2010 Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500, Race report, Race summary
Three laps after the restart, the fifth caution was waved because of a large crash in the Long Pond straightaway, which holds the record for hardest recorded impact in NASCAR history. It started when Kurt Busch spun after contact from Jimmie Johnson, got together with Clint Bowyer and then Busch spun into the wall. Elliott Sadler was spun by A. J. Allmendinger, and took a very extreme ride: his car went face-first into the inside wall (effectively the same as hitting the side of a building) at 160 miles per hour, at a nearly perpendicular angle.


2010 Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500, Race report, Race summary
The entire front part of the car was torn apart. The engine was ripped from the car and parts from it scattered all across the track. The estimated G-forces were the highest seen in any car accident, and Sadler's car went from racing speed of 160 mph to about 20 mph in a braking distance of three feet. Amazingly, Sadler got out of the car and walked away under his own power, though he needed to lie down to get his breath again afterwards before taking the mandatory ambulance ride to the infield care center. Debris from both crashes required a 30-minute red flag for cleanup.


2010 Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500, Race report, Race summary
Memorable about the crash was the lack of camera angles for Sadler's crash: the crash occurred in a blind spot on the track. Although almost every camera had a good view of Kurt Busch's car, only one camera actually saw Sadler's impact, and even then, it was on the side of the screen and partially out of frame. Due to rain that started to fall during the red flag, NASCAR decided to run the field under yellow for several laps to allow the track to dry. Most of the field pitted on lap 170, and Sam Hornish, Jr. received the lead. Seven laps later, the field was still running under yellow and the race was re-red flagged for 18 minutes.


2010 Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500, Race report, Race summary
Hornish led the cars to the green flag on lap 179, and was overtaken a lap later by Greg Biffle. Biffle got a strong lead, and led the last twenty laps to win the race and snap a 64 race winless streak.


2010 Sunshine Tour
The 2010 Sunshine Tour was the 11th season of professional golf tournaments since the southern Africa based Sunshine Tour was relaunched in 2000, and the 4th since the tour switched a calendar based season in 2007. The Sunshine Tour represents the highest level of competition for male professional golfers in the region.


2010 Sunshine Tour
The tour is based predominantly in South Africa with other events being held in neighbouring countries, including Swaziland, Zambia and Namibia.


2010 Sunshine Tour, Schedule
The table below shows schedule of events for the 2010 Sunshine Tour. As usual, the tour consisted of two distinct parts, commonly referred to as the "Summer Swing" and the "Winter Swing". Tournaments held during the Summer Swing generally have much higher prize funds, attract stronger fields, and are the only tournaments on the tour to carry world ranking points, with some events being co-sanctioned with the European Tour. Since the tour switched to a calendar based season, this part of the tour has been split in two, with some events being held at the start of the year, and the remainder in December. The Winter Swing ran from April to early December.


2010 Sunshine Tour, Schedule
Prize funds shown do not count directly towards the Order of Merit. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of official money Sunshine Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Sunshine Tour members.


2010 Sunshine Tour, Order of Merit
Ernie Els was ineligible for the Order of Merit having only played in two tournaments during the season. The R1,467,200 he earned from those events would have been enough for 5th place.


2010 Super 14 Final
The Final of the 2010 Super 14 season, a provincial rugby union competition in the Southern Hemisphere, took place on 29 May 2010 at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, South Africa. The Bulls, based in Pretoria, hosted the Stormers, from Cape Town, in the second all-South African final. The defending champion Bulls won 25–17 to claim their second consecutive title and third in four years. This was the last Super 14 final, as the Melbourne Rebels joined the Super Rugby competition in the 2011 season to create a new Super Rugby competition.


2010 Super 14 Final
The Bulls' normal home, Loftus Versfeld, was unavailable because it was used as a venue for the 2010 FIFA World Cup being held in South Africa beginning 11 June. Under FIFA rules, all World Cup venues must be handed over to the local organisers no later than 15 days before the opening match of the competition. Orlando Stadium was the largest, suitable, stadium in the Bulls' home province of Gauteng that was not being used for the World Cup.


2010 Super 14 Final
The game was surrounded in controversy after Schalk Burger claimed that the referee Craig Joubert was inconsistent at the breakdowns, "coaching the Bulls, but penalising the Stormers". This sparked an outcry over the handling of the game by Joubert, and internet blogs were buzzing due to the alleged incompetency of Joubert. André Watson, the head of South Africa's Rugby Referees, released a statement in which he defended Joubert's performance.


2010 Super 14 Final, Match, Second half
The Stormers scored a try in the 77th minute of the game. This try was thought to have been awarded to Ricky Januarie. The television replays showed that in fact the ball was placed short of the try line, but Craig Joubert awarded the try without referring it to the television match official. SARU clarified the try in a press statement a few days later claiming that Januarie's attempt was short, but that the ball was picked up by replacement Pieter Louw who then scored the try.


2010 Super 14 Final, Match details
Touch judges:  Cobus Wessels  Christie du PreezTelevision match official:  Shaun Veldsman


2010 Super 14 season
The 2010 Super 14 season kicked off in February 2010 with pre-season matches held from mid-January. It finished on 29 May. The 2010 season was the fifth and last season of the expanded Super 14 format. The schedule, which covers 3½ months, featured a total of 94 matches, with each team playing one full round-robin against the 13 other teams, two semi-finals and a final. Every team received one bye over the 14 rounds.


2010 Super 14 season, Referees
The referees for this tournament came from all three of the participating nations. Referees are ranked by Merit and Reserve Panels. They can be promoted or demoted to another panel. At least eighty Percent of the Super 14 games will be refereed by the Merit Panel Referees.


2010 Super 14 season, Results, Round 1
A Super Rugby record was set when the Hurricanes kicked 9 penalty goals in total throughout the match, 5 to Willie Ripia and 4 to Piri Weepu.


2010 Super 14 season, Results, Round 1
Stirling Mortlock became the first player in Super Rugby to score over 1,000 points in this match.


2010 Super 14 season, Results, Round 2
This match set several new Super Rugby records including the highest aggregate score in a single match (137 points), highest score by an away side (72) and the most tries scored in a Super Rugby match (18).


2010 Super 14 season, Results, Round 9
In this match, Dan Carter became the all-time leading points scorer in Super Rugby history.


2010 Super 14 season, Results, Round 12
As a result of this match, the Stormers became the first South African team to beat every New Zealand based team in the regular Super 12/14 season.


2010 Super 14 season, Results, Round 14
As a result of this match, the Lion holds the record for most losses in one season, with 13 straight losses. They also became the second team in Super Rugby history to lose all their round robin matches, joining the Bulls side of 2002.


2010 Super 14 season, Finals, Final
The Final of the 2010 Super 14 season took place on 29 May 2010 at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, South Africa. The Bulls, based in Pretoria, hosted the Stormers, from Cape Town, in the second all-South African final. The defending champion Bulls won 25–17 to claim their second consecutive title and third in four years. This was the last Super 14 final, as the Melbourne Rebels joined the Super Rugby competition in the 2011 season to create a new Super Rugby competition.


2010 Super 14 season, Finals, Final
The Bulls' normal home, Loftus Versfeld, was unavailable because it was used as a venue for the 2010 FIFA World Cup being held in South Africa beginning 11 June. Under FIFA rules, all World Cup venues must be handed over to the local organisers no later than 15 days before the opening match of the competition. Orlando Stadium was the largest, suitable, stadium in the Bulls' home province of Gauteng that was not being used for the World Cup.


2010 Super 14 season, Finals, Final
The game was surrounded in controversy after Schalk Burger claimed that the referee Craig Joubert was inconsistent at the breakdowns, "coaching the Bulls, but penalising the Stormers". This sparked an outcry over the handling of the game by Joubert, and internet blogs were buzzing due to the alleged incompetency of Joubert. André Watson, the head of South Africa's Rugby Referees, released a statement in which he defended Joubert's performance.


2010 Super 14 season, Finals, Final
Touch judges:  Cobus Wessels  Christie du PreezTelevision match official:  Shaun Veldsman


2010 Super GT Series
The 2010 Autobacs Super GT Series  was the eighteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the sixth season as the Super GT series. It marked as well as the twenty-eighth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship.


2010 Super GT Series
In GT300 class, Group GT3 cars are eligible to enter as name of category F.


2010 Super GT Series
In both classes, every race was won by a different pairing, with Weider Honda Racing duo Takashi Kogure and Loïc Duval eventually becoming GT500 champions for the first time, giving the Honda HSV-010 GT a championship-winning début season. Defending champions Juichi Wakisaka and André Lotterer finished the season as runners-up, while Toshihiro Kaneishi and Koudai Tsukakoshi finished third. In GT300, Kazuki Hoshino and Masataka Yanagida overhauled an 11-point deficit heading into the final round of the championship to claim the title for Hasemi Motorsport. Their final round win, coupled with finishes or lower than eighth place for Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi, and Ryo Orime and Nobuteru Taniguchi, gave them a championship-winning margin of nine points.


2010 Super League Grand Final
The 2010 Super League Grand Final was the 13th official Grand Final and conclusive and championship-deciding game of Super League XV. Held on Saturday 2 October 2010, at Manchester's Old Trafford stadium, the match was contested by English clubs St. Helens and Wigan Warriors. The final saw Wigan, who also finished League leaders, win 22-10, taking over the crown of Super League champions from the Leeds Rhinos, who had held the title for 3 years. This was St. Helens' fifth consecutive Grand Final and their fourth consecutive Grand Final defeat, having won in 2006 and then lost three Grand Finals to Leeds between 2007 and 2009.


2010 Super League Grand Final, Pre-match
Pre -match entertainment was provided by a performance from Diana Vickers. Rhydian Roberts sang Jerusalem and then a minute's silence was also observed for Terry Newton who had died the previous weekend before St Helens, wearing blue with white (as both sides' traditional colours are red and white), kicked off.


2010 Super League Grand Final, Match details
Wigan's captain, Sean O'Loughlin, was the only player who also played in his team's previous grand final in 2003.


2010 Super League Grand Final, Match details
In the fourth minute Wigan were twelve metres out from St Helens' try-line when, on the fifth tackle, they passed it through the hands out to the right side where centre Martin Gleeson forced his way through the defence. The video referee awarded the try and Pat Richards' conversion attempt missed so the Cherry & Whites were in front 4-0. At the fifteen-minute mark Wigan were working the ball out of their own half when they again moved the ball out to the right where Sam Tomkins made a break and then passed back inside to Thomas Leuluai in support.


