2017 World Series Formula V8 3.5
The 2017 World Series Formula V8 3.5 was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship features drivers competing in World Series Formula 3.5 V8 formula race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2017 became the first season as feeder series to FIA World Endurance Championship. The season also marked the return of the name "World Series" after one season, as the FIA accepted the request from promoter RPM Racing. The name "World Series" was retrieved from the championship after Renault Sport withdraw its support and the Formula Renault 3.5 became Formula V8 3.5 for the 2016 season. It was the last season of the series which was promoted by RPM-MKTG since 1998.


2017 World Series Formula V8 3.5, Race calendar
The provisional calendar for the 2017 season was announced on 7 November 2016, at the final round of the 2016 season. The Nürburgring round will return to the World Series' schedule, while the Hungaroring, Le Castellet, Spielberg and Barcelona will be removed from the calendar. The championship will have rounds outside Europe for the first time since 2002, visiting  Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Circuit of the Americas and Bahrain International Circuit.


2017 World Series Formula V8 3.5, Championship standings, Drivers' Championship
Bold – PoleItalics – Fastest Lap† – Retired, but classified


2017 World Series Formula V8 3.5, Championship standings, Teams' Championship
Only two best-finishing cars are allowed to score points in the championship.


2017 World Series of Boxing
The 2017 World Series of Boxing was the 7th edition of the World Series of Boxing since its establishment in 2010. It was held from February 3 to May 15 of 2017. The event was organised by the International Boxing Association (AIBA). The sixteen teams, divided into four groups of four, contain a majority of boxers from the country in which they are based along with a smaller number of overseas boxers.


2017 World Series of Darts
The 2017 World Series of Darts is a series of televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. In 2017, there are 7 World Series events and one finals event.


2017 World Series of Darts Finals
The 2017 Ladbrokes World Series of Darts Finals was the third staging of the tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament took place in the Braehead Arena, Glasgow, Scotland, between 3–5 November 2017. It featured a field of 24 players.


2017 World Series of Darts Finals
Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion after beating Peter Wright 11–9 in the last year's final, and he retained his title for a third consecutive year, by defeating Gary Anderson 11–6 in the final.


2017 World Series of Darts Finals, Prize money
The total prize money increased from £155,000 to £250,000, with the winner's prize being upped from £30,000 to £50,000.


2017 World Series of Darts Finals, Qualification and format
The top eight players from the seven World Series events of 2017 are seeded for this tournament (with the exception of Phil Taylor, who declined his invite for the tournament). They are:


2017 World Series of Darts Finals, Qualification and format
In addition, four players were invited as international invitations, as were the next four highest ranked players from the PDC Order of Merit following the 2017 World Grand Prix on 9 October 2017. Another eight places were awarded in a qualifying event that took place in Barnsley on 9 October 2017.


2017 World Series of Poker
The 2017 World Series of Poker was the 48th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). It took place from May 30-July 17 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. There was a record 74 bracelet events including the third edition of the $565 Colossus tournament and the $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event, which began on July 8.


2017 World Series of Poker
The Main Event was streamed live on ESPN2 and Poker Central beginning on July 8 and ran throughout the tournament. For the first time since 2007, the Main Event concluded in July; for the previous nine years, once the final table was set the Main Event was stopped with the nine remaining players returning to the Rio in November to battle it out for the bracelet.


2017 World Series of Poker, Main Event
The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 8 with the first of three starting flights. The final table was reached on July 17. In a change from the November Nine, the finalists returned on July 20 with the winner being determined on July 22.


2017 World Series of Poker, Main Event
The Main Event drew 7,221 players, the largest field since 2010. The top 1,084 players finished in the money. Each player at the final table earned $1,000,000, with the winner earning $8,150,000.


2017 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Performance of past champions
* Indicates the place of a player who finished in the money


2017 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Other notable high finishes
NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.


2017 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Final Table
Antoine Saout and Ben Lamb both made the Main Event final table for the second time, having finished 3rd in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Michael Ruane, 4th-place finisher in 2016, was knocked out on the final table bubble in 10th place to just miss making it for the second straight year. Damian Salas would go on to win the Main Event in 2020.


2017 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Final Table
*Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 2017 Main Event.


2017 World Series of Poker Europe
The 2017 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) took place from October 19 to November 10 at King's Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. It featured 11 bracelet events with buy-ins ranging from €550 to €111,111, culminating in the €10,350 No Limit Hold'em Main Event. The series was the first WSOP Europe since 2015, and the first to take place in the Czech Republic.


2017 World Series of Poker Europe, Main Event
The 2017 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event began on November 4 and finished November 10. The event drew 529 entrants, generating a prize pool of €5,025,500. The top 80 players made the money, with the winner earning €1,115,207.


2017 World Series of Poker Europe, Main Event, Final Table
*-Career statistics prior to beginning of 2017 WSOPE Main Event


2017 World Series of Poker Europe results
Below are the results for the 2017 World Series of Poker Europe, held from October 19-November 10 at King's Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic.


2017 World Series of Poker results
Below are the results of the 2017 World Series of Poker, held from May 31-July 22 at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.


2017 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
The 2017 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place from 10 to 12 March 2017 in Rotterdam, Netherlands and were the 42nd World Short Track Speed Skating Championships.


2017 World Shotgun Championships
The 2017 World Shotgun Championships were held from August 30 to September 11, 2017 in Moscow, Russia. As in all odd-numbered years, separate ISSF World Shooting Championships is carried out in the Trap, Double Trap and Skeet events.


2017 World Shotgun Championships, Women
Held as a Grand Prix event and does not count towards medal standings.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships
The 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held between 9 and 12 February 2017 at the Gangneung Oval in Gangneung, South Korea.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Men's 10,000 metres
The Men's 10,000 metres competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 11 February 2017.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Men's 1000 metres
The Men's 1000 metres competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 11 February 2017.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Men's 1500 metres
The Men's 1500 metres competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 12 February 2017.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Men's 500 metres
The Men's 500 metres competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 10 February 2017.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Men's 5000 metres
The Men's 5000 metres competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 9 February 2017.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Men's mass start
The men's mass start competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 12 February 2017.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Men's team pursuit
The Men's team pursuit competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 10 February 2017.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Women's 1000 metres
The Women's 1000 metres competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 11 February 2017.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Women's 1500 metres
The Women's 1500 metres competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 12 February 2017.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Women's 3000 metres
The Women's 3000 metres competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 9 February 2017.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Women's 500 metres
The Women's 500 metres competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 10 February 2017.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Women's 5000 metres
The Women's 5000 metres competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 11 February 2017.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Women's mass start
The Women's mass start competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 12 February 2017.


2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Women's team pursuit
The Women's team pursuit competition at the 2017 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on 10 February 2017.


2017 World Snooker Championship
The 2017 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2017 Betfred World Snooker Championship due to sponsorship) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 15 April to 1 May 2017 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 19th and final ranking event of the 2016–17 season which followed the China Open. It was the 41st consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship had been held at the Crucible.


2017 World Snooker Championship
The winner of the event was the defending champion and world number one Mark Selby, who defeated John Higgins 18–15 in the final. Selby won despite having fallen 4–10 behind in the second session of the match. Selby defeated Ding Junhui 17–15 in the semi-finals whilst Higgins defeated Barry Hawkins 17–8 to reach the final. This was Selby's third World Championship win; he had also won the tournament in the 2014 and 2016 tournaments.


