2005 Tim Hortons Brier, Playoffs, Final
This forced Nova Scotia's Shawn Adams to make a difficult draw to keep hope alive. Adams' shot sat at the back of the 4-foot, and all Nedohin had to do to win was draw again for the win, which he did. It was their fourth Brier win in the last 5 years.


2005 Tim Hortons Brier, Provincial playdowns, Alberta
@ the Innisfail Arena in Innisfail. Randy Ferbey defeated Jamie King 8-6 in the finals on February 13. Standings


2005 Tim Hortons Brier, Provincial playdowns, British Columbia
@ the Smithers Curling Club in Smithers. Deane Horning defeated Bob Ursel 7-5 in the finals on February 6. Standings


2005 Tim Hortons Brier, Provincial playdowns, Manitoba
@ the Selkirk Memorial Arena in Selkirk. Randy Dutiaume defeated Ryan Fry 8-5 in the finals on February 13. Standings (Double knock-out format until championship round)


2005 Tim Hortons Brier, Provincial playdowns, New Brunswick
@ the Moncton Curling Association in Moncton. Wade Blanchard defeated Russ Howard 9-4 in the finals on February 6. Standings


2005 Tim Hortons Brier, Provincial playdowns, Newfoundland and Labrador
@ the Corner Brook Recreation Complex in Corner Brook. Brad Gushue defeated Mark Noseworthy 5-4 in the finals on February 6. Standings


2005 Tim Hortons Brier, Provincial playdowns, Northern Ontario
@ the Cobalt-Haileybury Curling Club in Haileybury. Mike Jakubo defeated Tim Phillips 8-7 in the final on February 13. Staindings


2005 Tim Hortons Brier, Provincial playdowns, Nova Scotia
@ the Bridgewater Curling Club in Bridgewater. Shawn Adams clinched the championship with a 9-6 win over Mark Dacey on February 8. Standings (triple knock-out)


2005 Tim Hortons Brier, Provincial playdowns, Ontario
The 2005 Ontario Kia Cup was held @ the Iroquois Park Sports Centre in Whitby. Wayne Middaugh defeated Glenn Howard  8-7 in the final on February 13. Standings


2005 Tim Hortons Brier, Provincial playdowns, Prince Edward Island
@ the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O'Leary Rod MacDonald defeated John Likely 7-6 in the final on February 13. Standings


2005 Tim Hortons Brier, Provincial playdowns, Quebec
@ the Aréna de Grand-Mère in Shawinigan. Jean-Michel Ménard defeated Robert Desjardins 8-4 in the final on February 13. StandingsA


2005 Tim Hortons Brier, Provincial playdowns, Saskatchewan
@ the Melfort Curling Club in Melfort. Pat Simmons defeated Daryl Williamson 7-5 in the final on February 13. Standings:


2005 Tim Hortons Brier, Provincial playdowns, Yukon/Northwest Territories
@ the Yellowknife Curling Club in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Steve Moss clinched the tournament on February 13 with a 6-5 win over Doug Gee. Standings:


2005 Time Warner Cable Road Runner 225
The 2005 Time Warner Cable Road Runner 225 was the third round of the 2005 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season, held on June 4, 2005 at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin. Jimmy Vasser was the pole sitter while Paul Tracy won the race. Vasser's pole position was the ninth and final of his career.


2005 Tippeligaen
The 2005 Tippeligaen was the 61st completed season of top division football in Norway. The season began on 10 April 2005, and was concluded with the last of 26 rounds played on 29 October. 3 points were given for wins and 1 for draws.


2005 Tippeligaen
Vålerenga, the winner of this year's season entered the second round of next year's Champions League qualification, while the runners-up (Start), number 3 (Lyn) and the Norwegian Cup winners enter the UEFA Cup qualification round. The top four teams qualified for the 2004–05 Royal League.


2005 Tippeligaen
1,726,145 people attended the matches, a new record for the Tippeligaen and 300,000 more than the previous year. It is also more than twice as many as in 1995, when only 841,717 attended the matches during the whole season. The 2005 season was, as of 2019, the last season where all the teams in the division played on natural turfs only.


2005 Tippeligaen, Overview, Summary
The greatest surprises of the 2005 season were the great performance of Start, promoted to the Tippeligaen in the 2004 season and ended up winning silver, and the disappointing performance of Rosenborg which fought against relegation from the top division after winning it for 13 straight seasons.


2005 Tippeligaen, Overview, Summary
The season ended on a sad note as Fredrikstad's Dagfinn Enerly got a serious neck injury in the last round match against Start on 29 October 2005, which made him a paraplegic. Start lost the game 1–3 which meant that Vålerenga secured their fifth league title with a 2–2 draw against Odd Grenland in Skien.


2005 Tippeligaen, Overview, Summary
Number thirteen (Aalesund) and fourteen (Bodø/Glimt) were relegated to 1. divisjon, while number twelve (Molde) had to play a two-legged play-off (home and away) against Moss, third-place finisher in Adeccoligaen, for the last spot in next year's season. Molde won the play-off matches 5–2 on aggregate and remained in Tippeligaen.


2005 Tippeligaen, Teams and locations
Fourteen teams competed in the league – the top twelve teams from the previous season, and two teams promoted from 1. divisjon.


2005 Tippeligaen, Relegation play-offs
Molde won the two-legged play-offs against Moss 5–2 on aggregate and avoided relegation.


2005 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
The 2005 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 115th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.


2005 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
Toomevara were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Thurles Sarsfields at the quarter-final stage.


2005 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
On 16 October 2005, Thurles Sarsfields won the championship after a 1-17 to 0-15 defeat of Drom-Inch in the final at Semple Stadium. It was their 29th championship title overall and their first title since 1974.


2005 Tippmix Budapest Grand Prix
The 2005 Tippmix Budapest Grand Prix was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Budapest, Hungary that was part of the Tier IV category of the 2005 WTA Tour. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and was held from 25 July until 31 July 2005. First-seeded Anna Smashnova won the singles title and earned $22,000 first-prize money.


2005 Tippmix Budapest Grand Prix, Finals, Doubles
Émilie Loit /  Katarina Srebotnik defeated  Lourdes Domínguez Lino /  Marta Marrero 6–1, 3–6, 6–2


2005 Tippmix Budapest Grand Prix – Doubles
Petra Mandula and Barbara Schett were the defending champions, but both players retired from professional tennis during this year. Mandula played her last match at the first round of the French Open against Anabel Medina Garrigues, while Schett retired at the Australian Open following her second-round defeat against Daniela Hantuchová.


2005 Tippmix Budapest Grand Prix – Doubles
Émilie Loit and Katarina Srebotnik won the title by defeating Lourdes Domínguez Lino and Marta Marrero 6–1, 3–6, 6–2 in the final.


2005 Tippmix Budapest Grand Prix – Singles
Jelena Janković was the defending champion, but decided to compete in Stanford at the same week.


2005 Tippmix Budapest Grand Prix – Singles
First-seeded Anna Smashnova won the title by defeating Catalina Castaño 6–2, 6–2 in the final.


2005 Tirreno–Adriatico
These are the results for the 2005 edition of the Tirreno–Adriatico race, a sprinter showdown won by then World Champion Óscar Freire.


2005 Togo protests and riots
The 2005 Togo protests and riots were demonstrations and rioting against the results of the presidential election and Faure Gnassingbe's takeover of power. Protests began in February with protesters demanding new elections and the end of the Gnassingbe dynasty. Around 100 were killed before the elections, but after the 2005 Togolese presidential election around 500 protesters were killed by Togolese Armed Forces, assisted by military-trained Rally of the Togolese People (RPT) militias.


2005 Togo protests and riots, Background
Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadéma died on 5 February 2005, and the Togolese Armed Forces immediately installed his son Faure Gnassingbé as president. The Army Chief of Staff, Zakari Nandja, said this was meant to avoid a power vacuum. The following day on 6 February, President of the National Assembly of Togo Fambaré Ouattara Natchaba, who should have taken over as caretaker leader pending elections in 2 months per the Constitution of Togo, was dismissed and replaced by Faure Gnassingbe. The African Union (AU) described this as "a military coup" with both the AU and ECOWAS imposing sanctions on Togo. The Togolese government initially banned all protests for two months. However, about 1,000 people attended an anti-government rally in Lomé on 11 February 2005.


2005 Togo protests and riots, Tensions
Gnassingbé lifted the government's ban on protests on 18 February and announced that there would be a presidential election in 60 days. Opposition groups called on Gnassingbé to step down and held large protests in Lomé, Aného, Sokodé and Sinkanse. On 25 February, Gnassingbé, citing growing domestic and international pressure, announced he would resign as president, resulting in ECOWAS lifting sanctions. Opposition supporters objected to the appointment of Bonfoh Abass as interim president instead of Fambaré Ouattara Natchaba, accusing Abass of being too close to the Gnassingbé regime.


2005 Togo protests and riots, Violence and Protests
The United Nations estimated that between 400 and 500 people were killed in electoral violence and mass riots. In May 2017, around 35,000 Togolese citizens fled to Benin and Ghana, citing abductions and forced disappearances, which were believed to be politically motivated.


2005 Togo protests and riots, Casualties
The number of casualties is unclear but unofficial results and tallies are being reported. The United nations and Amnesty international have said that the military killed 150 protesters and the security forces and police killed 400 protesters. Government officials report that there are 22 deaths but opposition figures suggested there were 150-200 deaths. It is still unclear to this day about the casualties.


2005 Togo protests and riots, Aftermath
Protesters have been describing the fear they’ve been living in for years and years after, protests started to protest. Anger is still growing on the streets. As of now, an investigation into the violence in Togo has been put in place and protests are banned.


2005 Togolese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Togo on 24 April 2005, following the death in office of long-time president Gnassingbé Eyadéma. The main candidates were Eyadéma's son, Faure Gnassingbé, and opposition leader Emmanuel Bob-Akitani. The elections and the preceding period were marked by violence, with many people reported killed in various incidents. According to the official results, Gnassingbé won the election, taking slightly more than 60% of the vote. Violence flared in the capital Lomé after the results were announced, and thousands fled into neighboring countries.


