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unusual facts about Champion, Alberta



1941 American Football League season

At the beginning of the 1941 season, the Bullies accepted a challenge from the defending Western Interprovincial Football Union champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers for a three-game series; the Bombers had been banned from Grey Cup contention that year due to rules discrepancies between the WIFU and the other organizations playing Canadian football at the time.

1960 Caribbean Series

The XII edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was a baseball tournament held from February 10 through February 15, 1960 featuring the champion teams from Cuba (Cienfuegos), Panama (Marlboro), Puerto Rico (Caguas) and Venezuela (Rapiños).

1984 Australian Sports Car Championship

Queensland based owner/driver Bap Romano won the series driving his Romano WE84 Cosworth from 1982 champion Chris Clearihan (driving the Kaditcha-Chevrolet that Peter Hopwood used to win the 1983 Championship) and Andrew Roberts driving a self designed Roberts S2 Ford.

2010 NCRHA Division I Collegiate Roller Hockey National Championships

The 2010 NCRHA Division I Collegiate Roller Hockey National Championships involved 21 schools playing in a round robin followed by a single elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCRHA Division I college roller hockey.

2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 5000 and 10000 metres

The medallists were the same as the previous season, however in a different order: Jorrit Bergsma won the cup, while his countrymen Bob de Jong – the defending champion – and Sven Kramer came second and third, respectively.

Abdul-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr

The mubarizun unit of the Rashidun army was composed of elite warriors who were champion swordsmen, lancers and archers.

Albert Wright

Chalky Wright (1912-1957), born Albert Wright, Mexican-American featherweight boxer and world champion

Amanda Reddin

Personal coach of many successful gymnasts, including three time world champion Beth Tweddle, two time British All-Around champion Hannah Whelan and 2012 British Beam Champion and Olympic Team member Jennifer Pinches.

Arsenio Laurel

He was among the first champion racers in the early years of organized auto racing in the Philippines, driving his 1954 Studebaker on the oval of the Santa Ana Hippodrome in Manila (when the horses were not running).

Bholu Brothers

He has suffered defeat at the hands of Kala Pahalwan " the Lion of Punjab" during the 50's, Big Bill Verna and the 3 times world Judo champion Anton Geesink in South America in 1968.

Boyet

Boyet Fernandez (21st century), Filipino champion basketball head coach

Buffalo Blues

In the 1914 season, the team posted an 80-71 record (.530) and finished in fourth place, seven games behind the league champion Indianapolis Hoosiers.

Carol Windley

Born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta, Windley's debut short story collection, Visible Light (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Chama Cha Mapinduzi

Originally a champion of African socialism, upholder of the system of collectivized agriculture known as Ujamaa and firmly oriented to the left, the CCM espouses today a more neoliberal approach.

Christa Luding

This made her the second woman (after Sheila Young) to become World Champion in both speed skating and cycling.

Eddie Futch

Champions who worked under Futch's tutelage include Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes, Riddick Bowe, Michael Spinks, Alexis Arguello, Marlon Starling, Wayne McCullough, Montell Griffin, and his first world champion fighter, Don Jordan, who was crowned world welterweight champion in 1958.

El Cazador de la Bruja

A manga titled El Cazador de la Bruja by Hirose Shū started serialization in the shōnen manga magazine Champion RED on March 19, 2007.

Fred Archer

Fred W. Archer, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1913–1917

Gary M. Heidnik

Shortly after Maxine's birth, Heidnik was arrested for the kidnapping and rape of Anjeanette's sister Alberta, who had been living in an institution for the mentally disabled in Penn Township.

Gary Sykes

Educated at Birkdale High School he is based in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire and is a former British super featherweight champion.

Global Boxing Gym

Global Boxing has also served as a filming facility for Everlast photo shoots for professional athletes such as NFL running back Reggie Bush, Super Six Champion Andre Ward, 2008 Bronx Olympic medalist Deontay Wilder and many more.

Gösta Johansson

As a player of Djurgårdens IF, Johansson was Swedish champion a total of six times.

Grant Potter

Potter was the Gold medalist of the 2010 Worlds Masters Stage Race, 2009 U.S. Masters National Champion, 2010 UCI Worlds top 5 finisher, 2010 Deutschlandsberg Worlds TT winner among many other titles.

Hudson Hornet

The Gran Turismo developer, Polyphony Digital is confirmed the 1954 Hudson Hornet will be rebuild on December, also will feature this car on the racing simulator "Gran Turismo 6", and the former Formula 1 world champion, Mario Andretti to talk about the early racing life story for filming the GT6 and Mario's documentary "First Love".

