A sports club or sporting club , sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association , is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports .
21-524: (Redirected from Pan American Championships ) [REDACTED] Countries usually participating in Pan American championships. A Pan American Championship is a top level international sports competition between athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs in the Americas . Typically these championships are recurring,
42-1935: A multi-sport event between competitors from all nations in the Americas Championship World championship African Championship Asian Championship Central American Championships (disambiguation) European Championship European Junior Championships (disambiguation) North American Championship Canadian Championships Oceania Championship South American Championship v t e Pan American Championships Olympic sports Team sports Basketball men women Curling Field hockey men women Football Handball men women cadet men Ice hockey Volleyball men women Water polo Individual sports Archery Artistic swimming Athletics combined events race walking Badminton Cycling Road Track Cyclo-cross Fencing Gymnastics Judo Luge Table tennis championships cup Taekwondo Weightlifting Wrestling Non-Olympic sports Team sports Beach handball Baseball5 Cricket Indoor hockey men women Korfball Rink hockey championships cup Rugby union Americas PARA Individual sports Athletics cross country Chess team Draughts Jiu-jitsu no-gi Racquetball Squash Wushu Paralympic sports Team sports Wheelchair rugby Individual sports Para badminton Para table tennis Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pan_American_Championship&oldid=1239643998 " Categories : Sport in
63-429: A larger multisports club are examples of this (namely, Portuguese SADs ( Sociedade Anónima Desportiva ) such as Sport Lisboa e Benfica and Sporting Clube de Portugal , or Spanish SADs ( Sociedad Anónima Deportiva ) Real Zaragoza, S.A.D. and Real Betis Balompié S.A.D. , as well as Italian clubs like Società Sportiva Lazio S.p.A. ). Some sports teams are owned and financed by a single non-sports company , for example
84-516: A player on one sports team within a sports and entertainment company to automatically play for another team in the same company. On the other hand, American varsity teams are generally organized into a structure forming a true multi-sport club belonging to an educational institution, but varsity collegiate athletics are almost never referred to as clubs; "club sports" in American colleges and universities refer to sports that are not directly sponsored by
105-897: A single sport or to several ( multi-sport clubs ). The term "athletics club" is sometimes used for a general sports club, rather than one dedicated to athletics proper. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn 's Turners movement, first realized at Volkspark Hasenheide in Berlin in 1811, was the origin of the modern sports clubs . Larger sports clubs are characterized by having professional and amateur departments in various sports such as bike polo , football , basketball , futsal , cricket , volleyball , handball , rink hockey , bowling , water polo , rugby , track and field athletics , boxing , baseball , cycling , tennis , rowing , gymnastics , and others, including less traditional sports such as airsoft , billiards , e-sports , orienteering , paintball , or roller derby . The teams and athletes belonging to
126-706: A single sport. There are some exceptions, especially when multiple such teams are under one ownership structure, in which case the club may be referred to as a "sports and entertainment" company; see, for example, the One Buffalo sports club, which fields an NFL team (the Buffalo Bills ), two hockey teams ( Buffalo Sabres and Rochester Americans ), professional lacrosse ( Buffalo Bandits and Rochester Knighthawks ), and general athletics and fitness (Impact Sports and Performance). Even in such circumstances, collective bargaining agreements and contract laws generally do not allow
147-421: A sports club may compete in several different leagues, championships and tournaments wearing the same club colors and using the same club name, sharing also the same club fan base , supporters and facilities. Many professional sports clubs have an associate system where the affiliated supporters pay an annuity fee. In those cases, supporters become eligible to attend the club's home matches and exhibitions across
