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1951 World Ice Hockey Championships

The 1951 World Ice Hockey Championships were the 15th World Championships and the 28th European Championships in ice hockey for international teams.

1988 Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship

With the championship generally ignored by most of the top teams from the stronger Group A championships (Australia, Europe and Japan), Crowe, Bond and Pirro were able to gain the top three placings despite each only running in two of the four rounds.

1991 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

This was the 55th World Championships, and at the same time was the 66th and last Ice Hockey European Championships.

1993 Ansett Australian Indoor Championships

The 1993 Ansett Australian Indoor Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney in Australia and was part of the Championship Series of the 1993 ATP Tour.

1994 Australian Indoor Championships

The 1994 Australian Indoor Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney in Australia and was part of the Championship Series of the 1994 ATP Tour.

1996 Miller Lite Hall of Fame Championships

The 1996 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships (also known as 1996 Miller Lite Hall of Fame Championships for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in the United States and was part of the World Series of the 1996 ATP Tour.

1997 Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships

The 1997 Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Memorial Drive Park in Adelaide in Australia and was part of the World Series of the 1997 ATP Tour.

2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships

The 2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo in Japan that was part of the International Series Gold of the 2002 ATP Tour and of Tier III of the 2002 WTA Tour.

2004–05 Swedish Figure Skating Championships

The 2004–2005 season Swedish Championships were held in Nyköping from December 8 through December 12, 2004.

2007 International Bowl

The on-air ESPN crew included John Saunders, who was born and raised in Toronto and graduated from WMU; and Doug Flutie, who played two seasons with the Toronto Argonauts, both of which ended in Grey Cup championships.

2007 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships

The 2007 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships was a men's tennis event on the 2007 ATP Tour.

2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

Coming into the championships, Ivory Williams had ran a world-leading time of 6.49 seconds to win the US indoor championships, positioning him as a possible gold medallist.

2010 Men's World Floorball Championships Qualifying

The North American Qualifying rounds of the 2010 World Championships took place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, from February 5 to February 6, 2010.

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.

2013–14 Swedish Figure Skating Championships

The results of the national championships were among the criteria used to choose the teams to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, 2014 World Figure Skating Championships, and the 2014 European Figure Skating Championships.

Adnan Dirjal

His most successful club spell came at Al-Rasheed, the club owned by Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday, where he captained the club to three Iraqi league titles, two cups and a record three Arab Club Championships during the mid to late 80s.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1976

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with Ahane and Creggan winning the championships of the other two provinces.

Angela Nikodinov

The pairs team of Bianca Butler / Joseph Jacobsen and Tenile Victorsen are among her and Dinev's former students that have qualified for the U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the senior level.

Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Qualification

During the 2012/13 or 2013/14 Biathlon World Cup season the athlete must have two results at IBU Cup, Open European Championships, World Championships or World Cup in the Sprint or Individual that at a maximum is 20% behind the average time of the top three athletes.

Björn Bach

His most recent success came at the 2006 European Championships, held in Račice, Czech Republic, where he won a K-4 1000 m bronze medal.

Bolivian football league system

In order to qualify for the Nacional B there are 9 subdivisions at the 3rd level: the Departmental Championships or Regional Leagues, which comprises teams from the different Departments of Bolivia: Santa Cruz, La Paz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Oruro, Tarija Department, Beni Department Pando Department, Potosí

Bonnie McCarroll

In 1922, she won two cowgirl bronc riding championships at both Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and the first rodeo hosted at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Christopher Hedquist

Career highlights include: Bronze Medal 2003 U.S. National Championships, 4th 2003 Junior World Championships, 2004 Overall European Cup Champion, Gold 2005 World Universiade, 7th overall 2006-2007 World Cup

Corey Lynch

Lynch played collegiate ball at Appalachian State University from 2003 to 2007, helping his Mountaineers win 3 back-to-back national championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007 .

Earl R. Southee

He was a founder of the Soaring Society of America (1931) and managed 'Glider Meets' (National Gliding and Soaring Championships), at Elmira, New York, during the mid to late 1930s.

Eduar Villanueva

In the final he finished in eighth place, which was the best ever performance by a Venezuelan track runner at the world championships (improving upon William Wuycke's run in 1987).

