1985 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

Alpine skiing Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for ...

* Alpine Skiing World Cup: ** Men's overall season champion: Marc Girardelli,

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

** Women's overall season champion:

Michela Figini Michela Figini (born 7 April 1966) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. She is an Olympic, World Cup and world champion. Career Figini made her World Cup debut at age 16 in January 1983 and won the downhill at the 1984 Wint ...

, Switzerland

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

Super Bowl XIX Super Bowl XIX was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion 1984 Miami Dolphins season, Miami Dolphins and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion 1984 San Francisco 49ers season, San Francisco 49 ...

– the

San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's National ...

(NFC) won 38–16 over the

Miami Dolphins The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team based in the Miami metropolitan area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member team of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team pla ...

(AFC) **Location: Stanford Stadium **Attendance: 84,059 **MVP: Joe Montana, QB (San Francisco) * Baltimore Stars win USFL Championship 28-24 over Oakland Invaders

Artistic gymnastics

* World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – ** Men's all-around champion:

Yuri Korolev Yuri Nikolayevich Korolyov (russian: Юрий Николаевич Королёв; born 25 August 1962 in Vladimir) is a Soviet artistic gymnast who competed during the 1980s, winning many World and European Medals. Part of a deep Soviet team t ...

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

** Women's all-around champions:

Oksana Omelianchik Oksana Omelianchik (russian: Оксана Александровна Омельянчик; uk, Окса́на Oлекса́ндрiвна Омелья́нчик, Oksana Oleksandrivna Omelianchyk; alternative transliterations: Oksana Omel'yantchi ...

Yelena Shushunova Yelena Lvovna Shushunova (russian: Елена Львовна Шушунова; sometimes spelled Elena Shushunova; 23 May 1969 – 16 August 2018) was a Soviet Russian gymnast. Shushunova was one of five women (alongside Larisa Latynina, Věra � ...

** Men's team competition champion:

** Women's team competition champion:

Association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

* NASL announces suspension of operations and hopes to return in 1986. It never did. * England – FA Cup –

Manchester United Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of City of Salford, Salford to ...

won 1-0 (aet) over Everton. Kevin Moran of MU receives first-ever red card in an FA Cup final. * Everton are crowned English champions for the eighth time, setting a then record points total for a 42-game programme under three points for a win.

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

Essendon Essendon may refer to: Australia *Electoral district of Essendon *Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington *Essendon, Victoria **Essendon railway station **Essendon Airport *Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League United King ...

wins the 89th VFL Premiership (Essendon 26.14 (170) d

Hawthorn Hawthorn or Hawthorns may refer to: Plants * '' Crataegus'' (hawthorn), a large genus of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae * ''Rhaphiolepis'' (hawthorn), a genus of about 15 species of evergreen shrubs and small trees in the family Rosace ...

14.8 (92)) **

Brownlow Medal The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as "Charlie"), is awarded to the " best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by ...

awarded to Brad Hardie ( Footscray)

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division and were a charter member of ...

' player/manager Pete Rose breaks

Ty Cobb Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "the Georgia Peach", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the las ...

's All-Time Hit Record of 4,191 hits. Rose's record-breaking single was off of San Diego Padres pitcher Eric Show ( September 11) * Tom Seaver of the

Chicago White Sox The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The White Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is owned by Jerry Reinsdorf, and p ...

and

Phil Niekro Philip Henry Niekro ( ; April 1, 1939 – December 26, 2020), nicknamed "Knucksie", was an American baseball pitcher who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball, 20 of them with the Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee / Atlanta Braves. Niekro's 31 ...

of the

New York Yankees The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Amer ...

become the 17th and 18th pitchers to join the

300 win club In Major League Baseball, the 300-win club is the group of pitchers who have won 300 or more games. Twenty-four pitchers have reached this milestone. This list does not include Bobby Mathews who won 297 in the major leagues plus several more in 1 ...

on August 4 and October 6 respectively. *

Rollie Fingers Roland Glen Fingers (born August 25, 1946) is an American former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three teams between 1968 and 1985, when his effectiveness helped to redefine the value of relievers within baseba ...

breaks Sparky Lyle's American League career record of 232 saves. *

World Series The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, contested since 1903 between the champion teams of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). The winner of the World ...

