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1959 United States Figure Skating Championships

Carol's sister Nancy Heiss took the silver medal, with Barbara Ann Roles placing third in her first season as a senior-level competitor.

Aes rude

The Italian economy of the time (late middle first millennium BC) was based on a bronze standard (unlike the silver standards in use in contemporary Greece, the Aeginetan standard and its competitor the Attic standard).

Andy Caldecott

He won the Australian Safari Rally four times consecutively (2000–2003) and was a competitor in the Dakar Rally in 2004 (DNF), 2005 (6th), and 2006.

Arema Cronous F.C.

Arema FC have a very tough competitor in the League of Persebaya Surabaya.

Art Good

Good left KIFM for a brief period to host a program on competitor KSWV 102.9 ("The Wave", now Spanish music station KLQV), returning when KSWV discontinued their Smooth Jazz format.

Arvīds Jurgens

From 1924 he also played for Latvia national football team for which in the years to come he played nearly two times as many matches as his main competitor Harijs Lazdiņš from Olimpija Liepāja.

Badenhorst

Gerrit Badenhorst (born 1962), South African powerlifter and strongman competitor

Brook Mays

In 2003 First Act Inc., a competitor that sells its instruments at mass market retailers, sued Brook Mays, and was awarded $16.7 million.

Central Point Software

COPY II PC's main competitor was Quaid Software's CopyWrite, which did not have a hardware component.

Česlovas

Česlovas Kundrotas (b. 1961), Lithuanian long-distance runner and Olympic competitor

CHBN-FM

When CFMG-FM flipped from AC to contemporary hit radio as "Virgin Radio, it marked the first three-station FM top 40 battle in Edmonton as of February 2011 (the other competitor being CJNW-FM).

Chevrolet Europe

A 5 seater hatchback, the Aveo is being launched throughout Europe in Summer 2011 as a competitor to the likes of the Ford Fiesta, Opel Corsa and Volkswagen Polo.

Clarence Lieder

Clarence Lieder (August 15, 1906-January 1969) was a mechanic and armorer for Chicago's underworld and Depression-era criminals, as well as the primary competitor to Joe Bergl.

Early history of Switzerland

The rise of the Habsburg dynasty gained momentum when their main local competitor, the Kyburg dynasty, died out and they could thus bring much of the territory south of the Rhine under their control.

Edlyn Lewis

Edlyn Lewis (born 1977) was Miss Fulton County 1996, Miss Georgia USA 1998, and competitor in the Miss USA 1998 pageant.

Emilio D'Aquino

He was also selected for the Italian team in triathlon, and guaranteed his qualifying berth for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, along with his teammate Daniel Fontana, a former competitor from Argentina at the previous games in Athens.

Evans Kidero

He became the First Governor of Nairobi County after beating his closest competitor, Ferdinand Waititu of The National Alliance, during the Nairobi gubernatorial elections of 2013.

Fry's Electronics

Historically, Circuit City and CompUSA were major competitors, but they collapsed during the late-2000s recession, leaving Best Buy as Fry's main competitor.

Gibson Les Paul Doublecut

Many believe these newer archtop doublecut Les Pauls were developed in response to the high-end guitars of Gibson competitor Paul Reed Smith (PRS), whose PRS guitars most typically have a doublecut design and master tone and volume controls, and whose production eventually went from a small shop (as Hamer's has stayed) to an assembly-line production rivaling Gibson's.

Grande-Digue, New Brunswick

Joël Bourgeois, 3000m steeplechase runner, 2-time competitor at the Olympic Games and gold medalist at the 1999 Pan American Games.

Guntis

Guntis Rēķis (born 1974), Latvian luger and Olympic competitor

Harry S. Hammond

His older brother, John S. Hammond, played football at the University of Chicago, was a track and field competitor in the 1904 Summer Olympics and was credited with making ice hockey a major sport in the United States during his time as chairman of the board of the Madison Square Garden corporation.

Hendrik Meijer

Henk Meijer (born 1959), Dutch taekwondo coach and former competitor

International World Class Championship Wrestling

Over the years ICW established a kind of “open door” policy, working with any federation or any individual competitor who was interested in working in the federation; this open door policy even saw the Japanese Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling Brass Knuckles Champion Atsushi Onita challenge the ICW Heavyweight champion Tony Atlas to a Title Vs Title Match.

