1984 Five Nations Championship [SEP] sport
1984 Five Nations Championship


The 1984 Five Nations Championship was the fifty-fifth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the ninetieth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 21 January and 17 March. Scotland won the championship outright for the first time since 1938. It was their twelfth outright championship, excluding a further seven shared titles. Their four wins gave them the Grand Slam for the first time since 1925 and the second in all
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1984 Mongolian National Championship


The 1984 Mongolian National Championship was the twentieth recorded edition of the Mongolian National Championship for football, with the first tournament taking place in 1955 and no tournament held in 1965 or apparently in 1977. It would appear however that championships were contested between 1956 and 1963, as sources note that a team called Aldar, the Mongolian Army Sports Club, won the title on numerous occasions during that time. Nonetheless, the 1984 national championship was won by Tengeriin Bugnuud, a team from Bat-Ölzii, a sum (district) of
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Falko Kirsten


Falko Kirsten (born January 3, 1964 in Dresden) is a German former figure skater. He is the 1980 World Junior bronze medalist, the 1983 St. Ivel International bronze medalist, and a five-time East German national champion. He competed at six European Championships, finishing twice in the top five; five World Championships; and the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, finishing 16th. He represented the club SC Einheit Dresden. Kirsten is the chairman of the Saxony Ice Sport Association (Sächsischen Eissport-Verband) and also
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1995 Five Nations Championship


The 1995 Five Nations Championship was the sixty-sixth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. It was also the last Five Nations held in the sport's amateur era, as rugby union's governing body, the International Rugby Football Board, opened the sport to professionalism on August 26 of that year. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the hundred-and-first series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played over five weekends from 21 January to 18
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Corinna Halke


Corinna Halke-Teichmann (born 9 July 1957 in Dortmund) is a German former pair skater and current sport journalist. With partner Eberhard Rausch, she is the 1974–1976 German national champion. They competed five times at the European Figure Skating Championships and the World Figure Skating Championships. They placed 10th at the 1972 Winter Olympics and 8th at the 1976 Winter Olympics. After retirement from competitive skating in 1981, she became sport journalist. She has worked for the Bayerischen Rundfunk and for the German TV-station ARD since 1984.
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Sports in Washington, D.C.


championships and ten Big East regular season championships. They have appeared the NCAA Final Four five times, winning the national championship in 1984. Several NBA players got their start playing for Georgetown including Patrick Ewing, Allen Iverson, Alonzo Mourning, Dikembe Mutombo, and Reggie Williams. The Hoyas play their home games at Capital One Arena. Washington, D.C. is home to 22 teams flag football teams that play under the DC Gay Flag Football League which is part of the National Gay Flag Football League. In 1994, the DC League
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1984 Australian Sports Car Championship


The championship was contested over a five round series: Round 1 of the championship was originally to be run at Melbourne's Sandown Park. However, due to the circuit's closure while it was rebuilt and lengthened in time for the 1984 Sandown 1000 World Endurance Championship round, the meeting was cancelled. Former racer and millionaire tyre retailer Bob Jane then restored the championship to five rounds by hosting Round 1 at his Calder Park Raceway. Round 4 at Sydney's Oran Park was also cancelled, but was later restored after the circuit
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Andorinha Sport Club


Andorinha Sport Club is a football club that plays in the São Tomé and Príncipe Championship. The team is based in the neighbourhood of Ponta Mina near Praia Cruz in the island of São Tomé. The club was founded in 1931 and is one of the oldest sport clubs in the nation. The team won their first colonial title in the 1938, in 1970, Andorinha won five straight provincial titles. Andorinha won their last provincial title in 1973, two years before São Tomé and Príncipe gained independence. 1968/69 season. In 1984
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Robbie McGrath


playing every game in the 1982 Five Nations Championship campaign culminating in Ireland's first winning of the Triple Crown in 33 years. He was again part of the Irish squad who shared the 1983 Five Nations Championship title with France, finishing level on points. McGrath featured in five Five Nations Championships (1977, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984). His last game for Ireland came against the same side he had made his first cap against, Wales, in February 1984. Robbie McGrath was elected President of Boyne Rugby Football
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Michael Bentt


1984: Sweden–USA Duals (heavyweight), Gothenburg, Sweden, January 1984: FRG–USA Duals (heavyweight), Gothenburg, Sweden, January 1984: United States National Championships (heavyweight), Indianapolis, Indiana, November 1984: USA–Canada Duals (heavyweight), Orlando, Florida, December 1984: USA–South Korea Duals (heavyweight), Las Vegas, Nevada, March 1985: U.S. National Sports Festival (heavyweight), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, August 1985: North American Championships (heavyweight
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1984 Sandown 1000


that raced in the Australian GT Championship, and the Australian Sports Car Championship. These Group D GT, Group B Sports Sedan, and Group A Sports Cars, did not conform to World Endurance Championship regulations. The FIA only allowed five AC cars to compete and the drivers were not eligible to score championship points. Only four of these cars started, with the Bryan Thompson / Brad Jones Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC powered by a twin turbo, 4.2 litre Chevrolet V8 engine did not start due to overheating issues in practice and
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Tommy Bartlett (basketball)


, serving as the men's and women's tennis head coach for the Chattanooga Mocs for twelve seasons until 1990. His Chattanooga Mocs teams won eight Southern Conference men's tennis championships (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988 and 1989); his Lady Mocs teams won five Southern Conference women's tennis championships (1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1990) and three NCAA Division II women's tennis championships (1983, 1984 and 1985). Bartlett was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall
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Cosworth DFV


