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Horse racing

* Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing *
Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) In the United States, the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, commonly known as the Triple Crown, is a series of horse races for three-year-old Thoroughbreds, consisting of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes. The three ...
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Triple Crown Trophy The Triple Crown Trophy is a silver trophy awarded to the winner of the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. The Triple Crown trophy has come to represent the pinnacle achievement in horseracing. Commissioned in 1950 by the Thorou ...
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Triple Crown Productions Triple Crown Productions was an ad hoc production company that produced the series of Triple Crown races for thoroughbred horses. History Formation In 1985, a group of people wanted to increase the stature of the Triple Crown on television. Oth ...
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Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing The Canadian Triple Crown (branded as the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, OLG Canadian Triple Crown for sponsorship reasons) is a series of three Thoroughbred horse races run annually in Canada which is open to three-year-old horses foaled ...
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Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers The Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers consists of these horse races: # Cane Pace, held at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey #Messenger Stakes, held at Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, New York # Little Brown Jug, held at ...
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Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters Triple Crown is a combination of three major races in harness racing. The term ''Triple Crown'' is mostly used in the US, but also in France. The term is also used in thoroughbred racing. United States The Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trott ...
* Triple Crown of Hurdling


Motor racing

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Triple Crown of Motorsport The Triple Crown of Motorsport is an unofficial motorsport achievement, often regarded as winning three of the most prestigious motor races in the world in one's career: * the Indianapolis 500 (first held in 1911) * the 24 Hours of Le Mans (first ...
* Triple Crown of Endurance racing *
Triple Crown (IndyCar) The Triple Crown is a "championship" consisting of three 500 Mile Super Speedway races on the IndyCar calendar. Traditionally, the crown jewel races were events at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway, and a third race at either Ontario Motor ...


Professional wrestling

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Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship The is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the Japanese All Japan Pro Wrestling promotion. History The championship was established after the unification of its then-flagship title the PWF World Heavyweight Championsh ...
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Triple Crown (professional wrestling) The Triple Crown is an accomplishment recognized by various professional wrestling promotions. It is a distinction made to a professional wrestler who has won three of a single promotion's championships; specifically, a world championship, anothe ...
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Other endeavors

* Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing *
Triple Crown (baseball) In baseball, a player earns a Triple Crown when he leads a league in three specific Baseball statistics, statistical categories in the same season. The term "Triple Crown" generally refers to the batter (baseball), batting achievement of leading a ...
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Triple Crown (basketball) The Triple Crown is a term in European professional club basketball that refers to a club winning their country's top-tier level national domestic league, primary national domestic cup, and the top-tier level European-wide continental competition ...
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Triple Crown of Boxing In boxing, a triple champion is a boxer who has won world titles in three weight classes. For most of the 20th century it was a remarkable and rare achievement accomplished by only a handful of fighters. Beginning in the 1970s, triple champions h ...
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Triple Crown of Brazilian Football The Triple Crown of Brazilian Football ( pt, Tríplice coroa do futebol brasileiro) is an unofficial title given to the club that won the three most important competitions of the Brazilian football in the same year: Achievers Santos Futebol Cl ...
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Triple crown of bridge The triple crown of bridge is a career achievement in duplicate bridge, namely winning the three marquee Open world championships conducted by the World Bridge Federation. The Bermuda Bowl is now contested by national teams in odd-number years. Th ...
* Triple Crown of Cycling *
Triple Crown (golf) The Triple Crown of Golf is the winning of three major golf championships in the same year. This feat has been accomplished only twice in modern golf history: * In 1953, Ben Hogan won the Masters, the U.S. Open, and The Open Championship, which ...
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Triple Crown of Hiking The Triple Crown of Hiking informally refers to the three major U.S. long-distance hiking trails: * Appalachian Trail – , between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine and traversing North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Wes ...
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Triple Crown (poker) In poker, the term Triple Crown is used in three ways: *One is for winning three different events in three days at the same venue. *Another is for winning the WSOP Main Event, The Poker Players Championship, and WSOP Player of the Year in the same ...
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Triple Crown (rugby union) In rugby union, the Triple Crown is an honour contested annually by the "Home Nations" – i.e. Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales who compete within the larger Six Nations Championship. If any one of these teams defeat all three other team ...
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Triple Crown (snooker) The Triple Crown refers to winning the three most prestigious and historic tournaments in professional snooker: the World Snooker Championship, World Championship, the UK Championship and the invitational Masters (snooker), Masters. Players who ...
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Triple Crown (tennis) Triple Crown may refer to: Sports Horse racing * Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing * Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) ** Triple Crown Trophy ** Triple Crown Productions * Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing * Tri ...
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Triple Crown of Surfing The Triple Crown of Surfing is a Hawaii a specialty series of professional surfing events that have been held annually since 1983 on the North Shore of Oahu, a coastline whose winter swells can reach in height. The Triple Crown was founded by f ...
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Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming External links Channel Swimming AssociationChannel Swimming & Piloting FederationCatalina Channel Swimming FederationNew York Open Water
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Triple Crown Tournament The Triple Crown Tournament was a cricket competition staged annually from 1993 to 2001 between the Home Nations; that is to say Ireland, Scotland, Wales and a team representing England. England were not represented by the professional English cr ...
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Nordic skiing Nordic skiing encompasses the various types of skiing in which the toe of the ski boot is fixed to the binding in a manner that allows the heel to rise off the ski, unlike alpine skiing, where the boot is attached to the ski from toe to heel. ...
* Triple Crown Tour, of
USA Ultimate USA Ultimate is a not-for-profit organization that serves as the governing body of the sport of ultimate (also known as ''ultimate Frisbee'') in the United States. It was founded in 1979 as the Ultimate Players Association, but rebranded itself ...
* Triple Crown of Canoe Racing


