2013 Ashes series
The 2013 Ashes series was a series of Test cricket matches contested between England and Australia for the Ashes. It formed part of the 2013 Australian tour of England, which also included the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, five One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals.


2013 Ashes series
The 2013 series was the first of two back-to-back Ashes series. With the intent of breaking the cycle of Ashes series being held directly before Cricket World Cups, the Ashes were brought forward in the schedule by one year, starting with the 2013–14 series in Australia.


2013 Ashes series
England won the series 3–0, with wins at Trent Bridge, Lord's and the Riverside Ground; the matches at Old Trafford and The Oval finished as draws.


2013 Ashes series, Venues
The five venues used in the series were Trent Bridge, Lord's, Old Trafford, the Riverside Ground and The Oval. There were questions as to whether Lord's would host an Ashes match – it would have been the first time since 1882 that Lord's had not hosted an Ashes Test – but the venues were eventually confirmed to include Lord's on 22 September 2011. On 1 June 2012, it was announced that the first Test was scheduled to take place at Trent Bridge.


2013 Ashes series, Venues
It was the first Ashes series held in England since 1977 not to include a match at Edgbaston.


2013 Ashes series, Squads
The Australia squad was announced on 24 April 2013. The squad included players for the entire Australian tour of England and Scotland, including the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, the T20I series against England, and the ODI series against both England and Scotland. Among those selected were 35-year-old opening batsman Chris Rogers, five years after his only other Test cap, and uncapped all-rounder James Faulkner. Despite having played in nine of the last 10 Ashes Tests, seamer Mitchell Johnson was omitted from the squad, as was the highly rated, Pakistan-born leg spinner, Fawad Ahmed, who had not yet received his Australian passport.


2013 Ashes series, Squads
All-rounder Steve Smith was added to the squad on 23 June after captain Michael Clarke suffered injury concerns, while left-arm orthodox spinner Ashton Agar was called up as back up for Nathan Lyon after taking six wickets for Australia A in three matches against Scotland, Ireland and Gloucestershire.


2013 Ashes series, Squads
Having been suspended until the start of the first Test for punching Joe Root on a night out during the Champions Trophy, opening batsman David Warner was sent on the Australia A tour of southern Africa to regain match experience; during the tour, which lasted from 18 to 27 July, Warner remained part of the Australian Ashes squad.


2013 Ashes series, Squads
The England squad for the first Test was announced on 6 July 2013, the most notable absentee being batsman Nick Compton, who had opened the batting with captain Alastair Cook in each of the nine Tests since the retirement of former captain Andrew Strauss; Compton was replaced in the opening partnership by 22-year-old Joe Root. Middle-order batsman Kevin Pietersen and spinner Graeme Swann were included after overcoming injury troubles from earlier in the year, while Tim Bresnan, Steven Finn and Graham Onions were all selected as competition for the third seam bowling spot alongside James Anderson and Stuart Broad.


2013 Ashes series, Squads
After naming an unchanged squad for the first two Tests, England were forced into a change for the third Test after Pietersen suffered a calf injury on the third day at Lord's. After much speculation regarding his replacement, Nottinghamshire batsman James Taylor was called up on the back of an unbeaten century against the Australians in a tour match against Sussex, for whom he was making a guest appearance. The England selectors also made the decision to allow Finn and Onions to return to their clubs, to be replaced by seamer Chris Tremlett and another spin option in Monty Panesar. Following the fourth Test at Chester-le-Street, Tim Bresnan was ruled out for the summer, so Simon Kerrigan and Chris Woakes were given surprise call-ups and would both go on to make their debuts in the fifth Test at The Oval.


2013 Ashes series, Matches, First Test
The first Test was noted as a dramatic match with the advantage swinging between the two sides, culminating in a close result. England's opening innings of 215 all out was considered disappointing, however Australia seemed to be heading to a significant deficit after being reduced to 117/9 in the following innings. The record-breaking 10th-wicket stand revived the tourists to an unexpected 65-run lead by the end of the innings. England reclaimed the upper hand in the third innings, with Ian Bell's century contributing to a total of 375, setting Australia a target of 311 to win the Test.


2013 Ashes series, Matches, First Test
England looked to be in a strong position, as there had been only 10 recorded successful fourth-innings run chases of over 300 in Test history. However, Australia had a strong showing with the bat and were only 15 runs short of victory by the time the final partnership was broken in the afternoon session of the fifth day.


2013 Ashes series, Matches, Second Test
In comparison to the close first Test, the second match of the series was a much easier victory for England. Though losing their first three wickets for just 28 runs England managed 361 by the time their final wicket fell in the morning session on day two. Australia only managed a response of 128, their lowest total at Lord's since 1968, with the second innings ending before the end of the day's play. With a lead of over 200 runs, England captain Alastair Cook had the option of making the Australians follow-on, but elected not to.


2013 Ashes series, Matches, Second Test
In the third innings, Australia managed to reduce England to 30/3, but from then on, England were dominant, with Joe Root scoring 180 in 338 balls and 466 minutes at the crease. Immediately following Root's dismissal early on the fourth day, Cook declared at 349/7. England managed to dismiss Australia before the end of the day's play, securing a 2–0 lead in the series.


2013 Ashes series, Matches, Third Test
England went into the third Test needing only a draw to retain the Ashes. In the opening innings the English bowlers were ineffective against the Australian batsmen, with captain Michael Clarke scoring 187 runs. Australia ended up batting for most of the first two days before declaring on 527/7. England's second innings batting response was slow, scoring 368 all out at an average run rate of just 2.63 runs per over.


2013 Ashes series, Matches, Third Test
However England critically managed to avoid the follow-on and consumed much of the time remaining in the game; Australia began the third innings shortly before lunch on the fourth day. Australia quickly scored 172 runs at a run rate of 4.77 runs per over, and elected to declare overnight, hoping to bowl England out on the final day to win the game. However rain and poor light meant that only 20 overs were played. With the match declared a draw England retained the Ashes.


2013 Ashes series, Matches, Fourth Test
Having already at least drawn the series, England's first innings was slow with an average run rate of only 2.58 per over. England managed to hit 149/2 before succumbing to a run total of 238 early on the second day of the test. Australia's response was marginally better, with Chris Rogers hitting a century to contribute to his team's 270-run innings despite bad light. In the third innings, Australia were unable to prevent Ian Bell from securing his third century of the series by the close of the third day. England made 330 all-out, leaving a target of 299. In the fourth innings, England dismissed Australia for 224 by the end of the fourth day to secure an unassailable 3–0 lead in the series.


2013 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test
Australia started strongly with both Shane Watson and Steven Smith hitting centuries in their first innings. Australia captain Michael Clarke opted to declare for 492/9 on the second day of the test. As in the previous test, England's first innings was slow with an average run rate of 2.6 per over. With rain forcing play to be abandoned on the fourth day, England managed to push to 377 all out just after lunch on the fifth day.


2013 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test
Australia added 111/6 in less than two hours before declaring, setting England a target of 227 from 44 overs; the run chase ended in a draw when play was called off due to bad light at 7:36pm, with England needing 21 runs from the final four overs. The umpires' decision to end the game early was controversial, with commentator Jonathan Agnew declaring it an "absolute disgrace".


2013 Ashes series, Decision Review System
The implementation of DRS in this series resulted in several controversies, mostly relating to the use of the Hot Spot technology. The most high-profile occurred in the first innings of the third Test: Usman Khawaja was given out caught-behind by on-field umpire Tony Hill, and reviewed the decision; Hot Spot showed no sign of an edge, and many observers noted that visual evidence also appeared to show that Khawaja did not edge the ball, but the decision was not overturned. Cricket Australia requested a formal explanation of the decision from the ICC following the match, and the decision was heavily criticised in Australian media. Kevin Pietersen was dismissed in similar circumstances in the second innings of the same match.


2013 Ashes series, Decision Review System
After the third Test, allegations were made by Australian broadcaster Channel Nine that batsmen were trying to avoid Hot Spot detections by applying silicone tape to their bats. While such a practice would have been technically legal under the laws of cricket, Kevin Pietersen, who was specifically named in the claims, angrily denied the allegations, and the ICC did not investigate the claims. In October 2013, Pietersen won libel damages from Specsavers after they ran an advert that implied that he had tampered with his bat.


2013 Ashes series, Broadcasters
The Australian live television rights to the series were shared by the Nine Network and Fox Sports, and the British rights by Sky Sports with daily highlights broadcast on Channel 5. Live radio commentary in the UK was provided by BBC Test Match Special, which was syndicated on ABC Radio Grandstand in Australia.


2013 Asia Series
The 2013 Asia Series was the seventh and final edition of the Asia Series, the premier Asian club baseball tournament, and the ninth time national champions from Asian leagues have competed against each other. The tournament was held in Taichung and Taoyuan, Taiwan, starting on 15 November with the final held on 20 November.


2013 Asia Series
In addition to teams from Nippon Professional Baseball, the Chinese Professional Baseball League, the Korea Baseball Organization, and the Australian Baseball League, this tournament was the first to include a team from Europe. Fortitudo Baseball Bologna was invited to participate as the winners of the 2013 European Cup, a similar tournament in Europe.