2005 Togolese presidential election, Background
The death of Eyadéma on 5 February 2005 was followed by the naming of his son, Faure, as president. This move was taken first by the military, ostensibly to ensure stability, and subsequently legalized—at least ostensibly—by Gnassingbé's election as President of the National Assembly by the National Assembly, which was controlled by the ruling Rally for the Togolese People (RPT). The National Assembly subsequently changed the constitution so that elections would not need to be held within 60 days, allowing Faure to serve out the remainder of his father's term, which would have expired in 2008.


2005 Togolese presidential election, Background
These events were branded an unconstitutional coup by many, who thought that the National Assembly president at the time of Eyadéma's death, Fambaré Ouattara Natchaba, should have taken power in accordance with the constitution. Under heavy pressure from other countries in the region, Gnassingbé stepped down on 25 February and was replaced by Bonfoh Abbass; elections were scheduled for April.


2005 Togolese presidential election, Campaign
Faure was formally chosen as the party's candidate immediately prior to his resignation on 25 February. The main opposition leader, Gilchrist Olympio, was barred from standing due to a provision that a presidential candidate must have lived in the country for twelve months prior to the election; Olympio had been in exile, and his party, the Union of Forces for Change (UFC), nominated its vice-president Emmanuel Bob-Akitani as its candidate instead, representing a six-party opposition coalition.


2005 Togolese presidential election, Campaign
Bob-Akitani, who was chosen as the joint candidate of the six parties on 14 March, had previously run against Gnassingbé's father in the 2003 elections, receiving just over a third of the vote. Olympio returned to the country from exile on 19 March and endorsed Bob-Akitani's candidacy. Harry Olympio of the Rally for the Support of Democracy and Development (RSDD) said in mid-March that he would be a candidate; he pointed to Bob-Akitani's advanced age in saying that Togo needed youthful leadership. Gnassingbé, at age 38, was even younger than Harry Olympio, and also tried to use this to his advantage by stressing the need for youthful leadership. Another candidate, Kofi Yamgnane, withdrew from the race in favor of Bob-Akitani on 23 March.


2005 Togolese presidential election, Campaign
Candidates had until 26 March to register, and campaigning took place from 8 to 22 April. The opposition demanded the postponement of the elections, and continued to do so after the Independent National Electoral Commission said on 23 March that the elections would go ahead as scheduled. Demonstrations both for and against the 24 April date were held on 26 March.


2005 Togolese presidential election, Campaign
Voter registration began on 28 March; complaining of irregularities in the registration process, on 29 March minor candidates Harry Olympio and Nicolas Lawson of the Party for Renewal and Redemption (PRR) also called for the election to be delayed by one month. Harry Olympio alleged that some opposition supporters were not being allowed to register, that voter cards issued for deceased individuals were being distributed and that people were being intimidated by the army, predicting "massive electoral fraud", and said that failure to postpone the election would result in a call for revolution.


2005 Togolese presidential election, Campaign
On 16 April, seven people—six from the ruling party and one from the opposition—were reportedly killed in clashes between supporters of the two sides. Each side accused the other of provoking the violence.


2005 Togolese presidential election, Campaign
A few days before the elections, Interior Minister Francois Boko said it would be "suicidal" to hold the elections as planned and called for it to be postponed. He also called for a transitional government to be set up that would last for one or two years with an opposition Prime Minister. This call was quickly rejected by interim president Bonfoh Abbass, who also said that Boko would be replaced as Interior Minister. Bob-Akitani, who also wanted the elections postponed, called Boko's action "courageous". Following Boko's statement, Lawson withdrew his candidacy.


2005 Togolese presidential election, Campaign
On 25 April Gnassingbé and Gilchrist Olympio reportedly reached a deal providing for the establishment of a government of national unity, regardless of who won the election, but this was later denied by the opposition.


2005 Togolese presidential election, Conduct
As the voting ended on 24 April, three people were reported to have been killed. Each side accused the other of disruption and stuffing ballot boxes.


2005 Togolese presidential election, Results
On 26 April provisional results were announced; Gnassingbé had won with 60.22% of the vote, with Bob-Akitani coming in second with 38.19%. Harry Olympio received only 0.55% of the vote, while Lawson took 1.04% despite having withdrawn from the race. 63.6% of registered voters participated in the elections. The constitutional court confirmed Gnassingbé's win on 3 May, when official results were released.


2005 Togolese presidential election, Aftermath
On 27 April eleven people were reported dead and 95 injured in clashes as supporters of the opposition battled the police in Lomé. Bob-Akitani subsequently declared himself President, claiming to have actually taken 70% of the vote. By 29 April approximately 100 people were reported to have been killed, many in the town of Aného, near the border with Benin. While Lomé was reported to be calmer than immediately after the election, armed men shot into the German cultural center before burning the building down on the evening of 28 April.


2005 Togolese presidential election, Aftermath
Gnassingbé was sworn in as president on 4 May. The Togolese League of Human Rights said later in May that 790 people had been killed and 4,345 had been hurt in the violence covering the period from 28 March to 5 May, a figure considerably higher than previous estimates of a death toll of about 100. An official commission of inquiry into the violence has been ordered by the government, the results of which are planned to be made public within three months. About 24,000 people are said to have fled into neighboring Ghana and Benin.


2005 Tokyo prefectural election
Prefectural elections were held in Tokyo for the city's Metropolitan Assembly on 3 July 2005. The election was a great success for the Democratic Party of Japan which won 16 additional seats, closing in on the Liberal Democratic Party.


2005 Toledo Rockets football team
The 2005 Toledo Rockets football team represented the University of Toledo during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. They competed as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) in the West Division. The Rockets were led by head coach Tom Amstutz and senior quarterback Bruce Gradkowski.


2005 Toledo riot
The 2005 Toledo riot, on October 15, 2005, occurred when the National Socialist Movement (NSM), a neo-Nazi organization, planned a march to protest African-American gang activity in the North End of Toledo, in the U.S. state of Ohio. The appearance of the group sparked a four-hour riot by elements within the assembled protesters, and caused a citywide curfew to be implemented for the remainder of the weekend. The anti-fascist organization Anti- Racist Action helped to assemble the counter-demonstration.


2005 Toledo riot, Neo-Nazis plan to march through Toledo's North End
Several weeks before the rally, members of the National Socialist Movement went door-to-door through a North Toledo neighborhood, and discussed with residents the possibility of addressing gang activity. The NSM claimed that a local resident invited the group, but the named individual refuted this, saying that the group misrepresented themselves and that he did not invite the NSM. The NSM planned to march through the North End of Toledo, Ohio.


2005 Toledo riot, Neo-Nazis plan to march through Toledo's North End
The group stated that the purpose of the march was to protest gang activity in the area. Approximately fifteen supporters of the NSM, including Bill White (neo-Nazi), gathered under police guard in preparation to march. They began an impromptu rally at the staging point for the march, shouting insults and other racial slurs at black members of the community.


2005 Toledo riot, Rally turns to rioting
Responses had been organized during the week leading up to the rally. Neighborhood residents, the Toledo chapter of the International Socialist Organization, local anarchist organizations, and Anti- Racist Action groups from other cities coordinated in planning a massive protest aimed at forcing the NSM rally to be cancelled. The protesters directed aggression against the police, who responded by arresting dozens. This set off a four-hour conflict between over 500 protesters and the Toledo police force. Police cancelled the NSM march as the situation between police and the crowd escalated. Members of the NSM and their supporters were told to leave town with a police escort.


2005 Toledo riot, Rally turns to rioting
While the neo-Nazi group had already left the park, most of the community members and protesters were unaware of this and began rioting. Eleven police personnel suffered injury, and one paramedic suffered a concussion after a brick smashed through the side window of her vehicle, hitting her in the head. Police, media vehicles and emergency vehicles were all targeted. A number of stores in the community were targeted by the crowd, including a local bar, believed by many locals to be a regular hangout for police and politicians, which was broken into and set on fire. A local gas station was also looted. Police arrested several dozen rioters, most of whom were residents of the North End. According to the mayor, a number of protesters were wearing gang colors.


2005 Toledo riot, Rally turns to rioting
Although disturbed by the NSM's intentions to march, the city's mayor, Jack Ford, was extremely critical of the riot, saying that it was "just what they [the neo-Nazis] wanted." Ford declared that a state of emergency existed, and imposed an 8 pm curfew on the entire city. Police officers from several jurisdictions, local SWAT team members, and private security firms patrolled the North End that evening.


2005 Toledo riot, Neo-Nazis return for rally
The NSM were granted permission to rally at the Government Center in downtown Toledo on December 10, 2005. The Ohio State Highway Patrol was responsible for security at the Center. The stated purpose of the rally was to protest how the city dealt with the previous planned march. Approximately 45 people participated in the one-hour rally, separated from 170 observers and counter-protesters by approximately 700 law-enforcement personnel. The assembled police forces - which included local, state, and federal officers - had at their disposal additional support as mounted patrols, armored personnel carriers, and rooftop snipers. In addition, a last minute injunction was granted by Judge Thomas Osowik on December 9, barring public gatherings of any kind for the following two weeks.


2005 Toledo riot, Neo-Nazis return for rally
Aggressive policing of the counter-protesters, which included the reported use of police Tasers, resulted in a total of 29 arrests. Three of those arrested were photojournalists covering the event. People entering the rally zone, including members of the media, were subject to searches, and police engaged in videotaping all persons near the rally site for what was termed as "intelligence gathering for future investigations." The majority of arrests occurred in the police controlled observation area; however, several people were arrested near public libraries for violating a court order banning unauthorized protests. Local attorneys and civil rights activists protested the unusually strict police tactics, summed up by one attorney: "What you have in Toledo is martial law for a day."


2005 Toledo riot, Neo-Nazis return for rally
None of the neo-Nazis who participated in the rally were arrested, but they were escorted from the rally site in buses protected by police.


2005 Toledo riot, Neo-Nazis return for rally
In retaliation, a local tattoo parlor that had allegedly been used as a base of operations for the NSM rally was vandalized later that night. The front window was smashed out with a rock marked with the anarchist circle "A" symbol. The owner of the parlor blamed the attack on an anarchist group called "The A Project."


