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The Championship has been awarded every two years since the first tournament in 1977 held in Tunisia.
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Aon has sponsored the British Touring Car Championship team run by Arena Motorsport since 2009.
The World Crokinole Championship ( WCC ) tournament has been held annually since 1999 on the first Saturday of June in Tavistock, Ontario.
Since 1980, UCA has hosted the National High School Cheerleading Championship in Walt Disney World Resort.
In subsequent years, international Test cricket has generally been organised as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organised again until the quadrangular Asian Test Championship in 1999.
Albert Park also has the distinction of being the only venue to hold the Australian Grand Prix in both World Championship and non-World Championship formats.
The sports where Fuerteventura has the most impact internationally are windsurfing and kitesurfing, mainly due to the International Windsurfing and Kiteboarding Championship.
The city has hosted several promotional functions and some international sports events: in 1950 it hosted the VI Central American and Caribbean Games, and in 2000 the FIFA Futsal World Championship.
Irina Krush ( born December 24, 1983 ) is an American chess player who has won the U. S. Women's Chess Championship in 1998, 2007, 2010, and 2012.
She has won the U. S. Championship on three other occasions, in 2007, 2010, and 2012.
Polgár has rarely played in women's-specific tournaments or divisions and has never competed for the Women's World Championship.
Karaoke World Championship is one of the most popular karaoke contests and has been around since 2003.
It has hosted the Big 12 Championship Game five times.
In domestic cricket, Muralitharan has played for two first-class Sri Lankan sides, Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club in the Premier Trophy and Central Province in the Provincial Championship.
Despite his efforts, he has not been on a title winning first-class domestic team in either the Premier Trophy or the County Championship.
Hornswoggle has also been given a run with the Cruiserweight Championship and feuded with D-X in 2009.
Indoor rowing has become popular as a sport in its own right with numerous indoor competitions ( and the annual World Championship CRASH-B Sprints in Boston ) during the winter off-season.
The Triple Crown honour has long been a feature of the tournament, dating back to the original Home Nations Championship, but the physical Triple Crown Trophy has been awarded only since 2006.
The annual national championship for Club Racing is called the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and has been held at Riverside International Raceway ( 1964, 1966, 1968 ), Daytona International Speedway ( 1965, 1967, 1969 ), Road Atlanta ( 1970 – 1993 ), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course ( 1994 – 2005 ), and Heartland Park Topeka ( 2006 – 2008 ).
They won the NFC Championship Game in 2005, and went on to lose in the Super Bowl against the Pittsburgh Steelers ( though it was not without controversy as NFL Films has Super Bowl XL at number 8 on its top ten list of controversial calls ).
Keirin has been a UCI men's World Championship event since 1980 and a UCI women's World Championship event since 2002.
Wrocław was the host of EuroBasket 1963, FIBA EuroBasket 2009, UEFA Euro 2012 and will host 2014 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship and has been selected as a European Capital of Culture for 2016.
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Prior to 1947, the only definition of first-class cricket had been one in Great Britain that dated from a meeting at Lord's in May 1894 between the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) committee and the secretaries of the clubs involved in the official County Championship, which had begun in 1890.
This title was abolished in 1931, after having been awarded to Boris Verlinsky, who won the 1929 Soviet Championship.
Though regular season meetings have been infrequent since then, the teams have met two more times in the playoffs, including in 2009 when the Colts and Jets met in the AFC Championship Game.
On January 11, 2009 the team defeated the defending Super Bowl Champions and the 2008 NFC East champion New York Giants 23 – 11 en route to their 5th NFC Championship Game in 8 years and 5th in the 10 years the Eagles have been coached by Andy Reid.
SCCA Executive Director John Bishop helped to create the United States Road Racing Championship series for Group 7 sports cars to recover races that had been taken by rival USAC Road Racing Championship.
They had been eliminated in all 6 of their previous playoff appearances, including 5 losses in the AFC Championship Game.
During halftime, USA Network aired a special edition of WWF Sunday Night Heat called Halftime Heat featuring a match between The Rock and Mankind for the WWF Championship in an Empty Arena Match that took place in Arizona and had been taped five days before.
By now, the Championship had been moved back to January in the middle of the European handball season.
Significantly, if Eddie Irvine, who placed 7th at that race, had been able to pass Gené, he could have won that year's World Championship by a point.
* National Academic Championship ( NAC ) has been held since 1983, and is sponsored by Questions Unlimited.
* National Scholastics Championship ( NSC ) has been held since 1998, and is organized by the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence ( PACE ).
Pirelli has also been awarded the contract for the control tyre supply in the British Superbike Championship from 2008 until at least 2010.
The IMSA GT Championship had been prototype-based since 1983, with less emphasis on production cars.
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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 ).
Susan had the distinction of being the first woman to earn the GM title by achieving three GM norms and rating over 2500 as previous female GMs, Nona Gaprindashvili and Maia Chiburdanidze, were awarded the title by winning the Women's World Championship.
The Triple Crown may only be awarded to either England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales, and only when one nation wins all three of their matches against the other three, during the Six Nations Championship.
Similarly, a National Champion in each class is awarded by winning the class at the National Championship ( usually referred to as " Nationals ") held in September.
Championship points awarded are equal to that of any other Sprint Cup race.
In April, Rogers was awarded the new WWWF World Championship following an apocryphal tournament in Rio de Janeiro.
* Eight counties compete for the elite All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for which the O ' Duffy Cup is awarded: Clare, Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Offaly, Tipperary and Wexford.
He was also awarded the The Ring Lightweight Championship in 1988.
Santiago hit two home runs in the series along with 6 runs batted in, and was awarded the League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award as the Giants defeated the Cardinals in five games.
Tuba City High School was awarded the 1982 National Cross Country Championship through the XC Legacy series published through Milesplit. us in an effort to begin filling in the national rankings from 1980-1988.
There is considerable controversy over whether the Maroons should have been awarded the 1925 NFL Championship instead of the Chicago Cardinals, whom they beat on the field.
* John Morrissey announces his retirement and relinquishes the Championship of America, which is awarded to his nearest challenger John C. Heenan.
* 20 May — Sayers is awarded a special Silver Championship Belt to commemorate the fight and he now announces his retirement from boxing.
On March 1, 2007, Washington State was awarded a banner for its 1917 NCAA National Basketball Championship prior to its home game against UCLA.
The last World Sportscar Championship titles were awarded in 1992.
The Henri Delaunay Trophy, which is awarded to the winner of the European Football Championship, is named in honour of Henri Delaunay, the first General Secretary of UEFA, who came up with the idea of a European championship but died five years prior to the first tournament in 1960.
The trophy was first awarded to the Green Bay Packers in 1967 ( when the Super Bowl's official designation was the AFL-NFL World Championship Game ) after they defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
Gagne disagreed and awarded the AWA Championship to Bockwinkel, using one of the tag team title belts on a temporary basis.
In 1964, the Razorbacks were the only team to go through the regular season and a bowl game undefeated, and they were awarded the Football Writers Association of America National Championship.
Broyles team was awarded the 1964 National Championship by the Football Writers Association of America and the Helms Athletic Foundation.
The FWAA and HAF awarded their National Championship designations to Arkansas, who was the only team to go undefeated through bowl games that year.
The following week on Raw, General Manager Eric Bischoff awarded a newly instated World Heavyweight Championship to Raw's designated # 1 contender, Triple H. Because since the WWE Undisputed Championship was now SmackDown!
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