– The

Kansas City Royals The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team was founded as an expans ...

defeat the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3, becoming the first team to win the

after losing the first two games at home. * Books published: **

Bill James George William James (born October 5, 1949) is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. ...

, '' The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract'': A seminal volume of baseball history by the leading

sabermetrician Sabermetrics, or originally SABRmetrics, is the empirical analysis of baseball, especially baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. Sabermetricians collect and summarize the relevant data from this in-game activity to answer specific ques ...

of the day. He revised the book into a new edition in

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

NCAA Men's Basketball Championship The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as NCAA March Madness and commonly called March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college basketball teams from ...

– ** Villanova wins 66-64 over Georgetown *

NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship The NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 women's college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic ...

** Old Dominion wins 70–65 over Georgia *

National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United S ...

1985 NBA All-Star Game The 35th National Basketball Association All-Star Game was played on February 10, 1985, at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. The coaches were K. C. Jones (Boston Celtics) for the East, and Pat Riley (Los Angeles Lakers) for the West. The MVP was ...

1985 NBA draft The 1985 NBA Draft took place on June 18, 1985. It was also the first NBA draft of the "lottery" era. It was also around this time where the league decreased the amount of rounds the draft spent, with the previous few years lasting up to 10 roun ...

NBA Finals The NBA Finals is the annual championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Eastern and Western Conference champions play a best-of-seven game series to determine the league champion. The team that wins the series is awa ...

***

Los Angeles Lakers The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Lakers play their ...

win 4 games to 2 over the

Boston Celtics The Boston Celtics ( ) are an American professional basketball team based in Boston. The Celtics compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 as one of t ...

** Team moves ***Kansas City Kings franchise moves,

1985–86 NBA season The 1985–86 NBA season was the 40th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Boston Celtics winning their third championship of the decade, beating the Houston Rockets 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals. Notable occur ...

first Sacramento Kings season. *

National Basketball League (Australia) The National Basketball League (NBL) is a men's Professional sports#Basketball, professional basketball list of basketball leagues, league in Australasia, currently composed of 10 teams: 9 in Australia and 1 in New Zealand. It is the premier ...

Finals: ** Brisbane Bullets defeated the Adelaide 36ers 121-95 in the final. *

United States Basketball League The United States Basketball League (USBL) was a professional men's spring basketball league. The league was formed in 1985 and ceased operations in 2008. The USBL started in 1985 as one of the first basketball leagues to play a late-spring to ...

( USBL ) was founded *Michael Jordan competes in his first dunk contest, wearing the first edition of his now famous line of "Air" Jordan basketball shoes. * A first game of Liga Nacional de Basket, a professional basketball league of

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

on April 26.

Boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

* April 15 – '' The War'': Marvin Hagler knocks out Thomas Hearns in three rounds to retain the world's Middleweight title. * August 10 – Héctor Camacho defeats

José Luis Ramírez José Luis Ramírez (born December 3, 1958) is a Mexican former professional boxer who was a two-time World Lightweight Champion. Career A native of Huatabampo, Sonora and a resident of Culiacán, Ramírez made his professional debut on March ...

to lift the WBC's world Lightweight title. * September 21 – Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes by a decision in 15 rounds to become the first world Light Heavyweight champion to win a world Heavyweight title.

Canadian football Canadian football () is a team sport, sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's sco ...

Grey Cup The Grey Cup (french: Coupe Grey) is both the championship game of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing in the namesake championship of professional Canadian football. The game is contested be ...

–

B.C. Lions The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Lions compete in the West Division (CFL), West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL), and play their home games at BC Place. The Lions playe ...

win 37–24 over the

Hamilton Tiger-Cats The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a professional Canadian football team based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Tim Hortons Fiel ...

Vanier Cup The Vanier Cup (french: Coupe Vanier) is the championship of Canadian university football. It is organized by U Sports football and is currently played between the winners of the Uteck Bowl and the Mitchell Bowl. It is named after Georges Vanier, ...

– Calgary Dinos win 25–6 over the Western Ontario Mustangs

Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

Kim Hughes Kimberley John Hughes (born 26 January 1954) is a former cricketer who played for Western Australia, Natal and Australia. He captained Australia in 28 Test matches between 1979 and 1984 before captaining a rebel Australian team in a tour of ...

leads a "rebel" team of players on tour of South Africa, banned from official cricket since 1970 because of

apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

Cycling Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from two ...