2005 Tommy Murphy Cup
The 2005 Tommy Murphy Cup was the 2nd staging of the Tommy Murphy Cup, the Gaelic Athletic Association's secondary inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The draw for the preliminary round fixtures took place on 9 July 2005. The championship began on 16 July 2005 and ended on 4 September 2005.


2005 Tommy Murphy Cup
Clare were the defending champions but they did not enter the championship.


2005 Tommy Murphy Cup
On 4 September 2005, Tipperary won the championship following a 3-10 to 0-15 defeat of Wexford in the final. This was their first Tommy Murphy Cup title.


2005 Tommy Murphy Cup
Wexford's Mattie Forde was the championship's top scorer with 2-14.


2005 Tommy Murphy Cup, Teams, Withdrawals
In July Carlow manager Liam Hayes was forced to pull his side out of the championship due to the unavailability of the majority of his first-choice squad. Hayes made the decision as 12 of his panel were injured and four dual players decided to line out for the Carlow hurlers.


2005 Tommy Murphy Cup, Teams, Withdrawals
In August the Antrim County Board took the decision to withdraw from the championship due to a full club hurling fixture list, injuries and players on holidays.


2005 Tonga Major League
The 2005 season of the Tonga Major League was the 27th season of top flight association football competition in Tonga. Lotohaʻapai United won the championship for the eighth time, the 8th in a record streak of 11 titles in the Tonga Major League.


2005 Tonga rugby union tour of Italy and France
The 2005 Tonga rugby union tour of Italy and France was a series of hour matches played in November 2005 in Italy and France by Tonga national rugby union team.


2005 Tonga rugby union tour of Italy and France
It was a tour with heavy losses, with only a victory in the opening match with the Italian second team.


2005 Tonga rugby union tour of Italy and France, Results
Italy: 15.Ezio Galon, 14.Mirco Bergamasco, 13.Gonzalo Canale, 12.Cristian Stoica, 11.Ludovico Nitoglia, 10.Ramiro Pez, 9.Paul Griffen, 8.Josh Sole, 7.Aaron Persico, 6.Sergio Parisse, 5.Marco Bortolami (capt. ), 4.Carlo Antonio del Fava, 3.Carlos Nieto, 2.Carlo Festuccia, 1.Andrea Lo Cicero,  – replacements: 16.Matias Aguero, 17.Fabio Ongaro, 18.Valerio Bernabo, 19.Alessandro Zanni, 20.Luciano Orquera, 21.Maurizio Zaffiri, 22.Pablo Canavosio Tonga: 15.Sila Va'enuku, 14.Suka Hufanga, 13.Sione Tuipulotu, 12.Rodney Mahe, 11.Salesi Finau, 10.Fangatapu 'Apikotoa, 9.Soane Havea, 8.Chris Hala'ufia, 7.Viliami Vaki (capt. ), 6.Ma'ama Molitika, 5.Milton Ngauamo, 4.Inoke Afeaki, 3.Tonga Lea'aetoa, 2.Ephraim Taukafa, 1.Soane Tonga'uiha,  – replacements: 16.Vili Ma'asi, 17.Peni Fakalelu, 18.Fakataha Molitika, 19.Ueleni Fono, 21.Sikuti Vunipola, 22.Keni Fisilau    –  No entry: 20.Sioeli Nau


2005 Tonga rugby union tour of Italy and France, Results
France: 15.Julien Laharrague, 14.Aurelien Rougerie, 13.David Marty, 12.Thomas Castaignede, 11.Vincent Clerc, 10.Yann Delaigue, 9.Dimitri Yachvili, 8.Sebastien Chabal, 7.Julien Bonnaire, 6.Yannick Nyanga, 5.Jerome Thion (capt), 4.Gregory Lamboley, 3.Sylvain Marconnet, 2.Raphael Ibanez, 1.Olivier Milloud,  – replacements: 16.Sebastien Bruno, 17.Pieter de Villiers, 18.Lionel Nallet, 20.Thomas Lievremont, 21.Frederic Michalak, 22.Yannick Jauzion    –  No entry : 19.Remy MartinTonga: 15.Sione Tuipulotu, 14.Pila Fifita, 13.Suka Hufanga, 12.Andrew Mailei, 11.Salesi Finau, 10.Elisi Vunipola, 9.Sioeli Nau, 8.Chris Hala'ufia, 7.Rodney Mahe, 6.Viliami Vaki (capt. ), 5.Milton Ngauamo, 4.Fakataha Molitika, 3.Tonga Lea'aetoa, 2.Ephraim Taukafa, 1.Soane Tonga'uiha,  – replacements: 16.Vili Ma'asi, 17.Alani Maka, 18.Talite Vaioleti, 19.Ueleni Fono, 20.Soane Havea, 21.Fangatapu 'Apikotoa, 22.Epi Taione


2005 Tongan general election
General elections were held in Tonga on 17 March 2005. Only nine members of the 30-seat parliament are elected, the rest appointed by the King or are members of the Tongan aristocracy. The Human Rights and Democracy Movement won seven of the nine seats. 'Aho'eitu 'Unuaki'otonga Tuku'aho, son of the King, initially retained his position as Prime Minister, but he resigned in 2006, with the position passing to Feleti Sevele, one of the two independent candidates elected. Sevele is the first non-noble Prime Minister of the country.


2005 Tongan general election, Aftermath
By-election were held on 5 May 2005 to fill vacancies in Tongatapu and Niuas following the appointment of Feleti Sevele and Sione Haukinima to the cabinet. Former Police Minister Clive Edwards was elected in Tongatapu, and Lepolo Taunisila was elected in Niuas.


2005 Tongan general election, Aftermath
A third by-election was held on 20 July 2006 for the Ha'apai electorate after Fineasi Funaki was appointed as Minister of Tourism. The election was won by 'Osai Laatu.


2005 Tongatapu by-election
The Tongatapu by-election of 2005 was a by-election held to elect a new People's Representative to the Tongan Legislative Assembly. The vacancy occurred following the appointment of the incumbent, Feleti Sevele, to cabinet. The by-election was won by former Police Minister Clive Edwards.


2005 Top League Challenge Series
The 2005 Top League Challenge Series was the 2005 edition of the Top League Challenge Series, a second-tier rugby union competition in Japan, in which teams from regionalised leagues competed for promotion to the Top League for the 2005–06 season. The competition was contested from 16 to 29 January 2005.


2005 Top League Challenge Series
Fukuoka Sanix Bombs and Secom Rugguts won promotion to the 2005–06 Top League, while Honda Heat and Toyota Industries Shuttles progressed to the promotion play-offs.


2005 Top League Challenge Series, Competition rules and information
The top two teams from the regional Top East League, Top West League and Top Kyūshū League qualified to the Top League Challenge Series. The regional league winners participated in Challenge 1, while the runners-up participated in Challenge 2.


2005 Top League Challenge Series, Competition rules and information
The top two teams in Challenge 1 won automatic promotion to the 2005–06 Top League, while the third-placed team in Challenge 1 and the Challenge 2 winner qualified to the promotion play-offs.


2005 Top League Challenge Series, Qualification
The teams qualified to the Challenge 1 and Challenge 2 series through the 2004 regional leagues.


2005 Top League Challenge Series, Qualification, Top West League
The final standings for the 2004 Top West League were:


2005 Top League Challenge Series, Qualification, Top East League
The final standings for the 2004 Top East League were:


2005 Top League Challenge Series, Qualification, Top Kyūshū League
The final standings for the 2004 Top Kyūshū League were:


2005 Top League Challenge Series, Challenge 1, Standings
The final standings for the 2005 Top League Challenge 1 were:


2005 Top League Challenge Series, Challenge 1, Matches
The following matches were played in the 2005 Top League Challenge 1:


2005 Top League Challenge Series, Challenge 2, Standings
The final standings for the 2005 Top League Challenge 2 were:


2005 Top League Challenge Series, Challenge 2, Matches
The following matches were played in the 2005 Top League Challenge 2:


2005 Toppserien
The 2005 season of the Toppserien, the first-tier women's football (soccer) league in Norway, began on 16 April 2005 and ended on 22 October 2005.


2005 Toppserien
18 games were played with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Number nine and ten were originally relegated, but ninth-placed Liungen survived after Asker was forcibly relegated due to economic license issues. The two top teams from the First Division were promoted.


2005 Toray Pan Pacific Open
The 2005 Toray Pan Pacific Open was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 22nd edition of the Toray Pan Pacific Open, and was part of the Tier I Series of the 2005 WTA Tour. It took place at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, from January 28 through February 6, 2005. Maria Sharapova won the singles title.


2005 Toray Pan Pacific Open, Finals, Doubles
Janette Husárová /  Elena Likhovtseva  defeated  Lindsay Davenport /  Corina Morariu, 6–4, 6–3


2005 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Doubles
Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs were the defending champions, but Stubbs did not compete this year. Black teamed up with Liezel Huber and lost in quarterfinals to tournament runners-up Lindsay Davenport and Corina Morariu.


2005 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Doubles
Janette Husárová and Elena Likhovtseva won the title by defeating Davenport and Morariu 6–4, 6–3 in the final.


2005 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Singles
World No. 1 Lindsay Davenport was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the final to world No. 2 Maria Sharapova, who won 6–1, 3–6, 7–6(7–5).


2005 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2005 Torneo Apertura (Chile)
The 2005 Campeonato Nacional Apertura Copa Banco del Estado  was the 77th Chilean League top flight, in which Unión Española won its 7th league title after beating Coquimbo Unido in the finals.


2005 Torneo Clausura (Chile)
The 2005 Campeonato Nacional Clausura Copa Banco del Estado  was the 78th Chilean League top flight, in which Universidad Católica won its 9th league title after beating Universidad de Chile on penalties, in the finals.


2005 Torneo Clausura (Chile), Promotion / relegation playoffs
O'Higgins reached its promotion to Primera División after beating Deportes Melipilla 4–3 in the aggregate result, in this way Rancagua–based side broke a five-year absence in top level. Whilst Deportes Puerto Montt remained in the top level after beating Provincial Osorno on penalties.