2013 Asia Series
The Canberra Cavalry from Australia defeated the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions of Taiwan 14–4 in the tournament final for their first Asia Series title. It was the first time that an Australian team had won the tournament, as well as the first time the tournament had been won by a team from outside of either Japan or South Korea.


2013 Asia Series, Game-fixing allegation
After the conclusion of the series, Canberra Cavalry player Matt Blazynski claimed that he was offered $30,000 to fix the final game with Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions. Blazynski claimed that he was approached by an individual with an unspecified amount of cash at a night club, and was promised $30,000 in return for fixing the game on the next day. The claim was investigated by both the police of Taiwan and the CPBL.


2013 Asia Series, Game-fixing allegation
On December 16, CPBL issued a statement and demanded a public apology from ABL. In the statement, CPBL explained that its investigation revealed several inconsistencies between Blazynski's claim and the CCTV footage provided by the night club's security team. For example, Blazynski claimed he was approached by a male individual who showed him a stack of cash. The footage obtained by CPBL shows him approaching a group of three individuals, including two males and one female, and there is no evidence any of them produce the money Blazynski mentioned.


2013 Asia Series, Game-fixing allegation
These individuals were also interviewed by either the police or CPBL, and there is no evidence suggesting any criminal connection. Furthermore, contrary to his claim that he returned to the hotel at 2:30AM, CCTV footage provided by the hotel reveals that he returned to the hotel around 4:00 with a female individual, who left the hotel approximately two hours later. CPBL also claimed that Blazynski has refused or is unwilling to provide any evidence to substantiate his claim or to explain the inconsistencies between his claim and the recording at the night club. CPBL stated that it is suspending any ongoing cooperation or exchange programs with ABL until the demand of apology is met.


2013 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship
The 2013 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season is an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA. The championship is contested by a combination of regulations with Group N competing directly against Super 2000 cars for points. A new rally was added to the calendar, the first since Rally of Queensland in 2009, in the Thailand Rally.


2013 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship
Indian driver Gaurav Gill won the Asian-Pacific championship after many years in the series. Gill won the championship despite his Finnish team mate Esapekka Lappi winning more events. Gill wrapped the title up early as the only rival outside of the Team MRF squad, Subaru driver Sanjay Takle, did not attend the final round at the China Rally.


2013 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship
Australian driver Simon Knowles won the Pacific Cup held over the three Pacific ocean events. The Asia Cup was held over three of the four Asian events, with the China Rally being left out in favour of candidate rally, the Thailand Rally. The Asia Cup was won by New Zealand driver Michael Young.


2013 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship, Championship standings
Note: 1 – 12 refers to the bonus points awarded for each leg of the rally for the first five place getters, 1st (7), 2nd (5), 3rd (3), 4th (2), 5th (1). There are two bonus legs for each rally.


2013 Asian Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships
The 2013 Asian Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships were the 8th edition of the Asian Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships, and were held in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan from April 25 to April 30, 2013.


2013 Asian Airgun Championships
The 2013 Asian Airgun Championships along with 25 m and 50 m Rifle and Pistol were held at Azadi Sport Complex, Tehran, Iran between 18 and 26 October, 2013.


2013 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships
The 27th edition of the Men's Asian Amateur Boxing Championships was held from June 30 to July 9, 2013 in Amman, Jordan.


2013 Asian Archery Championships
The 2013 Asian Archery Championships was the 18th edition of the Asian Archery Championships. The event was held in Taipei, Taiwan from October 29 to November 2, 2013 and was organized by Asian Archery Federation.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships
The 2013 Asian Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the biennial athletics competition between Asian nations. It was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Balewadi, Pune, India between July 3–7. Around 522 athletes from 42 nations competed at the event. It was the first time since 1989 that India had hosted the championships.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships
Prior to the competition, the election of the Asian Athletics Association president was convened in Pune. Qatar's Dahlan Jumaan al-Hamad (an IAAF vice-president) defeated the incumbent, Suresh Kalmadi of India, by a margin of 20 votes to 18. Kalmadi, on bail for corruption charges stemming from the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, did not attend the championships. The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan, declared the event open at the championships opening ceremony


2013 Asian Athletics Championships
China, the traditional regional leader at the competition, easily took the top spot in the medal rankings with sixteen gold medals and 27 medals in total. This maintained its streak as the best nation of the tournament – a run dating back to the 1983 edition. Second-placed Bahrain took five golds and fifteen medals overall (although Ali Khamis Khamis, the 400 metres runner-up, was their only native-born medallist). Japan placed third in the medal rankings with four golds and had the second greatest overall haul with 20 medals. In fifth place the hosts India had the next biggest haul, with 17 medals in total, although Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan had a greater number of gold medals.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships
The overall quality of the competition was reduced as several top Asian athletes were absent. Mutaz Essa Barshim was the only Asian 2012 Olympic medallist who intended to participate, but he withdrew due to a back injury. Thirteen champions from 2011 were present and six of them (Su Bingtian, Yousef Masrahi, Dejene Regassa, Shitaye Eshete, Satomi Kubokura, and Wassanee Winatho) successfully defended their title.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships
A total of eight championships records were bettered at the competition: Shitaye Eshete broke the longest-standing of these by winning the women's 10,000 metres in 32:17.29 minutes, breaking Zhong Huandi's time from 1989. The organisers used a performance-based points system to assign the titles of best athlete at the championships: Saudi 400 metres champion Yousef Masrahi was the best male with 1172 points while Bahrain's steeplechase winner Ruth Jebet was the best female with 1142 points.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships
The Athletics Federation of India withdrew an unnamed female shot putter from their squad for a failed doping test one day before the opening of the championships.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships, Hosting issues
The competition was originally set to take place in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of the state, ordered the removal of Sri Lanka from the competition on the grounds of war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan Civil War. This request was ignored by the Athletics Federation of India and in February 2013 Chennai withdrew as hosts of the championships.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships, Hosting issues
The federation approached the state governments of Jharkhand and Delhi, with the venues of Ranchi and New Delhi being suggested, but both states refused the host duties. Finally, in May the Maharashtra government agreed to host the event in Pune on the same dates agreed for the Chennai event. Pune already had a suitable track and field stadium that had recently played host to the Commonwealth Youth Games in 2008. The budget given for the championships, however, was significantly reduced.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 10,000 metres
The men's 10,000 metres at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 4.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres
The men's 100 metres at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on 3 and 4 July.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres, Results, Heats
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advanced to the Semifinals.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres, Results, Heats
Wind: Heat 1: -0.2 m/s, Heat 2: +0.1 m/s, Heat 3: -0.3 m/s, Heat 4: +0.1 m/s


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres, Results, Semi-finals
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the final. Wind: Heat 1: -1.1 m/s, Heat 2: -0.5 m/s


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 110 metres hurdles
The men's 110 metres hurdles event at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex. The final took place on July 5.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the semifinals.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Wind: Heat 1: +0.3 m/s, Heat 2: -0.4 m/s, Heat 3: +0.5 m/s


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres
The men's 1500 metres event at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex. The final took place on July 5.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres, Results, Heats
First 5 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the semifinals.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres
The men's 200 metres event at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 5–6.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres, Results, Heats
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advanced to the semifinals.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres, Results, Heats
Wind: Heat 1: -0.4 m/s, Heat 2: -0.6 m/s, Heat 3: +1.1 m/s, Heat 4: -0.4 m/s


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres, Results, Semi-finals
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the final.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 5.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
The men's 4 × 100 metres event at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 6, 2013


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay, Results, Heats
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the Final.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
The men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shiv Chhatrapati Stadium in Pune, India on 7 July.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres
The men's 400 metres event at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex. The final took place on July 4.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres, Results, Heats
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advanced to the semifinals.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres, Results, Semi-finals
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the final.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles
The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex. The final took place on July 7.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the semifinals.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres
The men's 5000 metres at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 7.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres
The men's 800 metres at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on 9 and 10 July.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the Final.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's decathlon
The men's decathlon at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 3–4.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's discus throw
The men's discus throw at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 4.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw
The men's hammer throw at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 6.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's high jump
The men's high jump at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 7.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw
The men's javelin throw at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 5.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's long jump
The men's long jump at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex. The final took place on July 5.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's pole vault
The men's pole vault at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 7.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's shot put
The men's shot put at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 3.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's triple jump
The men's triple jump at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 7.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 10,000 metres
The women's 10,000 metres at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 3.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres
The women's 100 metres event at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 4.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the final.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres, Results, Heats
Wind: Heat 1: -0.1 m/s, Heat 2: -0.4 m/s, Heat 3: -0.5 m/s


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres hurdles
The women's 100 metres hurdles event at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex. The final took place on July 5.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the semifinals.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres
The women's 1500 metres at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 5.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 200 metres
The women's 200 metres event at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 6–7.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 200 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the final.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 200 metres, Results, Heats
Wind: Heat 1: -0.2 m/s, Heat 2: +0.4 m/s, Heat 3: +0.2 m/s


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase
The women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 5.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
The women's 4 × 100 metres event at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 6.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shiv Chhatrapati Stadium on 7 July.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres
The women's 400 metres event at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex. The final took place on July 4.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the final.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres hurdles
The women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 7.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 5000 metres
The women's 5000 metres at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 7.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres
The women's 800 metres event at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 7.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's discus throw
The women's discus throw at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 3.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's hammer throw
The women's hammer throw at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 5.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's heptathlon
The women's heptathlon at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 5–6.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's high jump
The women's high jump at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 4.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's javelin throw
The Women's Javelin throw at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on 6 July.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's long jump
The women's long jump at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 3.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's pole vault
The women's pole vault at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 6.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's shot put
The women's shot put at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 6.


