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1983 in sports

Index 1983 in sports

1983 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. [1]

283 relations: Aberdeen F.C., All Along, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Alpine skiing, America's Cup, American football, Amstelveen, Amy Alcott, ANA Inspiration, Armagh GAA, Art Ross Trophy, Artistic gymnastics, Asian Cricket Council, Association football, Australia II, Australian Open, Australian rules football, Baseball, Basketball, BC Lions, Bear Bryant, Belmont Stakes, Boxing, Bregawn, Brent Harvey, Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., Brooks Robinson, Brownlow Medal, Calgary Dinos, Camogie, Canadian football, Canadian Women's Open, Canberra Cannons, Cane Pace, Caracas, Carl Lewis, Casablanca, Caveat (horse), Cheltenham Gold Cup, Chicago Bears, China, Chris Evert, Christopher Dean, Cliff Thorburn, Copa Libertadores, Corbiere (horse), Cork GAA, Cricket, Cycling, ..., Czechoslovakia, Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959), Davis Cup, Dens Park, Deputed Testamony, Dmitry Bilozerchev, Don January, Down GAA, Dublin GAA, Dundee F.C., Dundee United F.C., Dustin Fletcher, Eamonn Coghlan, East Rutherford, New Jersey, Edmonton, Elena Valova, Epsom Derby, Essendon Football Club, FA Cup, Field hockey, FIFA, Figure skating, Finland, FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, France national rugby union team, French Open, Gaelic Athletic Association, Gaelic football, Galway GAA, Gammalite, George Halas, Georgia Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs, Giro d'Italia, Giuseppe Saronni, Golf, Grand National, Grand Slam (tennis), Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense, Greg LeMond, Grey Cup, Hal Sutton, Hambletonian Stakes, Hamburger SV, Harness racing, Hart Memorial Trophy, Hawthorn Football Club, Helsinki, High-speed telegraphy, Hollis Stacy, Horse racing, Hurling, Ice hockey, Ice Hockey World Championships, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Inter Dominion, Intercontinental Cup (football), International Olympic Committee, Ireland national rugby union team, Irish Derby, Jack Dempsey, Jan Stephenson, Japan Cup, Jay Sigel, Jayne Torvill, Jim Thorpe, Jimmy Connors, JoAnne Carner, John McEnroe, Juan Marichal, Juventus F.C., Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Futurity, Kerry GAA, Kevin Bartlett (Australian rules footballer), Kilkenny GAA, Kiwi (horse), Ladies' Gaelic football, Larry Holmes, Larry Nelson, Latin America, Laurent Fignon, List of world number one snooker players, Little Brown Jug (horse race), Lomond (horse), LPGA, Malibu, California, Manchester United F.C., Martina Navratilova, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Masters Tournament, Mats Wilander, Mediterranean Games, Melbourne Cup, Messenger Stakes, Michael Dokes, Michael Tuck, Michigan Panthers, Mike Weaver (boxer), Motorsport, Multi-sport event, Natalia Yurchenko, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, National Basketball League (Australia), National Football League (Ireland), National Hockey League, National Hurling League, NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, New York Yacht Club, North Melbourne Football Club, Oleg Vasiliev (figure skater), Patty Sheehan, PBA Developmental League, Peñarol, Penn State Nittany Lions, PGA Championship, PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions, Phil Mahre, Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars, Philip Parkin, Philippine Basketball League, Pitcher, Preakness Stakes, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Queen's Golden Gaels, Queen's Plate, R.S.C. Anderlecht, Radiosport, Ralph Hanover, Rawlings Gold Glove Award, Real Madrid C.F., Roberto Durán, Rosalynn Sumners, Ross Glendinning, Royal Perth Yacht Club, Rugby league, Rugby union, Ryder Cup, S.L. Benfica, Sainte-Foy, Quebec City, Scotch Notch, Scott Hamilton (figure skater), Scottish Football Association, Scottish Football League Premier Division, Seve Ballesteros, Shareef Dancer, Shergar, Six Nations Championship, Sled dog racing, Snooker, Snooker world rankings, Sofia, Soviet Union, St Leger Stakes, Stanerra, Stanley Cup, Steve Davis, Sugar Bowl, Sun Princess (horse), Sunny's Halo, Super Bowl XVII, Super cup, Swimming (sport), Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games, Tamara McKinney, Teenoso, Tennis, The Amateur Championship, The Championships, Wimbledon, The Open Championship, Tim Witherspoon, Tom Watson (golfer), Tony Dorsett, Toronto Argonauts, Tour de France, Track and field, Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers, Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters, Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, U.S. Open (golf), UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Europa League, United States Amateur Championship (golf), United States Football League, United States Women's Open Championship (golf), US Open (tennis), Vanier Cup, Venezuela, Volleyball, Volleyball at the 1983 Pan American Games, Water polo, Wayne Gretzky, West Adelaide Bearcats, West Indies cricket team, Women's PGA Championship, World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, World Figure Skating Championships, World Snooker Championship, Yacht racing, Yannick Noah, Yonkers Trot, 1970 World Series, 1982 Miami Dolphins season, 1982 Washington Redskins season, 1982–83 Edmonton Oilers season, 1982–83 Los Angeles Lakers season, 1982–83 New York Islanders season, 1982–83 Philadelphia 76ers season, 1982–83 Rugby Football League season, 1983 America's Cup, 1983 Baltimore Orioles season, 1983 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup, 1983 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup, 1983 KB Cup, 1983 NBA Finals, 1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 1983 New Zealand rugby league season, 1983 NSWRFL season, 1983 Pan American Games, 1983 Philadelphia Phillies season, 1983 State of Origin series, 1983 Summer Universiade, 1983 VFL season, 1983 Winter Universiade, 1983 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 1983 World Championships in Athletics, 1983 World Series, 1983–84 Rugby Football League season, 1986 FIFA World Cup, 2000 Guineas Stakes. 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Aberdeen F.C.

