After winning the Dutch Mixing Championships ( DMC ) in 1988, he was invited for The World Mix Championships in the London Royal Hall and won third place in a fierce competition.

The original Yankee Stadium opened in 1923 on 161st Street and River Avenue, a year that saw the Yankeees bring home their first of 27 World Series Championships.

In the BWF World Championships, first held in 1977, currently only the highest ranked 64 players in the world, and a maximum of four from each country, can participate in any category.

The Thomas, Uber, and Sudirman Cups, the Olympics, and the BWF World ( and World Junior Championships ), are all categorized as level one tournaments.

Amateur boxing is an Olympic and Commonwealth sport and is a common fixture in most of the major international games-it also has its own World Championships.

There is a World Indoor Bowls Championships and also World Bowls Events.

Between 1957 and 1980 Granaglia won a record 13 World Championships, 12 European Championship titles, and 46 Italian National Championships.

The Orioles experienced their greatest success from 1964 – 1983, as well as 1996-1997, winning eight Division Championships ( 1969 – 1971, 1973 – 1974, 1979, 1983, 1997 ), six pennants ( 1966, 1969 – 1971, 1979, 1983 ), three World Series Championships ( 1966, 1970, 1983 ), one wild card berth ( 1996 ), and five Most Valuable Player awards ( 3B Brooks Robinson 1964, OF Frank Robinson 1966, 1B Boog Powell 1970 and SS Cal Ripken Jr. 1983 & 1991 ).

A bandy international between Finland and Norway in the Bandy World Championships # Bandy World Championships, women | 2004 Women's World Championships in Lappeenranta # Sports | Lappeenranta

Further evidence of Chinese athletes ' drug use came in 1997 when Australian authorities confiscated 13 vials of Somatropin, a human growth hormone, from the bag of Chinese swimmer Yuan Yuan upon her arrival for the 1997 World Swimming Championships.

At the World Championships, four Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned substance Triamterene, a diuretic used to dilute urine samples in order to mask the presence of anabolic steroids.

The first Biathlon World Championships ( BWCH ) was held in 1958, with individual and team contests for men.

There are a number of golf courses in Acapulco including the Acapulco Princess and the Pierre Marqués course, the latter designed by Robert Trent Jones in 1972 for the World Cup Golf Tournament.

* 1993 – All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

File: JohnMcFall-Manchester-20070513. jpg | John McFall, who has an above-knee leg amputation, and uses a prosthetic leg, is a sprinter and winner of a gold medal at the 2007 Paralympic World Cup

The Bluetooth Innovation World Cup, a marketing initiative of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group ( SIG ), is an international competition encouraging the development of innovations for applications leveraging the Bluetooth low energy wireless technology in sports, fitness and health care products.

Bluetooth Innovation World Cup 2009

The first international Bluetooth Innovation World Cup 2009 drew more than 250 international entries, including Nokia, Freescale Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Nordic Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics and Brunel.

Bluetooth Innovation World Cup 2010

The Bluetooth SIG announced the start of the second Innovation World Cup on 1 June 2010, with a focus on applications for the sports & fitness, health care, and home information and control markets.

The Lions faced the World Cup winners South Africa, with Ian McGeechan leading a coaching team including Warren Gatland, Shaun Edwards and Rob Howley.

Following the performances of the Canadian, American and Argentine teams at the 2011 Rugby World Cup, some commentators have suggested the Lions conduct a shortened tour the Americas in the future.

* 1998: Two days after the French football team became World Cup champions, huge celebrations took place nationwide.

A member of the England team who won the World Cup and Ballon d ' Or for European Footballer of the Year in 1966, he played almost all of his club football at Manchester United, where he became renowned for his attacking instincts and passing abilities from midfield and his ferocious long-range shot.

After helping United to win the Football League in 1965, he won a World Cup medal with England in 1966 and another Football League title with United the following year.

He was selected for the squad which competed at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, but didn't kick a ball, something at which critics expressed surprise and bewilderment, even allowing for his lacklustre performance in Belgrade.

He played in qualifiers for the 1962 World Cup in Chile against Luxembourg and Portugal and was named in the squad for the finals themselves.