2013 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's triple jump
The women's triple jump at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on July 5.


2013 Asian Beach Volleyball Championships
The 2012 Asian Beach Volleyball Championship was a beach volleyball event, that was held from November 7 to 10, 2013 in Wuhan, China.


2013 Asian Canoe Slalom Championships
The 2013 Asian Canoe Slalom Championships were the 8th Asian Canoe Slalom Championships and took place from May 23–26, 2013 in Shuili River, Shuili, Taiwan.


2013 Asian Canoe Sprint Championships
The 2013 Asian Canoe Sprint Championships were the 15th Asian Canoe Sprint Championships and took place from September 26–29, 2013 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.


2013 Asian Cycling Championships
The 2013 Asian Cycling Championships took place at the Indira Gandhi Velodrome in New Delhi, India from 7 to 17 March 2013.


2013 Asian Development Tour
The 2013 Asian Development Tour was the fourth season of the Asian Development Tour, a second-tier tour operated by the Asian Tour, and the first season in which Official World Golf Ranking points were offered.


2013 Asian Development Tour, Order of Merit
The top three players on the Order of Merit earned Asian Tour cards for 2014.


2013 Asian Fencing Championships
The 2013 Asian Fencing Championships was held in Shanghai, China from 4 June to 9 June 2013.


2013 Asian Five Nations
The 2013 Asian Five Nations, known as the 2013 HSBC Asian 5 Nations due to the tournament's sponsorship by the HSBC, was the 6th series of the Asian Five Nations rugby union tournament. Japan was again crowned champion. The UAE finished last and is relegated for the following season.


2013 Asian Five Nations division tournaments
For main Top 5 Division, see: 2013 Asian Five Nations


2013 Asian Five Nations division tournaments
The 2013 Asian Five Nations division tournaments, known as the 2013 HSBC Asian 5 Nations due to the tournament's sponsorship by the HSBC, referred to the divisions played within the tournament. This was the 6th series of the Asian Five Nations.


2013 Asian Five Nations division tournaments, Teams
The teams involved, with their world rankings pre tournament, were:


2013 Asian Five Nations division tournaments, Division 1
Division one will be held in a round-robin format. All games will be played at Havelock Park in Sri Lanka between March 31 and April 6, 2013.


2013 Asian Formula Renault Series
2013 Asian Formula Renault Series (aka AFR Series) is the 14th season since its being created by FRD back in 2000. The Series bases the races in Zhuhai International Circuit as 4 rounds of races to be held there. For 3 of them, AFR joined Pan Delta Racing Festival and for the season finale, it will be a support race of the Zhuhai 500 km Endurance Race. Moreover, the AFR series will return to Shanghai for this season as the series holds a round of races on May 1–2 at Shanghai International Circuit.


2013 Asian Formula Renault Series
This year's AFR Series will see drivers to be divided in 3 categories – International, Asian and Masters Class. The International Class will include drivers who are the front runners of previous AFR seasons or other national races. Asian Class will consist of the up-and-coming Asian drivers. Meanwhile, Masters Class will be the battlefield for experienced drivers who are 35 or above. The points scoring system is twisted by a bit this year as well, as the championship will count towards the best 8 rounds out of 10. This change shall stimulate the battle for the championship.


2013 Asian Formula Renault Series, Teams and drivers
I = International ClassA = Asian ClassM = Master Class


2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
The 4th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (Korean: 2013년 실내 무도 아시안 게임), which is also counted as the 4th Asian Indoor Games and designated as AIGs 4, was held in Incheon, South Korea, from 29 June to 6 July 2013, despite the ongoing 2013 Korean crisis. It was initially slated for Doha, Qatar, after the country cancelled the last edition of Asian Indoor Games in 2011. However, Incheon was chosen as a replacement instead by the OCA. This event also acted as a test event and a prelude to the 2014 Asian Games.


2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, Venues
Nine different venues were used for these Games: Most of the following would also be used for the 2014 Asian Games.


2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, Participating nations
All 45 member countries of the Olympic Council of Asia were invited to compete at these Games, with only 43 OCA countries taking pare in the 2013 games. North Korea and Timor-Leste declined to send their athletes to these Games. Indian athletes participated the Games under the Olympic flag because the Indian Olympic Association was suspended.


2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, Sports
A total of twelve sports were approved for the 2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.


2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, Doping
What follows is a list of all the athletes that have tested positive for a banned substance during the Games. Any medals listed were revoked.


2013 Asian Judo Championships
The 2013 Asian Judo Championships were the 20th edition of the Asian Judo Championships, and were held in Bangkok, Thailand from April 19 to April 21, 2013.


2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships
The 2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships is an Asia continental junior championships to crown the best U-19 badminton players across Asia. It was held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia from 7–14 July 2013.


2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships, Tournament
The 2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships organized by the Sabah  Badminton Association, Badminton Association of Malaysia, and Badminton Asia Confederation. This tournament consists of mixed team competition, which was held from  7–10 July, as well as the five individual events started from 10–14 July.


2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships, Tournament, Venue
This tournament was held at Likas Indoor Stadium in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.


2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships, Medalists
In the mixed team event, China claim the title after defeat South Korea with the score 3–1. In the individuals event, China ensure two titles after won the men's and women's doubles event. Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea seize a title by winning the men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles events respectively.


2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships – Boys doubles
The Boys' Doubles tournament of the 2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships was held from July 10–14 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The defending champion of the last edition were Arya Maulana Aldiartama and Edi Subaktiar from Indonesia. Aldiartama this time teamed-up with Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo, and standing in the top seeds. The final turned into all-Chinese final after Li Junhui / Liu Yuchen faced their fellow countrymen Huang Kaixiang / Zheng Siwei in the finals that won by Li and Liu in straight games 21–15, 21–14.


2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships – Boys singles
The Boys' Singles tournament of the 2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships was held from July 10–14 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The defending champion of the last edition was Kento Momota from Japan. Thammasin Sitthikom of Thailand who standing in the top seeds was defeated by the No.5 seeded Soo Teck Zhi of Malaysia in the semifinals, while the second seeded Soong Joo Ven of Malaysia fell in the quarterfinals to Jeon Hyuk-jin of South Korea. Soo Teck Zhi emerged as the champion after beat Jeon Hyuk-jin in the finals with the score 21–17, 13–21, 21–15.


2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships – Girls doubles
The Girls' Doubles tournament of the 2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships was held from July 10–14 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. South Korean pair Lee So-hee and Shin Seung-chan were the gold medalist in the last edition. The top two seeded Lam Narissapat / Puttita Supajirakul of Thailand and Chae Yoo-jung / Kim Ji-won of South Korea finished in the semifinals round, and settle for the bronze medal. The gold medal went to Chinese pair Huang Dongping and Jia Yifan after an all-Chinese final versus their teammates Chen Qingchen and He Jiaxin that they won by 21–19, 21–16.


2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships – Girls singles
The Girls' Singles tournament of the 2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships was held from July 10–14 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The defending champion of the last edition was P. V. Sindhu from India. Busanan Ongbumrungpan, Hana Ramadhini, and Aya Ohori were the top 3 seeded this year. Ohori emerged as the champion after defeat Ongbumrungpan of Thailand in the finals with the score 21–11, 16–21, 21–13. It was the first time ever for Japan to win the gold medal in the girls' singles event.


2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships – Mixed doubles
The Mixed Doubles tournament of the 2013 Asian Junior Badminton Championships was held from July 10–14 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The defending champion of in this event were Choi Sol-kyu and Chae Yoo-jung of South Korea. Choi and Chae successfully claim the title back to back after beating Chinese pair, the second seeded Liu Yuchen and Huang Dongping in the finals with the score 21–11, 19–21, 21–13.


2013 Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships
The 19th Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships 2013 were held in Doha, Qatar, from  30 August ‐ 3 September 2013. It was organised by the Qatar Table Tennis Association under the authority of the Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU).


2013 Asian Karate Championships
The 2013 Asian Karate Championships are the 12th edition of the Senior Asian Karate Championships and 13th edition of the Cadet, Junior & U21 Asian Karate Championships and were held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from December 5 to December 7, 2013.


