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A world championship is generally an international sports competition open to elite competitors from across the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport or contest.

The title is usually awarded through a combination of specific contests or, less commonly, ranking systems (e.g. the ICC Test Championship), or a combination of the two (e.g. World Triathlon Championships in Triathlon). This determines a 'world champion', who or which is commonly considered the best nation, team, individual (or other entity) in the world in a particular field, although the vagaries of sport ensure that the competitor recognised at the best in an event is not always the 'world champion' (see Underdog).[citation needed]

Certain sports do not have a world championship, instead they may organise a world cup competition, or they may organize both. 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 mixed martial arts, boxing and wrestling.[citation needed]

Certain sports do not have a world championship 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 tournament.[citation needed]

A certain number of sports hold world championships or world cups which are overshadowed, in terms of prestige, by the same events in the Olympic Games, the most prestigious multi-sports event.[citation needed]

Finally, certain professional sports do not have a world championship or world cup, but rather hold a series of events recognised as the elite level in their field (e.g. tennis has a series of four Grand Slam events recognised as the pinnacle of the game, in addition to key team events, world tour finals and the Olympic Games, but no world championship or world cup).

Sports

Most successful sportsperson in each sport

This table includes medals for both individual and team events. Currently active competitors are highlighted in pale green. Italics indicates achieved more than one titles in a single year.

Men
Category Sport Sportsperson Born Tot. Ref.
Bicycle racing Cycling (road) Switzerland Fabian Cancellara[1] 1981 4 0 2 6
Spain Óscar Freire 1976 3 0 1 4
Belgium Eddy Merckx 1945
Belgium Rik Van Steenbergen 1924-2003
Italy Alfredo Binda 1902-1986
Cycling (track) France Arnaud Tournant 1978 14 3 2 19
BMX racing United States Randy Stumpfhauser 1977 4 5 3 12
Mountain bike racing (XC) France Julien Absalon 1980 4 1 1 6
Mountain bike racing (DH) France Nicolas Vouilloz 1976 10 0 0 10
Combat sports Boxing Cuba Félix Savón 1967 6 1 0 7
Jiu-Jitsu Brazil Roger Gracie 1981 10 5 0 15
Judo Japan Ryoko Tani 1989 7 0 1 8
Karate Italy Luca Valdesi 1976 6 2 4 12
Sambo Russia Fedor Emelianenko 1976 4 0 1 5
Taekwondo United States Steven López 1978 5 0 0 5
Wrestling Russia Aleksandr Karelin[2] 1967 9 0 0 9
Target sports Archery Sweden Hans Deutgen 1917-1989 4 1 0 5
Darts United Kingdom Phil Taylor 1960 16 4 20
Shooting Switzerland Konrad Stäheli 1866-1931 41 17 10 67 [3]
Cue sports Snooker United Kingdom Joe Davis 1901-1978 15 0 15
Billiards United Kingdom Mike Russell 1969 11 8 19
Racquet sports Badminton South Korea Park Joo-bong 1964 5 0 2 7
Table tennis Hungary Viktor Barna 1911-1972 22 7 12 41
Tennis[4] United States John McEnroe 1959 10 1 0 11
Tennis (team) Australia Roy Emerson 1936 8 1 0 9
Roller sports Inline speed skating United States Chad Hedrick 1977 50 14 4 68 [5]
Roller artistic skating Italy Roberto Riva 1986 10 1 0 11 [6]
Water sports Swimming United States Michael Phelps 1985 26 6 1 33
Diving Russia Dmitri Sautin 1974 5 1 3 9
Canoe sprint Romania Ivan Patzaichin 1974 9 4 9 22
Rowing Italy Daniele Gilardoni 1976 11 1 1 13 [7]
Sailing Denmark Paul Elvstrøm 1928 11 2 2 15 [8]
Winter sports Alpine skiing Norway Kjetil André Aamodt 1971 5 4 3 12
Biathlon Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen 1974 19 12 9 40
Bobsleigh Italy Eugenio Monti 1928-2003 9 1 0 10 [9]
Skeleton Switzerland Gregor Stähli 1968 4 3 3 10
Luge Italy Armin Zöggeler 1974 6 5 5 16
Cross-country skiing Norway Bjørn Dæhlie 1967 10 5 4 19
Ski jumping Finland Janne Ahonen 1977 5 3 2 10
Nordic combined Norway Bjarte Engen Vik 1971 5 3 0 8 [10]
Freestyle skiing France Edgar Grospiron 1969 3 0 0 3
Snowboarding Canada Jasey Jay Anderson 1968 4 0 0 4
Figure skating Sweden Ulrich Salchow 1877-1949 11 3 0 14
Speed skating Netherlands Sven Kramer 1986 16 1 2 19 [11]
Short track speed skating South Korea Ahn Hyun-Soo 1985 20 11 4 35 [11][12]
Olympic sports Athletics Jamaica Usain Bolt 1986 11 2 0 13
Artistic Gymnastics Belarus Vitaly Scherbo 1972 12 7 4 23
Fencing Hungary Aladár Gerevich 1910-1991 14 1 3 18
Triathlon United Kingdom Simon Lessing 1971 4 2 1 7
Weightlifting Russia Vasily Alekseyev 1967 8 0 0 8
Paralympic sports Athletics Switzerland Marcel Hug 1986 7 8 0 15
Team sports Baseball Cuba Pedro Luis Lazo 1973 7 2 0 3
Basketball Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Krešimir Ćosić 1948-1995 2 2 0 4
Beach volleyball Brazil Emanuel Rego 1973 2 1 0 3
Curling Canada Randy Ferbey 1959 4 1 0 5
Field hockey Pakistan Akhtar Rasool 1954 3 1 0 4 [13]
Football Brazil Pelé 1940 3 0 0 3
Football (club) Spain Víctor Valdés 1982 2 1 0 3
Spain Xavi 1980
Handball France Didier Dinart 1977 3 0 2 5
Ice Hockey Soviet Union Vladislav Tretiak 1914-1992 10 1 2 13
Volleyball Italy Marco Bracci
Italy Andrea Gardini
Italy Andrea Giani
Italy Ferdinando De Giorgi
1966
1965
1970
1961
3 0 0 3
Waterpolo Spain Salvador Gómez
Spain Jesús Rollán
1968
1968-2006
2 2 0 4
Women
Category Sport Athlete Born Tot. Ref.
Bicycle racing Cycling (road) France Jeannie Longo 1958 9 3 2 14
BMX racing Argentina Gabriela Diaz 1981 4 2 1 7
Mountain bike racing (XC) Norway Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå 1980 4 2 0 6
Mountain bike racing (DH) France Anne-Caroline Chausson 1976 9 0 0 9
Olympic sports Athletics United States Allyson Felix 1985 9 3 1 13
Tennis[14] United States Martina Navratilova 1956 19 6 25
Tennis (team) United States Chris Evert 1954 7 1 8
Paralympic sports Athletics United States Tatyana McFadden 1989 12 1 1 12
Team sports Beach volleyball United States Misty May-Treanor 1977 3 1 0 4
United States Kerri Walsh Jennings 1978
Football
United States Christie Rampone 1975 2 1 2 5
United States Kristine Lilly 1971 2 0 3 5
United States Brandi Chastain 1968 2 0 2 4
United States Joy Fawcett 1968
United States Julie Foudy 1971
United States Mia Hamm 1972
United States Michelle Akers 1966 2 0 1 3
Germany Birgit Prinz 1977 2 0 0 2
Germany Kerstin Stegemann 1977
Germany Martina Müller 1980
Germany Renate Lingor 1975
Water sports Swimming United States Missy Franklin 1995 11 2 3 16
Diving China Guo Jingjing 1981 11 1 0 12
Winter sports Figure skating Norway Sonja Henie 1912-1969 10 1 0 11
Open
Category Sport Athlete Born Tot. Ref.
Motor sports Formula One Germany Michael Schumacher 1969 7 2 3 12
Grand Prix Motorcycle racing Italy Giacomo Agostini 1942 15 5 1 21
Motorboat racing Italy Guido Cappellini 1959 10 2 2 14 [15]
Motorboat racing (offshore) United Kingdom Steve Curtis 1964 8 5 4 17
Speedway Denmark Hans Nielsen 1959 22 11 8 41
Motocross Belgium Stefan Everts 1972 10 4 1 13 [16]
Rallying France Sébastien Loeb 1974 9 1 0 10
Radio controlled racing Japan Masami Hirosaka 1970 14 5 6 25 [17]
Sports car & GT racing United Kingdom Derek Bell 1941 2 1 1 4
Belgium Jacky Ickx 1945 2 1 1 4
France Jean-Louis Schlesser 1948 2 1 0 3
Sidecar racing United Kingdom Steve Webster 1960 10 4 3 17
Trials riding Spain Antoni Bou 1986 16 0 0 16
(Production) Superbike racing United Kingdom Carl Fogarty 1965 4 2 0 6
Touring car racing France Yvan Muller 1969 4 2 1 7
Olympic sports Equestrian Germany Reiner Klimke[18] 1936-1999 6 0 0 6 [19]
Mixed
Category Sport Athlete Born Tot. Ref.
Winter sports Figure skating Soviet Union Irina Rodnina 1949 10 0 0 10
Olympic sports Tennis United States Serena Williams 1981 2 1 0 3
Spain Tommy Robredo 1982 2 1 0 3
United States James Blake 1979 2 0 0 2
Slovakia Dominik Hrbatý 1978 2 0 0 2
Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 1971 2 0 0 2