McLaren) in his Australian designed and built Kaditcha Group A Sports Car through 1983 and 1984 in the Australian Sports Car Championships. After finishing 6th in the 1983 ASCC, winning the final round of the series, he would go on to almost dominate the 1984 championship. The re-named Romano WE84 won four of the five rounds and in all bar heat two of the opening round when the car was a non-starter due to an accident in the first heat, scored fastest lap while also sitting on pole for each
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Wally Foreman


Channel 9, before taking up a position with the ABC in Adelaide. During his career, he covered a wide range of domestic and international sporting events including four Olympic Games, five Commonwealth Games, the Australian Open tennis tournament, World Cup athletics, Hockey World Cup tournaments and the Pacific Conference Games. He was a familiar voice throughout Australia, having commentated on AFL football, NBL basketball and various national championships. Foreman was appointed to become the inaugural director of the Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) in 1984 and
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Aerobic gymnastics


the team with higher execution scores. The long-term ultimate goal of the sport of aerobic gymnastics is to be included in the Olympic Games. The National Aerobic Championships is a competition of aerobic gymnastics started in 1984 in the United States. Founded by Sport Fitness International, it was the first major championships in the sport predating the Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships by 11 years. From 1988 onwards the individual events were separated by gender. The sport became popular around the world after it gained popularity in the US when major championships were
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1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament


up a rematch, in the national semifinal. The game was close, and tied at 57 points apiece with under three minutes to go, when Cheryl Miller scored the last five points of the game to help USC advance to the championship game 62—57. The score of the championship game was reasonably close, 72–61, but according to Sports Illustrated, "USC outscored, out-passed, outdanced and just plain outflashed Tennessee". Led by Cheryl Miller and the McGee twins, Pamela and Paula, USC won its second consecutive
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Randall University


are known as the Saints or the Lady Saints, for male and female competitors, respectively. The Saints and Lady Saints represent Randall in the following varsity sports: Men's sports Women's sports The Randall University Saints have won five national championships since 1999 and produced four national championship runner-up appearances during the same span. Throughout its history, the Saints have won nine national championships and four regional championships. The Lady Saints won the ACCA national championship in the 2006, 2007, 2012, 2013, 2014 national tournaments.
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Mallala Motor Sport Park


to stage Round 5 of the 1984 Australian Formula 2 Championship on 3 June won by Keith McClelland driving a Cheetah Mk 8-VW. This was the first national championship round to be staged at the circuit since the final round of the 1971 Australian Sports Car Championship on 14 November 1971 won by John Harvey driving a McLaren M6B-Repco. National championship motor racing continued sporadically over the next few years, but the circuit was brought back into national focus when it was chosen over Adelaide International to host a round of the Australian Touring Car
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Racquetball


racketball is served after a bounce on the floor then struck into play with the racket. Scoring is like squash with point-a-rally scoring of up to 11 points. The British Racketball Association was formed on 13 February 1984, and confirmed by the English Sports Council as the sport's governing body on 30 October 1984. The first National Racketball Championship was held in London on 1 December 1984. The sport is now played in countries where squash is played, Australia, Bermuda, France, Germany, Malaysia, the
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Short mat bowls


Mat Bowling Association (ESMBA) was formed in 1984, and is now the governing body of the sport in England. The sport is administered in England at two levels, the ESMBA oversee administration of the National Championships and Inter County Championships in addition to running the National Squad. At a more local level, 37 County Associations arrange a series of League, One Day and Knockout competitions within their own geographical area. In 2009, the ESMBA launched a new National Club Championship event, the event featuring teams competing in all-
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1984 NAIA Ice Hockey Championship


The 1984 NAIA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament involved four schools playing in single-elimination bracket to determine the national champion of men's NAIA college ice hockey. The 1984 tournament was the 17th men's ice hockey tournament to be sponsored by the NAIA. The tournament began on March 1, 1983 and ended with the championship game on March 2, 1983. The 1984 tournament marked the last season that the NAIA sponsored the sport of men's ice hockey at the championship level. A mass-exodus of schools to NCAA Division
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1996 Five Nations Championship


The 1996 Five Nations Championship was the sixty-seventh series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship, and the first in the sport's professional era, which officially began in August 1995. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the hundred-and-second series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played over five weekends from 20 January to 16 March. England were the winners, losing only the first game with France, thus missing the Grand Slam, but winning
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Michael Gross (swimmer)


World Championships (including five gold), fifteen gold medals at the European Championships and was elected German "Athlete of the Year" four times (1982, 1983, 1984 and 1988). He retired from professional swimming in 1991. He is featured in Bud Greenspan's "16 Days of Glory", the documentary film of the 1984 Summer Olympics. American gold medalist swimmer John Naber remarked to "Sports Illustrated" in 1984 that if Michael Gross were an American, he would have won six or seven medals and that
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Georgios Petsanis


Georgios Petsanis (; born April 16, 1984 in Drama) is a Greek sport shooter. He was selected as one of eleven shooters to represent the host nation Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and had attained a top five finish as a junior in rifle shooting at the European Championships in Győr, Hungary on that same year. Petsanis trains at the Shooting Club of Drama under his longtime coach Panagiotis Emvoliadis. Petsanis was named as part of the host nation's shooting team to compete in the men's 10 m
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Cal State Fullerton Titans


by the students. CSUF has won 13 national championships in eight different sports. Baseball is Cal State Fullerton's strongest sport based on winning the most national championships at the university and consistently being rated among the nation's elite baseball programs. They have won four national championships in the NCAA Men's Baseball College World Series since 1979: 1979, 1984, 1995, and 2004. Fullerton home games are played at on-campus Goodwin Field and the team is currently coached by Rick Vanderhook. The Cal State Fullerton men's basketball
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NAIA Ice Hockey Championship