2013 Asian Le Mans Series
The 2013 Asian Le Mans Series was the second season of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's Asian Le Mans Series endurance auto racing championship. The series was initially launched in 2009 at the 1000 km of Okayama, but did not resume the following year. The project was reinitialized by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) in 2012, with the Chinese S2M Group serving as the series promoter and TS Motorsport serving as organizer. It is the fourth 24 Hours of Le Mans-based series created by the ACO, following the American Le Mans Series, European Le Mans Series, and FIA World Endurance Championship. The four event season began in Inje, South Korea on 4 August and ended in Selangor, Malaysia on 8 December 2013.


2013 Asian Le Mans Series, Regulations
The Asian Le Mans Series follows much of the format utilized by the American and European Le Mans Series. Four categories of cars are eligible for the series: Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2), Le Mans Prototype Challenge (LMPC), GT Challenge (GTC), and GT Challenge Amateur (GTC Am). The GTC category is open to FIA GT3 category cars, cars from one-make series, and unique to the Asian series, JAF-GT, a road-derived variant car taking part in the GT300 category of the Japanese Super GT series.


2013 Asian Le Mans Series, Regulations
All four categories require at least one amateur driver and one professional driver in each car, although teams are allowed a maximum of three drivers per car. In order to boost Asian participation in the series, all cars must also have at least one driver of Asian nationality. An LMGTE category, identical to that used at Le Mans, was considered but later dropped for the 2013 season. For the 3 Hours of Fuji, an SGT class is added into the race, which is an optional point-scoring round of the GT300 class of the 2013 Super GT season. Entrants must keep their original driver lineup in order to be eligible for the race.


2013 Asian Le Mans Series, Regulations
The team champions in the LMP2 will each automatic invitations in their category to the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, while the top two GTC class teams will earn invitations in the LMGTE Amateur category at Le Mans.


2013 Asian Le Mans Series, Calendar
An initial six race 2013 calendar was revealed during the 2012 6 Hours of Shanghai, although several circuits had previously announced contracts with the series. The first half of the season was exclusively in China, with the Zhuhai International Circuit, Shanghai International Circuit, and Ordos International Circuit playing host. Following an agreement between the teams and organisers to delay and compress the 2013 season, the Shanghai and Ordos rounds were cancelled, and the season now begins in South Korea at the new Inje Speedium which was completed early in 2013.


2013 Asian Le Mans Series, Calendar
Fuji Speedway in Japan hosts the second round a month before the 6 Hours of Fuji World Endurance Championship event. Zhuhai, the sole remaining Chinese round, is moved back to October for the third race of the year. The Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia will serve as the finale for the season, replacing the initially scheduled Sentul International Circuit of Indonesia.


2013 Asian Le Mans Series, Calendar
All events on the calendar will have practice sessions held on Friday, qualifying on Saturday, and the three-hour race on Sunday. Unlike the American and European Le Mans Series, the Asian Le Mans Series will not share any race weekends with the FIA World Endurance Championship.


2013 Asian Le Mans Series, Teams Championships
The winners of the LMP2 championship and the top two finishers in the GTC championship earn automatic entry to the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans.


2013 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship
The 2013 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship was the 14th staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in Azadi Indoor Stadium, Tehran, Iran.


2013 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship, Pools composition
The teams are seeded based on their final ranking at the 2012 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship.


2013 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship, Pools composition
Iran (Host & 3rd) Kuwait (14th) * United Arab Emirates Chinese Taipei


2013 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
The 2013 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 28 September to 6 October 2013. 24 teams entered for the tournament which 3 of them withdrew.


2013 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, Pools composition
The teams are distributed according to their position in the FIVB World Rankings as of 23 January, 2013.


2013 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, Pools composition
* Jordan, Indonesia and Pakistan withdrew, Uzbekistan moved to Pool A to balance the number of teams in each pool.


2013 Asian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
The 6th Rhythmic Gymnastics Asian Championships was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from 5–8 June 2013.


2013 Asian Shotgun Championships
The 2013 Asian Shotgun Championships were held in Almaty, Kazakhstan between October 1 and October 10, 2013 at the Asanov Shooting Club.


2013 Asian Table Tennis Championships
The 2013 Asian Table Tennis Championships were held in Busan, South Korea from June 30 to July 7, 2013. The Championships were the 21st edition of the Asian Table Tennis Championships.


2013 Asian Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
Singles matches were best of 7 games in the main draw.


2013 Asian Table Tennis Championships – Men's Team
The Men's team tournament of the 2013 Asian Table Tennis Championships was held from June 30 to July 3, 2013.


2013 Asian Table Tennis Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
Singles matches were best of 7 games in the main draw.


2013 Asian Table Tennis Championships – Women's Team
The Women's team tournament of the 2013 Asian Table Tennis Championships was held from June 30 to July 2, 2013.


2013 Asian Tour
The 2013 Asian Tour was the 19th season of the modern Asian Tour, the main men's professional golf tour in Asia excluding Japan, since it was established in 1995.


2013 Asian Tour, Tournament results
The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Asian Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Asian Tour members.


2013 Asian Tour, Tournament results
Only 50% of the prize money from major championships and World Golf Championships are counted towards the Order of Merit, but are not shown below.


2013 Asian Tour, Order of Merit
There is a complete list on the official site .


2013 Asian Weightlifting Championships
The 2013 Asian Weightlifting Championships was held in Astana, Kazakhstan from June 21 - 26, 2013. It was the 44th men's and 25th women's championship.


2013 Asian Weightlifting Championships, Medal table
Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)


2013 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship
The 2013 Asian Women’s Club Volleyball Championship was the 14th staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk Province, Vietnam.


2013 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship, Pools composition
The teams are seeded based on their final ranking at the 2012 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship.


2013 Asian Women's Junior Handball Championship
The 2013 Asian Women's Junior Handball Championship (12th tournament) took place in Almaty from June 23–29. It acts as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2014 Women's Junior World Handball Championship.


2013 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship
The 2013 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand from September 13 to September 21, 2013.


2013 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship, Pools composition
The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2011 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship.


2013 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship, Final standing
Wanna Buakaew, Piyanut Pannoy, Thatdao Nuekjang, Pleumjit Thinkaow, Onuma Sittirak, Wilavan Apinyapong, Amporn Hyapha, Tapaphaipun Chaisri, Nootsara Tomkom, Malika Kanthong, Pornpun Guedpard, Ajcharaporn Kongyot


2013 Asian Women's Youth Handball Championship
The 2013 Asian Women's Youth Handball Championship (5th tournament) took place in Bangkok, Thailand from 7 September–15 September. It acts as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2014 Women's Youth World Handball Championship.


2013 Asian Wrestling Championships
The 2013 Asian Wrestling Championships were held at the  Indira Gandhi Sports Complex in New Delhi, India. The event took place from April 18 to April 22, 2013.


2013 Asian Youth Games
The 2013 Asian Youth Games or AYG 2013 (Chinese: 2013亚洲青年运动会, Liǎngqiānlíngshísān Yàzhōu Qīngnián Yùndònghuì), officially the 2nd Asian Youth Games (Chinese: 第二亚洲青年运动会, Dìèr Yàzhōu Qīngnián Yùndònghuì) and commonly as Nanjing 2013 (Chinese: 南京2013, Nánjīng Liǎngqiānlíngshísān), were held in Nanjing, China from August 16–24, 2013. Just like the inaugural edition, the games served as a dress-rehearsal for the upcoming 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, which was also held in the same city.


2013 Asian Youth Games, Mascot
The mascot for the 2013 Asian Youth Games was unveiled in Nanjing on 31 October 2012. The mascot is called Yuan Yuan, is based on the image of Eosimias sinensis, the earliest higher primate to date found in Jiangsu.


2013 Asian Youth Games, Sports
Officially, there were a total of 112 events in 16 sports, 6 more than that of the previous edition held at Singapore.


2013 Asian Youth Games, Participating nations
The 2013 Asian Youth Games saw 2404 athletes from all 45 competed. According to the Games' official website, Indian athletes participated the Games under the Olympic flag because the Indian Olympic Association was suspended due to political interference in December 2012.


2013 Asian Youth Para Games
The 2013 Asian Youth Para Games (Malay: Sukan Para Remaja Asia 2013), officially known as the 2nd Asian Youth Para Games,  was an Asian youth disabled multi-sport event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 26 to 30 October 2013. Around 1200 athletes from 29 participating nations participated at the games which featured 14 sports.


2013 Asian Youth Para Games
This was the first time Malaysia hosted the games. Malaysia is the second nation to host the Asian Youth Para Games after Japan. The games was opened and closed by Khairy Jamaluddin at the Putra Stadium.


2013 Asian Youth Para Games
The final medal tally was led by Japan, followed by China, Iran, and host Malaysia.


2013 Asian Youth Para Games, Organisation, Development and preparation
The Malaysia Asian Youth Para Games Organising Committee (MAYPGOC) was formed to oversee the staging of the games.


2013 Asian Youth Para Games, Organisation, Venues
The 2nd Asian Youth Para Games had 15 venues for the games, 13 in Kuala Lumpur and 2 in Selangor.


