2013 G20 Saint Petersburg summit, Attendance
This meeting was the second time an Australian Prime Minister could not be in attendance, Kevin Rudd being represented by Foreign Minister Bob Carr, owing to the timing of a federal election on 7 September. In 2010, Rudd had been unable to attend when he was displaced as prime minister two days before the 2010 G20 Toronto summit, at which Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan then represented Australia. During the summit, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh focused on the ongoing economic crisis and urged the G20 nations to pay more attention to their monetary policies.


2013 GCC U-17 Championship
The 2013 GCC U-17 Championship took place in Qatar from September 3 - September 12. It was the 10th edition of the tournament.


2013 GCC U-23 Championship
The 2013 GCC U-23 Championship was the fifth edition of GCC U-23 Championship, taking place in Bahrain between 15 August and 24 August 2013. It was the first time that Bahrain had been hosts. Six nations entered. The 2013 edition was officially known as the Huawei GCC National Teams Under-23 Championship owing to sponsorship by Huawei.


2013 GEICO 400
The 2013 GEICO 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on September 15, 2013, at  Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois, United States. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.500-mile (2.414 km) tri-oval, it was the twenty-seventh in the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, as well as the first race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season.


2013 GEICO 400
Matt Kenseth of Joe Gibbs Racing won the race, his career best sixth of the season, teammate Kyle Busch finished second, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, and Jimmie Johnson rounded out the top five.


2013 GEICO 400, Report, Background
Chicagoland Speedway is a four-turn tri-oval track that is 1.500 miles (2.414 km) long. The track's turns are each banked at 18 degrees and have a turn width of 55 feet (17 m). The racetrack has a grandstand capacity of 75,000 spectators, and has a 11,050-square-foot (1,027 m2) garage area. Brad Keselowski was the race's defending champion.


2013 GEICO 400, Report, Background
Before the race, Matt Kenseth led the Drivers' Championship with 2,015 points, with Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch tied for second place with 2,012. Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards had a total of 2,006 points, while Joey Logano and Greg Biffle were sixth and seventh with 2,003. Clint Bowyer, and Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Kurt Busch, Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newman, and Jeff Gordon rounded out the Chase field with 2,000 points each. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 178 points, ten points ahead of Toyota. Ford, with 141 points, was in the third position.


2013 GEICO 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
Three practice sessions were held before the race. The first session, scheduled on September 13, 2013, was 90 minutes long. The second and third, held a day later on September 14, 2013, were 55 and 50 minutes long. In the first practice session, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. was the quickest with a best lap time of 28.774 seconds. Kurt Busch followed in second, ahead of Edwards and Johnson in third and fourth. Juan Pablo Montoya was scored fifth quickest with a best lap time of 28.853, seven-tenths slower than Stenhouse. Logano, Biffle, Aric Almirola, Brad Keselowski, and Bowyer completed the top-ten.


2013 GEICO 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
After the first practice session, NASCAR discussed the second half of what became known as Spingate, the race fixing scandal that took place during the last ten laps of the previous week's race in Richmond, which was still under investigation. NASCAR had uncovered radio chatter between two Roush Fenway Racing affiliated teams (Penske and Front Row). At 2:55 PM CT, NASCAR held a press conference to discuss the results and placed both Ford teams in question on probation for the rest of 2013.


2013 GEICO 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
Furthermore, after discussions that took place because of the first part of the rule where which Michael Waltrip Racing ordered Brian Vickers to pit in order to help Martin Truex, Jr. get into the Chase, and later disqualifying the #56 of Truex from the Chase while reinstating the #39 of Ryan Newman, NASCAR had no choice but to add Jeff Gordon, who was the victim of both manipulations, to the Chase as the 13th team.


2013 GEICO 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
Chairman Brian France has always had the power to expand the Chase field in exceptional circumstances, and decided to invoke this power in order to add Gordon to the Chase. According to France, "There were too many things that went on Saturday night that provided a clear disadvantage (to the #24 team)" for him not to take this action. Ironically, Joey Logano, one of the drivers involved in the controversy, set a new track qualifying record, qualifying on pole with a time of 28.509 seconds, and speed of 189.414 mph.


2013 GEICO 400, Results, Race results
Points include 3 Chase for the Sprint Cup points for winning, 1 point for leading a lap, and 1 point for most laps led.


2013 GM3
2013 GM3 is a micro-asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Aten group, approximately 20 meters in diameter. It was first observed on 3 April 2013, by astronomers of the Mount Lemmon Survey conducted at the Mount Lemmon Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, United States.


2013 GM3
The asteroid has only been observed for 12 days. Based on a crude orbit determination, it has an exceptionally low MOID and may approach Earth at one lunar distance on 14 April 2026. Alternative calculations gave a much shorter distance with a possible minimum transit at approximately 8,600 kilometers above Earth's surface.


2013 GM3, Orbit and classification
2013 GM3 is a member of the dynamical Aten group, which are Earth-crossing asteroids and one of the smaller subgroups of near-Earth objects.


2013 GM3, Orbit and classification
It orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.60–1.08 AU once every 9 months (279 days; semi-major axis of 0.84 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.29 and an inclination of nearly 0° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken by DECam at the Chilean Víctor M. Blanco Telescope on 1 April 2013, just two nights prior to its first official observation at Mount Lemmon.


2013 GM3, Orbit and classification, Close approaches
2013 GM3 has a poorly determined orbit with an uncertainty parameter of 7, due to its short 12-day observation arc. Based on the preliminary orbital elements, the object has an Earth minimum orbital intersection distance of 0.0000948 AU (14,200 km), which translates into 0.037 lunar distances (LD). Due to its small size, that is, an absolute magnitude fainter than 22, it is not classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid.


2013 GM3, Orbit and classification, Close approaches
On 14 April 2026, the object is currently predicted to approach Earth within a nominal distance of 0.00262382 AU (393,000 km; 244,000 mi) or 1.02 LD. It will also pass the Moon at a nominal distance of 0.00036017 AU (53,900 km; 33,500 mi). Conversely, Italian astronomers Piero Sicoli and Francesco Manca at the Sormano Astronomical Observatory estimated a close approach with Earth at a nominal distance of 68,420 kilometers and a possible minimum transit at approximately 8,600 kilometers above Earth's surface for that very same date. The two astronomers acknowledge that their orbital computations still contain large uncertainties.


2013 GM3, Physical characteristics
2013 GM3 has not been observed by any of the space-based surveys such as the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite, and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission. Based on a generic magnitude-to-diameter conversion, 2013 GM3 measures approximately 17 meter in diameter using an absolute magnitude of 26.3 and assuming an albedo of 0.20, which is a typical figure for the common, stony S-type asteroids. Astronomers at the Sormano Astronomical Observatory estimate a similar diameter of 25 meters.


2013 GM3, Physical characteristics
As of 2018, no rotational lightcurve of 2013 GM3 has been obtained from photometric observations. The asteroid's rotation period, shape and spin axis remain unknown.


2013 GP Miguel Induráin
The 2013 GP Miguel Induráin was the 60th edition of the GP Miguel Induráin cycle race and was held on 30 March 2013. The race started and finished in Estella. The race was won by Simon Špilak.


2013 GP Ouest–France
The 2013 GP Ouest-France was the 77th edition of the GP Ouest-France, a single-day cycling race. It was held on 1 September 2013, over a distance of 243 km (151.0 mi), starting and finishing in Plouay, France. It was the twenty-fourth race of the 2013 UCI World Tour season.


2013 GP Ouest–France
The race was won by Lampre–Merida's Filippo Pozzato, Pozzato finished ahead RadioShack–Leopard's Giacomo Nizzolo and Ag2r–La Mondiale's Samuel Dumoulin, who completed the podium.


2013 GP Ouest–France, Teams
As the GP Ouest-France was a UCI World Tour event, all 19 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Five other squads were given wildcard places into the race, and as such, formed the event's 24-team peloton.


2013 GP de Plouay
The 2013 GP de Plouay will be the 13th running on the GP de Plouay, a women's road race in Plouay, France. It will be held on 31 August 2013 over a distance of 135 kilometres (83.9 miles) and is the eight and final race of the 2013 UCI Women's Road World Cup season.


2013 GP de Plouay
The number 3 of the 2013 UCI Road World Cup standings, Ellen van Dijk, did not participate in this race. After the race the top 3 of the UCI World Cup Standings remained the same. Marianne Vos won the World Cup, ahead of Emma Johansson and Ellen van Dijk.


2013 GP2 Series
The 2013 GP2 Series season was the forty-seventh season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also ninth season under the GP2 Series moniker, a support series to the 2013 Formula One World Championship.


2013 GP2 Series
The 2013 season saw three new teams — Russian Time, Hilmer Motorsport and MP Motorsport — join the championship, replacing iSport International, Ocean Racing Technology and Scuderia Coloni. 2013 was scheduled to be the last season in which teams compete with the third-generation GP2 car — the Dallara GP2/11 — which was introduced in 2011, but series organisers decided to keep the GP2/11 for another three-year cycle in a bid to keep costs down. The season saw 10 different winners.


2013 GP2 Series
Champion Fabio Leimer took 3 race wins, as runner-up Sam Bird took 5 victories, Jolyon Palmer took 2 race wins, as did Jon Lancaster. Stefano Coletti took 3 sprint race wins. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs, Nathanael Berthon, Marcus Ericsson and Alexander Rossi each took 1 race win, and ART Grand Prix driver James Calado took 2 race wins.


2013 GP2 Series, Teams and drivers
Twenty-six drivers representing thirteen teams was scheduled to take part in the championship. The driver who is declared champion received a Formula One test with tyre supplier Pirelli as their prize, as well as qualifying for an FIA Superlicence.


2013 GP2 Series, 2013 schedule
The calendar for the 2013 series was unveiled on 19 December 2012. The season consisted of twenty-two races in support of eleven Formula One Grands Prix throughout the 2013 season.


