2007 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, Germany
Players: Etienne Renkewitz, Christian Wendler, Markus Keller, Andreas Tanzer, Andre Mangold, Sinan Akdag, Sebastian Eickmann, Gregor Stein, Soren Strum, Jens Heyer, Nicolas Ackermann, Robin Thomson, Daniel Mohle, Martin Buchwieser, Michael Christ, Patrick Geiger, Thomas Weiszdorn, Andre Huebscher, Alexander Oblinger, Dimitri Litesov, Daniel Oppolzer, Michael Rimbeck, Steven Ruppich, Robert Schopf, Marc Wittforth, David Wolf, Martin Hinterstocker


2007 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, Germany
Staff: Jeffery Tomlinson, Rupert Meister, Michael Pfuhl, Michael Ulmer, Heinz Endres, Wolfgang Fischer


2007 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, Russia
Players: Danila Alistratov, Andrey Petukhov, Alexander Pechurskiy, Igor Golovkov, Andrey Grenkov, Dimitry Kostromitin, Anton Klementiev, Dmitry Kulikov, Pavel Lukin, Dmitri Kozlov, Vyacheslav Voinov, Maxim Chudinov, Eduard Orlov, Pavel Chernov, Anton Lazarev, Vyacheslav Kulemin, Andrey Kuchin, Mikhail Fisenko, Maxim Trunev, Ilya Zagretdinov, Andrei Loktionov, Dmitri Kugryshev, Evgeni Grachev, Kirill Petrov, Sergei Ostapchuk, Igor Biryukov, Magomed Gimbatov, Nikita Filatov


2007 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, Russia
Staff: Alexander Biryukov, Valery Davletshin, Vladislav Kokarev, Sergey Gimaev, Maxim Elizarov, Igor Tkachenok


2007 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, United States
Players: Josh Robinson, Brady Hjelle, Maxim Nicastro, Tyler Kieffer, John Lee, John Carlson, Seth Helgeson, Ben Blood, Blake Kessel, Mike Cichy, Nicolas Sacchetti, Jared Festler, Keegan Flaherty, Craig Smith, Jimmy Hayes, Nick Larson, Barry Almeida, Jack Connolly, Nick Dineen, Tim Hall, Drew LeBlanc


2007 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, United States
Staff: P. K. O'Handley, Regg Simon, Marc Boxer, Darrin Flinchem, Todd Klein, Leo Chen


2007 World Junior Curling Championships
The 2007 World Junior Curling Championships were held from March 3 to 11 at Curl Mesabi in Eveleth, Minnesota.


2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held in Oberstdorf, Germany from February 26 to March 4. The event is open to figure skaters from ISU member nations who have reached the age of 13 by 1 July the previous year, but have not yet turned 19. The upper age limit for men competing in pairs and dance is 21. Skaters compete in four disciplines: men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The term "Junior" refers to the age level rather than the skill level. Therefore, some of the skaters competing have competed nationally and internationally at the senior level, but are still age-eligible for World Juniors.


2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Results, Ice dancing
Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev won the ice dancing title. Grethe Grünberg / Kristian Rand's silver medal is the first medal for Estonia at an ISU Championship. Kaitlyn Weaver dislocated her left shoulder in the warm-up before the original dance but was able to compete and won the bronze medal with Andrew Poje. Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates were forced to withdraw after he accidentally stepped on his partner's hand, lacerating a tendon.


2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Prize money
The total prize money for the 2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships is US$200,000. Pairs and dance teams split the money. Everything is in US dollars. The breakdown is as follows:


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (2007 WJHC) was the 2007 edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held in Mora and Leksand, Sweden between December 26, 2006 and January 5, 2007. The venues were FM Mattsson Arena in Mora, and Ejendals Arena in Leksand. The total attendance was a significant drop off from the 325,000-plus visitors at the previous World Juniors in British Columbia, Canada.


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
For 2007, the tournament round-robin format was changed from previous years to resemble more closely the format used in the National Hockey League. Teams would receive three points for a win in regulation, while teams winning in overtime would receive two points. Teams losing in overtime would receive one point. During the round-robin portion of the tournament, a five-minute, four-on-four sudden-victory overtime would be played, while the knockout games and the gold medal game would use full-strength, ten- and twenty-minute sudden-victory overtimes, respectively. If the game remained tied after overtime, an NHL-style shootout (with three skaters instead of five, as per other international competitions) would be held.


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
Team Canada won its third consecutive gold medal, capping an undefeated tournament with a 4–2 victory over Russia in the gold medal game. The world championship for Canada was also their first on European ice in a decade; the Canadians had not won a World Junior gold medal in Europe since 1997 in Geneva, Switzerland, when they defeated the United States in the gold medal game.


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
Canadian goaltender Carey Price was named tournament MVP, garnering a 1.14 goals against average (GAA).


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top Division, Final round, Semifinals
Note: Bye Teams will be the home team, but due to Canada being the home team in the first meeting, USA was the home team for their semifinal game.


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top Division, Statistics, Scoring leaders
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top Division, Statistics, Goaltending leaders
TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; SA = Shots Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division I
The following teams took part in the Division I tournament, that was held from December 11, 2006 through December 17, 2006. Group A was played at Odense, Denmark. Group B was played at Torre Pellice, Italy:


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division I, Group A
Denmark is promoted to Pool A and  Estonia is relegated to Division II for the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division I, Group B
Kazakhstan is promoted to Pool A and  Italy is relegated to Division II for the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division II
The following teams took part in the Division II tournament. Group A was played at Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania from December 11, 2006 through December 17, 2006. Group B was played at Elektrėnai, Lithuania from December 10, 2006 through December 16, 2006:


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division II, Group A
Hungary is promoted to Division I and  Australia is relegated to Division III for the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division II, Group B
Note:  Serbia has been entered in place of  Serbia and Montenegro.


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division II, Group B
Lithuania is promoted to Division I and  Serbia is relegated to Division III for the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division III
The following teams took part in the Division III tournament, which was played at the Ankara Ice Palace in Ankara, Turkey from January 8, 2007 through January 14, 2007:


2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division III
China and  Belgium are promoted to Division II for the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships


2007 World Junior Table Tennis Championships
The 2007 World Junior Table Tennis Championships were held in Palo Alto, California, U.S. from December 8 to 15, 2007. It was organised by the USA Table Tennis (USATT) under the auspices and authority of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The competition consisted of seven events: Boys' and Girls' Team, Boys' and Girls' Singles, Boys' and Girls' Doubles, and Mixed Doubles.


2007 World Juniors and Cadets Fencing Championships
The 2007 World Juniors and Cadets Fencing Championships was held in Belek, Antalya, Turkey between April 10 to April 18, 2007. The event, an organization of the Federation Internationale d'Escrime (FIE), was carried out by the Turkish Fencing Federation (TEF). Junior and cadet fencers from 53 countries competed in the categories foil, épée and sabre in the championship. Russia was the most successful nation, followed by Ukraine and Italy.


2007 World Juniors and Cadets Fencing Championships, Venue
Belek, a town in Antalya Province, is one of the most prominent centers of Turkey's tourism. The competitions took place in Maritim Pine Beach Hotel, aka Belek Convention Center.


2007 World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge
The 2007 World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge was the 4th edition of the global Mountain running competition, World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships, organised by the World Mountain Running Association.


2007 World Marathon Cup
The 2007 World Marathon Cup was the 12th edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Osaka, Japan, inside of the 2007 World Championships.


2007 World Masters (darts)
The 2007 Winmau World Masters was a darts tournament being staged by the British Darts Organisation at Leisure World in Bridlington between 16 November and 18 November 2007. It also featured a qualifying event for the 2008 Lakeside World Professional Championship.


2007 World Masters (darts)
History was made by John Walton who became the first player to hit a perfect nine dart finish in the televised stage of the tournament. The event was broadcast by the BBC, however the nine-darter was not shown live as it was achieved in the last 16 before their live coverage began.


2007 World Masters (darts)
Michael van Gerwen was unable to defend his title, as he had decided to switch to rival organisation, the Professional Darts Corporation - thereby making himself ineligible under the BDO's rules.


2007 World Masters (darts)
Scotland's Robert Thornton surprised the field by beating Co Stompé, BDO world champion Martin Adams, Martin Atkins and Darryl Fitton to win the title and also seal a qualifying place for the 2008 BDO World Championship.


2007 World Masters (darts), Controversy
Controversy hit the tournament in May when it was confirmed by the British Darts Organisation that the Winmau World Masters had been moved from its original dates of 26–28 October to a new date of 16–18 November  clashing directly with the Grand Slam of Darts - a new tournament which was hoping to feature the top players from both darting organisations - the BDO and PDC.


2007 World Masters (darts), Controversy
This meant that players from the BDO were forced into a direct choice between competing at the Masters for valuable ranking points or taking their place at the Grand Slam for better prize money. BDO World Champion Martin Adams almost immediately confirmed that he would participate in the Masters. The other top BDO players who had qualified, including Gary Anderson, Scott Waites and Mark Webster competed at the Grand Slam and missed the Masters.


2007 World Masters (darts), Controversy
Adams plus the next seven highest ranked BDO players who hadn't qualified for the Grand Slam were later given seeding positions through to the BBC televised stages of the tournament for the first time.


