central African general election, Second round
In mid-May, there were riots in Bangui after CEMI said that the speaker of the transitional parliament (which was being replaced by the parliamentary elections), Nicolas Tiangaye, had been narrowly defeated in his constituency by a candidate of the pro-Bozizé Kwa Na Kwa. Tiangaye called for calm among his supporters "to avoid a bloodbath."


2005 Central African general election, Second round
On May 24, Jean Willybiro-Sako announced that Bozizé had won the presidential election with 64.6% of the vote. Turnout in the second round was 64.63%, slightly down from the first round. Ziguélé tried to have Bozizé's victory invalidated, claiming that soldiers had forced or intimidated people into voting for Bozizé, but this was rejected by the constitutional court.


2005 Central African general election, Second round
In the legislative elections, Kwa Na Kwa won the most seats in the new parliament, taking 42 out of 105. 34 independent candidates were elected. Ziguélé and Patassé's party, the MLPC, received only 11 seats, while Kolingba's party, the RDC, took eight. The Social Democratic Party took four seats, Goumba's party, the FPP, took two seats, the Alliance for Democracy took two seats, and the Londo association took one. The vote for one seat, in Boganangone in the south, was cancelled due to fraud, and another vote had to be held there.


2005 Central African general election, Second round
The new parliament met for the first time on June 3. Subsequently, it elected Célestin Gaombalet, the prime minister, as its speaker. He defeated Luc-Apollinaire Dondon Konamabaye of the MLPC, receiving 78 votes against 18 for Dondon. Bozizé was sworn in on June 11 by the head of the constitutional court, Marcel Malonga. Gaombalet resigned as prime minister after Bozizé's inauguration to take up his new post, and Elie Doté was appointed to replace him.


2005 Central American Championships in Athletics
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2005 Central American Championships in Athletics
The 17th Central American Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Nacional in San José, Costa Rica, between June 3–4, 2005.


2005 Central American Championships in Athletics
A total of 44 events were contested, 22 by men and 22 by women.


2005 Central American Championships in Athletics, Medal table (unofficial), Note
†: Women's 3000 metres steeplechase and heptathlon mighthave been treated as exhibition because of the low number of participants(only 2 and 3 athletes, respectively). This could explain the difference between a published medal table and the unofficial count above for Costa Rica and El Salvador.


2005 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics
The 2005 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio de Atletismo del Instituto Nicaragüense de Deportes in Managua, Nicaragua, between May 21–22, 2005. Organized by the Central American Isthmus Athletic Confederation (CADICA), it was the 18th edition of the Junior (U-20) and the 13th edition of the Youth (U-18) competition. A total of 80 events were contested, 40 by boys and 40 by girls. Overall winner on points was  Costa Rica.


2005 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Complete results can be found on the CADICA and on the CACAC webpage.


2005 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics, Team trophies
The placing table for team trophy awarded to the 1st place overall team (boys and girls categories) was published.


2005 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics, Participation
A total number of 250 athletes and officials were reported to participate inthe event. Belize, El Salvador, and Honduras did not participate because of badweather conditions caused by Hurricane Adrian. The number of athletes of some teams participating in the event was reported.


2005 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics
The 2005 Central American and Caribbean Championships in athletics  were held at the Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas, between 8–11 July 2005.


2005 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics – Results
These are the official results of the 2005 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics which took place on July 8–11, 2005 in Nassau, Bahamas.


2005 Central Hockey League All-Star Game
The 2005 CHL All-Star Game (for sponsorship reasons officially named the 2005 Dodge CHL All-Star Game) was played on January 12, 2005 in Laredo, Texas. The format featured the Northern Conference All-Stars vs. the Southern Conference All-Stars, with each Central Hockey League team having a minimum of one representative to appear on the All-Star roster.


2005 Central Hockey League All-Star Game
The starting line-ups were selected through balloting among the CHL coaches, broadcasting and/or public relations staff, and designated media members in each CHL market. The remaining players were chosen by the All-Star coaches in concurrence with the CHL's hockey operations department.


2005 Central Michigan Chippewas football team
The 2005 Central Michigan Chippewas football team represented Central Michigan University during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. Central Michigan competed as a member of the West Division of the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The Chippewas were led by second-year head coach Brian Kelly.