Europahalle

The venue has featured a number of world record performances in athletics, including a jump of 2.07 m in the high jump by Heike Henkel in 1992, when the Europahalle hosted the German Indoor Championships.

FIBT World Championships 1986

The FIBT World Championships 1986 took place in Königssee, West Germany for the second time, having hosted the event previously in 1979.

Francesco Panetta

Francesco Panetta (born 10 January 1963 in Siderno) is a former Italian long-distance runner, who won several medals at international championships in the 1980s.

IPC Swimming World Championships

They are organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) on a four year rotation with the Paralympic Games (every four years) and regional championships (every two years).

Ivana Buden

:17th, European Outdoor Championships, individual, Rovereto

Jack Cusack

During his six years with the Canton Bulldogs, Cusack led the team to Ohio League championships, in 1916 and 1917, and was responsible for bringing Jim Thorpe into professional football.

Jason the Terrible

On September 23, 1994, he teamed with Randy Rudd and defeated Sonny Corleone and Rob Austin to win the Canadian Rocky Mountain Wrestling Tag Team Championships.

Katherine Washington

Katherine Washington is a former American women's basketball player, who played on the first two U.S. women's national teams, earning world championships in 1953 and 1957.

Kola Adedoyin

Disaster again struck a couple of weeks later when he ruptured ankle ligaments in Geneva, Switzerland 6 weeks before the World Junior Championships.

La Salle Coliseum

The coliseum also hosted two major karatedo championships, the 1996 Philippine Karatedo Federation National Championship headed by Pocholo Veguillas and Cristina Ramos-Jalasco, former Philippine Olympic Committee chairman and daughter of former president Fidel Ramos and the 2007 20th PKF National Open.

Marc-André Moreau

In 2004, he won a World Cup event in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec and he picked up a silver medal at the 2005 moguls world championships in Ruka, Finland.

Martial Mbandjock

His final competition of the championships was with France in the 4 x 100 metres relay.

NACAC Championships

The last of the six IAAF areas to hold a continental senior athletics competition, the NACAC Championships' inaugural edition was held in 2007 in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Naoya Tsukahara

In 2009, he moved to Australia, competing and winning at the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013 Australian National Gymnastics Championships, and winning 2nd place behind Joshua Jefferis in 2012.

Nicolás Núñez

He participated in the South American championships in Arequipa, Peru, alongside Mauritius Pinilla, Mark Gonzalez, Luis Jimenez and was debuted by U. Catholic in the first division, against University of Chile.

Peta-Gaye Dowdie

As a member of the Jamaican sprint relay team she won a bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships and gold medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and 2007 Pan American Games.

Peter Sack

He finished fourth at the 1998 World Junior Championships and won the bronze medal at the 1999 European Junior Championships behind Ralf Bartels and Mikuláš Konopka.

Rainer Kuhlmey

He has won several national titles (including the 1968 German Team Championships with Eintracht Frankfurt), took part in several international tournaments, such as Beaulieu and Cannes Championships, and represented Germany in the main draw of the 1971 French Open – Men's Singles competition at Roland Garros, Paris.

Robert Reichel

He was a member of gold and silver medal squads at the 1988 and 1989 European Junior Championships, respectively.

Ron McBride

In conference games, he guided the Utes to a 58-42 record and won a share of two conference championships (1995 in the WAC and 1999 in the Mountain West).

Stamps, Arkansas

From 1948-1950, the former professional football player George Doherty coached at Stamps High School and turned a winless team into two district championships and a second-place finish statewide.

Svilen Neykov

As the coach of Bulgaria's national rowing team, Neykov has qualified for World Championships, brought teams to a top three Rowing World Cup finish, earned a bronze medal from the 1999 World Rowing Championships and a 2000 Summer Olympics quota.

World Para Table Tennis Championships

The first edition was held in 1990 in Assen, Netherland, the second in 1998, from that the championships was held every four years.

Yale golf course

The Yale course has been the site of every significant state championship, two USGA Junior National events, the 1991 and 2004 NCAA Eastern Regional championships, the 1991 ECAC Men's Championship, and the 1992 ECAC Women's Championship, as well as the Nike Connecticut Open.


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