2007 World Masters Athletics Championships
The seventeenth World Masters Athletics Championships were held in Riccione, Italy, from September 4-15, 2007. The World Masters Athletics Championships serve the division of the sport of athletics for people over 35 years of age, referred to as masters athletics.


2007 World Masters Athletics Championships
A full range of track and field events were held, along with a cross country race and a marathon.


2007 World Matchplay
The 2007 Stan James World Matchplay was the 14th annual staging of the World Matchplay darts tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was held at its traditional home, the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, between 22–28 July 2007. James Wade won his first major title, defeating Terry Jenkins 18–7 in the final.


2007 World Matchplay
Defending and eight times champion, Phil Taylor suffered a semi-final defeat to Jenkins, meaning that he had surrendered both the World Championship and World Matchplay titles for the first time since the PDC began in 1994. Raymond van Barneveld, who went into this event having won the first three Sky TV majors of the year (World Championship, UK Open and Las Vegas Desert Classic) saw his hopes of the clean-sweep evaporate with a quarter-final defeat to Adrian Lewis. Barneveld was making his debut in the event having failed to qualify in 2006.


2007 World Matchplay
Both Lewis and Jenkins suffered hangovers from their victories over the two favourites as they lost their next matches - with James Wade capitalising. He beat Lewis in the semi-final and Jenkins in the final. Wade became the youngest winner of a PDC televised title at the age of 24 and also rose to number three in the world rankings.


2007 World Matchplay, Television coverage
Sky Sports broadcast the event live in the UK & Ireland for the 14th year running. The final between Wade & Jenkins achieved viewing figures of 183,000 - although that was surpassed by the quarter-finals on Thursday (188,000) and the semi-finals on Friday received the highest viewing figures with 240,000 (the third highest-rated programme on Sky Sports 1 for that week)


2007 World Men's Curling Championship
The 2007 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as 2007 Ford World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held at Rexall Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from March 31 to April 8. Team Canada skipped by Glenn Howard won the gold medal over Germany's Andy Kapp by a score of 8-3. This was Howard's third world championship, and his first as skip. Kapp claimed the silver for the second time in his career, and Team USA (skipped by Todd Birr) won the bronze medal, the first medal for the USA at the men's world championship since 1993.


2007 World Men's Curling Championship
The total attendance for the event was 184,970, a world championship record.


2007 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Fourth: Ian Palangio Skip: Hugh Millikin* Second: Sean Hall Lead: Mike Woloschuk Alternate: David Imlah (*Throws third rocks)


2007 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Glenn Howard Third: Richard Hart Second: Brent Laing Lead: Craig Savill Alternate: Steve Bice


2007 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Johnny Frederiksen Third: Lars Vilandt Second: Bo Jensen Lead: Kenneth Hertsdahl Alternate: Ivan Frederiksen


2007 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Markku Uusipaavalniemi Third: Kalle Kiiskinen Second: Jani Sullanmaa Lead: Teemu Salo Alternate: Jari Rouvinen


2007 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Thomas Dufour Third: Tony Angiboust Second: Jan Ducroz Lead: Richard Ducroz Alternate: Rafi Mathieu


2007 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Andy Kapp Third: Uli Kapp Second: Andreas Lang Lead: Andreas Kempf Alternate: Holger Höhne


2007 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Lee Jae-ho Third: Beak Jong-chul Second: Yang Se-young Lead: Kwon Young-il Alternate: Park Kwon-il


2007 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Thomas Ulsrud Third: Torger Nergård Second: Thomas Due Lead: Jan Thoresen Alternate: Thomas Løvold


2007 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Warwick Smith Third: Craig Wilson Second: David Smith Lead: Ross Hepburn Alternate: Ewan MacDonald


2007 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Peja LindholmThird: James DryburghSecond: Viktor KjällLead: Anders ErikssonAlternate: Magnus Swartling


2007 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Ralph Stöckli Third: Jan Hauser Second: Markus Eggler Lead: Simon Strübin Alternate: Andreas Schwaller


2007 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Todd Birr Third: Bill Todhunter Second: Greg Johnson Lead: Kevin Birr Alternate: Zach Jacobson


2007 World Men's Handball Championship
The 2007 World Men's Handball Championship took place from 19 January to 4 February 2007 in Germany. 24 national teams played in 12 German cities. It was the 20th edition of the World Championship in team handball and was won by the hosts.


2007 World Men's Handball Championship, Stadiums
12 German cities were hosts for the 2007 Championship. The most modern stadiums – spread all over the country – had been selected. The final match took place in the Kölnarena in Cologne (Köln).


2007 World Men's Handball Championship, Tournament structure, Preliminary round
The 24 competing teams will be drawn into six preliminary groups of four teams each, and the matches in the preliminary round are scheduled to be held from 20 to 22 January. The two top teams from each group then proceed to the main round, while the third and fourth-placed teams play in the Presidents-Cup.


2007 World Men's Handball Championship, Tournament structure, Preliminary round
On 14 July 2006, the groups of the tournament were determined:


2007 World Men's Handball Championship, Tournament structure, Presidents-Cup
The teams placed third and fourth in the preliminary round groups are divided into four groups of three teams, as such:


2007 World Men's Handball Championship, Tournament structure, Presidents-Cup
The matches are scheduled for 24 to 26 January. On 28 January, the winners of group I and II then play each other for the 13th place, the runners-up play each other for the 15th place, and the third-placed play off for 17th place. The Group III and IV teams play off for 19th, 21st and 23rd place in the same fashion.


2007 World Men's Handball Championship, Tournament structure, Main round
The main round is scheduled for 24 to 28 January, and the teams will be divided into two groups of six teams. The teams carry forward match results from matches against the other team from their group to qualify for the main round. Four teams from each main round group qualify for the quarter-finals.


2007 World Men's Handball Championship, Tournament structure, Main round
No placement matches for the places 9 to 12 are scheduled.


2007 World Men's Handball Championship, Tournament structure, Knockout stage
The knockout stage is scheduled to make up the last week of the tournament, starting on Tuesday 30 January and continuing until Sunday 4 February. The quarter-finals are set up so that the winner of one group will face the fourth-placed team in the other. Semi-finals and consolation matches are held on 1 February; two days later, the 5th and 7th place play-offs take place on 3 February, with the 3rd place play-off and final is scheduled for the following day.


2007 World Men's Handball Championship, Tournament structure, Seedings
The seedings for the preliminary round have been partially determined; the full seedings will be revealed when all qualifying matches have been played. Currently, the following seedings (in IHF terminology, performance row) have been confirmed:


2007 World Men's Handball Championship, Ranking and Statistics, Final ranking
Henning Fritz, Pascal Hens, Oliver Roggisch, Dominik Klein, Michael Haaß, Sebastian Preiß, Holger Glandorf, Johannes Bitter, Markus Baur, Christian Zeitz, Torsten Jansen, Andrej Klimovets, Michael Kraus, Florian Kehrmann, Lars Kaufmann and Christian Schwarzer. Head Coach: Heiner Brand.


2007 World Men's Handball Championship – Qualification
Qualification matches for the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship took place in 2006, mostly as continental championships. According to the IHF rules, each continent had three places (except Oceania, which had one), and the host (Germany) and holders (Spain) were automatically qualified. The other nine places are allocated to the continents according to performance in the 2005 World Men's Handball Championship. Thus:


2007 World Men's Handball Championship – Qualification, Africa
The 2006 African Men's Handball Championship in Tunisia resulted in four teams qualifying for the tournament.


2007 World Men's Handball Championship – Qualification, Americas
The Pan-American qualifying events was scheduled to be held in Brazil in April 2006. However, due to players' commitments with clubs in Europe, it was agreed to postpone the qualifying until June, and the tournament was eventually held from 6 June to 10 June at Aracaju.


2007 World Men's Handball Championship – Qualification, Americas
Eight teams participated, and Brazil and Argentina went through the group stages unbeaten, as the only teams with positive goal difference. The two top teams in each group qualified for the semi-finals: Greenland joined Brazil from Group A after two 32–30 wins over Chile and Uruguay, while in Group B United States qualified after drawing with Mexico and beating Puerto Rico.


2007 World Men's Handball Championship – Qualification, Americas
In the semi-finals, Brazil and Argentina both won by more than ten goals, securing their place in Germany, while the third-place play-off saw Greenland prevail by one goal against United States to secure the third spot.


2007 World Men's Handball Championship – Qualification, Asia
Asia's qualifying events, the 2006 Asian Handball Championship took place in Thailand between 12 February and 21 February 2006. Kuwait and South Korea qualified after winning the semi-finals, while Qatar beat Iran 21–20 in the third place play-off to be the final team to qualify


2007 World Men's Handball Championship – Qualification, Europe
Eleven places were at stake (Germany and Spain were already qualified), and the top three finishers at the 2006 European Men's Handball Championship in Switzerland in January and February 2006 qualified. As Spain qualified for the semi-final at that tournament, the other three semi-finalists – Croatia, Denmark and France – qualified. The other 11 participants at the European Championship played off with five winners in preliminary qualifying groups, which are shown below.


2007 World Men's Handball Championship – Qualification, Europe, Play-offs
The play-off draw was made in Zürich on 5 February. The matches are two-legged affairs, and were played in the second and third weekend of June. Teams in bold below qualified for the World Championship.