2013 GP2 Series, Results and standings, Drivers' championship
Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in the Feature race, and to the top 8 classified finishers in the Sprint race. The pole-sitter in the feature race also received four points, and two points were given to the driver who set the fastest lap inside the top ten in both the feature and sprint races. No extra points were awarded to the pole-sitter in the sprint race.


2013 GP3 Series
The 2013 GP3 Series was the fourth season of the third-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also fourth season under the moniker of GP3 Series, a motor racing feeder series for Formula One and sister series GP2.


2013 GP3 Series
Following a three-year cycle, the previous GP3 chassis was replaced by a brand new car, the GP3/13, built by Italian racing car manufacturer Dallara. The 280 bhp turbo-charged engine used from 2010 to 2012 was upgraded to a 400 bhp naturally-aspirated V6 unit, which will be used until end of 2015. Series organisers have anticipated that the new cars became up to three seconds per lap faster than the GP3/10 chassis; these estimations proved to be accurate during pre-season testing at the Autódromo do Estoril. The re-structuring of the category coincides with the series' organisers' desire to ease the transition between the GP3 Series and parent series GP2, thereby allowing rookie drivers more opportunities to succeed in GP2.


2013 GP3 Series
AER was selected as official engine supplier of GP3 Series began in 2013 until 2015 season.


2013 GP3 Series
The championship title was secured by Daniil Kvyat with a race to spare after three consecutive feature race wins in Spa, Monza and Abu Dhabi. He had a thirty-point advantage on ART Grand Prix's Facu Regalia, who finished as runner-up. His teammate Conor Daly, who was the feature race winner at Valencia. Tio Ellinas, who led the drivers' standings until the first race at Spa, bookended the season with victories in both the first race and the final race of the season. Jack Harvey completed the top five, helping ART Grand Prix to claim the teams' championship.


2013 GP3 Series, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers competed in the 2013 season:


2013 GP3 Series, Calendar
The official calendar for the 2013 series was unveiled on 19 December 2012. The format remains largely unchanged from 2012, with seven rounds of the championship in support of the 2013 Formula One season and sister series GP2, plus the addition of a stand-alone round at Circuit Ricardo Tormo.


2013 GP3 Series, Championship standings
Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in the race 1, and to the top 8 classified finishers in the race 2. The pole-sitter in the race 1 also received four points, and two points were given to the driver who set the fastest lap inside the top ten in both the race 1 and race 2. No extra points were awarded to the pole-sitter in the race 2.


2013 GT Asia Series
The 2013 GT Asia Series season was the fourth season of the GT Asia Series championship. It began on 11 May at Twin Ring Motegi and finished on November 17 at the Guia Circuit after eleven races.


2013 GT Asia Series, Championships, Drivers Championship
Only the best 9 results counted for the drivers championship


2013 GT4 European Trophy
The 2013 Avon GT4 European Trophy season was the 6th season of the GT4 European Cup. The trophy name was carried out only this season. The season began on 26 May at Silverstone, and finished on 13 October at Zandvoort after five race weekends.


2013 Gagarin Cup playoffs
The 2013 Gagarin Cup playoffs of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) has begun on February 20, 2013, after the conclusion of the 2012–13 KHL regular season. The 2013 Gagarin Cup Finals started in April.


2013 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds
After the regular season, the standard 16 teams qualified for the playoffs. The SKA Saint Petersburg became the Western Conference regular season champions and Continental Cup winners with 115 points. The Ak Bars Kazan were the Eastern Conference regular season champions, finishing the season with 104 points. Lev Prague and Slovan Bratislava both made the playoffs for the first time in franchise history.


2013 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Draw
In each round, the highest remaining seed in each conference is matched against the lowest remaining seed. The higher-seeded team is awarded home ice advantage. In the Gagarin Cup Final series, home ice is determined based on regular season points. Each best-of-seven series follows a 2–2–1–1–1 format: the higher-seeded team plays at home for games one and two (plus five and seven if necessary), and the lower-seeded team is at home for games three and four (and if necessary, game six).


2013 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Draw
During the first three rounds home ice is determined by seeding number within the Conference, not position on the bracket. In the Finals the team with better seeding number has home ice advantage. If the seeding numbers are equal, the regular season record is taken into account.


2013 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Draw, Player statistics, Playoff scoring leaders
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes


2013 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Draw, Player statistics, Playoff leading goaltenders
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SOL = Shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average


2013 Galway Senior Hurling Championship
The 2013 Galway Senior Hurling Championship was the 116th staging of the Galway Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment in 1887. The championship began on 28 April 2013 and ended on 28 October 2013.


2013 Galway Senior Hurling Championship
St. Thomas's were the defending champions, however, they were defeated in the semi-final stage. Portumna won the title, following a 3-12 to 0-14 defeat of Loughrea in the final.


2013 Gamba Osaka season
The 2013 Gamba Osaka season saw Gamba Osaka compete in J. League Division 2 following their shock relegation the previous year. As such they did not compete in the 2013 J. League Cup, but did participate in the 2013 Emperor's Cup in addition to their 2013 J. League Division 2 fixtures.


2013 Gamba Osaka season
Maintaining the bulk of the previous season's squad including Japanese internationals, captain Endō and defenders Akira Kaji and Yasuyuki Konno, Gamba were able to make their stay in J. League 2 a short one and were crowned champions in November 2013 following a season long title race with neighbours Vissel Kobe who had also been relegated along with Gamba the previous year.


2013 Gamba Osaka season
Takashi Usami returned to the club in mid-season following a loan-spell in Germany and his goals as well as those from Brazilians Leandro and Adi Rocha saw Gamba finish the season with 87 points and 99 goals to their credit.


2013 Gamba Osaka season, J.League 2 Results, Match Day Line-Ups
The following players appeared for Gamba Osaka during 2013 J. League 2:


2013 Gamba Osaka season, J.League 2 Results, Match Day Line-Ups
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2013 Gamba Osaka season, Emperor's Cup Results, Match Day Line-Ups
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2013 Games of the Small States of Europe
The 2013 Games of the Small States of Europe, also known as the XV Games of the Small States of Europe, were held in Luxembourg City and surrounding areas. The slogan, as well as the logo, was "Are you ready for the Games?" The opening ceremony was held at the Stade Josy Barthel on 27 May; the closing ceremony was held at the Neumünster Abbey on 1 June.


2013 Games of the Small States of Europe, Games, Sports
Note: Basketball and artistic gymnastics were not contested in the 2011 Games of the Small States of Europe. However, squash was dropped for this year's Games, also from 2011.


2013 Gangwon FC season
The 2013 season is Gangwon FC's fifth season in the K League Classic in South Korea. Gangwon FC is competing in K League Classic and Korean FA Cup.


2013 Gangwon FC season, Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Gangwon FC season, Current squad, Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Gangwon FC season, Match results, K League Classic, Relegation/Promotion Playoff
Gangwon FC lost 2–4 on aggregate and relegated 2014 K League Challenge.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions
The 2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions was a singles-only tennis tournament that was played on indoor hard courts. The tournament was sponsored by Turkish construction firm Garanti Koza (the first year of a two-year deal). It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2013 WTA Tour. The 2013 edition was the second to be held in Sofia at the Arena Armeec. The tournament was played between October 29 and November 3. Nadia Petrova was the defending champion, but she did not qualify this year, nor did she receive a wildcard into the event.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Tournament
The 2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions was the fifth edition of the event and the second to take place in Sofia. The tournament is run by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is part of the 2013 WTA Tour. It is the season ending championships for players who have won one of the WTA International tournaments but have not qualified for the WTA Championships. The Tournament consisted of a singles draw of eight players (including two Wild Cards, if applicable) in a round robin format determined by the WTA.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Tournament, Format
The singles event featured eight players in a round robin event, split into two groups of four. Over the first four days of competition, each player met the other three players in their group, with the top two in each group advancing to the semifinals. The first-placed player in one group met the second-placed player in the other group, and vice versa. The winners of each semifinal met in the championship match.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Tournament, Format, Round robin tie-breaking methods
The final standings of each group shall be determined by the first of the following methods that apply:


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Prize money and points
The total prize money for the 2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions was 750,000 United States dollars.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying
The six highest-ranked players who have captured at least one International tournament during the year and who are not participating in singles at the year-end WTA Championships in Istanbul or the finals of the Fed Cup will automatically qualify for the event, plus two wildcards.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
Wozniacki qualified with victory in the final international series event of the season in Luxembourg. The Dane decided, although she would be the number one seed, not to compete and instead only focus her attentions on being an alternate at the WTA Championships.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
Vinci qualified by winning two international series tournaments, in Katowice and Palermo, respectively, but decided to compete in the Fed Cup final instead.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
Halep is having a breakthrough year, entering the top 15 and winning her first title after previously losing three finals between 2010 and 2012. The Romanian won an impressive number of five titles in the year. The first was on the Nürnberger Versicherungscup defeating German Andrea Petkovic 6–3, 6–3, which gave her entry to the event. The following week she claimed the title on the grass courts of the Topshelf Open defeating Kirsten Flipkens 6–4, 6–2. Halep claimed her third title at the Budapest Grand Prix defeating Austrian Yvonne Meusburger in three sets 6–3, 6–7(7–9), 6–1.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
She won her biggest title so far at the New Haven Open at Yale her first Premier title defeating Petra Kvitová 6–2, 6–2. Halep also reached the semifinals Internazionali BNL d'Italia as a qualifier, but lost to world no. 1 Serena Williams. She also lost to Serena Williams at the quarterfinals of the Western & Southern Open, again in straight sets. On 20 October 2013, just before the Garanti Koza in Sofia, she won her fifth title of the year and the second Premier, beating Samantha Stosur 7–6 6–2 at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow. Simona Halep is making her debut at the event.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
Ivanovic was one of the wildcard recipients. Ivanovic reached the semifinals of the Mutua Madrid Open a Premier Mandatory event, losing to Maria Sharapova 4–6, 3–6. She also reached the semifinals of the Southern California Open losing to Victoria Azarenka 0–6, 6–4, 3–6. She reached her first final of the year at the Generali Ladies Linz losing to German Angelique Kerber 4–6, 6–7(6–8). At the slams, Ivanovic reached the fourth round of the Australian Open and French Open, losing to Agnieszka Radwańska 2–6, 4–6 on both occasions. Ivanovic lost to Eugenie Bouchard in the second round of Wimbledon 3–6, 3–6. At the final slam of the year, at the US Open, she lost in the fourth round to Victoria Azarenka 6–4, 3–6, 4–6. She is making her third appearance to the event, having won the event twice.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
Kirilenko's first half of 2013 saw her with good results and broke through the top 10, while her second saw her struggle with a knee injury. Kirilenko last year's wildcard received entry into the event after winning the PTT Pattaya Open defeating Sabine Lisicki 5–7, 6–1, 7–6(7–1). Kirilenko was able to reach the semifinals of the BNP Paribas Open losing to compatriot Maria Sharapova 4–6, 3–6. At the slams, Kirilenko reached her first French Open quarterfinal and her third slam quarterfinals losing to Victoria Azarenka 6–7(7–9), 2–6.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
She also reached the fourth round of the Australian Open losing to Serena Williams 2–6, 0–6, third round of the US Open losing to Simona Halep 1–6, 0–6, and was upset in the first round of Wimbledon losing to Laura Robson 3–6, 4–6. She is making her second appearance at the event.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
Stosur had a dip in 2013, falling out of the top 10 for the first time since 2010 and finishing outside the top 10 for the first time since 2009. At the slams, Stosur failed to get past the fourth round of a slam in a year since 2008. She lost in the third rounds of French Open, to Jelena Janković 6–3, 3–6, 4–6, and Wimbledon, to eventual runner-up Sabine Lisicki 6–4, 2–6, 1–6.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
She also lost in the second round to Zheng Jie 4–6, 6–1, 5–7 at the Australian Open and first round of US Open to American qualifier Victoria Duval 7–5, 4–6, 4–6. After poor results in the beginning of the year, Stosur showed good form by reaching back-to-back quarterfinals in Qatar and Dubai. However, after withdrawing from her quarterfinal match against Angelique Kerber at the BNP Paribas due to a calf-injury, Stosur showed poor form throughout the year until shocking Victoria Azarenka in the final of the Southern California Open. She won her second title of the year at HP Open defeating Eugenie Bouchard 3–6, 7–5, 6–2 to receive entry into the Tournament of Champions. She is making her 2nd appearance in the event.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
Vesnina made her breakthrough year in 2013. She won her first title after six former runners-up at the Moorilla Hobart International, defeating German Mona Barthel in the final 6–3, 6–4. This also gave Vesnina entry into the tournament of champions. She then won her second title at the Aegon International a Premier event defeating Jamie Hampton 6–2, 6–1. At the slam, the Russian reached the fourth round of the Australian Open and the first round of the French Open losing to Victoria Azarenka in both occasions 1–6, 1–6, and 1–6, 4–6, respectively.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
The Russian then fell in the second rounds of Wimbledon and US Open to Sabine Lisicki 3–6, 1–6 and Karin Knapp 1–6, 4–6, respectively. She also won French Open with Ekaterina Makarova. She opted to play at the Tournament of Champions rather than the Fed Cup final. She is making her debut to the event.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
Pavlyuchenkova is the third Russian to play at the event. Pavlyuchenkova won two international events in clay to gain entry into the event, the first coming at the Monterrey Open defeating Angelique Kerber 4–6, 6–2, 6–4 and the second at the Portugal Open defeating Carla Suárez Navarro 7–5, 6–2. The Russian also reached two other finals but lost, the first being at the Premier event of the Brisbane International losing to Serena Williams 2–6, 1–6 and the second at the KDB Korea Open losing to Agnieszka Radwańska, 7–6(8–6), 3–6, 4–6.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
The Russian didn't fare well at the slams, her best performance reaching the third round of the US Open losing to Radwańska 4–6, 6–7(7–9). She then fell in the second round of the French Open to Petra Cetkovská 5–7, 6–2, 4–6, and the first rounds of the Australian Open and Wimbledon to Lesia Tsurenko 5–7, 6–3, 5–7 and Tsvetana Pironkova 0–6, 1–6.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
Cornet had a resurgence this season - re-entering the top 30, and winning her third WTA career title. Cornet qualified for Sofia by winning her maiden tournament of the year at the Internationaux de Strasbourg, defeating Czech Lucie Hradecká 7–6(7–4), 6–0. At the slams, the Frenchwoman lost in the second round of the Australian Open to Venus Williams 3–6, 3–6. She then reached the third round of Wimbledon losing to Flavia Pennetta 6–0, 6–7(7–9), 2–6. She also fell to Victoria Azarenka in the third rounds of the French Open 6–4, 3–6, 1–6, and US Open 7–6(2–7), 3–6, 2–6. She is making her debut to the event.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Qualifying, Qualifiers
Pironkova is one of the wild card recipients, being a native of Bulgaria. She reached two quarterfinals in the year at the Topshelf Open and at 2013 Moorilla Hobart International. However, she was able to reach the fourth round of Wimbledon before losing to world no. 4 Agnieszka Radwańska 6–4, 3–6, 3–6. In the other slams, Pironkova didn't fare well falling in the first rounds of the Australian Open to Romina Oprandi 6–4, 5–7, 2–6, French Open to Eugenie Bouchard 1–6, 6–7(7–9), and US Open to Alison Riske 3–6, 3–6.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Groupings
In the 2013 edition of the Tournament of Champions, the competitors were divided into two groups: the Serdika  and the Sredets, representing the names of two districts in Sofia. The Serdika Group consists of no. 1 seed Simona Halep, no. 3 seed Maria Kirilenko, no. 6 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, and no. 7 seed Alizé Cornet. The Sredets Groups is composed by no. 2 seed Ana Ivanovic, no. 4 seed Samantha Stosur, no. 5 seed Elena Vesnina, and no. 8 seed Tsvetana Pironkova. The two alternates are Elina Svitolina and Yvonne Meusburger.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Groupings
In Serdika Group, and their respective match–ups against their group, Halep was 4–1, Kirilenko was 1–6, Pavlyuchenkova was 5–4, and Cornet was 4–3. In their individual match–ups, Halep is unbeaten against the Russians 1–0 against Kirilenko and 3–0 against Pavlyuchenkova, with Halep beating Kirilenko in their only match at the 3rd round of the 2013 US Open 6–1, 6–0, and beating Pavlyuchenkova in the semifinals of the 2013 Kremlin Cup 6–2, 6–1. However, against Cornet she lost their only match at the 2011 Monterrey Open 5–7, 1–6.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Groupings
Kirilenko has a negative record in her group, including being 1–2 against Pavlyuchenkova with Pavlyuchenkova winning their last match at the 2013 Kremlin Cup 6–3, 6–3 and 0–3 against Cornet, the last being at the 2013 Rogers Cup 5–7, 5–7. In the final match up Pavlyuchenkova has a perfect 3–0 record against Cornet, however their last match was at the 2011 Fed Cup with a 3 set win 3–6, 6–3, 6–2.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Groupings
In Sredets Groups, and their head–to–heads in their group, Ivanovic was 5–5, Stosur was 7–4, Vesnina was 3–3, and Pironkova was 1–2. Ivanovic has a mixed head–to–head against her group, she trails Stosur 2–4, with Stosur winning their last three meetings the last being a 7–5, 6–4 win at the 2013 Kremlin Cup. She leads Vesnina 2–1, however Vesnina won their last meeting at the 2013 Aegon International 2–6, 6–4, 6–3. She also led Pironkova 2–1, including winning their last encounter 6–0, 6–4 at the 2012 US Open.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Groupings
Stosur also has mixed results in her other head–to–heads, she trails Vesnina 1–2, with Vesnina winning their last match at the 2013 Family Circle Cup. On the other hand, she is 2–0 against Pironkova winning their last match at 2011 China Open 6–4, 6–0. On the final head–to–head between Vesnina and Pironkova, this will be their first meeting.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions, Player head-to-head
Below are the head-to-head records as they approached the tournament.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions – Singles
Nadia Petrova was the defending champion, but did not qualify this year. Simona Halep won the title, defeating Samantha Stosur in the final, 2–6, 6–2, 6–2.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions – Singles, Draw, Serdika Group
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions – Singles, Draw, Sredets Group
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


2013 Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team
The 2013 Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team represented Gardner–Webb University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Carroll McCray and played their home games at Ernest W. Spangler Stadium. They were a member of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 7–5, 2–3 in Big South play to finish in fourth place.


2013 Garissa local elections
Local elections were held in Garissa County were held on 4 March 2013. Under the new constitution, which was passed in a 2010 referendum, the 2013 general election was the first to elect County Governors and their Deputies for the 47 newly created counties. They were also first general elections run by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC), which has released the official list of candidates.


2013 Garissa local elections, Prospective candidates
The following are some of the candidates who made public their intentions to run:


2013 Garmin–Sharp season
The 2013 season for the Garmin–Sharp cycling team began in January at 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 Gastein Ladies
2013 Gastein Ladies is the 2013 edition of the outdoor clay courts women's tennis tournament Gastein Ladies. It was the seventh edition of the tournament, which was part of the 2013 WTA Tour. It took place in Bad Gastein, Austria between 13 and 21 July 2013. Yvonne Meusburger won the singles title.


2013 Gastein Ladies, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Gastein Ladies, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2013 Gastein Ladies – Doubles
Jill Craybas and Julia Görges were the defending champions but chose not to participate. Sandra Klemenschits and Andreja Klepač won the title, defeating Kristina Barrois and Eleni Daniilidou in the final, 6–1, 6–4.


2013 Gastein Ladies – Singles
Alizé Cornet was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament began. Yvonne Meusburger defeated Andrea Hlaváčková 7–5, 6–2 in the final for her first WTA title.