2013 Asian Youth Para Games, Marketing, Logo
The 2013 Asian Youth Para Games logo is a bold, freestyle font image which represents the courageous and outgoing nature of youth. The red letters on the logo are outlined in blue with red represents the ambitious nature of these youthful athletes and their determination to succeed while the blue represents the spirit of togetherness and sportsmanship. The white dot of the letter ‘i’ represents the target or goal to be achieved by the athletes, officials and volunteers. The word ‘Malaysia’ represents the host nation of the games, Malaysia itself, while the Asian Paralympic Committee logo above the logo represents both the Asian Paralympic Committee and the Asian Youth Para Games.


2013 Asian Youth Para Games, Marketing, Mascot
The mascot of the 2013 Asian Youth Para Games is a mousedeer named, "Ujang". It is said that the mousedeer is a native animal in Malaysia locally known as pelanduk or kancil which is shy, but very agile and quick thinking. It is a favourite character in local folktales commonly known as "Sang Kancil", noted for its intelligence, wit, cunning feints and quick reaction to escape from all kinds of danger, especially from its enemies. The adoption of mousedeer as the games' mascot is to represent the courage of the Paralympic athletes in overcoming challenges and the odds. The name of the mascot, Ujang is a common nickname for local Malay youths.


2013 Aspria Tennis Cup – Trofeo CDI
The 2013 Aspria Tennis Cup – Trofeo CDI was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Milan, Italy between 17 and 23 June 2013.


2013 Aspria Tennis Cup – Trofeo CDI, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Aspria Tennis Cup – Trofeo CDI, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2013 Aspria Tennis Cup – Trofeo CDI – Doubles
Nicholas Monroe and Simon Stadler were the defending champions, but decided not to participate.


2013 Aspria Tennis Cup – Trofeo CDI – Doubles
Marco Crugnola and Daniele Giorgini won the final against Alex Bolt and Peng Hsien-yin 4–6, 7–5, [10–8].


2013 Aspria Tennis Cup – Trofeo CDI – Singles
Tommy Robredo was the defending champion, but decided no to participate.


2013 Aspria Tennis Cup – Trofeo CDI – Singles
Filippo Volandri won the final against Andrej Martin 6–3, 6–2.


2013 Associação Portuguesa de Desportos season
The 2013 season was Associação Portuguesa de Desportos' ninety second season in existence and the club's second consecutive season in the top flight of Brazilian football.


2013 Associação Portuguesa de Desportos season, Players, Squad information
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Associação Portuguesa de Desportos season, Players, Squad information, Youth squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Associação Portuguesa de Desportos season, Players, Appearances and goals, Goalscorers
Last updated: 17 November 2013Source: Match reports in Competitive matches


2013 Associação Portuguesa de Desportos season, Players, Transfers, In
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Associação Portuguesa de Desportos season, Players, Transfers, Out
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Associação Portuguesa de Desportos season, Competitions, Copa Sudamericana, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Astana season
The 2013 season for the Astana cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI ProTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2013 Atimonan road crash
The 2013 Atimonan road crash was a road accident involving three buses and five other vehicles which occurred on a zigzag diversion in  Maharlika Highway in Barangay Santa Catalina, Atimonan, Quezon province. The road accident killed 20 people and another 54 were injured.


2013 Atimonan road crash, Background
The site of crash, the zigzag diversion in Maharlika Highway in Atimonan Quezon is a notorious site for road accidents. The site is poorly lit and lacks sufficient traffic signs due to suspected sign theft.


2013 Atimonan road crash, Background
Investigators confirmed that the accident happened at 1:00 am on October 19 when a truck carrying hog feed crashed into a Super Lines passenger bus at the descending diversion road in Maharlika Highway in Santa Catalina Atimonan which triggered more collisions. The passenger bus in turn collided into six other vehicles: two buses, two cargo trucks, a trailer truck and a van which were driving from the opposite direction. The vehicles were toppled and the accident resulted to many fatalities. The investigation also confirmed based on the Super Lines bus driver's testimony that the truck involved in the first collision experienced a mechanical failure causing it to crash to the Super Lines bus.


2013 Atimonan road crash, Background
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) imposed a 30-day preventive suspension on the three bus lines involved. According to the LTFRB Chairman Atty. Winston Ginez, 35 units of Super Lines, 6 units of Isarog Bus Line and 20 units of Del Monte Land Transport Bus Company will be suspended. The bus lines involved will be given a chance to appeal.


2013 Atimonan road crash, Background
The bus lines involve will also be required to attend a road worthiness seminar, have all their units undergo a vehicle check and all their drivers should undergo a drug testing. The LTFRB also sent an investigation team to the crash site.


2013 Atimonan road crash, Background
The driver of the truck involved in the first collision died in the accident. Albert Nava the driver of the Super Lines bus was charged with reckless imprudence resulting in multiple homicide, multiple serious physical injuries and damage to property. The driver maintains that he was innocent and that he was one of the victims of the crash.


2013 Atlanta Braves season
The 2013 Atlanta Braves season was the Braves' 17th season of home games at Turner Field, 48th season in Atlanta, and 143rd season overall. The Atlanta Braves were the 2013 National League Eastern division champions 28th a record of 96-66. The Braves won their first game of the season (7–5) against the Philadelphia Phillies on April 1. They finished the season 96-66 and first place in the National League East, but lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Division Series.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Offseason
The Braves began the offseason with some major holes to fill. The Braves were losing future Hall of Famer Chipper Jones to retirement, and centerfielder and lead-off man Michael Bourn was lost to free agency. The idea going into the offseason was to get a centerfielder and either a thirdbaseman or left fielder, with Martín Prado playing either third base or left field depending which way they decided to go.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Offseason
The Braves signed B. J. Upton to a 5-year $75.25 million contract very early in the offseason, filling the need in centerfield. In January, they then acquired B.J. 's brother Justin Upton, a left fielder from the Diamondbacks, along with third baseman Chris Johnson, in exchange for Prado, Randall Delgado, and three minor league prospects.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Offseason
The Braves also traded Tommy Hanson to the Angels for relief pitcher Jordan Walden, signed back-up infielder Ramiro Pena, and signed Gerald Laird to replace back-up catcher David Ross, who signed with the Red Sox as a free agent. They also brought back a former teammate by claiming outfielder Jordan Schafer off waivers from the Houston Astros.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Offseason, Offseason subtractions and additions
On November 16, 2012, the Atlanta Braves signed free agent C Gerald Laird to a two-year deal worth $3M.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Offseason, Offseason subtractions and additions
On November 29, the Braves signed free agent CF B.J. Upton to a five-year deal worth $75.25M.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Offseason, Offseason subtractions and additions
On November 30, the Braves traded RHP Tommy Hanson to Los Angeles Angels for RHP Jordan Walden.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Offseason, Offseason subtractions and additions
On December 6, the Braves signed free agent LF Reed Johnson to a one-year deal worth $1.6M with the possibility to earn $150k in incentives, as well as a 2014 club option worth $1.6M or a $150K buyout.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Offseason, Offseason subtractions and additions
On December 7, the Braves signed free agent SS Ramiro Pena to a one-year deal.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Offseason, Offseason subtractions and additions
On January 24, 2013, the Atlanta Braves traded 3B Martín Prado, RHP Randall Delgado, RHP Zeke Spruill, SS Nick Ahmed and 3B Brandon Drury  to the Arizona Diamondbacks for LF Justin Upton and 3B Chris Johnson.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On April 6, down 5-4 in the ninth Melvin Upton Jr. (then known as B.J. Upton) hit a solo homerun off of Carlos Mármol to tie the game at 5-5. His brother Justin came up 3rd in the inning and he hit the walk-off homerun to dead center and the Braves won 6-5.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On April 23, 2013 against the Colorado Rockies, the Upton brothers hit back-to-back home runs, the first to do so since 1938.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On May 21 down 4-3 in the bottom of the 9th inning, Evan Gattis hit a two-out, solo homerun to tie the game. In the 10th inning, Freddie Freeman hit a bloop single scoring Jason Heyward from second base to win the game.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On June 1 against the Nationals, with the game tied at 1-1 in the 9th inning, the Nationals had runners at 3rd and 2nd with no outs and Craig Kimbrel pitching. Kimbrel came through, though. Ian Desmond struck out looking, Roger Bernadina hit a chopper to third, Chris Johnson fielded and threw Ryan Zimmerman out at home. Finally, Danny Espinosa flew out to Justin Upton to end the inning. In the bottom of the 10th, Melvin Upton Jr. singled and Jordan Schafer scored just ahead of Bernadina's throw for the win.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On June 4 against the Pirates, Andrelton Simmons hit a walk off triple in the 10th inning off of Mark Melancon for the 5-4 win.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On June 17 Dillon Gee took a shutout into the 9th inning. Looking for his first career complete game shutout, Freddie Freeman ruined the shutout bid with a walk off two-run homerun with one out to win the game 2-1.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On July 29 the Braves beat the Rockies 9-8 in an epic game. The Rockies beat up Brandon Beachy who was making his first start since July 2012 due to Tommy John surgery. Down 5-0 in the bottom of the 3rd, the Braves struck for 6 runs to take a 6-5 lead. The Rockies scored two more in the fourth to retake the lead. In the Bottom of the 5th the Braves retook the lead at 8-7 on a Dan Uggla RBI double and a Joey Terdoslavich RBI single.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
In the top of the 9th the Rockies rallied to tie the game when Carlos González hit an RBI single off of Jordan Walden to score Dexter Fowler. With the bases loaded newly acquired reliever Scott Downs threw one pitch to Todd Helton. He hit a line-drive right back to Downs who speared it to end the inning. In the bottom of the 10th, Andrelton Simmons hit a triple scoring Dan Uggla for a 10-9 Braves win.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On August 16 Justin Upton hit a walk off homerun in the bottom of the 10th off of current Brave Ian Krol to win the game 3-2. It was his 23rd homerun.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On August 28 against the Indians with the game tied at 2-2 in the bottom of the  9th inning Schafer stood at 2nd and Freeman at 1st with Chris Johnson at the plate. He hit the walk off single on a 2-2 count to score Schafer and win the game 3-2.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On August 31 Melvin Upton Jr. went 4 for 6 with the walk off single in the bottom of the 11th to win the game 5-4. He struck out in his first two at-bats before getting hits in the next four.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On September 14 Craig Kimbrel broke his personal single-season saves record of 46 with his 47th in a 2-1 win over the Padres.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On September 22 the Braves clinched the NL East with the Nationals loss to the Marlins. The Braves beat the Cubs that day 5-2. It was their first NL East title since 2005.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On September 24 Andrelton Simmons hit the walk off single with two outs in the bottom of 9th over Carlos Gómez to score Justin Upton and win the game 3-2.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
The Braves lead the league with 24 wins in their last at-bat. They led the National League with 44 come-from-behind wins.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
With the Braves opening day win they shared a tie with the Nationals for first place. The Braves shared at least a tie of first place every day from April 7 on and with their win over the Nationals on April 13 had sole possession of first place in the NL East for the rest of the season. On top of that, the Braves overall record was never at or under .500 at any point in the season.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
The Braves lead the majors in team ERA at 3.18. Their bullpen lead the majors in bullpen ERA at 2.46 while their starters were at 3.51.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
The Atlanta Braves won their 10th straight game with a 6–3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on April 16, their longest winning streak since the club won 15 straight between April 15 – May 2, 2000. With a 12–1 record up to that point, the Braves were off to their best start since they began the 1982 season 13–1. They also outhomered opponents 25–7 and outscored opponents 68–25 for the best run differential in the majors.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
After the Braves and Royals had a day off on April 15, players, managers and coaches for both teams wore No. 42 on their jerseys to honor Jackie Robinson on April 16. Like many teams, the Braves also held a moment of silence before the game for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
With Wade Davis pitching 7 scoreless innings, the Royals beat the Braves 1–0 on April 17 to end Atlanta's 10-game winning streak. Atlanta's 10-game winning streak, was one of only five such stretches within the first 13 games of a season since 1900. (2013 Braves 10 / 1982 Braves 13 / 1962 Pirates 10 / 1955 Dodgers 10 / 1938 Giants 11)