The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) held a men's national ice hockey championship from 1968 to 1984 when ice hockey was dropped as an NAIA sport. The NAIA Men's Ice Hockey Championship held a single elimination competition to determined the collegiate national champion from the inaugural 1968 to 1984. The tournament began as a four-team tournament but expanded to six and eight teams during the peak time-frame during the 1970s and early 1980s. The tournament returned to the 4-team format for the final two seasons with declining hockey
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Ron Andruff


but continued to work in sports, assuming the position of European Marketing Director for World Championship Tennis. He went on to establish his own sports marketing company in 1984, which acquired the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) FIBA.basketball Cups and Championship rights for a five-year period. In 1988, seeing larger possibilities outside the traditional world of sports marketing, Andruff founded Dynadx Technologies, Inc., a rotational poster advertising display system. This technology, while commonplace today, shifted the sports signage paradigm from location to time. By converting
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Sport in Denmark


Sport in Denmark is diverse. The national sport is football with the most notable results being qualifying for the European Championships six times in a row (1984–2004) and winning the Championship in 1992. Other significant achievements include winning the Confederations Cup in 1995 and reaching the quarter final of the 1998 World Cup. Other popular sports include handball, cycling, sailing sports, badminton, ice hockey, swimming and recently also golf. A few youths also play Basketball. Sport is encouraged in school, and there are local sports clubs in
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Sport in South Australia


finished as WNBL runner up in 1984 while the Noarlunga Tigers finished runner up in 1985. Adelaide born Brendan Flynn was the coach of the Australian Opals at the 1984 Summer Olympics. South Australia has dominated the Women's Lacrosse National Championships having won 32 out of 51 National championships since competitions started in 1961. South Australia won regularly during the 60's and 70's but in 1985 begun its total domination when it won the first of 11 National Championships in a row. SA Coach Peter Koshnitsky having established a women's lacrosse program
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Stefan Rehn


In 1989, he joined English club Everton before returning to Sweden and IFK Göteborg in 1990 with which he won five Swedish Championships. He then moved to Swiss club Lausanne Sports before rejoining his old club Djurgårdens IF in 2000, winning another Championship in 2002 before retiring. Rehn, whose parents are from Åland, received a call-up for the Sweden national under-18 football team but was ineligible to play until 1984 when he acquired Swedish citizenship. In total, he made eight U18 appearances (one goal) and 17 U21 appearances
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Oklahoma State Cowboys and Cowgirls


2014 The Oklahoma State University STUNT team competes in Stunt (sport) Division 1A coached by Lindsay Bracken. They have won 6 Stunt (sport) national team championships in the following years: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 Oklahoma State has won 52 NCAA team national championships. Listed below are five national team titles in current and emerging NCAA sports that were not bestowed by the NCAA. bestowed retroactively by AFCA Below are five national team titles won by Oklahoma State teams at the highest collegiate levels in
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Sports in Santiago, Cape Verde


of the Sotavento Islands in the national championship games. Since 1984, the champion competes in the group stage of the national competition. Sometimes a national champion from the island continued to remain in the national championships, sometimes a second place club from the island competed. In the 1990s and the early 2000s, it did not compete. Garridos played in the North Zone until 2010, it became the only club to switch to the South Zone. Three clubs, Sporting, Boavista and Travadores have competed in the continental competitions. Overall
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Women's gymnastics in Australia


post-war Europe. In 1984, there were 32,157 registered female artistic gymnasts in the country. The first national women's championship was held in 1959, 9 years after the first men's national championship. Monique Allen is one of Australia's most famous female gymnasts. She earned a scholarship for gymnastics at the Australian Institute of Sport in 1984. At the 1989 world championships, she finished 25th overall . She went on to win an individual all around silver medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. Lisa Skinner and Trudy McIntosh
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Ivory Coast


, of Ivorian descent. The country has been the host for several major African sporting events, with the most recent being the 2013 African Basketball Championship. In the past, the country hosted the 1984 Africa Cup of Nations, in which its football team finished fifth, and the 1985 African Basketball Championship, where its basketball team won the gold medal. Ivory Coast won an Olympic silver medal for men's 400-metre in the 1984 games, where it competed as "Côte d'Ivoire". The most popular sport in Ivory Coast is
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Wheelchair Sports, USA


athletes (6 - 22) with a disability in the United States continuously since 1984. Now known as the Adaptive Sports USA Junior Nationals (formerly the National Junior Disability Championships [NJDC]), the event has had several titles in its nearly 30 years of existence. The Junior Nationals is a week-long competition including Archery, Powerlifting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Track & Field, and other sporting events. Junior Nationals is an avenue for young athletes to showcase their abilities through sport and to promote physical activity and
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1984 Australian GT Championship


The 1984 Australian GT Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title and was the seventh Australian GT Championship to be awarded. It was a series open to grand tourer cars complying with CAMS Group D regulations with Group B Sports Sedans competing by invitation. The series was contested over six rounds from 15 April to 9 September 1984. Some of the cars that competed in the series included the Chevrolet Monza, Jaguar XJ-S, Porsche Carrera RSR, Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC, Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV, Porsche 935,
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2009 World Championships in Athletics


total of 1984 competed (1086 male, and 898 female) at the championships, with 201 of the 213 IAAF National Member Federations represented. The number of athletes competing at the event broke the previous championship record of 1,821 athletes set at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in Seville. The 100 metres race attracted 100 entries, while the Marathon race listed 101 athletes for competition. The event was expected to be the largest sports gathering in 2009, continuing in the vein of the World Championships in Athletics being the third largest sports
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Brett Sawyer


tag team with his brother. In the early-1980s, Sawyer competed for the Portland, Oregon-based Pacific Northwest Wrestling promotion. Between 1982 and 1984, he held the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship four times and the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship five times. In 1983 and 1984, the Sawyers competed for the Atlanta, Georgia-based Georgia Championship Wrestling promotion, where they feuded with The Road Warriors, defeating them for the NWA National Tag Team Championship in 1983. Sawyer also won the NWA National Heavyweight Championship in 1983
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CP football


same time. The following nations have a football national team: The sport has several major competitions. These include the Parapan American Games, Asian Para Games and the IFCPF CP Football World Championships, former the CPISRA Football-7-a-Side World Championships. The first CPISRA World Championships took place in Denmark in 1982, four years after the first international competition for the sport took place in Scotland at the Cerebral Palsy International Games. 7-a-side football was also played at the Paralympic Games, making its debut at the 1984 Summer Paralympics.
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United States women's national handball team