Aberdeen Football Club (also known as The Dons) is a Scottish professional football club based in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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All Along

All Along (7 April 1979 – 23 February 2005) was a champion Thoroughbred racemare that was foaled in France.

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All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC), the premier competition in Gaelic football, is an annual series of games played in Ireland and organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).

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All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

The GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship, known simply as the All-Ireland Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).

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Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing (cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping) which use skis with free-heel bindings.

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America's Cup

The America's Cup, affectionately known as the "Auld Mug", is a trophy awarded to the winner of the America's Cup match races between two sailing yachts.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Amstelveen

Amstelveen is a municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands with a population of 89,918 (2017).

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Amy Alcott

Amy Alcott (born February 22, 1956) is an American professional golfer and golf course designer.

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ANA Inspiration

The ANA Inspiration (formerly known most recently as the Kraft Nabisco Championship, and still sometimes referred to as the Dinah Shore) is one of the five major championships of professional women's golf.

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Armagh GAA

The Armagh County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste Chontae Ard Mhacha) or Armagh GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Armagh.

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Art Ross Trophy

The Art Ross Trophy is awarded to the National Hockey League (NHL) player who leads the league in points at the end of the regular season.

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Artistic gymnastics

Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines (ranging from approximately 30 to 90 seconds) on different apparatuses, with less time for vaulting.

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Asian Cricket Council

The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) is a cricket organisation which was established in 1983, to promote and develop the sport of cricket in Asia.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Australia II

Australia II (KA 6) is an Australian 12-metre-class America's Cup challenge racing yacht that was launched in 1982 and won the 1983 America's Cup for the Royal Perth Yacht Club.

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Australian Open

The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually over the last fortnight of January in Melbourne, Australia.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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BC Lions

The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

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Bear Bryant

Paul William "Bear" Bryant (September 11, 1913 – January 26, 1983) was an American college football player and coach.

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Belmont Stakes

The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes Thoroughbred horse race held every June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.

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Bregawn

Bregawn (foaled 1974) was an Irish-bred racehorse who developed into a top class steeplechaser.

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Brent Harvey

Brent Harvey (born 14 May 1978), often known by his nickname "Boomer", is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.

Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club is a professional football club based in Falmer, East Sussex, England.

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Brooks Robinson

Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. (born May 18, 1937) is an American former professional baseball player.

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Brownlow Medal

The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as "Charlie"), is awarded to the "best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game.

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Calgary Dinos

The Calgary Dinos are the athletic teams that represent the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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Camogie

Camogie (camógaíocht) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men.

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Canadian football

Canadian football is a sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area (end zone).

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Canadian Women's Open

The Canadian Pacific Women's Open is a women's professional golf tournament managed by Golf Canada.

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Canberra Cannons

The Canberra Cannons are a defunct basketball team that competed in Australia's National Basketball League (NBL).

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Cane Pace

The Cane Pace is a harness horse race for standardbred pacers run annually since 1955.

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Caracas

Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and centre of the Greater Caracas Area, and the largest city of Venezuela.

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Carl Lewis

Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold.

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Casablanca

Casablanca (ad-dār al-bayḍāʾ; anfa; local informal name: Kaẓa), located in the central-western part of Morocco bordering the Atlantic Ocean, is the largest city in Morocco.

