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2006 FIFA World Cup seeding

Significant differences between this ranking of the teams and the official FIFA rankings at the time of the draw can be seen for Czech Republic, Germany and the Korean Republic (ρ=0.87).

2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump

All the favourites progressed, with Kyriakos Ioannou topping the rankings, while Mickael Hanany and Motswana Kabelo Kgosiemang jumped season's best to make the final.

2011 Mountain West Conference football season

They finished the year as the highest ranked non-automatic qualifying school in the BCS rankings to receive an automatic bid to a BCS game.

2012 Syracuse Orange football team

Their 2012 schedule is the 42nd-toughest in the nation, according to rankings compiled by statistician Jeff Sagarin.

Abdellah Falil

Returning to the grass circuits, he formed part of the Moroccan team for the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and placed 28th overall, leading a national team including Jamel Chatbi and Anis Selmouni to fifth place in the rankings.

Annette Sergent

She also led the French women to second in the team rankings behind the United States (led by Lynn Jennings).

Association of Surfing Professionals Europe

An ASP Prime event is held at premium venues with a restricted field and offers Prime ASP World Rankings points.

Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games – Men's hammer throw

His bronze medal went to number four in the rankings, Cuba's Yosvany Suárez.

Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing

The player controls a boxer as he boxes his way to the top, earning purse money along the way, progressing up the world rankings until fighting Barry McGuigan himself.

Becky Lyne

Not selected for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in March due to a series of injuries, the Stockport-based athlete leapt to third in the UK all-time 800 metre rankings with 1 min 58.20 sec in the Norwich Union British Grand Prix in Gateshead in June 2006, finishing second behind Kenyan Commonwealth champion Janeth Jepkosgei.

Brand rankings of Japanese universities

The Brand rankings of Japanese universities (大学ブランドランキング Daigaku Burando Rankingu) is a ranking of the Japanese universities by Nikkei Business Publications, released annually in November.

Catholic University of Portugal

According to rankings published by the Financial Times, the Catholic University master degree in management is one of the two best in Portugal.

Chelsea Hammond

Because of a major circumstance, she was consequently joined with Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare, who finished behind her in the overall rankings by just a single meter difference.

Colt International

Colt International was ranked as the #1 Best International Trip Planning company for 2012 based on customer satisfaction, service quality, dependability and value in Professional Pilot Magazine for the annual PRASE award rankings.

Dana X. Bible

In ten seasons at Texas, Bible brought the Longhorns football program to national prominence, winning three Southwest Conference championships, making three appearances at the Cotton Bowl Classic (two victorious), and placing in the final AP Poll rankings five times.

Dinny Pails

Pails turned professional and played on the pro tour off and on for many years, Bud Collins ranking him the World No. 4 pro in 1948, whilst he reached as high as World No. 6 in the 1947 amateur rankings.

East Carolina–NC State rivalry

The two teams regularly qualify for the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship and games often have implications on the national rankings, as both teams are consistently in the top 30.

European Union statistics

The rankings of the table refer to the UNDP Human Development Report 2013 (2012 data).

European University

European University's Spain campus was ranked at 52 out of 67 European business schools in the 2010 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings.

Fordham Graduate School of Business

The school was ranked 27th in both the 2006 and 2007 rankings of regional schools conducted by The Wall Street Journal / Harris Interactive, based on its annual survey of corporate recruiters.

General Amherst High School

GAHS has been recognized for a number of causes, including (but not limited to): the Canadian record of per capita student contributions in donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, championships in football, hockey, basketball, track & field, wrestling, tennis, cross country and volleyball; the recipient of several Essex County "Student Prime Minister of the Year" awards (2004, 2005, & 2009) and high rankings in the University of Waterloo Fermat Mathematics competition.

Going broke universities – Disappearing universities

Although there are a lot of university rankings in Japan, most of them rank universities by their entrance difficulties often called "Hensachi" or by alumni's successes.

Graham Miles

During the 1980s, he slid down the rankings and he last played at the World Championship in 1984.

History of Ohio State University

Presently, the university has reached the ranking of becoming a Public Ivy, as well as very receiving high rankings and awards from many institutions, including U.S. News, Academic Ranking of World Universities, The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and The Public Accounting Report.

Idealo

This is in contrast to alternative price comparison services such as Kelkoo and Shopping.com, which feature only paying retailers and allow them to bid for position in the rankings.

Jacksonville metropolitan area

Noted for its campus, which includes Henry Flagler's former Ponce de León Hotel, it is currently included in The Princeton Review's Best 366 Colleges Rankings.

