Editing 2003 (section)

=== Sports ===
{{Main|2003 in sports}}
The [[England national rugby union team]] won the [[2003 Rugby World Cup]], making them the first [[Northern Hemisphere]] team to do so.<ref name=":162" />{{Rp|page=534}} Australia won the [[2003 Cricket World Cup]], coming out victorious in every match they played, while Kenya had upset victories that took them to the semi-finals.<ref name=":162" />{{Rp|page=535}} In tennis, players [[Roger Federer]], [[Andy Roddick]], and [[Juan Carlos Ferrero]] won their first [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slams]] in 2003,<ref name=":14">{{Cite web |title=2003 World Sports Highlights |url=https://www.topendsports.com/world/timeline/2003.htm |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=Top End Sports |archive-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014060453/https://www.topendsports.com/world/timeline/2003.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":162" />{{Rp|page=538}} while [[Martina Navratilova]] tied with the record of twenty [[Wimbledon Championships|Wimbledon]] titles set by [[Billie Jean King]].<ref name=":162" />{{Rp|page=539}} [[Lennox Lewis]] successfully [[Lennox Lewis vs. Vitali Klitschko|defended his status]] as the [[heavyweight boxing champion]] against [[Vitali Klitschko]].<ref name=":162" />{{Rp|page=540}}

The transfer of footballer [[David Beckham]] from [[Manchester United F.C.]] to [[Real Madrid CF]] for £17.25 million was widely publicized. The [[UEFA Euro 2004]] qualifications took place in 2003, where Turkey's defeat in a game against Latvia came as an upset after Turkey had been semi-finalists in the [[2002 FIFA World Cup]].<ref name=":162" />{{Rp|page=533}} Other major upsets took place in golf when [[Ben Curtis (golfer)|Ben Curtis]] defeated some of the sport's top players in his first major competition at the [[2003 Open Championship]],<ref name=":14" /><ref name=":162" />{{Rp|page=539}} and in [[Major League Baseball]] when the [[Florida Marlins]] defeated the [[New York Yankees]] in the [[2003 World Series]].<ref name=":162" />{{Rp|page=541}}

The [[2003 World Championships in Athletics]] saw [[Hicham El Guerrouj]] become the fourth man to win four successive world track titles and [[Carolina Klüft]] become the first woman in seven years to score more than 7,000 points in the [[heptathlon]]. Athletics was plagued with the discovery of [[Tetrahydrogestrinone|THG]] steroids, which the United States accused the [[Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative]] of providing to athletes.<ref name=":162" />{{Rp|page=537}} [[Michael Schumacher]] remained the dominant driver in the [[2003 Formula One World Championship]], winning 11 of 17 races and claiming his sixth championship.<ref name=":162" />{{Rp|page=539}} [[Lance Armstrong]] won the [[2003 Tour de France]], giving him his fifth victory.<ref name=":162" />{{Rp|page=540}}