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The present perfect tense as in "have won" indicates an action that has taken place in the past and continues into the present. Sentences #1 and #2 mean the same thing, yes. (You also need a comma after "serious"!)
The simple past tense (in #3) indicates an action that happened in the past and has not occurred again. In that sentence, I'd also change the main verb to "were."