national champions
Country's best team
National champions are the winners of a competition determining supremacy within a country—typically in sports: The team became national champions after winning the final.
The term implies official recognition through a sanctioned tournament or league, distinguishing it from informal claims.
In American college sports especially, national championship status carries significant prestige and is sometimes disputed when multiple organizations crown different winners.
- teamOrganized cooperative unit
- athleteSports competitor
- governmentAuthority over a state
- trophyAward for winning
- trophy caseCabinet for prizes
hall of fame · fans · home crowd · school pride · victory · strategy · award · laureate · league · ranking · subsidy · export · competition · coach · winning streak · diplomacy · scholar · stadium
- college sportscollege athletics, college basketball, college football, college baseball, NCAA
- fencersfencing masters, gold medalists
- wrestlingbody slam, wrestlers, takedown, pinfall, suplex
- championsgold medalists, titleholders, victors, first place, prize winners
- Famous TreesGeneral Sherman, Methuselah, Hyperion, Prometheus, Royal Oak
- swimming figuressynchronized swimmers, gold medalists, sprinters, record holders, stroke specialists
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