By the 2005 series Australia's wins had increased to 115 whereas England's had increased to only 93 ( with 82 draws ).

The Diamondbacks, led by Melvin, finished the 2005 season with a record of 77 wins and 85 losses.

The 2005 season saw Essendon miss the finals for the first time since 1997, finishing with their second-worst result to that time under Sheedy's coaching, 13th position with 8 wins and 14 losses.

* 2005 – Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.

* 2005 – Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority.

* India wins landmark patent battle, BBC News, March 9, 2005

The 307 WRC did not match its predecessor in success, but Grönholm took three wins with the car, one in 2004 and two in 2005.

The 2005 – 06 season was a turning point for the team's image ; marked by several wins over top teams.

* 8 wins – The Beat That My Heart Skipped ( 2005 ) ( 10 nominations )

The 2004 team was followed in 2005 with what many call the " best Pottsville High team ever ", which featured great athletes on both sides of the ball, went 13-2 overall ( 9-1 regular season ), a second straight AAA District XI Title, state playoff game wins over Pennsylvania state powers Strath Haven and Manheim Central and an appearance in the program's first state title game on December 9, 2005-a game they would lose 23-13 to AAA state champion Franklin Regional.

* rUNSWift, the University's team in the international RoboCup Standard Platform League competition, is the most successful team in the world with wins in 2000, 2001 and 2003 as well as coming second in 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2010.

In the last 7 grands prix Montoya finished, he scored 3 wins, 2 poles and 5 podiums, as well as setting a track record ( fastest lap ) of 1: 24. 770, which stands today still, at the 2005 Turkish Grand Prix.

The baseball team has won multiple conference titles, and in both 2001 and 2005, it finished with 56 wins and placed 5th at the College World Series.

The club holds the record for the number of successive league wins at the start of a season, with a total of 13 wins at the start of the 1985 – 86 Third Division campaign and also the record for the number of points gained in a professional league season with 106 points in the 2005 – 06 Football League Championship campaign.

* 2005: Simon Starling wins the Turner Prize for Shedboatshed, a wooden shed which he had turned into a boat, floated down the Rhine and turned back into a shed again.

The leading edge of Trek ’ s design and engineering efforts, ACG is perhaps best known for a number of products introduced and used by Lance Armstrong during his historic Tour de France wins, including the original Trek Madone ( 2003 )— named for the Col de la Madone, a 12K climb that starts in the French town of Menton and used by Armstrong to test his fitness — and TTX time trial bike ( 2005 ).

The record number of wins is eight, held by Lee Haney ( 1984 – 1991 ) and Ronnie Coleman ( 1998 – 2005 ).

Leicester hold the record for the biggest wins in both the Heineken Cup ( 90 – 19 demolition of Glasgow in 1997 ), and the English Premiership ( 83 – 10 defeat of Newcastle Falcons in 2005 ).

In the 2005 – 06 season he posted 43 wins, adding on to his NHL records of what was now five 40-win seasons and ten consecutive 30-win seasons.

Messiah College is the only college in the NCAA to win both the men's and women's soccer national championship in the same year with their wins in 2005, 2008, and 2009.

Only the wins using Reggie Bush in which he was ineligible, including the 2005 Orange Bowl, were vacated.

In 2005, Pitino's Louisville team posted a tie for the most single season wins in school history ( 33 ) while he is one of two men's coaches in NCAA history to lead three separate schools ( Providence, Kentucky, and Louisville ) to the Final Four.

To date, he is the most successful driver for Joe Gibbs Racing with 33 wins and two championships ( 2002 and 2005 ).

In 2005, Hydra, a dedicated chess computer with custom hardware and sixty-four processors and also winner of the 14th IPCCC in 2005, defeated seventh-ranked Michael Adams 5½ – ½ in a six-game match ( though Adams ' preparation was far less thorough than Kramnik's for the 2002 series ).

* In February 2005, Hydra won the 14th IPCCC ( International Paderborn Computer Chess Championships ) tournament.

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

Aside from the multitude of regional games held during the NCAA tournament, Indianapolis has hosted six men's NCAA Final Fours ( 1980, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2010 ) and two women's ( 2005, 2011 ).

Polgár returned to chess at the prestigious Corus chess tournament on January 15, 2005.

Hewitt pulled out of the Tennis Masters Cup tournament in Shanghai in November 2005 so that he could be with his wife Bec, who was due to give birth.

In the 2005 – 06 edition of the KFC Cup, the six permanent first class regions of the West Indies contested the tournament:

Elizabeth played in the Main Event of the 2005 World Series of Poker under the guidance of Daniel Negreanu, and won a special tournament celebrating the opening of a new poker room at Caesars Palace hotel in January 2006, beating out 83 celebrities and poker professionals to win $ 55, 000.

Starting in 2005, the WSOP began a tournament " circuit " at Harrah's-owned properties in the United States where, in addition to the $ 10, 000 buy-in tournament at each site, qualifying players became eligible for a revamped Tournament of Champions.

* American Scholastics Competition Network ( ASCN ) hosted a national tournament from 1987 through 2005 in the Chicago area.

In her first clay-court tournament since 2005, Davenport reached the semifinals of the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Florida, where she defaulted her match with Sharapova before it began, due to illness.

Kobayashi also won the 2005 Alka-Seltzer US Open of Competitive Eating, a three-hour IFOCE elimination tournament on ESPN, as well as the Glutton Bowl, a two-hour IFOCE eating special that aired on the Fox Network in 2002 .< ref >

Some custom maps have enjoyed great success, particularly maps based on AoS ( Aeon of Strife ) such as Defense of the Ancients, which became a tournament item at BlizzCon 2005 and other tournaments around the world ..

The Haleyville Boys Golf team qualified for the state championship tournament in 2005 ( seventh place ), 2006 ( sixth place ), 2007 ( fourth place ), and 2008 ( sixth place ).

In 2003, 2004, and 2005 wrestling team traveled to the state tournament in St. Paul in which they earned participation rights, 4th place, and consolation champs respectively.

The scholar bowl team also qualified for National tournament invitations in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2011.

Brazil are the current holders of the FIFA Confederations Cup after winning the 2005 and the 2009 edition of the tournament.

The participation of UK men's and women's sides at the 2012 Olympic tournament was a bone of contention between the four national associations in the UK from 2005, when the Games were awarded to London, to 2009.

Recent NESCAC champions include men's ice hockey ( 2011, albeit officially forfeited ), men's tennis ( 2008 ), women's volleyball ( 2011 ) men's cross country ( 2001, 2002 ), women's basketball ( 2001 – 2007, 2009 ), women's ice hockey ( 2002, 2004 ) and women's field hockey ( 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 ); recent NCAA tournament appearances include women's basketball ( Elite Eight, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 ; Final Four, 2004 ), women's field hockey ( Final Four, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 ) men's rugby ( sweet 16, 2001 ), women's ice hockey ( Final Four, 2002, 2003 ; Elite Eight, 2004, 2005 ), men's soccer ( Final Four, 2010 ) and women's lacrosse ( Final Four, 2011.

The Criollos decided not to play during the 2005 BSN season, partly because of economical reasons, but the team returned for the 2006 season and won the tournament for the first time in their history after beating the Cangrejeros de Santurce in the finals.

Tayron additionally Earned All-Tournament honors at the 2005 Disney Tip-Off Classic where he set two tournament records — total points ( 98 ) and points per game ( 32. 7 ).

Notable European successes include knocking English side Chelsea out of the UEFA Cup during the 2002 – 03 season, knocking out Sporting CP from the same tournament in 1999 – 2000, and qualifying for the group stages of the 2005 – 06 UEFA Cup.