world championship
Let an agent treat a world championship as a sanctioned series with separate editions, and resolve which body, which edition and which title any mention refers to.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent treat a world championship as a sanctioned series with separate editions, and resolve which body, which edition and which title any mention refers to.
A recurring competition, sanctioned by the international governing body of a sport, that decides the world champion among competitors eligible under that body rules.
What it is for: Deciding, under agreed rules and a recognised authority, who is best in a sport at the world level for a given period.
It can be hold an edition of it, which is a separate event with its own dates, venue and results; qualify for it and compete in it, under its eligibility rules; win it, which confers a title valid until the next edition; dispute a result, through the federation and, beyond it, sports arbitration.
Distinguishing features
The series and the edition are different things: one recurs, the other happens once
Sanctioned by a recognised governing body, which is what gives the title its standing
Global in eligibility, which is defined by the federation rather than by geography alone
The title is bounded in time and passes at the next edition
What it looks like
An edition looks like any major competition: venues, athletes, officials, spectators and broadcasts. The championship as such is an institution and is not seen, only its editions.
How it is recognised
The title in an event name is claimed freely; the sanctioning federation is what makes it official
Edition year and venue distinguish one edition from another
Parallel titles in the same sport, from rival bodies, are common and look identical from outside
Related models
is a kind of - inherits rules, eligibility, officiating and results
has part - each edition is a separate event with its own date, place and results
sanctioned by - the federation confers the official title
produces - results feed rankings, records and qualification for other events
In practice
Families and kinds
by sport: almost every organised sport runs one
by participant: national teams, clubs, individuals
by category: senior, junior, masters, para, and weight or age classes
by format: single-venue championship, multi-leg series, or tournament with qualifying stages
Identifiers
federation event code federation-specific identifies an edition in the federation calendar
Wikidata item Q followed by digits separate items usually exist for the series and each edition
Standards and regulation
The statutes and technical rules of the governing federation for each sport
World Anti-Doping Code, for sports whose federations are signatories
Olympic Charter provisions where the federation is recognised by the IOC
Failure modes and hazards
Treating the series and an edition as one entity, which merges results across years
Recognising a title from an unsanctioned or rival body as the official one
Reporting a result as final before protests, doping control and appeals conclude
Eligibility disputes over nationality and representation that change results after the event
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Series and edition The recurring institution and its individual occurrences.
Almost every error about championships comes from merging the series with one edition of it.
The series
The sport, the discipline and the recurrence.
Series definition
What the series covers and how often it recurs.
- Which sport and discipline does this championship cover, and how often is it held? definition
- Has the series been renamed, merged or split, and how are old editions counted? provenance
The edition
One occurrence with its dates and venue.
Edition facts
The edition dates, venue and host.
- Which edition is meant, with what dates and venue? definition
- What changed between this edition and the previous one? boundary
Authority and rules Who sanctions it and under what rules.
The word "world" is claimed by many events; only the international federation recognised for the sport confers the title that other bodies and records accept.
Sanctioning body
The federation that confers the title.
Sanctioning authority
The body that sanctions it and its standing.
- Which body sanctions this championship, and what recognition does that body hold? provenance
- Are there rival titles in the same sport, and from whom? boundary
Rules and eligibility
Competition rules and who may take part.
Rules in force
The rulebook edition and the eligibility criteria.
- Which rulebook applies to this edition, and what are the eligibility rules? definition
- How is eligibility for representing a country established? provenance
Participants and qualification Who competes and how they got there.
The field is the product of a qualification system, and knowing the system is what makes the result interpretable.
Qualification
The route into the field.
Qualification system
Quotas, qualifying events and invitations.
- How do competitors qualify for this edition, and what quotas apply? definition
- Which places are allocated by invitation rather than by results? boundary
The field
Who actually competed.
Competitors in the edition
The entered and starting competitors.
- Who was entered and who actually started? provenance
- Whose participation is under dispute or review? boundary
Results and integrity What was decided and whether it stands.
A championship result is provisional for longer than it looks, and the model must say which stage it has reached.
Results
Outcomes, titles and records.
Recorded results
The results and their official source.
- What are the official results, and from which source? provenance
- Which records or rankings did this edition change? measurement
Integrity and appeals
Protests, doping control and arbitration.
Finality of results
The processes that can still change the results.
- Which protests, doping cases or appeals are open against these results? boundary
- What should an agent report about a result that is still under appeal? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should the registry model the series and each edition as separate entries linked by a relation?
- How should competing titles from rival bodies in the same sport be represented without ranking them?
- When is a result final, given protests, doping re-analysis and appeals that can run for years?