2005 Centrix Financial Grand Prix of Denver
The 2005 Centrix Financial Grand Prix of Denver was the ninth round of the 2005 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season, held on August 14, 2005 on the streets of Denver, Colorado near the Pepsi Center. Paul Tracy sat on the pole and Sébastien Bourdais won the race.


2005 Cerezo Osaka season
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2005 Chadian constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Chad on 6 June 2005. The amendments to the constitution were approved by 66% of voters.


2005 Chadian constitutional referendum, Background
The proposed amendments to the constitution included the removal of two-term limit on the President, the replacement of the Senate with a Cultural, Economic and Social Council and giving the President powers to amend the constitution.


2005 Chadian constitutional referendum, Background
The amendments were proposed by incumbent President Idriss Déby, who was due to complete his second term in 2006. In June 2001 Déby had promised to step down after his second term, stating: I make a public commitment: I will not be candidate at the 2006 presidential election. I will not change the Constitution [...] What remains to do for me in my last mandate, is to prepare Chad for alternation in government.


2005 Chadian constitutional referendum, Campaign
While Dèby's Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) campaigned for "yes", the opposition was divided among those who called for a boycott of the vote and those who called for a "no" vote. The abstensionists allied themselves in the Coordination des Partis politiques pour la Défense de la Constitution (CPDC), an alliance of 24 parties including the Rally for Democracy and Progress and the Union for Renewal and Democracy. The parties that campaigned for a "no" vote included  the Front of Action Forces for the Republic and the Rally for the Republic – Lingui.


2005 Chadian constitutional referendum, Results
Do you support the constitutional law proposal of revision of the Constitution of 31 March 1996 approved by the National Assembly on 23 May 2004?


2005 Chadian constitutional referendum, Aftermath
The constitutional amendment allowed Déby to contest the 2006 presidential elections, in which he won a third term.


2005 Challenge Bell
The 2005 Challenge Bell was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the PEPS de l'Université Laval in Quebec City in Canada that was part of Tier III of the 2005 WTA Tour. It was the 13th edition of the Challenge Bell, and was held from October 31 through November 6, 2005. Amy Frazier won the singles title.


2005 Challenge Bell, Champions, Doubles
Anastasia Rodionova /  Elena Vesnina def. Līga Dekmeijere /  Ashley Harkleroad, 6–7(4–7), 6–4, 6–2


2005 Challenge Bell – Doubles
Carly Gullickson and María Emilia Salerni were the defending champions, but Gullickson decided not to participate this year. Salerni partnered with Marion Bartoli, but withdrew from their semifinal match against Līga Dekmeijere and Ashley Harkleroad.


2005 Challenge Bell – Doubles
Anastasia Rodionova and Elena Vesnina won the title, defeating Dekmeijere and Harkleroad 6–7(4–7), 6–4, 6–2 in the final.


2005 Challenge Bell – Singles
Martina Suchá was the defending champion, but decided not to participate this year.


2005 Challenge Bell – Singles
Amy Frazier won the title, defeating Sofia Arvidsson 6–1, 7–5 in the final.


2005 Challenge Cup
The 2005 Powergen Rugby League Challenge Cup was played by teams from across Europe during the 2005 rugby league season. Hull F.C. won the cup defeating Leeds Rhinos in the final.


2005 Challenge Cup, Final
Katherine Jenkins performed at the match which was on 27 August at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff and attended by 74,213 spectators. Leeds came to the final 4/1 favourites to win and stamped their authority on the game in the early stages with a penalty try which was converted by Kevin Sinfield. Hull fought back with a try from Motu Tony converted by Danny Brough. Hull took the lead for the first time through Gareth Raynor's try in the corner after a superb pass by Nathan Blacklock. Brough converted brilliantly to make the score 12–6.


2005 Challenge Cup, Final
Leeds fought back and a try from Danny Ward was converted by Sinfield to draw the scores level. A dreadful Marcus Bai error in his own in-goal area as he tried to keep the ball alive gifted Richard Whiting a try for Hull which was converted by Brough. Minutes later Brough added a drop goal to make the score 19–12 to Hull. A Mark Calderwood converted try set up a tense finish with the score at 19–18.