2010 Super League Grand Final, Match details
Leuluai then passed to Deacon who passed for Gleeson to cross untouched, putting the ball down behind the uprights for his second try. Richards kicked the simple conversion so Wigan were in front 10-0. About three minutes later Wigan had again made their way up to within spitting distance of St Helens' try line where they passed the ball quickly out to right winger Darrell Goulding to dive over in the corner untouched. Richards' sideline conversion was successful so The Warriors now led 16-0 with little over a quarter of the match gone.


2010 Super League Grand Final, Match details
In the twenty-eighth minute St Helens had managed to make their way up inside Wigan's ten-metre line where Jon Wilkin got the ball and ran back inside across the defensive line, passing to Andrew Dixon who ran untouched through a gap for a close-range try. The simple conversion was kicked by Jamie Foster so St Helens were trailing 16-6. No more points were scored in the remaining minutes so this was the half-time score.


2010 Super League Grand Final, Match details
Pat Richards did not return to the field after the break due to an Achilles tendon injury. In the fourth minute of the second half, Wigan were almost over St Helens' twenty-metre line when the ball went to Leuluai who dummied his way through a gap in the defence and managed to evade several more tacklers before clambering his way to the try line where it was ruled by the video referee that the ball was stripped from him. A penalty was awarded to Wigan and the option to kick was taken, but Riddell missed.


2010 Super League Grand Final, Match details
St Helens then enjoyed some possession but failed to convert their chances into points before Wigan were on the attack again by the fifty-third minute. From twelve metres out the ball was played and passed right, finding Sam Tomkins who dummied and took on the defensive line, somehow managing to maintain his momentum and reach out of a two-man tackle to plant the ball over the line. Riddell missed the conversion attempt badly so Wigan were leading 20-6.


2010 Super League Grand Final, Match details
A few minutes later the Cherry & Whites got a penalty in an easy kicking position and Riddell got the two points, extending the lead to 22-6. In the sixtieth minute Wigan crossed St Helens' line again but it was called back by the video referee due to obstruction. Wigan were awarded a penalty ten minutes later and took the kick, but Tomkins' attempt missed, leaving the margin at sixteen points with ten minutes of the game remaining.


2010 Super League Grand Final, Match details
In the seventy-fourth minute St Helens had made it into the opposition's quarter of the field where they swung the ball out to Francis Meli to score on the left wing. Foster missed the sideline conversion attempt, so the score was 22-10 in favour of Wigan. No more points were scored in the remaining minutes of the match so it was Wigan who celebrated their first championship since 1998.


2010 Super League Grand Final, Match details
Thomas Leuluai was awarded the Harry Sunderland Trophy as the Grand Final's man-of-the-match. Wigan's new Australian coach Michael Maguire had won a championship in his first season as a head coach. For St Helens' it was their fourth consecutive grand final defeat and a disappointing exit from the game for their retiring captain Keiron Cunningham in his 496th game.


2010 Super League Grand Final, Match details
Wigan's celebrations continued the following day with the team's open-top bus tour from JJB Sports HQ at Martland Park into Market Place, Wigan attracting thousands of fans despite rainy weather.


2010 Super League Grand Final, 2011 World Club Challenge
By winning the grand final, the Wigan Warriors had earned the right to play against the 2010 NRL grand final-winners, the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the 2011 World Club Challenge in February.


2010 Super League season results
This is a list of the 2010 Super League season results. Super League is the top-flight rugby league competition in the United Kingdom and France. The 2010 season started on 29 January, when Crusaders RL played their rearranged round 4 fixture against Leeds Rhinos, and will end on 2 October with the 2010 Super League Grand Final.


2010 Super League season results
The 2010 Super League season consisted of two stages. The regular season was played over 27 round-robin fixtures, in which each of the fourteen teams involved in the competition played each other once at home and once away, as well as their Magic Weekend fixtures played over the May Day bank holiday. In Super League XV, a win was worth two points in the table, a draw worth one point apiece, and a loss yielded no points.


2010 Super League season results
The league leaders at the end of the regular season received the League Leaders' Shield, but the Championship will be decided through the second stage of the season—the play-offs. The top eight teams in the table contested to play in the 2010 Super League Grand Final, the winners of which are crowned Super League XV Champions.


2010 Super League season results, Table
Source: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.


2010 Super League season results, Play-offs
The 2010 Super League play-offs take place in September and October 2010. They decided which two teams will play in the Grand Final.


2010 Super League season results, Play-offs, Format
Super League has used a play-off system since Super League III in 1998. When introduced, 5 teams qualified for the play-offs, which was subsequently expanded to 6 teams in 2002. The 2010 season will follow the same format as the 2009 season.


2010 Super League season results, Play-offs, Format
Following the final round of matches, all eight play-off teams will be decided. The winning team from week one with the highest League placing will be allowed to select their opponents for week three. Except this choosing opportunity, the new format follows the play-off system of the Australian Football League.


2010 Super League season results, Play-offs, Format
Week 1. Qualifying/Elimination play-offs: Fixtures decided by regular reason finishing positions. Higher ranked teams play lower ranked teams. Higher ranked teams receive home ground advantage. Week 2. Preliminary semi-finals: Fixtures decided by regular season finishing positions. Higher ranked teams play lower ranked teams. Higher ranked teams receive home ground advantage. Week 3. Qualifying semi-finals: Winners of Qualifying play-offs play winners of Qualifying semi-finals. Fixtures decided by Club Call. Winners of Qualifying play-offs receive home ground advantage.


2010 Super League season results, Notes
A.  Rearranged fixture to allow Harlequins RL to play their friendly fixture against Melbourne Storm, which coincided with round 3B.  Rearranged fixture to allow Leeds Rhinos to play their 2010 World Club Challenge fixture against Melbourne Storm, which coincided with round 4


2010 Superbike World Championship
The 2010 Superbike World Championship (officially known as the HANNspree SBK Superbike World Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the twenty-third season of the Superbike World Championship. It was the third season in which HANNspree had been the title sponsor of the championship.


2010 Superbike World Championship
After Leon Haslam's retirement during the second race at Imola, Max Biaggi became the first Italian winner of the championship, and also claimed the first title by an Aprilia rider.


