2013 Thai Premier League, Attendances
Updated to games played on 3 November 2013Source: Notes:†Teams played previous season in Division 1


2013 Thailand National Games
The 42nd Thailand National Games (Thai: การแข่งขันกีฬาแห่งชาติ ครั้งที่ 42 "สุพรรณบุรีเกมส์", also known as the 2013 National Games and the Suphan Buri Games) were held in Suphan Buri, Thailand from 5 to 15 January 2014, involving 44 sports and 77 disciplines. These games were held in Suphan Buri Provincial Sport Center and Suphan Buri Sport School Stadium. Nakhon Ratchasima also hosted the 1994 and the 2006 Thailand National Games.


2013 Thailand National Games, Marketing, Emblem
His Majesty King Naresuan riding on his royal war elephant beat His Majesty King of Burma with Don Chedi Memorial.


2013 Thailand National Games, Marketing, Mascot
The mascots Ma Si Mok. The dark gray horse in Khun Chang Khun Phaen.


2013 Thailand National Games, Ceremony, Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony was held on January 5, 2014 at Suphan Buri Provincial Stadium with performances from the Suphanburi Symphonic Band and a special football match between Suphanburi FC and Muang Thong United.


2013 Thailand National Games, Ceremony, Closing ceremony
The closing ceremony was held on January 15, 2014 at Suphan Buri Provincial Stadium with a handover of the flag to Nakhon Ratchasima, the host 2014 Thailand National Games.


2013 Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold
The 2013 Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold was the sixth grand prix gold and grand prix tournament of the 2013 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. The tournament was held in Nimibutr Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand June 4 until June 9, 2013 and had a total purse of $120,000.


2013 Thailand national football team results
This article details the fixtures and results of the Thailand national football team in 2013.


2013 Thailand national football team results, vs Finland
Assistant referees: Thanom Borikut  (Thailand) Anuwat Feemuichang (Thailand)Fourth official: Chaiya Mahapab  (Thailand)


2013 Thailand national football team results, vs Lebanon
Assistant referees: Jeong Hae-sang (South Korea) Yang Byoung-Eun (South Korea)Fourth official: Kim Dae Yong (South Korea)


2013 Thailand national football team results, vs China
Assistant referees:Kang Do-Jun (South Korea)Choi Min-Byoung (South Korea)Fourth official:Wang Zhe (China)


2013 Thailand national football team results, vs Iran(1)
Assistant referees: Ramzan Saeed Al Naemi (Qatar) Juma Al Burshaid  (Qatar)Fourth official: Khamis Mohamed Al-Kuwari (Qatar)


2013 Thailand national football team results, vs Iran(2)
Assistant referees: Matthew Cream (Australia) Hakan Anaz  (Australia)Fourth official: Mohd Amirul Izwan (Malaysia)


2013 Thailand national football team results, vs Kuwait(2)
Assistant referees: Rafael Ilyasov (Uzbekistan) Mamur Saidkasimov (Uzbekistan)Fourth official: Vladislav Tseytlin  (Uzbekistan)


2013 Thailand refugee camp fire
On 22 March 2013, a fire at the Ban Mae Surin refugee camp in Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand, killed 37 Karen refugees from neighbouring Myanmar, as well as destroying hundreds of dwellings. Thought to have started following a "cooking accident", the fire began at around 16:00 local time (09:00 GMT), and extinguished around two hours later. The fire had been spread by hot weather combined with strong winds.


2013 Thailand refugee camp fire
The current death toll for the fire is 37, comprising 21 men and 16 women. Of these, 35 were killed directly, while two others died in the following days. The majority of victims were burned to death, while others were suffocated. The death toll had previously been reported to be as high as 62, though this was later revised. Various sources have also reported "at least 100" and "over 200" other injured people.


2013 Thailand refugee camp fire
The fire destroyed hundreds of makeshift bamboo huts at the camp, as well as the camp's medical clinic, hospital, and two food warehouses. At least 2,300 people were left without shelter following the fire, and were subsequently accommodated in tents. Food, shelter, and clothing is being provided by the International Rescue Committee, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Jesuit Refugee Service, and the International Organisation for Migration, as well as other aid groups.


2013 Thailand refugee camp fire, Controversy
Eyewitnesses claim they saw a helicopter or airplane pass several times overhead before dropping 'sparks' onto the roofs of one of the sources of the fires. The investigation found traces of phosphorus at the source of the fire, leading a police chief to claim it was not an accident. The fire started simultaneously in Zone 1 and Zone 4, on opposite ends of the camps, leading some to suspect foul play Additionally, a section leader in the camp reported that two living tents far from camp were simultaneously burned, leading the community to further suspect foul play.


2013 Thane building collapse
On 4 April 2013, a building collapsed on tribal land in Mumbra, a suburb of Thane in Maharashtra, India. It has been called the worst building collapse in the area. Seventy-four people (18 children, 33 men and 23 women) were killed, while more than 100 survived. The search for additional survivors ended on 6 April 2013.


2013 Thane building collapse
The building was under construction and did not have an occupancy certificate for its 100 to 150 low- to middle-income residents. Living in the building were the site construction workers and families. It was reported that the building was illegally constructed because standard practices were not followed for safe, lawful construction; land acquisition and resident occupancy.


2013 Thane building collapse
By 11 April, a total of 15 suspects were arrested including builders, engineers, municipal officials and other responsible parties. Governmental records indicate that there were two orders to manage the number of illegal buildings in the area: a 2005 Maharashtra state order to use remote sensing and a 2010 Bombay High Court order. There were also complaints made to state and municipal officials.


2013 Thane building collapse
On 9 April, a campaign began by the Thane Municipal Corporation to demolish area illegal buildings, focusing first on "dangerous" buildings. The forest department said that it will address encroachment of forest land in the Thane district. A call centre was established by the Thane Municipal Corporation to accept and track resolution of caller complaints about illegal buildings.


2013 Thane building collapse, Collapse
At 6:30 pm IST (13:00 UTC) on 4 April 2013, a building collapsed in the Shil Phata area of Mumbra, a suburb of Thane in Maharashtra, India. The building collapsed quickly. First, a section of the building collapsed, it tilted, and then the entire building was brought down. A witness described the event, "The building collapsed like a pack of cards within three to four seconds."


2013 Thane building collapse, Collapse
According to Hasina Shaikh, a school girl who lived on the fifth floor with her family: "I had just returned from school and was changing when the building started shaking and came down on us... When I regained consciousness later, I was in the hospital." She says she considers herself lucky to be alive. One survivor is a 10-month-old girl whose parents had not been found as of 6 April 2013. Reuters reported the last survivor was rescued on 5 April, a woman who was "found after workers heard her voice and used camera equipment to pinpoint her location under the rubble."


2013 Thane building collapse, Collapse
Dubbed the "miracle survivor", a four-year-old girl, Sandhya Thakur, was pulled from the wreckage. She was unable to open her eyes, but awoke on 7 April 2013 to the awareness that she had suffered a disaster. Her father and six brothers and sisters are missing; Her mother died when the building collapsed. She is physically unharmed, but having a hard time adjusting psychologically.


2013 Thane building collapse, Collapse
According to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, payments of ₹50,000 will be made to the injured, and a ₹200,000 payment will be made to the next of kin of the deceased.


2013 Thane building collapse, Collapse, Building occupied while under construction
The building containing offices and apartments was under construction for six weeks prior to the disaster, but there are varying reports on the extent of the construction completion. The Times of India reported that "Twenty-five tenements on five storeys were complete and the sixth and seventh floors were under construction." Although there was no occupancy certificate, the first four storeys of the building were illegally inhabited by site construction workers and families. In addition to families of construction workers, there were also families headed by rickshaw drivers and/or those whose children attended tuition classes in the building. It is believed that the builder wanted the building to be inhabited to prevent it being demolished.


2013 Thane building collapse, Collapse, Building occupied while under construction
The developers, who intended to build up to 8 such illegal buildings, intended to sell the apartments for ₹1,100 to ₹1,400 per square foot. On average, the apartments were 175 square feet.


2013 Thane building collapse, Collapse, Land ownership
The building had come to the attention of the Municipal Commissioner RA Rajeevsaid because the building was said to be built illegally on forest land. Research into the collapsed building's land ownership has determined that it was owned by a tribal family, and the adjoining lot was owned by the forest department.


2013 Thane building collapse, Collapse, Land ownership
Although this property was not located on forest land, R.K. Pol, Chief Conservator of Forests, has said that the forest department will address encroachment issues in the Thane district from Jawahar-Mokhada to Alibaug.


2013 Thane building collapse, Collapse, Rescue
The rescue efforts were supervised by District Collector P. Velarasu and Municipal Commissioner R.A. Rajeev, and the rescue was conducted by incident medical teams and fire tenders. A number of local hospitals treated the injured. The most critically injured people were sent to Sion and JJ Hospitals. Moderate injuries were treated at Thane Civil Hospital and Kalwa's Kalsekar and CSM Civic hospitals. As of 6 April 2013, 36 injured people were still receiving treatment.


2013 Thane building collapse, Collapse, Rescue
Workers, including the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), used bulldozers, hydraulic jacks, power saws and sledgehammers to break through the "mound of steel and concrete" and dug an additional 8 feet (2.4 m) below ground. The rescue effort was complicated by the way in which the floors were "sandwiched" in the collapse, making it difficult to find individuals in the rubble.


2013 Thane building collapse, Collapse, Rescue
The rescue effort ended on 6 April. According to NDRF spokesperson R.S. Rajesh: "We have dug beyond the basement level, and everything is now cleared; there's nothing left."


2013 Thane building collapse, Investigation, Builders
The building collapse appeared to be the result of poor-quality building material and having been "weakly built", according to Police inspector Digamber Jangale and Police commissioner K.P. Raghuvanshi. Lawful building construction in Thane district requires blueprints to be filed and approved by municipal agencies and permits obtained to connect electricity, water and sewage services. The builders did not file the blueprints in this case.


2013 Thane building collapse, Investigation, Builders
The police registered a claim of "culpable homicide" and on 6 April 2013 arrested the builders.


2013 Thane building collapse, Investigation, Builders
By 12 April 2013 Hadisulla Rakbulla Choudhary, a partner of the developer, was arrested for his role.