2017 World Snooker Championship
The total prize fund for the championship was £1,750,000, the winner receiving the top prize of £375,000. There were 74 century breaks in the main stage of the championship, and a further 84 in qualifying. Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan compiled a break of 146 in the quarter-finals, the highest of the tournament. Gary Wilson scored a maximum break of 147 in qualifying during his first round win over Josh Boileau. The tournament was broadcast in Europe by the BBC and Eurosport, and internationally by World Snooker on Facebook.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Overview
The World Snooker Championship is an annual cue sport tournament and the official world championship of the game of snooker. Founded in the late 19th century by British Army soldiers stationed in India, the sport was popular in Great Britain. In modern times it has been played worldwide, especially in East and Southeast Asian nations such as China, Hong Kong and Thailand.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Overview
The 2017 tournament featured 32 professional players competing in one-on-one snooker matches played over several frames, using a single elimination format. The 32 players were selected for the event through a mix of the snooker world rankings, and a pre-tournament qualification competition. The first world championship in 1927 was won by Joe Davis, the final being held in Camkin's Hall, Birmingham, England. Since 1977, the event has been held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. As of 2020, Stephen Hendry is the most successful player in the modern era, having won the championship seven times.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Overview
Mark Selby won the previous year's championship by defeating China's Ding Junhui in the final 18–14. This was Selby's second world title, having also won the championship in 2014. The event was organised by World Snooker, a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, and sponsored by sports betting company Betfred.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Overview, Format
The 2017 World Snooker Championship took place between 15 April and 1 May 2017 in Sheffield, England. The tournament was the last of 19 ranking events in the 2016–17 snooker season on the World Snooker Tour. It featured a 32-player main draw that was held at the Crucible Theatre, as well as a 128-player qualifying draw that was played at the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield, from 5 to 12 April, concluding three days before the start of the main draw. This was the 41st consecutive year that the tournament had been staged at the Crucible, and it was the 49th successive world championship to be contested using the modern knockout format.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Overview, Format
The top 16 players in the latest world rankings automatically qualified for the main draw as seeded players. Mark Selby was seeded first overall as the defending champion, and the remaining 15 seeds were allocated based on the world rankings released after the China Open. The number of frames required to win a match increased with each proceeding round of the main draw, the first round consisting of best-of-19 frames matches, the final match being played over a maximum of 35 frames.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Overview, Format
All 16 non-seeded spots in the main draw were filled with players from the qualifying rounds. The draw for the qualifying competition consisted of 128 players, including 110 of the remaining 112 players on the World Snooker Tour, as well as 18 wildcard places assigned to non-tour players. These invited players included the women's world champion, the European junior champion, and all four semi-finalists at the WSF world amateur championship.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Overview, Format
Half of the participants in the qualifying draw were seeded players: those ranked from 17th to 80th were allocated one of 64 seeds in world ranking order; the other participants were placed randomly into the draw. To reach the main draw at the Crucible, players were required to win three best-of-19 frames qualifying matches.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Overview, Prize fund
The total prize money for the event was raised to £1,750,000 from the previous year's prize fund of £1,500,100. The winner of the event won £375,000. A breakdown of prize money for the 2017 World Snooker Championship is shown below.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Overview, Prize fund
The "rolling 147 prize" awarded for a maximum break was £5,000, which was won by Gary Wilson in qualifying.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Overview, Coverage
The 2017 World Snooker Championship was broadcast throughout Europe by both BBC TV and Eurosport. The tournament was streamed internationally on Facebook for the first time, specifically for portions of South America and Asia. The event was also broadcast in North America on Facebook, and the final was aired on the Eleven Sports Network.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Seeding and qualifying rounds
The top 16 ranked players in the world automatically qualified as seeds for the first round of the main stage at the Crucible. Defending champion Mark Selby was seeded first and the other 15 seeding allocations were based on the latest world rankings from after the China Open. The players ranked from 17th position entered the competition in the first round of qualifying and were required to win three best-of-19 frames matches to qualify for the main tournament. The three qualifying rounds were held at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield from 5 to 12 April 2017.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Seeding and qualifying rounds
Two-time world champion Mark Williams took part in qualifying, having failed to regain his place in the top 16. He lost 7–10 to Stuart Carrington in his third qualifying match and missed the knockout stage for only the second time since 1996. Williams qualified at the following year's event, where he defeated John Higgins 18–16 in the final to win his third world title.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Seeding and qualifying rounds
The deciding frame of the third-round qualifying match between Fergal O'Brien and David Gilbert on 12 April was the longest frame on record in the modern era of the game; lasting for 123 minutes and 41 seconds, it broke the previous record of 100 minutes and 24 seconds set by Alan McManus and Barry Pinches in 2015. Gary Wilson made the 131st officially recognised maximum break, the second of his career, in the fourth frame of his first-round qualifying match against Josh Boileau on 6 April.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Seeding and qualifying rounds
Wilson was one of five players to qualify for the main stage of the championship at the Crucible for the first time, the other four debutants being David Grace, Noppon Saengkham, Yan Bingtao, and Zhou Yuelong. The draw for the first round of the main competition took place at 10:00 a.m. BST on 13 April 2017.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
The first round of the championship took place between 15 and 20 April 2017. All matches were played as best-of-19 frames held over two sessions. Having been eliminated in the first round at the Crucible in the four years since his 2012 semi-final appearance, Stephen Maguire defeated fellow Scot Anthony McGill 10–2 to progress to the second round for the first time in five years. In his 25th consecutive appearance at the World Championship, Ronnie O'Sullivan withstood a fightback from qualifier Gary Wilson—who had recovered from 5–9 down to 7–9 down—to win their first round match 10–7. In doing so, O'Sullivan secured a place in the last 16 for the 14th year in a row, equalling the record set by Terry Griffiths in 1996.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
Elsewhere, Marco Fu trailed Luca Brecel 0–5, 1–7 and 4–8 before winning 10–9 in the first round. Third seed Stuart Bingham played 2002 world champion Peter Ebdon, who was appearing at the Crucible for the 24th time since first qualifying in 1992. Ebdon won the final frame of the first session despite needing 15 points from foul shots with just the colours remaining; he achieved the three snookers needed, and potted the respotted black to bring the score to 4–5. He won just one more frame before losing 5–10 to Bingham.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
Qualifier Rory McLeod defeated second seed Judd Trump 10–8 after trailing 0–4. Before the tournament Trump had declared that he "honestly believe [he] can play to a standard which is very rare nowadays," and that he was "the best" in the world. His poor performance in the match, which ran into a third session, was exacerbated by a shoulder injury that was causing him visible pain when down on shots. This resulted in 46-year-old McLeod becoming the oldest player to reach the last 16 since Steve Davis' quarter-final run in 2010 aged 52. McLeod commented that his victory was "the best win of [his] career, to beat Judd Trump on centre stage is brilliant."