2010 Superbike World Championship, Race calendar and results
The provisional 2010 race schedule was publicly announced by FIM on 6 October 2009 with the most notable change from the 2009 season being the dropping of the round at Losail, Qatar. For the first time in series history, races were run on a day other than Sunday, with the races at Miller Motorsports Park being held on Monday 31 May. These races were run as part of the Memorial Day weekend in the United States. The FIM altered the calendar on 22 January 2010 with Silverstone replacing Donington Park as the host of the British round.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
The 2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 was a motor race for V8 Supercars. The race, which was held on Sunday, 10 October 2010 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia was Race 18 of the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It was the fourteenth running of the Australian 1000 race, first held after the organisational split over the Bathurst 1000 that occurred in 1997. It was also the 54th race for which the lineage can be traced back to the 1960 Armstrong 500 held at Phillip Island.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Entry List
31 cars were entered in the race – 20 Holden Commodores and 11 Ford Falcons. Along with the 29 regular season entries, there were two 'wildcards' from the Development Series that were contesting both endurance races – one from MW Motorsport and the other from Greg Murphy Racing. Three drivers made their 'Great Race' debuts – James Moffat, Ant Pedersen and Geoff Emery. Multiple drivers made their last Bathurst 1000 starts – Jason Richards, Glenn Seton, Tony Ricciardello, Damien Assaillit and Mark Noske.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Entry List
*Entries with a grey background were wildcard entries which did not compete in the full championship season.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Entry List, Driver changes
Several changes in driver pairings occurred between the 2010 L&H 500 (Race 17 of the Championship) and the Bathurst event. Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series racer Nick Percat stepped down from his drive with Andrew Thompson (Walkinshaw Racing) in favour of Team Penske Indycar driver Ryan Briscoe who had been unavailable for the L&H 500 due to his Indycar commitments. Similarly Tim Blanchard stepped aside from his Paul Morris Motorsport drive to allow Allan Simonsen to take up the seat alongside Greg Murphy.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Entry List, Driver changes
Greg Murphy Racing was also forced into a driver change with the team unable to agree terms with its Phillip Island driver, Marcus Zukanovic. The team nominated Rod Salmon to take the position, his first Bathurst 1000 since 2001.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Practice
Honours was shared in Thursday practice between Triple Eight Race Engineering and Dick Johnson Racing. James Courtney topped the first session in the morning with Warren Luff fastest in the co-driver session held immediately afterwards. The final combined session saw Jamie Whincup record the fastest lap of the day with a 2:07.1309. Courtney was two tenths behind with Craig Lowndes a further two tenths away. Mark Winterbottom was fourth fastest with Jason Bright a surprise fifth fastest. 2009 Bathurst 1000 winner  Garth Tander was sixth fastest ahead of Paul Dumbrell, Will Davison, Russell Ingall and Jason Bargwanna.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Practice
Rod Salmon crashed in the morning session and was eleven seconds off the pace. Salmon stepped down from the drive of the #44 Greg Murphy Racing car and the originally nominated driver, Marcus Zukanovic, returned to the seat.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Practice
Steve Owen topped the co-driver session on Friday morning ahead of Luke Youlden, Warren Luff, Mark Skaife and Andrew Jones, the latter giving a preview of the pace of the #8 BJR Commodore. However, half an hour later the car was eliminated from qualifying after co-driver Jason Richards clipped the inside wall at Forrest's Elbow resulting in a heavy impact with the outside barrier. Jamie Whincup then hit the stationary car approximately a minute later, however the damage to Whincup's car was light and was repaired in time for qualifying. Richards’ car had bent chassis rails, and the Brad Jones Racing team would concentrate their efforts on Jason Bright for qualifying. Craig Lowndes offset Whincup's problems by recording the fastest ever lap around the circuit, a 2:06.8012, eclipsing Greg Murphy's 2003 pole position by five hundredths of a second.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Qualifying
Todd Kelly was an early victim of qualifying, the Kelly Racing Commodore brushing the wall at Griffin's Bend, damaging the rear suspension in such a manner that he would be unable to set a competitive qualifying lap. Craig Lowndes was fastest for much of qualifying, setting a time of 2:07.2184 early in the session. Whincup soon set second fastest time in his repaired Commodore and Mark Winterbottom was best of the rest for much of the session. With twelve minutes left in the session Jason Bright showed the pace Brad Jones Racing had by jumping past Winterbottom into third. Lee Holdsworth was next, followed by Greg Murphy with Steven Johnson moving into seventh as the final ten minutes began. Both Triple Eight drivers shaved tenths away as the session progressed but matching Lowndes’ time of 2:06.8 from the morning was looking less likely.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Qualifying
With five minutes to go Jason Bright set the time that earned Provisional Pole Position, a 2:07.0002. Seconds later James Courtney improved and Paul Dumbrell climbed into the top ten shortly afterwards. The final order saw Bright ahead of Lowndes, Whincup, Winterbottom, Holdsworth, Courtney, Will Davison and Garth Tander as the Holden Racing Team made up positions in the final minutes. Greg Murphy and Paul Dumbrell completed the shootout line-up with Steven Johnson missing out by nine hundredths of a second. Rick Kelly was best of the Kelly cars in twelfth just ahead of Shane van Gisbergen in the best of the Stone Brothers’ Fords and Steven Richards in the FPR Falcon.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Qualifying
At the back some drivers were struggling. Tony Ricciardello and Geoff Emery were respectively 1.3 and 2.4 seconds slower than the next best healthy car while Damian Assaillit would join the absent BJR Commodore of Jason Richards at the back when the MW Motorsport Falcon was disqualified from the session.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Qualifying, Shootout
Paul Dumbrell was first out, slightly untidy over the top of the Mountain to start the times with a lap just under 2:09. Greg Murphy was faster, then Garth Tander was faster again, the first driver to climb into the 2:07 bracket. Teammate Will Davison could not match Tander, and James Courtney was slower again.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Qualifying, Shootout
Lee Holdsworth went fastest with a 2:07.7. Mark Winterbottom set the pole position time in the Ford with a 2:07.5377. Jamie Whincup was barely faster than Holdsworth. Craig Lowndes got the closest to Winterbottom, eight hundredths of a second shy. After being fastest on Friday, Jason Bright set a time which was only good enough for eighth grid position.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Qualifying, Shootout
Despite practice pace which suggested a 2:06 was possible in the shootout, Winterbottom's pole lap was only the fifth fastest pole position in Bathurst history.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race
Winterbottom lead the way at the start, pulling clear of Mark Skaife, Holdsworth, Davison, Whincup, Murphy, Courtney, Dean Canto and Steven Johnson.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race
Further back in the pack Cameron McConville and Michael Caruso both made very slow starts. Jason Bargwanna swerved to miss Caruso and was clipped by Fabian Coulthard on the left rear corner. Into The Chase on the same lap, Coulthard's left rear wheel failed, tipping the car into the sandtrap and rolling six times.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race
Holdsworth took the lead in the early laps while Whincup had moved up to third position by lap 12. Davison passed Winterbottom for second. Light rain began to fall on lap 19 and continued to fall intermittently for much of the morning. Dean Fiore went off the track at McPhillamy, causing a safety car after hitting the wall earlier in the lap on lap 58.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race
Lap 68 saw Jason Richards pit with a sticking throttle after being one of just two cars to record a 2:08 lap. Luke Youlden had a tyre deflate on the climb up to the Cutting and hit the wall on lap 71. Youlden limped back to the pits, the tyre was replaced and Mark Winterbottom was sent back out although times were immediately slower.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race
Jason Bargwanna stopped on Conrod Straight on lap 135, bringing out a safety car. On lap 154 Will Davison crashed out of third position at Sulman Park prompting the final safety car  of the race.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race
At the final restart Lowndes led Whincup, Tander, Courtney, Bright, Holdsworth, Murphy, Ingall, Winterbottom and Caruso. Holdsworth lost a place to Murphy, and a lap later Bright passed Courtney for fourth.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race
Lowndes led Whincup across the line for the first 1-2 team finish in the race since 1984 and the third in total. Garth Tander claimed third position for the Holden Racing Team and  Jason Bright finished fourth for Brad Jones Racing. James Courtney and Warren Luff were the best placed Ford in fifth. Greg Murphy finished sixth ahead of his teammate Russell Ingall in eighth. Between them was Lee Holdsworth, his seventh place a poor reward after leading the race for so long. Mark Winterbottom salvaged a ninth-place finish with Michael Caruso completing the top ten.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race
The total race elapsed time broke the long-standing 1991 record (6h 12m 51.4153s versus 6h 19m 14.80s). This was also the first time the race had been completed at an average speed above 160 km/h and 100 mph. The record stood for three years until beaten at the 2013 event.


2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Results, Starting grid
The following table represents the final starting grid for the race on Sunday:


2010 Supercopa de España
The 2010 Supercopa de España was a two-legged Spanish football match-up played on 14 August and 21 August 2010. It was contested by Sevilla, the 2009–10 Copa del Rey winners, and Barcelona, the 2009–10 La Liga winners.


2010 Supercopa de España
Barcelona won 5–3 on aggregate for their ninth Supercopa de España title.


2010 Supercopa de España de Baloncesto
The Supercopa de España de Baloncesto 2010 was the 7th edition of the Spanish basketball Supercup. It was played in Vitoria-Gasteiz on 24 and 25 September. Regal FC Barcelona won their fourth title, their second in a row.


2010 Supercoppa Italiana
The 2010 Supercoppa Italiana was the 23rd Supercoppa Italiana, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Serie A and Coppa Italia competitions. The match was played at the San Siro on 21 August 2010, and contested by league and cup double winners Internazionale and cup runners-up Roma. The Supercoppa Italiana is usually contested by the winners of the Serie A and the Coppa Italia, but since Internazionale won both the competitions, Roma were their opponents. Internazionale won the title 3–1.


2010 Supercupa României
The 2010 Supercupa României was the 12th edition of Romania's season opener cup competition. The match was played in Cluj-Napoca at Dr. Constantin Rădulescu on 18 July 2010, and was contested between Liga I title holders and Supercup defending champions, CFR Cluj and Liga I runners-up, FC Unirea Urziceni. This was the first edition of the Supercup to face the Liga I winners and the league's runners-up, since CFR won the double in 2010. The new format of the competition, in which the double winner plays the league runner-up at home ground was proposed and adopted by Romanian Football Federation the same year.


2010 Supercupa României
Cluj won the game after penalties. After regular time the game ended 1–1 after goals of Dominique Kivuvu and again Kivuvu, but this time in the wrong goal. In Extra time Urziceni had the edge early after Laurenţiu Marinescu scored a goal to give them a one-goal lead. In injury time of the 1st half of the extra time Ciprian Deac scored the equalizer to send the game in penalties. In those penalty shootout no player of Urziceni was able to score. Also 2 player of Cluj missed but because Felice Piccolo and Emil Dică scored, Cluj won the trophy which was handed to them by Cluj-Napoca's mayor, Sorin Apostu.


2010 Supercupa României, Match, Details
MATCH OFFICIALSAssistant referees: Mircea Orbuleţ Octavian ȘovreFourth official: Istvan Kovacs


2010 Superettan
The Superettan 2010 was the tenth season of Sweden's second-tier football league. The season began on 10 April 2010 and ended on 23 October 2010.


2010 Superettan
The top 2 teams qualified directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third played a play-off against the fourteenth from Allsvenskan to decide who qualified to play in Allsvenskan 2011. The bottom 2 teams qualified directly for relegation to Division 1, the thirteenth and the fourteenth played a play-off against the numbers two from Division 1 Södra and Division 1 Norra to decide who qualified to play in Superettan 2011.


2010 Superettan, Relegation play-offs
The 13th and 14th placed teams in the 2010 Superettan, Jönköpings Södra and Öster, plays against the runners up from the 2010 Division 1, Sirius and Qviding.


2010 Superettan, Relegation play-offs
Sirius stayed in Division 1. Qviding were promoted as Örgryte went bankrupt and were demoted.


2010 Superfinalen
The 2010 Superfinalen was the second edition of Superfinalen, an annual football match between the winners of the previous season's Tippeligaen and Norwegian Cup competitions. Modeled on the FA Community Shield, the match is intended to be a season opener, with the net proceeds going to charity. It took take place on 7 March 2010, at Color Line Stadion, Ålesund, and was contested by Rosenborg and Aalesund, winners of the 2009 Tippeligaen and 2009 Norwegian Football Cup respectively. Rosenborg won the match 3–1 after leading 2–0 at halftime. Kris Stadsgaard and Rade Prica scored the goals in the first half, and Trond Olsen increased Rosenborg's lead to 3–0 before Aalesund pulled one back, courtesy of Peter Orry Larsen.


2010 Superleague Formula season
The 2010 Superleague Formula season was the third Superleague Formula championship. The series was rebranded "Superleague Formula by Sonangol", due to a two-year deal that began in the previous season. The first race of the season was on 4 April at Silverstone and it finished on 24 October at Navarra after a series record of 12 race weekends in all.


2010 Superleague Formula season
The series' prize fund was increased to €5 million, with the championship-winning team winning €1 million. Superleague Formula teamed up with The NewsMarket to distribute video content to 25,000 global media outlets in over 190 countries throughout the season. Ex-Formula One and WTCC driver Tiago Monteiro praised Superleague Formula by saying he was "pretty impressed with what they've done so far".


2010 Superleague Formula season
R.S.C. Anderlecht, run under Azerti Motorsport with driver Davide Rigon, were made champions, but only after the last Super Final of the last event of the season. It was R.S.C. Anderlecht's first series title but the second for Rigon, who won the title with Beijing Guoan in 2008.


2010 Superleague Formula season, Teams and drivers
* Drivers who participated in the non-championship round at the Beijing street circuit.


2010 Superleague Formula season, 2010 Schedule, Race calendar and results
† Race 3 was cancelled due to poor track and weather conditions.


2010 Superleague Formula season, Championship standings
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2010 Superleague Formula season, Championship standings
† Round at Beijing was a non-championship event with no points given out for any of the races.