2007 World Men's Handball Championship – Qualification, Oceania
The Oceanian qualifying tournament, took place in Dural, Sydney from 22 May to 24 May 2006, immediately before the Pacific Cup


2007 World Men's Handball Championship – Qualification, Oceania
Australia qualified for the world championships after defeating New Zealand 41–14 and the Cook Islands 63–5.


2007 World Modern Pentathlon Championships
The 2007 World Modern Pentathlon Championships were held in Berlin, Germany from August 18 to August 21.


2007 World Mountain Running Trophy
The 2007 World Mountain Running Championships was the 23rd edition of the global mountain running competition, World Mountain Running Championships, organised by the World Mountain Running Association.


2007 World Music Awards
The 2007 World Music Awards (19th annual World Music Awards) was held November 4, 2007 in Monaco for the first time in several years. Awards were presented based on record sales rather than any vote. All proceeds from the evening were donated to the construction of a hospital in Darfur. The show was hosted by Julian McMahon. Performers included Nightwish, Akon, Amr Diab, Avril Lavigne, Cascada, Celine Dion, Ciara, Laura Pausini, Maná and Rihanna.


2007 World Music Awards, Official sponsor
This year's World Music Awards was sponsored by English fashion brand Belstaff, one of the best known companies in its field with many products appearing in Hollywood blockbuster movies including Mission: Impossible III, Ocean's Twelve and The Departed.


2007 World Netball Championships
The 2007 World Netball Championships was the 12th edition of the INF Netball World Cup, a quadrennial premier event in international netball co-ordinated by the International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA). Sixteen nations contested the title from 10 to the 17 November. It was held in the West part of Auckland, New Zealand. Forty-eight matches over 8 days were played in The Trusts Stadium, Waitakere. The event was broadcast to over half a dozen countries


2007 World Netball Championships
Australia defended its eighth title to defeat the home side, New Zealand, 42–38.


2007 World Netball Championships, Withdrawal of hosting rights
After seeing off competing bids from Australia and South Africa, Fiji was awarded the hosting rights for the 2007 World Netball Championships in November 2003. Fiji was the second Pacific nation selected to host the competition. New Zealand debuted the distinction having hosted in 1975 and followed in 1999.


2007 World Netball Championships, Withdrawal of hosting rights
During eleven days from 10 July to 21 July 2007, 16 teams contested for the title. Hosting costs became an issue with a forecast of F$3 million. the International Netball Federation (INFA) noted in a press release that the economic gain is significant, as Jamaica's economy had benefited significantly from a commensurate influx of sports tourists.


2007 World Netball Championships, Withdrawal of hosting rights
In December 2006, following months of tension, Commander Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama staged a military coup to unseat the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.


2007 World Netball Championships, Withdrawal of hosting rights
As a direct result of the coup and the political and economic uncertainty it created, on December 8, 2006 the IFNA withdrew Fiji's hosting rights for the 2007 edition. The popularity of netball was expected to have a significant impact in Fiji so withdrawal of hosting rights was a significant action.


2007 World Netball Championships, Withdrawal of hosting rights
IFNA announced a new host on December 23, 2006 that New Zealand, who last hosted the tournament in 1999 in Christchurch, would host the tournament during November 2007. It was undecided if Auckland or Christchurch would hold the tournament, as both cities have suitable facilities. But on 27 January it was decided that Auckland would be the host city for the 2007 competition .The matches would all be played at The Trusts Stadium, Waitakere from 10 to 17 November.


2007 World Netball Championships, Format
The tournament comprised 48 games, held over an 8-day period. Every team was guaranteed to play 6 games, and every team would be awarded a rank from 1 to 16 as a result.


2007 World Netball Championships, Format, Pool Stage
Points are awarded as follows:• 2 Points for a Win• 1 Points for a Draw• 0 Points for a LossIn the event of a tie, the result of the game between the tied teams would be decided who was ranked higher. Tie situations would be resolved in three tie-breaker scenarios:• The team with the superior Goal Average (Goals For/Goals Against) will be ranked highest. • If the Goal Average is identical, the team with the better Goal Difference will be ranked highest. • If the Goal Difference is identical, the team with the higher Goals For will be ranked highest.


2007 World Netball Championships, Format, Section Games
After the pool stages, the teams are divided into two sections. The top 2 qualifiers from each pool go into Section 1-8, and the bottom two go into Section 9-16.


2007 World Netball Championships, Format, Section Games
In the sectional games, no draws are permitted, so Extra Time is played. Extra Time operates as follows:• Initially, extra time of two, seven minute halves will be played. • In the event of a tie remaining at the end of extra time, teams change ends without an interval and the game is restarted by the team entitled to the next centre pass. • Play will then continue until one team has a two-goal advantage.


2007 World Orienteering Championships
The 2007 World Orienteering Championships, the 24th World Orienteering Championships, were held in Kyiv, Ukraine, 18 –26 August 2007.


2007 World Orienteering Championships
The championships had eight events; sprint for men and women, middle distance for men and women, long distance (formerly called individual or classic distance) for men and women, and relays for men and women.


2007 World Port Tournament
The 2007 World Port Tournament was an international baseball competition held at the DOOR Neptunus Familiestadion in Rotterdam, the Netherlands from August 2–12, 2007. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and featured teams from Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States.


2007 World Port Tournament
Cuba won the tournament with a 2–0 victory over the Chinese Taipei in the championship game. Yosvani Pérez was named the tournament's most valuable player.


2007 World Professional Billiards Championship
The 2007 World Professional Billiards Championship, the top international professional competition in English billiards, was held between 18 and 22 July 2007 at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, England. The 16 players were divided into four groups of four, with the top two in each group advancing into the knock-out round.


2007 World Professional Billiards Championship
Mike Russell won his eighth World Professional Billiards Championship title, by defeating Chris Shutt 2166–1710 in the final.


2007 World Rally Championship
The 2007 World Rally Championship was the 35th season in the FIA World Rally Championship. The season began on 19 January, with the Monte Carlo Rally and ended on 2 December, with the Wales Rally GB. Citroën's Sébastien Loeb won his fourth consecutive drivers' world championship ahead of Ford's Marcus Grönholm and Mikko Hirvonen. Ford took the manufacturers' title.


2007 World Rally Championship, Regulation changes
Remote service was introduced. Between two sets of stages, instead of returning to the main service location, cars are serviced in a remote location. The service duration is 15 minutes, only four mechanics are allowed and the only parts which can be changed (save for tires) are the ones carried in the car itself.


2007 World Rally Championship, Regulation changes
Since 2006 manufacturer is understood to mean a manufacturer, a team designated by a manufacturer, or a privateer team taking part with a single make of car. In 2007 two categories were created to compete for the Manufacturer's championship, replacing the previous M1 and M2 categories:


2007 World Rally Championship, Calendar
The 2007 championship was contested over sixteen rounds in Europe, North America, Asia, South America and Oceania.


2007 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
The XXVIII World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Patras, Greece, September 19–23, 2007, at the National Sports Centre.


2007 World Rowing Championships
The 2007 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 26 August to 2 September 2007 at Oberschleißheim Regatta Course near Munich, Germany.


2007 World Sambo Championships
The 2007 World Sambo Championships was held in Prague, Czech Republic from 7 to 11 November 2007. This tournament hosted competition in Combat Sambo, and sport Sambo events. Also See 2010 World Sambo Championships, 2009 World Sambo Championships, 2008 World Sambo Championships, and the 2006 World Sambo Championships


2007 World Senior Curling Championships
The 2007 World Senior Curling Championships were held from March 25 to 31 at the Thistle Curling Club in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Scotland won the men's event and Sweden the women's.


2007 World Senior Curling Championships
Scotland's Keith Prentice rink won the men's event when Prentice "made a pretty amazing shot" by bumping back a buried Canadian stone on the button to score a point in the eighth and final end in the final.


2007 World Series
The 2007 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2007 season. The 103rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Colorado Rockies and the American League (AL) champion Boston Red Sox; the Red Sox swept the Rockies in four games. It was the Rockies' first appearance in a World Series. The Red Sox's victory was their second World Series championship in four seasons and their seventh overall; it also marked the third sweep in four years by the AL champions. The series began on Wednesday, October 24 and ended on Sunday, October 28.


2007 World Series
Terry Francona became the second Red Sox manager to win two World Series titles, following Bill Carrigan, who won the 1915 and 1916 World Series. Including the last three games of the AL Championship Series, the Red Sox outscored their opposition 59–15 over their final seven games. Francona also became the first manager to win his first 8 World Series games. The Rockies, meanwhile, became the first NL team to get swept in a World Series after sweeping the League Championship Series, and just the second team ever to suffer such a fate, following the Oakland Athletics in 1990. This fate would again be suffered by the 2012 Detroit Tigers, being swept by the San Francisco Giants in the World Series after sweeping the New York Yankees in the ALCS.


2007 World Series, Background
The Rockies entered the Series having won 21 of their last 22 games, going back to the end of the regular season, including sweeps of the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS and the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLCS. They also beat the San Diego Padres in the NL Wild Card tie-breaker. The Red Sox swept the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the ALDS and defeated the Cleveland Indians in the ALCS after trailing three games to one, taking the final three contests by a combined score of 30–5. Neither participating team was in the previous year's postseason. The Rockies' eight-day layoff was the longest in MLB postseason history, caused by their sweep in the NLCS, the ALCS going seven games, and scheduling by MLB.