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
In an all-Chinese match, fourth seed Ding Junhui defeated debutant Zhou Yuelong 10–5 to reach the last 16. Ali Carter lost 7–10 in a tense encounter with 2006 world champion Graeme Dott, which Carter blamed on his poor start to the match. The 2010 world champion Neil Robertson made his 500th career century during his 10–4 first round win over Noppon Saengkham.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
In his first-round loss to Liang Wenbo, Stuart Carrington became only the fifth player, after John Higgins, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Mark Selby, and Neil Robertson, to make century breaks in three consecutive frames in a World Championship match; Liang won the match 10–7. Xiao Guodong defeated Wales' sole representative Ryan Day 10–4, which Day referred to as "embarrassing". This was the first event since 1969 where the second round contained no Welsh players.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
Seven former world champions progressed to the second round: Selby, Bingham, O'Sullivan, Higgins, Robertson, Dott and Shaun Murphy. Ebdon was the only former champion in the main draw not to reach the last 16. None of the five debutants made it to the second round.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Second round
The second round of the championship took place from 20 to 24 April 2017, matches being played as best-of-25 frames over three sessions. At this stage, 12 of the 16 seeded players remained in the competition. Kyren Wilson advanced to his second consecutive World Championship quarter-final by defeating third seed Stuart Bingham 13–10. Five-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Shaun Murphy 13–7, to set up his 18th quarter-final appearance at the Crucible. Having dispatched Zhou Yuelong in the first round, Ding Junhui played in a second consecutive all-Chinese match, defeating fellow countryman Liang Wenbo 13–12.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Second round
Four-time world champion John Higgins defeated Mark Allen 13–9, having trailed 3–5 after the first session. Stephen Maguire defeated Rory McLeod 13–3 with a session to spare to reach his first World Championship quarter-final since 2012. Maguire was the only unseeded player to progress to the quarter-finals. Defending champion Mark Selby defeated Xiao Guodong 13–6, commenting afterwards, "I don't feel as though I have peaked". Marco Fu won 13–11, after his opponent Neil Robertson missed the final black in the 24th frame which would have sent their match into a deciding frame.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
The quarter-finals were played on 25 and 26 April 2017, as best-of-25 frames matches divided over three sessions. John Higgins won all three sessions of his match against Kyren Wilson and triumphed 13–6, to advance to his first semi-final since winning the event in 2011. With the score tied at 3–3 in the first session, Wilson miscued and split his cue tip, requiring a 15-minute break to carry out the repair. The two players would meet in the semi-finals of the following year's tournament, which Higgins won 17–13.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
Defending champion Mark Selby defeated Marco Fu 13–3 with a session to spare. Selby's victory included a break of 143 in frame 15, which BBC commentator Stephen Hendry described as "one of the best [breaks] I've ever seen." After the match, Fu commented that Selby was "unplayable at times" and predicted that he would win the championship.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
Ding Junhui defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 13–10 in their quarter-final encounter. Ding developed an early 3–0 lead, but O'Sullivan fought back to level the first session at 4–4. Ding dominated the second session and opened up a 10–6 overnight lead. O'Sullivan took the first two frames of the final session to reduce his deficit to 8–10; the next four frames were shared equally, before Ding concluded the match in frame 23. O'Sullivan attempted a 147 maximum break in frame 20, but he ran out of position after potting the 13th red and was forced to take the pink instead of the black; his consequent clearance of 146 was the highest break of the championship.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
Stephen Maguire was defeated 9–13 by Barry Hawkins, who reached his fourth Crucible semi-final in five years. Hawkins led 9–7 after the first two sessions, but Maguire took the next two frames—including a 135 clearance in frame 17—to tie the match at 9–9. Hawkins then won the next four frames straight to round out the match.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Semi-finals
The semi-finals, which took place from 27 to 29 April 2017, were played as best-of-33 frames matches divided over four sessions. A single table was used for both matches, successive sessions of play alternating between the two semi-finals. Defending champion Mark Selby played fourth seed Ding Junhui in the first semi-final, which was a rematch of the previous year's final. Selby held the lead for most of the match, before Ding drew level at 12–12 after three sessions. Selby then won four of the next five frames, to lead 16–13, requiring just one more frame to win the match. Ding persevered to win two further frames, before Selby scored a break of 72 to triumph 17–15.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Semi-finals
Sixth seed John Higgins played seventh seed Barry Hawkins in the other semi-final. Higgins held the lead after each of the first three sessions, at 5–3, 10–6, and 16–8, before winning the match 17–8 in the first frame of the final session. World Snooker described his semi-final win as a "demolition". With the victory, Higgins qualified for his first World Championship final in six years and his sixth overall, the first being 19 years previously when he won his first world title in 1998.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
The final was played on 30 April and 1 May 2017 between first seed Mark Selby and sixth seed John Higgins. It was a best-of-35 frames match, spread over four sessions. This final was a rematch of the 2007 World Championship final, where Higgins had defeated Selby 18–13. In reaching the 2017 final, Higgins became the second-oldest Crucible world finalist at 41 years and 11 months, behind Ray Reardon who had played in the 1982 final aged 49. The other quadragenarians to have played in a world final at the Crucible were John Spencer and Terry Griffiths.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
Higgins led 6–2 after the first session and 10–4 during the second, before finishing the first day 10–7 ahead. Selby fought back on the second day to win six of the first seven frames, and he was leading 13–11 by the end of the third session. The next six frames were shared equally and Selby maintained his two-frame lead at 16–14.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
In frame 31, he played a shot to roll up to the black ball; despite his conviction that he had made contact, Selby was told by referee Jan Verhaas that he had missed the ball, for which he received a seven-point penalty. Higgins then won the frame to take the score to 16–15. After compiling a 131 break in frame 32, Selby won the championship with a break of 75 in frame 33, bringing the final match score to 18–15.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
Selby had achieved his victory after falling behind by six frames at the end of the first day's play. He became the fourth player (after Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, and Ronnie O'Sullivan) to defend the world title in the Crucible era. He also became the third player (after Hendry and Ding Junhui) to win five full ranking titles in a single season, the first player to win the China Open and the world title back-to-back, and the first player to win over £1,000,000 across the two-year rolling prize money list. In reaching the final, Higgins moved to second in the world rankings, behind Selby.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Main draw
The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks. Match winners are shown in bold.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Qualifying
Qualifying for the 2017 World Snooker Championship took place from 5 to 12 April 2017, at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield. There were 128 competitors who took part in the three qualifying rounds; the 16 winners of the third round matches progressed to the main stage of the tournament at the Crucible Theatre, also in Sheffield. All qualifying matches were played as best-of-19 frames. The 128 players that entered the qualifying competition included tour players ranked outside the top 16, and 16 amateur players, all of whom achieved success through the WPBSA qualifying criteria. The following amateur players were invited to compete:


2017 World Snooker Championship, Qualifying
The winner of the 2016 IBSF World Snooker Championship, Soheil Vahedi of Iran, was also invited but could not obtain a visa in time to compete. Two amateur players, England's Andy Hicks and Poland's Adam Stefanów, were invited to replace the absent professional players Jamie Burnett and Rouzi Maimaiti. Hicks and Stefanów were selected from the 2016 Q School Order of Merit, as the top-ranked players that had not already qualified for the tournament.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Qualifying, Round 1
The results of the first round of qualifying are given below; of the 128 players that entered, 64 progressed to the second round.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Qualifying, Round 2
The results of the second round of qualifying are given below; 32 players progressed to the third and final qualifying round.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Qualifying, Round 3
The results of the third round of qualifying are given below. The 16 winners advanced to the main stages of the competition, where they met the 16 seeded players in the first round.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Century breaks, Main stage centuries
There were 74 century breaks made by 23 players in the main stage of the event. Ronnie O'Sullivan compiled the highest break of the tournament, a 146, in his quarter-final loss to Ding Junhui.


2017 World Snooker Championship, Century breaks, Qualifying stage centuries
There were 84 century breaks made by 51 players in the qualifying stages of the championship. The highest was a maximum break compiled by Gary Wilson in frame four of his first qualifying round win over Josh Boileau.


2017 World Snowshoe Championships
The 2017 World Snowshoe Championships was the 10th edition of the global snowshoe running competition, World Snowshoe Championships, organised by the World Snowshoe Federation and took place in Saranac Lake, New York from 24 to 25 February 2017.


2017 World Snowshoe Championships, Results
The race, held on the distance of 8 kilometers, has compiled 16 different rankings, in addition to the two (male and female) overall, another 14 for the various categories masters.


2017 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships
The 2017 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships were held at the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, from 25 to 26 February 2017.


2017 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships – Men
The Men competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 25 and 26 February 2017.


2017 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships – Men, Results, 500 m
The race was started on 25 February 2017 at 13:18.


2017 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships – Men, Results, 1000 m
The race was started on 25 February 2017 at 15:07.


2017 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships – Men, Results, 500 m
The race was started on 26 February 2017 at 13:22.


2017 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships – Men, Results, 1000 m
The race was started on 26 February 2017 at 15:07.


2017 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships – Women
The Women competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 25 and 26 February 2017.


2017 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships – Women, Results, 500 m
The race was started on 25 February 2017 at 12:30.


2017 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships – Women, Results, 1000 m
The race was started on 25 February 2017 at 14:11.


2017 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships – Women, Results, 500 m
The race was started on 26 February 2017 at 12:30.


2017 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships – Women, Results, 1000 m
The race was started on 26 February 2017 at 14:14.


2017 World Surf League
The 2017 World Surf League Championship Tour (CT) is a professional competitive surfing league run by the World Surf League. Men and women compete in separate tours with events taking place from late February to mid-December, at various surfing locations around the world.


