World championship

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

A world championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or contest. The title is usually awarded by contests, rankingsystems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the best nation, team, individual (or other entity) in the world in a particular field. Certain sports do not have a world championship, instead they may organise a world cup, or they may organise both. Often, the use of the term cup or championship in this sense is just a choice of words. Some sports have multiple champions becouse of multiple organizations such as pro boxing and wrestling.

Certain sports do not have a world championships or a world cup as such, but may have one or several world champions. Professional boxing for example has several world champions at different weights, but each one of them is decided by a "title fight", not a championship.

[edit] Sports

A full list is presented at List of world cups and world championships

[edit] Trivia

  • The first sport to declare a world champion was real tennis, starting in 1740.

[edit] Performing

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../w/o/r/World_championship.html"