1995 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
Almost three weeks before this championship, Jonathan Edwards had just marginally improved upon Willie Banks' ten year old world record (17.97m), by jumping 17.98m in Salamanca. In the preliminary round he was not even the #1 qualifier, edged out by Jérôme Romain.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
On his first trip down the runway in the final, Edwards became the first athlete in the world to jump further than 18 metres without wind assistance, registering a world record jump of 18.16 m.  In his second jump, he jumped even further, setting a new world record of 18.29 m (60 ft 0 in), the first jump one 60 feet and a .31 m (1 ft 0 in) improvement over his previous world record. 67 cm further than silver medal winner Brian Wellman. It took more than 20 years for Christian Taylor to become the first man to jump beyond Edwards' first record.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10 kilometres walk
These are the official results of the Women's 10 km Walk event at the 1995 World Championships held on Monday 7 August 1995 in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 45 participating athletes.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres
The women's 10,000 metres event featured at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 34 participating athletes, and the two qualifying heats and the final were held on 9 August 1995.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres
These are the official results of the Women's 100 metres event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 58 participating athletes, with two semi-finals, four quarter-finals and eight qualifying heats and the final held on Monday 7 August 1995.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles
These are the results of the Women's 100 metres hurdles event at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
First 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Wind:Heat 1: -0.2 m/s, Heat 2: -0.6 m/s, Heat 3: ? m/s, Heat 4: -0.2 m/s, Heat 5: -1.0 m/s


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
First 4 of each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres
These are the results of the Women's 1500 metres event at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres
Gone were the Chinese sensations of two years earlier, not a single representative in this field, their only distance running representative in these championships incapable of making a final. The start of the final was aggressive but slow as a lot of elbows were flying as athletes maneuvered for position at a slow pace. 1991 champion and Olympic champion Hassiba Boulmerka wanted to go into her customary second spot but found it difficult to find a leader. After 200 meters, Yvonne Mai-Graham ran around the crowd to self nominate herself into the lead, followed by Boulmerka.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres
The leaders remained in that position for a kilometer, with the chasers right behind jockeying for position. Coming in to the final lap, Kelly Holmes had positioned herself in third place. Crossing the start line for the final time, the fireworks began. Boulmerka ran past Mai with Holmes less than a metre behind. With 200 to go, Boulmerka and Holmes were running stride for stride, Holmes on the outside of the turn. Carla Sacramento was the next chaser and the medalists were decided with a breakaway. By the end of the turn, Boulmerka had won the battle, but she pulled into lane 2. Holmes lined herself up in lane 1 to make a run at Boulmerka, but instead the gap kept slowly widening.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres, Results, Heats
First 6 of each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 5 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres
These are the official results of the Women's 200 metres event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 37 participating athletes, with two semi-finals and five qualifying heats and the final held on Thursday 1995-08-10.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
These are the results of the women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, Medalists
* Runners who participated in the heats only and received medals.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
These are the results of the women's 4 x 400 metres relay event at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Medalists
* Runners who participated in the heats only and received medals.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advance to the final.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres
These are the results of the Women's 400 metres event at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats
First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles
Women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics was held in Gothenburg, on 8, 9 and 11 August.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
First 4 of each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres
These are the official results of the Women's 5,000 metres event at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was the first time at the World Championships that women competed over the 5000 metres distance instead of 3000 metres. There were a total number of 51 participating athletes, with three qualifying heats and the final held on Saturday 1995-08-12.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres, Results, Heats
First 4 of each Heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres
These are the results of the Women's 800 metres event at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 4 of each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
These are the official results of the Women's Discus Throw event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 33 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Saturday, August 12, 1995.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
These are the official results of the Women's Heptathlon competition at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. With a total of 30 participating athletes, including 10 non-finishers, this edition of the women's heptathlon is notable for having the highest fraction of athletes not finishing the competition in the World Championships history. The competition started on August 9, 1995, and ended on August 10, 1995.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
These are the official results of the Women's High Jump event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 38 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday August 13, 1995.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump, Results, Qualifying round
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 1.95 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
These are the official results of the Women's Javelin Throw event at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 31 participating athletes, with the final held on Tuesday August 8, 1995. All results were made with a rough surfaced javelin (old design).


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump
These are the official results of the Women's Long Jump event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were 40 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday August 6, 1995. The qualification mark was set at 6.75 metres.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon
The Women's Marathon at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden was held on Sunday August 5, 1995. Due to judges' error the marathon course was 400 metres short of the normal distance as at the start the women left the stadium one lap too early.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put
These are the official results of the Women's Shot Put event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 26 participating athletes, with the final held on Saturday August 5, 1995.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
These are the official results of the Women's Triple Jump event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 32 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Thursday August 10, 1995.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
This event was jumping in the same facility as Jonathan Edwards had set the still standing world record for men just three days earlier. Over the course of his series, Edwards had added 32 cm to Willie Banks' previous record that had stood for over a decade. The leader from the qualifying round was former world record holder Iolanda Chen.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
The final started uneventfully with Rodica Mateescu taking the lead with 14.44m. The second round intensified with world record holder and defending champion Anna Biryukova jumping 14.85m to take the lead and Iva Prandzheva moving into second with a 14.76m.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
The third round became eventful. Biryukova jumped 15.08m, within one cm of her existing world record. Meanwhile Inessa Kravets had fouled on her first two attempts, and a third foul would mean she was eliminated from the competition with no mark.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
She adjusted her run up to be sure she would make a legal jump. Giving up almost the entire 20 cm width of the take off board, she took off at the back of the board. On three smooth, elongated steps she flew well past the 15 metre mark into the pit. The jump was measured at 15.50 m (50 ft 10 in), adding 41 cm to the existing world record - like Edwards, a Beamonesque improvement. Erom where she took off, the jump was closer to 15.78m.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
The competition continued. In the fourth round, Inna Lasovskaya jumped 14.85m to move into third place. In the fifth round Prandzheva jumped past Lasovskaya and Biryukova with a 15.18m, at that point in time, the second best jump in history only to the world record set minutes earlier. And in the final round, Prandzheva again jumped 15.00m exactly, only her second best jump of the day.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
Almost a year later, Kravets showed her jump was not a fluke, jumping 15.33m to win at the 1996 Olympics; Prandzheva was disqualified at those Olympics for a doping violation. Kravets was unable to defend her Olympic title in 2000 because she was suspended for the second time in her career for a doping violation.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
At the 2020 Olympics,  Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela jumped 15.67m on her final jump to finally break Kravets' world record after 26 years.


1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump, Qualifying round
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 14.05 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


1995 World Cup of Golf
The 1995 World Cup of Golf took place 9–12 November at the Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzen, Dongguan, Guangdong, China. It was the 41st World Cup. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with each team consisting of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. Individuals also competed for the International Trophy. The prize money totaled $1,500,000 with $400,000 going to the winning pair and $100,000 to the top individual.


1995 World Cup of Golf
The United States team of Fred Couples and Davis Love won, for a record fourth time in a row with the same players in the team, by 14 strokes over the Australia team of Brett Ogle and Robert Allenby. Love took the International Trophy after a playoff over Hisayuki Sasaki of Japan.


1995 World Cup of Golf, Scores
Love won in a playoff with a par on the 5th extra hole.


1995 World Doubles Cup
The 1995 World Doubles Cup was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Craiglockhart Tennis Centre in Edinburgh in Scotland that was part of the 1995 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from May 24 through May 27, 1995.


1995 World Doubles Cup, Winners, Women's Doubles
Meredith McGrath /  Larisa Savchenko defeated  Manon Bollegraf /  Rennae Stubbs 6–2, 7–6


1995 World Doubles Cup – Doubles
Jana Novotná and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


1995 World Doubles Cup – Doubles
Meredith McGrath and Larisa Savchenko won in the final 6–2, 7–6 against Manon Bollegraf and Rennae Stubbs.


1995 World Doubles Cup – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1995 World Fencing Championships
The 1995 World Fencing Championships were held from 18 July to 23 July 1995 in The Hague, Netherlands.


1995 World Figure Skating Championships
The 1995 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Birmingham, UK on 7–12 March. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1995 World Figure Skating Championships, Results, Ladies
Note: Jenna Arrowsmith placed 29th in the short program but competed in the free skate due to a special ISU rule, which allowedfor a skater from the host country to advance to the free skate, if no skater from that country qualified automatically.


1995 World Indoor Archery Championships
The 1995 World Indoor Target Archery Championships were held in Birmingham, England.


1995 World Indoor Bowls Championship
The 1995 Churchill Insurance World Indoor Bowls Championship  was held at Preston Guild Hall, Preston, England, from 14–27 February 1995. Andy Thomson won his second consecutive title beating Richard Corsie in the final. Richard Corsie & Alex Marshall won the Pairs title.


1995 World Indoor Bowls Championship
The Women's World Championship took place in Cumbernauld from April 5–7. The event was sponsored by Churchill Insurance and was won by Joyce Lindores.


1995 World Indoor Bowls Championship, Draw and results, Men's singles
+ Margaret Johnston, Jan Woodley & Jackie Smyth were invited to play in the Men's Singles event.


1995 World Judo Championships
The 1995 World Judo Championships were the 19th edition of the World Judo Championships, and were held in Chiba, Japan in 1995.


1995 World Junior Curling Championships
The 1995 Bank of Scotland World Junior Curling Championships were held in Perth, Scotland March 19–26.