2005 Torneo Descentralizado
The 2005 Torneo Descentralizado (known as the Copa Cable Mágico for sponsorship reasons) was the eighty-ninth season of Peruvian football. A total of 12 teams competed in the tournament. Sporting Cristal won its fifteenth Primera División title after beating Cienciano in the season final. The season started on March 5, 2005 ended on December 21, 2005.


2005 Torneo Descentralizado, Changes from 2004, Structural changes
Starting with the 2004 season, the two relegated teams will be able to choose to play in the Segunda División or drop to their regional league as the Segunda División will now be played with non-capital teams. The number of first division teams dropped from 14 to 13.


2005 Torneo Descentralizado, Changes from 2004, Promotion and relegation
Deportivo Wanka and Grau–Estudiantes finished the 2004 season in 13th and 14th place, respectively, on the three-season average table and thus were relegated to their regional league. They were replaced by the champion of the 2004 Copa Perú Sport Áncash.


2005 Torneo Godó
The 2005 Torneo Godó  was a men's professional tennis tournament that was part of the International Series Gold of the 2005 ATP Tour. It was the 53rd edition of the Torneo Godó tennis tournament and it took place from 18 April until 24 April 2005 at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Eighth-seeded Rafael Nadal won the singles title.


2005 Torneo Godó, Finals, Doubles
Leander Paes /  Nenad Zimonjić defeated  Feliciano López /  Rafael Nadal, 6–3, 6–3


2005 Torneo Godó – Doubles
Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.


2005 Torneo Godó – Doubles
Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjić won in the final 6–3, 6–3, against Feliciano López and Rafael Nadal.


2005 Torneo Godó – Singles
Rafael Nadal defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final, 6–1, 7–6(7–4), 7–3 to win the singles title at the 2005 Barcelona Open. With the win, Nadal entered the ATP top 10 singles rankings for the first time, debuting at no. 7.


2005 Torneo Godó – Singles
Tommy Robredo was the defending champion, but lost to Alberto Martín in the second round.


2005 Torneo Godó – Singles
This tournament was the first professional appearance of future world No. 1 and three-time major champion Andy Murray.


2005 Torneo di Viareggio
The 2005 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.


2005 Torneo di Viareggio, Format
The 40 teams are seeded in 10 pools, split up into 5-pool groups. Each team from a pool meets the others in a single tie. The winning club from each pool and three best runners-up from both group A and group B progress to the final knockout stage. All matches in the final rounds are single tie. The Round of 16 envisions penalties and no extra time, while the rest of the final round matches include 30 minutes extra time with Silver goal rule and penalties to be played if the draw between teams still holds. Semifinal losing teams play 3rd-place final with penalties after regular time. The winning sides play the final with extra time, no Silver goal rule and repeat the match if the draw holds.


2005 Toronto Argonauts season
The 2005 Toronto Argonauts season was the 48th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and 133rd season overall. The Argonauts finished the regular season 11–7 and finished in first place in the East Division.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season
The 2005 Toronto Blue Jays season was the franchise's 29th season of Major League Baseball. It resulted in the Blue Jays finishing third in the American League East with a record of 80 wins and 82 losses. This was the first 162-game season since 1993 that Blue Jays hitters would combine for less than 1,000 strikeouts.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
On February 2, 2005, several days after finalizing the purchase of SkyDome by Rogers Communications, Rogers renamed the stadium to the Rogers Centre. In spite of the best efforts of the new ownership, a wide majority of Blue Jays fans continued (and still continue) to refer to the stadium as SkyDome. By the start of the season, Rogers had upgraded the stadium with a new "JumboTron" videoboard and added other state-of-the-art video screens around the stadium. Furthermore, the AstroTurf surface was replaced by the more natural-looking FieldTurf. Owner Ted Rogers also promised a payroll increase to $210 million over the next three years, which allowed the team to have a team payroll of $70 million per year.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
The Blue Jays finished spring training with a 16–10 record. Among the stars of spring training was Gabe Gross, who tied the Jays' record for most home runs in spring training with eight (the previous record breaker was long time Blue Jay Carlos Delgado). The Jays were able to translate their success in spring training into an excellent start—the team led the AL East from early to mid-April and held their record around .500 until late August. The Jays were hit with the injury bug when third baseman Corey Koskie broke his finger, taking him out of the lineup, but the club was pleasantly surprised with the performance of rookie call-up Aaron Hill in his stead.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
On July 8, just prior to the All-Star break, Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay was struck on the shin by a line drive from Texas left fielder Kevin Mench and was placed on the DL with a fractured leg. The injury cost Halladay his chance to be the American League starter in the All-Star Game in Detroit; his place on the All-Star squad was taken by Red Sox pitcher Matt Clement.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
Though Halladay's injury was hoped to be minor, the recovery process was met with constant delays, and Halladay eventually would prove to be out for the rest of the season. Team management officially announced that he would miss the rest of the season in August. The Halladay injury is seen by many as the negative turning point in the Jays season; the team had been in serious wild card contention at the time, but afterwards fell out of the race and failed to make the playoffs for the 12th consecutive year.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
On July 22, Toronto traded utility infielder John McDonald to the Detroit Tigers for cash considerations. This gave the Blue Jays an open spot on the roster so that Aaron Hill could stay with the team when Corey Koskie returned from injury.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
On July 28, Toronto played in the longest game in franchise history, innings-wise, an 18-inning marathon against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Rogers Centre. The Jays won 2–1, after nearly five hours of play when Orlando Hudson hit a line drive past a drawn in infield, scoring Alex Ríos from third base.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
The shutdown of Halladay for the remainder of the season seemed to affect the performance of the Jays. They went on a slump that brought their record under .500 in the beginning of September. From there, the Blue Jays finished the season 80–82 while receiving glimpses of the future from September call-ups Guillermo Quiróz, John-Ford Griffin, and Shaun Marcum. Marcum made himself noteworthy by posting an ERA of 0.00 over 5 relief appearances and 8 innings in September. Griffin hit his first career home run in the last game of the season and ended up going 4 for 13.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
Josh Towers also stepped up, showing largely unseen potential going 7–5 with a 2.91 ERA in the 2nd half of the year and a 13–12, 3.71 ERA season overall, making him arguably the unlikely ace of the Jays rotation with Halladay injured and Gustavo Chacín faltering somewhat after the All-Star break.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
The 2005 Jays inability to score with men in scoring position was a turning point in many games that ended up as losses, also contributing to the 80–82 record, although as a positive, the team did improve by 13 wins and returned to their usual 80-win plateau.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
On October 9, the Jays, along with their fans, mourned the loss of inaugural broadcaster Tom Cheek. Cheek, 66, succumbed to brain cancer after just over a year-long battle. Cheek had broadcast 4,306 consecutive games since the first day of the franchise. His streak was ended in June 2004 when he took time off to visit his ailing father.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
In the off-season, general manager J. P. Ricciardi began to make good use of the money that had been granted to the Jays by Rogers Communications before the season. Rogers had given Ricciardi $210 million over three years, which became $75 million a season to spend, $25 million more than the previous year. Ricciardi fulfilled the team's need for a stable closer by signing former Baltimore Orioles standout B. J. Ryan to the richest contract ever for a reliever – a 5-year, $47 million on November 28. Following that, the club awarded a 5-year, $55 million contract to highly coveted starting pitcher A. J. Burnett, formerly of the Florida Marlins, on December 6.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
On December 23, 2005, Rogers Sportsnet reported that the Jays added a much needed 30 plus home run hitter to their lineup by getting third baseman and 2002 World Series MVP Troy Glaus and minor league shortstop Sergio Santos in a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks. In return, the Diamondbacks received second baseman and 2005 Gold Glove Award winner Orlando Hudson and pitcher Miguel Batista. Glaus passed a team physical on December 26, and the trade was officially announced the next day.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
On the same day as the announcement of the Glaus deal, the Jays acquired solid-hitting first baseman Lyle Overbay and right-handed pitching prospect Ty Taubenheim in a trade with the Milwaukee Brewers; with pitcher Dave Bush, pitching prospect Zach Jackson, and outfielder Gabe Gross going to Milwaukee. Glaus and Overbay were both introduced to the Toronto media together a few days later.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Notable transactions
August 26, 2005: Ken Huckaby was released by the Toronto Blue Jays.


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2005 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2005 Toronto International Film Festival
The 30th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 8–17 and screened 335 films from 52 countries - 109 of these films were world premieres, and 78 were North American premieres.


2005 Toronto International Film Festival, Awards
At the Festival's closing event, the following prizes were awarded:


2005 Toronto International Film Festival, Awards
Because the vote for the People's Choice Award was so close, at the awards ceremony Piers Handling (festival co-director) announced four runners-up. However, in the subsequent reporting there was confusion about the order of the runners-up. As reported by ScreenDaily, the results of the People's Choice Award voting was as follows:


2005 Toronto International Film Festival, Awards
Certain other publications indicated (probably erroneously) that the order of the runners-up was reversed, with Mother of Mine finishing second to Tsotsi.


2005 Toronto International Film Festival, Canada's Top Ten
In December, TIFF released its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the films programmers had selected as the ten best Canadian films of the year. These were screened as a followup "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in early 2006, with public screenings in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver.


2005 Toronto Rock season
The Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2005 season was the 8th in franchise history and 7th as the Rock.


2005 Toronto Rock season
The Rock continued its dynasty on top of the NLL standings, finishing first in its division for the seventh straight year. The Rock beat the Rochester Knighthawks in the division final and then hosted the Arizona Sting in the championship game. In a decisive win, the Rock beat the Sting 19-13 for their fifth Champion's Cup in seven years, and first without Les Bartley behind the bench.


2005 Toronto Rock season, Regular season, Conference standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


2005 Toronto Rock season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes


2005 Toronto Rock season, Player stats, Goaltenders
Note: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average


2005 Tour Down Under
The 2005 Tour Down Under was the seventh edition of the Tour Down Under stage race. It took place from 18 January to 23 January in and around Adelaide, South Australia. This particular edition was won by Luis León Sánchez, who rode for the Libery Seguros-Würth


2005 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 3
20 January 2005 – Glenelg to Victor Harbor, 139 km


2005 Tour de Corse
The 49th edition of the Rallye de France - Tour de Corse was held between October 21, 2005 and October 23, 2005 at Ajaccio, France.


