Reigning World Cup holders Uruguay declined to participate, in protest at the refusal of several European countries to travel to South America for the previous World Cup, which Uruguay had hosted in 1930.

Reigning World Series MVP Manny Ramirez was featured on the cover of the 2005 installment of the series.

Reigning World Champion ( and local favourite ) Nelson Piquet qualified 7th in his Brabham-BMW, while a Formula One rookie by the name of Ayrton Senna qualified 17th for his first ever Grand Prix in his Toleman-Hart.

Reigning World Champion Alain Prost finished 3rd in his McLaren-TAG, one lap down on the Williams pair.

Reigning World Champion Ayrton Senna of McLaren was only in fourth place, having accumulated eight points.

Reigning World Champion Jacques Villeneuve finished in sixth place, after Williams had their worst qualifying result since the 1989 United States Grand Prix.

Reigning world driver's champion Nelson Piquet and his Brabham-BMW were usually the fastest combination on track but appalling early season reliability, where the reigning Drivers ' World Champion failed to score a point due to numerous engine and turbo failures before his win in Canada, meant he was never able to challenge consistently, and by half way through the season it was apparent he wouldn't repeat as champion.

* World Chess Championship 1981: Reigning champion Anatoly Karpov retained his title when challenger Viktor Korchnoi conceded the 18th game of the series, giving Karpov the sixth win in the match, that had started on October 1 at the Kurzentrum playing hall in Merano, Italy.

Reigning Champions Huddersfield were favourites to lift the Eastern Division title, especially as Rovers were missing five first choice players with injuries.

Bands like Reigning Sound, Goober & the Peas and The Black Keys have all cited Fortune artists as influential.

Since the turn of the century Peace & Freedom Press have published Millennium Memories-a collection looking back to the past millennium and forward to the next ; Planet Of Love-a book dealing with the many aspects of love, spiritual, physical, love of family, friends and pets, love of nature, and love of life and living ; The Magic Of Animals-all about the magic of animals, from the worm to the whale ; Science Friction-a diverse collection of sci-fi poetry, prose and art ; Reigning Cats & Dogs-an anthology saluting cats and dogs ; My Gun Is Bigger Than Your Gun-a powerful paperback of poetry, prose and art all about war ; Green Vibrations-an anthology of poetry, prose and art covering the wonders of nature, the beauty of animals, and environmental and animal welfare issues.

* Reigning Cats & Dogs ( 2003 )

Utilized by World Team Tennis professional competition and ITF Junior Doubles.

Kim's younger sister Elke finished 2002 as the ITF World Junior Doubles champion and retired in 2004 after back injuries.

He is also a former World Doubles champion with Alex Higgins, won the World Cup twice and Nations Cup once with England and was the 2010 World Seniors Champion.

White did, however, become a World Doubles Champion later that year when he and Alex Higgins defeated Willie Thorne and Cliff Thorburn 10 – 2 in the final of the World Doubles Championship.

Further, the American player Leah " Miss Ping " Neuberger, the 1956 World Mixed Doubles Champion and nine-time U. S. Open Women's Singles Champion, was traveling at the time with the Canadian Table Tennis Team that had been invited by China to visit the country.

He is also a former four-time World Doubles champion with Tony Meo and won the World Team Classic / World Cup four times with England.

Following those two setbacks, he won the World Doubles Championship title with partner Tony Meo.

Sklansky has won three World Series of Poker bracelets, two in 1982 ($ 800 Mixed Doubles, and $ 1000 Draw Hi ) and one in 1983 ($ 1000 Limit Omaha Hi ).

Hendry and Mike Hallett combined to win that year's World Doubles Championship.

He also claimed three other tournament victories, retaining both the Scottish Professional Championship and the World Doubles Championship ( with Hallett ), and the Australian Masters.

* WLBSA World Mixed Doubles Championship ( with Tatjana Vasiljeva ) – 2010, 2011

As part of a doubles partnership with Davis, Meo won four World Doubles titles, and was also part of the victorious England team at the 1983 World Team Classic.

* Hofmeister World Doubles ( 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986 – all with Steve Davis )

His last final was the 1985 World Doubles when he partnered Tony Jones and lost to Steve Davis and Tony Meo 5 – 12.

Earlier in the season he had partnered Australian John Campbell to the Quarter-final of the Hofmeister World Doubles, where they lost just 5 – 4 to Ray Reardon and Tony Jones.

However, it should be noted that Spencer and Reardon paired up for the first two World Doubles events.

There was some cheer when Spencer partnered Tony Knowles to the semi-finals of the World Doubles in December 1984 which gave them a cheque for £ 11, 250.

Five-time World Champions Mural

Field hockey is a sport played internationally by both men and women including the Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games, the quadrennial Hockey World Cups, the annual Champions Trophies and World Cups for juniors.

Defending holders Manchester United did not enter the 1999 – 2000 FA Cup, as they were already in the inaugural Club World Championship, with the club stating that entering both tournaments would overload their fixture schedule and make it more difficult to defend their Champions League and Premiership titles.

In addition to the World Floorball Championships, there are other IFF Events for club teams such as the Champions Cup which is for the national competition winners from the Top-4 ranked nations, and the EuroFloorball Cup for the national competition winners from the 5th and lower ranked nationsl.

The Tsar reportedly awarded the title to the five finalists: Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Frank Marshall ( respectively, the World Champion, the next two World Champions, and two players who had lost World Championship matches to Lasker ).

Since FIDE did not award the grandmaster title posthumously, world-class players who died prior to 1950, including World Champions Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine, never received the title.

Wabash College won the Men's Division III NCAA Championship in 1982 and their 1905 24-0 team was considered World Champions ; DePauw University and Manchester College were Div III National Finalists.

In November 2007, she took part in Chess Champions League – Playing for a Better World in Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain a tournament to raise funds for equipment for a Hospital in Mbuji-Mayi, Congo.

Category: World Youth Chess Champions

He is one of the few 500 cc or MotoGP World Champions to have won a Superbike World Championship race.

Category: Formula One World Drivers ' Champions

The ICC Champions Trophy also involves all the Test-playing nations, and is held between World Cups.

From Opening Day through July 26, 2009, the Phillies wore 2008 World Champions patches on the right sleeve of their home uniforms.

Champions since, although they lost consecutive World Series appearances against the San Francisco Giants in 2010 and the St. Louis Cardinals in.

Bruce also instructed several World Karate Champions including Chuck Norris, Joe Lewis, and Mike Stone.

, top athletes in the sport include current World Champions Todd Lodwick and Bill Demong, as well as silver medal winning Jan Schmid.

Their 1977 album, News of the World, contained two of rock's most recognisable anthems, " We Will Rock You " and " We Are the Champions ".

They beat World Champions Italy 3 – 0 in their first match, followed by a 4 – 1 win over World Cup runners-up France.

All current ( with the exception of Russian driver Vitaly Petrov ) and many former Formula One drivers grew up racing karts, most prominent among them, World Champions Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.

SSI invited the 1997 Pro World Champions, the Flyboyz, to participate in the 1998 ESPN X Games as an unofficial exhibition.