WThe 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships will be held in Kitakyushu, Japan from October 18–24, 2021. The competition will take place at the Kitakyushu City General Gymnasium. It will be the third time that Japan has hosted the event, following the 1995 and 2011 editions.
WThe 2020 World U20 Championships in Athletics, also known as the World Junior Championships, are an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors, taking place from 17 to 22 August 2021 at the Nyayo Sports Complex in Nairobi, Kenya.
WThe 2022 World Athletics Championships, the eighteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, are scheduled to be held in 2022 in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Originally scheduled to be held from August 6–15, 2021, after the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics, World Athletics raised the possibility of changing the date of the 2021 Championships, including the possibility of moving into 2022. On April 8, 2020, World Athletics announced that the event would take place from July 15–24, 2022.
WThe World Chess Championship 2021 will be a chess match between the reigning World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen, and a challenger to determine the World Chess Champion. It will be held under the auspices of FIDE, the world chess federation, and played in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between 24 November and 16 December 2021. The match was originally scheduled for the latter half of 2020, but was postponed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
WThe 41st Curtis Cup Match was originally scheduled to be played 12–14 June 2020 at Conwy Golf Club near Conwy, Wales. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The R&A and USGA announced that the event would be postponed until 2021.
WThe 2021 FINA Diving World Cup was scheduled to take place in Tokyo, Japan, from 21 to 26 April 2020. It was to be the 22nd edition of the biennial diving competition, and the first time this specific FINA event was to be held in Tokyo and Japan. The venue was to be the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, and the final qualifying diving event for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
WThe 108th Grey Cup will be played to decide the Canadian Football League (CFL) championship for the 2021 season. The game is scheduled to be played on November 21, 2021 at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, Ontario. It will be the 11th time that Hamilton has hosted the Grey Cup, with the most recent coming in 1996, and the first to be played at the new Tim Hortons Field.
WThe 2021 Men's EuroHockey Championship will be the eighteenth edition of the EuroHockey Nations Championship, the biennial international men's field hockey championship of Europe organised by the European Hockey Federation.
WThe 2021 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship will be the fifteenth edition of the Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, the biennial international women's field hockey championship of Europe organised by the European Hockey Federation.
WThe 2021 Masters Tournament will be the 85th edition of the Masters Tournament and the first of golf's four major championships to be held in 2021. It will be held from April 8–11 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.
WThe 2021 Open Championship, officially the 149th Open Championship, is a golf tournament that is scheduled to be played 15–18 July 2021 at Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England. It was originally scheduled for 16–19 July 2020 but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be the 15th Open Championship played at Royal St George's, and the first since Darren Clarke won in 2011.
WThe PBA Season 46 draft will be the 36th edition of the PBA draft. The league will determine the drafting order based on the performance of the member teams from the 2020 season, with the worst team picking first. For this draft, the PBA decided to forgo the seven-game requirement to play in the PBA Developmental League (D-League).
WThe 2021 PGA Championship is the forthcoming 103rd PGA Championship, scheduled for May 20–23 at Kiawah Island Golf Resort's Ocean Course in Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
WThe 2021 Players Championship will be the 48th Players Championship, to be held March 11–14 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, and the 40th edition held at the Stadium Course.
WThe 2021 Rugby League World Cup will be the sixteenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup and will be held in England between 23 October 2021 and 27 November 2021. The tournament will include 16 teams, an increase of two from the last two tournaments.
WThe 2023 Rugby World Cup, to be hosted by France, is scheduled to be the tenth men's Rugby World Cup, taking place in the year of the 200th anniversary of the 'invention' of the sport by William Webb Ellis from 8 September to 28 October. The final will take place at the Stade de France. Originally, the tournament was scheduled to last the typical 6 weeks, however, on 23 February 2021 World Rugby announced an additional week to the tournament to accommodate the additional rest day requirement for player-welfare. This means that teams will have a minimum of five rest days for all matches, optimising recovery and preparation for the tournament. It will be the second time France has hosted the Rugby World Cup, having previously hosted the 2007 event. It precedes the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and will take place less than a year before the Olympic opening ceremony.
WThe 43rd Ryder Cup Matches will be held in the United States on September 24 to 26, 2021, on the Straits course at Whistling Straits, Haven, Wisconsin. Team Europe is the reigning cup holder after its 17½–10½ victory over Team USA in 2018 at Le Golf National.
WThe 44th Ryder Cup Matches will be held in Italy in autumn 2023 at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Guidonia Montecelio near Rome. The biennial event was originally scheduled from 30 September to 2 October 2022, before the 43rd matches were postponed into 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
WSuper Bowl LVI will be the 56th Super Bowl and the 52nd modern-era National Football League (NFL) championship. The game will decide the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2021 NFL season. The game is scheduled to be played in February 2022, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. It will be the eighth Super Bowl hosted by the Greater Los Angeles Area, with the last one being Super Bowl XXVII in 1993, held at the Rose Bowl, and the first in the city of Inglewood. The game will be televised nationally by NBC.
WSuper Bowl LIX, the 59th Super Bowl and the 55th modern-era National Football League (NFL) championship game, will decide the league champion for the 2024 NFL season. The game is scheduled to be played in February 2025, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. It will be the eighth Super Bowl played in the Superdome, and the eleventh in the city of New Orleans, the most recent being Super Bowl XLVII in 2013.
WThe 2021 Thomas & Uber Cup will be the 31st edition of the Thomas Cup and the 28th edition of the Uber Cup, the biennial international badminton championship contested by the men and women's national teams of the member associations of Badminton World Federation (BWF). The tournament will be hosted by Aarhus, Denmark.
WThe 2021 UCI Road World Championships is the 94th edition of the UCI Road World Championships, the annual world championships for road bicycle racing. It will take place between 19 and 26 September 2021 in the Flanders region of Belgium. The region was chosen in light of the 100 year anniversary of the world championships with the UCI opting for a return to one of the original founding countries.
WThe 2021 United States Open Championship will be the 121st U.S. Open, scheduled to be played June 17–20 at Torrey Pines in San Diego, California.