A world championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or contest. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that for any two items the first is either "ranked higher than" "ranked lower than" or "ranked equal 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 organize both. Sporting competitions named World Cup include FIFA World Cup (men's football(soccer FIFA Women's World Cup (women's football(soccer Often, the use of the term cup or championship in this sense is just a choice of words. Some sports have multiple champions because 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. Boxing (sometimes also known as English boxing or pugilism) is a Combat sport in which two participants generally of similar weight, Boxing weight -class names are not always consistent as shown in the following table See also Boxing List of current
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A full list is presented at List of world cups and world championships
- Air sports:
- Athletics: IAAF World Championships in Athletics
- Aquatics: FINA World Aquatics Championships
- Auto-Racing:
- Badminton: World Badminton Championships
- Ball games
- Basketball
- Football: FIFA World Cup, called Football World Championships in many languages. The following is a list of World cups and World championships, sporting events which use one of these two names or one with a similar meaning The World Gliding Championships is a gliding competition held every two years or so by the FAI Gliding Commission. The World Championships in Athletics is an event organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for aquatic sports diving swimming open water swimming synchronized swimming History Early The World Rally Championship was formed from well-known international rallies nine of which were previously part of the International Championship The World Touring Car Championship ( WTCC) is an international Touring Car championship organized by the FIA. World Endurance Championship redirects here For the motorcycle endurance The BWF World Championships (formerly known as IBF World Championships, also known as the World Badminton Championships) is a tournament organized by the Badminton The FIBA World Championship is a world Basketball tournament for men's national teams held quadrennially by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA The FIBA World Championship for Women (also called the Basketball World Championship for Women) is a world Basketball tournament for women's national teams held quadrennially The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international Association football
- Handball: World Men's Handball Championship
- Volleyball: Volleyball World Championship
- Canoeing: Flatwater Racing World Championships
- Cycling:
- Equestrian:
- Gymnastics: World Gymnastics Championships
- Snooker: World Snooker Championship
- Speedway:
- Winter Sports:
- Alpine skiing: Alpine World Skiing Championships
- Bandy: Bandy World Championships
- Biathlon: Biathlon World Championships
- Curling: World Curling Championships
- Figure Skating: World Figure Skating Championships
- Ice Hockey: Ice Hockey World Championships
- Nordic Skiing: Nordic Skiing World Championships
- Speed Skating: Several, see overview at World championships speed skating
- Amateur Wrestling:
- FILA: FILA World Championship
- Professional Wrestling:
- World Wrestling Entertainment: WWE Championship
- World Wrestling Entertainment: World Heavyweight Championship (WWE)
- World Wrestling Entertainment: ECW Championship
- National Wrestling Alliance: NWA World Heavyweight Championship
- Total Nonstop Action Wrestling: TNA World Heavyweight Championship
Trivia
- The first sport to declare a world champion was real tennis, starting in 1740. The World Championship in team handball for men has been organized by the International Handball Federation since 1938 The Volleyball World Championship is a men's and women's indoor Volleyball competition The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of World championship events for the various disciplines and distances in Track cycling and are regulated by See also UCI Track Cycling World Championships The women's UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the World championship events for Track cycling The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI organises World Championships to determine world champion cyclists The UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI consists of both a men's and women's Cyclo-cross World championship The UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships are the world championship events for Mountain bike racing events in cross country, downhill, Four-cross The FEI World Equestrian Games are the major international championships for Equestrianism, considered by many horsemen to be more important than the Olympics and administered The Eventing World Championship, or the eventing competition in the World Equestrian Games (WEG began in 1966 The Show Jumping World Championships, or the Show jumping competition at the FEI World Equestrian Games, was started in 1953 with individual competition The Dressage World Championship is held every four years The best horse and rider competitions in the world compete for individual and team titles The Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique organises World Gymnastics Championships for each of the gymnastic disciplines The World Snooker Championship, currently held at the Crucible Theatre in the English city of Sheffield, is the climax of Snooker 's annual calendar and Event format The format for a Speedway Grand Prix changed for the 2007 season onwards Speedway World Championship Competitions The World Championship of Speedway is an international competition between the highest ranked speedway riders of the world The Speedway World Cup is an annual speedway event held each year in different countries The Team Speedway Junior World Championship (more commonly known as the Under-21 Speedway World Cup) is an annual speedway event held each year in different countries Alpine skiing (or downhill skiing) is a recreational activity and Sport involving sliding down Snow -covered hills with long Skis attached The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships are organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS Bandy is a Winter sport, where a ball is hit with a stick It shares a common ancestry with Ice hockey, in that it likely developed from the informal "ball and The Bandy World Championships are a competition between Bandy -playing nations The first Biathlon World Championships (BWCH was held in 1958 with individual (official and relay (unofficial contests for men The World Curling Championships are annual Curling events which showcase the world's best curlers organized by the World Curling Federation. The World Figure Skating Championships ( "Worlds") is an annual Figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which The Ice Hockey World Championship is an annual event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships have been held in various numbers and types of events since 1925 for men and since 1954 for women The International Skating Union organises the following World Championships in the sport of Speed skating: Allround Men's This article is about the championship that is currently defended on the SmackDown brand of WWE The World Heavyweight Championship is a Professional wrestling world championship in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE The Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW Championship is a Professional wrestling world championship in World Wrestling Entertainment. The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA World Heavyweight Championship is the primary Professional wrestling title in the National Wrestling Alliance The Total Nonstop Action (TNA World Heavyweight Championship is the primary Professional wrestling championship in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Below are the lists of Real tennis world champions. Men's singles Men's singles in "real" tennis is the oldest world championship in sports Year 1740 ( MDCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap
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