subchampionship

plural subchampionships

1. A secondary or subsidiary level of competition within a larger championship structure. It signifies a championship that exists below the main or primary championship.

   In martial arts tournaments, there might be weight class championships. While a significant achievement, winning a specific weight class might be seen as a subchampionship compared to winning an overall “grand champion” title that pits winners from different weight classes against each other.

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   Television officials, by favoring big punchers and boxers untarnished by numerous defeats, undermined the system of gradual skill development in local clubs and severely decreased the admission-paying audience of subchampionship bouts.

   2005, Mitchell K. Hall, Crossroads: American Popular Culture and the Vietnam Generation, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, page 21

   Even so, the team took home the subchampionship, the highest accolade a Colombian team had managed in the event.

   2014, Daniel Grady, Mario Yepes (Superstars of Soccer), Simon and Schuster, page 15

   In addition to chaining three national subchampionships, it won the 1993 national cup and it reached the 1994 LEN Cup Winners' Cup's final, lost to ASP Pescara.

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