1995 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 1995 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was an international competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in the four disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event took place on November 21–27, 1994 in Budapest, Hungary.


1995 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Results
Skaters were exempt from the qualifying round if they were top-10 finishers the previous year.


1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1995 WJHC) was the 19th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was hosted in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada with games held throughout central Alberta. The host Canadians won their third straight gold medal, and its eighth overall, while Russia won silver, and Sweden the Bronze


1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Final standings
The 1995 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.


1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Final standings
No team was relegated to Pool B as the tournament expanded to ten teams for 1996.


1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool B
Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Caen, Rouen, Le Havre, and Louviers France from December 27 to January 5. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games. Two teams were promoted, no team was relegated because of the expansion of the top tier.


1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool B
Switzerland and  Slovakia were promoted to Pool A  for 1996.


1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Qualification for Pool C1
This would be the final year for a pre-tournament qualification. The winner of this tournament would participate in the C1 pool, second and third would participate in C2. It was played from September 3 to 5, in Minsk, Belarus.


1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool C1
Eight teams were divided into two round robin groups, with placement games to follow (1st played 1st, etc.). Because there were to be two teams promoted, each group winner secured promotion before the placement games. The tournament took place from December 29 to January 3, in Puigcerda Spain.


1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool C2
Six teams played a round robin, with the top two gain promotion for the following year's Pool C, the remaining teams would be placed in Pool D.  It was played from December 31 to January 6, in Tallinn Estonia.


1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool C2
Kazakhstan and  Slovenia were promoted to Pool C for 1996.


1995 World Marathon Cup
The 1995 World Marathon Cup was the sixth edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Athens, Greece.


1995 World Masters Athletics Championships
The 1995 World Masters Athletics Championships were the eleventh edition of the biennial global athletics competition for masters athletes aged 35 and over, organized by World Masters Athletics. The event was held in Buffalo, United States, from July 13–23, 1995.


1995 World Masters Athletics Championships
A full range of track and field events were held, along with a cross country running and a marathon.


1995 World Matchplay
The 1995 Webster's World Matchplay was the second annual World Matchplay darts tournament organised by the World Darts Council (WDC, which became the Professional Darts Corporation in 1997). The Winter Gardens, Blackpool played host to the event for the second year running, and it took place between 31 July–5 August 1995.


1995 World Matchplay
Seven former world champions were in the field. Defending champion Larry Butler beat one of them, Eric Bristow, in the first round. Butler's title defence ended with a quarter-final defeat to Dennis Priestley, the man he beat to win the title the previous year.


1995 World Matchplay
Jocky Wilson made what turned out to be his last appearance in a televised tournament at this event. The two-time former World Champion beat Rod Harrington in the first round, but then lost to Nigel Justice in the second round.


1995 World Matchplay
Phil Taylor and Dennis Priestley continued their rivalry when they met in another major final. This time it was Taylor who came out on top by 16 legs to 11 to claim his first World Matchplay title.


1995 World Matchplay, Results
Third place playoff (best of 21 legs) Cliff Lazarenko 3–11 John Lowe


1995 World Men's Curling Championship
The 1995 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as 1995 Ford World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held at the Keystone Centre in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada from April 8–16, 1995.


1995 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Hugh MillikinThird: Stephen JohnsSecond: Gerald ChickLead: Stephen HewittAlternate: Brian Johnson


1995 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Kerry BurtnykThird: Jeff RyanSecond: Rob MeakinLead: Keith FentonAlternate: Denis Fillion


1995 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Alistair BurnsThird: Andrew HemmingSecond: Neil HardieLead: Stephen WattAlternate Phil Atherton


1995 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Andy KappThird: Uli KappSecond: Oliver AxnickLead: Holger HöhneAlternate: Michael Schäffer


1995 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Eigil RamsfjellThird: Anthon GrimsmoSecond: Jan ThoresenLead: Tore TorvbråtenAlternate: Sjur Loen


1995 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Gordon MuirheadThird: Peter LoudonSecond: Robert KellyLead: Russell KeillerAlternate: Graeme Connal


1995 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Peter LindholmThird: Tomas NordinSecond: Magnus SwartlingLead: Peter NarupAlternate: Jan-Olov Nässén


1995 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Andreas SchwallerThird: Christof SchwallerSecond: Reto ZieglerLead: Peter EggenschwilerAlternate: Rolf Iseli


1995 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Tim SomervilleThird: Mike SchneebergerSecond: Myles BrundidgeLead: John GordonAlternate: Bud Somerville


1995 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : John HuntThird: Jamie MeikleSecond: Adrian MeikleLead: Hugh MeikleAlternate: Chris Wells


1995 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1995 World Men's Handball Championship was the 14th team handball World Championship. It was held in Iceland between 7–21 May 1995. France won the championship. Games were played in Reykjavík, Hafnarfjörður, Akureyri and Kópavogur.


1995 World Mountain Running Trophy
The 1995 World Mountain Running Championships was the 11th edition of the global mountain running competition, World Mountain Running Championships, organised by the World Mountain Running Association and was held in Edinburgh, Scotland on 10 September 1995.


1995 World Netball Championships
The 1995 World Netball Championships was the ninth edition of the INF Netball World Cup, a quadrennial premier event in international netball. It was held in Birmingham, England and featured a record 27 teams. South Africa returned to competition after the abolition of apartheid. One of the star players of the tournament was South African shooter Irene van Dyk.


1995 World Orienteering Championships
The 1995 World Orienteering Championships, the 16th World Orienteering Championships, were held in Detmold, Germany, 15–20 August 1995.


1995 World Orienteering Championships
The championships had six events; the classic distance (formerly called individual) for men and women, the short distance for men and women, and relays for men and women.


1995 World Polo Championship
The 1995 World Polo Championship was played in St. Moritz, Switzerland during 1995 and was won by Brazil. This event brought together six teams from around the world.


1995 World Rally Championship
The 1995 World Rally Championship was the 23rd season of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) World Rally Championship (WRC). The season consisted of 8 rallies. The drivers' world championship was won by Colin McRae in a Subaru Impreza 555, ahead of team-mate Carlos Sainz. The manufacturers' title was won by Subaru.


1995 World Rally Championship
Toyota was caught using illegal turbo restrictors at the Rally Catalunya and were given a one-year ban by the FIA. FIA president Max Mosley called the illegal turbo restrictor "the most sophisticated device I've ever seen in 30 years of motor sports." Toyota and their drivers, Juha Kankkunen, Didier Auriol and Armin Schwarz, were also stripped of all points in the championships. Kankkunen had been in contention for the drivers' world title. Mosley stated that "there is no suggestion the drivers were aware of what was going on."


1995 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
XIX World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Vienna, the capital of Austria, September 20–24, 1995.


1995 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, Participants
The following countries sent competitor(s) Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France,  Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, The United Kingdom and USA


1995 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, Participants, Individual
Alejandra Unsain, Cecilia Schtutman Kasumi Takahashi, Leigh Marning Birgit Schilien, Nina Taborsky Natalya Bulanova, Alfia Kukshinova, Nurdjahan Aliyeva Larissa Lukyanenko, Evgenia Pavlina Cindy Stollenberg, Lorrie Degroote, Isabelle Massage Camila Ferezin, Luciana Barichello, Dayane Camillo da Silva Maria Petrova, Diana Popova Erika-Leigh Stirton, Lindsay Richards, Gretchen McLennan Xiaojing Zhou, Wu Bei Ana Cerovec, Kristina Bajza, Josipa Jurinec Panaiyota Kimonos, Popi Sofocleous Lenka Oulehlova, Andrea Sebestova Natalja Kornysheva, Jekaterina Gorgul Katri Kalpala, Hanna Laiho Eva Serrano, Amélie Villeneuve Magdalena Brzeska, Kristin Sroka Ekaterina Abramia, Ekaterina Pevkina Maria Pagalou, Victoria Gogou Viktoria Frater, Andrea Szalay Svetlana Tokayev, Sivan Fischler Katia Pietrosanti, Irene Germini, Laura Zacchilli  Miho Yamada, Akane Yamao, Mutsuko Tahara Yulia Yourtchenko, Valeria Khairoulina, Lyudmila Popova Kristina Kliukevichute, Audrone Lingyte Natalia Fiodorova, Olga Vanitckina, Ella Dumbrava Lucinda Schuurman, Ramona Stook Simone Clark, Belinda Moore Marianne Myhrer, Siri Kjeksrud Anna Kwitniewska, Krystyna Leskiewicz Joana Raposo, Susana Nascimento Alina Stoica, Dana Carteleanu Yana Batyrshina, Natalia Lipkovskaya, Amina Zaripova Almudena Cid, Alba Caride-Costas Zuzana Dobiasova, Ivana Motolíková Nina Piletic, Erika Rakusa, Ana Kokalj Kim Yoo-Kyung, Kwon Bo-Young, Kim Eun-Hae Hanna Koehler Wannarudee Hansomboon, Yeansukon Aunchaya Tatyana Lobanova Ekaterina Serebrianskaya, Elena Vitrichenko, Victoria Stadnik Aicha McKenzie, Alison Deehan Jessica Davis, Tina Tharp


1995 World Rowing Championships
The 1995 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held  from 20 to 28 August at Lake Kaukajärvi, Tampere, Finland.


1995 World Rowing Championships, Events
The women's lightweight four (LW4-) was poorly subscribed, with only five nations entering boats; no heats were thus had. The Australian team, although present, did not start. The Danish rower in seat two caught a crab and injured herself, and they did not finish. Therefore, all finishers received a medal, with the team from the United States the overall winners.