2005 Challenge Cup, Final
It seemed as though Leeds were going to walk away with the spoils as Marcus Bai rectified his earlier error by grabbing a late try which was converted by Sinfield and left the score 24–19. To immense noise from the Hull fans, Hull-born Paul Cooke broke through the Leeds defence and grounded the ball down underneath the posts to allow for a simple conversion. The youngster Danny Brough capped off an outstanding performance by converting the try under pressure to make the score 25–24 to Hull. In the dying seconds Richard Swain charged down a drop goal attempt to keep the scores as they were and Hull held on for arguably the best Challenge Cup final ever. Hull overturned all the odds, beating Bradford and cup holders St Helens along the way.


2005 Challenge Cup, Final, Man of the Match
Kevin Sinfield was the man of match winning the Lance Todd Trophy, but was the losing captain.


2005 Challenge Tour
The 2005 Challenge Tour was a series of golf tournaments known as the Challenge Tour, the official development tour run by the PGA European Tour. The tour was started as the Satellite Tour in 1986 and was renamed the Challenge Tour ready for the start of the 1990 season.


2005 Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour Rankings was won by Scotland's Marc Warren.


2005 Challenge Tour, Rankings
The top 20 on the Challenge Tour Rankings gained membership of the European Tour for the 2006 season.


2005 Challenge Tour graduates
This is a list of players who graduated from the Challenge Tour in 2005. The top 20 players on the Challenge Tour's money list in 2005 earned their European Tour card for 2006.


2005 Challenge Tour graduates
* European Tour rookie in 2006T = Tied   The player retained his European Tour card for 2007 (finished inside the top 118). The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2007, but retained conditional status (finished between 119–150). The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2007 (finished outside the top 150).


2005 Challenge Tour graduates
The players ranked 16th through 20th were placed below the Qualifying School graduates on the exemption list, and thus could improve their status by competing in Qualifying School. Tom Whitehouse and Ross Fisher both improved their status in this way, with Whitehouse medalling at Q School.


2005 Champ Car season
The 2005 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season was the 27th overall and the second season of the Champ Car World Series era of American open-wheel racing. It began on April 10, 2005 in Long Beach, California and ended on November 6 in Mexico City, Mexico after 13 races. The Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford Drivers' Champion was Sébastien Bourdais, his second consecutive championship. The Rookie of the Year was Timo Glock.


2005 Champ Car season, Drivers and teams
The 2.65 liter turbo V8 Ford-Cosworth XFE engine continued to be the exclusive power plant for the series. Bridgestone continued on as the exclusive series tire supplier as well. The two companies continued the marketing agreement that branded the series Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford. All teams ran the Lola B02/00 chassis after the 2002 bankruptcy of Reynard Motorsport prevented further development of their Reynard 02I, causing it to become uncompetitive against the Lola.


2005 Champ Car season, Drivers and teams
The following teams and drivers competed in the 2005 Champ Car season.


2005 Champ Car season, Drivers and teams, Team and driver changes
Similar to the 2003 and 2004 seasons, there were once again many changes for the 2005 season.


2005 Champ Car season, Season summary, Schedule
O  Oval/Speedway R  Dedicated road course S  Temporary street circuit


2005 Champ Car season, Season summary, Schedule
The initial 2005 schedule announced by Champ Car included 14 races, but only 13 races actually took place during the season. The 14th race was scheduled to take place at a newly constructed permanent road circuit in the city of Ansan, South Korea on October 16, the week before the race at Surfers Paradise. The race was canceled in September when it was determined that the circuit was not ready to host the race.


2005 Champ Car season, Season summary, Schedule
It was the second year in a row that a race in Korea was canceled, as a street circuit race in the capital of Seoul was removed from the 2004 schedule. A date at the Ansan circuit was placed on Champ Car's initial 2006 schedule but that race would never take place either.


2005 Champion Hurdle
The 2005 Champion Hurdle was a horse race held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Tuesday 15 March 2005. It was the 75th running of the Champion Hurdle.


2005 Champion Hurdle
The race was won for the second consecutive year by Laurence Byrne's Hardy Eustace, an eight-year-old gelding trained in Ireland by Dessie Hughes and ridden by Conor O'Dwyer.


