These are usually held only once or twice per season at championships or a major regional contest.

Internationally, in 2005 two major contests took place in Europe.

Each year, a few major contests are organized to give away tickets to the big game.

The Spaniard was six years over the limit for the other major individual contest, best young rider.

Political analysts said that shifting so many major contests to the same day could have unexpected results.

Before the Cliburn, he had taken first or second prize in other major contests.

The 2009 programme was planned with ten major contests on schedule.

Nine southern states turned the 1988 event into a major regional contest.

He is the first Pakistani to win that major Indian contest.

He went on to win major contests shooting live pigeons, a more difficult feat.