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On April 26, against the Detroit Tigers, Tiger pitcher Aníbal Sánchez struck out seventeen Atlanta Braves' batters, setting a franchise record previously set by Tigers' left-hander Mickey Lolich in 1972.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On April 30, Braves pitcher Tim Hudson became the 113th major league pitcher and to reach 200 wins. Hudson also went two for three in the game, hitting a home run and a double as the Braves beat the Washington Nationals 8–1.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On June 5, Julio Teherán pitched into the eighth inning with two outs without giving up a hit to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Teherán gave up the first (and only) hit of the game to Pirates pinch hitter Brandon Inge.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
On July 24, Tim Hudson was pitching a 4-hit shutout against the New York Mets when Eric Young, Jr. accidentally stepped on Hudson's ankle, resulting in a right ankle fracture that ended Hudson's 2013 season.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Notable Moments
From July 26 – August 9 the Braves won 14 straight games (including four consecutive series sweeps) and were one game away from tying the franchise record of 15 set in 2000; the winning streak was snapped after a 0–1 loss to the Miami Marlins on August 10.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Post-season, Division Series, Game 1, October 3
Braves ace Kris Medlen struck out the side in the first inning, getting Carl Crawford looking and Mark Ellis and Hanley Ramírez swinging, throwing Turner Field into a frenzy. That would be the highlight of the night for the Braves as Medlen fell apart after the first and Clayton Kershaw dominated the strikeout-prone Braves racking up 12 while allowing only one run and hurling a complete-game. The Braves went down in order in the first. Kershaw struck out Jason Heyward and their leading offensive power Freddie Freeman to end the first. In the second inning the Dodgers got going.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Post-season, Division Series, Game 1, October 3
After an Adrián González line out controversial,  rookie phenom Yasiel Puig singled followed by a single from Juan Uribe putting runners at 3rd and 1st. Skip Schumaker then hit a sac-fly to Jason Heyward scoring Puig and Uribe tagging to 2nd base with two outs. Next, Catcher A.J. Ellis smashed a double, scoring Uribe. Kershaw grounded out to first to end the top half of the second inning. Evan Gattis (the Braves feel-good story of 2013) led-off the bottom half of the 2nd with a single.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Post-season, Division Series, Game 1, October 3
Unfortunately, after a Brian McCann fly-out, surprise slugger Chris Johnson, who finished second in the National League Batting Race, flew out to Puig. This time Gattis came too far off first base and he was thrown out for an inning-ending double play. The situation only got worse in the third inning for the Braves. Crawford hit an infield single and advanced to second. It looked like the Braves might escape unscathed after getting Ellis and Ramírez to pop out.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Post-season, Division Series, Game 1, October 3
However, on the first pitch of his at-bat, Adrián González hammered a two-run homerun, extending the Dodgers lead to 4-0 and basically ending the game. Kershaw kept the Braves quiet in the third inning, while Mark Ellis drove in A.J. Ellis who hit his second double, making the score 5-0. Finally, the Braves broke through against Kershaw in the bottom of the fourth inning. After Justin Upton grounded out to Kershaw for the second time, Freeman singled and Gattis walked.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Post-season, Division Series, Game 1, October 3
McCann filed out, but Chris Johnson, who finished third in the league in batting average with runners in scoring position and two-outs, singled scoring Freeman for their only run of the game. Andrelton Simmons struck out next to end the inning. After a González lead-off single and Puig hit-by-pitch, Braves manager Fredi González pulled Medlen for break out, lefty Luis Avilán. After a sacrifice bunt by Uribe and intentional walk of Schumaker, Avilán struck out A.J. Ellis and Clayton Kershaw to end the threat. However, Kershaw struck out the side in the bottom half of the fifth inning.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Post-season, Division Series, Game 1, October 3
Getting Elliot Johnson and B.J. Upton  (pinch-hitting for Avilán) looking and Jason Heyward swinging. Jordan Walden relieved Avilán in the sixth inning. Crawford grounded out to lead-off the inning, but Mark Ellis singled and Hanley Ramírez doubled to score Ellis, to close the scoring at 6-1. Kershaw shut down Atlanta over the next three innings. With the win the Dodgers took a 1-0 series lead.


2013 Atlanta Braves season, Player statistics
Statistics updated after game on September 4, 2013.† denotes player is on 15-day disabled list. ‡ denotes player is on 60-day disabled list. * denotes player is active, but on the inactive roster. x denotes player was traded mid-season and is no longer in the organization.


2013 Atlanta Dream season
The 2013 WNBA season is the 6th season for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association. The Dream finished second in the Eastern Conference with a 17-17 record, and won the Eastern Conference Finals, sweeping the Indiana Fever to earn their third trip in four years to the WNBA Finals, where they were swept by the Minnesota Lynx in three games.