2013 Gatineau municipal election
A municipal election was held in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada on November 3, 2013 in conjunction with 2013 Quebec municipal elections across the province on that date. Elections were held for Mayor of Gatineau as well as for each of the 18 districts on Gatineau City Council.


2013 Gator Bowl
The 2013 TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game held on January 1, 2013, at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida in the United States. The 68th edition of the Gator Bowl began at noon EST and aired on ESPN2. It featured the Mississippi State Bulldogs from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) against the Northwestern Wildcats from the Big Ten Conference and was the final game of the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season for both teams. The Bulldogs accepted their bowl bid after an 8–4 regular season, while the Wildcats accepted theirs after a 9–3 finish. It was the first time that the two teams had met. Northwestern won the game by a score of 34 – 20.


2013 Gator Bowl, Teams, Mississippi State
With a 3–0 start in conference play (and a 7–0 start overall), the season had a bright outlook for the Bulldogs. However, the schedule's increasing difficulty put the Bulldogs in decline, only finishing at 4–4 and fourth place in the SEC Western Division.


2013 Gator Bowl, Teams, Mississippi State
This was the Bulldogs' second Gator Bowl; they had previously played in the 2011 game, soundly defeating the Michigan Wolverines by a score of 52–14.


2013 Gator Bowl, Teams, Northwestern
The Wildcats were undefeated out of conference and posted a 5–3 Big Ten record, good for third place in the Legends Division. Only a one-point loss to the Nebraska Cornhuskers and an overtime loss to the Michigan Wolverines kept the Wildcats from the division title and a trip to the conference championship game.


2013 Gator Bowl, Teams, Northwestern
This game was the Wildcats' first Gator Bowl; it was also their unprecedented fifth consecutive bowl game. The Wildcats got their first bowl victory since the 1948 team won the 1949 Rose Bowl over the California Golden Bears by a score of 20–14.


2013 Gator Bowl, Game summary, Game notes
Mississippi State opened as a 2-point favorite, but by kickoff Northwestern was the favorite -2.5


2013 Geelong Football Club season
The 2013 Geelong Football Club season was the club's 114th season of senior competition in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club also fielded its reserves team in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for the 14th season.


2013 Geelong mayoral election
A by-election for the City of Greater Geelong mayor occurred on 24 November 2013. This by-election was triggered by the resignation of Geelong's first directly elected mayor Keith Fagg and saw Darryn Lyons of the Liberal Party become Geelong's second directly elected mayor with a first-preference vote of 29.79%. Lyons' nearest rival, Stephanie Asher, achieved a primary vote of 14.43%.


2013 Geelong mayoral election, Background
Geelong's first directly elected mayor, Keith Fagg, resigned from his position in August 2013, just over a year following his election, citing health reasons.


2013 Geelong mayoral election, Campaign
Over the course of the mayoral campaign, the local media focused heavily on Darryn Lyons and former mayor Ken Jarvis.


2013 Geelong mayoral election, Campaign
On 6 November, the Geelong Advertiser hosted a Mayoral candidate forum with a crowd of over 600 people, and Ken Jarvis won the exit poll which was taken by 200 people.


2013 Geelong mayoral election, Campaign
Controversy arose when Geelong businessman Frank Costa publicly backed Jarvis; stating that the "state government wouldn't muck around" and that it "may intervene and sack the council if Ken Jarvis isn't elected". The next day, however, Victorian Premier Denis Napthine, along with Costa, denied claims that the council would be sacked.


2013 Geelong mayoral election, Candidates
A total of 16 candidates ran in this election. :


2013 General Cup
The 2013 General Cup was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 9–13 September 2013 at the General Snooker Club in Hong Kong.


2013 General Cup
Mark Davis won his fourth professional title by defeating defending champion Neil Robertson 7–2 in the final.


2013 General Cup, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2013 Generali Ladies Linz
The 2013 Generali Ladies Linz was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 27th edition of the Generali Ladies Linz, and part of the WTA International tournaments-category of the 2013 WTA Tour. It was held at the TipsArena Linz in Linz, Austria, on 7–13 October 2013.


2013 Generali Ladies Linz, Singles entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Generali Ladies Linz, Singles entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a lucky loser:


2013 Generali Ladies Linz, Doubles entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2013 Generali Ladies Linz – Doubles
Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Květa Peschke were the defending champions, but chose not to participate. Karolína Plíšková and Kristýna Plíšková won the title, defeating Gabriela Dabrowski and Alicja Rosolska in the final, 7–6(8–6), 6–4.


2013 Generali Ladies Linz – Singles
Victoria Azarenka was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.


2013 Generali Ladies Linz – Singles
Angelique Kerber won the title, defeating Ana Ivanovic in the final, 6–4, 7–6(8–6).


2013 Generali Ladies Linz – Singles, Seeds
Angelique Kerber received a wildcard after the original draw was made. The wildcard had originally been given to Lisa-Maria Moser, who was forced to withdraw from the tournament. Kerber was given the top seed but placed in the bottom half of the draw, and several seeds were moved around in the draw to accommodate Kerber's late entry.


2013 Geneva Grand Council election
The 2013 election to the Grand Council was held in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, on 6 October 2013. All 100 members of the Grand Council were elected for four-year terms.


2013 Geneva Open Challenger
The 2013 Geneva Open Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 26th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Geneva, Switzerland between 28 October and 3 November 2013.


2013 Geneva Open Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Geneva Open Challenger – Doubles
Johan Brunström and Raven Klaasen were the defending champions but decided not to participate.


2013 Geneva Open Challenger – Doubles
Oliver Marach and Florin Mergea won the title, defeating František Čermák and Philipp Oswald 6–4, 6–3 in the final.


2013 Geneva Open Challenger – Singles
Marc Gicquel was the defending champion but chose to compete at the 2013 BNP Paribas Masters.


2013 Geneva Open Challenger – Singles
Malek Jaziri won the title, defeating Jan-Lennard Struff 6–4, 6–3 in the final.


2013 Genting Highlands bus crash
The 2013 Genting Highlands bus crash was the deadliest road accident to occur in Malaysia. 37 passengers were killed and 16 others were injured in the accident which took place near Chin Swee Temple, Genting Highlands, Pahang. It occurred on 21 August 2013 at 2:15 pm, when the bus carrying 53 passengers lost control as it was going down an incline and it plunged into a deep ravine at about 60 metres at the kilometre 3.5 of the Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway. The bus driver, Lim Kok Ho died on the spot.


2013 Genting Highlands bus crash
The point of crash was about 10m after an escape ramp directly in the path of the bus.


2013 Genting Highlands bus crash
The independent review of the crash cited six contributing factors, including excessive speed and poor bus maintenance.


2013 Gent–Wevelgem
The 2013 Gent–Wevelgem was the 75th running of the Gent–Wevelgem single-day cycling race. It was held on 24 March 2013 over a distance of 183.4 kilometres (114.0 miles) and was the seventh race of the 2013 UCI World Tour season. The race was originally scheduled to be over a distance of 238 kilometres (147.9 miles), but due to snow, the race start was moved from Deinze to Gistel.


2013 Gent–Wevelgem
The race was won by Slovakia's Peter Sagan of the Cannondale team, after making a solo attack with 4 km (2.5 mi) remaining, and ultimately held on to win the race by 23 seconds ahead of a group of nine riders. Second place went to Slovenian Borut Božič, riding for the Astana team, while Greg Van Avermaet was the highest-finishing Belgian rider, completing the podium for the BMC Racing Team.


2013 Gent–Wevelgem, Teams
As Gent–Wevelgem was a UCI World Tour event, all UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Originally, eighteen ProTeams were invited to the race, with six other squads given wildcard places, and as such, would have formed the event's 24-team peloton. Team Katusha subsequently regained their ProTour status after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. With Team Katusha not originally invited to the race, race organisers announced their inclusion to the race, bringing the total number of teams competing to twenty-five. Each of the 25 teams were allowed to enter eight riders to the race, making up a maximum starting peloton of 200 riders.


2013 Georgetown Hoyas football team
The 2013 Georgetown Hoyas football team represented Georgetown University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by eighth-year head coach Kevin Kelly and played their home games at Multi-Sport Field. They were a member of the Patriot League. They finished the season 2–9, 1–4 in Patriot League play to finish in a tie for fifth place. At the end of the season, Kelly resigned to become the defensive coordinator at Ball State.


2013 Georgia Bulldogs football team
The 2013 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the University of Georgia in the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by head coach Mark Richt, who was in his thirteenth year as head coach. The Bulldogs played their home games at Sanford Stadium. They were a member of the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference.


2013 Georgia Bulldogs football team
ESPN's College GameDay aired live from the university campus on September 28, 2013 before the Bulldogs played LSU.


2013 Georgia Rampage season
The 2013 Georgia Rampage season was the second season for the professional indoor football franchise and second in the Ultimate Indoor Football League (UIFL). One of six teams that competed in the UIFL for the 2013 season.


2013 Georgia Rampage season
Led by head coach Mark Bramblett, the Rampage played their home games at the Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center in Dalton, Georgia.


2013 Georgia Rampage season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated June 5, 201314 Active, 0 Inactive]


2013 Georgia Southern Eagles football team
The 2013 Georgia Southern Eagles football team represented Georgia Southern University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Jeff Monken and played their home games at Paulson Stadium. They were a member of the Southern Conference. This was Georgia Southern's final year in the Southern Conference and the FCS. They joined the FBS and the Sun Belt Conference for the 2014 season. They finished the season 7–4, 4–4 in SoCon play to finish in a four-way tie for fourth place.


2013 Georgia Southern Eagles football team
In the final game of the season, against the Florida Gators, the Eagles upset the FBS Gators, 26–20, without completing a pass. The win marked the first time a FCS team defeated the Gators.


2013 Georgia Southern Eagles football team
At the end of the season, head coach Jeff Monken resigned to become the head coach at Army.