2013 Thane building collapse, Investigation, Officials
Ramesh Patil, a legislator of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) party, stated that the week before the incident he had complained the building was unfit and not legal. He wrote and sent photographs of this and other buildings to the Thane Municipal Commissioner R.A. Rajeev, Chief Secretary Jayanthkumar Banthia, and the Chief Minister. However, nothing was done.


2013 Thane building collapse, Investigation, Officials
At a state assembly meeting, Chief Minister of Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan assured participants that there would be a thorough investigation of the circumstances leading up to the collapse of the building. Two individuals were suspended from duty: Senior Police Inspector K.P. Naik for collusion and the Deputy Commissioner of Thane, Deepak Chavan, for dereliction of duty.


2013 Thane building collapse, Investigation, Officials
Pratap Sarnaik, Member of the Legislative Assembly, demanded an investigation into the role of R.A. Rajeev, the Thane Municipal Commissioner.


2013 Thane building collapse, Background
The prevalence of illegal housing in India is due to a lack of housing coupled with high population growth, and illegal buildings are attractive to lower-income people because of the low housing costs. Many people moved to the greater Mumbai area in search of jobs, and without affordable housing, thousands sleep in slums or on the streets. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation reports that there are approximately 19 million families with inadequate housing. To meet the demands, there are many buildings constructed illegally.


2013 Thane building collapse, Background
Further, some builders do not follow proper building practices and laws, or execute proper safety measures. Poor construction materials are also to blame in these circumstances. Within the Mumbai region there are estimated to be hundreds of illegal structures. Sameer Hashmi, a BBC reporter, says that activists "allege that unscrupulous builders often pay hefty bribes to authorities who turn a blind eye to these illegal structures and do not take any action against the builders."


2013 Thane building collapse, Background
This trend has been observed in other municipalities within Mumbai Metropolitan Development Authority in the Navi Mumbai Municipal Cooperation (NMMC) of Nationalist Congress Party, Vasai-Virar sector, and Ulhasnagar.


2013 Thane building collapse, Background
In 2010, the government of Maharashtra reported that there were about 500,000 illegal buildings within the Thane district.


2013 Thane building collapse, Background
In February 2013, Sunil Kumar Lahoria, a Navi Mumbai developer, was killed after having lodged complaints about 600 area illegal buildings. His son, Sandeep Kumar, said: "My father paid a very heavy price for exposing irregularities that took place with the active involvement of government officers. He made use of the Right to Information Act to deal with corruption, but he was killed." Forest department officials say that during drives to resolve encroachments and to raze Mumbra-Diva area illegal buildings on forest land, their staff received threats against their lives and threats that women in their families would be raped. A Member of the Legislative Assembly, Jitendra Awhad, and his supporters were said to be the source of these threats. According to Awhad,  the threats are "blown out of proportion".


2013 Thane building collapse, Background, 2012 illegal building information
In December 2012 Legislator Pratap Sarnaik obtained information, in accordance with the Right to Information Act, about the scope of the construction of illegal buildings in the Thane district. The following was reported in The Hindu for Thane's divisions:


2013 Thane building collapse, Background, 2012 illegal building information
For the nine divisions under the corporation last year, 505 illegal buildings were demolished, there was action against 829 (which does not mean they were demolished), and in December, 2012 alone, 104 illegal constructions were detected. The year round 146 buildings were given notices, and 53 cases of violations were filed under the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act and 83 cases registered under the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Act.


2013 Thane building collapse, Background, 2012 illegal building information
The Hindu reported: "while the TMC says illegal buildings were demolished or given stop work notices, in reality nothing happens. The buildings were rarely brought down and people continued to live there."


2013 Thane building collapse, Background, 2010 Bombay High Court order
The total number of illegal structures are estimated to be about 490,000 in the Thane district according to information in the Bombay (Mumbai) High Court. The structures include slums, shops, chawls and other buildings. Although the court ordered demolition of all such buildings in 2010, the government's response was that no illegal structures built before 2001 would be demolished and no action was taken in response to this judgement.


2013 Thane building collapse, Background, 2005 remote sensing order
According to Raju Phanse, Right to Information (RTI) activist and General Secretary of the Dharmarajya Paksha political party, Thane Municipal Corporation did not act upon the 2005 Maharashtra state resolution to identify illegal buildings. The order called for municipalities to use remote sensing technology to identify illegal buildings by 28 February 2005 and monitor satellite images every six months. R.A. Rajeev, Thane Municipal Commissioner, said that "we are doing what we can"; he admitted that 90% of Mumbra's buildings are illegal.


2013 Thane building collapse, Arrests
As of 22nd Feb 2021 9 people were arrested. Information from interrogation of the two builders, and documents found in one of the builder's homes, led to the arrest of the others in this case. Except for the engineers charged with dereliction of duty, the suspects are charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder and criminal conspiracy. They could be sentenced up to life if convicted.


2013 Thane building collapse, Arrests, Chart of suspects' alleged roles
This chart was created based upon the builders, police and municipal suspects' alleged roles as identified in an article by the Pune Mirror.


2013 Thane building collapse, Arrests, Chart of suspects' alleged roles
In addition, TMC engineers Subash Rawal and Ramesh Inamdar allegedly received bribes so that they would not demolish the building.


2013 Thane building collapse, Legal proceedings
The local court on 18 May 2013 granted bail to Afroz Ansari  who had supplied materials and Ramdas Burud, a driver to one of the accused officials of TMC. Judge KR Warrier granted bail to them against personal bonds of Rs 15,000. The court on 17 May 2013, rejected the bail pleas of Deputy Municipal Commissioners Deepak Chavan, Shreekant Sarmokdam and Assistant Municipal Commissioner Shyam Thorbole and engineer Ramesh Inamdar.


2013 Thane building collapse, Actions to manage illegal buildings, Demolition drive
A formal campaign to demolish area illegal buildings began on 9 April 2013 and is expected to be conducted before the monsoon season. It will be led by Anil Patil, Senior Engineer. The first phase of a "demolition drive" begins as 57 illegal buildings in the district (including Mumbra-Kausa area) are vacated, taken over by the Thane Municipal Council (TMC) and demolished. To support the effort, 15 additional officials will be added to the demolition cell and 9 legal advisors will be added to address legal matters. The police are engaged to facilitate evictions.


2013 Thane building collapse, Actions to manage illegal buildings, Demolition drive
The demolition effort will focus first on the most dangerous buildings. Other buildings at the Lucky compound have been razed as part of this initiative.


2013 Thane building collapse, Actions to manage illegal buildings, Cut off utilities to all illegal buildings
Further, the TMC intends to have sewer, water, and electricity service disconnected at all illegal buildings in the district. Water and sewer should be able to be turned off immediately; TMC is requesting that electricity is turned off by the electric service.


2013 Thane building collapse, Actions to manage illegal buildings, Call centre established
The Thane Municipal Corporation established a call centre to receive complaints about illegal buildings on 10 April 2013. Its responsibilities include: notifying municipal officials of the complaints, tabulating information about actions taken and preparing reports of complaints and activities for the Municipal Commissioner. It is a 24 hours a day operation.


2013 Tharaka-Nithi local elections
Local elections were held in Tharaka-Nithi County to elect a Governor and County Assembly on 4 March 2013. Under the new constitution, which was passed in a 2010 referendum, the 2013 general elections were the first in which Governors and members of the County Assemblies for the newly created counties were elected. They will also be the first general elections run by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) which has released the official list of candidates.


2013 The Citadel Bulldogs football team
The 2013 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bulldogs were led by ninth year head coach Kevin Higgins and played their home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium. They played as members of the Southern Conference, as they have since 1936. They finished the season 5–7, 4–4 in SoCon play to finish in a four way tie for fourth place.


2013 The Citadel Bulldogs football team
At the end of the season, head coach Kevin Higgins resigned to become an assistant coach at Wake Forest.


2013 The Citadel Bulldogs football team, Schedule
For the third year in a row, home games in September were scheduled for a 6:00 p.m. kickoff rather than the traditional 2:00 p.m. kickoff. The Bulldogs faced in-state FBS rival Clemson and Old Dominion, in its first year of transitioning to FBS. FCS teams were permitted to play twelve games in 2013 due to an extra Saturday falling between Labor Day and Thanksgiving.


2013 The Dominion All-Star Curling Skins Game
The 2013 Dominion All-Star Curling Skins Game was held from January 19 to 20 at the Casino Rama Entertainment Centre in Rama, Ontario. The total purse for the event was CAD$100,000.


2013 The Dominion All-Star Curling Skins Game, Competition format
As in previous years, four teams will play two semifinals games, and the winners of the semifinals games will meet in the final to determine the winner. However, the teams will be chosen by fan voting and by random draw, similar to All-Star games in other sports. The top ten teams in the Canadian Curling Association's rankings system in the previous year are nominated, and the top four fan voting selections for each position (skip, third, second, lead) will play in the competition. The skips will each randomly draw their third, second, and lead from the top four selections, and the four All-Star teams will compete against each other.


2013 The Dominion All-Star Curling Skins Game, Teams
The teams will be determined by a random draw in Toronto on January 17. The players that will compete are listed as follows, ordered by number of votes earned:


2013 The Dominion All-Star Curling Skins Game, Teams, Roster
The teams are listed in draft order by skip. Skips selected their teammates in a snake order, and were not allowed to choose their own teammates unless necessary.


2013 The Dominion All-Star Curling Skins Game, Teams, Roster
A donation was made to the Sandra Schmirler Foundation on behalf of Pat Simmons, who was selected last among the players.


2013 The Dominion All-Star Curling Skins Game, Results
Jeff Stoughton, who had last pick in the draft, was given the choice of picking his opponent in the semifinal, and Stoughton chose to play Team Kevin Koe in the first semifinal.


2013 The Dominion All-Star Curling Skins Game, Results
All draw times are listed in Eastern Standard Time (UTC−5).


2013 The Dominion All-Star Curling Skins Game, Results, Final winnings
The final prize winnings for each team are listed below:


2013 The Dominion Curling Club Championship
The 2013 Dominion Curling Club Championship was held from November 18 to 23 at the Fort William Curling Club in Thunder Bay, Ontario.


