Talk:List of world sports championships

FIFA Confederations Cup
The FIFA Confederations Cup should not be included in this list. Although it is open to national teams from around the world, it is not a "championship" in any sense; it is an invitational tournament for teams that have won their continental championship. There is only one "world championship" of association football, and that is the FIFA World Cup.Agmonaco (talk) 03:31, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Sport climbing
sport climbing should be here.. it is growing very fast and is shortlisted for the Olympics. if sb can teach me to add stuff into tables I'll do it myself!Kimia-123 (talk) 17:06, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Sport climbing is now an Olympic sport and should def. be added. The info to add is, for men, "Sport Climbing" | "IFSC Climbing World Championships" | Bouldering / Lead / Speed / Combined | 2001 / 1991 / 1991 / 2018 | M. Calibani / Francois Legrand / Hans Florine | 2018 | Bi-Annual for women, "Sport Climbing" | "IFSC Climbing World Championships" | Bouldering / Lead / Speed / Combined | 2001 / 1991 / 1991 / 2018 | M. Motteau / Susi Good / Isabelle Dorsimond | 2018 | Bi-Annual (talk)

Which two names?
No, really. The first sentence of this article states that "the following is a list of world championships, sporting events which use one of these two names...", as this is the first sentence there is no indication of what two names it is referring to. --Khajidha (talk) 15:28, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
 * HELLO!!!!!!!!!! Is anyone here? It's been almost a YEAR AND A HALF and the introductory paragraph is STILL as unintelligible as it was when I last posted here. I would fix it myself, but I have no clue what it is trying to say. --Khajidha (talk) 17:03, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion
An editor has proposed this article for deletion. Opened no discussion on the article talk page, nor have posted at AFD. Not sure how OR or SYNTH apply here. I would say that the article requires additional sources to be sure, but AFD seems rather harsh. Opinions from other editors before I delete the tag? Echoedmyron (talk) 14:20, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I see it as WP:SYNTH. We've recently seen this list deleted for similar reasons. There are reliable sources indicating that these competitions are world championships for different sports but is an entire list necessary? Does such a list itself have a reliable source? --MicroX (talk) 21:11, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Mixed versus open
Could someone clarify the difference between mixed and open. Korfball features teams with fixed numbers of men and women, but it's in open, while mixed doubles tournaments are included in mixed. Luge, a solo sport is also in mixed. Motorsports, where gender generally doesn't matter, are open. I would imagine that mixed means a fixed number of men and women, while open means gender is irrelevant, but could someone confirm the standard used for this page? And consider adding an explanation to the article text. --Colapeninsula (talk) 15:02, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Males and females compete separately - I don't think this is an improvbement as it is plainly wrong. --Falcadore (talk) 08:17, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
 * In my mind "open" (e.g. and open entry competition) is where Male and Females competing on equal terms as individually or as part of a team. "Mixed" is not this but when both sex's competing together normally as part of a compulsory mixed gender team. But it is important to differentiated between the two. I think some discussion on this is needed so I would love others views I should have started this discussion. --Yachty4000 (talk) 09:48, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think gender is an appropriate method of subdividing the list of championships. Individual and Team would be a better starting point than gender. --Falcadore (talk) 11:05, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Considering how most sports have gender specific world titles this seems logical way to separate them it is not subjective criteria. It is interesting how many sports actually allow both genders to compete together on equal terms, some separate them or create a mixed discipline. --Yachty4000 (talk) 14:53, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Cricket
Male Cricket ICC Cricket World Cup entry needs update per its own article page, ie 2015 result, please. JennyOz 10:42, 1 April 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JennyOz (talk • contribs)
 * Go ahead Jenny, do it! --Falcadore (talk) 13:39, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your encouragement but it's a bit too complex for this beginner.JennyOz 15:07, 1 April 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JennyOz (talk • contribs)

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Tennis
There's this: ITF World Champions, maybe should be added? --Pelmeen10 (talk) 16:02, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