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Caveat (horse)

Caveat (March, 16 1980 – February, 1995) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Cheltenham Gold Cup

| The Cheltenham Gold Cup is a Grade 1 National Hunt horse race run on the New Course at Cheltenham Racecourse in England, over a distance of 3 miles 2½ furlongs (5,331 m), and during its running there are 22 fences to be jumped.

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Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chris Evert

Christine Marie Evert (born December 21, 1954), known as Chris Evert Lloyd from 1979 to 1987, is a former World No. 1 tennis player from the United States.

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Christopher Dean

Christopher Colin Dean, OBE (born 27 July 1958 in Calverton, Nottinghamshire) is an English ice dancer who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill.

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Cliff Thorburn

Clifford Charles Devlin "Cliff" Thorburn (born January 16, 1948) is a Canadian retired professional snooker player.

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Copa Libertadores

The CONMEBOL Libertadores, named as Copa Libertadores de América (Copa Libertadores da América or Taça Libertadores da América), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960.

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Corbiere (horse)

Corbiere (1974–1988) was a racehorse who won the Grand National in 1983.

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Cork GAA

The Cork County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Cumann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Contae Chorcaí) or Cork GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Cork and the Cork inter-county teams.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Cycling

Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko), was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the:Czech Republic and:Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

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Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)

Davey Moore (9 June 1959 – 3 June 1988) was an American world junior middleweight champion boxer, the second of two professional champions who shared the name in the second half of the 20th century.

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Davis Cup

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis.

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Dens Park

Dens Park, also known as Kilmac Stadium at Dens Park for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium located on Dens Road in Dundee, Scotland.

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Deputed Testamony

Deputed Testamony (May 7, 1980 – September 18, 2012) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the Classic Preakness Stakes.

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Dmitry Bilozerchev

Dmitry Vladimirovich Bilozerchev (Дмитрий Владимирович Билозерчев, born 22 December 1966 in Moscow) is a Russian gymnastics coach and retired gymnast who represented the Soviet Union.

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Don January

Donald Ray January (born November 20, 1929) is an American retired professional golfer.

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Down GAA

The Down County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste Chontae An Dún) or Down GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for the administration of Gaelic games in County Down.

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Dublin GAA

The Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Cumann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Contae Átha Cliath) or Dublin GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in the Dublin Region and the Dublin inter-county teams.

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Dundee F.C.

Dundee Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Dundee, Scotland.

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Dundee United F.C.

Dundee United Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the city of Dundee.

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Dustin Fletcher

Dustin Andrew Fletcher (born 7 May 1975) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Eamonn Coghlan

Eamonn Christopher Coghlan (born 21 November 1952) is a former track and field athlete who specialised in middle distance track events and the 5,000 metres.

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East Rutherford, New Jersey

East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Edmonton

Edmonton (Cree: Amiskwaciy Waskahikan; Blackfoot: Omahkoyis) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Elena Valova

Elena Aleksandrovna Valova (Елена Александровна Валова; born 4 January 1963) is a Russian former pair skater who competed internationally for the Soviet Union.

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Epsom Derby

The Derby Stakes, officially the Investec Derby, popularly known as the Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

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Essendon Football Club

The Essendon Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.

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FA Cup

The FA Cup, known officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football.

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Field hockey

Field hockey is a team game of the hockey family.

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FIFA

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA; French for "International Federation of Association Football") is an association which describes itself as an international governing body of association football, futsal, and beach soccer.

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Figure skating

Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, duos, or groups perform on figure skates on ice.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France (Honore Bonnet) and the USA (Bob Beattie).

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France national rugby union team

The France national rugby union team competes annually against England, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales in the Six Nations Championship.

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French Open

The French Open (Championnats Internationaux de France de Tennis), officially called Roland-Garros, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France.

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Gaelic Athletic Association

The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, (CLG)) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball and rounders.

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Gaelic football

Gaelic football (Irish: Peil Ghaelach; short name Peil or Caid), commonly referred to as football or Gaelic, is an Irish team sport.

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Galway GAA

The Galway County Boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste Chontae na Gaillimhe) or Galway GAA are one of the 32 GAA county boards in Ireland; they are responsible for Gaelic games in County Galway, and for the Galway inter-county teams.

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Gammalite

Gammalite (1976 – 21 December 2006) was an Australian bred Standardbred racehorse who was the first Standardbred to win A$1 million in Australia.

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George Halas

George Stanley Halas Sr. (February 2, 1895October 31, 1983), nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr.

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Georgia Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs

The Georgia Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs are the athletic teams representing the University of Georgia, which is located in Athens, Georgia.

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Giro d'Italia

The Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy; also known as the Giro) is an annual multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in Italy, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries.