2013 The Dominion Tankard
The 2013 Dominion Tankard, southern Ontario's men's provincial curling championship, was held from February 4 to 10 at the Barrie Molson Centre in Barrie, Ontario. The winning team of Glenn Howard will represent Ontario at the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier in Edmonton, Alberta.


2013 The Dominion Tankard
Howard won his 15th provincial championship, and continued his record 8th straight title by defeating Joe Frans in the final.


2013 The Dominion Tankard, Qualification
Southern Ontario zones run from November 30-December 2, and December 7–11, 2012. Two teams from each zone qualify to 4 regional tournaments, and two teams from each of the two tournaments qualify to provincials. Two additional teams qualify out of a second chance qualifier. As defending champions, the Glenn Howard rink from the Coldwater and District Curling Club get an automatic berth in the Tankard.


2013 The Dominion Tankard, Qualification, Zone Qualification, Zone 5
December 7–9, at the Fenelon Falls Curling Club, Fenelon Falls


2013 The Dominion Tankard, Qualification, Zone Qualification, Zone 7
December 7–9, at the Bayview Golf & Country Club, Thornhill


2013 The Dominion Tankard, Qualification, Zone Qualification, Zone 8
December 8–9, at the St. George's Golf & Country Club, Toronto


2013 The Dominion Tankard, Qualification, Zone Qualification, Zone 9
December 7–9, at the Markdale Golf & Curling Club, Markdale


2013 The Dominion Tankard, Qualification, Zone Qualification, Zone 10
December 7–9, at the Bradford & District Curling Club, Bradford


2013 The Dominion Tankard, Qualification, Zone Qualification, Zone 13
December 7–9, at the Glendale Golf & Country Club, Hamilton


2013 The Dominion Tankard, Qualification, Zone Qualification, Zone 16
December 7–9, at the Forest Curling & Social Club, Forest


2013 The Masters Grand Slam of Curling
The 2013 Masters Grand Slam of Curling was held from October 29 to November 3 at the Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre in Abbotsford, British Columbia as part of the 2013–14 World Curling Tour. The Masters was the first Grand Slam on the men's tour and the third Grand Slam on the women's tour. The purses for both the men's and the women's events were CAD$100,000 each.


2013 The Masters Grand Slam of Curling
The event featured the six men's and six women's teams that have qualified for the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials as well as teams representing most of the nations that have already qualified for the curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics, along with some nations that are attempting to qualify. Out of the 16 men's and women's teams that have already qualified for the Olympics, only Denmark failed to send a team in the women's event. Out of the teams that have not yet qualified for the Olympics, the United States and New Zealand sent men's teams, and China, Latvia and Japan sent women's teams.


2013 The Masters Grand Slam of Curling, Men, Round Robin Results
All draw times are listed in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−7).


2013 The Masters Grand Slam of Curling, Women, Round Robin Results
All draw times are listed in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−7).


2013 The National
The 2013 National was held from January 23 to 27 at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. It was the third men's Grand Slam event of the 2012–13 curling season. The purse for the event was CAD$100,000. In the final, Jeff Stoughton defeated a struggling Mike McEwen with a score of 8–2 in six ends.


2013 The National, Round robin results
All draw times are listed in Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-4).


2013 The Oaks Club Challenger
The 2013 The Oaks Club Challenger is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It is the fifth edition of the tournament which is part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It takes place in Osprey, Florida, United States, on March 25–31, 2013.


2013 The Oaks Club Challenger, WTA entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 The Oaks Club Challenger, WTA entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a Lucky Loser:


2013 The Oaks Club Challenger – Doubles
Lindsay Lee-Waters and Megan Moulton-Levy were the defending champions, having won the event in 2012, but both players chose not to participate.


2013 The Oaks Club Challenger – Doubles
Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears won the title, defeating Verónica Cepede Royg and Inés Ferrer Suárez in the final, 6–1, 6–3.


2013 The Oaks Club Challenger – Singles
Arantxa Rus was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Mariana Duque Mariño.


2013 The Oaks Club Challenger – Singles
Duque Mariño then went on to win the title, defeating Estrella Cabeza Candela in the final, 7–6(7–2), 6–1.


2013 The Shoot-Out
The 2013 Shoot-Out was held from September 12 to 15 at the Saville Sports Centre in Edmonton, Alberta as part of the 2013–14 World Curling Tour. Both the men's and women's events are being held in a triple-knockout format. The purse for the men's event was CAD$18,000, of which the winner, Kevin Martin, received CAD$5,000, while the purse for the women's event was CAD$26,000, of which the winner, Crystal Webster, received CAD$5,000. Martin defeated Steve Laycock in the final with a score of 3–2, while Webster defeated Chantelle Eberle in the final with a score of 10–6 in seven ends.


2013 Third Division Football Tournament
Statistics of Third Division Football Tournament in the 2013 season. Tournament started on August 19.


2013 Third Division Football Tournament, Teams
51 teams are competition in the 2013 Third Division Football Tournament, and these teams were divided into 17 groups of 3 teams. Winner of each group and the best 1 team among the group runners-up will be advanced into the second round. Between the 18 teams in the second round, a knock out format will be used.


2013 Three Days of De Panne
The 2013 Three Days of De Panne (Dutch: 2013 KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde) was the 37th edition of the Three Days of De Panne, an annual bicycle stage race. Taking part in and around the De Panne region of West Flanders, it began in Middelkerke on 26 March and was finished in De Panne two days later. The 528.45 km (328.36 mi) long race contained four stages, with two held on the final day. It was part of the 2013 UCI Europe Tour and was rated as a 2.HC event.


2013 Three Days of De Panne, Teams
23 teams were invited to participate in the tour: 10 UCI ProTeams, 11 UCI Professional Continental Teams and 2 UCI Continental Teams.


2013 Three Days of De Panne, Stages, Stage 1
26 March 2013 – Middelkerke to Zottegem, 197.3 km (122.6 mi)


2013 Three Days of De Panne, Stages, Stage 2
27 March 2013 – Oudenaarde to Koksijde, 208.9 km (129.8 mi)


2013 Three Days of De Panne, Stages, Stage 3a
28 March 2013 – De Panne to De Panne, 109.7 km (68.2 mi)


2013 Three Days of De Panne, Stages, Stage 3b
28 March 2013 – De Panne to Koksijde to De Panne, 14.75 km (9.17 mi) individual time trial (ITT)


2013 Three National Figure Skating Championships
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2013 Three National Figure Skating Championships
The 2013 Three National Figure Skating Championships included the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland. The event was hosted by the Polish association in Cieszyn on December 14–16, 2012. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior level. A few junior and novice-level events were also held.


2013 Three National Figure Skating Championships
The results were split by country; the three highest-placing skaters from each country in each discipline formed their national podiums. The results were among the criteria used to determine international assignments. It was the fifth consecutive season that the three countries held their national championships jointly.


2013 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
The 2013 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen is the 26th edition of the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, a women's cycling stage race in Germany. It is rated by the UCI as a category 2.1 race and is held between 15 and 21 July 2013.


2013 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Stages, Stage 1
Linda Villumsen rode away from the bunch in the final 15 km (9.3 mi), got a 35-second lead but was pulled back by the pack 500m from the finish. Emma Johansson won the uphill finale ahead of Lizzie Armitstead and Annemiek van Vleuten. With the bonification seconds earned during sprints Johansson has a six-second lead on Van Vleuten and a nine-second lead on Armitstead.


2013 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Stages, Stage 2
Chloe McConville and Anna Bianca Schnitzmeier rode away together during the stage and build up a 3' 35" lead. After a 40 km breakaway they were caught by the pack with 10 km to go. In the final kilometres there was a crash and Dutch national time trialist Ellen van Dijk, one of the favourites for the ovarall classification, lost 55 seconds. The race ended in a bunch sprint won by Specialized–lululemon rider Carmen Small. With earning time bonuses during sprints, Emma Johansson extended her lead in the general classification.


2013 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Stages, Stage 3
In the first part of the stage every breakaway was pulled back by the pack. On the first climb Andrea Braus escaped and built up a seven minutes lead. With 12 km (7.5 mi) to go however, she was pulled back by a 24 riders leading group but earned the most active riders jersey and moved up to the second place in the mountain classification.


2013 Tiananmen Square attack
On 28 October 2013, a car ran over pedestrians and crashed in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, in a terrorist suicide attack. Five people died in the incident; three inside the vehicle and two others nearby. Police identified the driver as Usmen Hasan and the two passengers as his wife, Gulkiz Gini, and his mother, Kuwanhan Reyim. An additional 38 people were injured.


2013 Tiananmen Square attack
Chinese police described it as a "major incident" and as the first terrorist attack in Beijing's recent history. The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or Turkistan Islamic Party, claimed responsibility and warned of future attacks.


2013 Tiananmen Square attack, Incident
A 4x4 vehicle crashed into a crowd and burst into flames near the portrait of Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Square. All three people inside the car were killed, as well as two tourists in the square – one Filipino woman and a male Chinese citizen from the Guangdong province. Thirty-eight people were injured. Witnesses at the scene said that the car involved in the incident was honking its horn at pedestrians.


2013 Tiananmen Square attack, Investigation
Chinese police later issued a notice to Beijing hotels seeking information about two people from China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The notice described a vehicle and four Xinjiang number plates. They also instructed hotels to be aware of "suspicious" guests.


2013 Tiananmen Square attack, Investigation
The police notice also required hotels to report all guests who had registered since 1 October, and the cars they had driven. The request was issued "In order to prevent the suspects and vehicles from committing more crimes".


2013 Tiananmen Square attack, Investigation
Five people were later arrested by Chinese police, all being Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim minority group, who hailed from their native Xinjiang, a region in which there is ongoing conflict. One suspect was from the town of Lukun in Shanshan County, the location of an attack in June 2013 in which 30 people were killed. The five suspects were taken into police custody, and said they knew Hasan. Three of the suspects, identified as Huseyin Guxur, Yusup Wherniyas and Yusup Ehmet, were convicted of masterminding the attack, and executed in August 2014.


2013 Tiananmen Square attack, Investigation
Top Chinese security official Meng Jianzhu said that the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) was behind the attacks, but Uighur exile groups and some Western observers disputed the claim. On 24 November 2013, the Turkistan Islamic Party, which has since been absorbed by the ETIM, declared it was responsible for the attack.