National Finals Rodeo not a "nationals" event
If you are reverting my edit just because the annual finals rodeo event happens to have the word "national" in it (and note it is national not nationsls), you are doing the rodeo championship event a great disservice. It is not a "national" event in the sense you are thinking. Every year cowboys and cowgirls win World Champion titles such as World All-Around Cowboy and World Barrel Racing Champion. See List of Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Champions and National Finals Rodeo. The event is all about awarding world champions. It even awards great bucking livestock. Appreciate if you would reconsider. The sanctioning organization is the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. They run the finals event and decided the name of the finals event. http://www.prorodeo.com/prorodeo/wrangler-national-finals-rodeo dawnleelynn(talk) 15:24, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * My reverting reason: It's not a world-wide competion and nations (or clubs from different countries) are not competing. --Pelmeen10 (talk) 17:04, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay, that is different. And that is my bad, I only put the US Flag. But if you actually look at the things I linked, for instance, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, you will see that there are actually four countries that participate in the PRCA. US, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil. If you look at List of Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Champions, you will see there are many champions from Canada (see infobox for example) and recently one from Brazil under the All-Around Cowboy section. But whatever. When you reverted my edit, you also removed the new PBR Global Cup event as well, which is similar to the PBR World Cup that is listed in the article, so apparently that event should qualify so is it okay if I put that one back? Thanks! dawnleelynn(talk) 17:16, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * What's the article on that? List of Professional Bull Riders Champions? Main world cups has a link to bull riding that leads to discontinued PBR World Cup. --Pelmeen10 (talk) 17:46, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Right now it's a paragraph under Professional Bull Riders but the intent is to write an article for it. The PBR World Cup is an old event that was discontinued in 2010. The PBR Global Cup is a new event that was introduced last year. It can be linked to using the bookmark as I did where it is backed up by two external sources. But I can't find anything that links to the old World Cup article in either PBR article...that's weird. dawnleelynn(talk) 18:03, 29 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Where are the Australian competitors? HiLo48 (talk) 22:39, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * In the article List of Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Champions, under the Saddle Bronc Riding Rookie of the Year list, 1996 Scott Johnson, Booral, New South Wales, Australia, is listed. The future of PRCA rodeo can only lead to more diversification as PRCA is pursuing that goal. PRCA rodeo events here in the United States are open to any nationality; you just have to fill your permit. There is also an Australian branch of the PRCA at Australian Professional Rodeo Association . dawnleelynn(talk) 22:50, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Everything you just wrote tells me that there is no way these events can (yet) be claimed to be world championships. Maybe one day..... HiLo48 (talk) 23:16, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. And what I wrote before? About Canadians winning world championships for decades. And a Brazilian having just won a world championship, still not enough? Where are these rules laid out, btw? I am also planning to add the new PBR Global Cup based on the fact the older PBR World Cup was allowed and is still included on the article. It's current inclusion implies consensus, yes? Thoughts? Thanks. dawnleelynn(talk) 23:46, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Your claims remind me a little of the World Series, which Americans at times claim is global because a Canadian team can play. (I know your example is somewhat broader.) The rest of the world sees that event with that name as classical American exceptionalism. To me, world championships have be (at) events sanctioned by a global body, with pretty much equal opportunity for people from all countries to participate. Ideally, their location would also rotate around a number of venues all around the world. When will they be held in Australia? HiLo48 (talk) 01:36, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Actually, I find it difficult to compare rodeo with baseball. In baseball, you have your teams, and the top teams compete at the World Series. The actual number of contestants in baseball is very small compared to rodeo. In rodeo, there are 8 events. In the PRCA, there are 100s of rodeos to compete in with 1,000s of contestants. So when you are looking at the world champions to see who has competed from other countries, that is only 9 individuals per year (team roping is two people). Only the top 15 contestants in each event attend the NFR. To know how many contestants from other countries are actually competing, you'd have to look at those 1,000s of contestants. Also, I can see there are some events in the article that don't appear to change their location annually. There are no other rodeo events in this article. The PRCA is the oldest and largest sanctioning organization for rodeo. They are open to any nationality; not their responsibility to get contestants from other countries to compete. I see no rules in the article that disqualifies the NFR; no others in writing have been provided. Since the National Finals Rodeo is the largest rodeo championship in the world and is open to all, I think it should qualify over having no representation for this sport in the article.