The United States women's national handball team is the national team of the United States. It takes part in international handball competitions. At the 1982 World Women's Handball Championship in Hungary the US team placed 11th. They also participated in the 1975, 1986, 1993 and 1995 IHF World Women's Handball Championship and the 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics. Since their first appearance in 1984, USA has participated in four Olympic Games. Since their first appearance in 1975, USA has participated in five World Championships.
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Sport in Denmark


all cities and most towns. The national stadium for football is the Parken Stadium. Football is the most popular sport in Denmark, with over 313,000 players in more than 1600 clubs. The national football team in Denmark have reached high and notable results, like qualifying for the European Championships six times in a row (1984–2004) and winning the UEFA Championship in 1992. Other significant achievements include winning the Confederations Cup in 1995 and reaching the quarter final of the 1998 World Cup. Denmark national football team reached #3 ranking in
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Saint Joseph Regional High School


SJR offers five varsity spring sports including baseball, golf, lacrosse, tennis, and track and field. SJR baseball won the NNJIL championship twelve times in 1984, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005, the county tournament in 1984, 1986, 1988, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2013, and 2016 and the state championship in 1992, 1998, and 2004. The 2009 SJR varsity squad won the county tournament by
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David Gould (basketball)


the Australian championship. South Australia finished runner-up in 1983. Although it slipped to fourth in 1984, Gould was the team's best and fairest, and was selected in the All Star Five. He was Most Valuable Player in 1985, and was the top point scorer every year from 1984 to 1991. South Australia won the national championships again in 1986, with Gould as its best and fairest, and part of the All Star Five. He was selected to the All Star Five again every year from 1986 to
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John Carleton (rugby union)


John Carleton (born 24 November 1955) is a former international rugby union player. He played as a wing. He played for Orrell R.U.F.C.. He had 26 caps for England, from 1979 to 1984, scoring 7 tries, 28 points on aggregate. He had 20 caps at the Five Nations Championship, from 1980 to 1984, where he scored all the tries of his international career. He was part of the team that won the 1980 Five Nations Championship, with a Grand Slam. He toured twice with the British
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Arthur Johnson (boxer)


Arthur Anthony Johnson (born February 6, 1966 in Minneapolis) is a former professional boxer from the United States, nicknamed "Flash". 1984 Light Flyweight Champion for the Western Olympic Trials 1984 Light Flyweight Junior Nationals Champion 1985 Light Flyweight National Sports Festival Qualifying Champion 1985 Light Flyweight National Sports Festival Champion, in Baton Rouge, LA 1985 Light Flyweight National Golden Gloves Champion 1985 Flyweight Amateur Boxing Federation Champion 1986 Flyweight Amateur Boxing Federation Champion 1986 Flyweight World Champion Box-off 1986 Inaugural Goodwill Games Gold Medalist (an International Championship)
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USA Baseball


changed its youth championships age discipline to 15U. The programs were replaced with the 15U National Team and the 14U National Team Development Program. Baseball was first introduced to the Olympic Games as an exhibition sport at the Los Angeles 1984 Games and returned as a demonstration sport in the Seoul 1988 Games. In 1984, the United States came in second, falling to Japan in the final, 6–3. Four years later though, Team USA got Olympic redemption as it won the gold medal over Japan with a 5–3 victory. Baseball became an
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Sport in Edmonton


the games in the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup. The Edmonton Oilers, originally one of the founding franchises of the World Hockey Association, joined the National Hockey League in 1979. They quickly became one of the best teams in the league, winning five Stanley Cup Championships in 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1990. Wayne Gretzky, considered by many to be the greatest hockey player ever, played with the Edmonton Oilers from 1979 to 1988. The Edmonton Oilers fell in the Stanley Cup Finals playing the Carolina Hurricanes in
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Sports in Indianapolis


500, one of three legs of the Triple Crown of Motorsport. The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football based in Indianapolis. The team is part of the South Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Colts have won five NFL Championships, including two Super Bowl titles. The Colts relocated from Baltimore in 1984, and began their stay in Indianapolis winning 90 of 228 games through the 1997 season, including 5 playoff games. Since Jim Irsay assumed control of the
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Amateur radio direction finding


competitors from eleven European and Asian countries participated. World Championships have been generally held in even-numbered years since 1984, although there was no World Championship in 1996, and there was a World Championship in 1997. Asian nations began sending national teams to international events in 1980, and teams from nations in Oceania and North America began competing in the 1990s. Athletes from twenty-six nations attended the 2000 World Championship in Nanjing, China, the first to be held outside of Europe. As the sport grew in the 1960s
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1984 Australian Sports Car Championship


The 1984 Australian Sports Car Championship was an Australian motor racing title open to Sports Cars complying with CAMS Group A regulations. It was the 16th Australian Sports Car Championship. Queensland based owner/driver Bap Romano won the championship driving his Romano WE84 Cosworth. 1982 champion Chris Clearihan, (driving the Kaditcha-Chevrolet that Peter Hopwood used to win the 1983 Championship), placed second and Andrew Roberts, driving a self designed Roberts S2 Ford, placed third. Romano dominated the championship, continuing on from his victory in the final
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Athletics at the Far Eastern Championship Games


first five editions. Japan's development in Western track and field coincided with the launch of the games, with the country holding its first national championships for the sport in 1913. Developing through similar means of engagement with the YMCA sports programme in the country, the country became the dominant force in athletics in the mid-1920s and won four of the last five championship titles in the sport. Outside the Western-defined track events, Japan was consistently dominant in the middle- and long-distance running events from the beginning of the competition
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Power Five conferences