Games

A fuller list can be found on the List of world championships in mind sports page.

Eating

See also

References

  1. ^ Time trial event.
  2. ^ Greco-Roman event.
  3. ^ "Multi-Medalists Top 15" (PDF). issf-sports.org. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  4. ^ The master, which qualifies the tennis world ranking, is considered the World Championship of individual tennis.
  5. ^ "In-line skating". archive.org. Archived from the original on 2010-11-28. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  6. ^ "Figure Skating Senior World Championships - Roll of Honour" (PDF). rollersports.org. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  7. ^ Daniele Gilardon at World Rowing
  8. ^ "Paul Elvstrøm - Results". sailing.org. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  9. ^ Bobsleigh world championships multiple medallist
  10. ^ Nordic combined world championships multiple medallist
  11. ^ a b Are held three world championships.
  12. ^ "South Korean short track skater Ahn Hyun-Soo became the most successful skater in the short track at the World Championships" (PDF). Indiaenews.com. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
  13. ^ "WORLD CUP DISTINCTIONS". phf.com.pk. Archived from the original on January 1, 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ The master, which qualifies the tennis world ranking, is considered the World Championship of individual tennis.
  15. ^ "DAC Racing". class-1.com. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  16. ^ ca:Stefan Everts
  17. ^ "Hirosaka, Masami | IFMAR". Rcranking.net. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
  18. ^ Dressage event.
  19. ^ "Reiner Klimke - Results". the-sports.org. Retrieved 20 April 2012.