Ruth won his second straight national title with a 12-4 win over Robert Hamlin of Lehigh.
Steve Nash, from Victoria, British Columbia, had won his second straight NBA MVP award.
At 23, McIlroy won his second major Sunday a few months younger than Woods won his second.
It was December 1984, one month after the presidential election in which Ronald Reagan won his second term.
He had just won his second term as New York State attorney general, with 66% of the vote.
Talk of Bush as a presidential candidate even before he won his second term as governor of Texas in 1998.
Starting from fifth place, Alonso won his second race this season, showing that Ferrari can challenge Red Bull for pure speed.
Jesse Delgado became the first 125-pound champion for Illinois, while Ohio State Logan Stieber won his second NCAA title at 133 pounds.
"The focus turns straight away to Wednesday's game which is an important qualifier, " said Allen, who won his second senior cap on Saturday.
The Spanish seventh seed also won his second-round match on Court Central, coming from behind to beat Italy's Andreas Seppi 6-7 (3-7) 6-4 6-4.
Alan Campbell, World Cup overall winner last year in his first senior international season, won his second straight men's single scull title in 6:53.85.
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In the men's event, Simon Kisamili won his second Great South Run title in four years ahead of English pair Matt O'Dowd and Ben Noad.
ATHENS, Greece -- British sailor Ben Ainslie won his second successive yachting gold medal with victory in the Finn class at the Athens Olympics regatta.
Ang Lee won his second Oscar for directing Life of Pi, the adaptation of Yann Martel's fantasy novel about a boy stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
The Wood Memorial was the first race in which Verrazano faced any serious challenges: he won his second race by more than 16 lengths, his third by three.
In February Lee won his second best director Oscar for his 3D film Life of Pi, based on the Booker-winning novel about a shipwrecked boy and a Bengal tiger.
He sounded not like a man who had won his second state in a row, but who had clinched the right to fight the general election for his party.
Christoph Waltz won his second Oscar for best supporting actor in a Quentin Tarantino film, this time for playing a German bounty hunter in the slave revenge story Django Unchained.
This was a confident President talking like a man who has won his second majority vote and now intends it to be a mandate to achieve his vision of government.
McIlroy has struggled to repeat his dominance of last season, when he topped both the U.S. and European Tour money lists and won his second major at the PGA Championship in August.
This year McIlroy won his second major, the PGA Championship in August, at the tender age if 23 -- slightly younger than when Woods won his second at the same event in 1999.
Last year, McIlroy won his second major -- adding the PGA Championship to the U.S. Open title he won the year before -- while also becoming world No. 1 for the first time.
But at the time, the self-styled Special One was a proven commodity who had just won his second Champions League to go with the six league titles he had won in three different countries.
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On Sunday night Gareth Bale won his second PFA Player of the Year Award, and Tottenham will need to regularly qualify for Champions League play if they hope to keep such a caliber of player at their club.
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London (CNN) -- Young stars shone at the Olympic pool Monday as Yannick Agnel of France won his second gold medal of the London Games, American teen sensation Missy Franklin won her first and a 15-year-old Lithuanian stunned the women's 100-meter breaststroke field.
"I set myself a number of ambitious goals at the start of the year, and to have ticked so many of the boxes feels great, " said McIlroy, who displaced Donald at the top of the rankings and won his second major title at the PGA Championship after recovering from a mid-season slump.
It won him his second Oscar and launched a new chapter in his career.
Teddy Roosevelt won it in his second term for helping end the Russo-Japanese War.
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