168-1413: Is also a multisports organisation, with badminton , cricket, association football and tennis facilities. In addition, like in several other countries, many universities and colleges develop a wide range of student sport activities including at a professional or semi-professional level. Fulham F.C. once ran a professional rugby league team and rowing club, which other football clubs have emulated since. Many football clubs originate from cricket teams. Today, most major cities have separate clubs for each sport (e.g. Manchester United Football Club and Lancashire County Cricket Club are based in Manchester ). Many clubs internationally describe themselves as football clubs ("FC", "Football Club" in British English and "Fußball-Club" in German; "CF", Clube de Futebol in Portuguese and Club de Fútbol in Spanish). Generally, British football clubs field only football teams. Their counterparts in several other countries tend to be full multi-sport clubs, even when called football clubs ( Futebol Clube do Porto ; Fußball-Club Bayern München ; Futbol Club Barcelona ). The equivalent abbreviation "SC" (for "Soccer Club")
189-575: Is an individual chess tournament organized since 1945. It is often a qualifier for the FIDE World Cup . The first Pan American Chess Championship was held in Hollywood, 28 July – 12 August 1945. The line-up was as follows: The second championship was held in 1954 in Los Angeles and was an open tournament. The American Continental Chess Championship qualified in 2001 and 2003 the top seven players for
210-415: Is more common in the case of individual sports, such as the sport of athletics , where a distance runner may compete for a track and field team as well as a road running team, and also have further membership at a local sports club for training purposes. Some national sports bodies require an athlete to state a priority order of their club membership, outlining which club has the higher, or first, claim on
231-642: Is occasionally used in North American English (for example, Nashville SC and Orlando City SC ), but a general reluctance to decolonize the sport terminology means that most North American teams, somewhat ambiguously, as "football" in North American English refers to North American gridiron-style football still use "F.C." in their name instead (e.g. FC Dallas or Toronto FC ). Pan American Chess Championship The Pan American Chess Championship , also American Continental Championship
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#1733271395452252-485: Is the owner of the Cardiff Arms Park site. It is responsible for much of the premier amateur sporting activities in city with cricket ( Cardiff Cricket Club ), rugby union (it is the major shareholder of the semi-professional Cardiff Rugby Club ), field hockey ( Cardiff & Met Hockey Club ), tennis ( Lisvane (CAC) Tennis Club ) and bowls ( Cardiff Athletic Bowls Club ) sections. Catford Wanderers Sports Club
273-643: The FIDE World Championships . From 2005, this tournament has been played as a qualifier for the World Cup stage of the World Championship . The number of players who qualified changed in the various editions. In 2005, the top seven players qualified for the Chess World Cup 2005 . In 2014 and 2015 the top four earned a spot in the Chess World Cup 2015 . *Note: 2008 and 2010 editions' official name
294-600: The United States major institutions like The New York Athletic Club and Los Angeles Athletic Club serve as athletic clubs that participate in multiple sports. Examples also abound of sports clubs that are in effect one sports team. Each team from the NFL (American football), CFL (Canadian football), NBA (basketball), MLB (baseball), NHL (ice hockey) or MLS (association football) North American sports leagues , can be called sports clubs, but in practice, they focus solely on
315-601: The Americas International sports championships in the Americas Sports club Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and may play other similar clubs on occasion, watched mostly by family and friends, to large commercial organisations with professional players which have teams that regularly compete against those of other clubs and sometimes attract very large crowds of paying spectators . Clubs may be dedicated to
336-634: The athlete's services. In many regions of the world like Europe , North Africa , West Asia , the Indian subcontinent or Central and South America , sports clubs with several sports departments (multisports clubs) or branches, including highly competitive professional teams, are very popular and have developed into some of the most powerful and representative sports institutions in those places. In general, student sports can be described as composed by multisports clubs, each one representing its educational institution and competing in several sport disciplines. In
357-579: The colleges but by student organizations (see National Club Football Association and American Collegiate Hockey Association for two leagues consisting entirely of college "club" teams in American football and ice hockey , respectively). In the United Kingdom , almost all major sports organisations are dedicated to a single sport, the exception to this is Cardiff Athletic Club based in Cardiff , Wales, which