* Giro d'Italia won by Bernard Hinault of France *

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

– Bernard Hinault of France * UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race –

Joop Zoetemelk Hendrik Gerardus Joseph "Joop" Zoetemelk (; born 3 December 1946) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist. He started and finished the Tour de France 16 times, which were both records when he retired. He also holds the distance record in T ...

of the Netherlands

Dogsled racing

* Libby Riddles with her lead dogs, ''Axle'' & ''Dugan'', becomes the first woman to ever win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

Field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

* Men's Champions Trophy held in

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, Western Australia, won by Australia

Figure skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships (''"Worlds"'') is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the categories of single skating, men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ...

– ** Men's champion: Alexander Fadeev, Soviet Union ** Ladies' champion: Katarina Witt,

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

** Pair skating champions: Elena Valova / Oleg Kimovich Vasiliev, Oleg Vasiliev, Soviet Union ** Ice dancing champions: Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin, Soviet Union

Gaelic Athletic Association

* Camogie ** 1985 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, All-Ireland Camogie Champion: Kilkenny GAA, Kilkenny ** 1985 National Camogie League, National Camogie League: Kilkenny GAA, Kilkenny * Gaelic football ** 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship – Kerry GAA, Kerry 2-12 died Dublin GAA, Dublin 2-8 ** 1984–85 National Football League (Ireland), National Football League – Monaghan GAA, Monaghan 1-11 died Armagh GAA, Armagh 0-9 * Ladies' Gaelic football ** All-Ireland Senior Football Champion: Kerry GAA, Kerry ** National Football League: Kerry GAA, Kerry * Hurling ** 1985 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship – Offaly GAA, Offaly 2-11 died Galway GAA, Galway 1-12 ** 1984–85 National Hurling League, National Hurling League – Limerick GAA, Limerick 3–12 beat Clare GAA, Clare 1–7

Golf

Men's professional * 1985 Masters Tournament, Masters Tournament – Bernhard Langer * 1985 U.S. Open (golf), U.S. Open – Andy North * 1985 Open Championship, British Open – Sandy Lyle * 1985 PGA Championship, PGA Championship – Hubert Green * PGA Tour money leader – Curtis Strange – $542,321 * Champions Tour, Senior PGA Tour money leader – Peter Thomson (golfer), Peter Thomson – $386,724 * 1985 Ryder Cup, Ryder Cup – Europe won 16½ to 11½ over the United States in team golf. Men's amateur * The Amateur Championship, British Amateur – Garth McGimpsey * United States Amateur Championship (men's golf), U.S. Amateur – Sam Randolph Women's professional * 1985 Nabisco Dinah Shore, Nabisco Dinah Shore – Alice Miller (golfer), Alice Miller * 1985 LPGA Championship, LPGA Championship – Nancy Lopez * 1985 U.S. Women's Open, U.S. Women's Open – Kathy Baker (golfer), Kathy Baker * 1985 du Maurier Classic, Classique du Maurier Classic – Pat Bradley (golfer), Pat Bradley * LPGA, LPGA Tour money leader – Nancy Lopez – $416,472

Harness racing

* North America Cup – Staff Director * Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers, United States Pacing Triple Crown races – *# Cane Pace – Chairmanoftheboard *# Little Brown Jug (horse racing), Little Brown Jug – Nihilator *# Messenger Stakes – Pershing Square (horse), Pershing Square * Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters, United States Trotting Triple Crown races – *# Hambletonian Stakes, Hambletonian – Prakas *# Yonkers Trot - Master Willie *# Kentucky Futurity – Flak Bait (horse), Flak Bait * Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship – ** Pacers: Preux Chevalier ** Trotters: Scotch Notch