2013 Tiananmen Square attack, Reaction
A BBC camera crew was briefly detained by police after taking footage of the attack. Coverage in the Chinese state media largely downplayed the incident, with only brief reports. Although such associations were made in English-language media, Chinese-language publications did not link the incident to Xinjiang. Chinese internet users also reposted and spread photographs of the incident.


2013 Tiananmen Square attack, Reaction
Six days after the attack, General Peng Yong, commander of the Xinjiang Military District, was removed from the Regional Party Standing Committee, the Communist Party governing body in Xinjiang, and replaced by Liu Lei, political commissar of the Xinjiang MD.


2013 Tiananmen Square attack, Reaction
The United States State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said America supported China's investigation into the matter, but declined to call it a terrorist attack and reiterated American support for Uyghur human rights, though the Turkistan Islamic Party is designated as a terrorist organization by the European Union, China, and the United States.


2013 Tiburon Challenger
The 2013 Tiburon Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tiburon, United States between 7 and 13 October 2013.


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


2013 Tiburon Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received special exempt into the singles main draw:


2013 Tiburon Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw as lucky losers:


2013 Tiburon Challenger – Doubles
Rik de Voest and Chris Guccione were the defending champions but de Voest decided not to participate. Guccione played alongside Samuel Groth, but lost to eventual champions Austin Krajicek and Rhyne Williams, who defeated Bradley Klahn and Rajeev Ram 6–4, 6–1 in the final.


2013 Tiburon Challenger – Singles
Jack Sock was the defending champion but decided to participate at the 2013 Shanghai Rolex Masters instead. Peter Polansky won the title over 3rd seed Matthew Ebden 7–5, 6–3 to win his first Challenger title.


2013 Tilia Slovenia Open
The 2013 Tilia Slovenia Open is a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 1st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Portorož, Slovenia between 1 and 7 July 2013.


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


2013 Tilia Slovenia Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2013 Tilia Slovenia Open – Doubles
Marin Draganja and Mate Pavić won the inaugural tournament, beating Aljaž Bedene and Blaž Rola 6–3, 1–6, [10–5].


2013 Tilia Slovenia Open – Singles
Grega Žemlja defeated Martin Fischer 6–4, 7–5 in the final to win the first edition of the tournament.


2013 Tim Hortons Brier
The 2013 Tim Hortons Brier, the Canadian men's national curling championship, was held from March 2 to 10 at Rexall Place in Edmonton, Alberta. This edition of the Brier marked the thirteenth time that Alberta has hosted the Brier, and the sixth time that Edmonton has hosted the Brier.


2013 Tim Hortons Brier
In the final, Brad Jacobs of Northern Ontario defeated three-time Brier champion Jeff Stoughton of Manitoba with a score of 11–4 to win his first Brier title and Northern Ontario's first title since 1985. Jacobs and his team will represent Canada at the 2013 Ford World Men's Curling Championship in Victoria, British Columbia.


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Event summary
The eighty-fourth edition of the Canadian Men's Curling Championship saw one of the strongest fields in the past few years assembled. Defending champion Glenn Howard of Ontario made his eighth consecutive and record fifteenth overall appearance at the Brier. Veterans Kevin Martin of Alberta, an Olympic gold medalist and former world champion, and Jeff Stoughton of Manitoba, a former world champion, made their twelfth and tenth appearances at the Brier, respectively.


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Event summary
Former bronze medalist and Olympic gold medalist Brad Gushue made his tenth appearance at the Brier representing Newfoundland and Labrador, while former Brier champion Jean-Michel Ménard returned to compete for a fifth time. Northern Ontario's Brad Jacobs, a former bronze medallist and perennial competitor, and Jamie Koe of the Northwest Territories and Yukon, who made a breakout playoffs finish last year, returned to the Brier once more. Brock Virtue of Saskatchewan and Andrew Bilesky of British Columbia made their first appearances at the Brier, while veterans James Grattan of New Brunswick, Eddie MacKenzie of Prince Edward Island, and Paul Flemming of Nova Scotia made repeat appearances at the Brier.


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Event summary
Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northern Ontario, Ontario, and Quebec shot out to the top of the pack early on, while Alberta struggled to find its rhythm in the beginning draws, dropping four games out of the first five. As the tournament progressed, the top teams began to battle for rankings, and after the halfway point, only Ontario remained undefeated. Alberta began to string up a win streak, and scored crucial victories as they moved up on the standings.


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Event summary
At the end of the round robin, Ontario had clinched the first seed in the standings, with only one loss to Alberta in the round robin. Newfoundland and Labrador and Northern Ontario secured spots in the page 3 vs. 4 game with two wins in the last day, while Manitoba's win in the last draw propelled them to the page 1 vs. 2 game against Ontario, simultaneously dropping Alberta out of playoff contention.


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Event summary
In the page playoffs, Ontario's Glenn Howard and Manitoba's Jeff Stoughton faced off in a battle of veterans, which began as a close game and ended with a win for Manitoba after a missed shot by Howard gave Stoughton a shot for three and for the win, making the final score 7–6. Brad Jacobs of Northern Ontario and Brad Gushue of Newfoundland and Labrador played to claim a spot in the semifinals.


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Event summary
Jacobs held a slight advantage throughout the game, but Gushue made a comeback in the tenth to force an extra end, in which Jacobs drew for the 6–5 win. Jacobs then played Howard in the semifinal for a spot in the final, and early on, both teams played a back-and-forth game. However, a steal of two for Northern Ontario in the fifth, along with more missed shots from Howard and strong play from Jacobs, led to an upset win by Jacobs with a score of 9–7.


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Event summary
Howard and Gushue then played for the bronze in another tight game which ended in Howard making a draw for the win in an extra end, resulting in a score of 7–6. Jacobs and Stoughton then played for the championship, in what turned out to be a mostly one-sided affair after excellent shots by Jacobs led to steals and multi-point ends against a struggling Manitoba team. Jacobs and team scored four straight points in the second half of the game, sealing it up in nine ends with a score of 11–4.


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams
Skip : Kevin Martin Third: John Morris Second: Marc Kennedy Lead: Ben Hebert Alternate: Karrick Martin


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams
Skip : Andrew BileskyThird: Steve KopfSecond: Derek ErringtonLead: Aaron Watson Alternate: Sean Geall


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams
Skip : Jeff Stoughton Third: Jon Mead Second: Reid Carruthers Lead: Mark Nichols Alternate: Garth Smith


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams
Skip : James GrattanThird: Jason RoachSecond: Darren RoachLead: Peter Case Alternate: Zach Eldridge


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams
Skip : Brad GushueThird: Brett GallantSecond: Adam CaseyLead: Geoff Walker Alternate: Jamie Korab


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams
Skip : Brad JacobsThird: Ryan FrySecond: E. J. HarndenLead: Ryan Harnden Alternate: Matt Dumontelle


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams
Fourth: Ian Fitzner-Leblanc Skip: Paul Flemming Second: Graham Breckon Lead: Kelly Mittelstadt Alternate: Kent Smith


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams
Skip : Glenn Howard Third: Wayne Middaugh Second: Brent Laing Lead: Craig Savill Alternate: Scott Howard


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams
Skip : Eddie MacKenzie Third: Anson CarmodySecond: Alex MacFadyenLead: Sean LedgerwoodAlternate: Phil Gorveatt


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams
Skip : Jean-Michel MénardThird: Martin CrêteSecond: Éric Sylvain Lead: Philippe Ménard Alternate: Pierre Charette


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams
Skip : Brock VirtueThird: Braeden MoskowySecond: Chris SchilleLead: D. J. KidbyAlternate: Brock Montgomery


2013 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams
Skip : Jamie Koe Third: Tom Naugler Second: Brad Chorostkowski Lead: Robert BordenAlternate: Kevin Whitehead


2013 Tippeligaen
The 2013 Tippeligaen was the 69th completed season of top division football in Norway. The competition began 15 March 2013 and ended on 10 November 2013, when Strømsgodset defeated Haugesund 4–0 to win their second league title.


2013 Tippeligaen
The league was contested by 16 teams: The best 13 teams of the 2012 season, Start and Sarpsborg 08 who won promotion from the 2012 1. divisjon and Sandnes Ulf who retained their spot in the top league after beating the 1. divisjon side Ullensaker/Kisa in the relegation play-off.


2013 Tippeligaen
Molde who won Tippeligaen the previous season failed to defend the championship and ended on sixth place. Strømsgodset who won silver in 2012, won their first league championship in 43 years, finishing one point ahead of title contenders Rosenborg. Haugesund won bronze for the first time in the history, while Tromsø and Hønefoss were relegated to the 2014 1. divisjon.


2013 Tippeligaen, Background
Molde, Strømsgodset and Rosenborg were involved in the title race in the 2012 season. After Rosenborg lost against the other title contenders Molde and Strømsgodset in the 27th and the 28th round respectively, Molde secured their second straight Tippeligaen title with one match left to play when Strømsgodset lost against Sandnes Ulf. Fredrikstad and Stabæk were relegated after finishing 15th and 16th respectively, while Sandnes Ulf had to play a relegation play-off against the 1. divisjon side Ullensaker/Kisa, which they won 7–1 on aggregate.


2013 Tippeligaen, Background
After the 2012 season, Rosenborg's head coach Jan Jönsson was fired from his position, and was replaced by the head coach of the successful Norwegian under-21 team, Per Joar Hansen. Jönsson was soon appointed as head coach of Aalesund, as a replacement for Kjetil Rekdal who had also been fired. Rekdal returned to his old club Vålerenga, which he won the league with in 2005. Martin Andresen had announced in October 2012 that he would leave his position as manager of Vålerenga after the season., In addition Per-Mathias Høgmo left Tromsø after his contract expired, and they appointed Agnar Christensen as the new head coach.


2013 Tippeligaen, Season summary
Ahead of each Tippeligaen season, the newspapers in Norway predict how the season is going to end. In 2013, all of the major newspapers predicted that either Molde or Rosenborg would win the league. The opening match of the 2013 season was played between Viking and the defending champions Molde in Stavanger. Viking won the match 2–1 after a match-winning goal by Trond Olsen. Molde became the first defending champion in Norway to lose the first four matches of the season, with their manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær stating that the club wouldn't be able to defend the title.