1995 World Series
The 1995 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1995 season. The 91st edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion Atlanta Braves and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians. The Braves won in six games to capture their third World Series championship in franchise history (along with 1914 in Boston and 1957 in Milwaukee), making them the first team to win at least one crown in three different cities. This was also Cleveland's first Series appearance in 47 years and marked the resumption of the Fall Classic after the previous year's Series was canceled due to a players' strike.


1995 World Series
The Series was also remarkable in that five of the six games were won by one run, including the clinching sixth game, a 1–0 combined one-hitter by Tom Glavine and Mark Wohlers.


1995 World Series
This was the first time since the LCS changed to a best-of-seven format that a winner of a LCS via a sweep has gone on to win the World Series. It has since been repeated in 2019 by the Washington Nationals.


1995 World Series
This World Series, despite being in an odd-numbered year, opened in the NL home because of the omission of the 1994 World Series. Until 2003, the World Series would begin in the AL home in even-numbered (not odd-numbered) years.


1995 World Series, Background, Atlanta Braves
After losing the World Series in 1991 to the Minnesota Twins and in 1992 to the Toronto Blue Jays, the Atlanta Braves were making their third attempt in four years (not counting the 1994 strike) to capture Atlanta's first title.


1995 World Series, Background, Atlanta Braves
The Braves overcame some early inconsistency to win their division by 21 games. In the playoffs, which featured a new first round, the Braves overwhelmed the third-year Colorado Rockies, then swept the Cincinnati Reds in the NLCS (spoiling an all-Ohio World Series in the process; notably, prior to their World Series appearance in 1948, the Indians had spoiled an all-Boston World Series by beating the Red Sox in a one-game playoff). The team relied on clutch hitting and its powerful pitching rotation, which was made up of perennial Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, and Steve Avery.


1995 World Series, Background, Atlanta Braves
As the NL champion, they opened this World Series at home because there was no 1994 World Series.


1995 World Series, Background, Cleveland Indians
After decades of futility, the city of Cleveland finally had a winner in town. The Indians dominated the American League in 1995, winning 100 of their 144 games (their 100–44 record yielded a very high 0.694 winning percentage, which was, at the time, the highest regular season winning percentage in Major League Baseball since 1954, and is, as of 2015, the 12th highest regular season winning percentage in Major League Baseball history since 1900).


1995 World Series, Background, Cleveland Indians
Furthermore, in just 144 games, they won the AL Central by 30 games, and they performed the difficult feat of leading their league in both team batting average (0.291) and ERA (3.81). Thanks to their hitting and bullpen, this Indians team became known around the league for their ability to come back from many deficits, often in dramatic fashion; of their 100 regular season victories, 48 were come-back victories, 27 came in their last at-bat, eight came by way of "walk off" home runs, and 13 were extra-inning victories (they were 13–0 in extra-inning games). After this dominance of the AL in the regular season, the Indians, in the playoffs, swept the Boston Red Sox in the opening round, then held off Ken Griffey, Jr. and the red hot Seattle Mariners in the ALCS, before heading into the Series against the Braves.


1995 World Series, Background, Cleveland Indians
The 1995 Cleveland Indians featured a very impressive batting line-up; one that hit for high average, good power, and had good speed. In addition to leading the AL in batting average (0.291), the Indians in 1995 also led the American League in runs scored (840; 5.83 runs per game), home runs (207), and stolen bases (132).


1995 World Series, Background, Cleveland Indians
Led by speedsters Kenny Lofton and Omar Vizquel, along with Carlos Baerga at the top of the order, the Indians offense was powered in the middle of the order by Albert Belle, Eddie Murray, Manny Ramírez, and Jim Thome; at the bottom of the line-up could be found Paul Sorrento (or Herbert Perry) and Sandy Alomar, Jr. (or Tony Peña).


1995 World Series, Background, Cleveland Indians
Thus, this Indians line-up had six everyday players who finished the season with a batting average of at least 0.300; and, with Herbert Perry and Tony Peña frequently filling in for Paul Sorrento and Sandy Alomar, Jr., respectively, it was not uncommon for the Tribe to field a line-up with as many as eight players who finished the season with a batting average of at least 0.300.


1995 World Series, Background, Cleveland Indians
In terms of power, though the '95 season was shortened, nevertheless, the Indians' line-up still featured two players with at least 30 HR, five players with at least 20 HR, and seven with at least 10 HR. While this line-up was filled with star players (four, in fact, were named to the 1995 AL All-Star team, namely, Lofton, Baerga, Belle, and Ramirez), Albert Belle stood out among all of them in 1995.


1995 World Series, Background, Cleveland Indians
Powered by a very strong second half of the season, Belle, the Indians' clean-up hitter in 1995, finished 1995 with a 0.317 batting average, 126 RBI, and 50 home runs. Further to be noted is the fact that, in hitting 50 HR and 52 doubles in 1995, Belle became the first Major League player to hit at least 50 home runs and at least 50 doubles in the same season (an accomplishment which, again, is even more remarkable considering that he did this in a shortened, 144-game season).


1995 World Series, Background, Cleveland Indians
The Indians also led the 1995 AL in ERA (3.81). While their starting pitching—led by veterans Dennis Martínez and Orel Hershiser—was respectable, it was their bullpen which gave real strength to their pitching staff. Key members of their bullpen staff included veteran right-hander Eric Plunk (6–2, 2.67 ERA), veteran left-hander Paul Assenmacher (6–2, 2.82), the young right-handed set-up man, Julián Tavárez (10–1, 2.44 ERA), and right-handed closer, José Mesa (3–0, 1.12 ERA, 46 SV).


1995 World Series, Background, Cleveland Indians
Mesa, in his first year as closer, posted a league-leading 46 saves in 1995, and set a then-Major League record of 38 consecutive saves without a blown save. Two of the members of the 1995 Indians' pitching staff—Dennis Martínez (the team's ace) and José Mesa—were named to the 1995 AL All-Star team.


1995 World Series, Series build-up
Thus it was that this Series presented an entertaining match-up of baseball's two best teams, each with reasons to be confident going into the Series. The Atlanta Braves were veterans to the post-season in the 1990s, having won both the 1991 and 1992 NL pennants (not to mention the 1993 NL Western Division title, having won 104 games in 1993), and they were the best team in the NL in the 1995 regular season (having posted a very solid 90–54 record).


1995 World Series, Series build-up
The Cleveland Indians, on the other hand, newcomers to the post-season (having not been in the post-season since 1954), in posting their 100–44 regular season mark, were the team which had posted not only the best regular season record in the AL, but had completed one of the best regular seasons in all of Major League Baseball history.


1995 World Series, Series build-up
Further, though the Braves' line-up was not very threatening in 1995 (their .250 team batting average was the second lowest in the NL), still, the Braves could be confident with their star-studded pitching staff—especially their starting staff—headed by the likes of Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, and Steve Avery. On the other hand, though the Indians could not boast of having as nearly a strong starting rotation as the Braves, nevertheless, they could lay claim to a very solid bullpen and one of the greatest batting line-ups that baseball has ever seen.


1995 World Series, Series build-up
It might also be noted that, though this was the first time that a team from Cleveland and one from Atlanta faced each other in the World Series, there were years, prior to the Braves being in Atlanta, in which the Braves faced a Cleveland team for baseball's crown. In 1948, the Boston Braves faced the Cleveland Indians (with the Indians winning that Series in 6 games). Even before that, in 1892, the Boston Beaneaters, a forerunner of the Braves, were also National League Champions in 1892, and faced the Cleveland Spiders for the championship. The Beaneaters beat the Spiders that year to win that baseball championship.


1995 World Series, Series build-up
The 1995 World Series was also noted for large-scale protests by Native American activists in response to the controversy surrounding both clubs' usage of Native American-themed nicknames, logos and mascots.


1995 World Series, Broadcasting
NBC was originally scheduled to televise the entire Series; however, due to the cancellation of the 1994 Series (which had been slated for ABC, who last televised a World Series in 1989), coverage ended up being split between the two networks. Game 5 would be the last Major League Baseball game to be telecast by ABC (had there been a Game 7, ABC would have televised it) for 25 years. The network was scheduled to televise up to four wild card games in the 2020 MLB Postseason.


1995 World Series, Broadcasting
This was the only World Series to be produced under The Baseball Network umbrella (a revenue sharing joint venture between Major League Baseball, ABC and NBC). In July 1995, both networks announced that they would be pulling out of what was supposed to be a six-year-long  venture. NBC would next cover the 1997 (NBC's first entirely since 1988) and 1999 World Series over the course of a five-year-long contract, in which Fox would cover the World Series in even numbered years (1996, 1998 and 2000).


1995 World Series, Broadcasting
Also during the World Series in 1995, NBC's Hannah Storm not only became the first woman to serve as solo pre-game host of a World Series (CBS' Andrea Joyce co-hosted with Pat O'Brien in 1993) but also became the first woman to preside over a World Series Trophy presentation. Storm was infamously the recipient of a profane outburst from Albert Belle in his team's dugout. Later, Belle was unrepentant: "The Indians wanted me to issue a statement of regret when the fine was announced, but I told them to take it out. I apologize for nothing." John Saunders served as pre-game host for ABC's coverage. Serving as field reporters for the series were Lesley Visser (ABC) and Jim Gray (NBC).