2010 Superleague Formula season, Championship standings
* María de Villota finished 12th in race one and retired in 17th from race two at Jarama. She was subsequently disqualified from race two, after the race had finished, for crashing into Sébastien Bourdais early on after spinning off the track herself. She was also excluded from the race one result and lost the 14 points she would have earned for that finish.


2010 Superleague Formula season, Championship standings
‡ Chris van der Drift qualified for the Super Final at Brands Hatch but was unable to compete due to suffering injuries from a large crash in race two which led to him being taken to hospital with a broken ankle, two broken ribs, a cracked shoulder blade, a dislocated shoulder and two broken fingers. His Super Final place was taken up by the seventh highest points-scorer of the weekend, Yelmer Buurman.


2010 Supersport World Championship
The 2010 Supersport World Championship was the twelfth FIM Supersport World Championship season—the fourteenth taking into account the two held under the name of Supersport World Series. The season started on 28 February at Phillip Island and finished on 3 October at Magny-Cours after thirteen rounds. The championship supported the Superbike World Championship at every round.


2010 Supersport World Championship
Kenan Sofuoğlu clinched the title at the final round after a season-long battle with Eugene Laverty. Joan Lascorz was also in contention for most of the season but suffered a season-ending injury at Silverstone, however he amassed enough points to claim third place.


2010 Supersport World Championship, Race calendar and results
The provisional race schedule was publicly announced by FIM on 6 October 2009 with the most notable change from the 2009 Superbike World Championship season being the dropping of the round at Losail, Qatar. For the first time in series history, a race was run on a day other than Sunday, with the race at Miller Motorsports Park being held on Monday 31 May. These races ran as part of the Memorial Day weekend in the United States. The FIM altered the calendar on 22 January 2010 with Silverstone replacing Donington Park as the host of the British round.


2010 Superstars GTSprint Series
The 2010 Superstars GTSprint Series season was the first year of the International GTSprint Series. The season began at Monza on 28 March and finished at Vallelunga on 10 October. Alessandro Bonetti and Maurizio Mediani won the championship, driving a Ferrari.


2010 Superstars GTSprint Series, Championship Standings, Drivers' Championship
† - Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 50% of the race distance.


2010 Superstars Series
The 2010 Superstars Series season was the seventh year of the Superstars Series, an Italian-based touring car racing series, and the fourth year of the International Superstars Series. The season began at Monza on March 28, and finished at Kyalami on November 28, after 10 rounds. The season was made up of two different drivers championships, the International Superstars Series and the Campionato Italiano Superstars, both achieved by Thomas Biagi driving for BMW.


2010 Supertaça Compal
The 2010 Season of the Supertaça Compal, (1st edition), took place in Luanda, Angola from April 2 to 4, 2010 and was contested by four teams in a single round robin system. Benfica of Portugal was the winner and Miguel Lutonda from Primeiro de Agosto, the tournament's MVP.


2010 Supertaça Compal Squads
Squads of the participating teams at the 2010 Supertaça Compal:


2010 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The 2010 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 32nd edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, the annual Portuguese football season-opening match contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and cup competitions (or cup runner-up in case the league- and cup-winning club is the same). It took place on 7 August 2010 at the Estádio Municipal de Aveiro in Aveiro, and was contested between Benfica, the 2009–10 Primeira Liga winners, and Porto, the 2009–10 Taça de Portugal winners.


2010 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
Played in front of a crowd of 28,000, the Dragões defeated the Águias 2–0. Goals in either half from central defender Rolando and Radamel Falcao saw Porto defeat the Portuguese champions Benfica and thus raise the club's tally to 17 trophies in this competition.


2010 Surakarta mayoral election
The 2010 Surakarta mayoral election took place on 27 June 2010. The election resulted in a landslide victory for the incumbent mayor Joko Widodo, who won over 90 percent of the votes.


2010 Surakarta mayoral election, Candidates
The incumbent mayor, Joko Widodo, ran for a second term, with his deputy F.X. Hadi Rudyatmo remaining as his running mate. Aside from their party PDI-P, they were also endorsed by the National Mandate Party and the Prosperous Justice Party. Opposing the pair was the Edy Wirabhumi and Supradi Kertamenawi ticket, who were endorsed by the Democratic Party and Golkar.


2010 Surakarta mayoral election, Results
The turnout for the election was the highest among other mayoral elections held in Central Java in that year. The votes were held in 932 polling stations, with Widodo only losing in a single station.


2010 Surinamese general election
General elections were held in Suriname on 25 May 2010.


2010 Surinamese general election
Nine entities contested the election, including several coalitions. Pre -election polls suggested a share of 41% of the vote going to the "Mega Combination" coalition that includes the National Democratic Party of former dictator Dési Bouterse. The ruling Nieuw Front (NF) had around 22.5% support. There were 324,490 people registered to vote in the election which would determine the holders of 51 parliament seats, 116 regional positions and 752 municipal positions.


2010 Surinamese general election, Results
Preliminary results issued on 26 May 2010 showed the Mega Combination winning a plurality of 23 seats, up from 15 in the last election. The New Front for Democracy and Development alliance of incumbent President Ronald Venetiaan (who had stated before the election that he would not seek another term) was said to have won 14 seats. Venetiaan ruled out working together with the NDP as long as it was led by Bouterse. In the upcoming indirect presidential election in July 2010, a two-thirds majority will be required to elect the next president. Organisation of American States election observers reported a peaceful election with no irregularities.


2010 Surinamese general election, Results
Bouterse had not stated if he will seek to return to the presidency. Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said that the Dutch government would respect the will of the voters of Suriname, despite Bouterse having been sentenced to 11 years in prison by a Dutch court for drug dealing. An Interpol arrest warrant has been issued for him, but Suriname does not extradite its citizens.


2010 Surinamese general election, Aftermath
The NDP successfully concluded a coalition deal with Bouterse's former opponents in the civil war, the A Combinatie, giving him a majority in parliament, but not the two-thirds majority required to elect the president. Negotiations with the People's Alliance to attain the necessary supermajority reportedly failed after the People's Alliance raised excessive demands.


2010 Surinamese general election, Aftermath
The NDP fell out with the A Combinatie over the number of cabinet posts, however, and subsequently, the New Front (led by the National Party of Suriname) formed a coalition deal with the A Combinatie and the People's Alliance, giving them 27 seats in parliament, enough to form the government, but too few to elect the president. It was seen as a possibility that Bouterse might be elected in the final round of the presidential election (when it goes to the People's Assembly, where the NDP has a majority.


2010 Surinamese general election, Aftermath
In a surprise development, Jennifer Geerlings-Simons from the NDP was elected Chairwoman of the House on 30 June 2010 with 26 to 24 votes, even though the anti-NDP parties had a majority in parliament. The NPS's Ruth Wijdenbosch was elected Vice Chairwoman with 25 to 24 votes.


2010 Surinamese general election, Aftermath
In the run-up to the presidential election on 19 July 2010, Bouterse convinced the A Combinatie to join forces with him, giving him a 30-seat majority; immediately before the election, he succeeded in getting the People's Alliance to join him, giving him the votes required to become president.


2010 Surinamese presidential election
An indirect presidential election was held in Suriname on 19 July 2010 following the legislative election. If the National Assembly of Suriname twice fails to elect a new president with a two-thirds majority, the election will go to the People's Assembly of Suriname, composed of members of parliament, district and provincial councils, where a simple majority suffices.


2010 Surinamese presidential election
A first vote was expected on 8 July 2010, but only procedural issues were discussed at the meeting; the election was set for 19 July 2010 on the following day.


2010 Surinamese presidential election
Shortly before the election, former dictator Dési Bouterse succeeded in establishing a coalition with the A Combinatie and the People's Alliance, giving him the votes required for the presidential election. As expected, he gained 36 votes against Chan Santokhi's 13 votes; he was sworn in on 12 August 2010.


2010 Suruga Bank Championship
The 2010 Suruga Bank Championship (Japanese: スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2010; Spanish: Copa Suruga Bank 2010) was the third edition of the match between the winners of the previous season's J. League Cup and the Copa Sudamericana. It was contested by the 2009 J. League Cup winner Tokyo and the 2009 Copa Sudamericana champion Ecuadorian club LDU Quito.


2010 Suruga Bank Championship, Rules
The match was played normally according to the rules of the games, with a penalty shootout if the score was tied at the end of regulation. The official match ball was the Adidas Jabulani, the same used in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Each team was allowed to bring a squad of 18 players for the match and used seven squad changes during the match. The winner of the match received the trophy plus $200,000; the runner-up earned $60,000.


2010 Sutton London Borough Council election
Elections for London Borough of Sutton were held on 6 May 2010. The 2010 General Election and other local elections took place on the same day.


2010 Sutton London Borough Council election
In London council elections the entire council is elected every four years, opposed to some local elections where one councillor is elected every year for three of the four years.


2010 Suwon Samsung Bluewings season
The 2010 Suwon Samsung Bluewings season was Suwon Samsung Bluewings's fifteenth season in the K-League in Republic of Korea. Suwon Samsung Bluewings is competing in K-League, League Cup, Korean FA Cup and Champions League as FA Cup winners.


2010 Suwon Samsung Bluewings season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 Suzhou workers riot
2010 Suzhou workers riot (苏州联建事件) was an incident that occurred on January 15, 2010 in Suzhou, People's Republic of China involving workers dissatisfied with the company's treatment of its employees as well as compensation problems.


2010 Suzhou workers riot, Background
The event took place at the Taiwan owned "United Win technology" company (联建科技) located at the Suzhou Industrial Park. The company was built in 1999 as a mainland branch of the Taiwan company Wintek (胜华科技股份有限公司). The company manufactures screens for devices for Apple Inc., Nokia, Motorola and many other companies. Apple iPhone screens is an important part of the business.


2010 Suzhou workers riot, Incident
For a long time the company had been suffering from poor management of staff, bonus compensation problems and poor catering services. In 2008 the company wide bonuses were canceled due to the economic down turn. In 2009 a factory employee provided info to a reporter about being poisoned on the job. The company switched from the regularly used alcohol to a more toxic and dangerous ethane solvent. In September 2009 some employees came in contact with the chemicals.


2010 Suzhou workers riot, Incident
Also, according to a report of the 83 suppliers in China, 45 did not pay overtime costs to its employees. Another 23 suppliers were paying below the minimum wage.


