World Champion is a title used to denote a winner of a World championship in a particular sport, discipline or game.
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Like the European Championship of 2012 the Asian championship did not follow the previous edition in the typical biannual rhythm because the World Championship, which was originally planned for 2012, was moved to the year 2011.
Air Guitar Nation is a feature-length 2006 documentary about the first US Air Guitar Championships, following the top contestants, David "C-Diddy" Jung and Dan "Björn Türoque" Crane, to the 2003 World Championship in Oulu, Finland.
In 2002 his great grand daughter Liscalgot won World Championship individual gold for Dermott Lennon of Ireland.
Pozzi is coached by Malcolm Arnold, the former coach of Olympic silver medalist and two-time World Championship gold medalist Colin Jackson and 400m Olympic gold medalist John Akii-Bua.
The organisation has been compared by some to the Professional Chess Association, the body established by Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short as an organisation under which to play their 1993 World Championship having broken away from FIDE, the official governing body of chess.
Brian Selden (born in 1980 in San Diego, California) was the winner of the 1998 Magic: The Gathering World Championship.
Two recent occasions on which he officiated during key matches were the World Championship finals between Stephen Hendry and Mark Williams in 1999 and the match between Peter Ebdon and Ronnie O'Sullivan in 2005 (the so-called "slow-play" match).
In the 1993 World Championship, Fowler played the defending two-time World Champion Stephen Hendry in the first round but lost 1–10.
He was inducted during the World championship in Memphis.
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A 63rd place at the World championship in Tokyo sufficed to take home the Rookie of the Year award.
It is usually held in December, at the Hotel Zuiderduin, and is traditionally the last tournament held before the World Championship.
The win was Guay's first World Championship medal, and the second consecutive Canadian to win the world title in downhill, following John Kucera in 2009.
Harvey was part of the US national team that won the World Championship in 2001, which was Harvey's first Pro Tour.
The tie for the bronze was the first in a Winter Olympic, world championship, or European championship event since they started timing luge in the 1/1000ths of a second following the tie between Italy and East Germany in the men's doubles event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.
Gilberto Parlotti (17 September 1940 – 9 June 1972) was born in Zero Branco, Treviso, Italy and was an Italian motorcycle racer competing in the FIM World Championship between 1969 and 1972 racing with Benelli, Derbi, Morbidelli and Tomos motorcycles.
2nd, World Championship relay race (together with Roberta Pedranzini, Francesca Martinelli and Elisa Fleischmann)
During the 1980s, he slid down the rankings and he last played at the World Championship in 1984.
The Greece at the team sports international competitions has achieved 12 victories at the Olympic Games (1), World Championship (3) and European Championships (8).
After that in 1966 Zagreb got the organization of a World Championship, group B. Due to completion of Dom Sportova in 1972 players got second artificial ice and in 1984 Croatian Ice Hockey Federation became independent.
The Men's 2013 ranking is based on the performance at World Championship of 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010, and at the 2010 Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament in Vancouver, Canada.
: 1st, World Championship, Team Time Trial (together with Ellen van Dijk, Charlotte Becker, Amber Neben, Evelyn Stevens and Trixi Worrack)
In 1969 the World Championship became a knockout tournament (which is generally regarded as the birth of the modern snooker era) and Pulman failed to successfully defend his title.
He was also part of the US national team that placed second at the World Championship in 2005.
In 2009 he was 4th in individual World Championship in Liberec on normal hill.
He won the FIM 250cc world championship in 1977 as a member of the Morbidelli factory racing team.
Musquin won the 2009 F.I.M. MX2-GP World Championship and, successfully defended his title in 2010 while riding for the KTM factory racing team managed by former world champion Stefan Everts.
A 5th place at the World championship in Toronto in the season followed.
Britain's Cecil Sandford piloted the new MV 125 to a 1952 Isle of Man TT victory and went on to win MV Agusta's first world championship.
3rd, World Championship relay race (together with Corinne Favre, Véronique Lathuraz and Valentine Fabre)
Following victory in the national under-19′s Championship, Neal then turned professional in 1983 and at the end of the season qualified for final stages of the World Championship at the first attempt.
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Still, 1989/90 was to see a revival and despite a round one exit at the World Championship to Wayne Jones, he did enough to regain a place in the top 16 before moving up to number seven at the end of 1990/1.
