England celebrates
after victory in UEFA
Women’s Euro

Sporting highlights of 2025

FIFA Club World Cup

Marco
Odermatt
Fourth title

British hero
F1 driver
Lando
Norris

Tadej PogaĊar


January
3 Luke Littler delivers
crushing victory to become
youngest ever PDC darts
world champion, aged 17

25 Madison Keys seals first
major at Australian Open –
Coco Gauff, Iga Świątek
and Aryna Sabalenka each
win Grand Slam titles in 2025

February
2 Denmark
beat Croatia
to clinch fourth IHF World
Men’s Handball Championship

9 Philadelphia
Eagles dominate
Super Bowl
beating Kansas
City, ending their
three-peat dream

16 Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo
obliterates half marathon
world record in Barcelona

March
16 Swiss skier Marco Odermatt
flies to fourth successive Alpine
Ski World Cup title – Federica
Brignone of Italy takes women’s title

21 Heavyweight boxing legend
George Foreman dies at 76

April
13 Rory McIlroy achieves
golfing immortality in
Augusta to claim
career Grand Slam –
winning all four majors

27 Liverpool hoist
Premier League trophy –
equalling Man Utd’s total
of 20 top flight titles

In July, Liverpool
and Portugal forward
Diogo Jota dies in car
crash in Spain, aged 28,
with brother Andre Silva, 25

May
18 Scottie Scheffler
triumphs at PGA
Championship,
before lifting Claret
Jug at The Open

31 PSG vindicate 14-year quest for
continental dominance by beating
Inter to win first European Cup

June
1 British cyclist
Simon Yates
wins Giro d’Italia

8 At Roland
Garros, Carlos
Alcaraz (right)
defends crown after
record five-hour epic
with emerging rival
Jannik Sinner 
– pair share two
majors apiece
in 2025

14 South Africa clinch first cricket
title at World Test Championship

22 Oklahoma win NBA finals

July
13 Chelsea earn
$113.4m with
title at FIFA
Club World
Cup

19 Oleksandr Usyk
retains heavyweight
boxing titles, ravaging
Daniel Dubois

27 Tadej PogaĊar powers to
fourth Tour de France crown

27 England beat Spain to retain
UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 title 

August
3 Canadian
star Summer
McIntosh, 18,
storms to four
gold medals at
World Aquatics
Championships 

September
21 Melissa
Jefferson-
Wooden seals 
sprint triple of
100m, 200m and
4x100m titles at World
Athletics Championships

27 Host nation England beat Canada
to lift Women’s Rugby World Cup 

28 Team Europe
retains golf’s
Ryder Cup after
tumultuous battle
in New York

October
5 Dominant
McLaren clinches
F1 Constructors’
Championship

23 Individual neutral athlete
Angelina Melnikova wins women’s
all-around title in gymnastics

28 Legend Marc Marquez
completes epic comeback
with seventh MotoGP title


November
2 LA Dodgers defend
World Series crown

December
7 Lando Norris holds nerve in
Abu Dhabi to secure maiden F1 title

21 Morocco hosts four-week
Africa Cup of Nations showpiece

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