2005 Champion Hurdle
Hardy Eustace started the 7/2 joint-favourite and led throughout to win by a neck from Harchibald, with Brave Inca in third. The other runners included Rooster Booster (winner of the race in 2003), Back In Front, Macs Joy, Al Eile and Intersky Falcon. All fourteen runners completed the course.


2005 Champions Tour
The 2005 Champions Tour was the 26th season for the golf tour now known as PGA Tour Champions since it officially began in 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour. The season consisted of 28 official money events with purses totalling $51,200,000, including five majors. Hale Irwin won the most tournaments, four. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.


2005 Champions Tour, Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 2005 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Senior majors are shown in bold.


2005 Champs Sports Bowl
The 2005 Champs Sports Bowl was the 16th edition to the college football bowl game and was played on December 27, 2005, featuring the Clemson Tigers and the Colorado Buffaloes. James Davis, the Clemson Running back was the Most Valuable Player of the game.


2005 Champs Sports Bowl, Background
The Buffaloes were 7–2 at one point, losing only to #12 Miami and #2 Texas. The Colorado Buffaloes were champions of the Big 12 North Division, and they faced off against Texas in the Big 12 Championship game. They were soundly defeated in the Big 12 Championship game by eventual BCS Champion Texas 70–3. Texas would go on to win the BCS Championship in the 2006 Rose Bowl. Barnett had survived a recruiting scandal and a suspension following derogatory remarks about a female kicker, Katie Hnida, who claimed she was raped by a teammate in 2000. But the losses to Miami, Iowa State, Nebraska and the second Texas drubbing ultimately led to his forced resignation. Three weeks prior to the game, Colorado head coach Gary Barnett resigned and so the Buffalos were coached by defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz against Clemson.


2005 Champs Sports Bowl, Background
Meanwhile, Clemson began their season with a win over #17 Texas A&M at home, with a win over Maryland the following week. However, they lost their next three games (including one over #13 Miami) before a win over NC State righted the ship. They lost only once more to Georgia Tech for the rest of the year, closing out the year with wins over #17 Florida State and #19 South Carolina. They finished in 2nd place in the Atlantic Coast Conference Atlantic Division to Florida State and Boston College, the latter who Clemson had lost to during the skid.


2005 Champs Sports Bowl, Background
This game was a rematch of the 1957 Orange Bowl.


2005 Champs Sports Bowl, Game summary
Clemson scored first with a 26 yard field goal by Jad Dean, making it 3–0 Clemson in the opening moments. Colorado's Mason Crosby answered with a 36 yard field goal, tying it at 3. Clemson's Jad Dean kicked another field goal, an 18 yarder, giving Clemson a 6–3 lead. That score held up at half-time.


2005 Champs Sports Bowl, Game summary
In the third quarter, quarterback Charlie Whitehurst scored on a 5 yard touchdown run, increasing the lead to 13–3. In the fourth quarter, Brian White threw a 2 yard touchdown pass to Quinn Sypniewski, cutting the margin to 13–10. James Davis added a 6 yard touchdown run to make the final margin 19–10, Clemson.


2005 Champs Sports Bowl, Aftermath
Colorado made just one more bowl appearance in the decade, in 2007, which they also lost. They have not won a bowl game since 2004. Clemson went to four more bowl games in the decade.


2005 Charles University Rector election
The Charles University Rector election, 2005 was held when term of previous Rector Ivan Wilhelm expired. Wilhelm was ineligible to run for third term. Václav Hampl won the election and became the youngest Rector in history of the University. It was duel of candidates from three medical faculties.


2005 Charles University Rector election, Result
Candidate needed at least 36 votes to be elected. Anděl was eliminated in the first round and Svačina in second. Hampl was elected when he received 42 votes in the third round.


2005 Charlotte Sting season
The 2005 WNBA season was the ninth season for the Charlotte Sting. The team finished the season with the worst record in the league. It was also the Sting's final season of play at the Charlotte Coliseum.