Isolezwe

Isozwele is known for using a more urban form of Zulu, in contrast to its competitor Ilanga, which describes itself as using a "purer form" of the language.

Jodi Leigh Miller

Miller, a bodybuilder and figure competitor, was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 8, 1972, and currently resides in Dallas, Texas.

KUNP

On August 21, 2012, Fisher Communications signed an affiliation agreement with MundoFox, a Spanish-language competitor to Univision that is owned as a joint venture between Fox International Channels and Colombian broadcaster RCN TV, for KUNP and Seattle sister station KUNS to be carried on both stations as digital subchannels starting in late September.

Malcolm Yelvington

In 1955 he released a single, "Yakety Yak" (not the same tune as "Yakety Yak" by The Coasters), on competitor Meteor Records.

Mareks

Mareks Ārents (born 1986), a Latvian track and field athlete and Olympic competitor

Mengniu Dairy

The owner and founder of Mengniu is Mr Niu Gensheng, a former employee of Yili, another Inner Mongolian dairy giant which is now Mengnius largest competitor.

Mike Sonko

Mbuvi became the First Senator of Nairobi after it was announced that, with 808,705 votes, beat his closest competitor, Margaret Wanjiru of the Orange Democratic Movement, who had garnered 525,822 votes, in the Nairobi senatorial election of 2013.

Mosaic notation program

Several factors can be theorized: Sibelius and Finale were the competitor notation packages; they were developed for both Macintosh and Windows platforms.

Nakata

Daisuke Nakata (born 1974), Japanese trampolinist and Sasuke competitor

Old Jock

Jock's main rival in the show ring was a dog named Tartar, who was said to be more fond of ratting than his competitor.

Ozoliņš

Alberts Ozoliņš (1896–1985), a Latvian weightlifter and Olympic competitor

Pantić

Snežana Pantić (born 1978), Serbian professional karate competitor

Percival Molson Memorial Stadium

The Alouettes' decision to return to the venue was problematic because the team was being sponsored by the Labatt Brewing Company and the stadium shared the name of its major competitor, Molson, though not named for it.

Ranheim Papirfabrikk

The factory survived and was dominating in its field north of Dovrefjell, until the 1960s when it got a sizeable competitor in Nordenfjelske Treforedling.

Rubab Raza

She became the second Pakistani female to compete at the Olympics—following Shabana Akhtar at the 1996 Olympics--shortly before the country's third female competitor, Sumaira Zahoor, who ran the 1500m at the 2004 Games a few days after Raza swam.

Schlesinger Report

"He is a competitor for resources within the community owing to his responsibilities as Director of CIA (DCI, which has large collection programs of its own; thus he cannot be wholly objective in providing guidance for community-wide collection."

Seven Hills, Ohio

Noteworthy residents of Seven Hills have included professional cyclist Joseph M. Papp, accused World War II war criminal John Demjanjuk, former professional football player Jack Squirek, as well as fashion designer and season five Project Runway competitor Stephen "Suede" Baum and New York City chef Andrew Carmellini.

Sovam

The unusual looks of the car nevertheless continued to attract criticism, and the Savem failed to acquire the level of cachet achieved by competitor products such as the Alpine A110 and Matra 530.

Stepan Popel

He also won the North Central Open at Wisconsin in 1957, where his young competitor Bobby Fischer took 6th place.

Tony Bullimore

The Royal Australian Navy launched a rescue mission for Bullimore and another capsized competitor, Thierry Dubois.

Undertaker's WrestleMania Streak

On the February 23 episode of Raw, Michaels defeated Layfield, but it was later announced that another competitor would stand in his way to prevent him from advancing to the show in the form of Vladimir Kozlov, who also made a challenge to The Undertaker; the two wrestled the following week on Raw with Michaels defeating Kozlov, and earning his match with The Undertaker.

United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990

Perhaps the best-known competitor in 1990 was former Bay City Rollers frontman Les McKeown.

Väisänen

Mervi Väisänen (born 1973), Finnish ski-orienteering and mountain bike orienteering competitor

William Fawcus

William Fawcus (born 10 October 1850) was a British rower who won the Wingfield Sculls and the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1871, being the first provincial competitor to do so.


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