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2XU has been worn by world champion athletes including triathlete Emma Snowsill and currently holds official alliances with bodies including Rowing Australia, the Australian Institute of Sport, the Australian Paralympic Committee, United States Ski and Snowboard Association and many others.
Alessio Chiodi (born March 17, 1973 in Salò) is an Italian former three-time Grand Prix motocross world champion.
On the basis of his rating, he was invited to play a ten game match against Vladimir Kramnik to select a challenger for World Champion Garry Kasparov.
He specialized in racing small displacement bikes such as in the 50 cc, 80 cc and 125 cc classes but many fellow racers, including former world champion Barry Sheene consider him among the greatest motorcycle racers of all time.
Anton ("Toni") Mang (born 29 September 1949 in Inning (Starnberg) at the Ammersee) is a former five-time world champion in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from Germany.
Reigning world champion and world record holder Tomáš Dvořák struggled with a knee problem throughout the competition and finished in a disappointing sixth place.
Former world champion Block, and double Olympic champion, both looked past their best trailing in behin Campbell who was never behind.
Non-qualifiers included junior record holder Angelica Bengtsson, former world record holder Svetlana Feofanova and reigning world champion Fabiana Murer.
The club's membership contains several of Britain's leading athletes, including Olympic silver medallist and World Champion Phillips Idowu, Goldie Sayers, Dwain Chambers and Chicago Marathon winner Paul Evans as well as GB & NI 110m Hurdler William Sharman.
In an interview with Ralph Ginzburg published in the January 1962 issue of Harper's Magazine, future World Champion Bobby Fischer was quoted as saying that women were weak chessplayers and that he could successfully give knight odds to any woman in the world.
Clint Robinson became Australia’s first canoe / kayak gold medallist when he defeated the Norwegian World Champion Knut Holmann to win the K-1 1000 m final at Barcelona in 1992.
With partner June Markham, he is the 1957 & 1958 World champion and European champion.
He scored excellent results in major international tournaments, including first at Amsterdam 1926, ahead of Savielly Tartakower and future world champion Max Euwe; first at Meran 1926, ahead of Esteban Canal; and first at Scarborough 1930, ahead of Maróczy and Rubinstein.
The match between Kelly Scott, who at the time was the reigning Canadian women's champion and went on to become a world champion, and Cathy King a former world bronze medalist.
Racing out of Mont-Tremblant, Québec, Guay won the World Cup season title in Super G in 2010 and was the world champion in downhill in 2011.
Pillsbury, a young American unknown in Europe, was the surprise winner with 16½ out of 21 points – ahead of Mikhail Chigorin (16) and world champion Emanuel Lasker (15½).
The highlight of these two championships was almost certainly his victory against former World Champion Joel Wapnick.
Includes the first published description of the "atomic bomb of Scrabble learning", a technique invented and promoted by former World Champion Joel Wapnick.
Henry, whose first name is pronounced "Kee-VIN" as opposed to the more commonly pronounced "KEV-in", is cousins with longtime WWE wrestler and former WWF European Champion, ECW Champion and World Champion "The World's Strongest Man" Mark Henry.
That year, he posted a 17–8 record and made his second All-Star appearance (where he gave up a home run to Ted Williams), but the Dodgers lost the National League pennant to the eventual world champion St. Louis Cardinals.
During the winter of 2007-08 the track underwent major changes to accommodate Elitserien racing and the club announced the signing of Nicki Pedersen, the 2007 World Champion.
After his active career Marchetto has been coach for the Italian speed skating team, having success with skaters like Roberto Sighel (world champion 1994) and Enrico Fabris (olympic champion 2006).
The following year he became World Champion in Koksijde, ahead of Richard Groenendaal and his compatriot Erwin Vervecken.
He was one of a few players who had a plus record against Emanuel Lasker, having defeated the world champion at Nuremberg 1896.
He improved his personal best over 1500 metres by more than four seconds to 3:31.06 and finished 5th, beating among others former World Champion and Olympic medalist Bernard Lagat and breaking Simon Doyle's 19-year-old Australian and Oceanian record.
However, at the season-ending Rally Australia, 1995 world champion Colin McRae was running second before retiring.
Having outgrown the domestic scene, he then started fighting around the former Soviet Union and became a world champion for the first time in 2006 when he won the S-1 title in Poland.
Nikolay Strunnikov had the lowest amount of points awarded and became World champion.
Debutante Venezuelan ex-Grand Prix motorcycle World Champion Johnny Cecotto was joined by Roberto Guerrero, a refugee from the defunct Ensign outfit.
Chalky Wright (1912-1957), born Albert Wright, Mexican-American featherweight boxer and world champion
In September 2010, Shirov participated in the Grand Slam Chess Masters preliminary tournament in Shanghai from September 3 to 8, where he faced world No. 4 Levon Aronian, world No. 5 Vladimir Kramnik, and Wang Hao; the top two scorers qualified for the Grand Slam final supertournament from October 9 to 15 in Bilbao against world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen and world champion Viswanathan Anand.
Fisher was nicknamed "the Duchess of Doom" and gained a reputation similar to that of the fifteen-time darts world champion Phil Taylor and snooker players Joe Davis, Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry in the 1930s and 80s–90s, respectively.
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.
She is the mother of Ronda Rousey, an Olympic bronze medalist judoka and mixed martial arts Bantamweight world champion; and of María Burns Ortiz, a sports journalist who serves as the social media columnist for ESPN.com and as a contributor to Fox News Latino.