378-447: The entire season, and have the right to practice almost every kind of sport at the club's facilities. Registered associate member fees, attendance receipts, sponsoring contracts, team merchandising , TV rights, and athlete/player transfer fees , are usually the primary sources of sports club financing. In addition, there are sports clubs, or its teams, which are publicly listed - several professional European football clubs belonging to
399-523: The field of competitive club sports, an athlete will typically be registered to only one club for a given discipline and will compete for that club exclusively for the duration of a competition or season. Exceptions to this include player trades and transfers, athlete loan agreements and unattached trialists. Where an athlete competes in multiple disciplines, or where club membership has social or training aspects such as local athletic clubs, then athletes may register with multiple clubs. Multiple membership
420-4738: The most common formats being annual, biennial and quadrennial. The Pan American Games is the highest level sporting competition for the region. It is common for there to be sport-specific governing bodies to organise these regional competitions, such as the Pan American Judo Confederation . Major tournaments [ edit ] Sport Name Continents/Nations First edition [REDACTED] Archery Pan American Archery Championships Americas 1972 [REDACTED] Artistic swimming Pan American Artistic Swimming Championships Americas 2010 [REDACTED] Athletics Pan American Race Walking Cup Pan American Combined Events Cup Pan American Cross Country Cup Americas 1984 2005 2015 [REDACTED] Badminton Pan American Badminton Championships Americas 1977 [REDACTED] Baseball Pan American Baseball Championships [ es ] Americas 1985 [REDACTED] Basketball FIBA Americas Championship Americas 1980 [REDACTED] Beach handball Pan American Beach Handball Championship Americas 1998 [REDACTED] Boxing Pan American Boxing Championships [ fr ] Americas 1990 [REDACTED] Brazilian jiu-jitsu Pan-American Championship (jiu-jitsu) Pan Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship Americas 1996 2007 [REDACTED] Chess Pan American Chess Championship Americas 1945 [REDACTED] Cricket ICC Americas Championship Americas 2000 [REDACTED] Cycling Pan American Road and Track Championships Pan American Mountain Bike Championships [ fr ] Americas 1974 1996 [REDACTED] Fencing Pan American Fencing Championships Americas 2006 [REDACTED] Field hockey Men's Pan American Cup Women's Pan American Cup Americas 2000 2001 [REDACTED] Football (soccer) CONCACAF Gold Cup Copa América Panamerican Championship North America - Central America - Caribbean South America Americas 1991 1916 1952 [REDACTED] Gymnastics Pan American Gymnastics Championships Americas 1997 [REDACTED] Handball Pan American Men's Handball Championship Pan American Women's Handball Championship Americas 1980 1986 [REDACTED] Ice hockey Pan American Ice Hockey Tournament Americas 2014 [REDACTED] Indoor hockey Men's Indoor Pan American Cup Women's Indoor Pan American Cup Americas 2002 [REDACTED] Judo Pan American Judo Championships Americas 1952 [REDACTED] Karate Pan American Karate Championships [ es ] Americas 2019 [REDACTED] Korfball Pan-American Korfball Championship Americas 2014 [REDACTED] Racquetball Pan American Racquetball Championships Americas 1987 [REDACTED] Rink hockey Rink Hockey American Championship Americas 2007 [REDACTED] Rugby union PARA Pan American Championship Americas Rugby Championship (top 6 rugby union teams) Americas 1995 2009 [REDACTED] Squash Pan American Squash Championships Americas 2002 [REDACTED] Taekwondo Pan American Taekwondo Championships Americas 1978 [REDACTED] Tennis Pan American Championships Americas 1943–1969 [REDACTED] Triathlon Pan American Triathlon Championships [ fr ] Americas 1991 [REDACTED] Volleyball Volleyball America's Cup Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup Americas 1998 2002 2006 [REDACTED] Water polo UANA Water Polo Cup Americas 2006 [REDACTED] Weightlifting Pan American Weightlifting Championships Americas 1982 [REDACTED] Wheelchair rugby IWRF Americas Championship Americas 2009 [REDACTED] Wrestling Pan American Wrestling Championships Americas 1984 [REDACTED] Wushu Pan American Wushu Championships Americas 1996 See also [ edit ] Pan American Games ,
441-711: The several sports teams owned by Red Bull GmbH and collectively known as Red Bulls . Other examples of this are the several sports teams owned by Bayer AG and Philips corporations through the Bayer 04 Leverkusen and PSV Eindhoven respectively, that originally were works teams , the teams owned by the Samsung Group ( Samsung Sports ), and the teams owned by the Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG). They may compete in several different sports and leagues, being headquartered in some cases across several countries. In
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