Other uses

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Chiappa Triple Crown The Chiappa Triple Crown is a family of Italian made triple-barrel, break-action shotguns, chambered in 12-gauge, 20-gauge, 28-gauge, and .410-bore. The barrels have a triangular arrangement with one on top and two below. This gives the Triple Cr ...
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Coat of arms of the Drapers Company The Worshipful Company of Drapers, informally known as the Drapers' Company and formally known as The Master and Wardens and Brethren and Sisters of the Guild or Fraternity of the Blessed Mary the Virgin of the Mystery of Drapers of the City of ...
, 1439 emblem with three triple crowns *
Papal tiara The papal tiara is a crown (headgear), crown that was worn by popes of the Catholic Church from as early as the 8th century to the mid-20th. It was last used by Pope Paul VI in 1963 and only at the beginning of his reign. The name "tiara" refe ...
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Triple accreditation Triple is used in several contexts to mean "threefold" or a " treble": Sports * Triple (baseball), a three-base hit * A basketball three-point field goal * A figure skating jump with three rotations * In bowling terms, three strikes in a row * ...
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Triple Crown of Acting The Triple Crown of Acting is a term used in the American entertainment industry to describe actors who have won a competitive Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award in the acting categories, the highest accolades recognized in American film, t ...
, for winners of an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award in acting categories * Triple Crown (UK entertainment), for winners of a British Academy Film Award, a British Academy Television Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award in acting categories *
Triple Crown Records Triple Crown Records is a New York-based rock music record label created in 1997 by Fred Feldman. The label features such artists as The Receiving End of Sirens and The Dear Hunter, ''Artists Page'' and launched the career of Brand New in 2001.> ...
, a record label * Triple Crown of National High Adventure award, associated with
High Adventure Bases of the Boy Scouts of America High Adventure Bases of the Boy Scouts of America are outdoor recreation facilities located in several locales in North America operated by the Boy Scouts of America at the organization's national level. Each facility offers wilderness programs and ...
* Triple Crown of Science Fiction, Nebula Award, Hugo Award, and Philip K. Dick Award won by
William Gibson William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as ''cyberpunk''. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, hi ...


See also

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Grand Tour (cycling) In road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour is one of the three major European professional cycling stage races: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, and Vuelta a España. Collectively they are termed the ''Grand Tours'', and all three races are similar in ...
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Grand Slam (golf) The Grand Slam in professional golf is winning all of golf's major championships in the same calendar year. Variations include a Career Grand Slam: winning all of the major tournaments within a player's career and the Tiger Slam: winning four con ...
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Grand Slam (tennis) The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year, also referred to as the "Calendar-year Grand Slam" or "Calendar Slam". In doubles, a team may accomplish the Grand Slam pl ...
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Three Crowns Three Crowns ( sv, tre kronor, links=no) is the national emblem of Sweden, present in the coat of arms of Sweden, and composed of three yellow or Gilding, gilded coronets ordered two above and one below, placed on a blue background. Similar de ...
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Three Kingdoms (disambiguation) The Three Kingdoms period (220–280) was the tripartite division of China among the states of Wei, Shu, and Wu. Three Kingdoms may also refer to: History and geography * Three Kingdoms of Korea, (57 BC – 668), a period in Korean history * L ...
* Treble (association football) * Treble (handball), for example
FC Barcelona Handbol Futbol Club Barcelona Handbol is a Spanish handball team based in Barcelona, Catalonia. It is a part of the FC Barcelona multi sports club, and was founded on 29 November 1942. The club competes domestically in the Liga ASOBAL and in the Eu ...
* Triple Gold Club in ice hockey *
Winston Million Winston may refer to: Places Antarctica * Winston Glacier Australia * Winston, Queensland, a suburb of the City of Mount Isa United Kingdom * Winston, County Durham, England, a village * Winston, Suffolk, England, a village and civil pari ...
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