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Giuseppe Saronni

Giuseppe Saronni (born 22 September 1957), also known as Beppe Saronni, is an Italian former racing cyclist.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Grand National

The Grand National is a National Hunt horse race held annually at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, England.

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Grand Slam (tennis)

The Grand Slam tournaments, also called majors, are the four most important annual tennis events.

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Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense

Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense, commonly known as Grêmio, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul.

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Greg LeMond

Gregory James "Greg" LeMond (born June 26, 1961) is an American former professional road racing cyclist who won the Road Race World Championship twice (1983 and 1989) and the Tour de France three times (1986, 1989 and 1990).

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Grey Cup

The Grey Cup (Coupe Grey) is the name of both the championship game of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing Canadian football.

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Hal Sutton

Hal Evan Sutton (born April 28, 1958) is an American professional golfer who had 14 victories on the PGA Tour, including a major championship, the PGA Championship in 1983.

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Hambletonian Stakes

The Hambletonian Stakes is a major American harness race, named in honor of Hambletonian 10, a foundation sire of the Standardbred horse breed, also known as the "Father of the American Trotter." The Hambletonian is held annually for three-year-old trotting Standardbreds.

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Hamburger SV

Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V., commonly known as Hamburger SV, Hamburg or HSV, is a German sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department.

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Harness racing

Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait (a trot or a pace).

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Hart Memorial Trophy

The Hart Memorial Trophy, originally known as the Hart Trophy, is awarded annually to the "player judged most valuable to his team" in the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Hawthorn Football Club

The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Helsinki

Helsinki (or;; Helsingfors) is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland.

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High-speed telegraphy

In amateur radio, high-speed telegraphy (HST) is a form of radiosport that challenges amateur radio operators to accurately receive and copy, and in some competitions to send, Morse code transmissions sent at very high speeds.

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Hollis Stacy

Hollis Stacy (born March 16, 1954) is an American professional golfer.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Hurling

Hurling (iománaíocht, iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic and Irish origin.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points.

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Ice Hockey World Championships

The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).

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Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is an annual long-distance sled dog race run in early March from Anchorage to Nome, entirely within the US state of Alaska.

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Inter Dominion

The Inter Dominion is a harness racing competition that has been contested since 1936 in Australia and New Zealand.

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Intercontinental Cup (football)

The Intercontinental Cup, also known as European/South American Cup, and also Toyota Cup from 1980 to 2004 for commercial reasons by agreement with the automaker, was an official international football competition endorsed by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL), contested between representative clubs from these confederations, usually the winners of the European Champions' Cup (now known as the UEFA Champions League), and the South American Copa Libertadores namely was played by representatives clubs of most developed continents in the football world.

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International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité International Olympique, CIO) is a Swiss private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is the authority responsible for the modern Olympic Games.

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Ireland national rugby union team

The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union.

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Irish Derby

| The Irish Derby (Irish: Dearbaí na hÉireann) is a Group 1 flat horse race in Ireland open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

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Jack Dempsey

William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983), nicknamed "Kid Blackie" and "The Manassa Mauler", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926.

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Jan Stephenson

Jan Lynne Stephenson (born 22 December 1951) is an Australian professional golfer.

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Japan Cup

The is one of the most prestigious horse races in Japan.

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Jay Sigel

Robert Jay Sigel (born November 13, 1943) is an American professional golfer.

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Jayne Torvill

Jayne Torvill, OBE (born 7 October 1957) is an English ice dancer.

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Jim Thorpe

James Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; May 22 or 28, 1887March 28, 1953) was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist.

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Jimmy Connors

James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is a retired American world No. 1 tennis player, often considered among the greatest in the history of the sport.

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JoAnne Carner

JoAnne Gunderson Carner (born April 4, 1939) is an American former professional golfer.

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John McEnroe

John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born February 16, 1959 in Wiesbaden, West Germany) is a retired American tennis player, often considered among the greatest in the history of the sport.

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Juan Marichal

Juan Antonio Marichal Sánchez (born October 20, 1937) is a Dominican former professional baseball player.

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Juventus F.C.

Juventus Football Club S.p.A. (from iuventūs, "youth"), colloquially known as Juve, is a professional Italian football club in Turin, Piedmont.

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Kentucky Derby

The Kentucky Derby, is a horse race that is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival.

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Kentucky Futurity

The Kentucky Futurity is a stakes race for three-year-old trotters, held annually at The Red Mile in Lexington, Kentucky since 1893.

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Kerry GAA

The Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (or Kerry GAA) is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Kerry.

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Kevin Bartlett (Australian rules footballer)

Kevin Charles Bartlett AM (born 6 March 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach who played in the Victorian Football League between 1965 and 1983 for the Richmond Football Club.

