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In addition to the World Championship, there are the Women's World Championship, the Junior World Championship, the World Senior Championship, the Correspondence Chess World Championship, the World Computer Chess Championship, and Blitz and Rapid World Championships.

As of 2011, the Golf Croquet World Champion is Mark McInerney ( Ireland ) and the Women's Golf Croquet World Champion is Rachel Rowe ( England ).

A separate Women's Cricket World Cup has been held every four years since 1973.

The FIFA Women's World Cup was inaugurated in 1991 and has been held every four years since.

It organizes events such as the Hockey World Cup and Women's Hockey World Cup.

As of 2011, eight Men's, eight Women's, six Men's Under-19, and four Women's Under-19 World Floorball Championships have taken place.

* The Women's under-19 World Floorball Championships take place every May ( since 2008 ) in every even year.

In 1978, Women's World Champion Nona Gaprindashvili became the first woman to receive the GM title, by a special decision of FIDE.

All 12 Olympic and 36 IIHF World Women's Championships medals have gone to one of these seven countries, and every gold medal in both competitions has been won by either Canada or the United States.

Traditionally, chess has been a male-dominated activity, and women are often seen as weaker players ; thus advancing the idea of a Women's World Champion.

Polgár has rarely played in women's-specific tournaments or divisions and has never competed for the Women's World Championship.

Trained in her early years by her sister Susan, who ultimately became Women's World Champion, Judit Polgár was a prodigy from an early age.

Events in other sports include the 1986 FIVB Women's World Championship, the 2005 UEFA Futsal Championship, group stage matches of the 2008 Men's World Floorball Championships.

The U. S. National Women's Singles Championships were first held in 1887 in Philadelphia.

For women's national teams, UEFA operates the UEFA Women's Championship for senior national sides as well as Women's Under-19 and Women's Under-17 Championships.

* July 7 – 8 – Martina Navratilova of the United States wins the 1990 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles and Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins the 1990 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles.

* July 4 – Steffi Graf wins the 1992 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles.

Women's hammer throw was first included in the Olympics at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, after having been included in the World Championships a year earlier.

From March 17 – 25, 2007, Aomori hosted the World Women's Curling Championships < sup ></ sup >.

In addition, " College Hill " sports 2 National Championships in Women's Volleyball ( 2004 & 2006 ).

In October 2011 the 2011 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

The Nebraska women's volleyball team has won three NCAA Women's Volleyball National Championships, in 1995, 2000, and 2006 and has had three NCAA National Runner-Up finishes in 1986, 1989, and 2005 as well as 5 other NCAA National Semifinal ( Final Four ) appearances in 1990, 1996, 1998, 2001, and 2008 bringing the program total to 11 NCAA Final Four appearances.

Williams at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles | 2010 Wimbledon.

This was also her first retirement from a match since LA Women's Tennis Championships in Los Angeles in 2004, ending her 294 consecutive matches without retiring.

Haverford College competes at the NCAA Division III level in the Centennial Conference and has a rich history in collegiate athletics: Haverford boasts the only varsity cricket team in the United States ; its men's and women's track and field and cross country teams are perennial powerhouses in their division, with men's cross country winning the 2010 Cross Country Division III National Championships ; its soccer team is the nation's oldest and won the first intercollegiate soccer match in 1905 against Harvard College ; its lacrosse team has recently become a national power after placing well in the NCAA championships ; its fencing team has competed since the early 1930s and is a member of both the Middle Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association ( MACFA ) and the National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association ( NIWFA ).

* August-The 2nd Women's World Field Hockey Championships are held at Vancouver, Canada with the Netherlands as the champions.

Science fiction writer Joanna Russ ( herself a lesbian ), author of How to Suppress Women's Writing, was one of the first major science fiction writers to take slash fiction and its cultural and literary implications seriously.

The Communities Conference and the Women's Gathering both take place in August every year.

The Women's Division was formed to take over positions that would allow more men to participate in combat and training duties.

Though Hart said that he was willing to vacate the title the next night on RAW, McMahon feared that Hart would leave the company with the title, take the belt to WCW, and disrespect it as Madusa had done in 1995 with the WWF Women's Championship, throwing the belt into a garbage can during a live Nitro show.

The Married Women's Property Act 1870 allowed married women to inherit property and take court action on their own behalf.

Following the withdrawal of the funding of the Ladies, Fulham FC let club officers, parents and players take over in order that the team could continue playing at the highest level of women's football – the FA Women's Premier League.

Following the match, Melina stated her intentions to take the WWE Women's Championship from Beth Phoenix.

The Women's Boat Race will move to the Tideway in 2015, to take place on the same course and on the same day as the men's Boat Race.

The leader of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies who had campaigned for the vote, Millicent Fawcett, was still alive and attended parliament to see the vote take place.

This consists of several teams that take part in the Men's ( A and B ), Women's ( A and B ) and Mixed ( A and B ) intercollegiate competitions.

This was also the last Olympics before the founding of the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ) in the United States, and it has been the only Summer Olympics to take place in a city with an NBA team – since the International Olympic Committee started allowing these professional players to compete – because Atlanta is the home of the Atlanta Hawks team.

Game 4, saw GB take out their frustrations of the previous game with a 19-0 victory over South Africa, who were saved relegation by the IIHF Women's Committee as they expanded the Elite competition to 9 teams, and thus no teams were relegated this time around.

Relief Society ( a women's organization ), Young Women's, Primary, and Scouting take place throughout the week.

The subsequent album, Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever saw the band finally take steps to progress forth from their ' lo-fi ' roots, being recorded in Vancouver, BC, Canada with Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand as producer.

In 1985, Roberts rebounded to take the Women's Pro World Championship.