2005 Charlotte mayoral election
The Charlotte mayoral election of 2005 was held on 8 November 2005 to elect a Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. It was won by Republican incumbent Pat McCrory, who won a sixth consecutive term by defeating Democratic nominee Craig Madans in the general election.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup
The 2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup served as the ten-race playoff series among the top ten drivers in the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. After the Chevy Rock and Roll 400 on September 10, 2005, the ten drivers atop the standings were locked into the playoff, with the participants as follows:


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup
NOTE: Some NASCAR multiple car teams have owners other than the official listed owner. In the past, NASCAR limited one car owner to two teams, and teams found ways around it by having personnel other than the owner register the car in their name, such as employees and family members of car owners. That, plus Roush Racing having five of the ten cars in the 2005 Chase, has resulted in a NASCAR rule change limiting teams to four cars in 2006.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup
1 – Geoff Smith, the official owner of the #16, is the president of Roush Racing.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup
2 – Jeff Gordon is the official owner of the #48, through his work in signing Johnson to Hendrick Motorsports, licensing of merchandising through Hendrick Gordon Licensing LLC, and holds minority interest in the team.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup
3 – Georgetta Roush is Jack's mother, and the official owner of the #97.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup
4 – Mark Martin is the official owner of the #17 because of his work in signing Kenseth, and holds minority interest in that team.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup
The most points that can be gained by a driver in a race is 156.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup, UAW-Ford 500 Running Order among Chase Drivers
NOTE: Some media outlets reported that Newman was the new point leader by one point over Stewart after the race. NASCAR scoring freezes immediately upon a caution being signaled, and a caution was signaled on Lap 190 of 188 (the race was extended because of a late-race caution) midway through the lap after a crash. Under NASCAR rules for late-race situations, video of the race is used with the AMB timing system intermediates to determine final placings. Stewart was ahead of Newman by two places when the caution light was signaled.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup, Bass Pro Shops MBNA Running Order among Chase Drivers
Note:  Some media outlets said R. Wallace, Kurt Busch, and Mayfield were mathematically eliminated from the championship. That is not true. The most points a driver can make up in a race is 156 points, and in theory, all three drivers would have to have big points days when the leaders falter. However, no driver can be eliminated officially until a driver is behind the leader by 156 points multiplied by the number of races remaining. A driver is still in contention as long as the difference between the leader and such driver is no greater than 156 points (the difference between first and 43rd) multiplied by the number of races remaining, provided said drivers start all remaining races.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup, Checker Auto Parts 500 Running Order among Chase Drivers
On Sunday, November 13, Roush Racing suspended Kurt Busch prior to the running of the Checker Auto Parts 500 race at Phoenix International Raceway after being arrested for charges against him of reckless driving off the track. By NASCAR rules, the team remains in the Chase, although for the Owner's Championship only for teams.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup, Checker Auto Parts 500 Running Order among Chase Drivers
NOTE: Kenny Wallace, who was replacing Kurt Busch because of his suspension by Roush Racing because of his arrest for reckless driving, will earn owners' points for the #97. By NASCAR rules, owner points are calculated as part of the Chase. K. Wallace finished 16th.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup, Checker Auto Parts 500 Running Order among Chase Drivers
§ — Mathematically eliminated from championship competition (Being 190 points or back from the leader - 156 points once the final race starts).


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup, Checker Auto Parts 500 Running Order among Chase Drivers
≈ — Kurt Busch was suspended for the final two races by Roush Racing after his arrest because of reckless driving charges.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup, Ford 400 Running Order among Chase Drivers
Jimmie Johnson was eliminated on Lap 127 when a tire blew and he crashed into Turn Three at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Carl Edwards led the most laps, and Greg Biffle won the race by .017 seconds over teammate Mark Martin leading a top four Roush Racing sweep, the team's third podium sweep (top three) in eleven races, but when Tony Stewart crossed the finish line in 15th place, he clinched the 2005 NEXTEL Cup championship.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup, Ford 400 Running Order among Chase Drivers
Kenny Wallace, driving for suspended driver Kurt Busch, finished 21st, and the #97 team finished eighth in owner points, 336 points behind the #20.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup, Ford 400 Running Order among Chase Drivers
52. Kenny Wallace -6,157 points (-304 #97 team overall) y - $36,471


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup, Ford 400 Running Order among Chase Drivers
Nextel Cup Top Ten bonus monies do not include a share of the Nextel Cup Leader Bonus left unclaimed at the end of 2005.


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup, Ford 400 Running Order among Chase Drivers
× — Biffle finishes second because he had more wins (six) than Edwards (four).