2005 Tour de France
The 2005 Tour de France was the 92nd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 2–24 July, with 21 stages covering a distance 3,593 km (2,233 mi). It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti- Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999–2005; the Union Cycliste Internationale has confirmed this verdict.


2005 Tour de France
The first stages were held in the département of the Vendée, for the third time in 12 years. The 2005 Tour was announced on 28 October 2004. It was a clockwise route, visiting the Alps before the Pyrenees. Armstrong took the top step on the podium, for what was then the seventh consecutive time. He was accompanied on the podium by Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich, but in 2012 Ullrich's results were annulled. The points classification was won by Thor Hushovd, and the mountains classification by Michael Rasmussen.


2005 Tour de France
The race was seen by 15 million spectators along the road, and by 2 billion viewers on TV.


2005 Tour de France, Teams
In 2005, the UCI had started the ProTour: 20 teams were given a ProTour licence, and were required to start in all ProTour races, which included the Tour de France. The Tour de France organisation was not happy with this rule, as they wanted to be able to decide which teams would join their race. While negotiations were still ongoing, it was decided to use the UCI rule for the 2005 Tour, so all 20 ProTour teams were automatically invited. The Tour organisation could invite one extra team with a wildcard, and used this to invite AG2R Prévoyance. All teams were composed of nine cyclists, so 189 riders in 21 teams commenced the 2005 Tour de France. Of them, 155 riders finished.


2005 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
The main favourite was (then) six-time winner Armstrong (now stripped of all his victories). Armstrong had had doubts if he should start the 2005 Tour, but decided in February 2005 that he would race. His main rival Ullrich was happy with this decision, as he thought it would be a better race with Armstrong present.


2005 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
In previous years, Ullrich never had the full support of his team to win the general classification, as his team was also aiming for stage victories. In 2005, Erik Zabel, who had won the points classification six times, was left out of the team, and Ullrich was supported by Klöden and Vinokourov, who both had already reached the podium on the Tour.


2005 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
On the day before the Tour started, Ullrich crashed into his team director's car, but was not seriously injured.


2005 Tour de France, Route and stages
The Tour commemorated the death of Fabio Casartelli. During the 15th stage the riders passed the Col de Portet d'Aspet, where Casartelli died exactly 10 years earlier, in the 1995 Tour de France. The Tour also commemorated the first time there was an official mountain climb in the Tour, the Ballon d'Alsace. During the 9th stage this mountain was passed again, exactly 100 years after the first ascent in the Tour.


2005 Tour de France, Route and stages
The 2005 Tour de France was divided into 21 stages. These stages belong to different categories: 8 were flat stages, 5 were medium mountain stages, 5 were high mountain stages, 2 were individual time trials and 1 was a team time trial. The distinction between flat stage, medium mountain stage and high mountain stage is important for the points classification. The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,642 m (8,668 ft) at the summit of the Col du Galibier mountain pass on stage 11. There were two rest days, in Grenoble and in Pau.


2005 Tour de France, Route and stages
The traditional prologue on the first day was replaced by an individual time trial of more than twice the length of a standard prologue. This stage crossed from the mainland of France to the Île de Noirmoutier. The most famous route to this island is the Passage du Gois, a road that is under water at high tide. This road was included in the 1999 Tour. Several of the favourites crashed there that year, and ended that stage 7 minutes behind the peloton. This year they took the bridge to the island.


2005 Tour de France, Route and stages
Later in the race, there was one more time trial, on the penultimate day. Also, there were just three uphill finishes (Courchevel, Ax-3 Domaines and Pla d'Adet), a lower number than in previous years. The finish line of the last stage was, as has been since 1975, on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.


2005 Tour de France, Route and stages
In the stages that were not time trials, there were intermediate sprints. Cyclist who crossed the intermediate sprints first received points for the points classification, and bonification seconds for the general classification. Until stage 8, there were three intermediate sprints, and from stage 9 on there were two.


2005 Tour de France, Race overview
In Stage 1, David Zabriskie, a former teammate of Lance Armstrong, beat Armstrong by two seconds. In the team time trial of stage 4, Zabriskie fell in the last kilometers, and Armstrong took over the lead.


2005 Tour de France, Race overview
Armstrong initially refused to wear the yellow jersey in the fifth stage but was forced by the Tour organisation, who threatened to remove him from the race.


2005 Tour de France, Race overview
In the tenth stage, the start was moved from Grenoble to Froges.


2005 Tour de France, Race overview
Before the 20th stage, an individual time trial, Michael Rasmussen occupied the third place in the general classification. During that stage, Rasmussen fell multiple times and changed bicycles multiple times, and lost so much time that he ended up at the seventh place in the general classification. The race jury invoked the 'rain rule' for the Champs-Élysées, meaning that Lance Armstrong became the winner of the General classification the first time the race passed the finish line, rather than the eighth time as normal.


2005 Tour de France, Race overview
The time bonification for the winner of the stage was still given, and Alexander Vinokourov profited from this as he won the stage after an escape in the last kilometer (the first time since 1994 that the final stage did not end in a sprint), and passed Levi Leipheimer in the general classification to end fifth.


2005 Tour de France, Race overview
During the final ceremonies in Paris, Armstrong was allowed to talk to the crowds, the first time in the Tour's history that a winner was given this chance. It has since become a regular occurrence.


2005 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping
During the race, 143 urine tests and 21 blood tests were conducted. None of them returned positive. Still, there were fears that banned substances were being used; the boss of the Amore & Vita–Beretta team (not racing in the 2005 Tour) questioned the increase in velocities.


2005 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping
In 2010, Hans Michael Holczer, the team boss of Gerolsteiner in 2005, said that the UCI had informed him that Leipheimer had shown blood values just under the doping limit, and that Holczer suspected that Leipheimer was doping. The UCI advised Gerolsteiner to find a reason to remove Leipheimer from the race, but Holczer refused, because his team was still facing bad publicity from a previous doping case.


2005 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping
The top five of the general classification of 2005 would not compete the 2006 edition. Armstrong had retired after the 2005 Tour, and a few days before the 2006 edition, after it became public that (among others) Basso, Ullrich and Mancebo were under investigation in the Operacion Puerto doping case, the Tour organisation and team leaders decided to exclude all cyclists under investigation from joining the Tour. Vinokourov, fifth-placed in 2005, was not under investigation, but his team was reduced to five cyclists, below the minimal required amount of six, so he could also not compete.


2005 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping
In February 2012, the Court of Arbitration for Sport found Ullrich guilty of being engaged in Fuentes' doping program, and decided that Ullrich's results since May 2005, including his results from the 2005 Tour de France, would be disqualified.


2005 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping
Subsequent to Armstrong's statement to withdraw his fight against United States Anti- Doping Agency's (USADA) charges, on 24 August 2012, the USADA said it would ban Armstrong for life and stripped him of his record seven Tour de France titles. Later that day it was confirmed in a USADA statement that Armstrong was banned for life and would be disqualified from any and all competitive results obtained on and subsequent to 1 August 1998, including forfeiture of any medals, titles, winnings, finishes, points and prizes. On 22 October 2012, the Union Cycliste Internationale endorsed the USADA sanctions, and decided not to award victories to any other rider or upgrade other placings in any of the affected events.


2005 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping
Michael Rasmussen, winner of the mountains classification, revealed in 2013 that in a doping test his value of immature red blood cells was below the minimum threshold, but that the UCI allowed him to continue in the race because they did not want an incident.


2005 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There were four main individual classifications contested in the 2005 Tour de France, as well as a team competition. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage, with time bonuses given at the end of each mass start stage. If a crash had happened within the final 3 km (1.9 mi) of a stage, not including time trials and summit finishes, the riders involved would have received the same time as the group they were in when the crash occurred. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the general classification and was considered the overall winner of the Tour. The rider leading the classification wore a yellow jersey.


2005 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The second classification was the points classification. Riders received points for finishing in the highest positions in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints during the stage. The points available for each stage finish were determined by the stage's type. The leader was identified by a green jersey.


2005 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The third classification was the mountains classification. Most stages of the race included one or more categorised climbs, in which points were awarded to the riders that reached the summit first. The climbs were categorised as fourth-, third-, second- or first-category, or hors catégorie for the most difficult climbs. The leader wore a white jersey with red polka dots.


2005 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The final individual classification was the young rider classification. This was calculated the same way as the general classification, but the classification was restricted to riders who were born on or after 1 January 1980. The leader wore a white jersey.


2005 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The final classification was a team classification. This was calculated using the finishing times of the best three riders per team on each stage; the leading team was the team with the lowest cumulative time. The number of stage victories and placings per team determined the outcome of a tie.