In fact, D-I men's volleyball schools are outnumbered by Division II schools; members of both divisions compete under identical scholarship limits for a single national championship. Before 2012, this championship was also open to Division III schools, but explosive growth in the sport at that level in the 21st century has seen the creation of a separate D-III championship. The only D-I all-sports league to sponsor the sport is the mid-major Big West Conference. With that in mind, the five Power
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Sport in Greece


Croatia national handball team, and then beating South Korea national handball team, before losing to France national handball team. Ice hockey was imported in Greece in 1984, from Greeks abroad. The Greek Federation of Ice Sports was founded two years later in 1986 and the first championship was held in 1989. The sport has had trouble due to the insufficiency of ice rinks in Greece. Kickboxing in Greece has produced multiple all-time great fighters. It is not one of the most popular sports in Greece, but it has its
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Ultimate (sport)


rebranded itself as USA Ultimate. The first European Championship tournament for national teams was held in 1980 in Paris. Finland won, with England and Sweden finishing second and third. In 1981 the European Flying Disc Federation (EFDF) was formed. In 1984 the World Flying Disc Federation was formed by the EFDF to be the international governing body for disc sports. The first World Championships tournament was held in 1983 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The European Ultimate Federation is the governing body for the sport of Ultimate in Europe. Funded in
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1984 Air Canada Cup


The 1984 Air Canada Cup was Canada's sixth annual national midget 'AAA' hockey championship, which was played April 17 – 21, 1984 at the North Bay Memorial Gardens in North Bay, Ontario. Prior to the season, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association overhauled the format of the Air Canada Cup. Under the new format, the twelve branch champions would compete in five regional playoffs to qualify for the national championship. They would be joined by the host team to round out the six-team field. The host North
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Harold Howard


of Ju-Jutsu Organizations (WCJO). At the 1984 World Championships, he was a member of the gold medal winning Canadian team (heavyweight) and also won the individual World Heavyweight Jiu-Jitsu Championship as the gold medal winner of the men's heavyweight fighting division. Howard captured the Canadian Heavy Weight Karate Championship three times in 1982, 1983 and 1984 and was a member of the Canadian National Karate team in 1986 and 1987. During that time he was the top rated sport karate fighter in Canada. After potentially
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1984 Australian GT Championship


but with the Sydney based driver winning both heats and the Queenslander only finishing 4th and 3rd, the title was Grice's. It was Grice's third (and ultimately last) national title win after also capturing the 1978 and 1979 Australian Sports Sedan Championships (the SS Championship was merged into the GT Championship in 1982). The expected challenge from dual Aussie Sports Sedan champion Tony Edmonson in the Don Elliot owned Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV Chevrolet (upgraded from 5.0 to 6.0L) was hamstrung by reliability problems with the Chevrolet V8.
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Anson Dorrance


guided the Tar Heels to the 1981 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) title. After the AIAW led the way, the NCAA finally recognized women's soccer as an inter-collegiate sport and Dorrance's teams proceeded to dominate the sport. His teams won 12 of the first 13 NCAA championships (1982–1984, 1986–1994). After winning the 2012 NCAA championship, the Tar Heels have claimed a total of 23 national championships and 22 of the 37 NCAA championships. Dorrance's success comes from several interrelated attributes. First
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Florida Gators women's tennis


in the 1980 AIAW tournament. Since the NCAA began sponsoring national championships in women's sports in 1981–1982, the Lady Gators have won five NCAA team championships, four NCAA singles championships, and four NCAA doubles championships. In addition to their five NCAA team championships, the Lady Gators have also finished second in the NCAA national championships tournament seven times, including 1988, 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2010. As a team, the Gators have failed to qualify for the AIAW and NCAA national championship tournaments only
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Cameron Aggies


-2 to win the NAIA Division I Football National Championship. Cameron had previously won a national championship as a junior college, as well, but the university discontinued football on December 11, 1992, to balance the number of sports offered to men and women, respectively. Jerry Hrnciar has been the head coach of the men's golf program since 1975, and his teams have appeared in the NAIA National Championship Tournament in 1977, 1978, 1982, 1983 (National Champion), 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1987
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Seán Flanagan


winning sides of 1950 and 1951, and won five Connacht senior championship medals in all. He also won two National Football League titles in 1949 and 1954. While still a footballer, Flanagan entered into a career in politics. In recognition of his skills and long-running contribution to the sport, Flanagan was awarded the 1992 All-time all-star award as no GAA All Stars Awards were being issued at the time of his playing career. In 1984, the Gaelic Athletic Association centenary year he was honoured by being
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Santa Bárbara (canton)


(Santa Bárbara Volleyball Sports Association), one of the country's most successful volleyball clubs. The clube began in 1992, winning numerous championships and tournaments in different categories. ASBAVOL players regularly join the Costa Rica women's national volleyball team. Santa Bárbara has an active sporting community. Beginning in 1943, Club Sport Barbareño represented Santa Bárbara in the first division of the national soccer league. The team changed its name to Asociación Deportiva Barbareña (Bárbara Sports Association) in 1984. The team plays within the national Costa Rican soccer
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Utah State Aggies


sports at USU that boast of national championships in their history. In 1978 the Aggie volleyball team defeated UCLA to win the AIAW Large College volleyball national championship. The following year, the team fell to Hawaii in the championship match. The Aggie softball team has appeared in four Women's College World Series, in 1978, 1980, 1981 and 1984, winning the AIAW Division I softball national championship in 1980 and 1981. Neither team has returned to such heights in recent years, though each has been consistently good. The women
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Swedish Indoor Athletics Championships


