Maier's fourth World Cup title completes a remarkable comeback from a career-threatening injury.
But Pakistan has lacked the will to win which is relentlessly exhibited by Australia, winner of the fourth World Cup in 1987.
Beckham said afterwards his loan move to AC Milan from LA Galaxy is "95%" done in a switch which should improve the 34-year-old's hopes of appearing in a fourth World Cup.
She is now three wins behind Annemarie Moser-Proll's record of 62, having picked up just her third giant slalom victory and her first since she clinched a fourth World Cup title in March 2012.
But the player, who hails from east London, tore his Achilles tendon while on loan from LA Galaxy at AC Milan in March, and was ruled out of what would have been his fourth World Cup.
Beckham made the last of his 115 international appearances for England in October 2009 before injury ended his hopes of appearing at a fourth World Cup, though he still went to South Africa with the squad as part of coach Fabio Capello's back-up staff.
China's water supply relative to its 1.3 billion-person population is roughly a fourth the world's average, and the shortage is worse in the north.
While for Devonish the bronze was his fourth relay world championship medal, having also won an Olympic gold in the 4x100m at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
"We look forward to Ricky completing his recovery and leading this team to a fourth successive World Cup on the sub-continent at the completion of the Australian summer, " Hilditch said recently.
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And with Australia bidding for a fourth straight World Cup title in Asia in February, Ponting, one of the outstanding batsmen of his generation, is unlikely to be axed should he wish to remain as a player.
The Blue Samurai, unchanged for their fourth straight World Cup match, sat deep and attempted to snuff out the opposition, while their opponents conceded a series of niggling fouls every time Japan looked to strike on the counter.
At the moment the Great Britain team is ranked second in Europe and fourth in the world.
Vettel's Red Bull teammate Mark Webber was fourth with former world champion Kimi Raikkonen fifth for Lotus.
Brazil, ranked fourth in the world, were reduced to the play-off after losing out to Argentina in the South American qualifiers.
We won against Argentina and dug ourselves out of a hole to beat a team that is ranked fourth in the world.
She was fourth in the world championships in 2011, but the Olympic title is never one that sprinters want to give up easily.
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Recent results are promising, with the British 14 and under boys coming fourth in the World Junior Tennis Championships and the 16 and under team coming second in the prestigious European Summer Cup.
Of the overseas challengers, Australian Geoff Ogilvy has used his 2006 US Open victory as a springboard and is a realistic contender after reaching fourth in the world with two wins so far this year.
"It's a perfect day, " said Streitberger, who was fourth in the world championships on home snow at Schladming, where Austria's only individual gold came on the final day last Sunday for overall World Cup leader Marcel Hirscher in the slalom.
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The World Bank estimates that, in terms of purchasing power, India could have the fourth largest economy in the world by 2020.
She bettered the previous world record of 56.06 seconds set by Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom, who finished fourth, at the 2009 world championships.
The small Himalayan kingdom rates fourth happiest in the world on the Huffpo list.
Chasing a world record fourth-innings target of 440, Pakistan collapsed from 216-4 at lunch to 289 all out.
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