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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. 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. 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.
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Sports
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
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Football: FIFA World Cup, called Football World Championships in many languages.
- 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:
- Speedway Grand Prix (formerly: Speedway World Championship)
- Speedway World Cup (U-21)
- 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
- 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.
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