1995 World Series, Broadcasting
The six games averaged a national Nielsen rating of 19.5 and a share of 33. Through 2016, this remains the highest-rated World Series of the post-strike era.


1995 World Series, Broadcasting
On the radio side, CBS was the national broadcaster with Vin Scully and Jeff Torborg on the call. Locally, WKNR aired the series in Cleveland with Herb Score and Tom Hamilton announcing, while WSB broadcast the series in Atlanta with Skip Caray, Pete Van Wieren, Don Sutton, and Joe Simpson announcing.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Atlanta ace Greg Maddux pitched a two-hit complete game victory in his first World Series appearance (and just the 15th two-hitter in Series history).


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The Indians scored in the first inning when Kenny Lofton reached on an error, stole second and third, and scored on an RBI groundout by Carlos Baerga. In the bottom of the second, Fred McGriff launched a tape measure home run on his first ever World Series pitch off Cleveland starter Orel Hershiser to even the score at 1–1. Both starters settled down until the seventh, when Hershiser and the Cleveland bullpen walked the first three Braves to open the inning.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The Braves would take a 3–1 lead after Luis Polonia hit into a run-scoring force play and Rafael Belliard bunted a perfect suicide squeeze. Lofton scored the Indians another run in the ninth to cut the Braves lead to a single run, (both Cleveland runs resulted from errors and were thus, unearned) but Baerga lifted a pop fly that third baseman Chipper Jones grabbed near the visiting dugout to end the game.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Atlanta No. 2 starter Tom Glavine got the win in Game 2, aided by a big sixth-inning home run by catcher Javy López, who also picked Manny Ramirez off first base at a crucial moment in the eighth inning to erase a potential game-tying baserunner. The Indians had taken an early 2–0 lead on an Eddie Murray two-run home run after Albert Belle got on base, but the Braves evened the score in the third with a sac fly by Chipper Jones and an RBI single by David Justice. Lopez launched his home run in the sixth inning from Cleveland starter Dennis Martínez. The Atlanta bullpen held off the Indians in the later innings despite allowing a run in the seventh, and Mark Wohlers earned the save, giving the Braves a 2–0 series lead.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
With the World Series moving to smaller, raucous Jacobs Field in Cleveland, the Indians got their first win. The Indians offense got back on track off Atlanta starter John Smoltz. With the Tribe already down 1–0 in the bottom of the first, Kenny Lofton singled to center and scored on Omar Vizquel's triple into the right field corner. Omar then scored the go-ahead run when Carlos Baerga grounded out. In the third, the Tribe were back at it again when Lofton opened the inning by ripping a double into the right-center field gap.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Omar then got a bunt single and Baerga singled to left to drive in Lofton. Albert Belle then rolled a grounder up the middle to score Vizquel to make it 4–1. This was Smoltz's only early exit and only poor start in eight career World Series appearances. The Braves got a boost, however, when reliever Brad Clontz induced a double play groundout by Manny Ramírez to escape further damage. Home runs by Fred McGriff and Ryan Klesko brought the Braves closer at 4–3.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Cleveland added a run in the seventh on another RBI hit by Baerga scoring Lofton (who would reach base in all six of his plate appearances). With a 5–3 lead going into the eighth, trouble brewed for Cleveland when Charles Nagy and the bullpen gave up the lead. Marquis Grissom led off with a double off the wall. Polonia singled through the right side to drive in Grissom, sending Nagy to the showers.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Chipper Jones walked, McGriff hit a deep fly moving the runners up a base, and David Justice reached when Baerga booted his groundball, subsequently allowing Polonia to score the tying run. The inning was capped off by Mike Devereaux's RBI single giving the Braves a 6–5 lead. The Braves couldn't hold on to their slim lead either as Sandy Alomar, Jr. laced a game-tying double inside the line at first in the bottom of the eighth. The two closers, Mark Wohlers and José Mesa then matched zeros for the next two innings. In the 11th, the Braves went to Alejandro Peña. Baerga immediately smashed a double and after an intentional walk to Belle, veteran Eddie Murray singled to center, scoring pinch runner Álvaro Espinoza and cutting Atlanta's World Series lead in half.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
A record 18 pitchers were used between the Braves and Indians in Games 2 and 3.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Braves manager Bobby Cox controversially decided to start beleaguered left-hander Steve Avery in the critical Game 4 instead of coming back with Greg Maddux. Despite his uncharacteristically poor regular season showing (7-13, 4.67 ERA), Cox felt Avery deserved a chance after having won the NLCS clincher against Cincinnati throwing six shutout innings. Young Braves outfielder Ryan Klesko hit a sixth-inning home run to give Atlanta the lead. Avery was able to again deliver six effective innings, only giving up a sixth-inning home run to Cleveland slugger Albert Belle.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
A controversial play happened when Eddie Murray hit a pitch over third base, left-field umpire Jim McKean called it foul while third-base umpire Harry Wendelstedt looked at Jim McKean to make the call. Murray eventually walked and reached second on a balk by Avery, but Herbert Perry struck out to end the inning. The Braves promptly broke the tie with a three-run seventh, with David Justice plating two of the runs with a single. An RBI double by Javy López gave the Braves an insurance run, making it 5–1. Reliever Pedro Borbón, Jr. saved the 5–2 win after Mark Wohlers ran into trouble, and the Braves were one victory away from a title.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
It seemed the perfect situation for Atlanta with Greg Maddux pitching Game 5 with a chance to clinch the title, but Albert Belle slugged a two-run homer in the first inning, and the Braves lineup was held in check by Cleveland veteran Orel Hershiser who went eight innings, only surrendering two runs. Luis Polonia hit a solo home run into the fourth and Atlanta actually tied the game at 2–2 with a run-scoring infield single by Marquis Grissom in the fifth, but Cleveland got two more runs from Maddux making it 4–2.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Jim Thome hit an insurance home run in the eighth, which proved necessary as Ryan Klesko homered in his third consecutive game, reducing the gap to 5–4. Klesko became the first person ever to homer in three consecutive World Series road games, by belting homers in Games 3, 4, and 5. The win gave Cleveland the hope of perhaps another Braves World Series collapse and sent the Series back to Atlanta.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
As previously mentioned, this game was the most recent baseball game that ABC televised until the 2020 postseason.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Controversy struck on the morning of Game 6 when Atlanta newspapers printed stories that right fielder David Justice had ripped the city's fans for not matching their motivation of past seasons. Justice, who had been struggling in the postseason, was vilified before the game, but when his sixth-inning home run off a 1–1 pitch by Jim Poole broke a scoreless tie, he became a hero.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Tom Glavine pitched eight innings of one-hit ball and allowed just three walks (two to Albert Belle, who was caught stealing second in the second inning to keep a runner from advancing into scoring position) to help earn him the Series MVP. Only one Indian advanced into scoring position in the entire game when Kenny Lofton stole second, but no one could get him in. Cleveland starter Dennis Martínez lasted just 42⁄3 innings due to allowing four hits and five walks, but no Braves scored. After Justice's home run, the Braves managed just one hit.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
The lone hit for the Indians was a bloop-single by catcher Tony Peña in the sixth. Closer Mark Wohlers pitched the ninth inning, preserving the 1–0 shutout and Atlanta's coveted title when Carlos Baerga's fly ball landed in center fielder Marquis Grissom's glove. Carlos Baerga was responsible for making the last out in three of the four Cleveland losses; Games 1, 2 and 6. To date, this is the last 1–0 World Series game won by the home team.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
In 1995, the Cleveland Indians batted .291 as a team, led the league in runs scored, hits, and stolen bases, and had eight .300 hitters in their starting lineup. However, the Tribe was held to a .179 batting average in the World Series.


1995 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Then-Executive Committee Chairman Bud Selig presided over the Commissioner's Trophy presentation for the first time. In the previous two World Series (1992 and 1993), American League president Dr. Bobby Brown presided over the trophy presentation. Selig would become Commissioner of Baseball in 1998.


1995 World Series, Composite line score
1995 World Series (4–2): Atlanta Braves (N.L.) over Cleveland Indians (A.L.)


1995 World Series, Aftermath, Atlanta Braves
The Braves' victory marked the only time that the city of Atlanta won a championship in any of the four major professional sports. The NFL's Atlanta Falcons came close twice, but lost to the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXXIII during the 1998 season and again to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI during the 2016 season. (Coincidentally, the NBA's Hawks won the championship in 1958 when the franchise was based in St. Louis, months after the Milwaukee Braves won the 1957 World Series.)


1995 World Series, Aftermath, Atlanta Braves
Game 6 is also the Braves' most recent home victory in the Fall Classic - the Braves would lose to the New York Yankees in all three Series games played in Atlanta the following year, be swept by the Yankees in 1999 and have not appeared in a World Series since.


1995 World Series, Aftermath, Cleveland Indians
As for Cleveland, the Indians would return to the World Series in 1997, where they lost to the Florida Marlins in seven games; they would also lose to the Chicago Cubs in 2016, and once again, in seven games.


1995 World Series, Aftermath, Cleveland Indians
The NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers have been to five NBA Finals, losing to the San Antonio Spurs in a four-game sweep in 2007 and to the Golden State Warriors in a six-game 2015 Finals, and then defeating the same Warriors in the rematch (however, in 2017 the Warriors defeated the Cavaliers again in their third consecutive Finals matchup, which lasted five games, and then swept them in the 2018 finals).