2013 Georgia Southern Eagles football team
On July 22, 2016, the university announced that it was ordered by the NCAA to vacate two wins from the 2013 season and one win from the 2014 season, due to academically ineligible student-athletes participating in those games. The wins affected in the 2013 season were against the Savannah State Tigers and St. Francis Red Flash.


2013 Georgia State Panthers baseball team
The 2013 Georgia State Panthers baseball team represented Georgia State University in the 2013 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Baseball Complex. The 2013 season represented Georgia States final season in the Colonial Athletic Association before leaving to join the Sun Belt Conference. Because of their planned move, the CAA would not allow Georgia State to compete in the end of season tournament.


2013 Georgia State Panthers football team
The 2013 Georgia State Panthers football team represented Georgia State University (GSU) in the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Panthers were led by first year head coach Trent Miles and played their home games at the Georgia Dome. The 2013 season was the Panthers' first in the Sun Belt Conference and at the FBS level. As a result of this transition, the Panthers were ineligible to play in a bowl game regardless of their final record (0–12).


2013 Georgia State Panthers football team, Season notes
After the loss to Chattanooga in the second week of the season, running back coach Tony Tiller was reassigned to a different position within the athletic department, being replaced by former Indiana State player and graduate assistant Brock Lough.


2013 Georgia State Panthers softball season
The 2013 Georgia State Panthers softball team represented Georgia State University in the 2013 NCAA Division I softball season. The Panthers competed in the Colonial Athletic Association and were led by then third-year head coach Roger Kincaid. Georgia State played its home games at the Robert E. Heck Softball Complex in Panthersville, Georgia.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
The 2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by sixth year head coach Paul Johnson and played their home games at Bobby Dodd Stadium. They were members of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They finished the season 7–6, 5–3 in ACC play to finish in a three way tie for second place in the Coastal Division. They were invited to the Music City Bowl where they lost to Ole Miss.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Previous season
They were members of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing the season 7–7, 5–3 in ACC play to share the Coastal Division Championship with Miami and North Carolina. With Miami and North Carolina on post seasons bans, Georgia Tech represented the division in the ACC Championship Game where they were defeated by Florida State. They were invited to the Sun Bowl where they defeated USC.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech vs. Elon
Georgia Tech opened their 2013 season with a rout of Elon University, one of the two FCS teams the Yellow Jackets will play this season. In Ted Roof's first game as Defensive Coordinator, Georgia Tech would force four turnovers including two interceptions returned for touchdowns. Vad Lee showed off his passing abilities by throwing for two touchdowns to David Sims and Robert Godhigh for 59 and 24 yards respectively. Six different Yellow Jackets accounted for six rushing touchdowns including a 44-yard run by backup red-shirt freshman quarterback Justin Thomas in the fourth quarter. Elon's only major scoring opportunity was a missed field goal as time expired at the end of the first half.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech vs. Duke
Georgia Tech opened up their 2013 ACC schedule at the Duke Blue Devils on September 14. Georgia Tech scored first on a 49-yard field goal from true freshman kicker Harrison Butker, his first field goal of the year after kicking a plethora PATs against Elon. Duke answered back with a touchdown of their own off a Jela Duncan 1 yard run to go up 7–3 seven minutes into the contest. Georgia Tech would then rattle off 28 unanswered points to go up 31–7 by the end of the third quarter.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech vs. Duke
In the fourth quarter each team would trade touchdowns for a final score of 38–14. Vad Lee threw four touchdowns and one interception seen as a stellar passing performance from a Georgia Tech quarterback due to the emphasis on the triple option on offense. To go along with the passing game Georgia Tech averaged 5.7 yards per run weakening the Duke defense instrumentally. With the win Georgia Tech went to 2–0 for the season and 1–0 in conference play.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech vs. North Carolina
Georgia Tech's first ACC home game was against the North Carolina Tar Heels. The game was played in a steady rain allowing the experience of North Carolina senior quarterback Bryn Renner to control the game while Georgia Tech's relative inexperience led to several fumbles and drops ending drives without a score. The Tar Heels scored two touchdowns in the first quarter but failed to convert a two-point conversion on the first while settling for a PAT on the second to lead 13–0.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech vs. North Carolina
David Sims ran for a 1-yard touchdown to get the Yellow Jackets on the board, but Bryn Renner connected with Sean Tapley for a 24-yard TD less than two minutes later to put the Tar Heels back up thirteen. The turning point of the game was a 21-yard touchdown pass from Vad Lee to Darren Waller with 30 seconds remaining in the half to dent the deficit back to six and allowing Georgia Tech to head to the locker room with the momentum.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech vs. North Carolina
A squall line came over Bobby Dodd Stadium at the start of the third quarter causing sloppy play from UNC which along with Tech's improved defense prevented the Tar Heels from scoring in the second half. Paul Johnson from there on out decided to dominate the time of possession wearing down UNC's defense allowing for the Yellow Jackets to add two more rushing touchdowns for a come from behind 28–20 victory, bringing Georgia Tech to 3–0 for the season and 2–0 in conference play.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech vs. Virginia Tech
Georgia Tech's first night game of the year occurred on a Thursday night ESPN telecast against Virginia Tech. After an overtime victory in this matchup last year by Virginia Tech this game was expected to be a close contest. Once again Georgia Tech allowed the opposition to score early going behind 14–0 after spectacular play by Virginia Tech's quarterback Logan Thomas who threw and ran for a touchdown in the first half. Harrison Butker was able to lower the deficit to 11 after converting a 49-yard field goal.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech vs. Virginia Tech
Vad Lee struggled throughout the first half throwing an interception and fumbling on another drive. Both defenses came out of halftime strong with a defensive contest dominating the third quarter until Georgia Tech miraculously recovering their own fumble on the Virginia Tech five yard line and then drawing a pass interference penalty to get a new set of downs on the two yard line. David Sims then ran in a one-yard touchdown a play later to bring the Yellow Jackets within 4. Hokie kicker Cody Journell then added a field goal to put Virginia Tech back up by a touchdown.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech vs. Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech then forced a turnover on downs but could not get a first down forcing Journell to come back out on short rest. Journell would miss the field goal left. Both teams then traded three and outs. After driving for about 25 yards Kendall Fuller intercepted a Vad Lee pass deep down field on 4th and 13 giving the Hokies the ball with 1:06 remaining. Two kneels ended the game handing the Yellow Jackets their first loss of the season dropping them to 2–1 in ACC play and 3–1 for the season.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech vs. Miami
Looking to bounce back from their first loss of the season Georgia Tech took on undefeated Miami at Sun Life Stadium. Both offenses started strong with matching touchdowns in the first 7 minutes of the game. Georgia Tech then took over and scored 10 straight points due to a powerful run game and a turnover courtesy of a Duke Johnson fumble. However a Vad Lee fumble inside the red zone early in the second quarter would be the Yellow Jackets undoing.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech vs. Miami
Injured Miami quarterback Stephen Morris along with a strong running core would rally to score 17 in a row to go up 24–17 by end of the third quarter. Georgia Tech regained composure to add a touchdown courtesy of a David Simms 6 yard run but Harrison Butker would miss the PAT after a poor snap caused him to kick into the laces keeping the Yellow Jackets behind albeit one point. A 41-yard pass from Stephen Morris to Stacy Coley set up 3-yard rushing touchdown by Dallas Crawford put Miami up by eight after a converted PAT.


2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech vs. Miami
Rayshawn Jenkins would intercept a Vad Lee pass leading to another quick touchdown by Dallas Crawford. Vad Lee would be benched for Justin Thomas who would come in and throw an interception returned for a touchdown on the second play of the drive putting Miami up 45–23. Third string Tech quarterback Tim Byerly would lead the Jackets on their last drive of the day capped off by a Byerly 15 yard run. Miami moved to 5–0 after running out the clock while the Jackets would be handed their second straight loss in ACC play moving them to 2–2 in conference play and 3–2 on the season.


2013 Georgian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Georgia on 27 October 2013, the sixth presidential elections since the country's restoration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The last elections in January 2008 resulted in the re-election of Mikheil Saakashvili for his second and final presidential term. Saakashvili was constitutionally barred from running for a third consecutive term.


2013 Georgian presidential election
The elections were held under a two-round system. Giorgi Margvelashvili was elected with a majority of votes in the first round.


2013 Georgian presidential election, Background
The previous presidential elections were held on 5 January 2008 in a polarised political environment following the November 2007 crisis, in response to which President Mikheil Saakashvili, then serving his first term in office, brought forward the elections from the original date in autumn 2008. Saakashvili won the election with 53.47% of the votes in an election described in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) election observation mission report as "the first genuinely competitive post-independence presidential election", which "was in essence consistent with most OSCE and Council of Europe commitments and standards for democratic elections". At the same time, the mission "revealed significant challenges which need to be addressed urgently."


2013 Georgian presidential election, Background
In the October 2012 parliamentary elections, the former ruling party United National Movement (ENM) lost power to the Georgian Dream coalition led by Bidzina Ivanishvili, who became the new Prime Minister.


2013 Georgian presidential election, Background
Upon the inauguration of a new president in 2013, a series of constitutional amendments passed in the Parliament of Georgia from 2010 to 2013 entered into force. The amendments envisaged significant reduction of the president's powers in favour of the Prime Minister.


2013 Georgian presidential election, Candidates
The Georgian Dream coalition named Giorgi Margvelashvili, minister of education and science and deputy prime minister, as their presidential candidate on 11 May.


2013 Georgian presidential election, Candidates
The candidates for the ENM presidential primaries, announced in June 2013, were former parliamentary speaker David Bakradze, veteran lawmaker and former cabinet minister Giorgi Baramidze, Shota Malashkhia and Zurab Japaridze. All the primaries were won by Bakradze who was announced the presidential candidate.


2013 Georgian presidential election, Candidates
On 12 June, Nino Burjanadze announced that she would run for president as the nominee of Democratic Movement – United Georgia.


