A locker room nameplate used by Shohei Ohtani when Japan won the World Baseball Classic for a record third time last month has been sold for $116,010 (£93,419/€105,883) in an online auction.

the Japanese flag, but was unsigned ©MLBOhtani sealed Japan's title by closing the final against the United

States at LoanDepot park in Miami and striking out Los Angeles Angels teammate Mike Trout in the dramatic

sixth Boston Marathon wheelchair race while setting a course record time, while Susannah Scaroni of the United

States claimed her first-ever win in the women's event.

Argentina’s FIFA World Cup-winning captain Lionel Messi and his Paris Saint-Germain team-mate Kylian Mbappé, who scored a hat-trick in the final, are among athletes who will assemble in next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games host city Paris on May 8 for the 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards.

McLaughlin-Levrone, the world 400m hurdles champion and world record holder, and Katie Ledecky of the United

States, whose four world golds last year took her total of medals to a record 22.Tennis will be represented

Alcaraz of Spain, who became world number one last year and won the US Open, Scottie Scheffler of the United

States, the 2022 Masters golf winner, and Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina, the winner at Wimbledon, are

heart implant he returned to football eight months later with Brentford and transferred to Manchester United

USA Hockey announce the city of Utica in New York will be the host of next year's International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women's World Championship.

last year, will host matches for the tournament ©Mohawk Garden ValleyIt will be the fifth time the United

States have hosted the competition and the first time since 2017, when it took place in Plymouth in

time, beating their neighbours 6-3, who were playing before their own fans in Brampton in Ontario.The United

States lifted the IIFH Women's World Championship title for a 10th time in Brampton on Sunday when they

USA Sambo has entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sambo Association of Uzbekistan, signed at its National Championships in Madison.

Alimov was guest of honour at the Championships, attended by more than 80 athletes from across the United

States at Drew University.Athletes from Uzbekistan were joined by representatives of Georgia and Kyrgyzstan

Double Olympic champion and world record holder Eliud Kipchoge, racing the Boston Marathon for the first time in his illustrious career, suffered a dramatic defeat in the rain as his fellow Kenyan, Evans Chebet, retained the men’s title in 2hr 05min 54sec.

Ethiopia’s Ababel Yeshaneh was fourth in 2:22:00 despite a heavy fall on mile 24 and Emma Bates of the United

States finished fifth in 2:22:10.Obiri, who won world 1500m bronze in 2013, said she was unwilling to

Hosts Slovenia pulled off a stunning fightback to beat Romania 3-2 in Koper to book their place in the Billie Jean King Cup Finals for the first time.

3-1, while Germany and Kazakhstan saw off Brazil and Poland respectively by the same scoreline.The United

States also advanced to the Finals, seeing off Austria 4-0 with Jessica Pegula notably claiming two

Japan claimed four gold medals to top the standings at the World Karate Federation Karate 1-Series A event in Richmond.

Oval in the Canadian city.The first of those titles was won by Yatoji who stunned Skylar Lingl of the United

States 2-0 in the women’s kumite under-68 kilogram final.There was also delight for Japan in the women

Germany's Katrin Eckermann has secured the Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of Miami Beach for the second year in a row while Madrid in Motion also triumphed in Florida.

The event in the United States saw the 2010 European champion complete the course with 10-year-old mare

Philippe Wahl, chief executive of the La Poste Groupe that has just become an official supporter of Paris 2024, points out that the first marathon runner, Pheidippides, who reputedly brought news to Athens in 490BC of the Greek victory over Persia at Marathon before dropping dead, was a postman.

Only this week the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee  announced it has hired a digital

Hillary Knight starred for the United States with three goals to help the country win its 10th gold medal

Egyptian duo Nour El Sherbini and Ali Farag were victorious at squash's prestigious British Open, held in Birmingham.

Sherbini had earlier beaten Japan's Satomi Watanabe 15-13, 11-4, 11-8, and came from behind to defeat the United

States' Sabrina Sobhy 9-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-2 in the third-round.The quarter-final brought a dramatic

Kenya’s world record holder and double Olympic gold medallist Eliud Kipchoge will be looking to add another major title to his long list of honours tomorrow when he makes his debut in the 127th Boston Marathon, an event that will mark 10 years since the bomb attack near the finish line.

A group of survivors, first responders and other members of the public gathered in the United States

of the bombings in 2015 and received the death penalty, which was vacated in 2020.In March 2022, the United

States Supreme Court upheld the original death sentence, and he was placed back on death row where he

17 races over the distance, including at Chicago in 2014, his last appearance over 26.2 miles in the United

States ©Getty ImagesSince then, Kipchoge has taken part in another 16 marathons, winning 14 of them,

Andrey Rublev of Russia, who is playing as a neutral, won his first Association of Tennis Professionals Masters 1000 title at the Monte-Carlo Masters after defeating Holger Rune of Denmark in the final.

International Olympic Committee.In the doubles event, Croatia's Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek of the United

States claimed the title after victory over Romain Arneodo of Monaco and Austria's Sam Weissborn.Ivan

A late surge from Sweden to secure hosting rights for the 2030 Winter Olympic Games should be welcomed with open arms in the country as it looks to be its best chance to finally land the event.

Government support.Salt Lake City remains on standby to host just in case, although both the IOC and United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee would prefer it to stage the 2034 Games due to 2030's proximity