2017 World Surf League
Surfers receive points for their best events. The surfer with the most points at the end of the tour (after discarding their two worst results) is announced the 2017 World Surf League Champion.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships
The 2017 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 29 May to 5 June 2017. The decision to host the event in Düsseldorf was announced by the ITTF in April 2015. They were the 54th edition of the competition, and the seventh time that it has been staged in Germany.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships, Schedule
Five events were contested, with qualification rounds taking place from 29 to 30 May.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
The 2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles was the 54th edition of the men's doubles championship.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
Xu Xin and Zhang Jike were the defending champions but Zhang did not compete this year.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin defeated Masataka Morizono and Yuya Oshima 11–9, 16–14, 11–9, 6–11, 13–11 in the final to win the title.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
Matches were best of 5 games in qualification and best of 7 games in the 64-player sized main draw.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
Ma Long successfully defended his title by defeating Fan Zhendong 7–11, 11–6, 11–3, 11–8, 5–11, 7–11, 12–10 in the final.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
Matches were best of 7 games in qualification and in the 128-player sized main draw.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles
The 2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles was the 54th edition of the mixed doubles championship.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles
Xu Xin and Yang Ha-eun were the defending champions but Xu did not compete this year.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles
Maharu Yoshimura and Kasumi Ishikawa won the title after defeating Chen Chien-an and Cheng I-ching 8–11, 8–11, 11–8, 10–12, 11–4, 11–9, 11–5.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
Matches were best of 5 games in qualification and best of 7 games in the 64-player sized main draw.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles
The 2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles was the 53rd edition of the women's doubles championship. Liu Shiwen and Zhu Yuling were the defending champions but decided not to play together this year.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles
Ding Ning and Liu defeated Chen Meng and Zhu 9–11, 11–8, 11–13, 11–8, 11–6, 6–11, 11–9 in the final.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles, Seeds
Matches were best of 5 games in qualification and best of 7 games in the 64-player sized main draw.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Singles
Ding Ning successfully defended their title by defeating Zhu Yuling 11–4, 9–11, 4–11, 12–10, 11–6, 11–7 in the final.


2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
Matches were best of 7 games in qualification and in the 128-player sized main draw.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships
The 2017 World Taekwondo Championships was the 23rd edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and was held in Muju, South Korea from June 24 to June 30, 2017.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Men's bantamweight
The men's bantamweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 29 and June 30. Bantamweights were limited to a maximum of 63 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Men's featherweight
The men's featherweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 26 and June 27. Featherweights were limited to a maximum of 68 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Men's finweight
The men's finweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 24 and 25. Finweights were limited to a maximum of 54 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Men's flyweight
The men's flyweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 27 and June 28. Flyweights were limited to a maximum of 58 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Men's heavyweight
The men's heavyweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 28 and June 29. Heavyweights were limited to a minimum of 87 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Men's lightweight
The men's lightweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 25 and June 26. Lightweights were limited to a maximum of 74 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Men's middleweight
The men's middleweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 28 and June 29. Middleweights were limited to a maximum of 87 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Men's welterweight
The men's welterweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 30. Welterweights were limited to a maximum of 80 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's bantamweight
The women's bantamweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 27 and June 28. Bantamweights were limited to a maximum of 53 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's featherweight
The women's featherweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 29 and 30. Featherweights were limited to a maximum of 57 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's finweight
The women's finweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 24 and June 25. Finweights were limited to a maximum of 46 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's flyweight
The women's flyweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 25 and June 26. Flyweight were limited to a maximum of 49 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's heavyweight
The women's heavyweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 27 and June 28. Heavyweights were limited to a minimum of 73 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's lightweight
The women's lightweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 30. Lightweights were limited to a maximum of 62 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's middleweight
The women's middleweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 28 and June 29. Middleweights were limited to a maximum of 73 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's welterweight
The women's welterweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 26 and June 27. Welterweight were limited to a maximum of 67 kilograms in body mass.


2017 World Taekwondo Grand Prix
The 2017 World Taekwondo Grand Prix was the 5th edition of the World Taekwondo Grand Prix series.


2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam
The 2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam is the 1st edition of the World Taekwondo Grand Slam series.


2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam, Events schedule
The competition was held every saturday since 30 December 2017 to 20 January 2018.


2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam, Medal summary
The team championships were also held in the same arena but for a different competition, called the World Cup Team Championships.


2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam - Open Qualification Tournament
2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam - Open Qualification Tournament is an international G-1 taekwondo tournament which allows the first three athletes to compete on the 2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam as 9th, 10th and 11th seeds on their respective weight category brackets. The tournament was held from 23-24 November in Wuxi, China.


2017 World TeamTennis season
The 2017 World TeamTennis season was the 42nd season of the top professional team tennis league in the United States. Pursuant to a sponsorship agreement with Mylan N.V., the official name of the league was Mylan World TeamTennis in 2017.


2017 World TeamTennis season
The Orange County Breakers defeated the San Diego Aviators in the WTT Finals to win the King Trophy as WTT champions.


2017 World TeamTennis season, Competition format
The 2017 World TeamTennis season included six teams. Each team played a 14-match regular-season schedule with seven home and seven away matches. The top two teams in the regular season qualified for the World TeamTennis Final at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California, the home court of the San Diego Aviators. The higher seed was treated as the "home" team in the WTT Final and had the right to determine the order of play. The winner of the WTT Final was awarded the King Trophy.


2017 World TeamTennis season, League business
On March 13, 2017, WTT announced that Billie Jean King had sold most of her majority ownership interest in the league to Mark Ein, founder and owner of the Washington Kastles, Fred Luddy, owner of the San Diego Aviators, and LionTree Partners, a merchant banking firm. Ein was named Chairman of WTT, and Ilana Kloss was to remain CEO and Commissioner of the league through the 2017 season.


2017 World TeamTennis season, League business
"After 42 seasons of World TeamTennis, Ilana and I feel this is the time to pass the baton to Mark Ein and Fred Luddy and entrust the legacy of WTT as an innovative force in tennis to them and their team," said King. "I will continue to be part of the league as a minority owner and as the owner of the Philadelphia Freedoms, and I am confident the league will continue to grow and prosper under Mark and Fred’s leadership."


2017 World TeamTennis season, Drafts
The order in which franchises selected was based on the results the teams achieved in 2016, with weaker teams selecting earlier and stronger teams selecting later. The four nonplayoff teams selected first followed by the WTT Final loser and then the WTT champion.


2017 World TeamTennis season, Drafts
Because the 2016 WTT season schedule conflicted with the 2016 Olympics, teams were permitted to protect players who were eligible for protection in the 2016 draft based on playing for the team in 2015 (or 2014 and missing the 2015 season due to injury), went undrafted in the 2016 draft and did not participate in the league in 2016.


2017 World TeamTennis season, Drafts, Marquee Draft
WTT conducted its 2017 Marquee Draft on February 16, in New York City. Each team could protect up to three marquee players or doubles teams, if they appeared in a match for the team in 2016, or qualified for protection under the special 2017 rule based on eligibility for protection in 2016. The selections made are shown in the tables below.


2017 World TeamTennis season, Drafts, Roster Draft
WTT conducted its 2017 Roster Draft on March 14, in Indian Wells, California. Exempt, roster and substitute players who appeared in at least three matches for the team in 2016, could be protected. Teams could also protect players who qualified for protection based on match appearances in 2015, but were unable to play in 2016, due to injury.


2017 World TeamTennis season, Drafts, Roster Draft
If a team selects a player who is part of an established doubles team (at least four tournaments played together in the 12 months prior to the draft), that team can protect the drafted player's doubles partner in the next round of the draft. Finally, teams could protect players who qualified for protection under the special 2017 rule based on eligibility for protection in 2016. Teams holding the right to protect players could trade those rights before or during the draft.


2017 World TeamTennis season, Drafts, Roster Draft
If a team chooses a roster-exempt player, one who is not required to be a full-time member of the team, it is possible for a team to make four selections in the roster draft and not have two male and two female full-time players. In such cases, these teams are permitted to make selections in additional rounds of the roster draft until they have a complete roster. Teams that have two male and two female full-time players may select roster-exempt players in rounds past the fourth round. The selections made are shown in the tables below.