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Kilkenny GAA

The Kilkenny County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Kilkenny GAA) (Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste Cill Chainnigh) is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Kilkenny.

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Kiwi (horse)

Kiwi (1977 – 2 February 1995) was a New Zealand thoroughbred racehorse who in 1983 won the Wellington Cup in New Zealand and the Melbourne Cup in Australia.

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Ladies' Gaelic football

Ladies' Gaelic football (Peil Ghaelach na mBan) is a team sport for women, very similar to Gaelic football, and co-ordinated by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association.

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Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 2002.

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Larry Nelson

Larry Gene Nelson (born September 10, 1947) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level.

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Latin America

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.

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Laurent Fignon

Laurent Patrick Fignon (12 August 1960 – 31 August 2010) was a French professional road bicycle racer who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and the Giro d'Italia in 1989.

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List of world number one snooker players

There have been three ranking systems in place in professional snooker since 1975, which have seen eleven players hold the number-one rank: Ray Reardon, Cliff Thorburn, Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, John Higgins, Mark Williams, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Neil Robertson, Mark Selby, Judd Trump and Ding Junhui.

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Little Brown Jug (horse race)

The Little Brown Jug is a harness race for three-year-old pacing standardbreds hosted by the Delaware County Agricultural Society since 1946 at the Delaware County Fairgrounds racetrack in Delaware, Ohio.

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Lomond (horse)

Lomond (foaled February 3, 1980, in Kentucky) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1983 Classic 2000 Guineas Stakes.

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LPGA

The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female professional golfers.

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Malibu, California

Malibu is a beach city in western Los Angeles County, California, situated about west of Downtown Los Angeles.

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Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

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Martina Navratilova

Martina Navratilova (Martina Navrátilová; born Martina Šubertová; October 18, 1956) is a former Czechoslovak and later American professional tennis player and coach.

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Marvelous Marvin Hagler

Marvelous Marvin Hagler (born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler; May 23, 1954) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 1987.

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Masters Tournament

The Masters Tournament (usually referred to as simply The Masters, or the U.S. Masters outside of North America) is one of the four major championships in professional golf.

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Mats Wilander

Mats Wilander (born 22 August 1964) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden.

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Mediterranean Games

The Mediterranean Games are a multi-sport games held usually every four years, between nations around or very close to the Mediterranean Sea, where Europe, Africa, and Asia meet.

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Melbourne Cup

The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most prestigious annual Thoroughbred horse race.

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Messenger Stakes

The Messenger Stakes is an American harness racing event for 3-year-old pacing horses.

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Michael Dokes

Michael Marshall Doakes (August 10, 1958 – August 11, 2012), best known as Michael Dokes, was an American professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 1997, and held the WBA heavyweight title from 1982 to 1983.

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Michael Tuck

Michael Tuck (born 24 June 1953) is a seven-time premiership-winning player, Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) / Australian Football League (AFL), where he was the games record holder (426 games) until 30 July 2016 when Brent Harvey played his 427th game for North Melbourne Football Club.

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Michigan Panthers

The Michigan Panthers were a professional American football team that played in the United States Football League (USFL) in the mid-1980s.

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Mike Weaver (boxer)

Michael Dwayne "Mike" Weaver (born June 13, 1951) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1972 to 2000, and held the WBA heavyweight title from 1980 to 1982.

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Motorsport

Motorsport or motor sport is a global term used to encompass the group of competitive sporting events which primarily involve the use of motorised vehicles, whether for racing or non-racing competition.

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Multi-sport event

A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states.

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Natalia Yurchenko

Natalia Vladimirovna Yurchenko (Наталья Владимировна Юрченко) (born January 26, 1965) is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast, who won the women's all-around gold medal at the 1983 World Championships.

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located in Cooperstown, New York, and operated by private interests.

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National Basketball League (Australia)

The National Basketball League (NBL) is the pre-eminent professional men's basketball league in Australia and New Zealand.

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National Football League (Ireland)

The National Football League (NFL; Sraith Náisiúnta Peile) is an annual Gaelic football competition between the senior county teams of Ireland plus London.

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America, currently comprising 31 teams: 24 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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National Hurling League

The National Hurling League is an annual inter-county hurling competition featuring teams from Ireland and England.

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NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, also informally known and branded as NCAA March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), to determine the national championship.

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New York Yacht Club

The New York Yacht Club is a private social club and yacht club based in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island.

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North Melbourne Football Club

The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos or less formally the Roos, the Kangas or North, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world.

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Oleg Vasiliev (figure skater)

Oleg Kimovich Vasiliev (Олег Кимович Васильев; born 22 November 1959) is a Russian former pair skater who competed internationally for the Soviet Union.