Horse racing

Steeplechases * Cheltenham Gold Cup – Forgive 'n Forget * 1985 Grand National, Grand National – Last Suspect Flat races * Australia – Melbourne Cup won by What A Nuisance * Canada – Queen's Plate won by La Lorgnette * France – 1985 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe won by Rainbow Quest (horse), Rainbow Quest * Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Law Society (horse), Law Society * Japan – Japan Cup won by Symboli Rudolf * Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, English Triple Crown Races: *# 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Shadeed *# 1985 Epsom Derby, The Derby – Slip Anchor *# St. Leger Stakes – Oh So Sharp * Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, United States Triple Crown Races: *# 1985 Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Derby – Spend a Buck *# 1985 Preakness Stakes, Preakness Stakes – Tank's Prospect *# Belmont Stakes – Creme Fraiche (horse), Creme Fraiche * Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships: *# Breeders' Cup Classic – Proud Truth *# Breeders' Cup Distaff – Life's Magic *# Breeders' Cup Juvenile – Tasso (horse), Tasso *# Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies – Twilight Ridge *# Breeders' Cup Mile – Cozzene *# Breeders' Cup Sprint – Precisionist (horse), Precisionist *# Breeders' Cup Turf – Pebbles (horse), Pebbles

Ice hockey

* Art Ross Trophy as the National Hockey League, NHL's leading scorer during the regular season: Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oilers * Hart Memorial Trophy for the National Hockey League, NHL's Most Valuable Player: Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oilers * 1985 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup – Edmonton Oilers win 4 games to 1 over the Philadelphia Flyers * 1985 World Ice Hockey Championships, World Hockey Championship – ** Men's champion: Czechoslovakia defeated Canada ** 1985 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Junior Men's champion: Canada defeated Czechoslovakia

Motorsport

Rugby league

*1985 National Panasonic Cup *1985 New Zealand rugby league season *1985 NSWRL season *1984–85 Rugby Football League season / 1985–86 Rugby Football League season *1985 State of Origin series *1985–1988 Rugby League World Cup

Rugby union

* 91st 1985 Five Nations Championship, Five Nations Championship series is won by Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland

Snooker

* 1985 World Snooker Championship, World Snooker Championship – Dennis Taylor beats Steve Davis 18-17 in one of the 1985 World Snooker Championship final, greatest snooker matches of all time * Snooker world rankings, World rankings – Steve Davis remains Snooker world number ones, world number one for 1985/86

Swimming (sport), Swimming

* First 1985 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, Pan Pacific Championships held in Tokyo (August 15 – August 18) * July 21 – Switzerland's Dano Halsall swims a world record in the 50m freestyle (long course) at a swimming meet in Bellinzona, shaving off 0.02 of the previous record (22.54) set by USA's Robin Leamy (swimmer), Robin Leamy four years ago: 22.52. * December 6 – USA's Tom Jager takes the world record from Dano Halsall (22.52) in the 50m freestyle (long course) at a swimming meet in Austin, Texas, clocking 22.40.

Tennis

* Grand Slam in tennis men's results: *# 1985 Australian Open – Men's singles, Australian Open – Stefan Edberg *# 1985 French Open – Men's singles, French Open – Mats Wilander *# 1985 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, Wimbledon championships – Boris Becker *# 1985 U.S. Open – Men's singles, US Open – Ivan Lendl * Grand Slam in tennis women's results: *# 1985 Australian Open – Women's singles, Australian Open – Martina Navratilova *# 1985 French Open – Women's singles, French Open – Chris Evert *# 1985 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, Wimbledon championships – Martina Navratilova *# 1985 US Open – Women's singles, US Open – Hana Mandlíková * 1985 Davis Cup, Davis Cup – Sweden wins 3-2 over Germany, Germany F.R. in world team tennis.

Volleyball

* 1985 Men's European Volleyball Championship, Men and 1985 Women's European Volleyball Championship, Women's European Volleyball Championships held in the Netherlands: both men's and women's tournaments won by USSR

Water polo

* 1985 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup held in Duisburg won by West Germany * 1985 Men's European Water Polo Championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria won by USSR * 1985 Women's European Water Polo Championship held in Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway won by the Netherlands

Multi-sport events

* Sixth 6th Pan Arab Games, Pan Arab Games held in Rabat, Morocco * Second 1985 World Games, World Games held in London, United Kingdom * Thirteenth 1985 Summer Universiade, Summer Universiade held in Kobe, Japan * Twelfth 1985 Winter Universiade, Winter Universiade held in Belluno, Italy

Awards

* Associated Press Athlete of the Year#List of award winners, Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Dwight Gooden, Major League Baseball * Associated Press Athlete of the Year#List of award winners, Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year – Nancy Lopez, LPGA, LPGA golf * American Broadcasting Company, ABC's Wide World of Sports (U.S. TV series), Wide World of Sports Athlete of the year: ''Pete Rose'' ''Major League Baseball''

References

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