John Tomac

The following year, he finished in fifth place at the DH World Championship held in Bromont, Canada, and had to settle for second place behind Switzerland's Thomas Frischknecht in the XC World Cup rankings (though there were two event wins again).

Judith McHale

Discovery was consistently named one of the best places to work in various rankings, and, in 2004, McHale was honored by Working Mother magazine as a “National Family Champion” for her leadership.

Julian Golding

His time of 20.18 seconds (-0.2) ranks him 6th on the All-Time UK rankings, with only John Regis, Christian Malcolm, Linford Christie, Darren Campbell and Adam Gemili ahead of him.

Kolleen Park

She was the conductor for the musical "Aida", the Korean version of Disney's first original Broadway musical rather than the opera, which was the most popular show in Korea at the end of 2010 and topped the booking rankings for December that were compiled by Inter Park.

Mac Foster

After a military discharge, Foster turned pro, becoming the third Fresno boxer of note (Young Corbett III was a world welterweight champion and Wayne Thornton rose through the rankings to become a number one heavyweight contender in 1970.

Martin Schmitt

With 28 world cup successes (10 in the 1998/1999 season, 11 in 1999/2000, 6 in 2000/01, and 1 in 2001/2002), he finished sixth in the world rankings behind Matti Nykänen (46 victories), Gregor Schlierenzauer (44 victories), Adam Małysz (39 victories), Janne Ahonen (36 victories) and Jens Weißflog (33 victories).

Márton Fucsovics

Fucsovics worked his way to No. 1 in the ITF Junior Rankings in July 2010 and as a result entered the Youth Olympics as tournament's top seed.

Mihai Covaliu

Covaliu then disposed of Mathieu Gourdain 15–12 to earn the first Romanian gold medal in sabre and become number one in FIE rankings.

New York University Law Review

The Law Review ranks fourth in Washington & Lee Law School's overall law review rankings, following Harvard, Yale, and Columbia.

Palau national football team

NOTE: Palau are not included in the FIFA World rankings but are currently ranked 232nd in the Elo rankings.

Real-time sociolinguistics

Labov surveyed sales personnel of three different department stores of varying prestige rankings: Saks Fifth Avenue (high-end), Macy’s (mid-range), and S. Klein (low-end).

Rizzani de Eccher

In 2004 Rizzani de Eccher first appeared in the top ten Italian contractors and in the world’s 100 largest contractors rankings compiled by Engineering News-Record.

Rob Atha

Rob Atha is a table football/foosball player from the UK, currently ranked 3rd in the world and regularly ranking in the top 5 of the International Table Soccer Federation (ITSF) rankings.

School of Communication and Management Studies

In Business India's annual rankings of the top business schools in India, SCMS was ranked 42nd-best in 2011, up from 44th in the previous year's tables.

Shitaye Eshete

Shitaye made her senior debut the following year, running at the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and she was eleventh overall in the rankings, leading the Bahrain women alongside Mimi Belete to ninth place in the team competition.

Starters with Mocktales

Starters with Mocktales received high rankings in both its Amazon Kindle page, as well as on the popular book sharing website, Goodreads.

Timmy Martin

The highest rankings in the Nielsen ratings for Lassie were the Martin family years: #24 in 1957, #22 in 1958, #15 in 1959, #15 in 1961, #21 in 1962, #13 in 1963, and #17 in 1964.

Torger Nergård

Team Nergård won the silver medal having played some memorable matches, including a 9-8 win against Canada's Team Kevin Koe in the final round-robin game, which placed Norway first in the rankings (10-1), and a 9-7 win against Scotland's Team Warwick Smith in the semi-final.

Vernon Kirby

He was ranked the third in the South African rankings in 1932 and World No. 9 in 1935 by J. Brooks Fenno, Jr. of The Literary Digest.

Warren County Technical School

Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 190th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 72 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the two components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA), mathematics (75.5%) and language arts literacy (96.1%).

Witten/Herdecke University

Rankings by major German Newspapers such as Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as well as the CHE University Ranking, the only comprehensive ranking for German Universities, acknowledge the excellent study conditions as well as very good career prospects for students from Witten/Herdecke University.

Zasu

Zasu, Master of the seat, head of the temple (abbot) in Sōkan, the Japanese system of rankings for Buddhist clergy

Zeeboids

Zeeboids is compatible with Zeebo Football Club (F.C.) games such as Zeebo F.C. Foot Camp, enabling players to create custom characters ("avatars") and participate in online rankings.


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