2017 World TeamTennis season, Mylan WTT Finals
Women's Singles - Yanina Wickmayer (Breakers) def. Naomi Broady (Aviators) 5-2


2017 World TeamTennis season, Mylan WTT Finals
Women's Doubles - Naomi Broady\Darija Jurak (Aviators) def. Andreja Klepac\Yanina Wickmayer (Breakers) 5-3


2017 World TeamTennis season, Mylan WTT Finals
Men's Doubles - Teymuraz Gabashvili\Ken Skupski (Breakers) def. Raven Klaasen\Rajeev Ram (Aviators) 5-2


2017 World TeamTennis season, Mylan WTT Finals
Mixed Doubles - Raven Klaasen\Darija Jurak (Aviators) def. Ken Skupski\Andreja Klepac (Breakers) 5-4


2017 World TeamTennis season, Mylan WTT Finals
Men's Singles - Teymuraz Gabashvili (Breakers) def. Rajeev Ram (Aviators) 5-4


2017 World TeamTennis season, Television
The 2017 season was the final year of a four-year television rights contract between WTT and ESPN, Inc. The WTT Final was streamed live on ESPN3. ESPN2's live telecast of the WTT Final began at 9:00 pm PDT, one hour after the match's start time. ESPN3 streamed 11 regular-season matches live. Five of those matches were also televised live by the Tennis Channel and Comcast SportsNet affiliates. Matches carried live on the Tennis Channel were available on Mediacom's MC22 (Mediacom Connections) channel, which also provided live coverage of some matches involving the Springfield Lasers that were not aired nationally. Select matches streamed live by ESPN3 were rebroadcast by regional sports networks Altitude Sports and Entertainment, Comcast SportsNet affiliates, MC22 and MSG.


2017 World TeamTennis season, Sponsorship
On December 8, 2014, WTT announced that its title-sponsorship agreement with Mylan N.V. was extended for two more years through the 2017 season. As part of its partnership with WTT, Mylan continued to sponsor events at which children met with WTT players and were introduced to tennis, charitable events and the Mylan Aces program which allows each team to select a local charity for which it can earn money donated by Mylan by recording the most aces in the league on a given day during the regular season.


2017 World Touring Car Championship
The 2017 World Touring Car Championship was the fourteenth and last season of the FIA World Touring Car Championship, and the thirteenth since the series was revived in 2005. For this season, there were a few rules changes.


2017 World Touring Car Championship, Rule changes
More points will be awarded for the winners of the Manufacturers Against the Clock (MAC3) team time trials (12 rather than 10), optional rallycross-style "joker laps" will be introduced in street-circuits, the second or "main race" on a race weekend will be increased in length to two laps longer than the opening races (with the exception of the Race of Germany at Nürburgring Nordschleife), the points scoring structure will be revised with more points awarded in the main race, and the length of race meetings will be reduced to two days, with testing on Fridays to be abolished and the Free Practice 1 and 2 sessions being increased from 30 to 45 minutes to compensate.


2017 World Touring Car Championship, Calendar
The Monza and Macau circuits return to the WTCC, whereas France, Russia and Slovakia are dropped.


2017 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Championship standings, Drivers' championship
† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance. ‡ – Honda Racing Team JAS was disqualified from the Race of China because of non-compliant fuel injectors.


2017 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Championship standings, Drivers' championship
Championship points were awarded on the results of each race at each event as follows:


2017 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Championship standings, Manufacturers' Championship
Only the two best placed cars of each manufacturer earned points.


2017 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Championship standings, Manufacturers' Championship
In MAC3 points are awarded if 3 cars of the same manufacturer within a 15 seconds gap. MAC3 points were awarded as follows:


2017 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Championship standings, WTCC Trophy
WTCC Trophy points are awarded to the first eight drivers classified in each race on the following scale: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1. One point is awarded to the highest-placed WTCC Trophy competitor in qualifying and another for the fastest lap in each race.


2017 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Championship standings, WTCC Trophy
† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.


2017 World Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Championship standings, WTCC Teams' Trophy
All the teams taking part in the championship were eligible to score points towards the Teams' Trophy, with the exception of manufacturer teams, with the first car from each team scoring points in each race on the following scale: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.


2017 World Trail Orienteering Championships
The 14th World Orienteering Championships were held in Birštonas, Lithuania in July 2017.


2017 World U-17 Hockey Challenge
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2017 World U-17 Hockey Challenge
The 2017 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge was an ice hockey tournament held in Dawson Creek and Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada between November 5 and 11. The World Under-17 Hockey Challenge is held by Hockey Canada annually to showcase young hockey talent from across Canada and other strong hockey countries.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships
The 2017 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Anaheim, United States from 28 November to 5 December 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships, Doping bans
Nine countries were banned from competing at the World Championships due to their history of doping at previous Olympic Games, under International Weightlifting Federation rules stating that any country that had three positive tests uncovered by the International Olympic Committee during re-testing of stored urine samples for banned substances from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics would be banned.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships, Doping bans
The banned countries were: Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Turkey, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and Azerbaijan.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships, Boycott
North Korea and Venezuela boycotted the World Championships due to the crises in relations between the United States and these countries. The World Championships organizing committee had said it did not foresee any visa problems for the North Korean team.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships, Medal table
Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's +105 kg
The Men's +105 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 5 December 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's +105 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 105 kg
The Men's 105 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 4 December 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 105 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 56 kg
The Men's 56 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 29 November 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 56 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 62 kg
The Men's 62 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 29 November 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 62 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 69 kg
The Men's 69 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 1 December 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 69 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 77 kg
The Men's 77 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 2 December 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 77 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 85 kg
The Men's 85 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 3 December 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 85 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 94 kg
The Men's 94 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 3 December 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 94 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's +90 kg
The Women's +90 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 5 December 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's +90 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 48 kg
The Women's 48 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 29 November 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 48 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 53 kg
The Women's 53 kilograms competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 30 November 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 53 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 58 kg
The Women's 58 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 30 November 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 58 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 63 kg
The Women's 63 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 1 December 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 63 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 69 kg
The Women's 69 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 2 December 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 69 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 75 kg
The Women's 75 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 3 December 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 75 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 90 kg
The Women's 90 kg competition at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships was held on 4 December 2017.


2017 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 90 kg, Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship
The 2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship was held from March 4 to 11 at the Gangneung Curling Centre in Gangneung, South Korea. Norway won a third title after winning over Russia, who defeated Norway during the 2016 championship final.


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Qualification, Qualification event
Finland and Scotland qualified for the World Championship from the qualifying event held during November 2016 in Lohja, Finland.


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Jim ArmstrongThird: Ina ForrestSecond: Marie WrightLead: Mark IdesonAlternate: Ellis TullCoach: Wayne Kiel


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Wang HaitaoThird: Liu WeiSecond: Chen JianxinLead: Xu GuangqinAlternate: Zhang MingliangCoach: Li Jianrui


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Markku KarjalainenThird: Yrjo JaaskelainenSecond: Sari KarjalainenLead: Vesa LeppanenAlternate: Riitta SarosaloCoach: Vesa Kokko


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Christiane PutzichThird: Harry PavelSecond: Martin SchlittLead: Heike MelchiorAlternate: Christoph GemmerCoach: Bernd Weisser


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Rune LorentsenThird: Jostein StordahlSecond: Ole Fredrik SyversenLead: Sissel LøchenAlternate: Rikke IversenCoach: Peter Dahlman


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Andrey SmirnovThird: Konstantin KurokhtinSecond: Alexander ShevchenkoLead: Daria ShchukinaAlternate: Marat RomanovCoach: Anton Batugin


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Aileen NeilsonThird: Gregor EwanSecond: Hugh NibloeLead: Robert McPhersonAlternate: Angie MaloneCoach: Sheila Swan


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Kim Jong-panThird: Seo Soon-seokSecond: Cha Jae-goanLead: Cho Min-kyongAlternate: Lee Dong-haCoach: Beak Jong-chul


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Felix WagnerThird: Marcel BodenmannSecond: Claudia HüttenmoserLead: Beatrix BlaülAlternate: Hans BurgenerCoach: Stephan Pfister


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Stephen EmtThird: Kirk BlackSecond: Jimmy JosephLead: Penny GreelyAlternate: Justin MarshallCoach: Steve Brown


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Round robin results
All draw times are listed in Korean Standard Time (UTC+09).


