See also: World Cup, World cup competition, and List of world cups and world championships for juniors and youth
The following is a list of world championships, sporting events which use one of these two names, or one with a similar meaning. In some sports, there is a world series, but that term usually has a somewhat different meaning.
Tournaments which are formally defunct or where a further event is not currently planned are marked with a gray background.
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Women
Mixed
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities | First held |
Current holder | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auto racing | Formula One World Championship | Individuals | 1950 | Jenson Button (2009) | 2009 | One year |
| Constructors | 1958 | Brawn GP (2009) | ||||
| FIA GT1 World Championship | Individuals | 2010 | None | None | One year | |
| Manufacturers | 2010 | None | ||||
| World Rally Championship | Individuals | 1977 | Sébastien Loeb (2008) | 2009 | One year | |
| Manufacturers | 1973 | Citroën (2008) | ||||
| World Touring Car Championship | Individuals | 1987 | Yvan Muller (2008) | 2009 | One year | |
| Manufacturers | SEAT (2008) | |||||
| World Manufacturers' Championship | Manufacturers | 1925 | Delage (1927) | Defunct | One year until 1927 | |
| World Sportscar Championship | Constructors; from 1985 teams |
1953 | Winners in several classes | Defunct | One year until 1992 | |
| Individuals | 1981 | Defunct | One year until 1992 | |||
| Equestrian | FEI World Equestrian Games | Individuals | 1990 | Winners in 16 events (2006) | 2010 | Four years |
| International Mounted Games World Individual Championships | Individuals | 1986 | Janey Surman (ENG) | 2010 | One Year | |
| International Mounted Games World Pairs Championships | Pairs | 1992 | Robert Leese (ENG) & David Cherrington (NZL) | 2010 | One Year | |
| International Mounted Games World Team Championships | Team | 1986 | England | 2010 | One Year | |
| Glider aerobatics | FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships | Individuals | 1985 | Georgij Kaminski (2007) | 2009 | Two years |
| Nations | Hungary (2007) | |||||
| Gliding | World Gliding Championships | Individuals | 1937 | Winners in 6 classes (2008) | 2010 | Two years[13] |
| Korfball | Korfball World Championship | Nations | 1978 | Netherlands (2007) | 2011 | Four years |
| Motorcycling | FIM MotoGP Championship | Individuals | 1949 | Winners in three classes (2008) | 2009 | One year |
| Constructors | Winners in three classes (2008) | |||||
| FIM Supercross World Championship | Individuals | 2003 | James Stewart, Jr. | 2010 | One year | |
| FIM Motorcross World Championship | Individuals | 2003 | Winners in three classes | 2010 | One year | |
| FIM World Enduro Championship | Individuals | 1990 | Winners in 3 events (2008) | 2009 | One year | |
| FIM Sidecarcross World Championship | Pairs | 1980 | Joris Hendrickx (2009) Kaspars Liepins |
2010 | One year | |
| Speedway World Team Cup (1960-2000) Speedway World Cup (since 2001) |
National Team | 1960 | Poland (2009) | 2010 | One year | |
| Speedway World Pairs Championship | National pair | 1970 | Sweden (1993) | Defunct | One year until 1993 | |
| Individual Speedway World Championship (1936-1994) Speedway Grand Prix (since 1995) |
Individuals | 1936 | Nicki Pedersen (2008) | 2009 | One year | |
| Individual Ice Racing World Championship | Individuals[15] | 1966 | Nikolai Krasnikov (2008) | 2009 | One year | |
| Team Ice Racing World Championship | Nations | 1979 | Russia (2009) | 2010 | One year | |
| Motorboat racing | C1 World Powerboat Championship | Individual | 1992 | Victory Team | 2009 | One years |
| Powerboat P1 World Championship | 2003 | Winners in 3 classes | 2009 | One years | ||
| F1 Powerboat World Championship | 1981 | Jay Price | 2009 | One years | ||
| Radio-controlled car racing | IFMAR World Championship | Individuals | 1977 | Winners in several classes | 2009 2010 |
Two years |
| Sailing | ISAF Sailing World Championships | Crews | 2003 | Winners in 3 events (2007) | 2011 | Four years |
| ISAF Team Racing World Championships | Nations | 1995 | USA | 2007 | Two years | |
| Synchronized skating | World Synchronized Skating Championships | Teams | 2000 | Rockettes (Finland) (2008) | 2009 | One year |
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Not held in Summer Olympic years.
- ^ a b Auto racing events make no distinction between male and female competitors.
- ^ The second Bandy World Championships were held in 1961. From that point, the championships were held every two years until 2003. Since then, the championships have been held every year.
- ^ a b Equestrian events make no distinction between male and female competitors.
- ^ a b Includes the Pairs and Ice Dance events, shared between male and female skaters.
- ^ a b There exist mixed and women's gliding championships. The most prominent female competitor in mixed world gliding championships was Hanna Reitsch.
- ^ a b Motorcycle racing events make no distinction between male and female competitors.
- ^ a b Championships are not held for Olympic events in Summer Olympic years.
- ^ a b In Winter Olympic years, the World Single Distance Championships are not held.
- ^ Although the International Skating Union did not conduct an official World Short Track Championship until 1981, it began organising international events in 1976. All annual ISU-sanctioned international championships from 1976 to 1980 are now retrospectively recognised as World Championships.
- ^ Every year since 2006.
- ^ The UCI Road World Championships were first contested in 1927, but women's championships were not added until 1958.
- ^ a b The duration between World Gliding Championships varies slightly, dependent on the hemisphere of the next planned edition.
- ^ Changed from 2005.
- ^ World Champions in Individual Ice Racing
R. ^R - One or more relay events, in which three or four competitors compete for their nation, are included for each sex.
D. ^D - Includes three Doubles events, one for men, one for women, and one for mixed doubles.
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