The Swedish Indoor Athletics Championships () is an annual indoor track and field competition organised by the Swedish Athletics Association, which serves as the Swedish national championship for the sport. The competition started as a non–official standing jumps contest in 1960, held at the Johanneshovs Isstadion in Stockholm. It expanded to a full indoor track and field competition in 1966, then later attained national championship status in 1984. The following athletics events feature as standard on the Swedish Indoor Championships programme: From 1960 to 1965, the competition consisted of
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Tim Shaw (swimmer)


Timothy Andrew Shaw (born November 8, 1957) is an American former Olympic medal-winning swimmer and water polo player. He swam at the 1976 Summer Olympics and played on the American team at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He is one of a handful of athletes to win Olympic medals in two different sports. Between 1974 and 1984, Shaw won two Olympic silver medals; three world championships; seven U.S. Amateur Athletic Union national titles; and three U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association championships. In 1974 in space of four days
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Tug of war


of the World Games. The Tug of War International Federation (TWIF), organises World Championships for nation teams biannually, for both indoor and outdoor contests, and a similar competition for club teams. In England the sport was formally governed by the AAA until 1984, but is now catered for by the Tug of War Association (formed in 1958), and the Tug of War Federation of Great Britain (formed in 1984). In Scotland, the Scottish Tug of War Association was formed in 1980. The sport also
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2003 Australian Sports Sedan Championship


The 2003 Australian Sports Sedan Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title open to Group 3D Sports Sedans. The title, which was the 19th Australian Sports Sedan Championship, was won by Kerry Baily driving a Nissan 300ZX Chevrolet. The championship was contested over a five-round series. Championship points were awarded on a 20-17-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8 basis for 1st through to 10th place in each race and an additional point was awarded to the driver setting
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Regina Weber


the 1983 World Championships. When rhythmic gymnastics was officially added as an Olympic Sport in 1984, athletes from USSR and Bulgaria were considered as favorites, but the Eastern led Boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics meant the top competitors were absent. Weber then went to win the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics behind Romanian silver medalist Doina Stăiculescu. Between 1981 and 1986 she won nearly all national titles in various rhythmic gymnastics events in Western Germany. Weber returned to international competition for the 1987 World Championships where she finished 12th in the
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Labour Relations (Public Service) Convention, 1978


Poland, 26 Jul 1982; Portugal, 09 Jan 1981; Russian Federation, 19 Sep 2014; San Marino, 19 Apr 1988; São Tomé and Príncipe, 4 May 2005; Seychelles, 23 Nov 1999; Slovakia, 22 Feb 2010; Slovenia, 20 Sep 2010; Spain, 18 Sep 1984; Suriname, 29 Sep 1981; Sweden, 11 Jun 1979; Switzerland, 03 Mar 1981; The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 22 Jul 2013; Tunisia, 11 Feb 2014; Turkey, 12 Jul 1993;
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William & Mary Tribe men's basketball


its current conference, in 1982–83. The CAA's predecessor was the ECAC South, which existed between 1977–78 and 1984–85. The CAA recognizes the 1982–83 through 1984–85 seasons as part of its basketball history but not any earlier. The CAA was formally founded in 1982–83 as the ECAC South Basketball League. It was renamed the Colonial Athletic Association in 1985–86 when it added championships in other sports (although a number of members maintain ECAC affiliation in some sports). William & Mary has retired five men's basketball jerseys in its program's
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Al Scates


's volleyball to a championship sport. In the first sanctioned championship Scates and the Bruins swept Long Beach State University to win the first NCAA title in volleyball. They would win the next two years as well, and win six of the first seven NCAA Championships held. From 1981 to 1984, Scates' teams won four consecutive national championships, the longest such streak by any men's volleyball team. UCLA is the only team that has won more than two consecutive championships, holding streaks of at least 3 national championships 3 times
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Knattspyrnufélagið Víkingur


Knattspyrnufélagið Víkingur (known as Vikingur and internationally as Vikingur Reykjavik F.C.) is an Icelandic sports club based in Reykjavík. It is one of the oldest sports clubs in Iceland. The football club was founded on 21. April 1908 and won five Championship titles, five First Division titles and a single Cup title. The latest football title came in 1991, when they won the national championship. Víkingur operates several other sports divisions including tennis, table tennis, karate and skiing. All sports include both male and female teams. Þorbjörn
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Asian Americans in sports


the silver medal in the 2004 Olympics, and was the sport's 2005 world champion. Since Tiffany Chin won the women's US Figure Skating Championship in 1985, Asian Americans have been prominent in that sport. Kristi Yamaguchi won three national championships, two world titles, and the 1992 Olympic Gold medal. Michelle Kwan has won nine national championships and five world titles, as well as two Olympic medals (silver in 1998, bronze in 2002). Apolo Ohno, who is of half Japanese descent, is a short track
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List of Sporting Clube da Praia seasons


total of about 37 official tier-one and regional trophies, the championship titles (3 colonial, 9 national and 20 regional), 3 listed regional cup titles, 2 listed super cup titles (1 national and 1 regional) and 3 listed opening tournament titles. Sporting Praia was the first Cape Verdean club to compete at the continentals, the greatest appearance was the First Round at the continental championships, the last was the CAF Champions League. "Partial list from 1984 to 1998" "Listing from 2002, up to
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Bowling Green State University