2013 Tippeligaen, Season summary
After collecting two points in the first seven matches, Molde won their first match 4–1 against local rivals Aalesund. Aalesund had an impressing season opener, by winning four of the first four matches, and after the loss against Molde they won 7–1 against Lillestrøm with Abderrazak Hamdallah scoring a hat-trick, and was positioned second after nine matches.


2013 Tippeligaen, Season summary
With Molde out of the race for the title, it looked as though it was going to be a fight between Strømsgodset and Rosenborg. Aalesund were, however, only five points behind the leaders Rosenborg, after they won three consecutive matches away from home, and with 10 matches left to play the players started to talk about winning the league. After Aalesund lost three matches in a row, the team was too far behind the top two teams, and three points behind Viking in third place. Aalesund went seven matches without winning, but with a record-high number of points the club finished the season in fourth place.


2013 Tippeligaen, Season summary
Tromsø, who finished fourth and lost the Norwegian Cup Final in the previous season, were the only Norwegian team to qualify for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League group stage, but their form in the league after the summer break was declining, and they soon found themselves fighting against relegation. The team did however manage to put an end to Rosenborg's streak of 16 matches without losing, when Tromsø won 1–0 at home. After the loss at home against Start in the 25th round, Tromsø had collected six points in the last 12 matches and the club fired the head coach Agnar Christensen and replaced him with Steinar Nilsen, who had saved the team from relegation in 2005 and 2006.


2013 Tippeligaen, Season summary
For the first time since the 2005 season, the championship was determined in the decisive match of the season. Strømsgodset were leading the league one point ahead of Rosenborg, and could secure the championship in the home-match against bronze-winners Haugesund.


2013 Tippeligaen, Season summary
At the same time, six teams were not safe from relegation with one match left to play; the three teams Sarpsborg 08, Tromsø and Hønefoss were fighting to avoid the two direct relegation spots, while Vålerenga, Sogndal and Sandnes Ulf could still be forced to play a relegation play-off against a 1. divisjon side if they finished 14th in the league. Rosenborg was leading 2–0 at half-time against Lillestrøm, and Strømsgodset needed to score a goal in their match against Haugesund to secure the title.


2013 Tippeligaen, Season summary
Ola Kamara sent Strømsgodset up in a 1–0 lead, and after Stefan Johansen and Øyvind Storflor scored one goal each and  Ola Kamara scored his second goal in the game, Strømsgodset won the match 4–0 and secured their first championship since the 1970 season.


2013 Tippeligaen, Season summary
Tromsø had to win the match away against Brann, who had nothing to play for in the last round, to avoid relegation but Tromsø had not won a single match away from home during the season, and also lost the last match 4–1, and were relegated to the 1. divisjon after an 11-year-long spell in the top flight. Hønefoss also had to win their last match to avoid relegation, and were leading the match against Odd, but Frode Johnsen scored the match-winning goal and Odd won 3–2.


2013 Tippeligaen, Season summary
Sarpborg 08 lost the last match 2–1 against Viking, despite leading when the stoppage time began, and finished 14th in the league, and a met the 1. divisjon side Ranheim in the relegation play-off They won 1-0 at home and 2-0 in the awaygame and play in the next seasons Tippeligaen.


2013 Tippeligaen, Season summary
Johnsen's goal against Hønefoss was his sixteenth overall this season, and he became top goalscorer with one more goal than Aalesund's Hamdallah. Aged 38, Johnsen is the oldest-ever top goalscorer in the Norwegian top flight. Johnsen also won the Kniksen Award for the "forward of the year". Players from Strømsgodset won four of the five Kniksen Award prices as Adam Larsen Kwarasey won the goalkeeper of the year, Lars Christopher Vilsvik was named defender of the year, Stefan Johansen was the midfielder of the year and the head coach, Ronny Deila, won the "manager of the year" award.


2013 Tippeligaen, Teams
Sixteen teams competed in the league – the top fourteen teams from the previous season and the two teams promoted from the 1. divisjon The promoted teams were Start and Sarpsborg 08 (both returning after a season's absence). They replaced Fredrikstad (ending their two-year spell in the top flight) and Stabæk (relegated after seven years in the top flight).


2013 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
The 2013 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 123rd staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment in 1887. The championship began on 15 June 2013 and ended on 13 October 2013.


2013 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
Thurles Sarsfields were the defending champions, however, they were defeated in their opening game. Loughmore-Castleiney won the title, following a 1-17 to 1-16 defeat of Nenagh Éire Óg in the final.


2013 Tipperary county hurling team season
The 2013 season was Eamon O'Shea's first year as manager of the Tipperary senior hurling team. On 25 September 2012, he succeeded Declan Ryan as manager. A panel of 26 players was announced in December 2012 to prepare for the Allianz Hurling League. In February Shane McGrath was appointed as captain for the 2013 season.


2013 Tipperary county hurling team season
Tipperary's first Championship game came against Limerick on 9 June, where they were defeated 1-18 to 1-15 at the Gaelic Grounds.


2013 Tipperary county hurling team season
In phase 2 of the All-Ireland qualifiers on 6 July 2013, Tipperary were eliminated from championship after a 1-14 to 0-20 defeat to Kilkenny at Nowlan Park.


2013 Tipperary county hurling team season
On 17 October, goalkeeper Brendan Cummins announced his retirement from the Tipperary hurling team after 20 years and 73 championship appearances.


2013 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2013 Waterford Crystal Cup
Defending champions Tipperary faced Clare in the final under lights in Thurles on 9 February, with Clare winning by 1-21 to 1-13.


2013 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2013 National Hurling League
Tipperary reached the semi final stage of the hurling league and defeated Dublin by 4-20 to 0-17 at Semple Stadium on 21 April. As a contest the match was effectively over within the first 10 minutes with Tipperary leading by eight points, 2-3 to 0-1 with an early goal from Shane Bourke and a further goal from Patrick Maher. Séamus Callanan scored a third goal from a penalty to leave the half time score at 3-11 to 0-8. A fourth goal came in the last minute of the game from substitute Michael Heffernan after a mistake from the Dublin goalkeeper.


2013 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2013 National Hurling League
Tipperary were defeated by Kilkenny in the final by 2-17 to 0-20 on 5 May in Nowlan Park. Michael Fennelly scored two goals and three points in the first half as Kilkenny led by 2-07 to 0-11. In the second half Lar Corbett and JJ Delaney were sent off in the 46th minute after they wrestled each other on the ground near the Kilkenny goal.