The News of the World Championship was the premium snooker tournament of the 1950s and widely considered as being more important than the world championship due to the involvement of Joe Davis.
They went on to win at that year's world championship, securing the gold medal after a win over Norway, skipped by Torger Nergård.
Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, winner of five Olympic, eleven World Championship, and ten Commonwealth gold medals, announces his retirement at age twenty-four.
Due to a legal ban, this was the final season to have events sponsored by tobacco companies (apart from Embassy, who would continue to sponsor the World Championship for another two years).
Its capacity is 8,343 seats and was named in honour of the general sponsor of the club – the U. S. Steel Košice (a member of the United States Steel Corporation) and also in honour of Ladislav Troják, a Košice-born hockey player who was the first Slovak to win the World Championship with the Czechoslovakian national team.
His best races came in the C-1 1000 m event later in his career, earning the world championship gold medal in 1998 at Szeged, Hungary.
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.
As of the start of 2012, this was the team's last NFL World Championship.
The 1994 FIBA Women's World Championship was hosted by the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney, Australia from 2 June to 12 June, 1994.
Paul Lim, who famously hit a nine-dart finish at the 1990 Embassy Championship appeared at his first WDC World Championship - he had only managed to qualify once for the Embassy since the split, losing a second round match to John Part in 1994.
The 1999 Rink Hockey World Championship was the 34th edition of the Rink Hockey World Championship, held between 4 and 12 June 1999, in Reus, Catalonia, Spain.
The 2007 Ford Ironman World Championship was a triathlon race held on October 13, 2007 in Kailua, Hawaii County, Hawaii.
2010 Women's World Open Squash Championship, the individual world championship for women's squash players
The 2011 Individual Speedway Under 21 World Championship will be the 2011 version of FIM Individual Under-21 World Championship season.
In the process of running a personal best to win the championship, Ohuruogu also got Kathy Smallwood-Cook's 29 year old British national record (from the 1984 Olympics) that had so far evaded her through her career; a career that had included two Olympic medals including the gold in 2008, and a previous World Championship.
In 1982, Didier de Radiguès rode a Chevallier-designed bike to victory in the 350cc Yugoslavian Grand Prix and finished the season in second place in the F.I.M. 350cc world championship.
He won the world championship at Zandvoort on 16 August 1959, breaking clear with the Italian, Michele Gismondi, and an unknown Dane, Retvig.
Although this result qualified her to play in the next event in the Women's World Championship sequence, she was a major in the Women's Royal Army Corps and the authorities would not allow her to travel to the USSR where the 1955 Women's Candidates tournament was being held.
Senior Men Team: EuroBasket 2001 – 2nd place (2001), World Championship - 9th place (2002), EuroBasket 2003 – 12th place (2003), EuroBasket 2005 Elimination Group 1st place (2005), 15th Mediterranean Games - 4th place & 2006 FIBA World Championship Men - 6th place (2006), EuroBasket 2007 – 11th place (2007), EuroBasket 2009 Elimination Group 1st place (2008), EuroBasket 2009 - 8th place (2009), 2010 FIBA World Championship Men – 2nd place (2010)
He competed in only one Grand Prix race during the 1968 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, finishing the year in 12th place in the 500cc world championship.
After the war, Small's Malvern Star bicycles were ridden by Sid Patterson, who won the World Championship Sprint in Copenhagen in 1949, and several other races including amateur World Championship Pursuit in Liege (1950), professional World Championship Pursuit in Paris (1952), and professional World Championship Pursuit in Zurich (1953).
He entered 11 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one podium, and scoring a total of nine championship points.
He made his World Championship debut in 1979, beating Barry Atkinson in the first round before losing to Tony Brown in the second round.
He helped lead Team USA to the gold medal at the 2011 IFAF World Championship in Austria and was selected as an All-World defensive back and received the award as the Best Defensive Back at the World Championship.
In 1966, he founded Magnum Marine with Elton Cary and, in 1970, after campaigning his boat "The Cigarette" around the world and winning the World Championship, he started Cigarette Racing Team using his own designs.
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.
Max made his first World Championship debut in 2008 as a member of the BDO, losing in the first round to evantual finalist Simon Whitlock.
In 1976 Ingo Renner won the World Championship with a PIK-20B and second and third places were also taken by this type.