2017 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, Round robin results, Relegation Game
Germany is relegated to the 2017 World Wheelchair Curling B-Championship


2017 World Women's Curling Championship
The 2017 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as CPT World Women's Curling Championship 2017 for sponsorship reasons) was a curling event held between March 18–26 at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China. The winning Rachel Homan rink from Canada was the first team to go through a women's world championship undefeated since the event began in 1979, winning 13 games through the round robin, playoffs and final. Runners-up Russia took their first silver medal on this event.


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Qualification
The following nations are qualified to participate in the 2017 World Women's Curling Championship:


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Rachel HomanThird: Emma MiskewSecond: Joanne CourtneyLead: Lisa WeagleAlternate: Cheryl Kreviazuk


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Wang BingyuThird: Wang RuiSecond: Liu JinliLead: Zhou YanAlternate: Yang Ying


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Anna KubeškováThird: Alžběta BaudyšováSecond: Tereza PlíškováLead: Klára SvatoňováAlternate: Ezhen Kolchevskaia


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Lene NielsenThird: Madeleine DupontSecond: Stephanie RisdalLead: Charlotte ClemmensenAlternate: Denise Dupont


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Daniela JentschThird: Josephine Obermann Second: Analena JentschLead: Pia-Lisa SchöllAlternate: Emira Abbes


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Diana GaspariThird: Veronica ZapponeSecond: Chiara OlivieriLead: Arianna LosanoAlternate: Denise Pimpini


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Anna SidorovaThird: Margarita FominaSecond: Alina KovalevaLead: Nkeirouka EzekhAlternate: Alexandra Raeva


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Eve MuirheadThird: Anna SloanSecond: Vicki AdamsLead: Lauren GrayAlternate: Kelly Schafer


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Kim Eun-jungThird: Kim Kyeong-aeSecond: Kim Seon-yeongLead: Kim Yeong-miAlternate: Kim Cho-hi


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Anna HasselborgThird: Sara McManusSecond: Agnes KnochenhauerLead: Sofia MabergsAlternate: Jennie Wåhlin


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Alina PätzThird: Nadine LehmannSecond: Marisa WinkelhausenLead: Nicole SchwägliAlternate: Briar Hürlimann


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Nina RothThird: Tabitha PetersonSecond: Aileen GevingLead: Becca HamiltonAlternate: Cory Christensen


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Teams, WCT ranking
Year to date World Curling Tour order of merit ranking for each team prior to the event.


2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Round robin results
All draw times are listed in China Standard Time (UTC+8).


2017 World Women's Handball Championship
The 2017 IHF World Women's Handball Championship, the 23rd event hosted by the International Handball Federation, was held in Germany from 1 to 17 December 2017. Germany was the only applicant for this championship. Germany was host of the World Championships in 1965 and 1997.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship
France won their second title after 2003, by defeating reigning champions Norway 23–21 in the final.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship, Venues
The tournament is being played in the following venues: Bietigheim-Bissingen, Magdeburg, Oldenburg, Leipzig, Trier and Hamburg as the final four venue.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship, Draw
The draw was held on 27 June 2017 at Hamburg, Germany.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship, Preliminary round
The schedule was announced on 30 June 2017 with the exact throw-off times confirmed on 10 July 2017.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship, Final ranking and statistics, Final ranking
Team roster: Blandine Dancette, Camille Ayglon, Allison Pineau, Laurisa Landre, Astride N'Gouan, Grâce Zaadi, Amandine Leynaud, Manon Houette, Kalidiatou Niakaté, Cléopâtre Darleux, Siraba Dembélé, Laura Flippes, Orlane Kanor, Béatrice Edwige, Estelle Nze Minko, Gnonsiane Niombla, Alexandra Lacrabère. Head Coach: Olivier Krumbholz.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship, Final ranking and statistics, All Star Team
The All Star Team and MVP was announced on 17 December 2017.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads
This article displays the squads for the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship. Each team consists of up to 28 players, of whom 16 may be fielded for each match.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads
Age, club, caps and goals as of 1 December 2017.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group A, France
A 21-player squad was announced on 20 November 2017. The final squad was revealed on 1 December 2017. On 9 December 2017, Astride N'Gouan replaced Orlane Kanor. The change was reversed six days later.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group A, Romania
A 20-player squad was announced on 10 November 2017. The final squad was revealed on 26 November 2017. Gabriella Szűcs replaced Mădălina Zamfirescu on 8 December 2017.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group A, Slovenia
A 19-player squad was announced on 20 November 2017. The final roster was revealed on 30 November 2017.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group A, Spain
The squad was announced on 3 November 2017, before Seynabou Mbengue was added on 27 November 2017. The final squad was revealed on 1 December 2017.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group B, Czech Republic
An 18-player squad was announced on 25 November 2017. The final squad was revealed on 29 November 2017.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group B, Hungary
A 19-player squad was announced on 10 November 2017. The final squad was revealed on 29 November 2017. Zita Szucsánszki was called up on 6 December 2017.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group B, Norway
The squad was announced on 7 November 2017. On 17 December 2017, Silje Solberg replaced Helene Gigstad Fauske in the squad.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group B, Poland
An 18-player squad was announced on 21 November 2017. The final squad was revealed on 1 December 2017. On 7 December 2017, Monika Michałów was called up. Hanna Rycharska replaced Joanna Drabik on 10 December 2017.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group B, Sweden
The squad was announced on 2 November 2017. On 2 December 2017, Louise Sand was taken out of the squad due to an injury, but was added back a day later.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group C, Brazil
A 17-player squad was announced on 9 November 2017. The final squad was revealed on 1 December 2017. On 5 December 2017, Deonise Fachinello was added to squad, replacing Gabriela Moreschi.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group C, Denmark
A 28-player squad was announced on 31 October 2017. The final squad was revealed on 8 November 2017. On 15 November 2017, Rikke Iversen replaced Stine Bodholt Nielsen who had to withdraw from the squad due to an injury. On 30 November 2017, Simone Böhme was added to the squad as Trine Østergaard still hasn't recovered from an injury, leaving Rikke Iversen out of the squad. On 6 December 2017, Trine Østergaard was added back in the squad. On 9 December 2017, Stine Bodholt Nielsen replaced Kristina Kristiansen.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group C, Russia
A 22-player squad was announced on 17 November 2017. On 20 November 2017, Elizaveta Malashenko replaced Victoria Zhilinskayte in the squad due to a pregnancy. On 27 November 2017, the squad was reduced to 18 players. The final squad was published on 2 December 2017. Ekaterina Matlashova replaced Yekaterina Ilyina on 11 December 2017. On 13 December 2017, Yekaterina Ilyina replaced Anastasiia Makina.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Germany
A 28-player squad was announced on 1 November 2017. The final squad was revealed on 1 December 2017. On 3 December 2017, Alicia Stolle replaced due to an injury. Emily Bölk was added on 5 December 2017. Dinah Eckerle replaced Antje Lauenroth on 8 December 2017.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Netherlands
The first 14 players were announced on 13 November 2017. The final squad was revealed on 28 November 2017. Pearl van der Wissel replaced Angela Steenbakkers on 9 December 2017.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Serbia
An 18-player squad was announced on 29 November 2017. The final squad was revealed on 2 December 2017.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship squads, Group D, South Korea
An 18-player squad was used under a tournament in Norway in late November. The final squad was revealed on 2 December 2017. On 3 December 2017, Jung Ji-in replaced Gwon Han-na in the squad due to an injury. On 5 December 2017, Jeong Jin-hui replaced Gim Bo-eun in the squad due to an injury.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship – European qualification
The European qualification for the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship in Germany was played over two rounds. The 2017 hosts Germany and the 2015 Champion Norway qualified automatically for the World Championship.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship – European qualification
In the first round of qualification, the 15 teams who did not participate in the 2016 European Championship were split into four groups. The first and second placed teams from Groups 1–3 and the first placed team from Group 4 joined the eleven teams from the European Championship that did not qualify directly in a playoff to determine the nine teams that qualified for the 2017 World Championship.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship – European qualification, Qualification phase 1, Seeding
The draw was held on 24 June 2016. The first and second placed teams from Group 1–3 and the group winner of Group 4 advanced to the playoff round.


