Grand Slam

Grand Slam or Grand slam may refer to:

Sports and games

Auto racing

• Grand Slam (NASCAR) (officially 1985–2002/2003, unofficially 1970–2004), winning all of NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series majors in a calendar year
• Grand Slam (Formula One) in Formula One racing, winning a race from pole while leading every lap and scoring the fastest lap
• Grand Slam in motor racing winning Monaco F1 Grand Prix, Indy 500 and 24 hrs du Mans

Baseball

• Grand slam (baseball), home run with all three bases occupied, thereby scoring four runs on one play (the maximum)

Bridge

• Slam or grand slam are contracts to win at least twelve (slam or small slam) or all thirteen (grand slam) tricks in the card game bridge

Chess

• Grand Slam Chess Association (from 2008?), series of major annual chess tournaments
• Grand Slam Masters Final, or Bilbao Chess Masters Final (from 2008), a culminating annual chess tournament

Equestrian sports

• Grand Slam (horse) (1995–2012), American thoroughbred racehorse
• Grand Slam of Thoroughbred racing, four particular races (see also Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing)
  • Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, and Breeder's Cup Classic (colts or fillies)
  • Kentucky Oaks, Black-Eye Susan Stakes, Acorn Stakes, and Breeder's Cup Distaff (fillies)
  • An equivalent series of four races in National Hunt Racing in the UK
• Equestrian Grand Slam
  • Grand Slam of Eventing (from 1998), three particular world horse trials competitions; also one rider consecutively winning all three of them
  • Grand Slam of Show Jumping (from 2013), one rider winning all three major annual competitions consecutively

Golf

• Grand Slam (golf) (in use from 1930), one player winning all four major annual golf tournaments
• PGA Grand Slam of Golf (from 1979), annual off-season men's golf competition

Judo

• Grand Slam Paris, international judo competition held in Paris, France
• Grand Slam Tokyo, international judo competition held in Tokyo, Japan

Tennis

• Grand Slam (tennis) (in use from 1933), one player or pair winning all four major annual tennis tournaments; also a nickname for each of the major tournaments
• Pepsi Grand Slam (1976–1981), annual men's professional tennis tournament
• Grand Slam Cup (1990–1999), annual international tennis tournament
• Grand Slam (real tennis) (from 1990), a player or pair winning all four major annual real tennis tournaments

Video games

• Grandslam Entertainment (1987–1995), a video game company
• Grand Slam Tennis, a game for the Wii released by EA Sports

Other sports

• Capital One Grand Slam of Curling (from 2001), series of annual curling bonspiels that is a subset of the World Curling Tour
• Grand Slam (PBA) (from 1975), one team winning all three major annual Philippine Basketball Association tournaments in a single season
• Grand Slam (rugby union) (first 1908), one national team defeating all others in the annual rugby union series now called Six Nations Championship
• Grand Slam (professional wrestling), various achievements defined by winning four specific professional wrestling championships
• Grand Slam of Ultrarunning (from 1986), Award for one registered person finishing the four specified annual 100-mile footraces in the U.S.
• Grand Slam (shinty) (from 1947), one club winning four specific annual shinty trophies
• Explorers Grand Slam or Adventurers Grand Slam, one person reaching the North Pole, the South Pole, and all of the Seven Summits during an adventuring career, first completed in 1998
• Grand Slam (Fly-Fishing Caribbean), one angler catching a bonefish, tarpon, and permit during one day of Caribbean fly-fishing; one of four three-species Inshore Grand Slams defined by the International Game Fish Association
• In Roller derby, a grand slam is a five-point scoring pass (four for each blocker and a fifth for the jammer), most commonly scored when the jammer is serving a penalty.

Entertainment

Personal Achievements

• Grand Slam of Hollywood show business, also called the EGOT, or winning Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards in an American entertainment career
• Grand Slam of Philippine film industry, winning awards from the four major film award-giving bodies in a year in a category.
• Grand Slam of Vogue covers, appearing in the covers of the four longest running editions (American, British, French and Italian) of the women's fashion magazine. Term originally cited by Linda Evangelista.

Fiction

• Operation Grand Slam, a plan to steal the U.S. gold reserves from Fort Knox in the 1959 James Bond novel Goldfinger by Ian Fleming

Film and television

• Grand Slam (1933 film), a 1933 American comedy film
• Grand Slam (1967 film), 1967 Italian heist movie
• 50 Grand Slam, 1976 US game show
• Grand Slam (1978 film), 1978 Welsh TV comedy movie
• Grand Slam (G.I. Joe) (introduced 1982), soldier character in the G.I. Joe universe, originally in comics and toys
• Grand Slam (1990 TV series), 1990 American action series
• Grand Slam (UK game show), 2003 British quiz show
• Grand Slam (U.S. game show), 2007 American remake of the 2003 British show
• Grandslam (Transformers), micro-cassette tank character in the Transformers franchise

Music

• Juice Leskinen Grand Slam (1981–1991), a Finnish rock band formed by Juice Leskinen
• Grand Slam (The Isley Brothers album), 1981 album by the Isley Brothers
• Grand Slam (Magic Slim album), 1983 album by Magic Slim
• Grand Slam (band) (1984–1985), band formed by Thin Lizzy bassist and vocalist Phil Lynott
• Grand Slam (Spiderbait album), 1999 album by Australian band Spiderbait

Beauty pageants

• There are four grand slam titles. Referring to the most sought after crowns, the most number of participants, and most publicized pageants worldwide: Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth only.

Military

• Grand Slam (bomb), 10-tonne British "earthquake bomb" of World War II
• Grand Slam Installation, modification of the 1946 US airplane B-36 as the B-36B capable of delivering nuclear weapons from 1949
• Exercise Grand Slam, 1952 NATO naval exercise in the Mediterranean Sea
• Operation Grand Slam, 1960 US espionage mission over the Soviet Union (1960 U-2 incident)
• Operation Grand Slam, Pakistan Army offensive plan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

Other

• Grand Slam breakfast, a dish at Denny's restaurants