2007 World Series, Background
Per the 2006 Collective Bargaining Agreement, the Red Sox had home-field advantage in the World Series following the American League's 5–4 win in the 2007 All-Star Game. The first two games took place in Boston, with games 3 and 4 in Denver.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The Red Sox cruised to a blowout win in Game 1 behind ALCS MVP Josh Beckett, who struck out nine batters, including the first four he faced, over seven innings en route to his fourth win of the 2007 postseason. Mike Timlin and Éric Gagné pitched a perfect eighth and ninth, respectively.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Boston Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski threw the ceremonial first pitch, as he had done before Game 1 in 2004. Rookie Dustin Pedroia led off the Sox' first inning with a home run over the Green Monster in Fenway Park off of Jeff Francis. Pedroia's homer was only the second lead-off home run to start a World Series (the only other one was hit by Baltimore's Don Buford in 1969). Kevin Youkilis then doubled to right, moved to third on David Ortiz's groundout, and scored on Manny Ramirez's single. After Mike Lowell flew out, Jason Varitek singled before J. D. Drew doubled to score Ramirez and make it 3-0 Red Sox.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The Rockies got on the board in the second when Garrett Atkins doubled with one out off Beckett and scored on Troy Tulowitzki's double one out later, but the Red Sox got that run back off of Francis when Youkilis walked with two outs and scored on Ortiz's double. In the fourth, the Red Sox loaded the bases with two outs on a single, double, and intentional walk when Varitek's two-run double put them up 6–1.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
They put the game out of reach with seven runs in the fifth. Julio Lugo hit a leadoff single off of reliever Franklin Morales before Jacoby Ellsbury bunted into a forceout at second. After Pedroia popped out, a balk moved Ellsbury to second before he scored on Youkilis's double. Ortiz's double and Ramirez's single scored a run each. The Red Sox loaded the bases on a double and walk before Drew's single scored another run. Ryan Speier relieved Morales and walked all three batters he faced to force in three more Boston runs. Matt Herges relieved Speier and got Youkilis to fly out to right to end the inning.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Though Herges and two relievers held Boston scoreless for the rest of the game, the Red Sox finished with 13 runs, the most ever in a World Series Game 1, and tied another record with nine extra base hits. The last 11 of the Red Sox runs came with two outs.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
The ceremonial first pitch was thrown by Andrew Madden, a 13-year-old heart transplant recipient, accompanied by Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame member Dwight Evans. After the debacle of Game 1, Colorado appeared to return to form, scoring quickly on a groundout by Todd Helton with runners on second and third in the first. However, this would be the only time the Rockies ever led in the series as postseason veteran Curt Schilling (5+1⁄3 IP, one run, four hits) and Boston's bullpen (Okajima, 2+1⁄3 IP; Papelbon, 1+1⁄3 IP) allowed no other runs in the contest.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
The Red Sox tied the game in the fourth off of Ubaldo Jimenez on Jason Varitek's sacrifice fly with runners on second and third, then took the lead next inning on Mike Lowell's RBI double with runners on first and second. Matt Holliday had four of Colorado's five hits in Game 2, including a base hit off Papelbon with two outs in the eighth. Before throwing another pitch, Papelbon caught Holliday leaning too far off first base and picked him off—Papelbon's first career pickoff.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
This was the first World Series game ever played in Colorado. At 4 hours 19 minutes, it became the longest nine-inning game in World Series history until game five of 2017. Game 3 was also the 600th World Series game ever played. Starting pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched five innings of scoreless ball and left in the sixth with no runs allowed. The Red Sox struck first with a six-run third inning. Rookie Jacoby Ellsbury hit a leadoff double, moved to third on Dustin Pedroia's single, and scored on David Ortiz's double.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
After Manny Ramirez was intentionally walked, Mike Lowell's single scored two more runs. J. D. Drew popped out before Ramirez was thrown out at home on Jason Varitek's single with Lowell advancing to third. After Julio Lugo walked to load the bases, Matsuzaka hit a two-run single for his first base hit and RBI in the Major Leagues. Ellsbury capped the scoring with his second double of the inning to knock Colorado starter Josh Fogg out of the game. The Rockies' bats came to life in the sixth and seventh innings against a normally-solid but now-shaky Boston bullpen.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
After Matsuzaka walked two straight in the sixth with one out, reliever Javier López allowed back-to-back RBI singles to Brad Hawpe and Yorvit Torrealba. Mike Timlin allowed two straight leadoff singles in the seventh before NLCS MVP Matt Holliday brought the Rockies to within one run with a three-run home run off Hideki Okajima.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Brian Fuentes gave back those runs in the eighth by walking Lugo with one out and allowing a subsequent single to Coco Crisp before Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia, who had four and three hits, respectively, on the night (the first time in World Series history two rookies had at least three hits in a game) hit back-to-back RBI doubles, raising Boston's lead to 9–5. Jonathan Papelbon came on for a four-out save, getting Holliday to fly out on one pitch, leaving runners on first and second.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Jason Varitek would tack on Boston's tenth run in the top of the ninth off of LaTroy Hawkins with a sacrifice fly, scoring Mike Lowell who, not generally considered a stolen base threat, had just stolen third base—the first time a Red Sox baserunner stole third base in the World Series since 1975—after hitting a leadoff single and moving to second on a sacrifice bunt. Papelbon came back out in the bottom of the ninth to complete the save, getting the first two outs before surrendering a two-out triple to Brad Hawpe, then finishing the game with a groundout from Yorvit Torrealba. The Red Sox took Game 3 by a final score of 10–5.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The Red Sox continued to set World Series records during Game 3:


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The Red Sox struck early. Rookie Jacoby Ellsbury began the first inning with a double and was advanced by Dustin Pedroia with a groundout, followed by an RBI single from David Ortiz. In the seventh inning, series MVP Mike Lowell hit a home run to give Boston a 3–0 lead and knock starter Aaron Cook out of the game. Lowell also hit a leadoff double in the fifth and scored on Jason Varitek's single. The Colorado offense answered when left fielder Brad Hawpe hit a home run off of a Manny Delcarmen fastball, bringing the Rockies within two.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Relief pitcher Brian Fuentes gave back that run abruptly, allowing Boston pinch-hitter Bobby Kielty to hit a ball into the left field stands on the first pitch of the inning, extending the Red Sox lead to 4–1. In the bottom of the inning Boston pitcher Hideki Okajima allowed a one-out single to Todd Helton followed by a Garrett Atkins two-run home run, bringing the Rockies within one. Jonathan Papelbon relieved Okajima and earned his third save of the series. At 12:06 a.m. EDT on Monday, October 29, Papelbon struck out Colorado pinch hitter Seth Smith for the final out of the 2007 season. Boston had won its second World Series title in four years and seventh all-time.


2007 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The Rockies became the third team in Series history (the 1937 Yankees and 1966 Orioles were the others) not to commit an error in a World Series of any length.


2007 World Series, Composite line score
2007 World Series (4–0): Boston Red Sox (A.L.) beat Colorado Rockies (N.L. ).


2007 World Series, Ticket controversy
On October 17, 2007, a week before the first game of the World Series, the Colorado Rockies announced that tickets would be made available to the general public via online sales only, despite prior arrangements to sell the tickets at local retail outlets. Five days later, California-based ticket vendor Paciolan, Inc., the sole contractor authorized by the Colorado Rockies to distribute tickets, was forced to suspend sales after less than an hour due to an exorbitant number of purchase attempts.


2007 World Series, Ticket controversy
The Rockies organization said that they were the victims of a denial-of-service attack. The FBI started its own investigation into these claims. Ticket sales resumed the next day, with all three home games selling out within 2+1⁄2 hours.


2007 World Series, Ticket controversy
The Red Sox also relied primarily on online sales to sell the game tickets, although some Fenway Park tickets were sold on the phone and at the box office. The Sox held a random drawing for the right to buy post season tickets on October 15, and winners bought tickets at a private online sale. Street prices were lower in Boston this time than in 2004: the average price, according to StubHub, was about $1500 in 2007, down about $300 from three years previously. Some Sox fans found that it was cheaper to travel to Denver to see World Series games than to pay the street price for Boston game tickets.


2007 World Series, Celebration
While the celebratory crowd at Kenmore Square was not as unruly as in 2004, cars were overturned and 37 arrests were made. The Red Sox victory parade, yet again in duck boats and called a "Rolling Rally" as in 2004, was on October 30, 2007 with closer Jonathan Papelbon doing his infamous "Riverdance" while local punk band the Dropkick Murphys played their hit "I'm Shipping Up to Boston".


2007 World Series, Celebration
The Red Sox World Series win in 2007 continued the success of Boston-area teams in recent years. The Celtics won their 17th championship, their first championship since 1986, the last time the Red Sox lost in the World Series, 7+1⁄2 months later. Furthermore, the New England Patriots had victories in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016 and 2018, the Boston Bruins in 2011, and the Red Sox three years earlier in 2004 and six years later in 2013 and five years after that in 2018.


2007 World Series, Broadcasting
The World Series was televised by Fox in the United States, with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver as booth announcers. The starting time for each television broadcast was 8:00 pm EDT (6:00 pm MDT). The series broke with the recent tradition of starting the World Series on a Saturday, as Major League Baseball had become convinced that weekend games drew lower television ratings. Prior to this season, every World Series since 1985 had opened on a Saturday, with the exception of the 1990 World Series. This was the first World Series to start on a Wednesday since 1968.