István Csom

Over the course of his career, Csom defeated many top Grandmasters, including Ulf Andersson, Boris Gulko, Tony Miles, Lajos Portisch, Samuel Reshevsky, Nigel Short, former World Champion Mikhail Tal, Rafael Vaganian, and Arthur Yussupov.

Jeannie Cho Lee

Since August 2010, Jeannie Cho Lee, along with the diving champion Guo Jingjing and principal dancer Yuan Yuan Tan, has represented Estee Lauder in a campaign for Advanced Night Repair eye serum "No. 1 Eye Repair in the Eyes of No. 1".

Jeremy Grantham

He has stated his opposition to the Keystone Pipeline on the basis of the ruinous environmental consequences that its construction will bring to Alberta and to the entire planet due to the contribution that burning the extracted oil would make to climate change.

John Kane

The next year, however, Kane found a champion in painter–juror Andrew Dasburg, who persuaded the jury to accept Kane’s Scene in the Scottish Highlands (Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh).

Juaquin Gallardo

After beating title contender Arturo Morua, he would then lose a very disputed decision to IBO Light Welterweight World Champion Colin Lynes.

Kevin Dresser

Born in Fort Dodge and a native of Humboldt, Iowa, Dresser was a two-time high school wrestling state champion and four time place winner fifth (freshman) and sixth (sophomore) Humboldt High School.

Liu Tianyou

He, with Olympic champion Zhu Qinan and Li Jie, beat South Korea with 1,786 points to win the first gold of the Games.

Marty Wood

Martin Roy (Marty) Wood is a celebrated rodeo cowboy from Bowness, Calgary, in the province of Alberta, Canada.

Melissa Del Valle

On August 9, she faced junior lightweight world champion Isra Girgrah, taking the fight on short notice.

New Bedford High School

They will face the Bay State Conference's Carey Division champion Needham High School in the semifinals on Tuesday, November 29.

Noholme

In that first crop was champion handicap horse Nodouble, an outstanding runner who was voted American Co-Champion Older Male Horse honours in 1969 and 1970 and was the Leading sire in North America in 1981.

Øyvin Thon

He is also five times Relay champion, as a member of the Norwegian winning teams in 1981 (Thun, Switzerland), 1983 (Zalaegerszeg, Hungary), 1985 (Bendigo, Australia), 1987 (Gérardmer, France) and 1989 (Skaraborg, Sweden).

Rio Linda, California

This track is noted as the first track that four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon ever competed on.

Ripa Teatina

The father of boxing World Champion Rocky Marciano, Pierino Marchegiano, immigrated to the United States from Ripa Teatina in 1912.

Rochelle Ballard

The waves in Kauai are considered as some of the best in world and with the encouragement of four-time World Champion and Kauai resident Margo Oberg, she started surfing at 12 years old.

Samurai Cowboy

The movie was filmed in 1993 in Southern Alberta, more specifically, Waterton Lakes National Park.

San Luis High School

Germán Altamírano, a two-time Arizona amateur champion and an undefeated boxer signed to Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions

Shaybah ibn Rabi'ah

He was also a champion of the Meccan army sent along with his brother Utbah and his nephew Walid ibn Utbah in the Battle of Badr in around 624 AD (2 A.H.).

Stewart Haslinger

Stewart Haslinger (born 25 November 1981, in Ainsdale, Merseyside) is an English chess Grandmaster and former British Junior champion.

Sunita Godara

She became the national marathon champion first time in 1984 by winning Delhi Marathon She won medals in the Penang and Kedah marathons.

UFC 66

The card also saw the return of former Heavyweight Champion Andrei Arlovski and The Ultimate Fighter 3 winner Michael Bisping's first bout in the UFC since winning that season.

Vaughan Mills

CrossIron Mills, located outside of Calgary, Alberta, opened on August 19, 2009.

Victor Young Perez

Victor "Young" Perez, tells the astonishing, harrowing and poignant story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932.

Virgil Lozano

In 2007 he became the Middleweight Champion and retained the belt until the promotion was terminated in 2008.

Women's World Chess Championship 2011

It was organised by FIDE and was played in a match format between the defending champion and a challenger, determined via the FIDE Grand Prix series.

Young Stribling

Although he lost his championship bid in the fight against future world champion Jack Sharkey at Miami Beach in 1929, "Strib" at 23 had fought more professional rounds than any other fighter in history, had knocked out more opponents, and had compiled other records as well.


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