The 1965 Summer Deaflympics, officially known as the 10th Summer Deaflympics, is an international

multi-sport event A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of interna ...

that was celebrated from June 27 to July 3, 1965, in

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. This is the first Deaflympics to be hosted outside of

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, and the first Deaflympics to be hosted in

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Sports

* Athletics * Basketball * Cycling * Diving * Football * Shooting * Swimming * Table Tennis * Tennis * Wrestling

References

* 1965 Summer Deaflympic

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