2013 Atlanta Dream season, Transactions, WNBA Draft
The following are the Dream's selections in the 2013 WNBA Draft.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season
The 2013 Atlanta Falcons season was the franchise's 48th season in the National Football League and the sixth under head coach Mike Smith. The Falcons entered the season as one of the Super Bowl favorites; However, due to multiple key injuries to the team, the Falcons failed to improve on their 13–3 season from 2012, after a 23–30 loss to the New England Patriots in week 4 and failed to match their 13–3 record from last year as a result of a 28–30 week 5 loss against the New York Jets. They were mathematically eliminated from postseason contention for the first time since 2009 and secured the Falcons’ first losing season since 2007, after a 13–17 week 12 loss to the New Orleans Saints.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 1: at New Orleans Saints
The Falcons would travel to New Orleans to open their season. The Falcons would carry a 17-13 lead into the fourth quarter, but the Saints would score a touchdown with 6:22 remaining. The Falcons would try to rally, but the comeback fell short, as the Saints would add a field goal to win 23-17. With the loss, the Falcons started their season 0-1 for the second time in 3 seasons.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. St. Louis Rams
The Falcons would return to Atlanta for their home opener against the Rams. The Falcons would have a big first half, cruising to a 24-3 lead at halftime. St. Louis would try to come back, and outscored Atlanta 21-7 in the second half, but it was not enough as the Falcons held on for the win. With the win, the Falcons evened their record at 1-1.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 3: at Miami Dolphins
The Falcons would lead the entire game until the Dolphins went down to score the game-winning touchdown with 38 seconds remaining. The Falcons would try to go down to the end zone to pull out the win, but they would not, and the Falcons would lose 27-23 to the Miami Dolphins. With the loss, the Falcons fell to 1-2.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. New England Patriots
The Falcons would go back home for a Sunday Night Football game against the New England Patriots. The Falcons would put up a good fight, but they would lose a close shootout against the undefeated Patriots. With the loss, the Falcons fell to 1-3.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. New York Jets
The Falcons would go down the field to score with 1:54 remaining on a Matt Bryant field goal. However, the Jets would go down and kick a field goal as time expired to give the Jets the win. With the loss, the Falcons fell to 1-4 for the first time since 2007.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Falcons would stay home for a divisional game against winless Tampa Bay. The Falcons would never trail during the game, and they would win this game 31-23. The Falcons cruised to a 24-10 lead at halftime, and held off a second half Tampa Bay rally for the victory.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
With the win, the Falcons improved to 2-4 while sending Tampa Bay to 0-7.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 8: at Arizona Cardinals
The Falcons would travel to Arizona to take on the Cardinals. The Falcons would struggle all game, committing 4 turnovers (all interceptions by Matt Ryan) as they lost 27-13. With the loss, the Falcons fell to 2-5.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 9: at Carolina Panthers
The Falcons would go to Carolina for a showdown with the Panthers. The Falcons would once again struggle as they would commit 4 turnovers for the second straight week as they lost 34-10 to Carolina. With the loss, the Falcons fell to 2-6.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Seattle Seahawks
In a rematch of last seasons divisional game, the Falcons went down easily this time to Seattle, losing 33-10. With the loss, the Falcons fell to 2-7.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 11: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Falcons traveled to Tampa Bay for game 2 against the Bucs. The Falcons would suffer a mountain of embarrassment, as they lost 41-28 to the one-win Buccaneers. It was the most points the Buccaneers had scored in a single game all season, and the most points the Falcons had surrendered in a single game all season.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. New Orleans Saints
With the loss, coupled with wins by the Cardinals, 49ers and the Panthers, the Falcons were the first team this season to be eliminated from playoff contention.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 13: at Buffalo Bills
In this game, the Falcons would travel to Toronto for their game against the Bills, as it was the Bills Toronto game for the 2013 season. The Bills would lead 31-24 during the 4th quarter, but the Falcons would go down and score the game-tying touchdown with 1:28 remaining in regulation. In overtime, the Falcons would win on a Matt Bryant field goal to give the Falcons the win. With the win, the Falcons would end their 5-game losing streak and improve to 3-9.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 14: at Green Bay Packers
The Falcons would travel to Green Bay for a game against the Packers. The Falcons had a lot of chances to try and get the lead in the fourth quarter, but the Packers would ultimately hold a 22-21 lead for the final 12:01 as the Falcons failed to score in the fourth quarter. With the loss, the Falcons fell to 3-10.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Washington Redskins
The Falcons would go home for a battle against 3-10 Washington. The Falcons would win the game 27-26. The Redskins would go down to score with 18 seconds remaining, but mainly since they were 3-10, they tried to go for 2 and give them the lead and ultimately the win. However, the attempt was no good and the Falcons held on. With the win, the Falcons improved to 4-10.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 16: at San Francisco 49ers
The Falcons would travel to San Francisco for a Monday Night game against the 49ers. The Falcons had a shot at getting the lead in the 4th quarter, but NaVorro Bowman would return an interception 89 yards for a touchdown to put the game away. With the loss, the Falcons fell to 4-11. The loss also allowed the 49ers to clinch a playoff berth.


2013 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Carolina Panthers
With the loss, the Falcons finished their season 4-12 being swept by the Panthers for the first time since 1997.


2013 Atlanta Silverbacks season
The 2013 season will be the Atlanta Silverbacks's seventeenth season of existence, and their third consecutive season playing in the North American Soccer League, the second division of the American soccer pyramid.


2013 Atlanta Silverbacks season, Background
The Atlanta Silverbacks' 2012 season was a tale of two halves. In their first 15 games they only managed 8 points, through 1 win, 5 draws and 9 losses. In their final 13 games they gather 22 points in 6 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses (a league best).


2013 Atlanta Silverbacks season, Background
They had mixed results in U.S. Open Cup, winning their first match against fourth division opponent Georgia Revolution 1–0. Then losing to MLS side Seattle Sounders 5-1 a week later.


2013 Atlanta Silverbacks season, Background
On May 2, 2012 first-year head coach Alex Pineda Chacón was replaced by interim head coach Eric Wynalda. Wynalda announced Brian Haynes would replace him as head coach.


2013 Atlanta Silverbacks season, Club, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Atlanta Silverbacks season, Club, Roster, On loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Atlanta Silverbacks season, Competitions, NASL, Spring season
Last updated: April 21, 2013. Source: Spring season 2013 results


2013 Atlanta Silverbacks season, Statistics, Goals
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.


2013 Atlanta Silverbacks season, Statistics, Assists
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total assists are equal.


2013 Atlanta Silverbacks season, Statistics, Clean sheets
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total clean sheets are equal.


2013 Atlanta mayoral election
The 2013 mayoral election in Atlanta, Georgia took place on November 5, 2013 alongside other Atlanta municipal races. Incumbent Mayor Kasim Reed faced no serious opposition and was re-elected with 84% of the vote. He was sworn in for his second term on January 6, 2014.


2013 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2013 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament was the postseason baseball tournament of the NCAA Division I Atlantic 10 Conference. It took place from May 22–25. The top seven regular season finishers of the league's fifteen teams met in the double-elimination tournament to be held at newly renovated Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. In the championship game, first-seeded Saint Louis defeated second-seeded Charlotte, 7-4, to win its third tournament championship (its second under head coach Darin Hendrickson). Saint Louis earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. As a team, SLU collected 92 hits in six days (.395 average), shattering the previous A-10 Tournament record of 65.


2013 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
In an expansion from previous years, the top seven finishers from the regular season were seeded one through seven. The top seed received a single bye while remaining seeds played on the first day.


2013 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Alex Kelly was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Kelly was a senior outfielder for Saint Louis who set tournament records for hits (12) and RBI (13).


2013 Atlantic 10 Conference men's soccer season
The 2013 Atlantic 10 Conference men's soccer season will be the 18th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season will mark the first for the incoming George Mason Patriots. The venue for the 2013 Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Tournament was Baujan Field at the University of Dayton.


2013 Atlantic 10 Conference men's soccer season
The defending regular season champions are the Charlotte 49ers who left the Atlantic 10 to join Conference USA as part of the 2010–13 NCAA conference realignment. The Saint Louis Billikens are the defending tournament champions.


2013 Atlantic 10 Conference men's soccer season, A10 Tournament
The format for the 2013 Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Tournament will be announced in the Fall of 2013.


2013 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament was played on March 14–17 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The top 12 teams in the final standings qualified for the tournament, The 2013 championship game was nationally televised on CBS.As the tournament champion, Saint Louis received the Atlantic 10 Conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Tournament.


2013 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
The top twelve teams qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2013 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Eliminated from Conference Tournament: St. Bonaventure (7–9), Rhode Island (3–13), Fordham (3–13), Duquesne (1–15)


2013 Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2013 Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Tournament was the eighteenth edition of the tournament. Held from Nov. 14-17, it determined the Atlantic 10 Conference's automatic berth into the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. The George Mason Patriots defeated the defending champions, the Saint Louis Billikens in the final, thus advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2008.


2013 Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Tournament
The tournament was hosted by the University of Dayton and all matches were contested at Baujan Field.


2013 Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
The top eight teams in the Atlantic 10 Conference based on their conference regular season records qualified for the tournament. The top seeded teams included George Mason, Saint Louis, VCU and La Salle.


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 22 through May 26 at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, North Carolina. The annual tournament determines the conference champion of the Division I Atlantic Coast Conference for college baseball. Top seeded North Carolina won the tournament and received the league's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was North Carolina's sixth ACC Tournament win. This was the last of 19 athletic championship events held by the conference in the 2012–13 academic year. This was the sixth time the ACC hosted its baseball championship in Durham.


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament
Prior to this year, the tournament has been held every year but one since 1973, with Clemson winning nine championships, most of any team. Georgia Tech, last year's winner, has claimed eight tournament wins. Charter league members Duke and Maryland, along with recent entrants Virginia Tech and Boston College have never won the event.