2007 World Series, Broadcasting
Rogers Sportsnet (RSN) in Canada used the MLB International feed with Dave O'Brien and Rick Sutcliffe as booth announcers. NASN showed the games live to most of Europe, while in the UK, all games were shown terrestrially on Five. NHK aired the Series in Japan.


2007 World Series, Broadcasting
On radio, the Series was broadcast nationally by ESPN Radio, with Jon Miller and Joe Morgan announcing. Locally, Joe Castiglione and Glenn Geffner called the Series for the Red Sox on WRKO in Boston, while Jack Corrigan and Jeff Kingery called it for the Rockies on KOA in Denver. Per contractual obligation, the non-flagship stations on the teams' radio networks carried the ESPN Radio broadcasts.


2007 World Series by Renault
The 2007 World Series by Renault was the third season of Renault Sport's series of events, with three different championships racing under one banner.


2007 World Series of Poker
The 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) began on June 1st, 2007. The $10,000 (US) no-limit Texas hold 'em Main Event began on July 6th and was completed on the morning of July 18th. All events were held at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada by Harrah's Entertainment, which has run the annual event since its purchase from the Binion family in 2004.


2007 World Series of Poker
For the first time players began each event with double the amount of chips as the buy-in. This means that players in the Main Event started with 20,000 chips. The blind structure has also been increased and some blind levels removed but slowed to allow for more play.


2007 World Series of Poker
In addition to the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event, which was first played at the 2006 World Series of Poker, this year there were 2 additional H.O.R.S.E. events with lower buy-ins ($2,500 and $5,000).


2007 World Series of Poker
Tom Schneider, who won 2 events and made 1 other final table, won the Player of the Year Award. Michael Binger and Chad Brown led all other players with eight money finishes.


2007 World Series of Poker
The annual celebrity event was changed this year, as it became a pro and celeb event called "Ante Up for Africa", hosted by actor Don Cheadle and poker pro Annie Duke. The final two players, Dan Shak and Brandon Moran, agreed to share first place and donate all prize money to charities in Darfur.


2007 World Series of Poker
The last woman standing of the 2007 Main Event was Maria Ho who finished in 38th place.


2007 World Series of Poker
Also this year, KEM Plastic Playing Cards were once again used for the events, rather than Copag brand plastic playing cards, which were used during the 2005 and 2006 World Series of Poker.


2007 World Series of Poker, Main Event
The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 6 with the first of four separate starting days. 6,358 players entered, 2,415 fewer than in 2006. This is the first time since 1992 that the Main Event experienced a reduction in participants. As the total number of registrants for the 2007 WSOP set a record at 54,288 with a total prize pool of $159,796,918 ($59,784,954 for the Main Event), the decrease in the number of participants in the Main Event has been attributed to a recent law that limits Internet gambling.


2007 World Series of Poker, Main Event
As a result of this law, Harrah's did not allow online poker websites to directly purchase Main Event seats and offer them as prizes, if the sites conducted business with US citizens. Online entries to the Main Event that were won as prizes on Internet poker sites were a substantial contributor to the dramatic growth the Main Event seen in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. The reduced field also meant a  nearly one-third reduction in the Main Event's grand prize, from the record $12 million (US) in 2006 to $8.25 million.


2007 World Series of Poker, Main Event
A flatter payout structure was introduced in 2007 further reducing the prize money awarded to the final table finishers. Players who busted early in the money received a larger share than they would have in 2006. The lowest payouts in 2007 were $20,320 (just over double the buyin), as compared to $14,597 in 2006. Every player who made the final table in 2006 won over 1.5 million dollars.


2007 World Series of Poker, Main Event
A minor controversy arose during the main event. The colors of the chips made it very difficult to differentiate between the chip values. Pokernews.com posted the following note on its live reporting log, "It has literally been impossible for us to count these players' stacks due to the positioning of the cameras and the incredibly similar colors of the various chip denominations."


2007 World Series of Poker, Main Event
Pokernews also reported that the chip color has affected play, "Because of the similarly-colored chips it took the dealer some time to count down Kluber's stack, and not long after Rahme began thinking about his response Kluber called the clock on him." Other players have complained that they can't count their opponents stacks and fear asking for a chip count as speaking may reveal the strength of their hand.


2007 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Final table
*Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 2007 Main Event.


2007 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Other notable high finishes
NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.


2007 World Series of Poker, World Series of Poker Europe
Under the leadership of WSOP commissioner, Jeffrey Pollack, the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is the first expansion of the World Series of Poker. In September 2007, the first WSOP championship events outside of Las Vegas took place in London. It was the first time that WSOP bracelets were awarded outside of Las Vegas. Three tournaments were held, with the main event being a £10,000 buy-in no-limit hold 'em tournament. The main event was won by Norwegian online prodigy Annette Obrestad, who won on the day before her 19th birthday and became the youngest person ever to win a WSOP bracelet.


2007 World Series of Poker Europe
The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is the first expansion effort of World Series of Poker-branded poker tournaments outside the United States. Since 1970, participants have had to travel to Las Vegas if they wanted to compete in the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Although the WSOP held circuit events in other locations, the main tournaments, which awarded bracelets to the winners, were exclusively held in Las Vegas. The inaugural WSOPE, held in 2007, marked the first time that a WSOP bracelet was awarded outside Las Vegas.


2007 World Series of Poker Europe
In 2004, Harrah's Casinos purchased the rights to the WSOP label. Harrah's later purchased London Clubs International (LCI). LCI operates three casinos in the London area: Fifty, Leicester Square, and The Sportsman. After the purchase of these casinos, Harrah's decided to expand its WSOP label into Europe. European casinos typically have a different environment than those in the U.S. Jeffrey Pollack, the WSOP Commissioner, indicated that the WSOPE would have a "style and flair that is both unique and appropriate to the setting. So don't be surprised if we require participants to wear blazers at the tables. If James Bond were hosting a poker tournament it may look like the World Series of Poker Europe."


2007 World Series of Poker Europe
In marketing the WSOPE, Harrah's Casino did not rely upon the reputation of Harrah's or the WSOP alone. On July 5, 2007, Harrah's announced its alliance with England-based Betfair, one of the largest online gaming companies in the world. The agreement builds on Betfair's European reputation in advertising the WSOPE while creating the largest agreement between a web-based and brick-and-mortar casinos. Due to changes in U.S. laws, effective in 2007, the WSOP could no longer accept money from online gambling companies. This prevented the WSOP from acknowledging WSOP qualifiers from online events. The WSOPE is not bound by this limitation.


2007 World Series of Poker Europe
The United Kingdom Gambling Act of 2005 allows for legal regulated online poker sites. Furthermore, as the laws that govern the age of gambling differ in England than the U.S., the WSOPE admits younger players. In 2007, four of the five finalists at the first event of the WSOPE had won bracelets. Thomas Bihl, however, outlasted each of them to claim the first-ever WSOPE bracelet. No previous bracelet winners played at the second final table; Dario Alioto won the bracelet. Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad, became the youngest player to win a WSOP bracelet event at 18 years and 364 days old in the final event of the tournament. As of 2016, Obrestad's record still stands.


2007 World Series of Poker results
The 2007 World Series of Poker was the 38th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). Held in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, the series featured 55 poker championships in several variants. As a WSOP custom since 1976, each of the event winners receive a championship bracelet in addition to that event's prize money. The series culminates with the $10,000 No-Limit hold'em "Main Event", which has attracted thousands of entrants since 2004. The winner of the WSOP Main Event, who wins a multimillion-dollar prize, is considered to be the World Champion of Poker.


2007 World Series of Poker results
Most of the tournaments played at the WSOP are variants of Texas hold'em, a game where each player may use a combination of the five community cards and two hole cards to make the best hand. Another poker variant with community cards is Omaha,  in which each player is dealt four hole cards and must use two of them in conjunction with three of the five community cards to make the best possible five-card hand. In contrast to games with community cards, some variants, such as stud or draw, deal each player separate hands with no common cards.


2007 World Series of Poker results
Seven-card stud deals each player two hole cards, followed by four face-up cards one at a time, and then another hidden card, with betting after each round. Other games played at the 2007 tournament included Razz, H.O.R.S.E., and Deuce-to-Seven. Prior to 2000, seven-card stud was the most common game in U.S. casinos, but today hold'em has almost totally eclipsed the once popular game.


2007 World Series of Poker results
Within each of these poker variants, a myriad of options exist. For example, depending on the betting structure, a tournament might be described as no-limit, limit, or pot-limit. Games may include other variations on the rules governing the execution of the specific game such as shootout, eight or better, or heads up.


2007 World Series of Poker results
With 54,288 total entries and a combined prize pool of $159,796,918, the 2007 WSOP was the largest series of poker tournaments ever. For many, winning a share of the prize pool was all that mattered, while others sought the glory associated with winning a bracelet. This dichotomy could not have been illustrated better than a deal negotiated at the Senior Championship event. Tony Korfman wanted the money while Ernest Bennett wanted the glory. Rather than leave their fates to chance, the two of them ensured they got what they wanted.


