Frei Ruiz-Tagle was succeeded in 2000 by Socialist Ricardo Lagos, who won the presidency in an unprecedented runoff election against Joaquín Lavín of the rightist Alliance for Chile, by a very tight score of less than 200, 000 votes ( 51, 32 %).

The elections were won by René Préval, who had a strong following among the poor, with 51 % of the votes.

On September 15, Lynch won the democratic primary and on November 2, Lynch defeated Benson 51 % to 49 %.

In spite of his being dead, Mel Carnahan won the election 51 % to 49 %.

Bakili Muluzi was president from 21 May 1994 to May 2004, having won reelection in 2000 with 51. 4 % of the vote to leading challenger Gwandaguluwe Chakuamba's 44. 3 % for the MCP-AFORD party.

The joint PNL-PD candidate, Traian Băsescu, won the second round on December 12, 2004 with 51 % of the vote and thus became the third post-revolutionary president of Romania.

With the lower house enlarged from 74 to 121 seats, the Menzies Liberal / Country Coalition won the 1949 election with 74 of 121 seats and 51. 0 percent of the two-party vote but remained in minority in the Senate.

With players such as Alworth, Paul Lowe, Keith Lincoln and John Hadl, the high-scoring Chargers won divisional crowns five of the league ’ s first six seasons and the AFL title in 1963 with a 51 – 10 victory over the Boston Patriots.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra October 20, 1996 ' Lost as 669. 443 A total valid votes equivalent to 37. 75 %, well below that obtained by his main opponent on Arnoldo Aleman Lacayo candidate of the Liberal Alliance ( AL ) who won 904. 908 to obtain valid votes equivalent to 51. 03 %.

She easily won her party's nomination, and eventually got 40 % of the votes in the first round of the presidential elections, and 51. 6 % in the second, thus defeating the Centre Party's Esko Aho and becoming the 11th president of Finland.

With Grace and his brothers E. M. and Fred playing, Gloucestershire won that game by 51 runs and quickly became one of the best teams in England.

Although the Reds won the NL pennant in 1961 and Robinson won his first MVP that year, his best offensive year arguably came in 1962, when he hit. 342 with 51 doubles, 136 RBI and 134 runs.

It has 51, 117 seats and has hosted a record of 10 finals of UEFA club competitions, including the 2002 UEFA Cup Final which was won by Feyenoord.

In 2008, the Democratic candidate Barack Obama won the county with 95, 356 votes ( 51. 85 %), while Republican John McCain won 84, 242 votes ( 45. 79 %) and independent Ralph Nader won 1, 791 votes ( 0. 97 %).

At the state level, unsuccessful Republican candidate Dino Rossi won the county in the Washington gubernatorial election, 2008 with 91, 301 votes ( 51. 01 %) over the Democratic incumbent Christine Gregoire, who won 87, 683 votes ( 48. 99 %).

However, in the first poll of prefectural party organizations, Koizumi won 87 to 11 percent ; in the second vote of Diet members, Koizumi won 51 to 40 percent.

George W. Bush won the county narrowly in 2004 with 53 % of the vote, while Barack Obama slightly edged out John McCain in 2008, receiving 51 % of the vote countywide becoming the first Democrat to win Saratoga County since 1996.

In the 1950 – 51 season, Mikan won his third straight scoring title at 28. 4 ppg and the Lakers went 44 – 24 to win their second straight division title.

The Stars won 51 games, surpassing the 50 win mark for the first time in franchise history.

Arthur Shaw, Earl Thompson, Edwin Myers, Marc Wright, Adam Nelson, Gerry Ashworth, and Vilhjálmur Einarsson have all won medals in track and field events.

IV ran in only two races, the 1967 12 Hours of Sebring and the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans and won both events.

In 1980, Taylor and his passenger Benga Johansson won 4 races, and finished on the podium in all seven events.

Although Fraser won, these events left him politically weakened.

Gurney won the first two Can-Am events at Mosport and St. Jovite and placed ninth in the third, but left the team mid-season, and Gethin took over from there.

In an odd turn of events, a pankration fighter named Arrhichion ( Ἀρριχίων ) of Phigalia won the pankration competition at the Olympic Games despite being dead.

Nurmi set 22 official world records at distances between 1, 500 metres and 20 kilometres, and won a total of nine gold and three silver medals in his twelve events in the Olympic Games.

Nurmi had won five gold medals in five events, but he left the Games embittered as the Finnish officials had allocated races between their star runners and prevented him from defending his title in the 10, 000 m, the distance that was dearest to him.

Edward J. Larson, a historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, notes: " Like so many archetypal American events, the trial itself began as a publicity stunt.

They must recognize events as they occur and must recognize when they have won and announce their winning.

Jimmy Carr is one of the latest targets of Viz, being lambasted as a sham of a comedian by having photographs of himself posing with employees who have won mundane awards at meaningless corporate events, under the recurrent headline ' Carr for hire '.

The Rio also hosted the 2006 World Series of Poker, which began on June 25 with satellite events and formally began the day after with the annual Casino Employee event, won in 2006 by Chris Gros.

His father competed in nordic combined and cross-country skiing events in the 1964 Winter Olympics, and his grandfather, Jack Shea, won two gold medals in the 1932 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid in speed skating.

Overall Sweden won seven out of a possible fifteen medals in the nordic events, including all three gold medals and a sweep of the 18 kilometer race.

The most successful competitor was German wrestler and gymnast Carl Schuhmann, who won four events.

Two events later, at the Indian Wells, California tournament, Davenport again defeated Hingis and won the doubles title with Morariu over Anna Kournikova and Natasha Zvereva in the final.

Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events, including seven majors.

In 1937, Snead's first full year on the Tour, he won five events, including the Oakland Open at Claremont Country Club in California.

In 1950, he won 11 events, placing him third in that category behind Byron Nelson ( 18, in 1945 ) and Ben Hogan ( 13, in 1946 ).

He won the awards easily, winning three events, and was named to the pentathlon team, which also included future International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage.

He won four of the five events and placed third in the javelin, an event he had not competed in before 1912.

Overall, Thorpe won eight of the 15 individual events comprising the pentathlon and decathlon.

Competing against Bruno Brodd of the Irish American Athletic Club and J. Bredemus of Princeton University, he won seven of the ten events contested and came in second in the remaining three.

Participation in a variety of events continued until World War I, but it was in 1912 that Peugeot made its most notable contribution to motor sporting history when one of their cars, driven by Georges Boillot, won the French Grand Prix at Dieppe.