2010 Suzhou workers riot, Incident
On January 15, 2009 at 8:45 to 9 am about 2000 factory workers gathered at the company and began destroying the factory properties. The workers also blocked a road and threw stones at the police.


2010 Suzuka GT 300km
The 2010 Suzuka GT 300km was the first round of the 2010 Super GT season. It took place on March 21, 2010.


2010 Svenska Cupen
Svenska Cupen 2010 was the 55th season of the main Swedish football Cup. AIK were the defending champions.


2010 Svenska Cupen, Preliminary round
52 teams from Division 1 2010 or lower of the Swedish league pyramid competed in this round.


2010 Svenska Cupen, Round 1
Twelve teams from Division 1 2010 or lower, two of the three teams which earned promotion to 2010 Superettan (not IK Brage) and the bottom eight teams from 2009 Superettan entered in this round. They were joined by the 26 preliminary round winners.


2010 Svenska Cupen, Round 2
Two demoted teams from 2009 Allsvenskan and six teams ranked 3rd through 8th in 2009 Superettan entered in this round, joining 24 winners from Round 1.


2010 Svenska Cupen, Round 3
Sixteen teams from 2010 Allsvenskan entered in this round, and joined the 16 winners of Round 2.


2010 Svenska Cupen Final
The 2010 Svenska Cupen final took place on 13 November 2010 at Söderstadion in Stockholm. The match was contested by Superettan side Hammarby IF and Allsvenskan side Helsingborgs IF. Hammarby, who never has won the cup, played their first final since 1983. Helsingborg's latest title was four years earlier in 2006, their third cup title of all time.


2010 Svenska Cupen Final
A late strike in the 80th minute by Rasmus Jönsson secured the cup title for Helsingborg and ended a very successful season for the Scanian team. A week before, they had also finished runners-up in Allsvenskan.


2010 Svenska Supercupen
Svenska Supercupen 2010, Swedish Super Cup 2010, was a Swedish football match that was played on 6 March 2010 between Allsvenskan champions AIK and runners-up IFK Göteborg. The match was played at Råsunda in Stockholm. Svenska Supercupen is usually played between the winner of Allsvenskan and the winner of Svenska Cupen, since AIK won both competitions in 2009 they faced the runners-up in Allsvenskan, IFK Göteborg.


2010 Svenska Supercupen
Antônio Flávio scored the only goal of the game in 22nd minute after AIK had been awarded a free kick in offensive territory. The free kick was taken quickly by Bojan Djordjic and thus AIK gained advantage and could easily set the score to 1-0, a score which would last until the end of the game.


2010 Svenska Supercupen
This was the 4th edition of Svenska Supercupen, the first was in 2007 when IF Elfsborg beat Helsingborgs IF 1-0.


2010 Swale Borough Council election
The 2010 Swale Borough Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect members of Swale Borough Council in Kent, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2010 Swale Borough Council election, Background
After the last election in 2008 the Conservatives had a majority on the council with 26 councillors, compared to 9 for Labour, 7 independents and 5 Liberal Democrats. However both the Conservative and Labour parties gained a seat at two by-elections in September 2008, after the independent councillors from Sheppey First resigned from the council.


2010 Swale Borough Council election, Background
By the time of the 2010 election there remained only one independent councillor, after Sheppey Central councillor Lesley Ingham joined the Conservatives in October 2009, before Pat Sandle and Paul Sturdgess also became Conservative councillors in March 2010. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrat group on the council was reduced when St Michael's councillor Nick Williams defected to Labour in October 2009. This meant that before the 2010 election the Conservatives had 31 seats on the council, while Labour had 11, the Liberal Democrats had 4 and there was 1 independent.


2010 Swale Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservatives made a net gain of two seats to win 14 of the 17 seats contested. The gains came at the expense of the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, which each finished one seat down.


2010 Swale Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservatives took Murston from the Liberal Democrats and Roman from Labour, as well as gaining Sheerness East by a single vote from Labour. However Labour retained Chalkwell with a majority of 30 votes over the Conservatives and gained one of the two seats contested in Queenborough and Halfway from the Conservatives.


2010 Swedish Football Division 2
Statistics of Swedish football Division 2 for the 2010 season.


2010 Swedish Football Division 2, Player of the year awards
Ever since 2003 the online bookmaker Unibet have given out awards at the end of the season to the best players in Division 2. The recipients are decided by a jury of sportsjournalists, coaches and football experts. The names highlighted in green won the overall national award.


2010 Swedish Football Division 3
Statistics of Swedish football Division 3 for the 2010 season.


2010 Swedish Golf Tour
The 2010 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the Nordea Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 27th season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments held in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.


2010 Swedish Golf Tour
The tournaments also featured on the 2010 Nordic Golf League (NGL).


2010 Swedish Golf Tour, Schedule
The season consisted of 13 events played between May and October.


2010 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
The 2010 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the Nordea Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 25th season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women held in Sweden and Finland.


2010 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
2010 was the first of seven seasons with Nordea as the main sponsor of the Tour, after Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) pulled out as main sponsor after only two seasons. The schedule remained largely unchanged from 2009, but the LET event Göteborg Masters cancelled during 2009 did not return.


2010 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
Kaisa Ruuttila from Finland won four events and the Order of Merit.


2010 Swedish Golf Tour (women), Schedule
The season consisted of 13 tournaments played between May and October, where one event was held in Finland.


2010 Swedish Open
The 2010 Swedish Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2010 ATP World Tour and 2010 WTA Tour. It took place in Båstad, Sweden, from July 5 through July 11, 2010 for Women's and from July 12 through July 18, 2010 for Men's. It was also known as 2010 Collector Swedish Open for the Women's and 2010 SkiStar Swedish Open for the Men's for sponsorship reasons. It was the 2nd edition for the Women's, while the 63rd for the Men's.


2010 Swedish Open, WTA Entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw


2010 Swedish Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw


2010 Swedish Open, Finals, Men's doubles
Robert Lindstedt /  Horia Tecău defeated  Andreas Seppi /  Simone Vagnozzi, 6–4, 7–5


2010 Swedish Open, Finals, Women's doubles
Gisela Dulko /  Flavia Pennetta defeated  Renata Voráčová /  Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová 7–6(7–0), 6–0


2010 Swedish Open – Men's Doubles
Jaroslav Levinský and Filip Polášek were the defending champions, but Levinský didn't participate this year. Polášek chose to play with Leoš Friedl. However, they lost to Máximo González and Sebastián Prieto in the first round. Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecău won in the final 6–4, 7–5, against Andreas Seppi and Simone Vagnozzi.


2010 Swedish Open – Men's Singles
Robin Söderling was the defending champion, but he lost to Nicolás Almagro in the final 5–7, 6–3, 2–6.


2010 Swedish Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2010 Swedish Open – Women's Doubles
Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta were the defending champions. They won this year's event again after beating Renata Voráčová and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová in the final 7–6(0), 6–0.


2010 Swedish Open – Women's Singles
María José Martínez Sánchez was the defender of title, but withdrew due to a knee injury. Aravane Rezaï became the new champion, after she won in the final 6–3, 4–6, 6–4, against Gisela Dulko.


2010 Swedish Touring Car Championship
The 2010 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 15th and last Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) season. Four of the race weekends were held together with the Danish Touring Car Championship and the results from these races also counted towards the Scandinavian Touring Car Cup. From 2011, the new Scandinavian Touring Car Championship replaced both the Swedish and the Danish Touring Car Championships.


2010 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Teams and drivers
The official entry list for the 2010 STCC season was released on March 20. All teams were Swedish-registered.


2010 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Race Calendar
The calendar for the 2010 season was published in November 2009. As a first step towards the planned merger with the Danish Touring Car Championship, four of the races will be held together with DTC.


2010 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Results and standings
The points system used for both the main championship and Semcon Cup is the new FIA system of 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1, awarded to the top ten finishers of each race. In case of ties in points, the championship positions are determined by the classification in the latest race.


2010 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Races
* In the joint STCC and DTC races, only the highest placed STCC driver/team is listed.


2010 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Drivers Championship
† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.


2010 Swedish cold waves
Sweden had a very unusual start and finish to the year 2010, with two consecutive winter cold waves occurring in a single calendar year. Since both events were notable, both are covered in this article.


2010 Swedish cold waves, January–February 2010 cold wave, January
January was in the southern part of the country the coldest for 23 years, the deep freeze of 1987. Some cold weather had finished 2009 and was followed with solid freezing temperatures during the first week of January. The December means were not by any means extreme, but the cold would gradually build up. The intense cold set in between January 7 and January 15, with Horn as far south as in northern Götaland recording an overnight low of −31.6 °C (−24.9 °F) and Hemavan in the north of the country recording −40.8 °C (−41.4 °F).


2010 Swedish cold waves, January–February 2010 cold wave, January
Relatively less extreme temperatures would follow during the second half of the month, until the final days of January saw another cold snap after some heavy snowfall on January 27–28. During the final three days of the month low temperatures fell below −20 °C (−4 °F) in most areas far south in the country. Linköping recorded −28.9 °C (−20.0 °F), which was the coldest temperature recorded on this location since the record-breaking 1942 cold wave.


2010 Swedish cold waves, January–February 2010 cold wave, January
The end result of January was that capital Stockholm that is inside an urban heat island did not record a single temperature above 0.0 °C (32.0 °F) all month. In Örebro the maximum temperature recorded was −0.6 °C (30.9 °F) and in Västerås −1 °C (30 °F), which is very rare for an area so far south in Sweden. Remarkably, the far north of the country saw less severe January temperatures than during the 1961-1990 reference period.


2010 Swedish cold waves, January–February 2010 cold wave, February
February was colder than usual, although not matching the January extremes in the southerly parts of the country. The cold was shifted further north, with Nikkaluokta above the polar circle having a monthly mean of −19.9 °C (−3.8 °F) and an average low of −27.3 °C (−17.1 °F). With means below Dalälven (the boundary between Svealand and Norrland) being between −2 °C (28 °F) and −7 °C (19 °F) in most cases the heavy snowfall was a larger issue. Westerlies mixed with the colder than usual air made snowfall abundant during the low-pressure systems' resurgence on the west coast.