And regarding the PBR Global Cup, it's a team event that started last year. It took place in Canada. This year it will take place in Australia. I don't see how there can be any issues listing this event. dawnleelynn(talk) 03:29, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

FYI, one of the biggest PRCA rodeos of all is in Canada, The Calgary Stampede which is over 100 years old and is a featured article. Another PRCA rodeo held in Canada is the Raymond Stampede. There are also PRCA events happening in Mexico, for example, this: []. dawnleelynn(talk) 05:05, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

dawnleelynn, is it okay that we add the link to Global Cup after there is an article of it? Then we can be 100% sure it's notable and data would be easily accessible-updatable in that table. Probably we need to remove some unsourced championships (tug of war, aeromodelling, maybe also some para competitions). --Pelmeen10 (talk) 06:43, 1 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the edits to the List of Professional Bull Riders Champions article. I can see that I need to make those same edits to some other rodeo and bull riding articles as well. It's on my list to create an article for the PBR Global Cup. Just like there is one for the discontinued PBR World Cup, so I have a format of sorts to follow. I can step that up since it won't be a very long article, but longer than a stub of course. I'll post a link here when it's complete, some time in the next few days. Thanks. dawnleelynn(talk) 17:03, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Here's the link to the new article PBR Global Cup. Everything needed for a basic article is there now. I will be supplementing it with some additional content in the next couple days. I'm also open to any suggestions you have or let me know if you see anything missing that a complete article should have...copyedit also welcome since no other eyes have seen it. No obligation depending on your schedule. I'm still working on fixing the blank gap caused by the series template. <i style="color:#800000;">dawnleelynn</i>(talk) 23:45, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay, nice. I also added it to the table. But it's currently under the section "mixed-sex". So are there definitely women competing in the Global Cup (and what about earlier in the World Cup)? If not, and by the rules it does not matter if the contestants are male or female, then it should be under "open". By checking the Global Cup homepage, looked like all competitors were male. --Pelmeen10 (talk) 05:47, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * It looks great, thanks for adding it to this article. Also nice touch adding a link for PBR Global Cup to the PBR World Cup article. I have never seen any women competing in any PBR events at this level, including the elite series, World Cup, and Global Cup. I believe there was one once at the lowest level tour, the PBR Touring Pro Division. All of the tours are linked in the series template in the PBR articles. I will leave it up to you whether to move those two events to mens, but there won't be any women competing in these global events. Thanks again! <i style="color:#800000;">dawnleelynn</i>(talk) 06:30, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * But women are allowed to compete, lets say they are really good? --Pelmeen10 (talk) 06:37, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

See here, here and here. <i style="color:#800000;">dawnleelynn</i>(talk) 16:29, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

UFC
Shouldn't there be an entry in the article for the UFC? It's the top level of MMA fighting and they have world champions. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 14:25, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

"Not mentioned Tetris World Championship"
What should be needed to include Classic Tetris World Championship on the list? 37.7.134.73 (talk) 09:30, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Second Canoeing category
I don't really know how to handle this so I'd rather raise it here but what is the secodn canoeing category about? It is a pretty random list of sports... Tampert (talk) 18:08, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I have no idea but the section didn't contain canoeing and the change to individual section was only implemented upto "C" in the alphabet. The whole page structure and content will need to be reviewed if it keep expanding. Personally I would remove the winners this should be on the event page and split it up introduce a gender column and split the sports up into Winter Sports, Summer Sport, Disabled Sports etc. Yachty4000 (talk) 19:05, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Page Structure
Sorry I want to class it, because this sheet is so big, but I have no time, so that canoeing mean is in progress.

I Suggest class it, for winter sports, summer sports, para sports.

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61.61.220.182 (talk) 05:02, 12 January 2022 (UTC)


 * The page is a mess and the table is so big it is hard for less experience editors to add. It has also lost all structure when edited to have the para sports added. I have to say for sailing I choose to not put the 100 annual world championships on here (it must be close to 300 individuals a year) on here but on a separate page see World championships in sailing. This could be the solution for canoeing or infact any sport with say more than five titles to limit the page size. In regards to winter sports, summer sports, para sports looking at the breadth of the sports it goes far beyond this. Someone needs to define the scope of this page and have the desire to edit it. I like the gender split that it currently has it amazing how few open and mixed sports there are another win for sailing :-).Yachty4000 (talk) 14:11, 5 January 2022 (UTC)