1995 World Series, Aftermath, Cleveland Indians
The NFL's Cleveland Browns, who within a few months after this World Series would make a controversial move to Baltimore (where they currently play as the Ravens, winners of Super Bowls XXXV and XLVII) and be revived in 1999, are one of four franchises to have never been to a Super Bowl. A Cleveland team would not win a major professional sports championship until the Cavaliers defeated the Golden State Warriors in the full seven games in the 2016 NBA Finals.


1995 World Series of Poker
The 1995 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe.


1995 World Series of Poker, Main Event
There were 273 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament. 1992 Main Event champion Hamid Dastmalchi made the final table looking for his second Main Event title but fell short.


1995 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Final table
*Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 1995 Main Event.


1995 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Other High Finishes
NB: This list is restricted to top 28 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.


1995 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
The 1995 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships were held from 17 to 19 March 1995 at the Gjøvik Olympic Cavern Hall in Gjøvik, Norway. They were the twentieth World Short Track Speed Skating Championships and the first to be held in Norway. It consisted of ten events, five for men and five for women, including one relay each. The overall winner of the men's races was South Korea's Chae Ji-hoon, who won three of the men's four individual events, with the last gold going to Canada's Marc Gagnon.


1995 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
In the women's events, South Korea's Chun Lee-kyung won ahead of China's Wang Chunlu, with both winning two individual races. The men's relay was won by Canada, while the women's relay was won by China. The overall medal table was topped by South Korea with five first places and twelve medals overall.


1995 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
Originally the event was planned to take place at the Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre in Hamar, the same venue which hosted short track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics. However, because Storhamar was at scheduled time playing play-offs in the Norwegian Ice Hockey Championship, it was in December 1994 decided to move the tournament to Gjøvik. The events were held in Gjøvik Olympic Cavern Hall, the world's largest room within a mountain. It was opened in 1993 for the 1994 Winter Olympics, where it had hosted 16 ice hockey matches. The hall is located within walking distance of the city center of Gjøvik, and has a capacity for 5,500 spectators.


1995 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
The championship opened on Friday 17 March with the 1500 meter races, and was followed by the 500 meter races the following day. The remaining events were held on 19 March. It is the only time the world championship has been held in Norway. There were set six world records during the championship. Chae Ji-hoon's time 4:56.29 in the men's 3000 meter and Chun Lee-kyung at 5:02.18 in the women's 3000 meter.


1995 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
Kim Yun-mi set the record on the women's 500 meter at 45.33 in an introductory race, while Frederic Blackburn set a world record at 2:19.71 in the semi-final of the 1500 meter. Both the relay teams also set world records: Canada with the men's record at 7:09.76 and the China with the women's at 4:26.68.


1995 World Snooker Championship
The 1995 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 1995 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 30 April 1995 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy.


1995 World Snooker Championship, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


1995 World Snooker Championship, Main draw
Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers).


1995 World Snooker Championship, Century breaks
There were 30 centuries in the 1995 Embassy World Championship. Stephen Hendry made the third maximum break in the championship's history and became the first to go on to win the title after making a 147 break. Hendry's 12 centuries in the tournament beat the record of 10 set by Joe Davis in 1946 and equalled his own record for a ranking event, set at the 1994 UK Championship.


1995 World Sports Acrobatics Championships
The 12th World Sports Acrobatics Championships were held in Wrocław, Poland, in 1995.


1995 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1995 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Tianjin from May 1 to May 14, 1995.


1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
The 1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles was the 43rd edition of the men's doubles championship. Wang Tao and Lü Lin won the title after defeating Zoran Primorac and Vladimir Samsonov in the final by three sets to one.


1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
The 1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles were the 43rd edition of the men's singles championship.


1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
Kong Linghui defeated Liu Guoliang in the final, winning three sets to two to secure the title.


1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Team
The 1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (Men's Team) was the 43rd edition of the men's team championship.


1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Team
China won the gold medal defeating Sweden 3-2 in the final. South Korea won the bronze medal defeating France in the bronze medal play off.


1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles
The 1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles was the 43rd edition of the mixed doubles championship.


1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles
Wang Tao and Liu Wei defeated Kong Linghui and Deng Yaping in the final by three sets to nil.


1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles
The 1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles was the 42nd edition of the women's doubles championship. Deng Yaping and Qiao Hong defeated Liu Wei and Qiao Yunping in the final by three sets to one.


1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Singles
The 1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Singles was the 43rd edition of the women's singles championship. Deng Yaping defeated Qiao Hong in the final by three sets to two, to win the title.


1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Team
The 1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (Women's Team) was the 36th edition of the women's team championship.


1995 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Team
China won the gold medal defeating South Korea in the final 3-0. Hong Kong won the bronze medal.


1995 World Taekwondo Championships
The 1995 World Taekwondo Championships were the 12th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Manila, Philippines from November 17 to November 21, 1995, with 598 athletes participating from 77 countries.


1995 World Weightlifting Championships
The 1995 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Guangzhou, China from November 16 to November 26,


1995 World Weightlifting Championships, Medal table
Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)


1995 World Women's Curling Championship
The 1995 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as 1995 Ford World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held at the Keystone Centre in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada from April 8–16, 1995.


1995 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Connie LaliberteThird: Cathy OvertonSecond: Cathy GauthierLead: Janet ArnottAlternate: Debbie Jones-Walker


1995 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Helena Blach LavrsenThird: Dorthe HolmSecond: Helene JensenLead: Margit PörtnerAlternate: Lisa Richardson


1995 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Brigitte LamyThird: Jocelyn Cault-LhenrySecond: Gaetane BibolletLead: Brigitte CollardAlternate: Tatiana Ducroz


1995 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Andrea SchöppThird: Monika WagnerSecond: Natalie NesslerLead: Carina MeideleAlternate: Heike Schwaller


1995 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Ayako IshigakiThird: Emi FujitaSecond: Yukari KondoLead: Yoko MimuraAlternate: Mayumi Ohkutsu


1995 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Kirsty HayThird: Edith LoudonSecond: Joanna PeggLead: Katie LoudonAlternate: Claire Milne


1995 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Elisabet GustafsonThird: Katarina NybergSecond: Louise MarmontLead: Elisabeth PerssonAlternate: Helena Svensson


1995 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Graziella GrichtingThird: Selina BreuleuxSecond: Madlaina BreuleuxLead: Inger MüllerAlternate: Claudia Biner


1995 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Lisa SchoenebergThird: Erika BrownSecond: Lori MountfordLead: Marcia TillischAlternate: Allison Darragh


1995 World Women's Handball Championship
The 1995 World Women's Handball Championship took place in Austria and Hungary 5–17 December 1995. It was the only to have 20 teams and the first to have multiple hosts. South Korea won its first title in Vienna.


1995 World Women's Handball Championship, Cross matches
The 4th and 5th place from A met 5th and 4th from B and the same for group C and D. The winner of each match got a place in the round of 16.


1995 World Women's Handball Championship, Placement 5-12
Losers from round of 16 played for placements from 9 to 12. Losers from quarterfinals played for places 5 to 8. There was no play for lower rankings.


1995 World Women's Handball Championship squads
The following squads and players competed in the World Women's Handball Championship in 1995 in Austria and Hungary.


1995 World Wrestling Championships
The following is the final results of the 1995 World Wrestling Championships. Men's Freestyle Competition were held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Men's Greco-Roman Competition were held in Prague, Czech Republic and Women's Competition were held in Moscow, Russia.


1995 World Wushu Championships
The 1995 World Wushu Championships was the 3rd edition of the World Wushu Championships, and was held in Baltimore, United States of America from August 19 to August 22, 1995. This marked the first time a major international Wushu competition was held outside of Asia, and to-date is the biggest Wushu event held in the United States.


1995 World's Strongest Man
The 1995 World's Strongest Man was the 18th edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Magnus Ver Magnusson from Iceland, it was his second consecutive and third overall title. Gerrit Badenhorst from South Africa finished second after finishing fourth the previous year, and Marko Varalahti from Finland finished third. The contest was held in Nassau, Bahamas.


1995 Wuding earthquake
The 1995 Wuding earthquake occurred on October 23, 1995, at 22:46 UTC (October 24, 1995, at 06:46 local time). The epicenter was located near Fenduo Village (芬多村), Fawo Township (发窝乡) of the Wuding County, Yunnan, China. The magnitude of the earthquake was put at Mw 6.2, or Ms 6.5. 53 people were reported dead and 13,903 injured. Many houses and public buildings were damaged, including the Fawo Middle School (发窝中学) and the Fawo Township Office. This earthquake could be felt in southwestern Sichuan.


1995 Wyoming Cowboys football team
The 1995 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cowboys were led by fifth-year head coach Joe Tiller and played their home games at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyoming. They finished the season with a 6–5 record overall and a 4–4 record in the Western Athletic Conference to finish 6th in the conference.


1995 XXXI FIBA International Christmas Tournament
The 1995 XXXI FIBA International Christmas Tournament "Trofeo Raimundo Saporta-Memorial Fernando Martín" was the 30th edition of the FIBA International Christmas Tournament. It took place at Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, on 24, 25 and 26 December 1995 with the participations of Real Madrid Teka (champions of the 1994–95 FIBA European League), Australia, Rio Claro and Cuba.


1995 Yale Bulldogs football team
The 1995 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1995 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Bulldogs were led by 31st-year head coach Carmen Cozza, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished in seventh place in the Ivy League with a 2–5 record, 3–7 overall.