2013 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2013 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Phase 2
The game was shown live on TV3. A crowd of 23,307 attended the game in Nowlan Park in Kilkenny on a sunny Saturday evening. The sides were level at half-time on a 1-06 to 0-09 with Lar Corbett getting the goal for Tipperary after 14 minutes when he finished with a shot to corner of the net when the ball broke to him from ten yards out. Corbett was forced off with a hamstring injury after 28 minutes. Henry Shefflin came on as a substitute for Kilkenny with five minutes remaining as they ran out winners by three points. The game was Brendan Cummins's last match for Tipperary.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico
The 2013 Tirreno–Adriatico was the 48th edition of the Tirreno–Adriatico cycling stage race, often known as the Race of the Two Seas. It started on 6 March in San Vincenzo and ended on 12 March in San Benedetto del Tronto and consisted of seven stages, including a race-commencing team time trial and a race-concluding individual time trial. It was the third race of the 2013 UCI World Tour season.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico
The race was won for the second consecutive year by Italy's Vincenzo Nibali of the Astana team – becoming the first rider to do so since Tony Rominger in 1989 and 1990 – who took the race lead on the penultimate stage, and held the lead to the end of the race, the following day in San Benedetto del Tronto. Nibali won the general classification by 23 seconds over runner-up Chris Froome (Team Sky), who won the race's queen stage – the fourth stage – at a summit finish at Prati di Tivo. Saxo–Tinkoff's Alberto Contador completed the podium, 29 seconds behind Froome and 52 seconds down on Nibali. Contador was also the winner of the points classification, taking home the red jersey for amassing the highest number of points during stages at intermediate sprints and stage finishes.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico
In the race's other classifications, Omega Pharma–Quick-Step's Michał Kwiatkowski was the winner of the white jersey for the young rider classification as he was the highest placed rider born in 1988 or later, finishing in fourth place overall, having led the general classification for one stage. Lampre–Merida's Damiano Cunego won the green jersey as winner of the mountains classification, while the Movistar Team were winners of the teams classification.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Teams
As Tirreno–Adriatico 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 four other squads given wildcard places, and as such, would have formed the event's 22-team peloton. Originally admitted to the event as a wildcard, Team Katusha subsequently regained their ProTour status after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Teams
Among the 176-rider start list were five previous winners of the race, including the most recent three riders to win. Lampre–Merida's Filippo Pozzato (winner in 2003), and 2008 winner Fabian Cancellara of RadioShack–Leopard, were both using the race as a tune-up for the spring Classic races. Stefano Garzelli (2010), Cadel Evans (2011), and Vincenzo Nibali (2012) were all leaders of their respective squads Vini Fantini–Selle Italia, BMC Racing Team and Astana.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 1
The opening stage team time trial was contested over the same 16.9 km (10.5 mi) parcours that the 2012 edition of the race started with. On that occasion it was the GreenEDGE team that won by seventeen seconds from their closest rivals, completing the course in a time of 18' 41". The 2013 running of the team time trial was never going to trouble that sort of time due to the weather conditions beside the Mediterranean Sea, as rain caused treacherous conditions for the teams.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 1
Lotto–Belisol were the first team over the start line in San Vincenzo, and set the early benchmark with a time of 20' 19", but only held the top spot for a short period, as the defending winners Orica–GreenEDGE went beneath twenty minutes for the course by recording a time of 19' 48". After Joaquim Rodríguez and Team Katusha failed to impress on the course, Movistar Team took the lead, going thirteen seconds quicker than the time set by Orica–GreenEDGE. After a fifteenth-place finish on the stage in 2012, Cannondale improved vastly with their performance, getting to within seven seconds of the time of the Movistar Team – with the team describing their performance as a confidence boost – but both would be usurped by the pre-stage favourites Omega Pharma–Quick-Step.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 1
With proficient time trial riders Tony Martin, Michał Kwiatkowski and Niki Terpstra among their ranks, the squad were fastest by three seconds at the midway point of the stage, which was later extended to eleven seconds by the time they reached Donoratico, stopping the clock with an eventual stage-winning time of 19' 24". As Mark Cavendish was the first of the team's riders to cross the line, he was entitled to wear the race's first azzurra jersey, but attributed the acclaim to Martin, who he believed had done most of the work during the stage.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 1
Kwiatkowski was also part of the train at the finish – as well as Terpstra and Zdeněk Štybar – and thus was the best placed rider under the age of 25, and was entitled to wear the first white jersey. Along with the Movistar Team and Cannondale, BMC Racing Team were the only other team to get within twenty seconds of the winning time. Of the overall contenders, defending champion Vincenzo Nibali and his Astana squad were best positioned in fifth place, trailing Omega Pharma–Quick-Step by exactly twenty seconds. Chris Froome's Team Sky outfit gave up five seconds to Nibali in a time of 19' 49", while Saxo–Tinkoff, with Alberto Contador amongst their ranks, recorded a time of 19' 56", twelve seconds behind Nibali.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 2
With an itinerary of 232 km (144.2 mi), the first mass-start stage of Tirreno–Adriatico was also the longest stage of the 2013 edition of the race. However, this did not stop the stage being set up for the sprinters' benefit. There were two categorised climbs in the first half of the stage, at the Massa Marittima and the Cantoniera Montebello respectively, but after descending from the latter climb, the rest of the parcours was relatively flat before entering Indicatore for the first time.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 2
From then on, five laps of a 12.4 km (7.7 mi) finishing circuit were to be completed, with bonus time on offer at intermediate sprint points on the second and fourth passes of the finish line. However, like the previous day's team time trial, rain was expected to factor into the riding conditions, especially for the finish, which included a railway overpass around 1.2 km (0.7 mi) from the line.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 2
A trio of riders – Euskaltel–Euskadi's Garikoitz Bravo, NetApp–Endura rider Cesare Benedetti and Kevin Hulsmans of Vini Fantini–Selle Italia – made the early breakaway from the field, and managed to extend their advantage to the main field to around nine minutes at one point during the stage, before eventually stabilising at the seven-minute mark for the majority of the stage.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 2
Bravo and Benedetti each led over one of the day's two climbs, with a tie between the two on points in the mountains classification, with the day's general classification standings ultimately being the tie-breaker; ultimately, it was Bravo that finished highest, and thus he took the race's first green jersey. He would drop back from the lead trio first, thus leaving Benedetti and Hulsmans to continue on, at the head of the race. Race leader Mark Cavendish, the winner in Indicatore in 2012, was able to gain a second at the first intermediate sprint, to establish a virtual one-second lead on the road.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 2
Cavendish added a further two seconds at the second intermediate sprint point – won by Cannondale's Maciej Bodnar – while his Omega Pharma–Quick-Step team-mate Michał Kwiatkowski was also able to gain a second at the sprint, in effect, boosting his own lead in the young rider classification. On the penultimate lap, Blanco Pro Cycling's Sep Vanmarcke tried to establish a solo move in the heavy rain that had been falling for most of the stage, but was caught by the main field after several kilometres off the front.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 2
Cannondale moved to the front of the peloton on the final lap, hoping to set up Peter Sagan for the sprint finish. Lotto–Belisol led the sprint out in the closing metres for André Greipel, but first Sagan and then Orica–GreenEDGE's Matthew Goss both came past him, with Goss ultimately taking the stage win on the line – his first win of the season – ahead of Ag2r–La Mondiale's Manuel Belletti and Gerald Ciolek, riding for World Tour débutants MTN–Qhubeka. Cavendish maintained the leader's jersey after finishing fifth in the sprint – criticising his team's lead-out in the process – while Greipel and Sagan finished seventh and ninth respectively.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 3
For the second stage running, the stage was set up for sprinters, with only one categorised climb during the 190 km (118.1 mi) parcours. The climb itself – situated in the town of Todi – was short and steep, averaging 12.2% over 1.5 km (0.9 mi) of climbing. The remaining 70 km (43.5 mi) of the stage after the climb, were undulating around Narni and Narni Scalo. After a 22 km (13.7 mi) circuit towards the finish, the riders completed a final loop of 7.6 km (4.7 mi) before reaching the finish.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 3
For the second day running, NetApp–Endura rider Cesare Benedetti and mountains classification leader Garikoitz Bravo of the Euskaltel–Euskadi team both made it into the day's breakaway, where again they were joined by a member of the Vini Fantini–Selle Italia team, with Francesco Failli completing the lead trio. The trio quickly established an advantage over the main field, which they extended to around nine minutes before the climb at Todi, where Benedetti was able to take the green jersey from Bravo.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 3
Benedetti was able to do so, as he led over the top of the climb ahead of Failli and Bravo. At this point, Bravo departed the breakaway and returned to the main field. Benedetti and Failli continued apace out front, while the peloton slowly brought the peloton back, in order to not catch the leaders too quickly and create opportunities for riders to attack before the finish in Narni Scalo. Cannondale were mainstays at the front of the group, hoping to set up a sprint for Peter Sagan.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 3
As wet conditions hit the race once again, several mini-attacks occurred on the run-in to the finish, with Blanco Pro Cycling's Lars Boom heading onto the final circuit with a small lead over the peloton. His attack was brought back before the end, as were solo attacks by Failli's team-mate Matteo Rabottini and Vacansoleil–DCM's Sergey Lagutin – the latter's attempt ending inside the final kilometre – setting up the final sprint. Matthew Goss, in the red jersey for points classification leader, for Orica–GreenEDGE launched his sprint first, but Gerald Ciolek (MTN–Qhubeka) came past him on the outside, before fading. Sagan and race leader Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma–Quick-Step) also came past him, with the former winning on the line, beating Cavendish for the first time in a head-to-head sprint. Cavendish extended his overall lead with bonus seconds on offer for second place, while taking the points lead from Goss.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 4
The queen stage of the 2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, the fourth stage saw the summit finish at Prati di Tivo for the second consecutive year, where Vincenzo Nibali soloed away to a sixteen-second victory after attacking with 4 km (2.5 mi) left to climb, en route to winning the race overall in the final individual time trial stage.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 4
From the start in Narni, the 173 km (107.5 mi) parcours steadily rose, with three categorised climbs as part of the itinerary; the Forca di Arrone and the Capannelle Pass were both ascented but were not major tests to the riders, as both had average gradients of lower than 5%, but this was the preparation to the climb to Prati di Tivo. The 14.6 km (9.1 mi) long climb reached a gradient of 12% at its lower slopes, but the gradient averaged 7.1% for the duration. There was also the second of the day's intermediate sprints during the climb, at Pietracamela, coming with just under 6 km (3.7 mi) remaining.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 4
Four riders – Astana's Fredrik Kessiakoff, Anthony Roux (FDJ), Tomasz Marczyński of Vacansoleil–DCM, and for the second day running, Francesco Failli riding for the Vini Fantini–Selle Italia team – advanced clear of the main field after 20 km (12.4 mi) of the stage, and managed to extend their advantage to a maximum of about seven minutes around a third of the way into the stage. Failli was in the breakaway to try and take the mountains classification lead away from NetApp–Endura's Cesare Benedetti, and ultimately did so, after taking maximum points at the first two climbs on the route. Omega Pharma–Quick-Step and the BMC Racing Team moved to the front of the peloton behind, keeping their respective protected riders out of danger, prior to the final climb. The lead quartet held a lead of under two minutes at the foot of the climb, with the peloton closing quickly.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 4
With such a pace behind, Marczyński went off the front on his own, in order to prevent himself being caught for as long as possible. He held a lead of around 45 seconds with 9 km (5.6 mi) remaining, as Team Sky led the chase in the peloton with five riders on the front, protecting Chris Froome, who was one of the favourites for the stage. Marczyński was caught not long after, with Team Sky's pace reducing numbers in the peloton drastically, with Cadel Evans, Joaquim Rodríguez and Roman Kreuziger among those dropped.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 4
Saxo–Tinkoff rider Alberto Contador tried several times to get clear, and at one point, had formed a group with Nibali and Failli's team-mate Mauro Santambrogio. Froome was able to get back to them with assistance from RadioShack–Leopard's Chris Horner, and countered over the top of the group, and soloed away to a six-second margin of victory, ahead of Santambrogio who finished second, with Nibali in third. Michał Kwiatkowski kept the azzurra jersey with Omega Pharma–Quick-Step, finishing the stage fourth, to take the jersey from team-mate Mark Cavendish.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 5
The race finished in Chieti for the fourth successive year, after a long day in the saddle for the peloton. After a lumpy parcours out of the start town of Ortona, the riders had to wait some 90 km (55.9 mi) for the first of three categorised climbs on the day. The first climb, the Forchetta di Palena, was not excessive steep at an average gradient of 3.3% but the climb itself was long and laborious at 21.7 km (13.5 mi) long.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 5
After a substantial descent, the riders headed towards the second climb via the first of two intermediate sprint points at Lettomanoppello, before the steep Passo Lanciano. The Lanciano, 11.3 km (7.0 mi) at 8.6%, was introduced by race organisers for the 2013 edition in order to make the run in to Chieti more demanding than before.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 5
Upon arriving in Chieti, there were two steep climbs in the final 7.5 km (4.7 mi); the first, averaging 7.7%, led up to the second intermediate sprint, and the second – after a short descent – averaged over 12% for 1,200 metres (3,900 ft), reaching 19% in places. Upon cresting the top of the climb, there was a false flat to the finish on the Via Salomone.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 5
Nine riders formed the day's breakaway after 20 km (12.4 mi) of racing, with the advantage that they held increasing to a maximum of over eight minutes at the top of the first climb on the day. Omega Pharma–Quick-Step, Team Sky and Cannondale were keeping station at the front of the peloton, while at the front, Lampre–Merida's Damiano Cunego attacked on the Passo Lanciano, while RadioShack–Leopard rider Stijn Devolder attempted to chase him down.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 5
Cunego's solo move was ultimately unsuccessful, as he was the last member of the breakaway to be brought back by the peloton with around 7 km (4.3 mi) remaining. Team Sky's pace on the front was reducing numbers in the peloton, with 2012 Chieti winner Peter Sagan (Cannondale) being dropped. After a move from Saxo–Tinkoff's Roman Kreuziger and the Movistar Team's Andrey Amador was brought back, Joaquim Rodríguez (Team Katusha) saw his chance to attack with 1.4 km (0.9 mi) to go. He got a gap, and soloed away to his second victory of the season. A group of five riders came across the line eight seconds in arrears, with Chris Froome (Team Sky) among them, to take the leader's blue jersey from Omega Pharma–Quick-Step's Michał Kwiatkowski.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 6
The penultimate stage of the race was held as a circuit race around Porto Sant'Elpidio, with an itinerary of 209 km (129.9 mi) being held over two separate circuits. Firstly, the riders completed two laps of a circuit 91.2 km (56.7 mi) in length – 3.2 km (2.0 mi) were covered in the neutral zone before the real start of the stage – before the peloton turned onto another circuit, this time 29.8 km (18.5 mi) in length, towards the stage finish back along the Adriatic coast.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 6
On each lap, the riders had to ascent a climb in Sant'Elpidio a Mare; on the first two laps, the climb was 3 km (1.9 mi) long and averaging 6.1%, while on the final lap, it was a more gradual 2.9% after approaching from a different direction. These figures were dwarfed in comparison to the maximum gradient of the climb, listed by race organisers as reaching 27%.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 6
Continuing a theme that has occurred throughout the race, wet conditions greeted the riders in Porto Sant'Elpidio for the start of the stage. The breakaway of the day was sizable, as sixteen riders made up the group. With such a large group, the peloton did not allow for a large gap to be created over themselves, keeping the gap below four minutes for the majority of the stage, before reaching an absolute maximum of around four-and-a-half minutes.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 6
With around 50 km (31.1 mi) remaining, Argos–Shimano's Tom Dumoulin and Damiano Cunego of Lampre–Merida attacked out of the lead group, hitting the climb in Sant'Elpidio a Mare off the front. Five riders were able to rejoin the lead duo, as the peloton continually closed down on the group. Dumoulin attacked again on the final ascent of the climb, and was joined by the Movistar Team's Beñat Intxausti. Intxausti soon left Dumoulin and crossed the top of the climb first.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 6
He was later joined on the descent by the defending champion Vincenzo Nibali of Astana and Euskaltel–Euskadi's Samuel Sánchez, known as two of the best descenders in the peloton. Cannondale's Peter Sagan also joined them, after the peloton had been led by his team to keep him out of any available danger on the wet roads. Intxausti and Sánchez were both later dropped from the lead group, while the previous day's stage winner Joaquim Rodríguez (Team Katusha) soon bridged up to the group from a separate group of chasers, among them was the points classification leader, Saxo–Tinkoff rider Alberto Contador.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 6
Sagan was ultimately strongest for the finish, taking his second stage victory of the week, and further adding to his favourite tag for Milan–San Remo. Nibali and Rodríguez followed two seconds behind, and with Chris Froome (Team Sky) losing forty-eight seconds to Nibali, the Astana rider moved into the azzurra jersey ahead of the final time trial. Nearly a third of the peloton abandoned the race during the stage due to the conditions, to which race director Michele Acquarone apologised for, on social networking service Twitter.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 7
Tirreno–Adriatico ended with an individual time trial in San Benedetto del Tronto for the third successive year, with the Marche city playing host to a perfectly flat out-and-back ride right along the Adriatic coast; it was held on the largely the same course as the 2011 and 2012 editions – although 100 m (330 ft) shorter in 2013 – won on both occasions by Fabian Cancellara, winning in times of 10' 33" and 10' 36" respectively.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 7
Cancellara of the RadioShack–Leopard team and Omega Pharma–Quick-Step's Tony Martin were regarded as the pre-stage favourites, while in the battle for the overall race victory, it was expected that Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) would win the race for the second successive year, having overturned a six-second deficit to Cancellara's team-mate Chris Horner to win the race in the time trial, in 2012.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 7
As was customary of time trial stages, cyclists set off in reverse order from where they were ranked in the general classification at the end of the previous stage. Thus, Martin Velits of Omega Pharma–Quick-Step, who, in 108th place, trailed overall leader Nibali by one hour, fifteen minutes and thirty-eight seconds, was the first rider to set off on the final stage. Velits set a time of 11' 25" for the course, but was immediately beaten by Orica–GreenEDGE's Jens Mouris, who went inside the 11-minute barrier, with a time of 10' 52".