2005 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
In addition, there was a combativity award given after each mass start stage to the rider considered, by a jury, to have "made the greatest effort and who has demonstrated the best qualities of sportsmanship". The winner wore a red number bib the following stage. At the conclusion of the Tour, Óscar Pereiro (Phonak) was given the overall super-combativity award. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass the summit of the Col du Galibier on stage 11. This prize was won by Alexander Vinokourov.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11
The 2005 Tour de France was the 92nd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Fromentine with an individual time trial on 2 July and Stage 11 occurred on 13 July with a mountainous stage to Briançon. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, on 24 July.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
2 July 2005 — Fromentine to Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, 19 km (11.8 mi) (ITT)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
The winning time of David Zabriskie was set early in the day – so early, in fact, that virtually none of the TV stations covering the Tour actually showed it. Zabriskie, who has also won a stage in the Vuelta a España and a time trial in the Giro d'Italia, put a powerful time in that few could approach. The best attempt was a run by Alexander Vinokourov, a teammate of Jan Ullrich, who came in 53 seconds back, putting him, for a time, in second place.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
Most of the other big names rode respectably, as with Landis, though Iban Mayo wound up four minutes behind the other GC contenders – a disappointment to be sure. Also disappointing was Joseba Beloki, who demonstrated that he has not returned to the form he had before his crash in the 2003 Tour.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
The big names this Tour, though, were expected to be Ivan Basso, Jan Ullrich, and, of course, Lance Armstrong – the final three starters. Basso performed respectably, coming in 18th, 1:53 back from Zabriskie – a perfectly respectable showing for someone who is not known as a time trialist. Ullrich also did well in 12th place, 1:12 back, especially considering that the day before he got into a gruesome crash with his team car in which he shattered the rear window as he flew through it.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
The real story, though, was Lance Armstrong, whose time trialing skills this year had been in doubt after a poor showing in the Tour de Georgia. After a small mishap where his foot fell out of the pedal at the start, he rode an incredible time trial, bridging the one-minute gap to Jan Ullrich with 3 km remaining. He finished two seconds behind Zabriskie, sending a clear message to anyone who thought he might be off form this year.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
As for the other jerseys, Zabriskie won the first green sprinter's jersey, while the winner of the previous year's prologue, Swiss Fabian Cancellara, got the white young rider's jersey.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
3 July 2005 — Challans to Les Essarts, 181.5 km (112.8 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
A textbook Tour day – an early break of László Bodrogi (Crédit Agricole), David Cañada (Saunier Duval-Prodir), Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Télécom), and Sylvain Calzati (Ag2r-Prevoyance) got away and was caught at the end.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
This led to a bunch sprint, with a strangely lackluster McEwen holding on for third as a rock-solid Tom Boonen blasted to his 15th win of the year, and to the green jersey, which he claimed from Zabriskie, although today, in a rare occurrence, Lance Armstrong was wearing it, since Zabriskie also had the yellow jersey, which meant the green went "on loan" to Armstrong, who was second. Bodrogi racked up enough time bonuses on the intermediate sprints to pass Vinokourov in the standings for third place, 47 seconds behind Zabriskie, who held his yellow jersey.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
All but three of the riders finished in the peloton, making time bonuses the only things that shuffled the standings at all. In the last kilometres, the main group broke, and most of the General Classification contenders (except Jan Ullrich) came in nine seconds after Boonen. The break-up, however, was caused by a fall, and the judges applied the same time to them as the first group.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
The real stand-out story of the day was Thomas Voeckler, who masterfully attacked on the small category 4 climb to win the small number of points in the mountain competition that were up for the day. Since those were the only mountain points around, though, Voeckler managed to put himself in polka dots, meaning the young French rider has now worn three of the four leader jerseys in the Tour de France in his career.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3
4 July 2005 —  La Châtaigneraie to Tours, 212.5 km (132.0 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3
A normal day with some minor drama at the finish, the early break this time consisted of Erik Dekker (Rabobank), Rubens Bertogliati (Saunier Duval), and Nicolas Portal (AG2R), who were caught 1 km from the end. Dekker had already managed a great feat at Tours the previous season by holding off the peloton after being in a breakaway for 200 kilometres, and winning the Paris-Tours. This time, however, the French city did not bring luck to the Dutchman.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3
After the breakaways were reeled in, the Swiss time trial champion Fabian Cancellara attempted an escape in the last kilometer, but was brought back, leading to a bunch sprint. Commentators expected that the long, straight drive to the finish would favour Robbie McEwen, but instead it was Tom Boonen who took a convincing win.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3
At the finish line Robbie McEwen was reprimanded for trying to push Stuart O'Grady away with his head, a move possibly spurred on by  O'Grady preventing him from attacking Boonen by blocking his path. Although McEwen crossed the line third, the judges knocked him to the back of the main pack, giving him a place of 186th, and dealing quite a blow to his hopes of a fourth green jersey, placing him 44 points behind Tom Boonen, who has 70.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3
The general classification remained unchanged, and Cancellara held his young rider's jersey, although if Tom Boonen gets another stage win time bonus, it would go to him. Meanwhile, the early break crossed two of the three category four climbs first, giving Dekker six mountain points. Voeckler could only manage to cross an early climb in second, giving him two more and bringing him up to five, putting Erik Dekker in polka dots. Dekker also won the prize of most combative rider.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4
5 July 2005 — Tours to Blois, 67.5 km (41.9 mi) (TTT)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4
This was a nail-biter of a team time trial in which the teams of the three favorites – Armstrong, Ullrich, and Basso – all did well. Discovery trailed CSC in the team standings, and so launched second to last, but showed their usual team time trial form with a pencil-straight line, each member taking pulls like clockwork. As the time trial wore on, Armstrong began taking longer pulls at the front, bringing the pace of the pack up dramatically. Even still, CSC, launching behind them, kept a grueling pace of their own, actually leading Discovery through all of the checkpoints.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4
The race wasn't decided until the last kilometer and a half, when yellow jersey David Zabriskie crashed as his knee hit the handlebar, probably because of his cycle chain malfunctioning. He got back on and crossed the line in a blood-stained yellow jersey 1'28" behind the Discovery riders. On the other hand, Ullrich, whose T-Mobile Team crossed the line at 35", lost only 30" due to the adjusted gap for the team trial stage. He's currently in 14th place, 1'36" off Armstrong.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4
Had Zabriskie held on another half a kilometer he would have gotten the same time as the rest of CSC, but instead he dropped to ninth in the overall standings, and CSC's surprise at the yellow jersey hitting the pavement in front of them cost them two seconds on Discovery – coincidentally, the exact margin by which Zabriskie had led Armstrong going into the stage. The result was to put Armstrong in his 67th yellow jersey, and to put teammate Yaroslav Popovych in the white jersey. With no sprints or mountains, the green and polka dot jerseys remained on the shoulders of Tom Boonen and Erik Dekker, respectively.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4
* This means that even though the team finished with a longer time, the provision set forth in the Tour de France Guideline states that the gaps for the team trial stage is capped according to the relative finishing position of the teams. Thus, even though Gerolsteiner and Illes Balears-Caisse D'Epargne finished at the same time, for the riders in those two teams, IBC riders have a 10" advantage over the GST riders for the individual classifications.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5
6 July 2005 —  Chambord to Montargis, 183 km (113.7 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5
Juan Antonio Flecha made an early break, and was joined 90 km later by László Bodrogi (Crédit Agricole), Salvatore Commesso (Lampre), and Kjell Carlström (Liquigas), but not by George Hincapie, whose Discovery Channel team had earlier said they wanted to put him into a break to give him a turn in yellow. The break was finally reeled in 10 km from the finish by a Discovery-led peloton, setting up the sprint. It was a tough, uphill sprint, and McEwen took it by a wheel over Tom Boonen, taking his first win of the Tour, but still only putting him in fourth for the green jersey due to his being relegated to 186th in the third stage.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5
David Zabriskie recovered enough from his crash to start today, and finished with the peloton in 176th place. Out of respect for the role his crash played in the overall standings, Lance Armstrong initially refused to wear the yellow jersey today, and it was not until the race was stopped as it was rolling out of the neutral zone so that the organizers would ask him to wear it that he agreed to.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5
Today also saw the first withdrawal of the Tour as Constantino Zaballa of Saunier Duval-Prodir failed to finish the stage. The Yellow, Green, Polka and White jerseys remain on their respective riders.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6
7 July 2005 — Troyes to Nancy, 199 km (123.7 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6
An early escape initiated by Christophe Mengin (Française des Jeux) after 24 km was accompanied by Karsten Kroon (Rabobank), Jaan Kirsipuu (Crédit Agricole), Mauro Gerosa (Liquigas-Bianchi) and Stéphane Augé (Cofidis). Karsten Kroon and Stéphane Augé took 7 mountain points each, with Kroon winning the last mountain, which results in the Dutch rider wearing the polka dot jersey, keeping it in team Rabobank. Around 10 km from the finish, the breakaway was broken in pieces after an attack of Estonian champion Kirsipuu, but Mengin, a rider local to Nancy, managed to hold on and left Kirsipuu behind.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6
One and a half kilometers from the end, Alexander Vinokourov and Lorenzo Bernucci came off the peloton to join him, and then, 700 meters from the end, Mengin risked too much, slid out and crashed, followed independently by much of the front of the peloton. The result was to give Bernucci the stage, due mostly to his superior navigation of the crash, and Vinokourov a 19-second boost in the general classification. Boonen kept the green jersey, but Hushovd's fifth-place finish gave him a substantial boost, putting him just 7 points back in that competition. Claudio Corioni of Fassa Bortolo abandoned the race.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7
8 July 2005 —  Lunéville to Karlsruhe, 228.5 km (142.0 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7
Because the Tour arrived to the German city of Karlsruhe, it was clear that at least one German rider would try to win. It was Fabian Wegmann who attacked very early and gathered all the mountain points available before the peloton began his pursuit. Even though the main field flew through the French countryside propelled by Quick Step and Davitamon-Lotto, Wegmann managed to enter Germany ahead of the group, but he was eventually reeled in.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7
This time it was Tom Boonen who sprinted too early, and he gave Robbie McEwen the chance of a second stage win in this year's Tour de France. Wegmann had gathered enough points to make him leader of the mountain's classification and receive the polka-dot jersey on the podium in front of the German public.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
9 July 2005 —  Pforzheim to Gérardmer, 231.5 km (143.8 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
Stage 8 is a stage that takes the riders from Germany back into French territory. Overnight saw two riders drop out of the race, which meant at the day's start there were 183 riders still in the race. The day's stage saw four cat-3 climbs at the beginning of the stage and the first cat-2 climb of this year's race towards the end of the stage. In between the last cat-3 and the cat-2 climb the stage was relatively flat, which was supposed to benefit the sprinters more than the climbers.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
Early during the race, the peloton moved at a rapid pace, causing a number of riders to drop from the main peloton. Early attacks were mostly caught, save for a group of seven riders which maintained lead towards the end. A group determined to catch the riders was attacked by Vinokourov, followed by Savoldelli; when the Italian cracked and Armstrong was left alone, the chase group with about 32 people was formed, including Ullrich, Voigt, Basso, and McGee.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
Taking advantage of Armstrong's solitude, another member of T-Mobile Team, Andreas Klöden, attacked and escaped, reaching the last remaining member of the breakaway. Towards the summit of the cat-2 climb, Weening and Klöden had a 17" lead over the chase group, and they were able to maintain the lead over the group when they crossed the finish line.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
Because Weening and Klöden crossed the line at virtually the same time, the jury had to use the sensor system to determine the winner. Weening was declared the stage winner, beating out Klöden by 0.0002 of a second, or 9.6 millimeters. At the stage's end, Armstrong still holds the yellow jersey, although there was a lot of movement at the top 10 of the classement général.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
Popovych, the white jersey holder, was dropped out of the chase group and as a consequence fell out of top 10 and relinquished the white jersey to Karpets, who leads the youth classification by 1". The polka dot jersey also changed owner, as Rasmussen took 32 points out of a maximum 36 in this stage. Stage 1 winner David Zabriskie was dropped on the first climb, finished the stage in last place (51'12" off the leader) and barely escaped the fate of DNF.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
Furthermore, Armstrong was isolated from his team, because none of his team-mates was able to follow the attacks in the group of the favourites, mainly the attacks of Vinokourov.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9
10 July 2005 — Gérardmer to Mulhouse, 171 km (106.3 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9
This stage featured three cat-3 mountains followed by the cat-2 Grand Ballon, cat-3 and finally the cat-1 climb up the  Ballon d'Alsace, first crossed in the 1905 Tour de France. The terrain was designed so the challengers of the polka dot jersey had to make a move.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9
From the beginning of the stage there were attacks. A group of riders managed to escape the peloton. Michael Rasmussen was a part of this group in the beginning and according to the team he lost two minutes on the previous stage on purpose so that he wouldn't be a threat to the general classification and then would be able to do this attack in order to take mountain points, his main aim for this Tour. Rasmussen and Dario Cioni very quickly escaped the original group and carried on as a duo.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9
Cioni had trouble following Rasmussen over the mountains and eventually gave up. Meanwhile, the original breakout group was reduced to Christophe Moreau and Jens Voigt. Moreau was a contender for the polka dot jersey and Voigt was in position for the yellow jersey, so they both had an interest in chasing Rasmussen. He however kept the distance even though he had been riding alone for almost the entire stage and won the stage. Moreau and Voigt came in three minutes later, which gave Voigt the yellow jersey.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10
12 July 2005 —  Grenoble to Courchevel, 181 km (112.5 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10
The start of the stage was delayed by as much as 40 minutes because of a protest staged by farmers who were angry over wolves being reintroduced to the Alps. Even though Discovery Channel had shown some signs of weakness in the stage won by Weening, it was the American team which lead the peloton in pursuit of a breakaway which contained Óscar Pereiro, Jörg Jaksche and some other riders. Even though most of Discovery's team fell back quite soon, Yaroslav Popovych prepared a brutal attack for his leader.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10
The peloton broke and only Rasmussen, Valverde and Mancebo could hold Armstrong's wheel. Even though they did not collaborate with the American, a gap formed between this group, then Basso and then Ullrich and Klöden. Vinokourov had failed badly, like Christophe Moreau, who had hoped to get the yellow jersey on this stage. Armstrong's attempt to win the stage on a sprint breakaway was foiled by Valverde in the closing meters. Nonetheless, the Texan regained the maillot jaune and seemed to acknowledge Valverde's win perhaps indicating that he saw him as future heir apparent.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11
13 July 2005 —  Courchevel to Briançon, 173 km (107.5 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11
Stage 11 was another major mountain stage in the Alps including the legendary Col de la Madeleine and Col du Galibier climbs, the latter being the highest point of this year's tour at 2645m. Alexander Vinokourov, after a disastrous day in the previous stage to Courchevel when he lost over 5 minutes, attacked on the Col de la Madeleine. Lance Armstrong and his Discovery Channel rode strongly behind mindful of the threat from Vinokourov but aware of the advantage that they had over him.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11
The tactics of the T-Mobile team riders, including Vinokourov, in support of their apparent team leader Jan Ullrich were, as ever, questionable. Three riders, Óscar Pereiro (this year's most aggressive rider) and Santiago Botero (both of Phonak) established a breakaway before Pereiro was dropped after the Col du Telegraphe and before the fearsome ascent of the Col du Galibier. Vinokourov crossed the summit of the Galibier first, taking the Henri Desgrange prize, in front of Botero, a rider who was enjoying a renaissance in 2005.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11
Meanwhile, Lance Armstrong's Discovery Channel Team were controlling the peloton at just over 2 minutes behind although Michael Rasmussen jumped ahead to get more King of the Mountain points and to continue his domination of the polka dot jersey. Botero joined Vino on the now wet and dangerous descent and the pair continued together to Briancon where the Kazakhstan champion outsprinted Botero to take his second stage victory after his first one to Gap in the 2003 Tour de France that had seen the major injury to Joseba Beloki and the remarkable cross-country exploits of Lance Armstrong. The peloton, and all the main contenders, came in at 1'15" behind thus preserving Armstrong in the yellow jersey and Vinokourov's exploits not making up for the previous day's losses.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21
The 2005 Tour de France was the 92nd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Fromentine with an individual time trial on 2 July and Stage 12 occurred on 14 July with a hilly stage from Briançon. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, on 24 July.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12
14 July 2005 — Briançon to Digne-les-Bains, 187 km (116.2 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12
This Bastille Day stage saw a large breakaway with thirteen riders (top-ten plus Giunti Massimo, Stephan Schreck and Giovanni Lombardi) that gained over four minutes on the peloton. Included were the cycling sprinters Thor Hushovd and Stuart O'Grady. The escape was disorganised, with mostly Axel Merckx trying to set the pace and organise. On the Col du Corobin it was Merckx 's task to throw the sprinters off to minimize Robbie McEwen's green jersey point loss. At the same time Davitamon–Lotto in the peloton chased the sprinters. Sandy Casar escaped first on the ascent to the Col du Corobin, but is caught again. David Moncoutié tried next and manages around a 30" lead. Despite the rest chasing him he is holding them off. Moncoutié follows Richard Virenque's National Holiday stage win of last year.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13
15 July 2005 — Miramas to Montpellier, 173.5 km (107.8 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14
16 July 2005 — Agde to Ax-3 Domaines, 220.5 km (137.0 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15
17 July 2005 — Lézat-sur-Lèze to Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d'Adet, 205.5 km (127.7 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16
19 July 2005 — Mourenx to Pau, 180.5 km (112.2 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17
20 July 2005 — Pau to Revel, 239.5 km (148.8 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18
21 July 2005 — Albi to Mende, 189 km (117.4 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19
22 July 2005 — Issoire to Le Puy-en-Velay, 153.5 km (95.4 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20
23 July 2005 — Saint-Étienne to Saint-Étienne, 55.5 km (34.5 mi)