He has since refereed many more Ranking finals including the Seniors Championship, Welsh Open Championship, Australian Goldfields Open, German Masters, UK Championship, Irish Masters, Wembley Masters, Malta Cup, China Masters, China Open, Thailand Open, British Open, Grand Prix, Bahrain Snooker Championship, World Open and four World Championship Finals at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield in 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2010.
Smon Wolay has also deejayed at the Swedish Sex and the City 2 gala premiere, Way Out West Festival music festival, the wedding of Jan Bengtsson (heir to clothing company H&M) and Cirkusprinsessan - an international circus world championship for females only.
Emanuele Moncini (born 13 October 1973 in Breno, Italy) is an Italian racing driver currently competing in the FIA GT1 World Championship for Sunred.
The USA's U-23 team included a number of players from the highly successful U-20 World Championship squad of 1989, including Brad Friedel, Joe-Max Moore, Steve Snow, Cobi Jones and Claudio Reyna.
With this world championship he joined Peter Robertson as the other triathlete with three titles to his name, and is just shy of Simon Lessing who has four world titles.
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Sarah Reinertsen, American and the first female leg amputee to complete the Ironman Triathlon World Championship
With partner and husband Daniil Barantsev, she is the 2007 Nebelhorn Trophy champion and 2008 World Championship first alternates for Team USA.
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).
Kjell Isaksson achieved international fame in the late 1970s as one of the most successful Superstars competitors, winning two European titles and finishing second in the inaugural 1977 World Championship.
His biggest finish at the WSOP was in 2008, where he finished runner-up to Scotty Nguyen at the 2008 WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship, earning $1,243,200, earlier that same year in the $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event, DeMichele finished 4th and earned $139,872
The MBA team won the 125 cc World Championship in year 1978 with Eugenio Lazzarini and in 1980 with Pier Paolo Bianchi.
He was the first player ever to beat Cliff Thorburn in a World Championship qualifier, which he did in 1991.
He is the son of Werner Delle Karth, a world championship medallist in bobsleigh and a Winter Olympian.
Through the 1990s, Katayama worked in Europe as an executive in Toyota's Motorsports division, where he assisted in World Rally Championship, Sports Car World Championship, and Le Mans racing.
For the fifth time a match for the Single Sculls World Championship was rowed on New Zealand waters; this time it was held on the Wairau River on 11 June 1921.
Items include a chantilly lace wrap which once belonged to Florence Nightingale, a love letter written by Governor Bligh's mother, an outdoor display of carts and farm equipment and memorabilia connected with Arthur Postle who, in 1906, was proclaimed 'the fastest man in the world' when he won the 220 yards World Championship Cup.
He twice reached the semi-final of the World Championship, losing in 1972 to Alex Higgins (having been four frames ahead with five left to play) and, in 1974, to Graham Miles.
In 2011, she again reached the World Championship final after victories over Gore in the quarter-finals and Deta Hedman in the semi-finals.
He followed this up with his best showing at the BDO World Championship, maintaining a 90+ tournament average in wins over Richie George (3-0), Gary Robson (4-1), and a 5-2 win over Tony Eccles in which he hit back-to-back checkouts of 125 and 164, to reach the semi-finals at Lakeside for the first time in his career, where he was defeated by top seed Stephen Bunting 1-6.
He entered two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 2 August 1953, although his place in the 1954 British Grand Prix was ultimately taken by Eric Brandon.
His best season was in 1969, when he finished in seventh place in the 500cc world championship.
Silodor, a member of the team that won the first Bermuda Bowl World Championship in 1950, won the Vanderbilt eight times, the Reisinger six times, the Spingold, the Open Pairs and the Master Mixed Teams three times each and the Mixed Pairs five times --- a record.
The company was founded in 2010 by the former Grand Prix motorcyclist Luca Boscoscuro and entered the newly formed Moto2 class of the world championship.
On the inline rink, Grogg went to the 2006 XII FIRS Inline Hockey World Championship (Detroit MI) with the Swiss National Team (LNA).
She claimed her first World Championship medal, silver, at the 2006 edition in Guatemala City, Guatemala, but then dropped to 34th and 26th the following year at the European and World Championships respectively.
Cunningham was the winner of the 35th World Backgammon Championship's ladies tournament in Monte Carlo - in addition to being named as a member of the 2010 World Championship's dream-team.