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The winner of each six team division and the top six other teams based on conference winning percentage, regardless of division, from the conference's regular season were seeded one through eight. Seeds one and two were awarded to the two division winners. The tournament used the same format adopted in the 2007 event, with the teams divided into two pools of four. Each pool will play a round-robin set of games over the first four days of the event. The teams with the best record in each pool then meet in a single championship game on Sunday, May 26. This was the final season of this format, as the tournament will expand to ten teams beginning in 2014.


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, Schedule and results
Notes† – Denotes extra innings‡ – Denotes game shortened due to mercy rule


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Cody Stubbs was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Stubbs was a first baseman for North Carolina.


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference football season
The 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) football season was an NCAA football season that was played from August 29, 2013, to January 7, 2014. It was the first season of play for former Big East Conference members Pittsburgh and Syracuse. Syracuse plays in the Atlantic Division, while Pittsburgh plays in the Coastal Division. It was also the last season for Maryland in the ACC as they will move to the Big Ten Conference in 2014.


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference football season
The Atlantic Coast Conference consists of 14 members in two divisions. The Atlantic division consists of Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Maryland, North Carolina State, Syracuse, and Wake Forest. The Coastal division consists of Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. The division champions, Duke and Florida State, met in December in the 2013 ACC Championship Game, located in Charlotte, North Carolina at Bank of America Stadium.


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason Poll
The 2013 ACC Preseason Poll was announced at the ACC Football Kickoff meetings in Greensboro, NC on July 22. Miami was voted to win Coastal division while Clemson was voted to win the Atlantic division and the conference. Tajh Boyd of Clemson was voted the Preseason ACC Player of the Year.


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, Coaches
Three universities hired new coaches for the 2013 football season. NC State hired Dave Doeren from Northern Illinois after he led the Huskies to back-to-back MAC championships. With this hire, Doeren was made the second highest paid coach in the ACC (behind Florida State's Jimbo Fisher) and the 27th highest paid coach in the country. Boston College also changed coaches, hiring Steve Addazio from Temple. Addazio had only been a head coach for 2 years, however, Boston College athletic director Brad Bates stated that he has had Addazio on his short list of coaches for years. Syracuse promoted their defensive coordinator, Scott Shafer, of the previous 4 years to head coach after their previous head coach, Doug Marrone, left for a job coaching the Buffalo Bills of the NFL. They will join Paul Chryst of Pittsburgh (due to conference realignment) as new coaches in the ACC.


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, Coaches
NOTE: Stats shown are before the beginning of the season


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, 2014 NFL Draft
N.B: In the explanations below, (D) denotes trades that took place during the 2014 Draft, while (PD) indicates trades completed pre-draft.


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer season
The 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer season is the 27th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season will mark the first for the incoming Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Pittsburgh Panthers and Syracuse Orange, as well as the last ACC season for Maryland, which is leaving for the Big Ten. The 2013 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament will run from November 12–17, with quarterfinals at campus sites followed by the semifinals and final at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyds, Maryland.


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer season
The defending regular season and tournament champions are the Maryland Terrapins.


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer season, ACC Tournament
The 2013 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament, as noted above, will have quarterfinals held at campus sites, with the semifinals and final at the Maryland SoccerPlex.


2013 Atlantic Hockey Tournament
The 2013 Atlantic Hockey Tournament is the 10th Atlantic Hockey Tournament. It will be played between March 8 and March 23, 2013 at campus locations and at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York, United States. The winner of the tournament will earn Atlantic Hockey's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


2013 Atlantic Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament features four rounds of play. In the first round the fifth and twelfth, sixth and eleventh, seventh and tenth, and eighth and ninth seeds, as determined by the conference regular season standings, play a best-of-three series with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals. The top four teams from the conference regular season standings receive a bye to the quarterfinals.


2013 Atlantic Hockey Tournament, Format
There, the first seed and lowest-ranked first-round winner, the second seed and second-lowest-ranked first-round winner, the third seed and second-highest-ranked first-round winner, and the fourth seed and the highest-ranked first-round winner play a best-of-three series, with the winners advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second-highest and second-lowest seeds play a single game, with the winner advancing to the championship game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


2013 Atlantic Hockey Tournament, Format, Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


2013 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2013 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Melching Field at Conrad Park on the campus of Stetson University in DeLand, FL from May 22 through 25. East Tennessee State won their first tournament championship and claimed the Atlantic Sun Conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The Buccaneers joined the conference in 2005.


2013 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The 2013 tournament was an 8-team double-elimination tournament. The top eight teams (based on conference results) from the conference earned invitations to the tournament. Northern Kentucky was not eligible for the tournament while it was reclassifying from Division II. Kennesaw State claimed the sixth seed over Lipscomb by tiebreaker.


2013 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Kerry Doane was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Doane was a pitcher for East Tennessee State.


2013 Atlantic Sun Conference men's soccer season
The 2013 Atlantic Sun Conference men's soccer season will be the 35th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. It will be the last A-Sun season for East Tennessee State and Mercer, both of which will move to the Southern Conference in July 2014.


2013 Atlantic Sun Conference men's soccer season
The defending regular season and tournament champions are the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles.


2013 Atlantic Sun Conference men's soccer season, A-Sun Tournament
The format for the 2013 Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Soccer Tournament will be announced in the Fall of 2013.


2013 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 6 – March 9, 2013 at Hawkins Arena in Macon, Georgia.


2013 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
The A-Sun Championship was a four-day single-elimination tournament. The top eight teams (with the exception of Northern Kentucky) competed in the championship. As part of their transition to Division I from Division II, Northern Kentucky was not be eligible for post season play until 2017, including the A-Sun tournament. The winner of the tournament earned the A-Sun's automatic bid into the 2013 NCAA Tournament.


2013 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
Defending champion Belmont was not in the tournament, as they moved to the Ohio Valley Conference for the 2012-13 season.


2013 Atlantic Sun Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2013 Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Soccer Tournament was the 35th edition of the tournament. The tournament decided the Atlantic Sun Conference champion and guaranteed representative into the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. Held at the FGCU Soccer Complex, the East Tennessee State Buccaneers won the title against the North Florida Ospreys


2013 Atlantic hurricane season
The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season was a well below average Atlantic hurricane season and the first since 1994 with no major hurricanes. It was well below average for both hurricanes and major hurricanes but it was a slightly above average for named storms. It was also the first season since 1968 with no storms of at least Category 2 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale. The first tropical cyclone of the season, Andrea, developed on June 5, while the final cyclone, an unnamed subtropical storm, dissipated on December 7. Throughout the year, only two storms—Humberto and Ingrid—reached hurricane intensity; this was the lowest seasonal total since 1982.


2013 Atlantic hurricane season
The season's impact was minimal; although 15 tropical cyclones developed, most were weak or remained at sea. Tropical Storm Andrea killed four people after making landfall in Florida and moving up the East Coast of the United States. In early July, Tropical Storm Chantal moved through the Windward Islands, causing one fatality, but minimal damage overall. Tropical storms Dorian and Erin and Hurricane Humberto brought only squally weather to the Cape Verde Islands.


2013 Atlantic hurricane season
Mexico, where Hurricane Ingrid, Tropical Depression Eight, and tropical storms Barry and Fernand all made landfall, was the hardest hit; Ingrid alone caused at least 32 deaths and $1.5 billion (2013 USD) in damage. In early October, Karen brought showers and gusty winds to the central Gulf Coast of the United States, before impacting the U.S. East Coast as a long-lived nor'easter.


2013 Atlantic hurricane season
All major forecasting agencies predicted an above-average season. All reduced their seasonal predictions in early August, but even the revised predictions were too high. The lack of activity was primarily caused by an unexpected significant weakening of the Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation between winter and spring. This resulted in continuation of the spring weather pattern over the Atlantic Ocean, with strong vertical wind shear, mid-level moisture, and atmospheric stability, which suppressed tropical cyclogenesis.


2013 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts
In advance of, and during, each hurricane season, several forecasts of hurricane activity are issued by national meteorological services, scientific agencies, and noted hurricane experts. These include forecasters from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Hurricane and Climate Prediction Center, Tropical Storm Risk, the United Kingdom's Met Office, and Philip J. Klotzbach, William M. Gray and associates at Colorado State University (CSU). The forecasts include weekly and monthly changes in significant factors that help determine the number of tropical storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes within a particular year.


2013 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts
According to NOAA and CSU, the average Atlantic hurricane season between 1981 and 2010 contained roughly 12 tropical storms, six hurricanes, three major hurricanes, and an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index of 66–103 units. Broadly speaking, ACE is a measure of the power of a tropical or subtropical storm multiplied by the length of time it existed. Therefore, a storm with a longer duration, such as Humberto, will have high values of ACE. It is only calculated for full advisories on specific tropical and subtropical systems reaching or exceeding wind speeds of 39 mph (63 km/h).


2013 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts
Accordingly, tropical depressions are not included here. After the storm has dissipated, typically after the end of the season, the NHC reexamines the data, and produces a final report on each storm. These revisions can lead to a revised ACE total either upward or downward compared to the operational value. NOAA typically categorizes a season as either above-average, average, or below-average based on the cumulative ACE Index, but the number of tropical storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes within a hurricane season are considered occasionally as well.