2010 Swedish cold waves, January–February 2010 cold wave, February
Although no February precipitation records were broken, an unusual amount of what fell came as snow in the southerly part of the country, where winter highs normally are above freezing. The frequent snowfall caused havoc for rail transport, with severe delays and cancellations of many lines. The night of February 22 was among the coldest of the entire cold wave, with Stockholm recording −21.0 °C (−5.8 °F) inside the urban heat island and −27.5 °C (−17.5 °F) being measured in Örebro. February 24 saw the coldest temperature of the winter being recorded in Naimakka in the far north with −42 °C (−44 °F).


2010 Swedish cold waves, March–October
From March onwards the temperatures slowly returned to normal. March is a winter month in the northern parts of the country, but apart from a −33.3 °C (−27.9 °F) reading in Pajala in the far north, no particular extremes were being seen. Sweden was affected less by the intense 2010 Northern Hemisphere summer heat waves than Russia, Finland or Germany were, although some hot temperatures were recorded and Lund had a July mean of 20.9 °C (69.6 °F) and Stockholm had one of the hottest months in the country's history with 21.2 °C (70.2 °F).


2010 Swedish cold waves, March–October
Unlike many other heat waves, the effects were rather local and did not affect the whole country. Such were the swings that Stockholm's 2010 values were in some ways comparable to inland areas in southern Ontario in Canada, known for its very continental climates. The summer peaked with a 34.4 °C (93.9 °F) reading in Målilla on July 11. Afterwards, August and September cooled down fairly rapidly, but with October being unusually cold.


2010 Swedish cold waves, November–December cold wave, November
November 2010 was described as King Bore (very cold winter) moved south by SMHI, with tendencies of winter even in the deep south. The nature of November in the south is low diurnal temperature variation and lack of extreme cold, but significant snowfall occurred on several occasions quite far south in the country, and Jönköping, Linköping, Uppsala and Örebro all recorded daily means below freezing. All of those cities are located inland, and in coastal locations means were above the freezing point, albeit not by much.


2010 Swedish cold waves, November–December cold wave, November
Stockholm and Gothenburg both recorded 7 days with highs below freezing, something that is highly unusual for the country's big cities in November. Even more remarkable were the five ice days measured in Malmö, with southern Scania often averaging means above freezing even in January. In the north of the country the cold was rather intense even by winter standards. Out of SMHI's 100 selected monthly stations, the −16.2 °C (2.8 °F) mean of Nikkaluokta was the lowest ever recorded for the month, and lower than its January normals.


2010 Swedish cold waves, November–December cold wave, November
Nikkaluokta also saw a −36.6 °C (−33.9 °F) reading on November 24, which was the lowest in the country for the month. This, unlike the averages was not a national record. Pajala and Arjeplog were also notably new record lows for November. No such records were broken south or east of the mountain ranges and the surrounding highland forests, where Ulvsjö in Bräcke Municipality in Jämtland saw a new record cold November with a −8.4 °C (16.9 °F) mean.


2010 Swedish cold waves, November–December cold wave, December
The most extreme cold of the year relative to the normals came in December. Although January 2010 had been slightly colder than what was recorded in the south of the country, December is normally a month that is above freezing during daytime in southern Sweden due to its seasonal lag that a maritime climate brings. Although the month started out quite mild, temperatures plummeted to extreme cold as winter solstice and Christmas neared. Most of the month was solidly below freezing in the entire country, with a few bursts of mild air affecting the deep south.


2010 Swedish cold waves, November–December cold wave, December
The cold just before Christmas was unprecedented this time of the year in many southern locations. Kalmar saw a record cold −25.6 °C (−14.1 °F) value, Kristianstad another record −24.6 °C (−12.3 °F) value, with Örebro nearly beating its December all-time record cold with −26.6 °C (−15.9 °F), the coldest value for 124 years. During Christmas, the most extreme cold had swept north, with several coastal cities of Norrland recording temperatures around −30 °C (−22 °F). This, albeit highly unusual, did not break any December records.


2010 Swedish cold waves, November–December cold wave, December
Temperatures throughout the months in the northern parts of the country were quite far below normals, resulting in the cold wave being felt in the entire country. In the south, the New Year's Eve brought milder air, bringing temperatures just above freezing for that night. This marked the end of the cold wave in the south, with January 2011 being a normal winter month. The cold returned to normal levels further north as well, although winter temperatures there are more extreme than a cold wave in the south regardless. The coldest temperature of the month and year was recorded in Nikkaluokta on December 20, with −42.1 °C (−43.8 °F).


2010 Swedish cold waves, November–December cold wave, December
The fallout of December were a lot of new all-time low monthly mean temperatures in southern Sweden. The most extreme new record was set in Arvika, Värmland, with a monthly mean of −14.6 °C (5.7 °F) and a low of −20.2 °C (−4.4 °F). This was more than three degrees colder than the previous December record for the site and less than half a degree below the deep freeze of January 1987, in all possibly the coldest December month there since 1788.


2010 Swedish cold waves, November–December cold wave, December
Among other new December record cold months were found in Örebro, Norrköping, Linköping, Gothenburg, Malmö, Kalmar, Växjö, Kristianstad, Halmstad, Varberg, Borås, Vänersborg, Helsingborg, Ljungby, Visby and many maritime coastal stations such as Falsterbo, Landsort and the extreme points of Öland. The −5.3 °C (22.5 °F) reading of Helsingborg was also almost three degrees colder than the previous record.


2010 Swedish cold waves, The full year
The summer heat wave prevented all-time yearly cold records throughout the country in spite of the two cold waves. The nearest to a new all-time cold record was in Ljungby, which measured 5 °C (41 °F) as opposed to the 4.9 °C (40.8 °F) record of 1987. Although the year was colder than normal throughout the country, it takes a cool summer for those records to be broken, as were in 1942, 1985 and 1987.


2010 Swedish cold waves, The full year
In spite of this, it is extremely rare for inland locations in Götaland in the south to record yearly means below 5 °C (41 °F), as was done at some stations such as Jönköping, Vänersborg and Ulricehamn. The same was recorded in Örebro and Västerås further north, climates that most often are as mild as further south.


2010 Swedish cold waves, The full year
The year 2010 was a blip in a warming tendency of Swedish winters, the following winters were often delayed by mild autumns, and brief in nature with mild Februarys.


2010 Swedish cold waves, Regions
Norrköping had a record cold December, with a new all-time low for the month being set on December 23 with −24.7 °C (−12.5 °F). Also during the January cold wave, Norrköping did not go above freezing all month. In total, Norrköping had 158 frost days during the year.


2010 Swedish cold waves, Regions, Svealand
Stockholm did not set any cold records, but still had a colder year than usual, with the entire January month being below freezing. 136 air frosts were recorded throughout the year. In addition, Stockholm also had a very hot July, being most affected by the 2010 Northern Hemisphere summer heat waves than any other Swedish location. This moderated the yearly average, along with the urban heat island that always render milder overnight lows than in the rural Mälar valley.


2010 Swedish cold waves, Regions, Svealand
Örebro had a record cold December, and the coldest temperature for decades set in January with −28.3 °C (−18.9 °F). Considering the airport's rural setting farther from Lake Hjälmaren at a slightly higher elevation, temperature extremes in the city proper may have been slightly less severe, although these differences would be marginal. In total, Örebro recorded 171 air frosts in 2010.


2010 Swedish cold waves, Regions, Southern Norrland
Hudiksvall that normally has a very mild climate considering its northerly latitude saw one of its coldest years on record. Hudiksvall was the northernmost part of the country that saw a record cold December, although nearby Delsbo had seen a much colder value 17 years before Hudiksvall's weather station opened in 1932. Both cold waves also saw high snowfall. In total Hudiksvall had 179 frost days during 2010.


2010 Swedish general election
General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 2010 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag. The main contenders of the election were the governing centre-right coalition the Alliance, consisting of the Moderate Party, the Centre Party, the Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats; and the opposition centre-left coalition the Red-Greens, consisting of the Social Democrats, the Left Party and the Green Party.


2010 Swedish general election
The Alliance received 49.27 percent of the votes (an increase by 1.03 pp from the previous election) and 173 seats in the parliament (a decrease by 5 seats and 2 short of an overall majority), while the Red-Greens received 43.60 percent of the vote (a decrease by 2.48 pp) and 156 seats (a decrease by 15 seats).


2010 Swedish general election
The election also saw the nationalist Sweden Democrats entering parliament for the first time, as the sixth largest and only non-aligned of the eight parties elected to the parliament, by receiving 5.70 percent of the votes (an increase by 2.77 pp) and 20 seats. Both in terms of percentage share; 30.06%, and the actual vote; 1,791,766, the Moderate Party did its strongest election of the unicameral parliamentary era, narrowly missing out on beating the Social Democrats to become the largest party. The Alliance dominated the Stockholm capital region of the municipality and county and made further gains in South Sweden including narrowly flipping Malmö blue as well as winning pluralities in traditionally red towns such as Kalmar, Landskrona and Trelleborg.


2010 Swedish general election
The Alliance lost its absolute majority in the parliament but continued to govern as a minority government. The new parliament held its opening session on 5 October, with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt presenting the annual government policy statement, along with changes to his cabinet.


2010 Swedish general election
This was the first time in almost a century that a Swedish centre-right government that had served a full term was reelected.


2010 Swedish general election, Results
There were 5,960,408 valid ballots cast for a turnout of 84.63%.


2010 Swedish general election, Campaign
One of the main campaign themes was the Economy of Sweden.


2010 Swedish general election, Campaign
The Sweden Democrats (SD) stated that it wished to cut political asylum and family reunification immigration by 90 percent. The SD leader Jimmie Åkesson wrote, in an opinion piece for the social-democratic tabloid Aftonbladet that the growth of the country's Muslim population "is the greatest foreign threat to Sweden since the Second World War."


2010 Swedish general election, Campaign
The parties already represented in the Swedish parliament, along with the Swedish television networks, excluded minor parties from the televised political debates. The excluded minor parties included the Sweden Democrats, the June List, the Feminist Initiative, and the Pirate Party.


2010 Swedish general election, Polling
After the election in September 2006, the Alliance slipped well behind the opposition in the polls. A Sifo poll conducted in February 2008 showed the opposition leading the Alliance by 19.4%. However, this lead steadily eroded during the second half of the Alliance's term, despite the opposition's uniting in the Red-Green co-operation in December 2008.


