In its 12-year history as an amateur league, the Brooklyn Atlantics won seven championships, establishing themselves as the first true dynasty in the sport, although, the New York Mutuals were widely considered to be one of the best teams of the era as well.

It became an official Summer Olympic sport at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and its gold medals now generally rate as the sport's most coveted prizes for individual players.

The first climber to actually make bouldering his primary specialty ( in the mid 1950s ) and to advocate its acceptance as a legitimate sport not restricted to a particular area was John Gill, a mathematician and amateur gymnast who found the challenge and movement of bouldering enjoyable.

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.

The birth hour of boxing as a sport may be its acceptance by the ancient Greeks as an Olympic game as early as 688 BC.

Developed into its present form in Italy, ( where it is called bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia which means " bowl "), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America ( where it is known as bochas ; bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha ( the sport ) in Brazil ), initially among the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community.

The Fabrique Alza just outside the city is known for its palas, bats used in pelota, the traditional Basque sport.

Anheuser-Busch is known for its sport sponsorship, video game sponsorship ( Tapper ), and humorous advertisements.

It has recently come to be known as an " extreme sport " by some ( though not commonly considered as such by its practitioners, who may dislike the term for its perceived connotation of disregard for safety ).

As a sport, cross-country skiing is one of the most difficult endurance sports, as its motions use every major muscle group and it ( along with running, rowing and swimming ) is one of the sports that burn the most calories per hour in execution.

Its competition aspect makes cheerleading its own sport.

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban the sport following a series of player deaths from injuries suffered during games. The deaths and injuries were a result of the mass formations and gang tackling that characterized the sport in its early years.

The IAAUS would get its current name of National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ), in 1910 which still sets rules governing the sport.

For example, rugby union is both dangerous and adrenaline-inducing but is not considered an extreme sport due to its traditional image, and because it does not involve high speed or an intention to perform stunts ( the aesthetic criteria mentioned above ) and also it does not have changing environmental variables for the athletes.

Due to its popularity in the region, the Eastern European countries that refined the event became the dominant force in the sport when it was reintroduced.

In 1925, Naismith visited an Indiana basketball state finals game along with 15, 000 screaming fans and later wrote, that while it was invented in Massachusetts, " basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

Indoor rowing has become established as a sport in its own right.

He had already announced his plan which was named " The draft principles of project of establishment of a new sport and its industrialization " in November, 1959, and he proposed the tentative name of " karate-boxing " for this new sport.

Kabaddi was axed in 1992, but not before its presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy suffered a collapsed lung while participating in the sport.

Martial arts have crossed over into sports when forms of sparring become competitive, becoming a sport in its own right that is dissociated from the original combative origin, such as with western fencing.

Apart from its centres of learning, the campus features the Macquarie University Research Park, museums, art galleries, a sculpture park, an observatory, a sport and aquatic centre, a fauna park and also the private Macquarie University Hospital.

The quagga was hunted for its meat, the tarpan was hunted for sport, and a subspecies of black rhinoceros was hunted for its horn ( as with all other African rhinoceros species ).

Shortly after this era, boxing commissions and other sanctioning bodies were established to regulate the sport and establish universally recognized champions.

The list of ' modern ' world champions extended into the 1980s, when the sport entered the catamaran, and then the ' superboat ' era-the 1000 cubic inch total engine displacement restrictions were lifted for boats over in length, and soon three-and four-engine boats sporting F16 fighter canopies replaced the venerable vee hulls that had been the sport's top category for twenty years.

In 2003, the International Olympic Committee made BMX a full medal Olympic sport for 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China, and Māris Štrombergs ( male, for Latvia ) and Anne-Caroline Chausson ( female, for France ) became the first Olympic champions.

Egyptian football clubs especially El Ahly and El Zamalek are known throughout the Middle East and Africa and enjoy the reputation of long-time champions of the sport regionally.

The NWA generally promoted strong shooters as champions, to give their worked sport credibility and guard against double-crosses.

It echoed many critics ' arguments that the sanctioning bodies in charge of boxing championships had undermined the sport by pitting undeserving contenders against undeserving " champions ", and forcing the boxing public to see mismatches for so-called " world championships ".

Dortmund is home of the sport club Borussia Dortmund, the current Bundesliga champions.

They are currently ( as of 2010 ) world champions in the sport of field hockey.

The earliest champions in women's gymnastics tended to be in their 20s ; most had studied ballet for years before entering the sport.

Real Tennis has the longest line of consecutive world champions of any sport in the world.

Even if football is the most known and practised sport in the city, many other champions came from others, like athletics ( the 400 meters hurdles world champion in 1999 Fabrizio Mori ) and fencing ( Aldo Montano ).

Since living in Little Rock, Pat has already produced multiple state champions, national finalists, and All-Americans in the sport.

The Cloggies were undisputed champions of their ‘ sport ’, usually inflicting grave injuries before repairing to the nearest pub.

Category: Sports champions by sport

Some of the riders have reached the highest level of international sport, being Olympic or world champions.

Austrian champions ( in German: Österreichischer Meister ) is the general name for a champion in a team or singles competition Austria's elite national sport ( bundesliga ) competitions, and is thus comparable with the title of German champions.

In contrast to Austrian state champions, the title Austrian champions is assigned in all age categories and also in disciplines in which the Austrian federal sport organization is not recognized.

He was one of the most influential European grapplers of all-time, he was also among the sport ’ s great pioneer champions.

Mary Lou Retton was the first American woman ever to win the title, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, but because those Games were boycotted by the Soviet Union, meaning Retton did not face stiff competition from the Soviet gymnasts ( who consistently dominated the sport during that period, accounting in 1984 for six of the seven previous Olympic all-around champions and nine of the ten previous World all-around champions ), Patterson's victory had a unique significance.

Tchoukball is an indoor team sport developed in the 1970s by Swiss biologist Hermann Brandt, who believed that " The objective of all physical activities is not to make champions, but make a contribution to building a harmonious society ".

The off season saw rumours of several former champions returning to the sport, but in the end only double world champion Niki Lauda returned to Formula One after an absence of two years to partner John Watson at McLaren.

However, Australia did tour in 1969 / 70, with the Springboks whitewashing them 4-0, making them unofficial world champions of the sport.