1995 Ykkönen – Finnish League Division 1
League table for teams participating in Ykkönen, the second tier of the Finnish Soccer League system, in 1995.


1995 Ykkönen – Finnish League Division 1, League table, Promotion Play-Offs
Mikkelin Palloilijat won 3-0 on aggregate and remained in the Veikkausliiga.


1995 Zagreb Open
The 1995 Zagreb Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Športski Park Mladost in Zagreb in Croatia that was part of Tier III of the 1995 WTA Tour. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 24 April through 30 April 1995. Fifth-seeded Sabine Appelmans won the singles title.


1995 Zagreb Open, Finals, Doubles
Mercedes Paz /  Rene Simpson defeated  Laura Golarsa /  Irina Spîrlea 7–5, 6–2


1995 Zagreb Open – Doubles
Mercedes Paz and Rene Simpson won in the final 7–5, 6–2 against Laura Golarsa and Irina Spîrlea.


1995 Zagreb Open – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1995 Zagreb Open – Singles
Sabine Appelmans won in the final 6–4, 6–3 against Silke Meier.


1995 Zagreb Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1995 Zakho bombing
At 8:18am on 27 February 1995, a car bomb exploded in Zakho, a city which is 12 miles from the Turkish border in Dohuk Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It happened during the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War, which began nine months earlier. The bomb was made from 330 pounds of dynamite and exploded whilst the car (a taxi) was outside a tea shop which was located in a busy marketplace. 100 people were killed and 150 injured.the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan were suspected.


1995 Zapatista Crisis
The 1995 Zapatista Crisis refers to the aftermath of the 1994 Zapatista uprisings, which began as a result of the 1991 revision of Article 27 of Mexico's Constitution. This revision caused unrest in Chiapas's Southern Mexican state, as many indigenous tribes believed the article's revision negatively affected them due to the new economic policies. Violence ensued over several years, and the many peace deals proposed by the Mexican government were rejected. In the early days of the new government administration, President Ernesto Zedillo took a series of decisions that contradicted decisions from the earlier administration.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Political context, 1994 Mexico Political Assassinations
Prior to the 1994 Mexico general election and the presidential inauguration, there were politically motivated assassinations directly tied to the 1994 Presidential elections and internal warfare between factions of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Luis Donaldo Colosio, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's handpicked successor and PRI presidential candidate, was assassinated on March 1994, and Ernesto Zedillo, financial policy expert and Colosio's campaign manager, was the new PRI presidential candidate despite never holding an elective office before nor serving as a member of the PRI's inner circle. The other high-level political assassination was José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, PRI Secretary-General and President Salinas' former brother-in-law. The murder laid bare the conflict among the political elites.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Political context, Government Investigation
The Mexican government investigated the political crimes, and to give credibility to the investigations of these political crimes, President Zedillo appointed Antonio Lozano Gracia, a member of the opposition political party National Action Party (PAN), as Attorney General. Raúl Salinas de Gortari, the older brother of former president Salinas, was implicated and arrested for Francisco Ruiz Massieu's assassination with President Zedillo's approval of the arrest, breaking with the tradition that sitting presidents protect their predecessor. President Zedillo received lukewarm support from his own party PRI, and as a series of crises struck his administration, he had no secure influence in the PRI to back him.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Lacandon Jungle secret meeting
On January 5, 1995, the Secretary of Interior Esteban Moctezuma began a secret meeting process with Subcomandante Marcos called "Steps Toward Peace" They took place in the village of Guadalupe Tepeyac, belonging to the municipality of Pantelho, Chiapas. Important specific agreements that both parties agreed to comply with were reached, in which the Mexican army withdraw of particular points, such as San Andres Larrainzar, and Marcos accepted a group of citizens to be involved in a formal negotiation to start in a couple of weeks. Due to the fast progress of talks in the steps toward peace, the possibility of an agreement looked very close, and thus Marcos wrote, "I am being threatened by unemployment".


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Identity
During the investigative stage to identify Subcomandante Marcos, the Mexican government speculated that he was a dangerous guerrilla fighter. This theory gained much traction at the end of 1994, after the dissident Zapatista Comandante, Salvador Morales Garibay, gave away his former fellow Zapatistas' identity to the Mexican government, among them Marcos. They all were indicted for terrorism, arrest warrants were issued, and arrests were made in military action. The Mexican government alleges some Zapatistas to be terrorists, among them Marcos. There was a storm of political pressures for a short military solution to the 1995 Zapatista Crisis.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Identity
On February 9, 1995, in a televised special Presidential broadcast, President Ernesto Zedillo announced Subcomandante Marcos to be one Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, born June 19, 1957, in Tampico, Tamaulipas to Spanish immigrants, and a former professor at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana School of Sciences and Arts for the Design. After the government revealed Marcos's identity in January 1995, Max Appedole, an old friend with Marcos and classmate with the Jesuits at the Instituto Cultural Tampico, made a direct intervention in the conflict.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Identity
Max played a significant role with the Mexican government to avoid a military solution to the 1995 Zapatista Crisis, by demonstrating that contrary to the accusations announced by President Ernesto Zedillo, Rafael Guillén was not a terrorist. Max Appedole identified his linguistic fingerprint-based in Marcos's specific, unique way of speaking, recognized his literary style in all Marcos manifestos published in the media, and linked them to the literary tournaments organized by the Jesuits. He confirmed that he had no doubt that Marcos was his friend Rafael Guillén, and that Guillen was a pacifist. Max Appedole thus closed the first successful Linguistic Profiling Confirmation Case in the history of Law Enforcement. This new science was developed based on these achievements, giving way to what is now called forensic linguistics; this motivated a new Division of forensic linguistics Criminal Profiling in Law Enforcement.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, The military site
Once Subcomandante Marcos was identified as Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, on February 9, 1995, President Ernesto Zedillo took a series of decisions that completely broke with the previous strategy. The action plan previously defined, and the agreements he authorized his Secretary of Interior Lic Esteban Moctezuma to compromise with Marcos just three days before in Guadalupe Tepeyac. Zedillo ordered the Mexican army to capture or annihilate Marcos.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, The military site
This was done without consulting his Secretary of Interior, without even knowing exactly who Marcos was; with the PGR's single presumption that Marcos was a dangerous guerrilla, President Ernesto Zedillo decided to launch a military offense to capture or annihilate Marcos and the Zapatistas. Arrest warrants were made against Marcos, Javier Elorriaga Berdegue, Silvia Fernández Hernández, Jorge Santiago, Fernando Yanez, German Vicente, Jorge Santiago, and other Zapatistas. At the Lacandon Jungle, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation came under Mexican Army military siege.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, The military site
Javier Elorriaga was captured on February 9, 1995, in a military garrison at Gabina Velázquez in Las Margarita's town and later taken to the Cerro Hueco prison in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. On February 11, 1995, the PGR claimed they captured 14 persons presumed to be involved with the Zapatistas, of which eight already being turned to the Judicial Authorities and seized a critical arsenal. The PGR arrested the San Cristóbal de Las Casas Catholic Bishop, Samuel Ruiz García, for allegedly concealing the Zapatistas guerrilla activity. In response, Mexico-Vatican diplomatic relations deteriorated, partly because of the May 24, 1993, political assassination of a Prince of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo of Guadalajara, Mexico, that the PGR had left unsolved.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, The military site
Marcos's resolve was put to the test in his camp in the Lacandon Jungle when the Zapatistas were under the Mexican Army military siege. Marcos's response was immediate, sending Esteban Moctezuma the following message: "See you in hell". Conflicting signals got strengthened in favor of a fast military solution. The facts seemed to confirm Manuel Camacho Solis's 16 June 1994 accusations that his resignation as the Chiapas Peace Commissioner was due to sabotage done by the presidential candidate Ernesto Zedillo.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, The military site
Mexico Secretary of the Interior Lic. Esteban Moctezuma believed a peaceful solution was possible. He attempted to reach a peacefully negotiated solution to the 1995 Zapatista Crisis, betting it all on a strategy to reestablish the Mexican Government Zapatista Army of National Liberation dialog to search for peace, demonstrating Marcos genuine pacifist disposition and the consequences of a military solution. Making a strong position against the February 9 actions against Peace, Secretary of the Interior Esteban Moctezuma submitted his resignation to President Ernesto Zedillo, which was not accepted. For these primary reasons, the Mexican army eased actions, giving an opportunity that Marcos capitalized on to escape the military site he was placed in the Lacandon Jungle.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, The military site
Faced with this situation, Max Appedole asked for help from Edén Pastora, the legendary Nicaraguan "Commander Zero", to prepare a report for under-Secretary of the Interior Luis Maldonado on Marcos's degree of pacifism, if any. The document concluded that the complaints of marginalized groups and the radical left in México had been vented through the Zapatistas movement, while Marcos maintained an open negotiating track. If Marcos were eliminated, his function as a safety-valve for at social discontent would cease and more-radical groups could take his place. These groups would respond to violence with violence, threatening terrorist bombings, kidnappings and even more belligerent activities. The country would then be plunged into a very dangerous downward spiral, with discontent surfacing in areas other than Chiapas.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Presidential Decree for the Dialog, the Reconciliation, and a peace with dignity in Chiapas Law
On March 10, 1995, President Ernesto Zedillo and Secretary of the Interior Esteban Moctezuma signed the Presidential Decree for the Dialog, the Reconciliation, and a peace with dignity in Chiapas Law. It was discussed and approved by the Mexican Congress.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Restoration of the peace talks
On the night of 3 April 1995 at 8:55 pm, the Secretary of Interior, Lic. Esteban Moctezuma sent Luis Maldonado to deliver a letter to representatives of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. The letter expressed the Secretary of Interior's commitment to a political path to resolve the conflict.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Restoration of the peace talks
In contrast to many other talks—with broad media exposure, strong security measures, and great ceremony—Maldonado decided on secret talks, alone, without any disruptive security measures. He went to the Lacandon Jungle to meet with Marcos; the secret negotiations took place in Prado Pacayal, Chiapas, and were witnessed by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Batel. Marcos and Maldonado established parameters and a location for the peace dialogue between the parties. Secret negotiations to restart the dialog between the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and the Mexican government were initiated.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Restoration of the peace talks
These negotiations took place to establish parameters and base for the peace dialog between the parties. After several days of unfruitful negotiations, it was very early in the morning nonstop into the next day without reaching any specific agreements. In a strategically calculated move, Luis Maldonado proposed a definitive suspension of hostilities and distention measures always proportionally higher to the Mexican government to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. On his way out, Luis Maldonado said:


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Restoration of the peace talks
"If you do not accept this, it will be regretted not having made the installation of the formal dialog in the time established by the Peace Talks Law".