In between, there was the pressing matter for Charlton of the 1966 World Cup for which England, as hosts, had not needed to qualify.

By now, England were coached by Alf Ramsey who had managed to gain sole control of the recruitment and team selection procedure from the committee-based call-up system which had lasted up to the previous World Cup.

Charlton's role was developing from traditional inside-forward to what today would be termed an attacking midfield player, with Ramsey planning to build the team for the 1966 World Cup around him.

This was his 48th goal for his country – his 49th and final goal would follow a month later in a 4 – 0 win over Colombia during a warm-up tour for the 1970 World Cup, designed to get the players adapted to altitude conditions.

Charlton's inevitable selection by Ramsey for the tournament made him the first – and still, to date, only – England player to feature in four World Cup squads.

Shortly before the World Cup Charlton was involved in the Bogotá Bracelet incident in which he and Bobby Moore were accused of stealing a bracelet from a jewellery store.

Later in the same year, he captained the West Indies team in Australia for the Bicentennial Youth World Cup where the West Indies reached the semi-finals.

He had made his ODI debut a month earlier against Pakistan, scoring 11 in the 1992 World Cup

On 10 April 2007 Lara confirmed his retirement from one day cricket post the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

The World Series, baseball's championship series which determines the champion of Major League Baseball for that season, is held in mid-to-late October ( sometimes spilling over into November to accommodate longer series ) and is nicknamed the " Fall Classic ".

He was instrumental in organizing the World Baseball Classic in 2006.

* World Baseball Classic ( 2006 )

Their appearance in three consecutive World Series made the Cubs the first Major League club to play three times in the Fall Classic.

A local subscription service, KTV carries satellite channels such as ESPN, Discovery CNN International and Turner Classic Movies ( from the United States ) and BBC World from the United Kingdom.

Game 3 marked the first Fall Classic in Texas and was the longest game in World Series history, lasting 5 hours and 41 minutes.

* 1950 – Michael Monarch, American guitaris, songwriter, and producer ( Steppenwolf, Detective, and World Classic Rockers )

The IKF also hosts the Largest All Amateur – Full Contact & Muay Thai – Kickboxing Tournament in the World, the IKF World Classic.

The Astros, Rangers, Red Sox, and Yankees expressed an interest in signing him, but Clemens implied that he was finally retiring after his Team USA was eliminated by Mexico in the second round from the 2006 World Baseball Classic on March 16, 2006.

On April 4, 2006, Clemens made an insulting remark when asked about the devotion of Japanese and South Korean fans during the World Baseball Classic: " None of the dry cleaners were open, they were all at the game, Japan and Korea ".

On February 27, 2006, to train for the World Baseball Classic, Roger pitched in an exhibition game between the Astros and his son's minor league team.

Category: 2006 World Baseball Classic players

On December 25, 2008, Sosa announced he intended to unretire and play in the World Baseball Classic and once again test the free agent market in hopes of signing for a Major League ballclub in 2009.

Sosa said that he had been keeping in shape at his home, and was hoping that after a strong World Baseball Classic he would prove to major-league teams that he was still capable of playing in the MLB.

In international baseball competitions sanctioned by the IBAF, including Olympic competition and the World Baseball Classic ( WBC ), games are currently ended when one team is ahead by 10 runs, once at least seven completed innings are played by the trailing team.

Qualification places are determined by different countries performance during the World Cup Classic series held through the season.

In the World Championships or World Cup Classic events the top two teams from the qualifying round progress directly to the Gold and Silver medal race while the third and fourth qualifiers fight it out for Bronze.

With the International Baseball Federation, MLB also manages the World Baseball Classic.

In recent years, the album has received acclaim from music publications: In 2006, Classic Rock ranked it number 28 in " The 100 Greatest British Rock Albums Ever ", and in 2007, Mojo ranked it No. 88 in " The 100 Records That Changed the World ".

As of December 2004 C / F International was a secured judgment creditor of Classic World Productions and its principal, Darryl Payne, for approximately one million US dollars, and was the principal secured creditor at the time of the subsequent bankruptcy filing by the company.

C / F International's action against Classic World Productions and owner Darryl Payne was based on unpaid royalties from This Is Tom Jones, and related recordings.