2010 Swedish general election, Polling
The Sweden Democrats were expected to enter the Parliament for the first time, as the party's polling results had exceeded the 4% entry threshold since June 2009. The Green Party had also made a significant transformation from the smallest elected party to the third largest party during the term, overtaking the Left Party, the Christian Democrats, the Liberals and even the Centre Party in most polls following the 2006 election.


2010 Swedish general election, Controversy about Sweden Democrats
The Sweden Democrats generated controversy before the election. Both the Alliance and the Red-Greens pledged not to seek support from the SD, with Reinfeldt ruling out forming a government in cooperation with the Sweden Democrats.


2010 Swedish general election, Controversy about Sweden Democrats
A privately owned television network, TV4, refused to air a SD campaign video, which was then uploaded to YouTube and viewed more than one million times. The SD video portrayed a track-meet, in which the race is for pension funds. In the video, a Swedish pensioner is outrun by burka-clad women with prams.


2010 Swedish general election, Controversy about Sweden Democrats
Several politicians in Denmark, initially from the Danish People's Party and later from the governing Venstre and the Conservative People's Party, reacted to TV4's refusal to air the video by calling for international election observers to be sent to Sweden. Pia Kjærsgaard, leader of the Danish People's Party, claimed that the election reminded her of "Eastern Europe", and that Sweden was the "banana republic" of the Nordic countries. Per-Willy Amundsen of the Norwegian Progress Party also criticised the decision as a "violation of democratic rules."


2010 Swedish general election, Controversy about Sweden Democrats, Violence
On 13 September in Gothenburg, about 500 counter-demonstrators prevented the Sweden Democrats from making a planned election rally. Police used pepper spray to disperse the counter-demonstration, which lacked a permit, and seven counter-demonstrators were detained. On 14 September, the Sweden Democrats cancelled planned rallies in three cities, Eskilstuna, Karlstad, and Uddevalla, because of security concerns. Similarly, concerns about security led to an election tour being cancelled on 15 September in Norrköping.


2010 Swedish general election, Controversy about Sweden Democrats, Violence
After these cancelled election rallies, the National Police Commissioner Bengt Svenson severely criticized the county police for failing to safeguard the Sweden Democrats: "If it is not possible to protect them [in those locales], the police have failed in its planning and execution of its mission. [ . . . ] It is a serious problem when such meetings cannot be held, because it is our absolute duty to ensure that the constitutionally guaranteed rights be maintained and that all meetings can be held".


2010 Swedish general election, Controversy about Sweden Democrats, Consequences
These attempts to limit the SD message were described by Al Jazeera as counterproductive, in that they enabled the SD to portray itself as a victim of censorship.


2010 Swedish general election, Controversy about Sweden Democrats, Consequences
Similarly, Hanne Kjöller of Dagens Nyheter hypothesised that the attacks strengthened the Sweden Democrats rather than hurting the party's support base. "Jimmie Åkesson becomes a poor underdog and the picture of a party that is holding some dangerous but important truth is enhanced. The Sweden Democrats should send flowers to the left-wing extremists, thanking them for the publicity."


2010 Swedish general election, Reactions
As exit polls conducted by the national broadcaster Swedish Television predicted, the Sweden Democrats reached the 4% threshold needed to enter parliament, making this election the first in which they were able to enter parliament.


2010 Swedish general election, Reactions
A preliminary count of 5,668 voting districts showed the Alliance with 172 seats, ahead of the Red-Greens. However, this fell short of the 175 seats needed for an absolute majority, and it appeared the Sweden Democrats would hold the balance of power in the new parliament. Reinfeldt declared that he had no intention to cooperate with the Sweden Democrats.


2010 Swedish general election, Reactions
On 23 September, the final results showed the Centre Party gaining an adjustment seat in Dalarna, giving the Alliance a total seat count of 173, still two seats short of an absolute majority. The Alliance's Liberal People's Party were only 7 and 19 votes short from gaining additional seats in Gothenburg and Värmland respectively, but according to Svante Linusson, a professor in mathematics, the actual margin was still over 800 votes.


2010 Swedish general election, Reactions
On the day after the election, rallies against the Sweden Democrats took place in a number of Swedish cities. Reports indicated that 10,000 people were estimated to have marched in Stockholm under banners reading "We are ashamed", "No racists in Parliament", and "Refugees – welcome!". In Gothenburg, 5,000 people took part in a "sorrow march against racism", and 2,000 people marched in Malmö.


2010 Swedish general election, Reactions
Support for the Sweden Democrats was strongest in the southernmost province Scania, where the party received about 10% percent of the vote, and in the neighbouring province Blekinge, where they received 9.8 percent; the foreign media quoted "some people" from further north of the country as calling for Scania to be handed back to Denmark, where the Danish People's Party were seen as an inspiration for the SD.


2010 Swedish general election, Reactions
Liberal evening tabloid Expressen wrote in an editorial "The banner of tolerance has been hauled down and the forces of darkness have finally also taken the Swedish democracy as hostage. It's a day of sorrow." Liberal conservative morning newspaper Svenska Dagbladet said "[It is] time for the Swedes to get themselves a new national self-image [as the election] created a new picture of Sweden".


2010 Swedish general election, Analysis
"While it's hard to say that Sweden has woken up to a new self-image, one can say that this is more like a normal European situation and is similar to other western European countries with a proportional election system, where a populist right-wing party has seats in parliament. It's the party that is the least liked among other voters, so it is not surprising that people have reacted with dismay". Carl Dahlstroem, professor of politics at Gothenburg University.


2010 Swedish general election, Analysis
The election was a landmark for its impact on the Social Democrats, which had been in government for 65 of the last 78 years and who had never lost two consecutive elections. This was their worst result since universal suffrage in 1921. Swedish political scientist Stig-Björn Ljunggren said "The Social Democrats no longer symbolise the Swedish model. They've lost their magic." The Dagens Nyheter postulated that electoral failure was based on internal factors, such that the Social Democrats failed to win over the middle class and had completely lost touch with their original vision, which had made them a dominant political party.


2010 Swedish general election, Analysis
The Irish Times saw the rise of the SD as sending "ripples of shock not only through the country but through European politics," and asked "Is this finally it for the 'Swedish model'" that has been represented as a "meld of liberal values, high taxes, outstanding childcare and welfare that made the country the poster boy for European social democracy?" The Social Democrats' failure reflected the party's inability to adapt, an increasingly technocratic profile, a failure to address immigration concerns, as well as Reinfeldt's success in managing the economy.


2010 Swedish general election, Analysis
The results draws parallels with a larger decline of European left parties. An article in Al Jazeera English asked if Western political dynamics were changing following the Swedish and United States elections. The article said that predictions after the election indicated "an entirely new political landscape" and "the beginning of an era of sharper political division in Sweden." It asked if the similar results "reflect rather an underlying continuity in the generation-long evolution of Euro-American politics towards a fully neoliberalised system" and that Sweden seemed to be "moving towards an outdated model." It also said that, while social policies were similarly moving to the right, economic policies were poles apart, with the emergence of far-right parties in Sweden and Denmark still supporting the welfare state and the American parties remaining on the economic right-wing.


2010 Swedish general election, Analysis
The case of Annika Holmqvist, a seriously ill 55-year-old woman who had her sickness benefits withdrawn and was requested to seek work, allegedly due to the Alliance's reforms of Sweden's social security system, gave the opposition a late boost in its campaign. The Local thinks it might have deprived the Alliance of an overall majority. Holmqvist's daughter wrote about her case in a web log post that gained publicity and became a hot topic in the debates. In spite of promises of a solution, after the election it was decided Holmqvist will lose her illness benefits.


2010 Swedish general election, Analysis
The Moderate Party was still seen as one of the big winners of the election because of its "well-executed campaign" that emphasised Sweden's "remarkable political and economic stability in a turbulent world" after Sweden weathered the recession; despite mass unemployment, the economic growth in 2010 was the highest in Western Europe.


2010 Swedish general election, Government formation
The Alliance formed the new government with Reinfeldt continuing as prime minister. His cabinet has 24 ministers, three more than the previous one. The Moderates received 13 posts, an increase of three from their previous count, with the Liberals (4), Centre (4) and Christian Democrats (3) not gaining or losing ministers. Jan Björklund, the leader of the Liberal Party, was promoted to Deputy Prime Minister replacing Maud Olofsson. Carl Bildt remained Foreign Minister and Anders Borg remained Minister for Finance.


2010 Swedish general election, Government formation
The new ministers are Stefan Attefall, the Minister for Public Administration and Housing at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs; Ulf Kristersson, replacing Cristina Husmark Pehrsson as Minister for Social Security; Erik Ullenhag, the Minister for Integration at the Ministry of Employment; Hillevi Engström, the Minister for Employment; Anna-Karin Hatt, the Minister for Information Technology and Regional Affairs at the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications; Peter Norman, replacing Mats Odell as Minister for Financial Markets; and Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd, replacing Åsa Torstensson as Minister for Communications. Tobias Krantz, former Minister of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education and Research, is leaving with no successor having been named.


2010 Swedish general election, Government formation
Reinfeldt issued a 30-page statement of the new government's policies, saying it would "seek a broad-based and responsible solutions (sic)", and that it would "be natural...to hold regular discussions with the Green Party, in the first instance and also the Social Democratic Party where appropriate."


2010 Swindon Borough Council election
The 2010 Swindon Borough Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect members of Swindon Unitary Council in Wiltshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2010 Swindon Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservatives retained their majority in the election, just losing one seat to have 41 councillors. The Conservative defeat came in Parks ward with Labour gaining the seat, while the only other change came in Penhill where the Liberal Democrats gained a previously independent seat. Among the Conservatives to retain a seat was the leader of the council, Roderick Bluh, who held Dorcan by a reduced majority of 460. After the election the other parties on the council were Labour with 13 seats, Liberal Democrats 4 and 1 independent.


2010 Swiss Cup Basel
The 2010 Swiss Cup Basel was held October 1–4 in Arlesheim, Switzerland. It was one of three events held during Week 4 of the 2010-11 curling season on the World Curling Tour, and the third overall event of the newly dubbed European Curling Champions Tour.