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Restoration of the peace talks
Marcos took this as a direct threat, so he did no longer reply.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Restoration of the peace talks
The Subcomandante Marcos gave a message to the Witness of Honor Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Batel:


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Restoration of the peace talks
You have been witness to the fact that we have not threatened or assaulted these people, they have been respected in their person, property, their liberty, and life. You have witnessed that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation has a word and has honor; you have also been witness to our willingness to engage in dialog.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Restoration of the peace talks
Thank you for taking the trouble to come all the way down here and have contributed with your effort to a peaceful settlement of the conflict; we hope that you will continue contributing in this effort to avoid war and you and your family continue accepting to be witnesses of honor in this dialog and negotiation process.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Restoration of the peace talks
Finally, he asked the witness of honor to accompany Secretary Moctezuma negotiator Luis Maldonado in his way out, all the way to Ocosingo, to verify they are leaving well and unharmed. (April 7, 1995, meeting ended at 4:00 a.m.)


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Peace
Without much hope of dialogue, it was already in hostile conditions as the Secretary of Interior negotiator Luis Maldonado began his return to Mexico City.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Peace
When passing by the Ejido San Miguel, a patrol of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation beckons them to stop, surprised without even knowing what was happening, he was handed a radio, by means of which Mexico under-Secretary of Interior Luis Maldonado achieved with the Subcomandante Marcos the re-initiation of the Dialog with all the necessary agreements per the Law to start the formal Peace Talks dialog between the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and the Mexican government. The Zapatista's charismatic leader, Marcos, led the Zapatistas movement to leave arms aside and start the dialog for a peace agreement.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Protocol
By April 9, 1995, the Dialog Protocol's Bases and the harmony, peace with justice and dignity agreement negotiation between the Mexican government and the Zapatistas were signed. On April 17, 1995, the Mexican government appointed Marco Antonio Bernal as Peace Commissioner in Chiapas. Peace Talks between the Mexican Government and the Zapatistas started in San Andrés Larráinzar on April 22, 1995. The Zapatistas rejected the Mexican Government proposal. Peace Talks Dialog reinitiated on June 7, 1995, they agree with Alianza Cívica Nacional y the Convención Nacional Democrática to organize a national Consultation for Peace and Democracy. The Bases for the Dialog Protocol was renegotiated, in La Realidad Chiapas. October 12, 1995 Peace Talks Dialog is resumed in San Andres Larráinzar, Chiapas.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, The other agenda
The rocky road to peace between the Mexican government and the Zapatistas was due mostly to the initiatives promoted by the PGR. On October 23, 1995, to derail the Peace Talks Dialog, the PGR arrested and send Fernando Yañez Muñoz to prison. Once again, not only the Peace Talks got seriously disturbed, these actions violated the governing peace talks Law, which granted a guarantee of free passage to all of the Zapatistas during the negotiations and suspended all the arrest warrants against any of them.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, The other agenda
On October 26, 1995, the Zapatista National Liberation Army denied any association with Fernando Yañez Muñoz, and announced a Red Alert. Marcos returns to the mountains. On October 26, 1995, the PGR dropped all charges against the alleged Comandante German. The COCOPA agreed with the determination. The next day on October 27, 1995, Fernando Yañez Muñoz was freed from the Reclusorio Preventivo Oriente. He said, "I was arrested for political reasons and I guess I am set free for political reasons. My arrest was with the objective purpose of sabotaging the peace talks." On 29 October 1995 the Zapatistas lifted the Red Alert and negotiations resumed.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Secret meetings, Steps Toward Peace
In contrast with many other talks, with a broad media exposure, strong security measures, and great ceremony, Secretary of the Interior Esteban Moctezuma, went for the secret talks, alone, without any security measures, without the reflectors glitter, which could disrupt the talks, so he went to find a solution in the Lacandon Jungle to meet with Marcos. Important agreements were reached between the two, they called them: Steps Toward Peace. They demonstrated their sense of will, affinities and confidence were dispensed with mutual respect, and a significant track of understanding got established.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Secret meetings, Secret negotiations
Under-Secretary of Interior Luis Maldonado attended to find a solution, alone, without any security measures, or media coverage, going to the Lacandon Jungle to negotiate with Subcomandante Marcos. These were later matched by Marcos probing to be useful to help keep the faith in the works for a peaceful solution, through negotiation, championed by Esteban Moctezuma, from the Mexican Secretary of Interior during the series of clashes promoted by the PGR to derail peace.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, The San Andrés Accords
On 16 February 1996, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and Mexican government, signed the San Andrés Accords, which served as a peace accord and created constitutional change that guarantees the rights of the Indigenous peoples of Mexico. The accord was approved by the Commission on Concordance and Pacification COCOPA, a bicameral legislative commission formed in March 1995 by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, composed of representatives from all the political parties.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, The San Andrés Accords
On 27 July 1996, the EZLN organized the First Intercontinental Gathering for Humanity to fight neoliberalism, which was attended by delegates from 42 countries.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Executive decision
Time showed that the fight against a military solution to the conflict and the strategy to achieve a peaceful solution to the 1995 Zapatista Crisis was legal, and saved many lives in México.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Executive decision
After a rocky start because of conflicting intelligence that caused the 1995 Zapatista Crisis President Ernesto Zedillo was heading to a Military solution, and when the intelligence issue was cleared, confirming that Subcomandante Marcos was no terrorist but a pacifist by nature, as well as all the other conclusions that Secretary of Interior Esteban Moctezuma also gave to the President Ernesto Zedillo with the purpose of trying to avoid a bloodbath of the Mexican indigenous people, as well to prevent other also terrible repercussions of an immoral and unnecessary tragic outcome.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Executive decision
President Ernesto Zedillo to avoid innocent blood-shedding, change the course of action doing the opposite of his February 9, 1995, television appearance. For that Zedillo endured heavy political criticism at the time, he demonstrated a humility of a Man of State, President Ernesto Zedillo did not accept Secretary of Interior Esteban Moctezuma resignation and ask him to restore Dialog conditions to achieve a peaceful solution to the 1995 Zapatista Crisis. On March 10, 1995, President Ernesto Zedillo and Secretary of Interior Esteban Moctezuma sign the Presidential Decree for the Dialog, the Reconciliation and a peace with dignity in Chiapas Law. The governing Law that warrants to have only one agenda in all of President Zedillo Administration, as well the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional to achieve an honorable peace and it is now a universal reference and example of respect to people honor and dignity.


1995 Zapatista Crisis, Release of the prisoners
On appeal, the Court dismisses the previous condemnatory Sentence for the alleged Zapatistas Javier Elorriaga Berdegué and Sebastian Etzin Gomez given on May 2, 1996, for the crime of terrorism, with 13 and 6 years of imprisonment respectively and they were released on June 6, 1996. The EZLN suspends their troops Alert Status.


1995 Zimbabwean parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Zimbabwe on 8 and 9 April 1995 to elect members to the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe. The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front won an overwhelming majority of the seats. There were 120 constituencies but 55 members were returned unopposed.


1995 Zimbabwean parliamentary election, Results
There were 4,803,866 registered voters across the country, but 2,214,358 were in uncontested constituencies.


1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan
The 1995 attack on the Pakistan Embassy in Kabul occurred on 6 September 1995 when up to 5,000 protestors attacked and sacked the embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, after the Taliban militia had captured Herat from the internationally recognised Islamic State of Afghanistan. One person was killed and twenty six others, including the Pakistani ambassador, were injured. The attack occurred due to the Afghan peoples belief that Pakistan had helped the Taliban to take the city.


1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Background
The attack against the Pakistani embassy by pro-government protestors in Kabul took place a day after the Taliban militia had successfully established control over Herat. When the Taliban took control of Herat, they arrested hundreds of its citizens, closed down all the schools and "forcibly implement[ed] their social bans and Sharia law, even more fiercely than in Kandahar". The Taliban imposed as rulers over the city and region extremist Taliban officials "many of whom" did not even speak the local regional language Persian.


1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Background
Kamal Matinuddin, Lt. General of the Pakistan army and former member of Pakistan's diplomatic corps, alleges the Afghan government sacked the embassy in "retaliation for the capture of Herat" because they "felt" the Taliban could have only done so with Pakistan's help.


