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2026 Wigan Warriors season
The 2026 Wigan Warriors season was the rugby league club's campaign in which Wigan won the Challenge Cup for a record 22nd time, beating Hull KR 40-10 at Wembley.
2026 William & Mary Tribe football team
2026 William & Mary Tribe football team: Tribe's inaugural Patriot League season under Mike London after 19 CAA seasons; opened with a 35-32 comeback at No. 8/7 Villanova, reached No. 17/19 national rankings, and stood 3-4 through October 10, 2026.
2026 William Jones Cup
Held at Xinzhuang Gymnasium, the 2026 William Jones Cup was Taiwan's 45th annual international invitational basketball tournament, defined by a new host-guarantee format.
2026 Wimbledon Championships
2026 Wimbledon Championships, 29 June-12 July 2026 at the All England Club, London. Jannik Sinner defended the men's singles title beating Alexander Zverev 6-7(7), 7-6(2), 6-3, 6-4; video review debuted; prize money £64.2 million.
2026 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' singles
2026 Wimbledon boys' singles, junior event 4-12 July 2026 on grass; American qualifier Jordan Lee, 16, beat Cruz Hewitt 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the final, the first qualifier to win a junior major since Noah Rubin in 2014.
2026 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed doubles
2026 Wimbledon mixed doubles, won July 9, 2026 by second seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Jelena Ostapenko, who beat Storm Hunter and Marc Polmans 4-6, 7-5, 6-2; Arevalo's first Wimbledon title and Ostapenko's singles-doubles-mixed set.
2026 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles
2026 Wimbledon women's singles: Linda Noskova (seed 9) beat Karolina Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 in an all-Czech final on 11 July 2026 for her first Grand Slam; defending champion Swiatek lost to Eala in round 3.
2026 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season
2026 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season: CFL team's campaign at Princess Auto Stadium under Mike O'Shea and Kyle Walters (extended through 2028), with Tommy Condell as OC, Zach Collaros and acquired QB Dru Brown, a 6-6 mid-season record, and a West Division playoff race.
2026 WNBA All-Star Game
2026 WNBA All-Star Game (AT&T WNBA All-Star Game 2026), 22nd edition, played July 25, 2026 at Chicago's United Center; Team Spoon beat Team Coop 129-122, Jonquel Jones MVP, record 19,783 crowd.
2026 WNBA draft
2026 WNBA Draft, held April 13, 2026 at The Shed, Manhattan; Dallas Wings took Azzi Fudd No. 1. Three rounds, 45 picks, with expansion teams Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire picking sixth and seventh.
2026 WNBA playoffs
2026 WNBA playoffs: top eight teams, best-of-three first round, best-of-five semifinals, best-of-seven Finals. No. 8 New York upset No. 1 Minnesota; Golden State Valkyries face Atlanta Dream in a first-time champion Finals.
2026 WNBA season
2026 WNBA season: the league's 30th, began May 8, 2026, with 44 games, expansion Portland Fire and Toronto Tempo, and a new CBA. Playoffs ended with Golden State Valkyries vs Atlanta Dream in the Finals.
2026 Women's African Nations Volleyball Championship
2026 CAVB Women's African Nations Championship, held in Nairobi, Kenya, August-September 2026. Egypt beat Kenya 3-0 in the final for a fourth African title, qualifying for LA28; Kenya and Cameroon took the 2027 World Cup places.
2026 Women's European Volleyball Championship
CEV Trendyol EuroVolley 2026 Women: 24-team European volleyball championship, 21 Aug-6 Sep 2026, hosted by Türkiye, Czechia, Azerbaijan, Sweden; Türkiye beat Italy 3-2 in Istanbul to retain the title and qualify for LA28.
2026 Women's European Volleyball League
2026 CEV Women's European Volleyball League: revamped second-tier CEV national-team competition, first to qualify teams for EuroVolley 2028; 26 federations, Final Six, top four advance; Sweden reached the final.
2026 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship
2026 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship (NORCECA Women's Continental Championship 2026), held August 21-29, 2026 in Santo Domingo; Canada won its first title, beating USA 3-2, and qualified for LA28.
2026 Women's Pro Baseball League season
The 2026 Women's Pro Baseball League season was the WPBL's inaugural season, played by four teams in Springfield, Illinois, with the Los Angeles Queens winning the first championship.
2026 Women's South American Volleyball Championship
2026 CSV Women's South American Volleyball Championship (Campeonato Sul-Americano de Voleibol Feminino), held September 8-13, 2026 at the Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro. Brazil beat Argentina 3-0 for a 24th title and 16th straight, earning the LA28 Olympic berth; Colombia took bronze and all three qualified for the 2027 World Cup.
2026 World Baseball Classic championship
2026 World Baseball Classic championship: Venezuela beat the USA 3-2 on March 17, 2026 at loanDepot Park, Miami, for its first WBC title; MVP Maikel García; record 1,619,839 attendance and 10.78 million US viewers.
2026 World Baseball Classic rosters
2026 World Baseball Classic rosters: 30-man squads for 20 federations announced February 5, 2026, with 78 MLB All-Stars, all four reigning MVP/Cy Young winners, and Venezuela beating Team USA 3-2 in the final.
2026 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
2026 IIHF World Junior Championship (World Juniors), 50th under-20 ice hockey tournament, Dec 26 2025–Jan 5 2026 in Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sweden beat Czechia 4-2 for gold; Canada took bronze; 29 games, 10 teams, $71.5 million economic impact.
2026 World Rugby Nations Cup
2026 World Rugby Nations Cup, inaugural edition of World Rugby's second-tier men's international rugby tournament; 12 RWC 2027 qualifiers in two pools, round-robin across July and November 2026 windows, opening match Uruguay v Georgia in Montevideo.
2026 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup
Asahi Super Dry Pacific Nations Cup 2026, 17th edition, four-team tournament in Japan, 12-19 September 2026. Japan beat Fiji 20-15 in the Tokyo final; Canada took third; Fiji were defending two-time champions.
2026 World Team Table Tennis Championships
2026 World Team Table Tennis Championships (WTTTC Finals London 2026): ITTF centenary world team event, London, 28 April-10 May 2026, 64 men's and 64 women's teams at Copper Box Arena and OVO Arena Wembley; China won both titles.
2026 WTA 125 tournaments
2026 WTA 125 tournaments: second-tier WTA women's tennis events between the ITF World Tennis Tour and WTA 250/500/1000; over 60 events from Canberra in January to Limoges in December.
2026 WTA Finals
The 2026 WTA Finals is the season-ending tennis championship for the top eight singles players and doubles teams, held November 8-15, 2026 in Indian Wells, California.
2026 WTA Tour
2026 WTA Tour, the Women's Tennis Association's professional women's tennis season (WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz), January 5 to WTA Finals Indian Wells; Elena Rybakina became world No.1, Memphis returned, and mandatory gene testing was introduced.
2026 WXV
2026 WXV, the WXV Global Series 2026, is World Rugby's restructured women's 15s competition: top 12 teams in a home-and-away series plus a six-team Challenger in Hong Kong, 13–26 September 2026, won by Fiji.
2026 WXV Global Series
WXV Global Series 2026: first edition of World Rugby's revamped women's rugby union international series, 13 September to 31 October 2026, with the top 12 teams in home-and-away tests and a six-team Challenger in Hong Kong, feeding RWC 2029 qualification.
2026 Wyoming Cowboys football team
2026 Wyoming Cowboys football team, University of Wyoming Mountain West FBS squad under third-year coach Jay Sawvel; 3-3 (2-1 MWC) through six games behind transfer QB Tyler Hughes and new coordinator Christian Taylor.