2005 Chase for the Nextel Cup, Ford 400 Running Order among Chase Drivers
y - Because of Kurt Busch's suspension from the final two races of 2005, and the #97 team's overall eight-place owner points position, the payouts for 8th, 9th, and 10th places are different.


2005 Chatham Cup
The 2005 Chatham Cup was the 78th annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.


2005 Chatham Cup
Up to the last 16 of the competition, the cup was run in three regions (northern, central, and southern), with an open draw from the quarter-finals on. In all, 129 teams took part in the competition. The numbering of rounds in the competition is unclear — some sources record one preliminary round and four full rounds, followed by quarter-finals, semi-finals, and a final; other sources record five rounds. The latter numbering is used in this article.


2005 Chatham Cup
The scoring record for any Chatham Cup match was equalled in the second round, with Central United demolishing Norwest United 21-0. This tied the previous record set in 1998, when Metro also put 21 goals past the hapless Norwest United.


2005 Chatham Cup, The 2005 final
The Jack Batty Memorial Cup is awarded to the player adjudged to have made to most positive impact in the Chatham Cup final. The winner of the 2005 Jack Batty Memorial Cup was Central United captain and goalkeeper Ross Nicholson.


2005 Chatsworth state by-election
A by-election was held for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland district of Chatsworth on 20 August 2005. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting Labor member and Deputy Premier Terry Mackenroth.


2005 Chatsworth state by-election
The by-election was held to coincide with the Redcliffe by-election on the same day. Both contests resulted in the Labor Party losing the seat to the rival Liberal Party. Michael Caltabiano was elected as the new member for Chatsworth.


2005 Chatsworth state by-election, Background
Terry Mackenroth first entered parliament at the 1977 state election and held the seat of Chatsworth at every election thereafter. When Labor came to power in 1989, Mackenroth became a minister under the premiership of Wayne Goss and remained so until the downfall of the Goss government in 1996. When Labor returned to power under the leadership of Peter Beattie in 1998, Mackenroth was once again made a minister. From 2000 onwards he served as Deputy Premier under Beattie, and from 2001 he was Treasurer.


2005 Chatsworth state by-election, Background
On 25 July 2005, Mackenroth announced his retirement from politics. He had been planning to wait until the following month, but the retirement of fellow Labor MP Ray Hollis and the resulting cabinet reshuffle caused him to bring forward his own resignation.


2005 Chatsworth state by-election, Candidates
Labor chose school teacher Chris Forrester to defend the seat they'd held for the previous 28 years.


2005 Chatsworth state by-election, Candidates
The Liberal Party chose Brisbane City Councillor—and so-called "factional warrior"—Michael Caltabiano as their candidate. Caltabiano held the council ward of Chandler, which overlapped with the state seat of Chatsworth.


2005 Chatsworth state by-election, Aftermath
The by-election win of Michael Caltabiano, along with that of Terry Rogers in Redcliffe, was a flip for the Liberal Party, who increased their numbers in the Legislative Assembly from five to seven. However, the Liberal Party's hold on these two seats did not last long; both returned to the Labor fold at the 2006 state election.


2005 Chatsworth state by-election, Aftermath
Labor's unsuccessful candidate for the Chatsworth by-election, Chris Forrester, had initially been chosen to contest Chatsworth again at the 2006 state election. However, he was dumped in favour of media personality Chris Bombolas closer to the election. It was believed that Forrester would be chosen as Labor's candidate for the seat of Bonner at the 2007 federal election instead. However, he lost party preselection to local councillor Kerry Rea. Both Bombolas and Rea went on to win their respective election contests.


2005 Chattanooga Mocs football team
The 2005 Chattanooga Mocs football team represented the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga  as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) in the 2005 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Mocs were led by third-year head coach Rodney Allison and played their home games at Finley Stadium. They finished the season 6–5 overall and 3–4 in SoCon play to tie for fifth place.


2005 Chattogram City Corporation election
The 2005 election for mayor of Chattogram City Corporation was held on 12 May 2005.The result was a victory again for the Bangladesh Awami League candidate A B M Mohiuddin Chowdhury. He beat Mir Mohammed Nasiruddin, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party's candidate and previous Mayor who was appointed to his post.