Shotgun disciplines are on the agenda in Almaty, where an International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Grand Prix is doubling as the Asian Championships.

to compete in Kazakhstan ©Getty ImagesKuwait's team figure to be one of the strongest.Athletes from China

Jun Woong-tae of South Korea topped the standings in the semi-finals of the men’s competition at the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Championships in Alexandria in Egypt.

him 303 points in that discipline.Yesterday’s leader after the fencing ranking round Zhang Linbin of China

Russia will be banned from the World Team Table Tennis Championships, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Executive Committee has finally confirmed.

is the window for the World Team Table Tennis Championships and it is a rare international event in China

2021, has been delayed until 2023, while the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games have been pushed back to 2023.China

Seungmin Seong of South Korea topped women’s qualification at the International Modern Pentathlon Union World Championships in Alexandria, Egypt.

round.Elsewhere today the men’s semi-finals started with the fencing ranking round, with Zhang Linbin of China

A record number of nations are set to compete at the long-awaited 44th edition of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Olympiad in Chennai in India.

countries set at the last Chess Olympiad held in Batumi in Georgia in 2018.However, there will be no China

Mark England is a man used to success and he wants more of the same at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

and Tokyo 2020.In Rio, Britain superbly finished second on the medal table with 27 golds - gazumping China

The qualification system for the table tennis competitions during the Paris 2024 Olympics has been published.

alongside Ju Mizutani, won mixed doubles table tennis gold at Tokyo 2020 - the only category where China

Seoul 1988, with the sport's programme expanded at Tokyo 2020 to include mixed doubles.At Tokyo 2020 China

Lee Kang-chul has been named South Korea's manager for next year's World Baseball Classic.

©Getty ImagesSouth Korea are in Pool B along with co-hosts and Olympic champions Japan, Australia, China

Australia held on in the final of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Cup to defeat Lebanon 75-73, successfully defending their title from 2017 at Istana Olahraga Gelora Bung Karno in Jakarta.

Lebanon reached the final for the first time since 2007, defeating 16-time champions China 72-69 in the

Badminton Asia has secured a five-year deal with Dubai-based sports management and consultant company Beyond Boundaries, meaning the Badminton Asia Championships are to be held in the United Arab Emirates from 2023 until 2027.

Malaysia's Lee Zii Jia and Wang Zhiyi of China claimed the men's and women's singles titles at the 2022

Pramudya Kusumawardana and Yeremia Rambitan took the men's doubles gold, Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan of China

The International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev has opened a new boxing academy in Kuwait, also attending the Opening Ceremony of first edition of the Kuwait International Boxing Championships during his visit.

open competition, it welcomed 80 boxers from 20 countries.Nations competing were Bahrain, Bulgaria, China

Joachim Gossow admits organisers are playing catch up to prepare for the 2025 World Games in Chengdu, China

COVID-19 pandemic ©Getty ImagesThe COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the sporting calendar in China

We have the Chinese Olympic Committee, the General Administration of Sport of China and the Sichuan Provincial

The International Modern Pentathlon Union's (UIPM) flagship World Championships are due to begin in Alexandria tomorrow.

moved from Minsk to due mass civil unrest in Belarus - and this year the nation has taken the place of China

Hangzhou 2022 organisers have lit up venues to celebrate new dates being announced for the delayed Asian Games.

now scheduled to be held in 2023.The Asian Youth Games in Shantou were cancelled altogether, while China

Right-wing media outlets and personnel have expressed outrage at an Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly (ESPY) Award being given to Chinese-American skier and three-time Olympic freestyle medallist Eileen Gu, after her achievements at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

born and raised in the United States before choosing to compete for the home nation of her mother, China

with one of her prizes at the ESPYs ©Getty ImagesWhen she announced in 2019 that she would compete for China

was keen to compete at Beijing 2022, Gu said she hoped "to help inspire millions of young people" in China

©Getty ImagesComments on Twitter also criticised Gu's decision to compete for China, a nation with severe

When I'm in the US, I'm American, but when I'm in China, I'm Chinese."