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Patty Sheehan

Patty Sheehan (born October 27, 1956) is an American professional golfer.

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PBA Developmental League

The PBA Developmental League, or PBA D-League, is the Philippine Basketball Association's official minor league basketball organization.

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Peñarol

Club Atlético Peñarol (English: Peñarol Athletic Club) —also known as Carboneros, Aurinegros and (familiarly) Manyas— is a Uruguayan sports club from Montevideo.

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Penn State Nittany Lions

The Penn State Nittany Lions are the athletic teams of Pennsylvania State University, except for the women's basketball team, known as the Lady Lions.

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PGA Championship

The PGA Championship (often referred to as the U.S. PGA Championship or U.S. PGA outside the United States) is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers' Association of America.

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PGA Tour

The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of the main professional golf tours played primarily by men in the United States and North America.

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PGA Tour Champions

PGA Tour Champions (formerly the Senior PGA Tour and the Champions Tour) is a men's professional senior golf tour, administered as a branch of the PGA Tour.

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Phil Mahre

Phillip Ferdinand "Phil" Mahre (born May 10, 1957) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer, widely regarded as one of the greatest American skiers of all time.

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Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars

The Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars were a professional American football team which played in the United States Football League (USFL) in the mid-1980s.

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Philip Parkin

Andrew Philip Parkin (born 12 December 1961) is a Welsh professional golfer who has also worked as a golf commentator and analyst.

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Philippine Basketball League

The Philippine Basketball League (PBL) was a commercial semi-professional basketball league in the Philippines.

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Pitcher

In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk.

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Preakness Stakes

The Preakness Stakes is an American flat thoroughbred horse race held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

| The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older.

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Queen's Golden Gaels

The Queen's Gaels (also: Queen's Golden Gaels) are the athletic teams that represent Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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Queen's Plate

The Queen's Plate is Canada's oldest thoroughbred horse race, having been founded in 1860.

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R.S.C. Anderlecht

Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht or RSCA, is a Belgian professional football club based in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital-Region.

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Radiosport

Radiosport (or radio sport) is formal competition between amateur radio operators in any of three amateur radio activities.

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Ralph Hanover

Ralph Hanover (1980 - October 18, 2008) was a Standardbred colt who in 1983 became the seventh horse to capture the U.S. Pacing Triple Crown.

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Rawlings Gold Glove Award

The Rawlings Gold Glove Award, usually referred to as the Gold Glove, is the award given annually to the Major League Baseball players judged to have exhibited superior individual fielding performances at each fielding position in both the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), as voted by the managers and coaches in each league.

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Real Madrid C.F.

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol ("Royal Madrid Football Club"), commonly known as Real Madrid, or simply as Real, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain.

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Roberto Durán

Roberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001.

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Rosalynn Sumners

Rosalynn Diane Sumners (born April 20, 1964) is an American ladies' singles figure skater.

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Ross Glendinning

Ross William Glendinning (born 17 September 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and and in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Royal Perth Yacht Club

The Royal Perth Yacht Club (RPYC) is an Australian yacht club in Perth, Western Australia.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Ryder Cup

The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States.

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S.L. Benfica

Sport Lisboa e Benfica ComC MHIH OM, commonly known as Benfica, is a sports club based in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Sainte-Foy, Quebec City

Sainte-Foy is a former city in central Quebec, Canada on the Saint Lawrence River.

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Scotch Notch

Scotch Notch (1977-1990) is an Australian Standardbred mare, the current world record holder for the Trotters One Mile Time Trial set 3 September or 9 March 1985 at Moonee Valley, Victoria, Australia.

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Scott Hamilton (figure skater)

Scott Scovell Hamilton (born August 28, 1958) is a retired American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist.

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Scottish Football Association

The Scottish Football Association (also known as the SFA and the Scottish FA; Scottish Gaelic: Comann Ball-coise na h-Alba; Scots Fitbaw Association), is the governing body of football in Scotland and has the ultimate responsibility for the control and development of football in Scotland.

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Scottish Football League Premier Division

The Scottish Football League Premier Division was, from 1975 until 1998, the top division of the Scottish Football League and the entire Scottish football league system.

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Seve Ballesteros

Severiano "Seve" Ballesteros Sota (9 April 1957 – 7 May 2011) was a Spanish professional golfer, a World No. 1 who was one of the sport's leading figures from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s.

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Shareef Dancer

Shareef Dancer (1980–1999) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Shergar

Shergar (3 March 1978 – c. February 1983) was an Irish-bred, British-trained racehorse, and winner of the 202nd Epsom Derby (1981) by ten lengths – the longest winning margin in the race's history.

