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The World Championship of Public Speaking began in 1938 and has grown to over 50,000 participants in 149 countries in 2022. In its early decades, it was referred to as the Toastmasters Speech Contest. [1] By the 1990s, there were about 10,000 participants every year. [2] The contest's popularity grew rapidly in the 2000s. [3]
Vasudevan started his career in 1995 as a software engineer and joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting Services as a principal consultant. He left PwC in 2004 to start his own company and founded Thought Expressions in 2008 to help people become speakers, leaders, and influencers. [8]
Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that helps people develop communication, public speaking, and leadership skills. It operates clubs worldwide and runs an annual public speaking championship, as well as other programs and awards.
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
The Rugby World Cup is an international rugby union competition established in 1987. South Africa is the most successful team with four titles, followed by New Zealand with three. The Webb Ellis Cup is the trophy awarded to the winners of the final.
The FIFA World Cup is an international football competition contested by men's national teams every four years since 1930. See the list of final matches, winners, runners-up, venues, locations, attendance and references.
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason. The New York Yankees have won 27 World Series titles, the most by any team, while the Toronto Blue Jays are the only team from outside the United States to win the Series.
Find out the names, nationalities, teams, and records of all the drivers who have won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship since 1950. See the latest champion, Max Verstappen, and the previous winners, such as Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, and Juan Manuel Fangio.