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For a world famous tennis championship, you need a world champion trophy. The winners of the annual Wimbledon tournament, as well as earning pay checks of £1 million ($1.62m), they get a replica of these beautiful trophies. The originals are engraved with the winner’s names but are never removed from their home at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in South West London.
5. The Ashes Urn
If you don’t know anything about cricket, and undoubtedly not many do, you might like this fact about one of the world’s most famous trophies surprising. The Test Series between Australia and England takes place every 2 years in alternating countries. The winner of the series of 5 games gets to keep the Ashes Urn. The trophy is named after a quote in the Sporting Times in 1882, when Australia had beaten England for the first time on English soil. English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The next series was seen to be the quest to regain the ashes. During that tour, an urn containing the ashes of a cricket bail was presented to the then England captain and it became the symbol for future series’. Here’s the surprise – this hotly contested trophy is but 6 inches tall.