2013 Georgian presidential election, Opinion polls
Opinion polls in the run-up to the election showed Margvelashvili to be the frontrunner. Polls varied between showing over 50% support for Margvelashvili and figures indicating the election would go to a second round.


2013 Georgian presidential election, Results
The result of the election was a clear first-round majority for Margvelashvili with 62% of the vote. Bakradze, his nearest rival, polled 22%. Burjanadze came third, with 10% of the vote. No other candidate received more than 3% of the vote. The inauguration of Margvelashvili was on 17 November.


2013 Georgian presidential election, Results
The election saw 47% of eligible voters cast a ballot; this is lower than the 2012 parliamentary election, which saw 61% vote, and the 2008 presidential election, where 54% of voters participated.


2013 Georgian presidential election, Reactions
Margvelashvili is an ally of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, and the result was considered to be a consolidation of Ivanishvili's power. With his appointee elected to the presidency, Ivanishvili has declared his intention to leave his role as Prime Minister, stating that his goals have been achieved.


2013 Georgian presidential election, Reactions
The election was declared as "clean" and "transparent" by international observers. The OSCE observer mission preliminary stated that the election was "efficiently administered, transparent and took place in an amicable and constructive environment." However, there were some issues noted by observers. International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy, a Georgian election observer group, found "significant shortcomings" regarding invalid ID and voter lists in Batumi, filing 45 complaints. Another group, Transparency International, filed 34 complaints.


2013 German Athletics Championships
The 2013 German Athletics Championships were held at the Donaustadion in Ulm on 6–7 July 2013.


2013 German Darts Championship
The 2013 German Darts Championship was the sixth of eight PDC European Tour events on the 2013 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Halle 39 in Hildesheim, Germany, between 6–8 September 2013. It featured a field of 64 players and £100,000 in prize money, with £20,000 going to the winner.


2013 German Darts Championship
Dave Chisnall won his first European Tour title by defeating Peter Wright 6–2 in the final.


2013 German Darts Championship, Qualification
The top 32 players from the  on the 11 June 2013 automatically qualified for the event. The remaining 32 places went to players from three qualifying events - 20 from the UK Qualifier (held in Crawley on 21 June), eight from the European Qualifier and four from the Host Nation Qualifier (both held at the venue in Hildesheim on 5 September).


2013 German Darts Championship, Qualification
James Wade was replaced by an additional European qualifier, due to a PDC-banning after the draw. Phil Taylor withdrew and was replaced by an additional Host Nation qualifier.


2013 German Darts Masters
The 2013 German Darts Masters was the seventh of eight PDC European Tour events on the 2013 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at the Glaspalast in Sindelfingen, Germany, between 20–22 September 2013. It featured a field of 64 players and £100,000 in prize money, with £20,000 going to the winner.


2013 German Darts Masters
Steve Beaton won his first European Tour title by defeating Mervyn King 6–5 in the final.


2013 German Darts Masters, Qualification
The top 32 players from the  on the 2 July 2013 automatically qualified for the event. The remaining 32 places went to players from three qualifying events - 20 from the UK Qualifier (held in Barnsley on 12 July), eight from the European Qualifier and four from the Host Nations Qualifier (both held at the venue in Sindelfingen on 19 September).


2013 German Darts Masters, Qualification
Phil Taylor withdrew from the event before it started and was replaced by an additional European Qualifier. Ted Hankey suffered whiplash injuries a week earlier in a minor car crash and had not recovered in time to participate in the event. He was replaced by an additional Host Nation Qualifier.


2013 German Figure Skating Championships
The 2013 German Figure Skating Championships (German: Deutsche Meisterschaften im Eiskunstlaufen 2013) was held on December 21–22, 2012 at the Volksbank Arena in Hamburg. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior, junior, and novice levels. The results are among the criteria used to choose the German teams to the 2013 World Championships and 2013 European Championships.


2013 German Figure Skating Championships, Junior results
The 2012–13 junior competition was held on January 9–13, 2013 at the Eislaufzentrum Oberstdorf in Oberstdorf.


2013 German Figure Skating Championships, Qualification results
After the national championships, the final European Championship qualification standings were published.


2013 German Football League
The 2013 German Football League season was the thirty fifth edition of the top-level American football competition in Germany and fourteenth since the renaming of the American football Bundesliga to German Football league.


2013 German Football League
The regular season started on 5 May and finished on 15 September 2013, followed by the play-offs. The season culminated in the German Bowl XXXV, staged on 12 October 2013 in Berlin, as in 2012, and the fourth time for the championship decider to be held in the German capital.


2013 German Football League
The German Bowl was won by the New Yorker Lions, a club from the city of Braunschweig, who defeated the Dresden Monarchs by a score of 35–34. It was the club's eight title overall and the first since 2008 while Dresden made their first-ever German Bowl appearance.


2013 German Football League, Modus
During the regular season each club played all other clubs in its division twice, home and away, resulting in each team playing 14 regular season games. There was no games between clubs from opposite divisions, inter conference games having been abolished after the 2011 season when the GFL was expanded from 14 to 16 teams.


2013 German Football League, Modus
The four best teams in each division qualified for the play-offs where, in the quarter finals, teams from opposite divisions played each other, whereby the better placed teams had home advantage. The first placed team played the fourth placed from the other division and the second placed the third placed team. From the semi-finals onwards teams from the same division could meet again.


2013 German Football League, Modus
The eighth placed team in each division entered a two-leg play-off with the winners of the respective division of the German Football League 2, the second tier of the league system in Germany. The winners of this contest qualified for the GFL for the following season.


2013 German Football League, Season overview
The 2013 season saw one newly promoted team, the Cologne Falcons, who replaced the Lübeck Cougars in the northern division of the league.


2013 German Football League, Season overview
The Wiesbaden Phantoms were relegated from the GFL South at the end of the 2013 season after losing to the Allgäu Comets while, in the northern division, the Cologne Falcons defended their league place against the Bielefeld Bulldogs. For Wiesbaden it meant the end to a three-year stint in the league. In January 2014 the Hamburg Blue Devils withdrew from the northern division, leaving it to play with seven clubs in the 2014 season.


2013 German Football League, Season overview
Six of the eight teams qualified for the play-offs in 2012 did so again in 2013. Only the Düsseldorf Panther and the Stuttgart Scorpions missed out on post season play compare to the previous season. For Stuttgart it ended a run of fifteen consecutive post season appearances since 1998. In their stead the Munich Cowboys returned to the play-offs to make their twentieth appearance while, in the north, the New Yorker Lions returned after a two-year absence to  make their sixteenth.


2013 German Football League, Season overview
In the quarter-finals of the play-offs the four northern clubs defeated their southern opponents, resulting in an all northern division semi-final for the first time since 1999. The 2011 and 2012 champions Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns were knocked-out by the Berlin Adler, losing at home in the GFL for the first time since 2010. In the semi-finals the first and second placed teams won their home games against the third and fourth placed clubs.


2013 German Football League, Season overview
In the German Bowl XXXV the New Yorker Lions then defeated the Dresden Monarchs in front of over 12,000 spectators 35–34, the fifth time the German Bowl had been decided by just one point. It was the first appearance from a club from the former East Germany in a German Bowl. For the Lions the 2013 title signalled a return to former dominance after four difficult seasons that had followed their twelve consecutive German Bowl appearances from 1997 to 2008.


2013 German Football League, Season overview
In the relegation play-offs between the last-placed southern team, the Wiesbaden Phantoms, and the winner of the GFL 2 South, the Allgäu Comets, the Comets won the first leg away 37–21 before losing 34–44 at home, thereby winning promotion to the GFL on overall points. The northern division saw the Cologne Falcons defeat  the Bielefeld Bulldogs 42–30 at home and then lose 17–6 away, retaining their league place by just one point.


2013 German Football League, Play-offs
The quarter-finals of the 2013 play-offs were played on 21 and 22 September, the semi-finals on 28 September and 3 October and the German Bowl on 12 October 2013. The German Bowl was held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin.


2013 German Formula Three Championship
The 2013 ATS Formel 3 Cup was the 11th edition of the ATS F3 Cup. The season began on 27 April at Oschersleben and finished on 29 September at Hockenheim after nine race weekends, with 26 races – one race at the Nürburgring was cancelled – completed in total. The championship was dominated by Marvin Kirchhöfer in his debut year finishing with 25 podiums including 13 wins.


2013 German Formula Three Championship, Race calendar and results
On 28 January 2013, the final version of the 2013 calendar was released with nine triple-header meetings. With the exception of a round at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, all rounds took place on German soil. The series was part of the ADAC Masters Weekend package six times, with additional rounds in support of the 24 Hours Nürburgring, and Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters events at the Lausitzring and Oschersleben.


2013 German Formula Three Championship, Championship standings, SONAX Rookie-Pokal
Rookie drivers are only eligible for the SONAX Rookie-Pokal title if they have not previously competed in more than two events of  national or international Formula 3 championship and not aged 26 in 2012.


2013 German Formula Three Championship, Championship standings, Teams
Only the highest car from each team is eligible to teams' standings.


2013 German Grand Prix
The 2013 German Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Großer Preis Santander von Deutschland 2013) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 7 July 2013 at the Nürburgring in Nürburg, Germany, as the ninth round of the 2013 season.


2013 German Grand Prix
It marked the 74th running of the German Grand Prix overall, and the 60th running of the German Grand Prix since 1950, when the racing series now known as the Formula One World Championship was created. This is the earliest a German Grand Prix has been held in a calendar year, followed by the 1926 and the 2009 editions of the race, though the 1996 European Grand Prix was held at the Nürburgring in late April.


2013 German Grand Prix
The 60-lap race was won by Sebastian Vettel, driving a Red Bull after starting from second position on the grid. This was the first home victory for the German driver. Kimi Räikkönen finished second for Lotus. Räikkönen's teammate Romain Grosjean finished third. A charging Fernando Alonso finished fourth and also set the fastest lap driving a Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton, who started from pole position driving a Mercedes, ended up finishing 5th, only a second ahead of his former teammate Jenson Button.