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Six Nations Championship

The Six Nations Championship (recently known as the NatWest 6 Nations for sponsorship reasons) is an annual international rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.

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Sled dog racing

Sled dog racing (sometimes termed dog sled racing) is a winter dog sport most popular in the Arctic regions of the United States, Canada, Russia, Greenland and some European countries.

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Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport which originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the latter half of the 19th century.

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Snooker world rankings

The snooker world rankings are the official system of ranking professional snooker players to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments on the World Snooker Tour.

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Sofia

Sofia (Со́фия, tr.) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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St Leger Stakes

| The St Leger Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

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Stanerra

Stanerra (foaled 4 May 1978) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare.

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Stanley Cup

The Stanley Cup (La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff winner.

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Steve Davis

Steve Davis, (born 22 August 1957) is an English retired professional snooker player from Plumstead, London.

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Sugar Bowl

The Sugar Bowl, officially the Allstate Sugar Bowl for sponsorship purposes, is an annual American college football bowl game played in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Sun Princess (horse)

Sun Princess (1980–2001), was an Irish-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and Broodmare.

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Sunny's Halo

Sunny's Halo (February 11, 1980 – June 3, 2003) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who became only the second Canadian-bred to win the Kentucky Derby and who as of 2006 is the all-time leading sire by progeny earnings in the state of Texas.

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Super Bowl XVII

Super Bowl XVII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Miami Dolphins and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Washington Redskins to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1982 season.

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Super cup

A super cup is a competition, usually but not exclusively in association football, which often forms the "curtain-raiser" to a season.

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team sport that requires the use of ones arms and legs to move the body through water.

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Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games

The Swimming Tournament at the 1983 Pan American Games took place in Caracas, Venezuela from August 17 to August 22, 1983.

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Tamara McKinney

Tamara McKinney (born October 16, 1962) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States.

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Teenoso

Teenoso (7 April 1980 – October 4, 1999) was an American-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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The Amateur Championship

The Amateur Championship (sometimes referred to as the British Amateur or British Amateur Championship outside the UK) is a golf tournament which has been held annually in the United Kingdom since 1885 except during the two World Wars, and in 1949 when Ireland hosted the championship.

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The Championships, Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and is widely regarded as the most prestigious.

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The Open Championship

The Open Championship, often referred to as The Open or the British Open, is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf.

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Tim Witherspoon

Tim Witherspoon (born December 27, 1957) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1979 to 2003.

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Tom Watson (golfer)

Thomas Sturges Watson (born September 4, 1949) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour Champions, formerly on the PGA Tour.

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Tony Dorsett

Anthony Drew Dorsett (born April 7, 1954) is a former American football running back who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos.

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Toronto Argonauts

The Toronto Argonauts (officially the Toronto Argonaut Football Club, commonly referred to as the "Argos") are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

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Tour de France

The Tour de France is an annual male multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries.

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Track and field

Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.

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Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers

The Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers consists of the following horse races.

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Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters

The Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters consists of the following horse races.

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Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, often shortened to Triple Crown, comprises three races for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses.

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U.S. Open (golf)

The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open national championship of golf in the United States.

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UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The UCI Road World Championships, often referred to as the World Cycling Championships, is the annual world championship for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).

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UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs.

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UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (abbreviated as CWC) was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions.

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UEFA Europa League

The UEFA Europa League is an annual football club competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs.

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United States Amateur Championship (golf)

The United States Amateur Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Amateur, is the leading annual golf tournament in the United States for amateur golfers.

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United States Football League

The United States Football League (USFL) was an American football league that played for three seasons, 1983 through 1985.

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United States Women's Open Championship (golf)

The United States Women's Open Golf Championship, one of thirteen national championships conducted by the United States Golf Association (USGA), is the oldest of the LPGA Tour's five major championships, which includes the ANA Inspiration, Women's PGA Championship, Women's British Open, and The Evian Championship.

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US Open (tennis)

The United States Open Tennis Championships is a hard court tennis tournament.

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Vanier Cup

The Vanier Cup (Coupe Vanier) is the championship of Canadian university football.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).

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Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

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Volleyball at the 1983 Pan American Games

This page presents the results of the Men's and Women's Volleyball Tournament during the 1983 Pan American Games, which was held from August 17 to August 27, 1983 in Caracas, Venezuela.

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Water polo

Water polo is a competitive team sport played in the water between two teams.

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Wayne Gretzky

Wayne Douglas Gretzky (born January 26, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach.

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West Adelaide Bearcats

West Adelaide Bearcats is a member club of the Premier League based in Adelaide, South Australia.