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 7
His time held on top for around half an hour, before being bettered twice within the space of a minute by two RadioShack–Leopard team-mates, Hayden Roulston and Cancellara. Roulston went seven seconds quicker than Mouris to take top spot, but Cancellara went eight quicker than Roulston to assume top spot in a time of 10' 37". Lampre–Merida's Adriano Malori deposed Cancellara of the fastest time not long after, with a time of 10' 31", but ultimately, Martin improved upon that time, setting an eventual stage-winning time of 10' 25", passing his minute man Egoi Martínez (Euskaltel–Euskadi) on the stage. This gave Martin his second time trial win of the season, having won a final day time trial at the Volta ao Algarve.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 7
The focus then moved to the overall battle, with Andrey Amador of the Movistar Team taking eighth place from Malori's team-mate Przemysław Niemiec, after Amador recorded the third fastest time for the stage. The final place on the overall podium was also settled on the stage, with three riders within twenty-one seconds of one another, pre-stage. Young rider classification leader Michał Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma–Quick-Step), fifth overall overnight, set a target of 10' 46" for the other riders to follow.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Stages, Stage 7
Points classification leader Alberto Contador of Saxo–Tinkoff was next across the line, going nine seconds slower than Kwiatkowski, but doing enough to stay ahead of him by one second. Team Katusha's Joaquim Rodríguez recorded a time of 11' 08" for the course, but was not good enough to remain ahead of Contador and Kwiatkowski, missing the podium by two seconds, leaving him disappointed. Chris Froome (Team Sky) set a time of 10' 40" for Nibali to chase in the battle for the victory, which Nibali prevailed in, losing around a third of his 34-second overnight lead on the stage.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Classification leadership table
In the Tirreno–Adriatico, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses in intermediate sprints and at the finish in mass-start stages, the leader received a blue jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, and the winner was considered the winner of the race itself.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Classification leadership table
Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a red jersey. In the points classification, cyclists got points for finishing in the top ten in a stage. The stage win awarded 12 points, second place awarded 10 points, third 8, and one point fewer per place down the line, to a single point for tenth. In addition, the first four riders across the intermediate sprint lines earned points, 5, 3, 2, and 1 in succession.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Classification leadership table
There was also a mountains classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. There were twelve recognised climbs in the race, and unlike most other races, the climbs were not separated into categories – each awarded the same points to the first four riders over its summit, on a scale of 5, 3, 2, and 1 in succession.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Classification leadership table
The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1988 were eligible to be ranked in the classification.


2013 Tirreno–Adriatico, Classification leadership table
There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.


2013 Tobago House of Assembly election
A local election for 12 seats in the Tobago House of Assembly was held on 21 January 2013. The election was a clean sweep by the Tobago Council of the People's National Movement, winning all 12 seats in the Tobago House of Assembly, the only time this feat has ever been accomplished in elections in Trinidad and Tobago


2013 Tobago House of Assembly election, Results
The TOP secured 11,927 in the election while the PNM won overwhelmingly with 19,919 votes, with the TPT gathering 675. 130 votes were rejected.


2013 Togolese parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Togo on 25 July 2013. The ruling Union for the Republic (UNIR) won 62 of the 91 seats in the National Assembly.


2013 Togolese parliamentary election, Background
Some members of the opposition sought a postponement in order to see electoral reforms take effect prior to the elections, while others sought the repeal of the changes as improperly introduced. Amongst the latter was the controversial gerrymandering of constituency borders in favour UNIR, led by President Faure Gnassingbé, and the 10-seat increase in the number of members of the National Assembly from 81 to 91.


2013 Togolese parliamentary election, Background
Although the government banned street demonstrations in commercial areas, citing an inability to maintain security and public order, protest organizers from opposition and civil society groups pledged to carry out protests and denounced what they termed an attempt to stifle criticism. Protests organized by the Let's Save Togo Collective were planned for 21–23 August. On the first day, several thousand protesters commenced a march in Lomé's Bé neighbourhood and then headed to the commercial district of Deckon, where 100 police officers were deployed. Trouble then arose amid a dispute as to whether the protest march would end in Deckon for a rally or proceed further. The protesters were then dispersed using tear gas 10 minutes after the march commenced.


2013 Togolese parliamentary election, Background
The elections were originally scheduled for October 2012, but protests and strikes asking for electoral reforms delayed the process. After being rescheduled for 24 March 2013, they were postponed again, first to 21 July 2013, then to 25 July 2013.


2013 Togolese parliamentary election, Electoral system
The 91 members of the National Assembly were elected by closed list proportional representation in 30 multi-member constituencies.


2013 Togolese parliamentary election, Results
Initial results showed a landslide victory for UNIR, which was projected to win 60 out of 91 seats, with the remaining seats distributed among opposition parties. The opposition Union of Forces for Change suffered a defeat, losing most of their 27 seats. The National Alliance for Change  (Alliance national pour le changement, ANC) was expected to become the largest opposition party.


2013 Togolese parliamentary election, Aftermath
When the National Assembly began its new term, Dama Dramani, a UNIR deputy, was elected as President of the National Assembly on 2 September 2013. Opposition deputies boycotted the vote as UNIR was unwilling to give them the posts of first and second vice-president in the Bureau of the National Assembly. Consequently UNIR deputies were elected to all of the 11 posts in the Bureau.


2013 Tokyo Marathon
The 2013 Tokyo Marathon (Japanese: 東京マラソン 2013) was the seventh edition of the annual marathon race in Tokyo, Japan and was held on Sunday, 24 February. An IAAF Gold Label Road Race, it was the first World Marathon Majors event to be held that year and represented the first occasion that the Tokyo race was part of the elite-level marathon series.


2013 Tokyo Marathon
The 2013 Tokyo Marathon featured marathon races for runners and wheelchair racers. A 10-kilometre race was also held for the disabled and runners under eighteen years.


