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The World Bowling Tour's marquee event, the WTBA World Championships, attracts bowlers from over 50 countries. World Bowling Tour events include all the PBA Tour major tournaments. As a stepladder tournament, the season-ending World Bowling Tour Finals features the top three men, and top three women in the World Bowling Tour points standings.
International Bowling Federation (IBF), formerly known as the Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ) from 1952 to April 2014 [1] and as World Bowling (WB) from April 2014 to November 2020, [2] is the world governing body of nine-pin and ten-pin bowling.
The World Tenpin Bowling Association is the world governing body of ten-pin bowling, and one of the two sections of the International Bowling Federation. They promulgate and enforce playing rules and equipment specifications, conduct world championships , oversee zone championships, and grant approval for other international tournaments.
The first World Championships was in 1954, held in Helsinki where 58 men from 7 federations took part. The next three World Championships (1955, 1958, and 1960) only had men participating. Women first participated in the 1963 World Championships in Mexico City. From 1963 to 2003, the World Championships were conducted every fourth year.
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The championships was conducted twice by World Bowling who owns the World Championships. Initially designed every fourth year, participants are two men and two women from participating nations. The first edition was held in Limassol, Cyprus in 2012, with 71 male and 57 female athletes from 40 different federations competing.
World Bowls is an international sport federation of Bowls. [1] [2] World Bowls administers bowls around the world and is responsible for the sports premier event, the World Bowls Championship which is held every four years. [3] The organisation was founded in 2001 in an attempt to unite some of the multiple bowls bodies running the sport. [4]
One of two World Championship indoor events. Organised by the PBA/World Bowls Tour. First held in 1979, the World Indoor Bowls Championships for men and women are held every year. There are currently five events, the open singles, the open pairs, the women's singles, the mixed pairs and open under-25 singles.