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West Indies cricket team

The West Indies cricket team, colloquially known as and (since June 2017) officially branded as the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West Indies.

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Women's PGA Championship

The Women's PGA Championship is the second-longest running golf tournament in the history of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, surpassed only by the U.S. Women's Open.

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World Boxing Association

The World Boxing Association (WBA) is the oldest and one of four major organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the IBF, WBC, and WBO.

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World Boxing Council

The World Boxing Council (WBC) is one of four major organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the International Boxing Federation (IBF), World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) and one of the two original sanctioning bodies (along with the WBA).

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World Figure Skating Championships

The World Figure Skating Championships ("Worlds") is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union.

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World Snooker Championship

The World Snooker Championship is the leading snooker tournament both in terms of prestige and prize money.

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Yacht racing

Yacht racing is a form of sport involving sailing yachts and larger sailboats, as distinguished from dinghy racing.

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Yannick Noah

Yannick Noah (born 18 May 1960) is a former professional tennis player from France.

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Yonkers Trot

The Yonkers Trot is a harness racing event for three-year-old Standardbred trotters raced at a distance of one mile at Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, New York.

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1970 World Series

The 1970 World Series matched the American League champion Baltimore Orioles (108–54 in the regular season) against the National League champion Cincinnati Reds (102–60), with the Orioles winning in five games.

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1982 Miami Dolphins season

The 1982 Miami Dolphins season was the team's seventeenth in the National Football League.

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1982 Washington Redskins season

The 1982 Washington Redskins season was the team's 50th in the National Football League, and 45th in Washington, D.C..

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1982–83 Edmonton Oilers season

The 1982–83 Edmonton Oilers season was the Oilers' fourth season in the National Hockey League (NHL) and their second-straight season of finishing with over 100 points, and they won the Smythe Division for the second straight season.

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1982–83 Los Angeles Lakers season

In the 1982-83 NBA season, the Lakers were attempting to become the first team since the Boston Celtics in 1969 to repeat as NBA Champions.

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1982–83 New York Islanders season

The 1982-83 New York Islanders season was the 11th season in the franchise's history.

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1982–83 Philadelphia 76ers season

The 1982–83 Philadelphia 76ers season was the 37th season of the franchise (going back to their days as the Syracuse Nationals) and their 20th season in Philadelphia.

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1982–83 Rugby Football League season

The 1982–83 Rugby Football League season was the 88th ever season of professional rugby league football in Britain.

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1983 America's Cup

The 1983 America's Cup was the occasion of the first winning challenge to the New York Yacht Club, which had successfully defended the cup over a period of 132 years.

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1983 Baltimore Orioles season

The 1983 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball.

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1983 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

The 1983 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup was the third edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation (FINA).

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1983 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup

The 1983 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup was the fourth edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation (FINA).

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1983 KB Cup

For background information about this competition, please refer to the Amco Cup main page.

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1983 NBA Finals

The 1983 NBA Finals, also known as Showdown '83, was the championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 1982–83 season, and the culmination of the season's playoffs.

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1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament

The 1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament began on March 18 and concluded on April 3 with USC winning the title.

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1983 New Zealand rugby league season

The 1983 New Zealand rugby league season was the 76th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.

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1983 NSWRFL season

The 1983 NSWRFL season was the 76th season of professional rugby league football in Australia.

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1983 Pan American Games

The ninth Pan American Games were held in Caracas, Venezuela from August 14 to August 29, 1983.

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1983 Philadelphia Phillies season

The 1983 Philadelphia Phillies season involved the Phillies winning the National League East Division title with a record of 90–72, by a margin of six games over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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1983 State of Origin series

The 1983 State of Origin series was the second time the annual three-game series between the New South Wales and Queensland rugby league teams was played entirely under "state of origin" selection rules.

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1983 Summer Universiade

The 1983 Summer Universiade, also known as the 1983 World University Games or XII Summer Universiade, took place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between July 1 and 12, 1983.

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1983 VFL season

The 1983 Victorian Football League season was the 87th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

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1983 Winter Universiade

The 1983 Winter Universiade, the XI Winter Universiade, took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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1983 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 22nd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, in 1983.

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1983 World Championships in Athletics

The inaugural World Championships in Athletics were run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations and were held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland between 7 and 14 August 1983.

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1983 World Series

The 1983 World Series matched the American League champion Baltimore Orioles against the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies, with the Orioles winning four games to one.

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1983–84 Rugby Football League season

The 1983–84 Rugby Football League season was the 89th ever season of professional rugby league football in Britain.

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1986 FIFA World Cup

The 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th FIFA World Cup, was held in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June 1986.

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2000 Guineas Stakes

| The 2000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

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References

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