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2021 Pacific typhoon season
The 2021 Pacific typhoon season was a below-normal season in the western North Pacific with 22 named storms, ending with Super Typhoon Rai, which struck the Philippines in December.
2021 Pakistan Super League
2021 Pakistan Super League (HBL PSL 6), sixth edition of Pakistan's T20 franchise league. Postponed after 14 matches by COVID-19, resumed in Abu Dhabi; Multan Sultans won their maiden title, beating Peshawar Zalmi by 47 runs in the final.
2021 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2021 PDC World Darts Championship (William Hill World Darts Championship) ran 15 December 2020 to 3 January 2021 at Alexandra Palace. Gerwyn Price beat Gary Anderson 7-3 to become the first Welsh champion and world number one.
2021 Peruvian general election
2021 Peruvian general election (Elecciones Generales 2021): bicentennial presidential, congressional, and Andean Parliament elections. First round 11 April, run-off 6 June 2021; Pedro Castillo beat Keiko Fujimori 50.126% to 49.874%, proclaimed 19 July after fraud appeals.
2021 PGA Championship
The 2021 PGA Championship, 103rd edition of the major, was won by Phil Mickelson at 282 (−6) on the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, making him golf's oldest major champion at 50 years, 11 months, 7 days.
2021 PH27
2021 PH27 is a near-Earth asteroid orbiting inside Earth's orbit, completing a revolution around the Sun in about 113 days, the shortest period known for any asteroid.
2021 Portugal Tri-Nation Series
2021 Portugal Tri-Nation Series, also called Portugal T20I Tri-Series: men's T20I cricket tournament, 19–22 August 2021 at Gucherre Cricket Ground, Albergaria; Portugal beat Malta and Gibraltar, winning all four matches; Azhar Andari scored 276 runs.
2021 Premier League Darts
2021 Unibet Premier League Darts, the PDC's seventeenth edition, a delayed ten-player round-robin held behind closed doors at Milton Keynes's Marshall Arena; Jonny Clayton won on debut, with two nine-dart finishes thrown.
2021 Rally de Portugal
2021 Vodafone Rally de Portugal, 54th edition, 20-23 May 2021, WRC round 4. Won by Elfyn Evans/Scott Martin, Toyota Yaris WRC, 28.3s ahead of Sordo; Ogier third; Tänak and Neuville retired.
2021 Rally Finland
2021 Rally Finland (Secto Automotive Rally Finland), 70th running, WRC round 10, September 30-October 3, 2021 in Jyväskylä; first October date after COVID rescheduling; won by Elfyn Evans/Scott Martin, Toyota.
2021 Rome municipal election
2021 Rome municipal election (elezioni comunali di Roma 2021): two-round vote, 3–4 and 17–18 October 2021. Centre-left Democrat Roberto Gualtieri beat centre-right Enrico Michetti 60.15% to 39.85% in the run-off; incumbent M5S mayor Virginia Raggi finished fourth and missed the run-off.
2021 Rugby League World Cup
2021 Rugby League World Cup (RLWC2021): England-hosted rugby league championship postponed to Oct-Nov 2022 after Australia and NZ withdrew over COVID-19; Australia won men's and women's titles, England the wheelchair, record 473,606 crowd over 61 matches.
2021 Russian legislative election
The 2021 Russian legislative election (17–19 September) filled all 450 State Duma seats; United Russia officially won 49.82% and 326 seats amid fraud allegations, no OSCE observation, and new electronic voting.
2021 Ryder Cup
The 2021 Ryder Cup, the 43rd edition, was won by the United States 19-9 over Europe at Whistling Straits, Kohler, Wisconsin, September 24-26, 2021, after a one-year pandemic postponement; Dustin Johnson went 5-0-0.
2021 Samoan general election
The 2021 Samoan general election, held on 9 April 2021, ended HRPP rule when Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa of FAST became Samoa's first woman prime minister.
2021 Scottish Parliament election
The 2021 Scottish Parliament election (6 May 2021) elected 129 MSPs: SNP 64 seats, one short of a majority, Conservatives 31, Labour 22, Greens 8, Liberal Democrats 4; the SNP formed a minority government and signed a cooperation agreement with the Greens in August 2021.
2021 Seattle mayoral election
2021 Seattle mayoral election, November 2, 2021 all-mail race in which Bruce Harrell defeated M. Lorena González 58.56% to 41.15% for the open seat left by Jenny Durkan; turnout 54.57%.
2021 Senedd election
2021 Senedd election (Welsh Parliament election, 6 May 2021): sixth devolved Welsh election; Labour won 30 of 60 seats, Conservatives 16, Plaid Cymru 13; turnout 46.5%; first Senedd election with votes for 16-17 year olds, held under AMS during COVID-19.
2021 Six Nations Championship
2021 Six Nations Championship, won by Wales under Wayne Pivac; Triple Crown via 40-24 over England, Grand Slam denied by France 32-30, title sealed when France lost 23-27 to Scotland on 26 March after a Covid postponement.
2021 Snooker Shoot Out
The 2021 Snooker Shoot Out was a ranking snooker tournament at Milton Keynes, won by Ryan Day, who beat Mark Selby 67–24 in the final.
2021 South African municipal elections
The 2021 South African municipal elections, held 1 November 2021, were the country's sixth local polls; record-low turnout, ANC below 50 percent, and 70 coalition councils marked a shift to coalition politics.
2021 Stanley Cup Finals
2021 Stanley Cup Finals: Tampa Bay Lightning beat Montreal Canadiens 4-1 (June 28-July 7, 2021) for a second straight Cup; Vasilevskiy won the Conn Smythe; Colton scored the Game 5 clincher.
2021 Stanley Cup playoffs
2021 Stanley Cup playoffs, NHL postseason under COVID realignment, May 15 to July 7, 2021; 16 teams in four divisions, best-of-7; Tampa Bay Lightning beat Montreal Canadiens 4-1 for second straight Cup; Vasilevskiy won Conn Smythe.
2021 Sudirman Cup
2021 Sudirman Cup (TotalEnergies BWF Sudirman Cup Finals 2021), 17th edition of badminton's world mixed-team championship, held 26 September-3 October 2021 in Vantaa, Finland; China beat Japan 3-1 in the final for a 12th title.
2021 Suez Canal obstruction
The 2021 Suez Canal obstruction was a six-day blockage of the canal by the container ship Ever Given, which ran aground on 23 March 2021.
2021 Summer World University Games (2021年夏季世界大学生运动会)
The 2021 Summer World University Games (2021年夏季世界大学生运动会), the Chengdu 2021 FISU World University Games, were postponed twice for COVID-19 and held 28 July to 8 August 2023 in Chengdu, China, with 6,500+ athletes in 269 medal events.
2021 Swiss referendums
The 2021 Swiss referendums were four federal votes held across 2021 deciding 11 proposals, from a facial-covering ban to same-sex marriage, which passed with 64.1%.
2021 Syrian presidential election
2021 Syrian presidential election, held 26 May 2021; Bashar al-Assad re-elected to a fourth term with 95.1% of the vote. Three court-approved candidates, no independent monitors, voting limited to government-held areas, rejected under UNSCR 2254.
2021 Taliban offensive
The 2021 Taliban offensive, also called the Taliban summer offensive, was the Taliban's campaign against the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan that captured Kabul on 15 August 2021, toppling the government as US troops withdrew under the Doha Agreement.
2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election
2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, held 6 April 2021: DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance under M. K. Stalin won 159 of 234 seats, ending AIADMK rule; polling conducted during COVID-19 second wave.