contest, competition (noun)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin.

The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams, organised by the Union of European Football Associations. It is the second most important international competition for European football clubs, after the UEFA Champions League.

The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup or Carling Cup, is an English football competition.

The Copa del Rey is an annual cup competition for Spanish football teams.

Andre Kirk Agassi is a former World No. 1 professional American tennis player who won eight Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles.

The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the Scottish Cup, is the main national football cup competition of Scotland.

The Copa Libertadores, also known as Copa Libertadores de Amrica, is a football cup competition played annually by the top clubs of South America, while in recent editions, qualified clubs from Mexico have also been invited to compete.

The Euroleague is the highest level and most important professional basketball competition in Europe, with teams from twelve different European countries.

The Ice Hockey World Championship is an annual ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. First officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics, it is the sport's highest profile annual international tournament.

The Rose Bowl Game is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California for 95 years.

The USL Premier Development League is the amateur league of the United Soccer Leagues in the United States and Canada, forming part of the American Soccer Pyramid.

The World Junior Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which younger figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion.

The European/South American Cup, commonly referred to as the Intercontinental Cup or Toyota Cup, was a football competition endorsed by UEFA and Conmebol, contested between the winners of the European Cup and the South American Copa Libertadores.

The UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup and originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition for European clubs that have not qualified for one of the two major UEFA competitions, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup.

The Coppa Italia is an Italian football annual cup competition.

Ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920.

The Rugby World Cup is the premier international rugby union competition.

The AFC Champions League is the current annual Asian club football competition hosted by Asian Football Confederation. In normal circumstances, 32 top clubs from fourteen Asian countries along with the defending champions competed in the tournament.

For the latest competition, see National Hurling League 2009.

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

This is about the football competition, for the rugby, see Coupe de France. Coupe de France, or Coupe Charles Simon, is a competition of French football clubs, open to all professional and non-professional teams.

The 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was a tournament involving 65 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2008-9 basketball season.

The World Series of Poker is a poker tournament held annually in Las Vegas.

The British Home Championship was an annual football competition contested between the United Kingdom's four national teams, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from the 1883-84 season until the 1983-84 season.

The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was a European football competition played between 1955 and 1971.

The Double is a term in association football which refers to winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season.

The Austrian Football Bundesliga is the highest-ranking national league club competition in Austrian football.

Fed Cup is the premier team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation. The competition was known as the Federation Cup until 1995.

Conditions races are horse races where the weights carried by the runners are laid down by the conditions attached to the race.

The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Cabinet Secretary Jack Kemp of New York for Vice President.

The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the 51st Eurovision Song Contest, held at the OAKA Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece on the 18 May and 20 May 2006. The hosting national broadcaster of the contest was Ellinik Radiofona Tilerasi. The Finnish band Lordi won the contest with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah" with a record 292 points.

The Copa Sudamericana, also known as Copa Nissan Sudamericana for sponsorship reasons, is an international football cup competition that started in 2002 played annually by clubs of CONMEBOL and, since 2005, from Concacaf.

The FIFA Club World Cup, formerly known as the FIFA Club World Championship, is a football competition contested between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations, although, since 2007, the champions of Oceania must play a qualifying play-off against the champion club of the host country.

The Leinster GAA Hurling Senior Championship is the premier knockout competition in the game of hurling played in the province of Leinster in Ireland.

The New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the first rugby league football club competition established in Australia.

The Goodwill Games were an international sports competition, created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s. In 1979, the invasion of Afghanistan caused the USA and other Western countries to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, an act reciprocated when the Soviet and other Eastern Bloc countries boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

The Royal Bank Cup is an annual ice hockey tournament held to determine the Canadian Junior A champion.

The Cypriot Championship First Division is the top tier football league competition in Cyprus.

The 2006 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball competition hosted by Japan from August 19 to September 3, 2006.

The Africa Cup of Nations, also referred to as the African Nations Cup is the main international association football competition in Africa.

The Welsh Cup is a knock-out football competition contested annually by teams from Wales.

The World Amateur Boxing Championships is the highest competition for boxing amateurs, organised by world's governing body Aiba, which stands for the Association International de Boxe Amateur.

The African Cup Winners's Cup is a football competition that started in 1975 and merged with the CAF Cup in 2004 to form the CAF Confederation Cup.

The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup, was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union.

The Championnat de France amateur is a French football competition; the equivalent of the fourth division, below the Championnat National.

For the cricket competition originally known as the Currie Cup, see Supersport Series.

The NCAA began conducting a Men's Division I Soccer Championship tournament in 1959 with an eight-team tournament.

The Supercoppa Italiana is a pre-season football competition held the week before the season begins in Italy every year.

The Norwegian Men's Football Cup is the main knockout cup competition in Norwegian football.

In motorsport, the fastest lap is the quickest lap run during a race.