2013 German Grand Prix
As a result of the race, Sebastian Vettel increased his championship lead to 34 points from Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. Kimi Räikkönen's second place moved him just 7 points behind Alonso in the standings. Lewis Hamilton remained fourth, while Mark Webber also remained in 5th spot. This was also Sergio Pérez's first points finish since Spain, and also for his teammate Jenson Button, since Monaco. This was the last Formula One Grand Prix to be held at the Nürburgring until the 2020 Eifel Grand Prix.


2013 German Grand Prix, Background, Tyre changes
In the aftermath of the British Grand Prix, in which four drivers experienced explosive punctures at some of the fastest points of the Silverstone Circuit, tyre supplier Pirelli announced plans to alter the structure of the tyres for the German Grand Prix, ahead of a more-permanent solution to be introduced at the next race in Hungary. The new tyres replaced the steel belts used in the rear wheels with Kevlar in order to lower the operating temperature by up to 10 °C (18 °F) and reduce the likelihood of explosive punctures.


2013 German Grand Prix, Background, Tyre changes
In addition to this, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) banned the practice of swapping the left- and right-side tyres around on the cars, which teams had discovered increased the life expectancy of each tyre. Pirelli further lobbied to the FIA to make their recommendations for tyre pressure and camber settings to be made mandatory, after it was discovered that teams were deliberately using pressure and camber settings outside Pirelli's recommendations in order to maximise performance. This followed a similar incident at the 2011 Belgian Grand Prix, where teams used camber settings outside Pirelli's recommendations, which created blistering on the inside edge of the tyres as they experienced higher-than-normal operating temperatures.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying, Q1
Felipe Massa was the fastest driver in Q1, ahead of Kimi Räikkönen's Lotus. The drivers eliminated in Q1, were Valtteri Bottas, Pastor Maldonado, Charles Pic, Jules Bianchi, Giedo van der Garde and Max Chilton.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying, Q2
This session saw a rapid improvement in times in the closing stages which caught some teams out, such as Nico Rosberg being eliminated due to a mistake on the part of the Mercedes team and Mark Webber only barely making it into Q3 by five one-hundredths of a second Felipe Massa was fastest again ahead of Kimi Räikkönen again as well. Jean-Éric Vergne was eliminated, as well as Adrian Sutil, Esteban Gutiérrez, Sergio Pérez and Paul di Resta,.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying, Q3
Lewis Hamilton took pole position with Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber in second and third, respectively. Kimi Räikkönen and Romain Grosjean qualified 4th and 5th. Alonso qualified 8th behind his teammate Felipe Massa and both opted to start the race on the medium tyre. Daniel Ricciardo managed to qualify on the 3rd row for the second race in succession. Jenson Button and Nico Hülkenberg elected not to set a time, saving their tyres for the race.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Race
Both Webber and Vettel had strong starts applying immediate pressure to Hamilton. Hamilton responded by trying to push Vettel off the racing line on the inside of the track which then opened the door for Webber to try to make a move on the outside, but by the end of turn one Vettel had managed to shake off Hamilton and take the race lead, with Webber moving into second and Hamilton dropping down to third. Felipe Massa also had a good start, gaining a few places. Alonso fell back slightly as did Hamilton and Daniel Ricciardo.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Race
Vettel kept the lead for the next few laps. Meanwhile, Massa, running in sixth place, went off the track at turn one on lap 3 after locking his rear brakes. The engine stalled and he retired from the race, caused by a gearbox failure. Nico Rosberg meanwhile, who had a disastrous qualifying, barely improved on his position in the first 5 laps.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Race
From laps 5 to 9, drivers were pitting due to using worn softs from qualifying to switch to the medium compound tyres, with Grosjean and Räikkönen going longer than most drivers and also setting a very quick pace. Grosjean led the race before stopping on lap 13 and continued to show strong pace afterwards. Webber, on the other hand, pitted a lap later and had a serious incident with his rear-right wheel. The mechanics did not attach the wheel properly and as Webber left his pitbox, the wheel fell off and rolled down the pit lane.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Race
It hit and knocked over a cameraman, who was transported to a hospital in Koblenz where he was reported to have suffered broken bones and a concussion. Webber's Red Bull was pushed back to his pitbox where a new wheel was fitted and he rejoined the race, a lap behind Vettel. The two Lotuses had never lost touch with Vettel during the first half of the race and were keeping pace with him, with both Grosjean and Räikkönen setting fastest laps of the race.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Race
On lap 23, Jules Bianchi's Marussia suffered an engine failure which resulted in a fire. He pulled to the left-hand side of the track but, unusually, his car rolled back across the track to the other side where it was stopped by an advertising board. This caused an instant safety car, which allowed Webber to get back on to the lead lap. Most of the drivers pitted for fresh tyres. Jean-Éric Vergne's Toro Rosso suffered a hydraulics failure less than two laps after Bianchi's engine failure, during the safety car period. He was able to return to the pits. His team-mate Daniel Ricciardo was struggling. He had qualified sixth but was slowly falling back into the field. Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil of Force India also struggled during the first half of the race.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Race
After the safety car period, Webber began to make his way through the field before becoming stuck behind the Sauber of Esteban Gutiérrez. He was unable to pass the Mexican for more than ten laps and pitted to try to get an advantage with fresh tyres and clean air. Meanwhile, the McLaren drivers were once again having a tussle, with Jenson Button getting past Sergio Pérez at turn one. Pastor Maldonado, driving in the 600th grand prix race for the Williams F1 Team, was in the points in eighth, along with his team-mate and rookie Valtteri Bottas in tenth.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Race
Räikkönen was leading on lap 41 after Vettel and Grosjean had pitted for the third time. Lotus waited until lap 49 to pit Räikkönen, switching him to the soft tyre, which left Vettel and Grosjean in first and second, with Alonso a threat from behind in fourth place. Grosjean was then told on the radio to not hold Räikkönen up, for championship title points reasons. It took a few laps for Räikkönen to pass Grosjean and afterwards he attempted to chase down Vettel. Alonso set the fastest lap of the race, almost a second faster than the first three drivers, and was rapidly catching Grosjean. Meanwhile, Hamilton made a move on his former team-mate Button at turn two, moving into fifth. Webber then made a move on Pérez to go into seventh.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Race
Räikkönen was unable to catch Vettel, who took the victory. It was his first victory at his home race and the first victory he gained in his birthday month, July. It was also his 30th career victory, becoming the 6th driver to achieve such a feat and in just his 110th start. Räikkönen finished just one second behind, with Grosjean only just holding off Alonso for third place, the latter having used too much of his soft tyres while closing down the gap to Grosjean.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Race
The podium placings were the same as at the 2012 and the 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix. Hamilton, Button, Webber and Pérez remained fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth respectively. Rosberg, struggling to keep his Mercedes on the pace, finished ninth at his home race while Nico Hülkenberg took the final point for Sauber. di Resta finished eleventh, the first time he had finished outside the points during the season, with Ricciardo in twelfth, Adrian Sutil in thirteenth and Gutiérrez in fourteenth. Williams had a poor ending to their milestone race, with Maldonado and Bottas finishing fifteenth and sixteenth respectively after wheel gun problems in their pitstops. Charles Pic, his team-mate Giedo van der Garde and Max Chilton were the final finishers.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Post Race
After the race Red Bull and Force India were given fines for incidents in the pits.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Post Race
Red Bull were fined €30,000 after the right-rear tyre from Mark Webber's car became detached as the Australian left his pit box. The errant tyre subsequently bounced down the pit lane before striking FOM cameraman Paul Allen. Allen, who remained conscious after the incident, was treated at the circuit's medical centre before being helicoptered to Koblenz Hospital for observation.


2013 German Grand Prix, Report, Post Race
Force India, meanwhile, were given a €5,000 fine after releasing Paul di Resta into the path of Toro Rosso's Jean-Éric Vergne.


2013 German Indoor Athletics Championships
The 2013 German Indoor Athletics Championships (German: Deutsche Leichtathletik-Hallenmeisterschaften 2013) was the 60th edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for Germany. It was held on 23–24 February at the Helmut-Körnig-Halle in Dortmund. A total of 26 events, 13 for men and 13 for women, were contested plus five further events were held separately. It was to serve as preparation for the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships. The event was sold out on both days.


2013 German Indoor Athletics Championships
The combined events and racewalking national championships were held on 26–27 January at the Leichtathletikhalle Frankfurt-Kalbach in Kalbach-Riedberg. The 3 × 800 m and 3 × 1000 m relays were held on 17 February alongside the  German Indoor Youth Athletics Championships in Halle (Saale).


2013 German Indoor Athletics Championships
Christina Schwanitz won the women's shot put with the best performance by any athlete that year.


2013 German Masters
The 2013 Betfair German Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 30 January – 3 February 2013 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany. It was the sixth ranking event of the 2012/2013 season.


2013 German Masters
Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion, but he decided not to compete this year.


2013 German Masters
Ali Carter won his third ranking title by defeating Marco Fu 9–6 in the final.


2013 German Masters, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2013 German Masters, Qualifying
These matches were held between 28 and 30 November 2012 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England, and on 30 January 2013 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany.


2013 German Masters (curling)
The 2013 German Masters were held from January 25 to 27 at the Curling Club Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany as part of the 2012–13 World Curling Tour. The event was held in a round-robin format. In the final, David Murdoch of Scotland, skipping for Tom Brewster, defeated Rasmus Stjerne of Denmark with a score of 6–1.


2013 German Open Grand Prix Gold
The 2013 German Open Grand Prix Gold was the first grand prix gold and grand prix tournament of the 2013 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. The tournament was held in RWE-Sporthalle, Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany from February 26 until March 3, 2013 and had a total purse of $120,000.


