The ISSF World Shooting Championships are governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation. World Shooting Championships began in 1897, after the successful 1896 Summer Olympics, and although the ISSF was not founded until 1907, these early competitions are still seen by the organization as the beginning of a continuous row of championships. By this logic, the 2006 competition in Zagreb was called the 49th ISSF World Shooting Championships. These championships, including all ISSF shooting events, are held every four years since 1954. For the shotgun events only, there is an additional World Championship competition in odd-numbered years. These extra competitions are not numbered. In running target, there will be World Championships in Olympic years.
Clara Juliana Guerrero Londoño is a Colombian ten-pin bowler who has won Colombian championships and multiple international championships. She has been a member of Team Colombia for twenty years, and another half dozen years on Junior Team Colombia. She has one title on the PWBA Tour since the rebirth of the Professional Women's Bowling Association in 2015.
International Bowling Federation and World Bowling (WB) between 2014 and November 2020 is the world governing body of ninepin and tenpin bowling. IBF was founded in 1952 in Hamburg, Germany by officials of the International Bowling Association to foster worldwide interest in amateur ten-pin and nine-pin bowling, as well as international friendship by encouraging world and zone tournaments and other competition between bowlers of different countries. IBF has been recognized by the International Olympic Committee since 1979 as the governing body for bowling sports. Starting with five member federations in 1952, it grew to 141 in 2010.
The World Tenpin Bowling Championships is a global event that invites all countries that are members of International Bowling Federation to participate.
The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's double and mixed doubles, are currently held in odd numbered years. The World Team Table Tennis Championships, which include men's team and women's team events, were first their own competition in 2000. The Team Championships are held in even numbered years.
Nine-pin bowling is a bowling game played primarily in Europe. European championships are held each year. Over 90,000 members are on teams in Germany, often playing in officially registered Bundeskegelbahnen to be found in almost every sizable town. In Europe overall, there are some 130,000 players. Nine-pin bowling lanes are often found in Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Estonia, Switzerland, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, North Macedonia, Hungary, Brazil and Liechtenstein. The English-speaking countries, having a predominance of facilities for the modern ten-pin sport which originated in the United States, as well as regionally popular "small-ball" bowling sports of various types, do not have many facilities in existence for the nine-pin game in the 21st century. On the other hand, a modified version is played in the US state of Texas.
The Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ) is the World Bowling Federation. The FIQ is subdivided into two disciplines, the World Ninepin Bowling Association (WNBA) and the World Tenpin Bowling Association (WTBA). Both organizations were founded by the FIQ in 1973 in London. The WNBA counts approximately 250.000 members in 26 countries on three continents.
The 1953 World Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships was the first edition of the championships and were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, from 21-24 June 1953. Germany sent a united team composed of players from the GDR and the FRG.
The 1955 World Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships was the second edition of the championships and was held in Essen, West Germany, from 30 August to 5 September 1955.
The World Singles Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships is a biennial nine-pin bowling competition organized by the World Ninepin Bowling Association. The World Championships was started in 2006, after dividing the championships into Team and Singles.
The nine-pin bowling World Team Championships is a biennial nine-pin bowling competition organized by the World Ninepin Bowling Association. The World Championships was started in 2005, after dividing the championships into Team and Single's.
The 1957 World Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships was the third edition of the championships and was held in Vienna, Austria, from 9 to 14 June 1957.
The 1959 World Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships was the fourth edition of the championships and was held in Bautzen, East Germany, from 22 to 27 September 1959.
The 1962 World Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships was the fifth edition of the championships and was held in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, from 24 to 29 September 1962.
The 2021 nine-pin bowling World Team Championships was the ninth edition of the team championships and held in Tarnowo Podgórne, Poland, in October 2021.
The 1966 World Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships was the sixth edition of the championships and was held in Bucharest, Romania, from 19 to 25 June 1966.
The nine-pin bowling European Championships was a nine-pin bowling competition organized by the Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ). The first European Championships were held in 1949 in Vienna. It was an unofficial competition in which seven countries took part.
The WNBA-NBC Champions League is the annual competition for nine-pin bowling men's clubs, organized by the World Ninepin Bowling Association. It is playing since 2002, and the first season the competition was named as Euroleague.
The WNBA-NBC Champions League is the annual competition for nine-pin bowling women's clubs, organized by the World Ninepin Bowling Association. It is playing since 2002, and the first season the competition was named as Euroleague.
The nine-pin bowling Singles World Cup is a biennial nine-pin bowling competition organized by the World Ninepin Bowling Association. The World Cup was started in 1989 and until 2003 took place every year. The next one was held in 2004 and take place biennially since then.
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