2017 World Women's Handball Championship – European qualification, Qualification phase 2
The draw was held on 17 December 2016 at Gothenburg. The teams played a home-and away series to determine the final tournament participants.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship
The 2017 World Women's Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place at the Lagoon Billiard Room in Toa Payoh, Singapore, from 13 to 19 March 2017. The event was the 2017 edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship first held in 1976. The event was won by Hong Kong's Ng On-yee, who defeated Vidya Pillai in the final 6–5. The final was played over nine hours, becoming the longest recorded best-of-11-frames match, over an hour longer than the previous record set at the 1992 UK Championship.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship
The event featured a total prize fund of £15,000, with the winner receiving £5,000. On-yee scored the highest break of the tournament, a 76. The competition was sponsored by Eden Resources.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Background
The tournament was held at the Lagoon Billiard Room in Toa Payoh, Singapore, the first time in more than 20 years that the women's championship had been held outside the United Kingdom. Entry was on an invitational basis, with 32 players, from ten different countries competing. The competition was sponsored by Eden Resources.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Background
The event featured eight groups of four players, with the top two players from each group progressing. The event was split after the group stage, with players not reaching the main knockout tournament competing in a parallel tournament named the "Challenge Cup". Matches were played as best-of-five frames in the group stage, increasing in each round up to the final which was played as a best-of-11-frames match.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Background, Seeding
There were eight seeded players for the tournament, determined by rankings following the 2017 Connie Gough Tournament held in February 2017, who were drawn into separate groups. The seeded players were:


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Early stages
The event began on 13 March with the group stages, featuring eight groups of four players, the top two players progressing from each group. Group stage matches were all played as best-of-five-frames matches, with dead frames being played. Reanne Evans won all 15 frames across her three matches, whilst both Katrina Wan and Rebecca Kenna won 14 frames each, losing just one.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Early stages
In the semi-finals, Ng On-yee came back from 60 points down in the deciding frame to beat defending champion Reanne Evans 5–4. Vidya Pillai defeated Rebecca Kenna 5–1 to become the first championship finalist ever from India.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Early stages
On her way to the final, Pillai defeated four of the eight seeded players – Maria Catalano in the group stage, then Tatjana Vasiljeva, Katrina Wan, and Kenna in the knockouts. On-yee against Pillai was the first all-Asian final in the history of the championship.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Early stages
The semi-finals started at 10:00 am local time on Sunday, 19 March, with the final scheduled for the afternoon. On-yee had a break of only 30 minutes after her semi-final win before starting what turned out to be a lengthy final commencing at 16:00 pm.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
The final was played on 19 March 2019, as a best-of-11-frames match. On-yee won the first two frames before losing the next four. She then won the next three to lead 5–4, before Pillai won the tenth to take the match to the deciding frame.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
The deciding frame lasted over an hour. With just pink and black balls left, and the pink lying close to the black, which was itself very close to one of the corner pockets, On-yee fouled and left a free ball. Pillai, four points behind, nominated the black but miscued and hit the pink instead, also potting the black. On-yee then potted the pink ball to take the frame 66–50 and gain her second world title, having also won in 2015.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
The playing time in the final was 8 hours and 4 minutes; it was the longest 11-frame competitive match in snooker, significantly exceeding the previous record of 7 hours and 14 minutes taken by Paul Tanner to defeat Robby Foldvari 6–5 at the 1992 UK Championship. It was the first final to go to the deciding frame in the tournament since 1989, finishing at 1:30 am local time.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
Across the semi-final and final, On-yee played for more than 12 hours on the Sunday (and the early part of Monday morning). She received £5,000 for her win. The winner's prize money the previous year, when Reanne Evans won, had been less than a quarter of this.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Breaks
The highest break of the tournament was 76 by On-yee. The second-highest break was scored by On-yee and Evans, who both had a 69. In all, there were only eleven breaks of 50 or over during the groups and knockout stage.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Tournament results, Group stage
The top two players from each of the groups progressed into the knockout draw, where they were seeded based on group stage results. Progression from the group stages was determined, in order, by: Matches won; Head to head results; Frames won; Highest break; and Ranking position.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Knockout
Source: WPBSA Tournament Manager. Players listed in bold indicate match winner.


2017 World Women's Snooker Championship, Challenge cup
The challenge cup was a competition for players who did not reach the main knockout draw. It was won by Amee Kamani. The highest break was 90 by Nutcharut Wongharuthai in her match against Neelam Mittal. Players listed in bold indicate match winner.


2017 World Wrestling Championships
The 2017  World Wrestling Championships were the 14th edition of World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held from August 21 to 27 in Paris, France.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 130 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 22.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 59 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 59 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 22.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 66 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 22.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 71 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 71 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 21.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 75 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 75 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 21.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 80 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 80 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 22.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 85 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 85 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 21.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 98 kg
The men's Greco-Roman 98 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 21.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 125 kg
The men's freestyle 125 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 25.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 57 kg
The men's freestyle 57 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 25.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 61 kg
The men's freestyle 61 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 25.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 65 kg
The men's freestyle 65 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 26.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 70 kg
The men's freestyle 70 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 26.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 74 kg
The men's freestyle 74 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 26.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 86 kg
The men's freestyle 86 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 25.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 97 kg
The men's freestyle 97 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 26.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 48 kg
The women's freestyle 48 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 24.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 53 kg
The women's freestyle 53 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 24.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 55 kg
The women's freestyle 55 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 23.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 58 kg
The women's freestyle 58 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 23.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 60 kg
The women's freestyle 60 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 24.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 63 kg
The women's freestyle 63 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 23.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 69 kg
The women's freestyle 69 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 24.


2017 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 75 kg
The women's freestyle 75 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Paris, France on August 23.


2017 World Wrestling Clubs Cup – Men's Greco-Roman
The 2017 World Wrestling Clubs Cup - Men's Greco-Roman was the last of a set of two World Wrestling Clubs Cups in 2017 which were held in Isfahan, Iran on 14–15 December 2017.


2017 World Wushu Championships
The 2017 World Wushu Championships was the 14th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Kazan Gymnastics Center in Kazan, Russia from September 19 to October 3, 2017. For the countries in Asia, this was also the qualification for the 2018 Asian Games.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 1500 metres
The Boys' 1500 metres at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 12 and 14 July.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 1500 metres, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 1500 metres, Heats
Qualification rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest qualified.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 400 metres
The Boys' 400 metres at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 12-14 July.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 400 metres, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 400 metres, Heats
Qualification rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest qualified.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 800 metres
The Boys' 800 metres at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 12–15 July.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 800 metres, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 800 metres, Heats
Qualification rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest qualified.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' decathlon
The Boys' decathlon at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 12–13 July.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' decathlon, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' hammer throw
The Boys' hammer throw at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 12 and 14 July.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' hammer throw, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' hammer throw, Qualification
Qualification rule: 72.00 m (Q) or at least 12 best (q) performers.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' pole vault
The Boys' pole vault at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 16 July at the Moi International Sports Centre, Nairobi, Kenya.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' triple jump
The Boys' triple jump at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 12 and 14 July.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' triple jump, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' triple jump, Qualification
Qualification rule: 15.30 m (Q) or at least 12 best (q) performers.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 100 metres
The Girls' 100 metres at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 12-13 July.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 100 metres, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 100 metres, Heats
Qualification rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest qualified.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 3000 metres
The Girls' 3000 metres at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 12 July.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 3000 metres, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 400 metres
The Girls' 400 metres at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 12-14 July.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 400 metres, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 400 metres, Heats
Qualification rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest qualified.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' discus throw
The Girls' discus throw at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 12 and 14July.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' discus throw, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' discus throw, Qualification
Qualification rule: 48.00 m (Q) or at least 12 best (q) performers.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' shot put
The Girls' shot put at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 12 July.