2013 German federal election
Federal elections were held on 22 September to elect the members of the 18th Bundestag of Germany. At stake were all 598 seats to the Bundestag, plus 33 overhang seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CDU/CSU) of incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel won their best result since 1990 with nearly 42% of the vote and nearly 50% of the seats, just five short for an overall majority. The Free Democratic Party (FDP) failed to meet the 5% vote electoral threshold in what was their worst showing ever in a federal election, denying them seats in the Bundestag for the first time in their history.


2013 German federal election
As the FDP, the CDU/CSU's junior coalition partner, failed to get any seats and a red–green alliance, which governed Germany from 1998 to 2005, did not have enough seats for a majority, the only possible coalition without the CDU/CSU was a left-wing red–red–green coalition government. Merkel scared it off, and both the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and Alliance 90/The Greens ruled out governing with The Left. Ultimately, Merkel's party reached a coalition agreement with the then-main opposition party, the SPD, to form a grand coalition, the third in the country's history since World War II. The SPD leadership conducted a ratification vote by their broader membership before the agreement was made final. The grand coalition was renewed after the 2017 German federal election due to failure during the negotiations of a Jamaica coalition.


2013 German federal election, Background
In the 2009 German federal election, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU), and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) won the election with Angela Merkel as Chancellor of Germany and Guido Westerwelle as Vice-Chancellor of Germany.


2013 German federal election, Date
The date of the federal election is governed by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (Germany's constitution) and the Federal Election Law (Bundeswahlgesetz). Article 39 of the Basic Law states that the Bundestag shall be elected between 46 and 48 months after the beginning of the legislative period. As the 17th Bundestag convened on 27 October 2009, the election was scheduled between 27 August and 27 October 2013. To avoid school holidays, a date in late September is usually chosen; this made 15 or 22 September 2013 the most likely dates. The President of Germany ordered 22 September 2013 to be the election day upon the recommendation of the federal government.


2013 German federal election, Electoral system
According to Article 38 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, members of the Bundestag shall be elected in general, direct, free, equal, and secret elections; everyone over the age of eighteen is entitled to vote.


2013 German federal election, Electoral system
In 2008, some modifications to the electoral system were required under an order of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. The court had found a provision in the Federal Election Law by which it was possible for a party to experience a negative vote weight, namely losing seats due to more votes, violated the constitutional guarantee of the electoral system being equal and direct. The court allowed three years for these changes, so the 2009 German federal election was not affected. The changes were due by 30 June 2011 but appropriate legislation was not completed by that deadline. A new electoral law was enacted in late 2011 but was declared unconstitutional once again by the Federal Constitutional Court upon lawsuits from the opposition parties and a group of some 4,000 private citizens.


2013 German federal election, Electoral system
Four of the five factions in the Bundestag agreed on an electoral reform whereby the number of seats in the Bundestag will be increased as much as necessary to ensure that any overhang seats are compensated through apportioned leveling seats, to ensure full proportionality according to the political party's share of party votes at the national level. The Bundestag approved and enacted the new electoral reform in February 2013.


2013 German federal election, Electoral system
The Bundestag is elected using mixed-member proportional representation, meaning that each voter has two votes, a first vote for the election of a constituency candidate by first-past-the-post and a second vote for the election of a state list. The Sainte-Laguë/Schepers method is used to convert the votes into seats, in a two-stage process with each stage involving two calculations. First, the number of seats to be allocated to each state is calculated, based on the proportion of the German population living there. Then the seats in each state are allocated to the party lists in that state, based on the proportion of second votes each party received.


2013 German federal election, Electoral system
In the distribution of seats among state lists, only parties that have obtained at least five percent of the valid second votes cast in the electoral area or have won a seat in at least three constituencies are taken into consideration. The minimum number of seats for each party at federal level is then determined. This is done by calculating, for each party state list, the number of constituency seats it won on the basis of the first votes, as well as the number of seats to which it is entitled on the basis of the second votes. The higher of these two figures is the party’s minimum number of seats in that state. Adding together the minimum number of seats to which the party is entitled in all of the states produces a total representing its guaranteed minimum number of seats in the country as a whole.


2013 German federal election, Electoral system
In order to ensure that each party receives its guaranteed minimum number of seats when the seats are allocated using the Sainte-Laguë/Schepers method, it may become necessary to increase the number of seats in the Bundestag. Then it must be ensured that the seats are distributed to the parties in line with their national share of the second votes. Additional overhang seats, or balance seats, are created to ensure that the distribution of the seats reflects the parties' share of the second votes and that no party receives fewer than its guaranteed minimum number of seats.


2013 German federal election, Electoral system
Balance seats are also necessary to ensure that each party requires roughly the same number of second votes per seat. Once the number of seats which each party is entitled to receive across the country has been determined, the seats are allocated to the parties' individual state lists. Each state list must receive at least as many seats as the number of constituencies which the party won in the state in question.


2013 German federal election, Chancellor-candidates
Although the chancellor-candidates (Kanzlerkandidaten) play a very important role in election campaigns, their office is not regulated in any law, and it is up to each party to determine how, and if at all, to name a chancellor-candidate. The SPD names a chancellor-candidate, while the CDU and the CSU name a common one. The smaller Bundestag parties (the FDP, the Left, and the Greens) usually do not name a chancellor-candidate as it is very improbable for such a candidate to actually be elected chancellor.


2013 German federal election, Chancellor-candidates
They instead name one or two persons (Spitzenkandidaten) who are to become the faces of that party's campaign. Although there is nearly no chance for them to win seats in the Bundestag, especially due to the required minimum quota of votes required to be granted any seats, and much less have their candidate become chancellor, fringe parties sometimes name a chancellor-candidate, such as the Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität with its chancellor-candidate Helga Zepp-LaRouche in the 2009 federal election.


2013 German federal election, Chancellor-candidates
While a sitting chancellor is usually named chancellor-candidate for his or her own party, the main opposition party's process to determine their chancellor-candidate differs. Most times, such a person is determined in an inner party circle and then anointed in a party convention. As the CDU/CSU is the main government party, CDU chairwoman and incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel was not challenged as chancellor-candidate. In the SPD, the situation was a bit less clear, as there were four candidates in the discussion.


2013 German federal election, Chancellor-candidates
While the party chairman Sigmar Gabriel, the parliamentary caucus leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and Peer Steinbrück, former minister-president of Nordrhein-Westfalen and former federal minister of Finance, were quasi-official contenders for the candidacy, incumbent Nordrhein-Westfalen minister-president Hannelore Kraft denied interest in the candidacy. Gabriel, Steinmeier, and Steinbrück all had a bad electoral record, as they all had led their party into painful defeats in state or general elections. Gabriel and Steinbrück lost their inherited minister-president offices in 2003 and 2005, and Steinmeier failed as a chancellor-candidate in 2009. On 28 September 2012, the party announced that Steinbrück would be the SPD's chancellor-candidate.


2013 German federal election, Campaign
After taking heat domestically for bailing out other European countries, Finance-Minister Wolfgang Schäuble took the step of mentioning that Greece would need a third bailout. This was in stark contrast to his colleagues who had refrained from making such measures in light of the election, in particularly following Merkel's dismissal of a potential future bailout. In reaction to the statement and the dithering, Peer Steinbrueck of the SPD said that it was "time that Mrs. Merkel tells people the truth", while the Greens' Jürgen Trittin of the Greens also criticized Merkel.


2013 German federal election, Campaign
Merkel also became the first chancellor to visit Dachau concentration camp after an invitation by former inmate Max Mannheimer, who leads a survivor group, saying: "What happened at the concentration camps was and continues to be incomprehensible." Merkel also warning of a rising tide of antisemitism and racism as a threat to democracy in Europe. Her visit was welcomed by residents of the town due to its historic nature but was also suggested as a vote ploy ahead of the election.


2013 German federal election, Campaign
She also campaigned on Germany's unemployment record that fell to a two-decade low during her premiership, progress towards a balanced budget, and the Eurozone's advantages for Germany's exports. There were questions asked about her legacy and a potential heir to the party leadership. Campaigning in the "hot phase" ended on 21 September, as Merkel appealed to voters to support her against Eurosceptics.


2013 German federal election, Campaign, Televised debates
A 90-minute televised debate between the lead candidates of the CDU/CSU and the SPD, the two leading contenders, was held on 1 September. The smaller-party top-ranking candidates Rainer Brüderle (FDP), Jürgen Trittin (Alliance 90/The Greens), and Gregor Gysi (The Left) held a separate debate on 2 September.


2013 German federal election, Opinion polling
In Germany, there are regular opinion polls during the whole of the legislative period. Germany's major polling agencies are Allensbach, Emnid, Forsa, Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, GMS, Infratest dimap, and INSA/YouGov. August 2013 opinion polls suggested that the CDU/CSU and the FDP (black–yellow coalition) would be just short of or just above an absolute majority, rather than the SPD and Greens (red–green coalition), partners in Gerhard Schröder-led government (1998–2005).


2013 German federal election, Results
Only four parties were present in the Bundestag for the first time since the 1987 West German federal election, as the CDU/CSU operates as one Bundestag group. The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) scored 42 percent of the vote, their best result since tallying 44% in 1990. Since some 15 percent of the vote went to parties that fell short of the 5% threshold, the CDU/CSU came up just five seats short of a majority.


2013 German federal election, Results
The Free Democratic Party (FDP), junior partner in the outgoing coalition government, failed to pass the 5% threshold. It also failed to win any directly elected seats, as it has not won any directly elected seats since 1990), shutting it out of the Bundestag altogether for the first time in the party's history. A new Eurosceptic party, Alternative for Germany, nearly won seats but was shut out by narrowly missing the 5% electoral threshold.


2013 German federal election, Results, Results by state
Below are second votes (Zweitstimme), or votes for party list, by state.


2013 German federal election, Results, Reactions
Incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel said: "It was a strong vote to take responsibility in Germany, but also in Europe and the world." Peer Steinbrück announced his withdrawal from top politics and his intention to focus on his ordinary tasks as a member of parliament.