2007 World Series of Poker results
In exchange for splitting the prize money, Korfman agreed to let Bennett win the bracelet. After winning $8.25 million in the Main Event, Jerry Yang and his wife retired. "My winning today also means a lot to me, because I know that I can use this money to do a lot of good for other people out there," Yang said before donating over a million dollars to charity. Upon winning his record eleventh bracelet, Phil Hellmuth said, "the bracelets have always been a really huge deal, to me more than the other guys, because I knew that they represented history."


2007 World Series of Poker results
Age and disability was another story line of the 2007 WSOP. At 21 years and 10 days old, Steve Billirakis became the youngest person to ever win a WSOP bracelet. At the other end of the spectrum, 94-year-old Jack Ury was the oldest person to ever participate in the Main Event. Hal Lubarsky, a blind man, finished in 197th place at the Main Event.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 1: $5,000 World Championship Mixed hold'em Limit/No-Limit
This event kicked off the 2007 WSOP. It was a $5,000 buy-in Mixed (alternating between limit and no-limit) Texas Hold'em tournament.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 2: $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em
This was a $500 buy-in no-limit Texas Hold'em tournament reserved for casino employees that work in Nevada.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 3: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Event 3 was the largest non-Main Event live tournament in history. This record, however, would be short lived as event 49 would break that record.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 9: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better
Ninth-place finisher Richard Ashby was eliminated simultaneously along with Ron Ware (10th place) on the final hand of day, 2 by Jordan Morgan. Therefore, he never appeared at the official final table.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 12: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em (6-handed)
This event was played in a shorthanded format, no more than six players per table, with no more than six players occupying a table at any time during the tournament.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 15: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Phil Hellmuth won his eleventh WSOP bracelet, the most of any player. He was previously one of three players with ten bracelets the others being Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 16: $2,500 H.O.R.S.E.
Razz is a form of stud poker that is normally played for ace-to-five low (lowball poker). The object of Razz is to make the lowest five-card possible hand from the seven cards you are dealt. In Razz, straights and flushes do not count against you for low, and the ace always plays low. The best possible Razz hand is 5-4-3-2-A, or 5 high, also known as "the wheel" or "the bicycle". Deuce-to-seven Razz is also sometimes played.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 17: $1,000 World Championship Ladies No-Limit Hold'em
The 1,286 entrants made this the largest ladies only tournament ever.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 18: $5,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em
Like David Williams, Gabriel Nassif was first known for competing  Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 31: $5,000 World Championship Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em
"SF" denotes players who lost in the semifinal round of the tournament and "QF" denotes players who lost in the quarterfinal round.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 39: $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E.
The $7.1 million prize pool and $2.2 million prize were the largest prizes in poker history for a non-Main WSOP event.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 41: $1,000 World Championship Seniors No-Limit Hold'em
Bennett and Korfman made a deal before heads-up play began. Korfman agreed to let Bennett win the title uncontested if Bennett agreed to split the prize money. They split the cash evenly with each taking home roughly $293,000. With 1,882 entrants over the age of 55, this was the largest Senior's event ever.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 49: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
This event set a World Series of Poker non-main event and live poker attendance record with 3,151 entries breaking the previous record of 2,998 set earlier in the third event of the 2007 WSOP. At the time it was also the third-highest entry total in all live Poker events behind just the 2006 and 2005 main events which had 8,773 and 5,619 entrants respectively.


2007 World Series of Poker results, Results, Event 55: $10,000 World Championship No-Limit Hold'em
As the final event, in which the "World Champion of Poker" is crowned, this is considered the "Main Event".


2007 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
The 2007 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 9 and 11 March 2007 in Milan, Italy. The World Championships were organised by the ISU which also run world cups and championships in speed skating and figure skating.


2007 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, Results, Men
* First place is awarded 34 points, second is awarded 21 points, third is awarded 13 points, fourth is awarded 8 points, fifth is awarded 5 points, sixth is awarded 3 points, seventh is awarded 2 points, and eighth is awarded 1 point in the finals of each individual race to determine the overall world champion. The relays do not count for the overall classification.


2007 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, Results, Women
* First place is awarded 34 points, second is awarded 21 points, third is awarded 13 points, fourth is awarded 8 points, fifth is awarded 5 points, sixth is awarded 3 points, seventh is awarded 2 points, and eighth is awarded 1 point in the finals of each individual race to determine the overall world champion. The relays do not count for the overall classification.


2007 World Shotgun Championships
The 2007 ISSF World Shotgun Championships were held in Nicosia, Cyprus, from September 3 to September 9, 2007.


2007 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
The 2007 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships were held between March 8 and March 11, 2007, in the Utah Olympic Oval. Twelve events were held, and world records were broken in five events.


2007 World Snooker Championship
The 2007 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2007 888.com World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was scheduled to take place from 21 April through 7 May 2007, but continued into the early hours of 8 May 2007, ending at 12:54 am BST. The final broke the record of the time for the latest finish in a World Snooker Championship final, narrowly beating the 2006 final by two minutes.


2007 World Snooker Championship
Graeme Dott was the defending champion, but lost in the first round 7–10 to Ian McCulloch and became another World Champion who fell to the Crucible curse and could not defend his first World title.


2007 World Snooker Championship
John Higgins won his second World title by defeating qualifier Mark Selby 18–13 in the final. The tournament was sponsored by online casino 888.com.


2007 World Snooker Championship, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2007 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). The first round draw was done by presenters Bill Turnbull and Sian Williams of BBC Breakfast on 19 March and it was announced on Breakfast at 7.30 am BST the next day.


2007 World Snooker Championship, Preliminary qualifying
The preliminary qualifying rounds for the tournament took place in Pontin's Prestatyn, Wales.


2007 World Snooker Championship, Qualifying
Qualifying for the 2007 World Snooker Championship, was held between 23 February to 2 March 2007 at Pontin's, Prestatyn, Wales. The final qualifying round took place at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield between the 12–15 March 2007.


2007 World Snooker Championship, Century breaks, Televised stage centuries
There were 68 centuries scored in the televised stage of the 2007 championship, which was joint equal highest in the history of the tournament (with the tournament held in 2002) until 2009.


2007 World Snowshoe Championships
The 2007 World Snowshoe Championships was the 2nd edition of the global snowshoe running competition, World Snowshoe Championships, organised by the World Snowshoe Federation and took place in Schladming, Dachstein Glacier on 6 April 2007.


2007 World Snowshoe Championships, Results
The race Dachstein Xtreme, held on the distance of 11 km, has compiled two different ranking (male and female) overall, it was the mass start system.


2007 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships
The 2007 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships were held in Vikingskipet, Hamar, on 20–21 January 2007. They were the 36th World Championships, and it was the third time the Championships were held in Hamar. Several of the world's top skaters, including the top two from the 2006 men's and women's standings, did not take part in the competition, while Lee Kang-seok (men), Lee Sang-hwa and Wang Beixing (women), all among the top three in the 500 meter World Cup rankings, did not take part as they are competing in other colliding tournaments.


2007 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships
Three-time world allround champion Anni Friesinger entered for the second time, after winning silver in 2004, and won gold by more than one samalog point, the greatest margin of victory since Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt's last title in 2003. She thus became the fourth woman to become world champion in both allround and sprint.


2007 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships
Conversely, the men's competition was the closest since Bae Ki-tae won South Korea's first title, in 1990. The men's title went to a Korean for the third time in the tournament's history. Finland's Pekka Koskela led the tournament until two laps remained of the 1000 metres, but despite skating a better last lap than Lee he finished 0.065 points behind the Korean.


2007 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships, Rules
All participating skaters are allowed to skate the two 500 meters and two 1000 meters.


2007 World Table Tennis Championships
The 2007 World Table Tennis Championships was a table tennis tournament that took place in Zagreb, Croatia from May 21 through to May 27, 2007. China won a clean sweep of all the gold and silver medals.


2007 World Table Tennis Championships, Finals, Men's Singles
Wang Liqin def. Ma Lin, 4-3: 4-11, 8-11, 11-5, 4-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-6


2007 World Table Tennis Championships, Finals, Women's Singles
Guo Yue def. Li Xiaoxia, 4-3: 8-11, 11-7, 4-11, 2-11, 11-5, 11-2, 11-8


2007 World Table Tennis Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles
Chen Qi / Ma Lin def. Wang Hao / Wang Liqin, 4-2: 6-11, 11-7, 6-11, 11-3, 11-9, 11-9


2007 World Table Tennis Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles
Wang Nan / Zhang Yining def. Guo Yue / Li Xiaoxia, 4-0: 11-5, 11-6, 13-11, 11-9


2007 World Table Tennis Championships, Finals, Mixed Doubles
Wang Liqin / Guo Yue def. Ma Lin / Wang Nan, 4-2: 13-11, 11-7, 8-11, 11-9, 9-11, 12-10


2007 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
The 2007 World Table Tennis Championships, Men's Doubles was the 49th edition of the men's doubles championship. The event took place in Zagreb, Croatia between May 21 and May 27, 2007.


2007 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
Chen Qi and Ma Lin won the title after defeating Wang Hao and Wang Liqin in the final by four sets to two.


2007 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
The 2007 World Table Tennis Championships, Men's Singles event took place in Zagreb, Croatia between 21 and 27 May 2007. The tournament was won by Wang Liqin of China.


2007 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles
The 2007 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles was the 49th edition of the mixed doubles championship.


2007 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles
Wang Liqin and Guo Yue defeated Ma Lin and Wang Nan in the final.


2007 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles
The 2007 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles was the 48th edition of the women's doubles championship. Zhang Yining and Wang Nan defeated Li Xiaoxia and Guo Yue in the final by four sets to nil, to record their third consecutive title and Wang Nan's fifth consecutive title.


2007 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Singles
The 2007 World Table Tennis Championships,  Women's Singles event took place in Zagreb, Croatia between May 21 and May 27, 2007.


2007 World Taekwondo Championships
The 2007 World Taekwondo Championships were the 18th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Beijing, China from May 18 to May 22, 2007.


2007 World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings
The 2007 World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings is the 2007 edition of the World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings. It is an assessment of racehorses which was issued by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) in January 2008. It includes horses aged three or older which raced or were trained during 2007 in countries where the flat racing year runs from January 1 to December 31. These countries are generally in the Northern Hemisphere.


2007 World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings
The ratings represent a weight value in pounds, with higher values given to horses which showed greater ability. It is judged that these weights would equalize the abilities of the horses if carried in a theoretical handicap race. The list includes all horses rated 115 or above, and it also shows the surface and the distances at which the rating was achieved.


2007 World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings
The highest rating in the 2007 season was 131, which was given to the performance of Manduro in the Prince of Wales's Stakes. In total, 212 horses were included in the list, 32 more than in the 2006 Rankings.


2007 World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings, Full rankings for 2007
Certain horses may have also recorded a lesser rating over a distance different from that listed above. The IFHA publishes this information when the lower rating represents the overall top performance in a particular category. There were three such additional ratings for this season:


2007 World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings, Top ranked horses
The tables below show the top ranked horses overall, the top fillies and mares, and the top three-year-olds in the 2007 Rankings. They also show the top performers in various subdivisions of each group, which are defined by the distances of races, and the surfaces on which they are run. The IFHA recognizes five distance categories — Sprint, Mile, Intermediate, Long and Extended — identified by the acronym "SMILE". These are framed as follows:


2007 World Touring Car Championship
The 2007 World Touring Car Championship season was the 4th season of FIA World Touring Car Championship motor racing. The championship, which commenced on 11 March and ended on 18 November, after twenty-two races, was open to Super 2000 Cars, Diesel 2000 Cars and Super Production Cars  as defined by the relevant FIA regulations. The Drivers' Championship was won by Andy Priaulx and the Manufacturers' Championship by BMW.


2007 World Touring Car Championship, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers contested the 2007 FIA World Touring Car Championship.


2007 World Touring Car Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes
Entering WTCC including those who entered one-off rounds in 2006


2007 World Touring Car Championship, Calendar
A provisional calendar was released on 15 January 2007.. On 27 February 2007, the FIA announced that the 13th and 14th races of the series originally scheduled to be run in Istanbul would instead take place at the Anderstorp circuit.


2007 World Touring Car Championship, Calendar
Each race weekend featured two races of 50 kilometres each (similar to Superbike World Championship race format). If the safety car was deployed during a race, the first two laps under it were not counted towards the race distance.


2007 World Touring Car Championship, Calendar
The starting grid order for the first race of each weekend was determined by the results of qualifying and the race began with a rolling start. The second race grid order was determined by the results of the first race with the top eight positions reversed. The second race began with a standing start.


2007 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Standings, Drivers' Championship
† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.


2007 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Standings, Drivers' Championship
Point system: 10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1 for top eight finishers in each race.


2007 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Standings, Drivers' Championship
Drivers with 0 points were not classified in official championship results.


2007 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Standings, Drivers' Championship
* Phillip Geipel, Robert Dahlgren, Colin Turkington and David Louie were not eligible to score championship points. Thus, 9th-place finishers scored points in the Race 2 of Sweden, Race 1 & 2 of the United Kingdom and Race 2 of Macau.


2007 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Standings, Yokohama Independents' Trophy
Championship promoter KSO organised the Yokohama Independents’ Trophies within the 2007 FIA World Touring Car Championship.


2007 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Standings, Yokohama Independents' Trophy
Drivers were awarded points towards the Independents' Trophy in the first twenty rounds on a 10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1 basis for the first eight finishers of those entries which were classified as Independents. Points were awarded in the final two rounds on a 20-16-12-10-8-6-4-2 basis.


2007 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Standings, Manufacturers' Championship
Points were awarded on a 10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1 basis in each race but only to the top two placegetters from each manufacturer. All the other cars of that same manufacturer were considered invisible as far as scoring points was concerned.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships
The Royal World Weightlifting Championships 2007 were held at the 700th Anniversary Sports Complex in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The event took place from September 17 to September 26, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships, Medal table
Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's +105 kg
The men's competition in +105 kg division was staged on September 25–26, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's +105 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 105 kg
The men's competition in 105 kg division was staged on September 24–25, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 105 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 56 kg
The men's competition in the bantamweight (56 kg) division was staged on September 17–18, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 56 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 62 kg
The men's competition in 62 kg division was staged on September 18–19, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 62 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 69 kg
The men's competition in 69 kg division was staged on September 18–19, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 69 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 77 kg
The men's competition in 77 kg division was staged on September 20–21, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 77 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 85 kg
The men's competition in 85 kg division was staged on September 21–22, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 85 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 94 kg
The men's competition in 94 kg division was staged on September 22–23, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 94 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's +75 kg
The women's competition in 75 kg division was staged on September 25–26, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's +75 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 48 kg
The women's competition in 48 kg division was staged on September 17, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 48 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 53 kg
The women's competition in 53 kg division was staged on September 19–20, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 53 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 58 kg
The women's competition in 58 kg division was staged on September 21–22, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 58 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 63 kg
The women's competition in 63 kg division was staged on September 22–23, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 63 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 69 kg
The women's competition in 69 kg division was staged on September 24, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 69 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 75 kg
The women's competition in 75 kg division was staged on September 25, 2007.


2007 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 75 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship
The 2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship was held from February 17 to 24 at the Sollefteå Curling Club in Sollefteå, Sweden.


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Qualification, Qualification event
Two teams outside of the top finishers, Russia and Japan, qualified from a qualifying event held in November 2007 in Inverness, Scotland.


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Third: Gerry AustgardenSecond: Gary CormackLead: Sonja GaudetAlternate: Ina ForrestCoach: Joe Rea


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Third: Sussie PedersenSecond: Jørn KristensenLead: Ingerlise JensenAlternate: Bjarne JensenCoach: Per Christensen


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Third: Katsuo IchikawaSecond: Takashi HidaiLead: Ayako SaitohAlternate: Seiji UchidaCoach: Kumiko Ogihara


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Third: Geir Arne SkogstadSecond: Jostein StordahlLead: Lene TystadAlternate: Trine FissumCoach: Thoralf Hognestad


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Third: Andrey SmirnovSecond: Valeriy ChepilkoLead: Oxana SlesarenkoAlternate: Victor ErshovCoach: Oleg Narinyan


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Third: Aileen NeilsonSecond: James SellarLead: Angie MaloneAlternate: James ElliottCoach: Archie Bogie


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Third: Kim Myung-jinSecond: Cho Yang-hyunLead: Kang Mi-sukAlternate: Ham Dong-heeCoach: Kim Chang-gyu


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Third: Kenneth NilssonSecond: Gert ErlandssonLead: Anna HammarlindAlternate: Kristina UlanderCoach: Mikael Löfvenius


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Third: Erwin LauperSecond: Cesare CassaniLead: Madeleine WildiAlternate: Claudia TosseCoach: Nadia Röthlisberger-Raspe


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Third: Augusto PerezSecond: James JosephLead: Danelle LibbyAlternate: Mark TaylorCoach: James Griebsch


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship – Qualification Event
The qualification event for the 2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship was held from November 8 to 12, 2006 at the Braehead Curling Rink in Braehead, Scotland. The event's two top finishers, Russia and Japan, both qualified to participate in the 2008 World Wheelchair Curling Championship. The two qualification spots were given to the top two teams at the conclusion of the round robin.


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship – Qualification Event, Teams
Third: Rumen PanayotovSecond: Svetozar KirovLead: Neli SabevaAlternate: Petio ZaberskyCoach: Lubomir Velinov


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship – Qualification Event, Teams
Third: Dave QuarrieSecond: Rosemary LentonLead: Valerie RobertsonAlternate: George WindramCoach: Joan Reed


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship – Qualification Event, Teams
Third: Jürgen SommerSecond: Jens GäbelLead: Inge WenzlerAlternate: Christian ConradCoach: Bernd Weisser


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship – Qualification Event, Teams
Third: Egidio MarcheseSecond: Emanuele SpelorziLead: Laura ArnanaschiAlternate: Gabriele DallapiccolaCoach: Mauro Maino


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship – Qualification Event, Teams
Third: Katsuo IchikawaSecond: Takashi HidaiLead: Ayako SaitohAlternate: Seiji UchidaCoach: Kumiko Ogihara


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship – Qualification Event, Teams
Third: Arkadiusz PawlowskiSecond: Ireneusz JonskiLead: Magdalena KarlewskaAlternate: Katarzyna BielawskaCoach: Andrzej Smak


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship – Qualification Event, Teams
Third: Andrey SmirnovSecond: Oxana SlesarenkoLead: Nikolay MelnikovAlternate: Valeriy ChepilkoCoach: Vladimir Zubkov


2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship – Qualification Event, Teams
Third: Clark ShielsSecond: Peter KnapperLead: Marion HarrisonAlternate: Allan YoungCoach: John Stone


2007 World Women's Curling Championship
The 2007 World Women's Curling Championship was held in Aomori, Aomori, Japan from March 17–25, 2007. It was the first world curling championship (men's or women's) to be held in Asia. Team Canada skipped by Kelly Scott won 8-4 over Denmark's Angelina Jensen in gold medal final.


2007 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Kelly Scott Third: Jeanna Schraeder Second: Sasha Carter Lead: Renee Simons Alternate: Michelle Allen


2007 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Fourth: Liu Yin Skip: Wang Bingyu Second: Yue Qingshuang Lead: Zhou Yan Alternate: Sun Yue


2007 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Hana Synáčková Third: Lenka Danielisová Second: Lenka Kučerová Lead: Karolina Pilarova Alternate: Michala Souhradová


2007 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Fourth: Madeleine Dupont Third: Denise Dupont Skip: Angelina Jensen Lead: Camilla Jensen Alternate: Ane Hansen


2007 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Andrea Schöpp Third: Monika Wagner Second: Anna Hartelt Lead: Marie Rotter Alternate: Theresa Wallner


2007 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Diana Gaspari Third: Giulia Lacedelli Second: Giorgia Apollonio Lead: Violetta Caldart Alternate: Elettra De Col


2007 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Moe Meguro Third: Mari Motohashi Second: Mayo Yamaura Lead: Sakurako Terada Alternate: Asuka Yogo


2007 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Ludmila Privivkova Third: Olga Jarkova Second: Nkeiruka Ezekh Lead: Ekaterina Galkina Alternate: Margarita Fomina


2007 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Kelly Wood Third: Jackie Lockhart Second: Lorna Vevers Lead: Lindsay Wood Alternate: Karen Addison


2007 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Anette Norberg Third: Eva Lund Second: Cathrine Lindahl Lead: Anna Svärd Alternate: Ulrika Bergman


2007 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Silvana Tirinzoni Third: Esther Neuenschwander Second: Anna Neuenschwander Lead: Sandra Attinger Alternate: Mirjam Ott


2007 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Debbie McCormick Third: Allison Pottinger Second: Nicole Joraanstad Lead: Natalie Nicholson Alternate: Maureen Brunt


2007 World Women's Handball Championship
The 2007 World Women's Handball Championship was the 18th edition of the international championship tournament in women's team sport handball that is governed by the International Handball Federation (IHF). France hosted the event from 2–16 December 2007. A total of 24 teams participated in the tournament. Russia successfully contested Norway in the final, regaining the title after having lost it at the 2005 final.


2007 World Women's Handball Championship, Preliminary round
The draw for the preliminary round took place in Paris on 20 June 2007.


2007 World Women's Handball Championship, Ranking and Statistics, Final Ranking
Inna Suslina, Polina Vyakhireva, Irina Poltoratskaya, Oxana Romenskaya, Liudmila Postnova, Anna Kareeva, Ekaterina Andryushina, Yana Uskova, Yelena Polenova, Emilia Turey, Natalia Shipilova, Maria Sidorova, Olga Levina, Nadezhda Muravyeva, Elena Dmitrieva and Irina Bliznova. Head Coach: Evgeny Trefilov.


2007 World Women's Handball Championship squads
The following squads and players competed in the World Women's Handball Championship in 2007 in France.


2007 World Women's Snooker Championship
The 2007 Women's World Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament played in the United Kingdom in 2007. Defending champion Reanne Evans beat Katie Henrick 5–3 in the final to win her third world title.


2007 World Women's Snooker Championship, Tournament summary
Reanne Evans was the reigning champion, having won the 2006 World Women's Snooker Championship. The 2007 tournament was played at the Cambridge Snooker Centre, the same venue as the 2005 and 2006 championships. Four round-robin qualifying group held over two days each produced two qualifiers for the quarter-finals.


2007 World Women's Snooker Championship, Tournament summary
In the final, Evans was level 3–3 with Henrick before winning the next two frames to claim her third successive title.


2007 World Women's Snooker Championship, Tournament summary
Evans compiled the highest break of the tournament, 87. She received £800 in prize money as champion.


2007 World Wrestling Championships
The 2007 World Wrestling Championships were held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan. The event took place from September 17 to September 23, 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 120 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 19 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 55 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 55 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 17 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 60 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 17 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 66 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 17 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 74 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 18 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 84 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 18 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 96 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 18 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 120 kg
The men's freestyle 120 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 21 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 55 kg
The men's freestyle 55 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 19 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 60 kg
The men's freestyle 60 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 19 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 66 kg
The men's freestyle 66 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 20 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 74 kg
The men's freestyle 74 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 20 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 84 kg
The men's freestyle 84 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 20 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 96 kg
The men's freestyle 96 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 21 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 48 kg
The women's freestyle 48 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 21 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 51 kg
The women's freestyle 51 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 22 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 55 kg
The women's freestyle 55 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 22 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 59 kg
The women's freestyle 59 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 22 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 63 kg
The women's freestyle 63 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 22 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 67 kg
The women's freestyle 67 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 23 September 2007.


2007 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 72 kg
The women's freestyle 72 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan on 22 September 2007.


2007 World Wushu Championships
The 2007 World Wushu Championships were the 9th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Beijing, China from November 11 to November 17, 2007. Nearly 1000 athletes from 89 IWUF national federations participated in this event. This competition also acted as a qualifier for the 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament and the 2009 World Games.


2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics
The 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics were the fifth edition of the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics. They were held on 11–15 July 2007 in Ostrava, Czech Republic.


2007 World's Strongest Man
The 2007 World's Strongest Man was the 30th edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Mariusz Pudzianowski from Poland. It was his fourth and record tying title. Sebastian Wenta from Poland finished second, and Terry Hollands from the United Kingdom finished third after finishing seventh the previous year. 2006 champion Phil Pfister from the United States finished fourth. The contest was held in Anaheim, California.


2007 Worthing Borough Council election
The 2007 Worthing Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Worthing Borough Council in West Sussex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2007 Worthing Borough Council election
Candidates from the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Green Party, Labour and the United Kingdom Independence Party stood in the election. There was also one candidate, Dawn Smith, standing as a "Stop Durrington's Overdevelopment - Save Titnore's Trees" candidate as a protest against plans to build 875 houses near Worthing.


2007 Worthing Borough Council election
The Liberal Democrats had been hoping to gain three seats, but the results saw the Conservatives gain one seat from the Liberal Democrats to strengthen their majority on the council. The Liberal Democrat defeat came by 12 votes in Selden ward where their candidate James Doyle was upset over the Conservatives using the description "Conservative, Stop Hospital Cuts" on the ballot paper. Conservative Kevin Skepper retained his seat in Broadwater, which he had previously won as a Liberal Democrat before defecting to the Conservatives. This was the first time since 1975 that a Conservative had won in Broadwater. Meanwhile, in Castle ward the Liberal Democrats held both the seats in Castle ward after 3 recounts. Overall voter turnout in the election was 35.41%.


2007 Wychavon District Council election
The 2007 Wychavon District Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Wychavon District Council in Worcestershire, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


2007 Wychavon District Council election, Background
Before the election the Conservatives controlled the council with 31 councillors, compared to 12 for the Liberal Democrats and 2 for Labour. A total of 96 candidates stood for election including the first UK Independence Party candidate for Wychavon District Council in Evesham South, however the Conservative leader of the council, Martin Jennings was among those who stood down from the council at the election. One seat in Pinvin had no election in 2007 as the Liberal Democrat councillor Liz Tucker was re-elected without opposition.


2007 Wychavon District Council election, Election result
The Conservatives increased their majority on the council by four seats to have 35 of the 45 councillors on the council. This came at the expense of Labour, who lost their only two seats on the council in Droitwich West to the Conservatives, and the Liberal Democrats who had a net loss of two seats to finish with 10 councillors. Overall turnout at the election was 42.42%, an increase from 37.94% at the 2003 election.


2007 Wychavon District Council election, Election result
Apart from the gains from Labour in Droitwich West, Conservative gains included taking seats from the Liberal Democrats in Honeybourne and Pebworth, Badsey and Little Hampton. However the Liberal Democrats did also gain seats in Droitwich South West and The Littletons from the Conservatives, with Alan Anderson taking The Littletons with a five-vote majority over independent Richard Lasota.


2007 Wychavon District Council election, By-elections between 2007 and 2011, Lovett and North Claines
A by-election was held in Lovett and North Claines on 13 December 2007 after the death of Conservative councillor Paul Coley. The seat was held for the Conservatives by Tony Miller with a majority of 495 votes over Liberal Democrat John Garbett.


2007 Wychavon District Council election, By-elections between 2007 and 2011, Droitwich Central
A by-election was held in Droitwich Central on 16 July 2009 after the death of Liberal Democrat councillor Graham Gopsill. The seat was held for the Liberal Democrats by his widow Ann Gopsill with a majority of 10 votes over Conservative David Morris.


2007 Wychavon District Council election, By-elections between 2007 and 2011, Droitwich South West
A by-election was held in Droitwich South West on 1 October 2009 after Conservative councillor Yuleen Jewell resigned from the council. The seat was gained for the Liberal Democrats by Stephanie Vale with a majority of 105 votes over Conservative Maureen Lawley.