* Indoor Rowing World Records

* Indoor Rowing Ultra-Distance World Records

* Lake Malta in Poznań hosted the World Rowing Championships in 2009 and has previously hosted some regattas in the Rowing World Cup.

An annual World Rowing Championships was introduced in 1962.

The standard length races for the Olympics and the World Rowing Championships is 2, 000 m long, 1, 500 – 2, 000 m for US high school races on the east coast and 1, 000 m for masters rowers ( rowers older than 27 ).

The World Rowing Championships offers multi-lane racing in heats, finals and repechages.

At the end of each year, the FISA holds the World Rowing Championships with events in 22 different boat classes.

Events are held at the World Rowing Championships and were also held at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

* World Rowing Championships

* Rowing World Cup

* Junior World Rowing Championships

* FISA — The Official World Rowing Website ( See International Rowing Federation )

Dorney Lake, in Buckinghamshire, is owned by the college and will host the rowing events at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the World Junior Rowing Championships.

Bled hosted the World Rowing Championships, for the 4th time in history, in 2011.

Like his father, Laurie was an oarsman at school and university ; in 1977, he was a member of the junior coxed pair that won the British national title before representing Britain's Youth Team at the 1977 Junior World Rowing Championships.

He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships gold medals.

He also enjoyed success in indoor rowing, winning the World Championship for Indoor Rowing in 1991.

In addition to his Olympic medals, Redgrave won 9 gold medals, 2 silvers, and a bronze at the Rowing World Championships.

The World Rowing Championships in 1978 and 2010, and the 1950 British Empire Games were hosted at Karapiro.

The 2010 World Rowing Championships were held at Lake Karapiro.

In 2002 the Serpentine hosted the World Rowing Sprints, in which several international crews raced over 547 yards ( 500 m ).

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.

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Bluetooth Innovation World Cup 2010

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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.