2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21
23 July 2005 — Corbeil-Essonnes to Paris Champs-Élysées, 144.5 km (89.8 mi)


2005 Tour de Georgia
The 2005 Tour de Georgia was the third annual bicycle road racing event held in the state of Georgia, United States. The six-day, six stage 550 mile (1033.4 km) race was held April 19 through April 24, 2005 with the overall title and yellow jersey won by Tom Danielson of the Discovery Channel. However, Danielson in 2012, was disqualified due to doping.


2005 Tour de Georgia
New Zealander Greg Henderson (Health Net Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis) claimed the points jersey for sprinters, while Discovery Channel's José Luis Rubiera won the King of the Mountains competition for climbers. Trent Lowe (Jittery Joe's–Kalahari) won the Best Young Rider (blue jersey) competition.


2005 Tour de Georgia, Final Results, Most Aggressive Rider Classification
The Most Aggressive Rider wears the blue and green jersey. The jersey is awarded at the end of each stage to the rider that demonstrates  the most aggressive attacks, breakaways or strategies, as judged by a panel of media and race entourage officials.


2005 Tour de Georgia, Final Results, Best Young Rider Classification
The Best Young Rider wears the green jersey. The jersey is awarded daily in the same manner as the general classification, which is by the overall placement at the finish line after each stage, with the least amount of overall accumulated time.


2005 Tour de Hongrie
The 2005 Tour de Hongrie was the 32nd edition of the Tour de Hongrie cycle race and was held from 2 to 7 August 2005. The race started in Veszprém and finished in Budapest. The race was won by Tamás Lengyel.


2005 Tour de Langkawi
The 2005 Tour de Langkawi was the 10th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It began on 28 January in Langkawi and ended on 6 February in Kuala Lumpur. The race was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.HC (hors category) race on the 2005 UCI Asia Tour calendar.


2005 Tour de Langkawi
Ryan Cox of South Africa won the race, followed by José Rujano of Venezuela second and Tiaan Kannemeyer of South Africa third. Graeme Brown won the points classification category and Cox won the mountains classification category. Barloworld won the team classification category.


2005 Tour de Langkawi, Stages
The cyclists competed in 10 stages, covering a distance of 1,284.6 kilometres.


2005 Tour de Langkawi, List of teams and riders
A total of 20 teams were invited to participate in the 2005 Tour de Langkawi. Out of the 140 riders, a total of 101 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur.


2005 Tour de Pologne
These are the results for the 2005 edition of the Tour de Pologne cycling race. Despite getting four cyclists in the decisive break, Rabobank didn't manage to take the overall win from Kim Kirchen.


2005 Tour de Pologne, Sprints Classification
The sprints classification jersey is awarded to the rider with the most points awarded in the intermediate sprints.


2005 Tour de Romandie
These are the results for the 2005 edition of the Tour de Romandie race, in which Colombian Santiago Botero returned to his winning ways after two bad years in T-Mobile Team.


2005 Tour de Suisse
The 2005 Tour de Suisse was the 69th edition of the Tour de Suisse road cycling stage race and was held from 11 June to 19 June 2005. The race started in Schaffhausen and finished in Ulrichen. Australian Michael Rogers was not able to defend his lead on the last day against Aitor González's attack.


2005 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 1
11 June 2005 - Schaffhausen to Weinfelden, 170 km (110 mi)


2005 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 2
12 June 2005 - Weinfelden, 36 km (22 mi) (ITT)


2005 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 3
13 June 2005 - Abtwil/Säntiskpark to St Anton am Arlberg, 154 km (96 mi)


2005 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 4
14 June 2005 - Vaduz to Bad Zurzach, 208 km (129 mi)


2005 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 5
15 June 2005 - Bad Zurzach to Altdorf, 173 km (107 mi)


2005 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 6
16 June 2005 - Bürglen to Arosa, 158 km (98 mi)


2005 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 7
17 June 2005 - Einsiedeln to Lenk, 193 km (120 mi)


2005 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 8
18 June 2005 - Lenk to Verbier, 165 km (103 mi)


2005 Tour de la Région Wallonne
The 2005 Tour de la Région Wallonne was the 32nd edition of the Tour de Wallonie cycle race and was held on 25 July to 29 July 2005. The race started in Brussels and finished in Namur. The race was won by Luca Celli.