2013 Tokyo Marathon
Dennis Kimetto won the men's race in a course record time of 2:06:50 hours. The women's winner, Aberu Kebede, had a time of 2:25:34 hours, which was six seconds off the women's course best. The mass races set a new participation record with a total of 28,721 runners entering the race over 42.195 kilometres (26 miles and 385 yards), and 36,676 people taking part in the day's races as a whole.


2013 Tokyo Marathon, Pre-race build up
A day prior to the race, the International Friendship Run was held with a distance of roughly 4 km. The non-competitive race between athletes, organisers and registered marathon entrants began with warm-up radio exercises and took place in Shiokaze Park and Odaiba Seaside Park. The 2013 Tokyo Marathon EXPO was also hosted that day. Organisational changes improved the charity fun running aspect of the race: 3000 entries were reserved for charity runners, tax relief was given to charitable donations, and role of sponsors and corporations in raising funds was expanded. An estimated 1.7 million people were spectators to the city race.


2013 Tokyo Marathon, Pre-race build up
Building on the race's inclusion with the World Marathon Majors circuit, race director Tadaaki Hayano invited numerous elite international marathon runners with fast personal bests. In the men's race Dennis Kimetto, James Kwambai, Dino Sefir, and Jonathan Maiyo all entered the race with personal bests below two hours and five minutes – a first for a Japanese race. Irina Mikitenko was the fastest entrant among the elite women, following by Bezunesh Bekele, Aberu Kebede and Caroline Kilel.


2013 Tokyo Marathon, Pre-race build up
The men's race was also of domestic interest because it doubled as the trials for the Japanese men's marathon team at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics. Arata Fujiwara, Kazuhiro Maeda, Yoshinori Oda and Takayuki Matsumiya were the foremost Japanese men, all having bests below two hours and ten minutes. Yoshimi Ozaki and Azusa Nojiri were the most prominent female domestic entrants.


2013 Tokyo prefectural election
Prefectural elections for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly was held on 23 June 2013, one month before 2013 Japanese House of Councillors election.


2013 Tokyo prefectural election
The Liberal Democratic Party took majority control of the assembly from the Democratic Party of Japan after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stated that the election had to be won "at any cost" in order to set the stage for an LDP victory in the House of Councillors election. Abe used the victory to claim popular backing for his "Abenomics" economic policies. The Japan Restoration Party performed poorly after controversial remarks by its leader Toru Hashimoto regarding comfort women, while Your Party made gains in the assembly after distancing itself from the JRP.


2013 Toledo Rockets football team
The 2013 Toledo Rockets football team represented the University of Toledo in the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by head coach Matt Campbell in his second full year after coaching the Rockets in the 2011 Military Bowl. They played their home games at the Glass Bowl and are members of the West Division of the Mid-American Conference. they finished the season 7–5, 5–3 in MAC play to finish in a tie for third place in the West Division. Despite being bowl eligible, they were not invited to a bowl game.


2013 Toledo, Ohio mayoral election
The 2013 Toledo mayoral election took place on November 5, 2013, to elect the mayor of Toledo, Ohio. The election was officially nonpartisan, with the top two candidates from the September 10 primary election advancing to the general election, regardless of party. Incumbent independent mayor Michael Bell lost reelection to independent city councilor D. Michael Collins.


2013 Tonga Major League
The 2013 season of the Tonga Major League was the 34th season of top flight association football competition in Tonga. Lotohaʻapai United won the championship for the fourteenth time, and their third consecutive title.


2013 Tonga Major League, Rounds, Round 4
The remaining two rounds were cancelled and Lotoha'apai were declared champions.


2013 Top End Under-19 Series in Australia
The 2013 Top End Under-19 Series is an Under-19 One Day International cricket tournament in the Australia that was held between India, New Zealand and Australia. It was held between Jun 30, 2013 and Jul 12, 2013. India Under-19 won the 2013 Top End Under-19 Series  against Australia Under-19 by eight wickets in the final.


2013 Top End Under-19 Series in Australia, Venues
All matches of the Tournament were held at the Marrara Cricket Ground, Darwin.


2013 Topklasse cricket
The 2013 SMT Shipping Topklasse season is contested between eight teams playing in one single division. Each team plays all the others in their division both home and away. At the end of the 2013 season, HBS Craeyenhout relegated to Hoofdklasse (Dutch 2nd level cricket division). At the end of the three final matches H.V. & C.V. QUICK became the 2013 Topklasse champion with VRA being the runner-up.


2013 Topklasse cricket, Teams
A total of 8 teams are taking part in the league


2013 Toppserien
The 2013 Toppserien is the twenty-seventh season of top-tier women's football in Norway since its establishment in 1987. A total of 12 teams are contesting the league, ten returning from the 2012 season and the two teams promoted from the First Division, Avaldsnes and Medkila.


2013 Toppserien
The season started on 13 April 2013 and is planned to end on 2 November 2013.


2013 Topshelf Open
The 2013 Topshelf Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 24th edition of the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, and was part of the 250 Series of the 2013 ATP World Tour, and of the WTA International tournaments of the 2013 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Autotron park in Rosmalen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, from June 16 through June 22, 2013.


2013 Topshelf Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2013 Topshelf Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2013 Topshelf Open – Men's Doubles
Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecău were the defending champions but Lindstedt decided not to participate. Tecău plays alongside Max Mirnyi and won the title beating in the final Andre Begemann and Martin Emmrich, 6–3, 7–6(7–4).


2013 Topshelf Open – Men's Singles
David Ferrer was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Xavier Malisse. Qualifier Nicolas Mahut won the first title of his career, beating Stanislas Wawrinka in the final, 6–3, 6–4.


2013 Topshelf Open – Women's Doubles
Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci were the defending champions but decided not to participate. Irina-Camelia Begu and Anabel Medina Garrigues won the title beating Dominika Cibulková and Arantxa Parra Santonja in the final, 4–6, 7–6(7–3), [11–9].


2013 Topshelf Open – Women's Singles
Nadia Petrova was the defending champion, but she chose to compete in Eastbourne instead. Simona Halep won the title beating in the final Kirsten Flipkens, 6–4, 6–2.


2013 Toray Pan Pacific Open
The 2013 Toray Pan Pacific Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 30th edition of the Toray Pan Pacific Open, and part of the Premier Series of the 2013 WTA Tour. It took place at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan, from September 22 through 28, 2013. Petra Kvitová won the singles title.


2013 Toray Pan Pacific Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Toray Pan Pacific Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2013 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Doubles
Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Jelena Janković and Katarina Srebotnik. Cara Black and Sania Mirza won the title, defeating Chan Hao-ching and Liezel Huber in the final, 4–6, 6–0, [11–9].


2013 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Singles
Nadia Petrova was the defending champion, but withdrew with a left hip injury before the tournament began.


2013 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Singles
Petra Kvitová won the title, defeating Angelique Kerber in the final, 6–2, 0–6, 6–3.


2013 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2013 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2013 Torneo Apertura (Chile)
The 2013 Campeonato Nacional Apertura began on 26 July and ended on 10 December. The tournament champion was O'Higgins which won its first Primera División de Chile title in 58 years’ history after beating Universidad Católica 1–0 in the final play-off played at the Estadio Nacional.


2013 Torneo Apertura (Chile), Pre-Copa Libertadores Liguilla, Final
Universidad de Chile qualified to the 2014 Copa Libertadores. Deportes Iquique, as the runner-ups, qualified to the 2014 Copa Sudamericana.


2013 Torneo Apertura (Primera B de Chile)
The 2013 Torneo Apertura was part of the 64th completed season of the Primera B de Chile.


2013 Torneo Descentralizado
The 2013 Torneo Descentralizado de Fútbol Profesional (known as the 2013 Copa Movistar for sponsorship reasons) is the 97th season of the highest division of Association Peruvian football. A total of 16 teams competed in the tournament, with Sporting Cristal as the defending champion. The Torneo Descentralizado began in February and ended in December 2013.


2013 Torneo Descentralizado, Competition modus
The season was divided into 3 stages. In the first stage 16 teams played a round-robin home-and-away round for a total of 30 matches each. In the second stage the 16 teams were divided into 2 groups. In addition, the team ranked first at the end of the first stage was eligible to play the 2014 Copa Libertadores as Peru 3. Each team carried their records from the first stage into the second stage. Both groups played another round-robin home-and-away round for 14 matches.


2013 Torneo Descentralizado, Competition modus
Bonus points were awarded to two teams based on the performance of their reserve teams in the 2013 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva before the first match of the second stage. The teams ranked first in each group at the end of the 14 matches advanced to the third stage. The two teams with the fewest points at the end of the second stage were relegated. In the third stage the championship was contested in a two-legged Play-off. The Play-off finalists qualified for the Copa Libertadores. The remaining international competition berths were determined by the season aggregate table.


2013 Torneo Descentralizado, Teams, Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Torneo Descentralizado, Second stage
The Second Stage begins on September and concludes November. The winner of each Liguilla will qualify for the group stage of the 2014 Copa Libertadores.


2013 Torneo Descentralizado, Play-offs
The Third Stage were the finals (also known as the Play-off) of the 2013 season between the winners of each group of the Second Stage. They were played in December. The group winner with the most points on the aggregate table chose which leg they played as the home team. They also chose the venue of the third match as both teams were tied on points after the second leg.


2013 Torneo Descentralizado, Aggregate table
The aggregate table will determine the four teams who qualify to the 2014 Copa Sudamericana, one team to the 2014 Copa Libertadores if necessary, and the two teams to be relegated to the Segunda División. The aggregate table consists of the points earned in the First and Second stages.


2013 Torneo Descentralizado, Relegation play-off
Because Pacífico and Unión Comercio tied with 44 points a relegation play-off on neutral ground will be played as the tournament rules specify.


2013 Torneo Descentralizado, Relegation play-off
Union Comercio retained its Torneo Descentralizado spot for the 2014 season. Pacifico was relegated to the 2014 Segunda División.


2013 Torneo Internacional AGT
The 2013 Torneo Internacional AGT was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in León, Mexico between 1 and 7 April 2013.


2013 Torneo Internacional AGT, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Torneo Internacional AGT, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw:


2013 Torneo Internacional AGT, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: