Sentence examples for championships started from inspiring English sources

ESTORIL, Portugal, Oct. 23 - The world bridge championships started here Sunday.

He was loving it all, particularly when the race wins and the championships started coming.

Pistorius, the first amputee to compete in the track and field world championships, started slowly as Femi Ogunode in Lane 7 quickly — very quickly — took off.

SHANGHAI, Sept. 30 — This year's world bridge championships started here Sunday with American-versus-American play the order of the day.

Before the world championships started Ennis had said that the fact she was defending champion only added to the pressure she felt.

Two collegiate records were set yesterday as the National Collegiate Athletic Association indoor championships started at the University of Arkansas's new $8 million track facility in Fayetteville.

• The world bridge championships start in Philadelphia on Friday and run through Oct. 16.

They won three consecutive Class C state championships starting in 1998.

He captured 23 national championships, starting with the Men's Board-a-Match Teams in 1955.

British gymnastics, whose squads compete at the European Championships starting in Sofia on Wednesday, certainly hope so.

Even so, with the world championships starting in less than four weeks, the news is hardly ideal.