1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Background
But according to William Maley, the Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, the attack by angry protestors against the Pakistan embassy was due to "bitter resentment towards Pakistan which had built up among the victims of Pakistan's strategy" first using Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in a destructive bombardment campaign against Kabul and then the Taliban to install a client in Afghanistan.


1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Background
De facto, scholars such as Pakistani analyst Ahmed Rashid, write:


1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Background
"[T]he Taliban had spent the summer [of 1995] rebuilding their forces with arms, ammunition and vehicles provided by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and a new command structure created with the help of ISI advisers. The ISI also helped broker an agreement, never made public, between the Taliban and General Rashid Dostum ... to repair Mig fighters and helicopters the Taliban had captured a year earlier in Kandahar, thereby creating the Taliban's first airpower. ... the Taliban quickly mobilised some 25,000 men, many of them fresh volunteers from Pakistan."


1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Background
According to "Pakistan and the Taliban" by Ahmed Rashid, also published in April 1998 as a column in The Nation, Pakistan furthermore directly provided limited "military support" in the Taliban's September 1995 offensive against Herat which led to the capture of the city and the subsequent anti-Pakistan protests in Kabul.


1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Background
Rizwan Hussein in "Pakistan and the emergence of Islamic militancy in Afghanistan" summarises: "As has now been established by several scholarly and journalistic works, the Pakistan military establishment directly assisted the Taliban's rise and subsequent capture of this region [Herat] in Afghanistan between 1995 and 1996." The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs describes Pakistan's support to the Taliban as "at its height" in 1995. The Pakistani ambassador to Kabul, Qazi Humayun, himself alongside Pakistan's Consul General in Herat, Colonel Imam, later attended Taliban meetings in Kandahar. These meetings discussed how the Taliban could best conquer Afghanistan militarily and how "best to impose Sharia law" over Afghanistan.


1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Background
Pakistani politicians during that time repeatedly denied supporting the Taliban, which has been described by reliable sources as an explicit 'policy of denial'.


1995 du Maurier Classic
The 1995 du Maurier Classic was contested from August 24–27 at Beaconsfield Golf Club. It was the 23rd edition of the du Maurier Classic, and the 17th edition as a major championship on the LPGA Tour.


1995 enlargement of the European Union
The 1995 enlargement of the European Union saw Austria, Finland, and Sweden accede to the European Union (EU). This was the EU's fourth enlargement and came into effect on 1 January of that year. All these states were previous members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and had traditionally been less interested in joining the EU than other European countries. Norway had negotiated to join alongside the other three but following the signing of the treaty, membership was turned down by the Norwegian electorate in the 1994 national referendum. Switzerland also applied for membership on 26 May 1992, but withdrew it after a negative referendum result on 6 December 1992 (and that was not changed after a second negative referendum result on 4 March 2001).


1995 enlargement of the European Union, Closer links
The three states, plus Norway and Switzerland (which never joined due to their referendum results) began to look at stronger ties with the EU (which was the European Economic Community (EEC) before 1993) towards the end of the 1980s for three principal reasons: the 1980s economic downturn in Europe, difficulties for EFTA companies to export to the EU and the end of the Cold War.


1995 enlargement of the European Union, Closer links
After the 1970s Europe experienced a downturn which led to leaders launching of the Single European Act which set to create a single market by 1992. The effect of this was that EFTA states found it harder to export to the EEC and businesses (including large EFTA corporations such as Volvo) wished to relocate within the new single market making the downturn worse for EFTA. EFTA states began to discuss closer links with the EEC despite its domestic unpopularity.


1995 enlargement of the European Union, Closer links
Finally, Austria, Finland and Sweden were neutral in the Cold War so membership of an organisation developing a common foreign and security policy would be incompatible with that. As that obstacle was removed, the desire to pursue membership grew stronger.


1995 enlargement of the European Union, EEA
However membership was still domestically unpopular and the then-EEC was also uninterested in another enlargement. The EEC had begun working on the creation of a common currency and did not want another enlargement to divert their attention away from that project. Commission President Jacques Delors proposed the European Economic Area to give EFTA access to the EU's internal market without full membership. While they would not have a say in the creation of EU law, it would be easier to sell to their electorates.


1995 enlargement of the European Union, EEA
However businesses did not accept that the EEA members would be equal members of the single market and investment flows did not return to normal. The large manufacturers in Sweden were instrumental in pushing government policy further towards membership rather than remaining with the EEA, which the export focused industries found insufficient. The economic pressures overcame long standing opposition from the social democrat governments which saw the EU as too neo-liberal and a danger to the Nordic model. Firms were only kept within Sweden by devaluations of the Swedish krona, a strategy which was unsustainable in the long term.


1995 enlargement of the European Union, EEA
The EEA was damaged further with the Swiss electorate voted against it. Austria, Finland, Norway and Sweden all applied for full membership of the EU and the EU agreed to enter negotiations. The EU's change of heart was also due to predicted enlargement of the EU towards countries mostly in central Europe, invited by the European Commission in 1997 and eventually completed in 2004, and hence the wealthy EFTA members would help balance the EU budget.


1995 enlargement of the European Union, Accession
On 30 March 1994, accession negotiations concluded with Austria, Sweden, Finland and Norway. Their accession treaties were signed on 25 June of that year. Each country held referendums on entry resulting on entry for all except Norway (its second failed referendum);


1995 enlargement of the European Union, Accession
Austria, Finland and Sweden became EU members on 1 January 1995. Sweden held their elections to the European Parliament for its MEPs later that year on 17 September. The following year, Austria held its elections on 13 October and Finland on 20 October.


1995 enlargement of the European Union, Remaining areas of inclusion
Austria, Sweden, Finland became members on 1 January 1995, but some areas of cooperation in the European Union will apply to some of the EU member states at a later date. These are:


1995 enlargement of the European Union, Impact
The impact of the 1995 enlargement was smaller than most as the members were wealthy and already culturally aligned with existing members. It did however create a Nordic bloc in the Council, with Sweden and Finland backing up Denmark on environmental and human rights issues (which Austria also backed up) and the Nordic countries also called for membership of the Baltic states. As net contributors to the EU budget, they also increased the voice for budgetary reform.


1995 enlargement of the European Union, Impact
Before the 1995 enlargement, the EU had ten treaty languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. However, due to the 1995 enlargement, two new official languages were added: Swedish (which is an official language of both Sweden and Finland) and Finnish.


1995 enlargement of the European Union, Impact
This enlargement began to show the problems with the EU's institutional structure, such as the size of the Commission (with minor jobs insulting the state receiving them) and the Council's voting rules meaning states representing 41% of the population could be outvoted. This resulted in the increase in the blocking minority in the Council and the loss of the larger states' second European Commissioner. Planning also began on new amending treaties to ready the bloc for the next enlargement.


1995 in Afghanistan
The following lists events that happened during 1995 in Afghanistan.


1995 in Afghanistan
The Taliban bring a degree of calm to parts of Afghanistan, in part by neutralizing several powerful leaders and their supporters. The dispute over control of Kabul is not resolved, however, and regions of the country remain divided. Most ordinary Afghans, particularly in traditionally Pashtun areas of the country, welcome the sudden and effective success of the Taliban. Drug trafficking and lawlessness are targeted, and religious conformity is enforced. The latter includes severe restrictions on women's appearance in public and especially on their access to education and employment. Public executions and amputations are used to enforce Islamic behaviour.


1995 in Afghanistan
In northwestern Afghanistan Dostum continues to strengthen his independent position in Mazar-i-Sharif. With the destruction of Kabul, almost two-thirds of Afghanistan's total population is living in territory controlled by the Uzbek general. With a well-equipped army of 60,000, he continues to build economic and diplomatic relations with Afghanistan's neighbours. For Pakistan and Iran, Dostum's authority promises stable trade links to Central Asia, where he is seen as insurance against the threat of Islamic fundamentalism.


1995 in Afghanistan
President Rabbani, whose extended term expired at the end of December, offers to relinquish power if an acceptable replacement could be found. Efforts by Mestiri and other UN mediators to bring the contending factions together and select a successor to Rabbani come to naught. The military-political situation is so unstable that serious negotiations are impossible.


1995 in Afghanistan, February
Taliban forces have moved into central Afghanistan, where they occupy the headquarters of Hekmatyar's Hezb-i-Islami. Hekmatyar has been bombarding Kabul in an effort to drive Rabbani from office, but when he is forced to flee, he abandons large stocks of heavy weapons and aircraft. The Taliban next attack the pro-Iranian Wahdat militia, a Shi`ite group that has also been attacking Kabul. In March the Taliban capture its leader, Abdul Ali Mazari, who is killed within days under unclear circumstances. Taliban forces then attack Rabbani's troops, but this time the students are unable to hold positions directly threatening Kabul. Their image, moreover, is damaged when the rockets they fire on Kabul kill numerous civilians, but the attacks nevertheless continue.


1995 in Afghanistan, Early September
Taliban militias overrun the Herat area, where Ismail Khan, a close ally of Rabbani, had achieved a degree of normality; he escapes to Iran. Although the Pashtun population is a minority in the area, the new Taliban administration undertakes the Islamization of society amid tension and suspicion.


1995 in Afghanistan, September 6
In Kabul an angry crowd storms the embassy of Pakistan as relations between Kabul and Islamabad degenerate.