Dan Beery, American competition rower, Olympic champion and world champion.
India has not produced a world champion in any weight class, although it is a regular medal-holder at the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games.
Stefan Bradl (born 1989), German Grand Prix motorcycle racer, 2011 Moto2 World Champion
Despite only being awarded since 2009, other recipients of the Bowerman Award include decathlon world record holder Ashton Eaton, London 2012 10,000m silver medalist Galen Rupp, and 2011 1500m world champion Jennifer Simpson.
This made her the second woman (after Sheila Young) to become World Champion in both speed skating and cycling.
It recounts the development and rise of Tetris as one of the most-played video games of all-time, the role it has played in shaping the lives of the gamers it chronicles, the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of former Nintendo World Champion Thor Aackerlund, and the conception & execution of the first ever Classic Tetris World Championship by gaming enthusiast Robin Mihara.
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.
The fight took place in the Dennis Martinez stadium, Managua, Nicaragua and was part of an evening in posthumous tribute to triple world champion Alexis Arguello, El Flaco Explosivo, considered as one of the greatest boxers of all time.
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".
In his BBC biography, Fergusson cites his longstanding interest in Formula One motor-racing and has often indicated that he is a supporter of 2008 F1 World Champion & McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton.
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.
After beating title contender Arturo Morua, he would then lose a very disputed decision to IBO Light Welterweight World Champion Colin Lynes.
“If you can learn to race a motorbike at Lakeside, you can compete at any race track in the world.” Mick Doohan, 5 time 500cc Motorcycle Grand Prix World Champion.
Leroy Burrell, former World Champion, World Record Holder, Olympic Silver Medalist in the 100 meters, and current track coach at the University of Houston, was raised in Lansdowne.
Famous and well known Lugbara include Dorcus Inzikuru, the 3000-metre steeple chase world champion in Helsinki 2005 and Jackson Asiku, the previous Commonwealth boxing light-weight champion.
Jean-Jacques Machado has also awarded black belts to No Gi proponent Eddie Bravo, Comedian & UFC Commentator Joe Rogan, Women's World champion Felicia Oh, and former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez.
Giancarlo Antognoni (Marsciano, 1954) former footballer, world champion with Italy national football team in 1982.
On August 9, she faced junior lightweight world champion Isra Girgrah, taking the fight on short notice.
Manny Pacquiao,PLH - Congressman of the lone district of Sarangani and WBO Welterweight World Champion (Super Champion)
Nikolai Novosjolov (born 9 June 1980) is an Estonian fencer, a two-time world champion in men's épée, winning gold at the 2010 World Championships in Paris and the 2013 World Championships in Budapest.
Elaine Zayak (born 1965), figure skater who was the 1982 World champion and 1981 U.S. national champion.
Nastia Liukin, gymnast, 2008 Olympic Individual All-Around Gold medalist, the 2005 and 2007 World Champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 World Champion on the uneven bars.
Pecatonica is the hometown of Hacks Auction, Northern Illinois premier auction house and J&J Tumbling and Trampoline which has produced several world class athletes, including 1988 Woman's Tumbling World Champion Megan Cunningham Gearhart (later a coach) and National Trampoline Team member Michael Devine.
David Philippaerts (born 1983), Italian Grand Prix motocross world champion
On August 17, 2012, he married ballroom dancer, world champion and former Dancing with the stars pro, Elena Grinenko.
The father of boxing World Champion Rocky Marciano, Pierino Marchegiano, immigrated to the United States from Ripa Teatina in 1912.
Kazım Ayvaz - Olympic medalist and world champion in wrestling
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.
Paul Ruto (born 1960), Kenyan middle-distance runner and 1993 world champion
At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, neither Robles nor the defending world champion Liu Xiang were present for the final as they withdrew due to injury.
Guy Allen, 18 time PRCA world champion steer roper, graduated from Santa Anna High School.
In 2009, he won Ironman 70.3 Germany in Wiesbaden, holding off 70.3 World Champion Michael Raelert.
Several boxers and kickboxers are of Samoan descent, including former heavyweight contender David Tua, former middleweight champion Maselino Masoe, K-1 World Champion Mark Hunt as well as K-1 Super Heavyweight contenders Ray Sefo, Jason Suttie and also Jimmy Thunder.
The highlight of Alfonso's career came during the 1996 season when he competed in the 1996 Italian Grand Prix, a meeting where he defeated the eventual 1996 World Champion, Billy Hamill.
Stuart was awarded a Championship belt and made an honorary World Champion by the World Boxing Council for his portrayal of Howard Winstone in 'Risen', a part for which he had to lose two stones.
Together they have a daughter, Anna Bessonova, who also competed internationally in rhythmic gymnastics, became world champion in 2007, and an Olympic bronze medalist in 2004 and 2008.
Their record at the end of the season was 16-18, and included wins against former World Champion Rick Folk and 1998 Olympic silver medallist Mike Harris.
The Bermuda win made him, at 25 years old, the youngest world champion ever to do so; a record broken by Bobby Levin in 1981 at the age of 23.
The match was a one-off event in which the previous world champion (Vladimir Kramnik) had been given the right to challenge to regain his title.
In the first three decades of the competition there have been thirteen champions, with four men each having won the title five times, Geoff Capes, Jim McGoldrick, Ryan Vierra and Matt Sandford, and one of those, Geoff Capes, having also won the 1981 World Highland Games Championships held in Lagos, which would make him six times world champion, although this is not listed on the official website.
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.