2005 Tour du Haut Var
The 2005 Tour du Haut Var was the 37th edition of the Tour du Haut Var cycle race and was held on 19 February 2005. The race started and finished in Draguignan. The race was won by Philippe Gilbert.


2005 Tour of Azerbaijan (Iran)
Tour of Azerbaijan 2005 was the 20th running of the Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan), which took place between 22 May and 29 2005 in Iranian Azerbaijan. The tour had 7 stages, in which Ghader Mizbani from Iran won the first place in over all of the tour.


2005 Tour of Britain
The 2005 edition of the Tour of Britain stage race was run as a UCI 2.1 category in six stages starting in Glasgow on 30 August and finishing in London on 4 September:


2005 Tour of Britain, Stages, Prelude
Mass participation ride followed by Glasgow criterium stage part of the Elite Circuit series.


2005 Tour of Flanders
These are the results for the 2005 edition of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic, which saw the emergence of Tom Boonen in the Flemish classics. This edition was run under clear skies and good weather.


2005 Tour of Flanders
Even past the feared Muur van Geraardsbergen there were still a handful of riders in the front group: favorites Tom Boonen (Quick Step-Innergetic) and Peter Van Petegem (Davitamon-Lotto), Erik Zabel and Andreas Klier (T-Mobile), Roberto Petito (Fassa Bortolo), and Alessandro Ballan (Lampre). Klier set the tempo to keep the group together for a final sprint, hoping for Zabel to win.


2005 Tour of Flanders
Given Boonen's reputation as a sprinter, he surprised his adversaries by launching a solo attack in the run-in to the finish to counter van Petegem's attack, after the Bosberg climb. Despite being chased by the two T-Mobile riders, he managed to take a solo win to Meerbeke.


2005 Tour of Flanders for Women
The second running of the Tour of Flanders for Women, a women's road cycling race in Belgium, was held on 3 April 2005. The race started in Oudenaarde and finished in Ninove, taking in 12 climbs and covering a total distance of 112 kilometres (70 miles). It was the fourth round of the 2005 UCI Women's Road World Cup. Dutch rider Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel won the race, after distancing her teammate and breakaway companion Susanne Ljungskog.


2005 Tour of Flanders for Women
The race for third place ended in farcical circumstances. The chasing group of 20 riders, including World Cup leader Oenone Wood, was sent the wrong way in the final two kilometres and crossed the finish line in the opposite direction. None of the riders in the group were included in the final result. Italian Monia Baccaille was officially placed third, after winning the sprint of the third group.


2005 Tour of Flanders for Women, Race Summary
Mirjam Melchers attacked with approximately 25 km to go on the run-in to the Muur van Geraardsbergen. On the Muur, she had a 15-second lead when her teammate, Susanne Ljungskog, attacked in pursuit and caught Melchers 200 m after the climb. The pair cooperated to the finish as the chasing bunch of 20 did not move closer than 40 seconds. Melchers accelerated away from her Buitenpoort-Flexpoint teammate with 200 m to go to and won her third World Cup race.


2005 Tour of the Basque Country
The 2005 Tour of the Basque Country was the 45th edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 4 April to 8 April 2005. The race started in Zarautz and finished with an individual time trial in Oñati. The race was won by Danilo Di Luca of the Liquigas–Bianchi team.


2005 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 2
5 April 2005 - Zarautz to Trapagaran, 166 km (103 mi)


2005 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 3
6 April 2005 - Ortuella to Gasteiz, 176 km (109 mi)


2005 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 4
7 April 2005 - Gasteiz to Alsasua, 167 km (104 mi)


2005 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 5a
8 April 2005 - Alsasua to Arantzazu, 93 km (58 mi)


2005 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 5b
8 April 2005 - Oñati, 9.3 km (5.8 mi) (ITT)


2005 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
The 2005 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the first round of the 2005 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season, held on April 10, 2005 on the streets of Long Beach, California. Paul Tracy was the polesitter and the race winner was Sébastien Bourdais.


2005 Toyota Racing Series
The Toyota Racing Series is New Zealand's premier "open-wheeler" motorsport category. The series includes races for every major trophy in New Zealand circuit racing including the New Zealand Motor Cup and the Denny Hulme Memorial Trophy. The cars are also the category for the New Zealand Grand Prix - one of only two races in the world with FIA approval to use the Grand Prix nomenclature outside Formula One.


2005 Toyota Racing Series, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers have competed during the 2005 Toyota Racing Series. All teams used Tatuus TT104ZZ chassis with Toyota engine.


2005 Trampoline World Championships
The 24th Trampoline World Championships were held in Eindhoven, Netherlands from 14 September to 17 September 2005.


2005 Trans-Am Series
The 2005 Trans-Am Series was the fortieth season of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am Series. This would be the final complete season until the series returned in 2009. (Two events were held in Topeka in 2006, but are considered to be exhibition and thus no championship was awarded.)


2005 Transnistrian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in the breakaway republic of Transnistria on 11 December 2005. They were won by the Renewal, an NGO who, together with their allies, beat long-time President Igor Smirnov's Republic party. Following its victory, in June 2006 Renewal was registered as a political party.


2005 Transnistrian parliamentary election, Results
Victory of Renewal allowed to change the long-term speaker of the Supreme Council, Grigore Mărăcuţă. On 28 December 2005, the leader of Renewal, Yevgeny Shevchuk was elected new speaker.


2005 Transnistrian parliamentary election, Results
According to PMR data, only 15 of the 43 members of its parliament (MPs) were born in the PMR territory (including 12 in Transnistria proper, and 3 in the Bessarabian area in and around the city of Bender, which is controlled by PMR), while 4 others in the rest of Moldova, with the remainder mainly born in Russia or Ukraine. Igor Smirnov, the leader of PMR, arrived in the region in 1987. Most of the MPs who were born elsewhere had moved to the region ten years or more before the conflict erupted.


2005 Tranzam Sports Sedan Series
The 2005 Tranzam Sports Sedan Series was a national motor racing series sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport and open to drivers of:


2005 Tri Nations Series
The 2005 Tri Nations Series, an annual rugby union competition between the national teams of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, was the tenth in the series. The competition is organised by SANZAR, a consortium of the three countries' rugby federations. This was the last year in which the Tri Nations was contested in its original double round-robin format, with each team playing the others twice.


2005 Tri Nations Series
The All Blacks won the competition, with the key being a nail-biting 31–27 win over the South Africa Springboks at Carisbrook in Dunedin. The All Blacks also retained the Bledisloe Cup by sweeping the Australia Wallabies in both fixtures. The Mandela Challenge Plate between Australia and South Africa was contested outside the Tri Nations.


2005 Tri Nations Series, Synopsis
The All Blacks were clear favourites going in, having come off a sweep of the British & Irish Lions. The Springboks entered with many questions, most dealing with the player selections made by coach Jake White. Many in South Africa questioned White's selections after a loss to Australia in the first leg of the Mandela Plate. However, the Springboks won the second leg to retain the Mandela Plate. The Wallabies entered with promise, but had been hurt by the loss of talismanic fly-half Stephen Larkham to a shoulder injury before the series.


2005 Tri Nations Series, Synopsis
The series began with the South Africa leg. In the opener, the Springboks came from behind to defeat the Wallabies at Loftus Versfeld. The 22–16 margin gave the Wallabies the consolation of a bonus point. The following week at Newlands, the Boks handed the All Blacks what would prove to be their only loss in 2005 by the identical score.


2005 Tri Nations Series, Synopsis
When the series moved to Australia, the All Blacks ensured themselves of retaining the Bledisloe Cup by a comprehensive 30–13 win over the Wallabies. However, they failed to earn a bonus point. The Springboks kept pace with the All Blacks by nipping Australia the following week 22–19.


2005 Tri Nations Series, Synopsis
The series decider proved to be the first match of the New Zealand leg, pitting the All Blacks and Springboks. In a closely fought match, a late try by Keven Mealamu gave the All Blacks both the win and a key bonus point. They would secure the trophy the next week with a bonus-point win over the Wallabies.


2005 Tri Nations Series, The aftermath, New Zealand
The All Blacks emerged from the Tri Nations as clearly the best team in the world in 2005. They had enough depth to shrug off what would have been a devastating loss to most other national teams—an injury to arguably their best player, fly-half Daniel Carter during the win in Sydney, that kept him out of the tests at home against the Springboks and the Wallabies. The All Blacks would punctuate their season with a "Grand Slam" over all four Home Nations on their November tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Carter would come back for the Grand Slam tour, and was selected as 2005 World Player of the Year by the International Rugby Board.


2005 Tri Nations Series, The aftermath, South Africa
As for the Springboks, they showed themselves to be a close second to the All Blacks, silencing White's critics in the process. For the second straight year, the Tri Nations was the international coming-out party for a young Springboks star. In 2004, Schalk Burger, Jean de Villiers and Marius Joubert emerged as major stars, with Burger going on to be named the IRB World Player of the Year. This year, Bryan Habana established himself as one of the world's most dangerous wings, and was named a finalist for World Player of the Year.


2005 Tri Nations Series, The aftermath, Australia
The Wallabies fought bravely throughout the series, but were ultimately outmanned. The competition exposed major weaknesses in their front row. They would spiral downward to their longest Test losing streak since 1969, which would cost head coach Eddie Jones his job.


2005 Tri Nations Series, Competition details
As in past competitions, points were earned on the following schedule:


2005 Triglav Trophy
The 2005 Triglav Trophy was held between 13 and 17 April 2005. It was an international figure skating competition held annually in Jesenice, Slovenia. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating across the levels of senior, junior, and novice, although the pair skating competition was only held on the junior level.


2005 Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election
Elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) were held on 5 March 2005.