2010 Swiss Cup Basel
The event format is a 32-team triple knockout with eight teams qualifying into a single-elimination playoff round. The total purse for the event is 45,900 Swiss francs (CHF).


2010 Swiss Federal Council election
Two by-elections to the Swiss Federal Council were held in Switzerland on 22 September 2010, after Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger (SP) announced he would leave the Federal Council effective 31 December 2010 and Federal Councillor Hans-Rudolf Merz (FDP.The Liberals) on 6 August 2010 announced his intention to retire effective late October 2010. The by-elections resulted in the elections of Simonetta Sommaruga from the SP and Johann Schneider-Ammann from the FDP, resulting in no change in the partisan composition of the council. It also resulted in the first (and, to date, most recent) majority of women on the Federal Council in its history, with Sommaruga joining Micheline Calmy-Rey, Doris Leuthard and Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf.


2010 Swiss Federal Council election, Party positions
The Green Party and the Swiss People's Party laid claim to the FDP's seat. The election was complicated by the fact that Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger (Social Democratic Party, SP/PS) had previously announced his intention to retire in early July 2010, but effective late December 2010; the election to his seat was initially to be held on 8 December 2010, but Leuenberger then predated his resignation so that only one electoral session would have to be held.


2010 Swiss Federal Council election, Party positions
Possible candidates by the FDP for Merz's seat included Karin Keller-Sutter, Gabi Huber, Johann Schneider-Ammann, Philipp Müller, Felix Gutzwiller, Ruedi Noser, Christa Markwalder, Fulvio Pelli, Laura Sadis, Ignazio Cassis and Peter Malama. Malama officially announced his candidacy on 20 August 2010, and Schneider-Ammann was nominated on 2 September 2010. Noser, Keller-Sutter and Cassis were also nominated.


2010 Swiss Federal Council election, Party positions
The Green Party and FDP.The Liberals have announced they will support the SP's candidate for Leuenberger's seat, while the Swiss People's Party has announced it will put up its own candidate, likely either Jean-François Rime or Adrian Amstutz (Caspar Baader was mooted as a candidate, but declined). Rime was selected as their nominee on 3 September 2010. The Christian Democratic People's Party stated it would keep its options open, but then did not nominate any candidates. The CVP later stated it would support the SP and FDP.Liberals holding their seats.


2010 Swiss Federal Council election, Party positions
The SP's favoured candidates appeared to be Simonetta Sommaruga and Jacqueline Fehr, with Pascale Bruderer and Claude Janiak also considered possible candidates. Bruderer declined to seek the seat and Sommaruga officially announced her candidacy on 11 August 2010. Eva Herzog also announced her intention to stand, as did Hildegard Fässler. Fehr was also a candidate, which meant the SP nominated two of four women for the seat on 3 September 2010. There was speculation that the SP would support the Greens for the other seat, and it did not contest that seat.


2010 Swiss Federal Council election, Party positions
The Green Party contested the seat of Merz, having had with three possible candidates: Geri Müller, Marlies Bänziger and Brigit Wyss. Wyss ultimately became the Green candidate for the seat.


2010 Swiss Federal Council election, Official candidates
The following were nominated as official candidates for Leuenberger's seat:


2010 Swiss Figure Skating Championships
The 2010 Swiss Figure Skating Championships took place between 10 and 12 December 2009 at the Pista Resega in Lugano. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior level. The results were used to choose the Swiss teams to the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 European Championships.


2010 Swiss Indoors
The 2010 Swiss Indoors was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 41st edition of the event known that year as the Davidoff Swiss Indoors, and was part of the 500 Series of the 2010 ATP World Tour. It was held at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, from 1 November through 7 November 2010. Roger Federer won the singles title.


2010 Swiss Indoors, Players, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Swiss Indoors, Players, Other entrants
The following players received entries as a Lucky Losers into the singles main draw:


2010 Swiss Indoors, Finals, Doubles
Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan defeated  Daniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonjić, 6–3, 3–6, [10–3]


2010 Swiss Indoors – Doubles
Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić were the defending champions, but lost to Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan in the final match.


2010 Swiss Indoors – Singles
Novak Djokovic was the defending champion, but lost to Roger Federer 6–4, 3–6, 6–1 in the final.


2010 Swiss Open Super Series
The 2010 Swiss Open Super Series is a top level badminton competition which will be held from March 16, 2010 to March 21, 2010 in Basel, Switzerland. It is the fourth BWF Super Series competition on the 2010 BWF Super Series schedule. The total purse for the event is $200,000. St. Jakobshalle was host the competition. This was the 20th anniversary of the swiss Open tournament, since the tournament was held in St. Jakobshalle and entered the high-level World Badminton Grand Prix event in 1991.


2010 Swiss referendums
Six referendums were held in Switzerland during 2010; three in March on pension funds, animal protection and a constitutional amendment, one in September on unemployment benefits, and two in November on deporting foreign criminals and introducing a canton tax.


2010 Swiss referendums, Results, March
Voters approved Provision 1, an amendment to the constitution on research on humans.


2010 Swiss referendums, Results, March
Voters rejected Provision 2, a federal decree on providing enhanced legal protection for animals.


2010 Swiss referendums, Results, March
Voters also rejected Provision 3, a federal law which would change the minimum conversion rate for occupational and disability pension plans.


2010 Swiss referendums, Results, September
The referendum held on 26 September had a single topic, namely the revision of unemployment benefits. The centre and right-wing parties were in favour of the revision, which was undertaken to reduce the debt of the ALV, while the left-wing parties were against it.


2010 Swiss referendums, Results, September
The referendum was approved by 53.4% of voters, although only the German-speaking cantons (all of them except Basel-Stadt, which was against it with 50.4%) approved it.


2010 Swiss referendums, Results, November
The SVP's federal popular initiative on deportation was accepted with 52.2% and a majority of cantons in favour, while the counterproposal failed with only 44.5% in favour. Whilst it was not required, the tie-breaker showed a majority of voters against but a majority of cantons for. On 28 February 2016, a follow-up initiative, also launched by the SVP, was rejected by voters. The deportation initiative went in effect on 1 October 2016.


2010 Swiss referendums, Withdrawn
In August 2010, family members of a murder victim launched another constitutional amendment initiative to provide for Capital punishment in cases of murder combined with sexual violence. The initiative quickly found itself at the center of public attention and was roundly rejected by political leaders; it was withdrawn a day after its official publication.


2010 Sydney Roosters season
The 2010 Sydney Roosters season was the 103rd in the club's history. Having finished with the 'wooden-spoon' (last) in 2009 they competed in the National Rugby League's 2010 Telstra Premiership, finishing 6th (out of 16). The Roosters went on to play in the 2010 NRL Grand Final, losing to the St. George Illawarra Dragons.


2010 Sydney Roosters season, Pre-Season
The Sydney Roosters pre-season schedule begun with a "thank you" testimonial for Todd Carney the club that kept him playing Rugby League, the Atherton Roosters. A match was also scheduled against the New Zealand Warriors in Rotorua one day later. Coach Brian Smith sent a 22-man squad to each destination, with Smith and one of his assistant coaches, Rohan Smith heading to Rotorua and his other assistant coach Trent Robinson taking the other 22-man squad to Atherton.


2010 Sydney Roosters season, Pre-Season
The team that headed to Atherton won quite convincingly. This match saw Todd Carney score 6 points in the 68-18 win for the Roosters, in which JP Du Plessis scored a hat-trick including a try from his very first touch of the football. The team that flew out to Rotorua, on the other hand, under the leadership of Anthony Minichiello, had much tougher opposition and were well beaten 26-8 under the watchful eye of almost 10,000 supporters.


2010 Sydney Roosters season, Pre-Season
The following week, the Sydney Roosters are due to play their annual Foundation Cup match against the Wests Tigers. This will be the fourth edition of the match, with the Roosters being victorious on all of the 3 previous occasions.


2010 Sydney Roosters season, Pre-Season
The Sydney Roosters pre-season schedule concluded with a win against the Parramatta Eels at Central Coast Stadium.


2010 Sydney Roosters season, Regular season, Results
The Roosters' season was highlighted by several periods. Firstly, the Chooks made a bright start winning two from two but were flogged by the Canterbury Bulldogs and during the middle of the season the Roosters seemed destined to continue with a win-loss-win-loss pattern. They also won five in a row towards the end of the season, then lost three before coming back to convincingly beat Manly, 30-14. Despite a clear run through the finals, including the almighty 100 minute epic against the Tigers, they lost the Grand Final, 32-8, against St. George Illawarra.


2010 Sydney Roosters season, Regular season, Standings
1 Melbourne were deducted eight premiership points and barred from receiving premiership points for the rest of the season due to gross long-term salary cap breaches.


2010 Sydney Roosters season, Kit and Sponsors, Steggles
The Sydney Roosters reaffirmed their 'New Beginning' motto by announcing their new major sponsor, Steggles. As a part of the agreement, the clubs 'New Attitude' of Community Engagement would be embraced through a new initiative, the Charity Nest. The three-year deal could see up to $250,000 donated to charities in the 2010 season.


2010 Sydney Roosters season, Kit and Sponsors, Steggles
For every point the Sydney Roosters beat their opposition by in the 2010 season, Steggles would donate $1,000 to Charity Nest, with an extra $250 contributed by the Roosters.


2010 Sydney Telstra 500
The Sydney Telstra 500 was the fourteenth and final event of the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series and the second running of the Sydney 500. It was held on the weekend of the December 3 to 5 on the Homebush Street Circuit in Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales.


2010 Sydney Telstra 500
The Sydney Telstra 500 comprised the 25th and 26th races of the season. The race format followed the same as the Adelaide 500, with a 250 kilometre race each day.


2010 Sydney Telstra 500
Leading into the weekend, James Courtney of Dick Johnson Racing, reigning champion Jamie Whincup of Triple Eight Race Engineering and Mark Winterbottom of Ford Performance Racing were in contention to win the championship. With the trio running in the top three, a late-race downpour on the Saturday saw all three drivers, amongst many others, hit the wall at Turn 5. Dick Johnson Racing, unlike Triple Eight and Ford Performance Racing, crucially managed to get Courtney on track in time to score points. This gave Courtney the advantage heading into the Sunday race, in which his 14th-place finish was sufficient to secure his maiden championship.