2012 after his Bowling Green championship in 1984. BGSU offers a variety of sports at the club level. Men's sports include cross country/track and field, rugby, lacrosse, baseball, basketball, soccer and ice hockey. Women's club sports include rugby, cross country/track and field, Lacrosse, soccer, softball, equestrian, figure skating, and gymnastics. The club rugby team has been very successful, winning the Fall 2018 D1AA championship. Also, in April 2011, BGSU hosted the National Club Track
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Fulvio Lorigiola


Fulvio Lorigiola (born 6 January 1959 in Padova) is a former Italian rugby union player, a current sports executive and a lawyer. He played as a scrum-half. Lorigiola played his full career at Petrarca Rugby, from 1977/78 to 1992/93. He won five titles of the National Championship of Excellence, during the golden years of Petrarca, in 1979/80, 1983/84, 1984/85, 1985/86 and 1986/87. He also won the Cup of Italy, in 1981/82. He had 34 caps for Italy, from 1979 to 1988,
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University of Nebraska–Lincoln


. They participate in Division I (Division I FBS for football) in the NCAA as members of the Big Ten Conference. The Huskers have 21 varsity teams that compete in 14 different sports and claim all or part of 23 National Championships across five sports, including volleyball, football, and gymnastics. In football, the Huskers have had three Heisman Trophy winners: Johnny Rodgers, Mike Rozier, and Eric Crouch, along with five national championship victories in 1970, 1971, 1994, 1995, and 1997. Notable among a
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College ice hockey


1978 to 1984 and also from 1993 to 1999. The 74 programs in Division III hockey are part of 9 conferences: The NCAA has conducted a Division III national championship since 1984. The current championship format is a 12-team (formerly 11-team), single-elimination bracket. Eighty-eight colleges and universities sponsor women's ice hockey in two divisions: National Collegiate and Division III. There are 36 teams in the National Collegiate division (commonly referred to as Division I). Thirty-five teams play in four conferences,
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Arantxa Sanchis


In addition, she won the Bronze medal at the IBSF World Team Snooker Championship at Sharm el-Sheikh in Jul, 2016. This was followed up by a Bronze medal at the Asian ACBS 6 Red Snooker Championship at Fujairah in Sep, 2016. Prior to this she has won ten National and two Maharashtra State Championships. She created history and a record by winning four titles at a single Nationals (Indore 2008). No Indian male or female cueist had accomplished this feat. She won the National Senior Women's Billiards
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1984 NCAA Division II football season


The 1984 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level, began in August 1984, and concluded with the NCAA Division II Football Championship on December 8, 1984, at McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium in McAllen, Texas. During the game's five-year stretch in McAllen, the "City of Palms", it was referred to as the Palm Bowl. Troy State defeated North Dakota State in the championship game, 18–17, to
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Sports in Los Angeles


State Fullerton Titans baseball are all historically premier organizations in college sports. Other major sports teams include UCLA Bruins Football, Pepperdine Waves baseball, and formerly the Los Angeles Raiders and Los Angeles Aztecs. Between them, these Los Angeles area sports teams have won a combined 105 Championship Titles. Los Angeles area colleges have produced upwards of 200 National Championship Teams, primarily from USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins of the Pac-12 Conference. The 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics were held in Los Angeles. In 2028 the city will host the Olympics for
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1992–93 Ukrainian Hockey Championship


The 1992–93 Ukrainian Hockey Championship was the first season and annual national championship tournament created by the Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine (FHU). The championship consisted of two rounds. Six teams participated in the five-game first round of the championship. Five of teams were based on teams of sports schools and a junior squad of the national team. Teams of SVSM Kyiv and Jupiter advanced to the final round against the professional team Sokil Kyiv, who played in the International Hockey League. Sokil would go on to win the championship
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Beach volleyball


began sponsoring women's beach volleyball as an "emerging" sport. Initially, it was sponsored only for Division II, with Division I added the following academic year. NCAA competition follows standard beach volleyball rules, with competitions involving five doubles-teams from each participating school. Beach volleyball became a fully sanctioned NCAA championship sport in the 2015–16 school year, following votes by leaders of all three NCAA divisions to launch a single all-divisions national championship. Beach volleyball is a men's and women's championship sport in the National
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1984 All-Pro Team


The 1984 All-Pro Team is composed of the National Football League players that were named to the Associated Press, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Pro Football Writers Association, Pro Football Weekly, and The Sporting News in 1984. Both first- and second- teams are listed for the AP and NEA teams. These are the five teams that are included in "Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League". In 1984 the Pro Football Writers Association chose only one defensive tackle and two inside linebackers in a pure 3
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1990 Five Nations Championship


Scotland won the tournament, achieving a final 13–7 victory over England to win the Grand Slam, their first since 1984 and third overall in the Five Nations. This was also their thirteenth outright victory, including nine victories in the Home Nations, excluding eight titles shared with other countries. It was the third occasion, after 1978 and 1984, on which two teams each with three victories faced off against each other in the final round of matches, with both capable of completing a Grand Slam with a victory, and the first
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Baltimore


1969. After the 1983 season, the team left Baltimore for Indianapolis in 1984, where they became the Indianapolis Colts. The NFL returned to Baltimore when the former Cleveland Browns moved to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens in 1996. Since then, the Ravens won a Super Bowl championship in 2000 and 2012, five AFC North division championships (2003, 2006, 2011, 2012 and 2018), and appeared in four AFC Championship Games (2000, 2008, 2011 and 2012). The first professional sports organization in the
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Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association


The Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) is the national governing body for organized sports at the collegiate level in Canada. Its name in French is l'Association canadienne du sport collégial (ACSC). CCAA members currently compete for national championships in the following sports: Past national championships include: The CCAA has five member conferences: Inducted on June 12, 2018 in Quebec City, QC Inducted on June 6, 2017 in Abbotsford, BC Inducted on June 7, 2016 in Toronto, Ontario Inducted on June 9, 2015 in Fredericton
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Radio Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero


Acapulco, Ciudad Altamirano and Taxco. On May 20, 1983, the roving radio station came to an end, with the university broadcasting once more from Chilpancingo — this time, without interference. 1984, however, presented yet another problem to the university radio station: a budget crisis spurred by a suspension of payments from the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP). Workers spent all of 1984 without receiving their salaries, and in January 1985, the university and SEP began negotiating. The federal government required the university to shut
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Blas López


Blas Ramon López (born 14 May 1984 in Piribebuy) is a Paraguayan footballer playing for Sport Huancayo. López started his career in Cerro Corá of Paraguay, then he was signed by Libertad of Paraguay, he disputed the Copa Libertadores 2004. He has played in Chile, Ecuador and now in Peru. López has played for the Paraguay national football team in the Sudamerican Youth Championships of U-17 and U-20, also the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship and the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship. He currently plays for the Peruvian club Sport
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List of U.S. cities by number of professional sports championships


This is a list of cities in the United States that field or have fielded teams in North American men's professional sports leagues, showing the number of league championships each city has won. The "five major leagues" comprise Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Soccer and the National Hockey League. These numbers are for cities and metropolitan areas, not individual franchises: where a team has moved to a new city, the number of championships in the old city remains the same
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1988 Winter Olympics medal table


The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Calgary, Canada, from 13 to 28 February 1988. A total of 1,423 athletes representing 57 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (+8 from 1984 Olympics) participated in 46 events (+7 from 1984) from 10 different sports and disciplines (unchanged from 1984). Five new events were contested at these Games—men's and women's Super G in alpine skiing, team events in Nordic combined and
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WTA Finals


the new host city for five years. From 1984–1998, the final of the championships was a best-of-five-sets match, making it the only tournament on the women's tour to have had a best-of-five match at any round of the competition. It was the first time since the 1901 U.S. National Championships that the best-of-five format was used in women's matches. In 1999, the final reverted to being a best-of-three-sets match. From the
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Ireland national cerebral palsy football team


in a number of international tournaments. The Republic of Ireland has participated in the IFCPF World Championships. At the 2011 CP-ISRA World Championship in Drenthe, Ireland beat Canada 6 - 0. Ireland has participated in 7-a-side football at the Paralympic Games. Their best performance was at the 1992 and 1984 Games when they won silver medals. They also won a bronze at the 1988 Games. After qualifying for the gold medal game in the sport's debut at the 1984 Summer Games, they lost their match to Belgium
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Gaétan Boucher


Champion at the 1984 World Sprint Championships and winner of six World Championship events from 1981 through 1985, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1983 and promoted to Officer the following year. In 1984 he won the Oscar Mathisen Award, given annually for exemplary speed skating performance, and the Lou Marsh Trophy, given annually to Canada's top athlete and was inducted into the Canada Sports Hall of Fame. The following year was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. Since his retirement, he has
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Alexander Gazsi


Alexander Gazsi (born 6 October 1984) is a German ice dancer. With partner Nelli Zhiganshina, he is a six-time German national champion (2007, 2011–2015) and has won twelve international medals. They have placed as high as 6th at the European Championships and 10th at the World Championships. Alexander Gazsi was born on 6 October 1984 in Chemnitz, East Germany. His mother is a German from Kazakhstan and his father is Hungarian. He is in the sports division of the German army. Gazsi began skating in
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Intercollegiate sports team champions


-level only" Intercollegiate Tennis Association "(1973–present)" " Division I " " Division III (2001 - present)" Association of College Unions International annually sponsors the National Intercollegiate Trap and Skeet Championships. The championships are the only national tournament in which shooters may compete in five different clay target games in the same program: American Trap, International Trap, American Skeet, International Skeet and Sporting Clays. The 2011 championship event is "the 43rd of the championship's history." 1983–1995: ? Division IIbr 2015:
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New Trier High School


rowing, 7 national championships in girls' rowing, five state championships in girls' lacrosse, and one state championship in girls' cross country. The top varsity ice hockey team for boys, New Trier Green, won the first ever USA Hockey High School National Championship title in 2010, and repeated as champions in 2011. In May 2005, New Trier was ranked #12 in "Sports Illustrated"s list of the "Top 25 High School Sports Programs in America," and first in Illinois. The athletic facilities include the
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History of the National Hockey League (1967–1992)


last Stanley Cup. They were the second franchise to win four straight championships, after the Canadiens. The 1984 playoffs would be the site of the infamous Good Friday Massacre between the Quebec Nordiques and the Montreal Canadiens. The following season, the Oilers and Islanders met again in the playoffs. The Oilers won the rematch in five games, marking the start of another dynasty. Led by Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier, the Oilers won five Stanley Cup championships between 1984 and 1990. The Oilers won two consecutive Cups in the 1983–84
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Poling System


The Poling System was a mathematical rating system used to select college football national championship teams on a current basis from 1935 to 1984. Its selections were published in the "Football Review Supplement" and several newspapers. The system was developed by Richard Poling, a native of Mansfield, Ohio who had played college football at Ohio Wesleyan University. While there was no official method for naming a national championship in the sport during the system's existence, it is considered to have been a "National Champion Major Selector" by the National
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Intercollegiate sports team champions


at that time were from Florida and North Carolina. After 1984, the highest level of collegiate national championship was conducted by the National Junior College Athletic Association, whose slow-pitch tournament was held from 1983 through 2000. College Squash Association National nine-player team champions: From 1942 to 1988, the title was based on dual-match records, with the team with the best record becoming the national champion. Since 1989, the title has been based on performance in the National Team Championships, with the team winning the
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