2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' shot put, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2017 World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series
The 2017 World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series season is the 39th season of the winged sprint car series in North America. The season began with the DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park on February 17, and will end with the World of Outlaws World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway on November 4. Donny Schatz entered the 2017 season as the defending series champion. Schatz won the series championship for the 9th time in 2017.


2017 World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series, Results and Standings, Driver Points
Below shows the top 100 in final points standings for 2017. 356 drivers in total attempted a World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Cars Series race in 2017.


2017 World's Best Racehorse Rankings
The 2017 World's Best Racehorse Rankings, sponsored by Longines was the 2017 edition of the World's Best Racehorse Rankings. It was an assessment of Thoroughbred racehorses issued by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) on 23 January 2017. It included horses aged three or older which competed in flat races during 2017. It was open to all horses irrespective of where they raced or were trained.


2017 World's Strongest Man
The 2017 World's Strongest Man was the 40th edition of the World's Strongest Man competition. It was held in Gaborone, Botswana from May 20 to 28. The tournament was won by Eddie Hall of the United Kingdom, with Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson of Iceland second and defending champion Brian Shaw of the United States third. Hall announced after the competition that he would not defend his title. Four-time champion Zydrunas Savickas of Lithuania finished in ninth place; this marked the first time in his career that he failed to finish in the top three after qualifying for the final.


2017 World's Strongest Man, Heat Results
A change was made to the qualifying rounds for 2017. Each group participated in five normal events, with the highest scoring competitor at the end of those events being declared the group winner and automatically qualifying for the final. The lowest scoring competitor was eliminated from further competition.


2017 World's Strongest Man, Heat Results
In a throwback to early competitions, where a head to head competition determined the overall champion, the four remaining competitors faced off in an event called Last Man Standing. The event consisted of a hurdle placed in the middle of an octagon with a white square in the middle, in which was placed an Atlas Stone.


2017 World's Strongest Man, Heat Results
The event was conducted in a stepladder format, with the fifth place and fourth place competitors beginning the event. Each competitor took turns lifting the stone from their side of the square and dropping it over the hurdle. The lift had to be started from within the square and each competitor was given ten seconds to lift and drop the stone. Once one of them could not complete the task, he was eliminated from the event and the third place competitor stepped in. The survivor of that matchup took on the second place competitor, with the winner of the event joining the overall group winner in the final.


2017 Wrestling World Cup - Men's Greco-Roman
The 2017 Wrestling World Cup - Men's Greco-Roman was held in Abadan, Iran at the Kowsar Sport Complex On March 16 to March 17, 2017.


2017 Wrestling World Cup - Men's Greco-Roman
Russia won the tournament after a three years absence of titles on the World Cups.


2017 Wrestling World Cup – Men's freestyle
The 2017 Wrestling World Cup - Men's freestyle was the last of a set of three Wrestling World Cups in 2017 which were held in Kermanshah, Iran on 16–17 February 2017.


2017 Wrestling World Cup – Men's freestyle
Initially the United States' team was having trouble entering the country to participate in the tournament due to visa issues. The root of the problem was Iran's counter measures to U.S Muslim Ban blocking the entry of residents from predominantly Muslim countries into United States. However after the requests from both Iranian and American wrestling federations the visa issues got resolved on 6 February 2017, and U.S team was eligible to join the tournament.


2017 Wrexham County Borough Council election
The 2017 Wrexham County Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2017 to elect members of Wrexham County Borough Council in Wales. This was on the same day as other 2017 United Kingdom local elections. The previous all-council election took place in May 2012.


2017 Wrexham County Borough Council election, Background
The Labour Party held power on the council after the 2012 election, but lost it after splitting because of an internal row. Several Labour councillors became independent, allowing the Independent group to take control in alliance with the Conservatives.


2017 Wrexham County Borough Council election, Background
In 2017, contests took place in 44 of the 47 wards.


2017 Wrexham County Borough Council election, Results
The Independents lost three seats in comparison with their position immediately prior to the election, but remained the largest group. The Conservative group gained four seats.


2017 Wrexham County Borough Council election, Ward results
* = denotes councillor elected to this ward at the 2012 elections


2017 Wrexham County Borough Council election, Ward results, Acton (one seat)
Councillor Lowe was elected for the Labour Party in May 2012.


2017 Wrexham County Borough Council election, Ward results, Bryn Cefn (one seat)
Barbara Roxburgh was elected for the Labour Party in May 2012.


2017 Wrexham County Borough Council election, Ward results, Garden Village (one seat)
Councillor Williams was elected for the Labour Party in May 2012.


2017 Wrexham County Borough Council election, Ward results, Grosvenor (one seat)
Wilson was elected for the Labour Party at the previous election in 2012.


2017 Wrexham County Borough Council election, Ward results, Gwersyllt East and South (two seats)
Griffiths and McCann was elected for the Labour Party at the previous election, in 2012.


2017 Wrexham County Borough Council election, Ward results, Llay (two seats)
Terry Boland was elected for the Labour Party at the previous ward election, in May 2012.


2017 Wrocław Open
The 2017 Wrocław Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Wroclaw, Poland between 27 February and 5 March 2017.


2017 Wrocław Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Wrocław Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:


2017 Wrocław Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2017 Wrocław Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a special exemption:


2017 Wrocław Open – Doubles
Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Albano Olivetti were the defending champions but only Olivetti chose to defend his title, partnering Kevin Krawietz. Olivetti lost in the first round to Roman Jebavý and Igor Zelenay.


2017 Wrocław Open – Doubles
Adil Shamasdin and Andrei Vasilevski won the title after defeating Mikhail Elgin and Denys Molchanov 6–3, 3–6, [21–19] in the final.


2017 Wrocław Open – Singles
Marco Chiudinelli was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2017 Wrocław Open – Singles
Jürgen Melzer won the title after defeating Michał Przysiężny 6–4, 6–3 in the final.


2017 Wuhan Open
The 2017 Wuhan Open (also known as the 2017 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts between September 24–30, 2017. It was the 4th edition of the Wuhan Open, and part of the WTA Premier 5 tournaments of the 2017 WTA Tour. The tournament was held at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China.


2017 Wuhan Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the singles main draw:


2017 Wuhan Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:


2017 Wuhan Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:


2017 Wuhan Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2017 Wuhan Open – Doubles
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová were the defending champions, but neither player could participate this year due to injury.


2017 Wuhan Open – Doubles
Chan Yung-jan and Martina Hingis won the title, defeating Shuko Aoyama and Yang Zhaoxuan in the final, 7–6(7–5), 3–6, [10–4].


2017 Wuhan Open – Doubles
As a result of Šafářová's withdrawal, Hingis regained the WTA no. 1 doubles ranking at the conclusion of the tournament.


2017 Wuhan Open – Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2017 Wuhan Open – Singles
Petra Kvitová was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Peng Shuai.


2017 Wuhan Open – Singles
Caroline Garcia won the title, defeating Ashleigh Barty in the final, 6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–4), 6–2.


2017 Wuhan Open – Singles
Garbiñe Muguruza retained the WTA no. 1 singles ranking after Simona Halep and Karolína Plíšková lost in the second round and quarterfinals, respectively.


2017 Wuhan Open – Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.


2017 Wuhan Open – Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2017 Wyoming Cowboys football team
The 2017 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cowboys were coached by fourth-year head coach Craig Bohl and played their home games at War Memorial Stadium. They participated in the Mountain Division of the Mountain West Conference. This was their first year with new defensive coordinator Scottie Hazelton, who was previously an NFL linebackers coach with Jacksonville Jaguars for three seasons and was also Bohl's defensive coordinator for two seasons at North Dakota State. They finished the season 8–5, 5–3 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for second place in the Mountain Division. They were invited to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl where they defeated Central Michigan.


2017 Wyoming Cowboys football team, Previous season
The Cowboys finished the season 8–6 overall (6–2 in Mountain West play). They finished in a three-way tie for the Mountain Division title. After tiebreakers, they represented the Mountain Division in, and hosted, the Mountain West Championship Game where they lost to San Diego State. They were invited to the Poinsettia Bowl where they lost to BYU.