World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has awarded Sky TV exclusive broadcast rights in New Zealand for the Under-18 Men’s Softball World Cup.

national teams will compete at the event, with teams split into two groups.Argentina, Canada, Australia, South

Africa, Singapore and the Czech Republic will contest Group A.World number one Japan will join third

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) is set to use results from the 2018 Asian Games to determine Tokyo 2020 qualifiers, following the cancellation of the Asian Water Polo Championships over coronavirus fears.

tournaments.The winners of each event would have progressed to Tokyo 2020.China, Iran, Kazakhstan and South

at the Games.Their team would join hosts Japan, Serbia, Italy, Spain, the United States, Australia, South

Africa and Hungary in the Olympic tournament.China are set to secure a place in the women's Olympic

round robin-group at the Asian Games, ahead of Kazakhstan.Japan, the US, Spain, Canada, Australia, South

Africa and Russia have already earned places in the women’s event at Tokyo 2020.Two World Qualification

India won both the men's and women's Rising Star of the Year awards at the International Hockey Federation (FIH) Hockey Stars Awards.

in the final but was voted Best Young Player of the FIH Series Finals tournament after his side beat South

Africa 5-1 in the final where he also scored a goal.In the women's category Lalremsiami, also 19, won

 The attacker has twice in her senior career been top goalscorer in test series against South Korea

after lifting the International Cricket Council (ICC) Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Potchefstroom in South

Africa.

Pakistan in the group stages, although their match was cancelled due to rain; before they easily defeated South

Africa and then soundly got the better of New Zealand in the semi-finals.

Pakistan were awarded third today at the International Cricket Council (ICC) Under-19 World Cup after downpours cancelled their playoff match with New Zealand. 

yesterday's game between West Indies and Australia was ended early due to rain, today's in Benoni in South

Africa match wouldn't even start.

The United States and Canada qualified for Tokyo 2020 at the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Football Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship.

, The Netherlands and Sweden at Tokyo 2020, with four places left for two teams from Asia, one from Africa

and one from either Africa or South America.

Kata was to the fore on the opening day of competition at the African Karate Federation (UFAK) Senior and Junior Championships at Tangier in Morocco.

Covered Hall Sport Ziaten, due to run until Sunday (February 9), is the last continental championship in Africa

Mansoury ahead of Hussein Mohamed Hussein of Egypt, with bronze going to Siradiou Diallo of Benin and South

Egypt’s Shrouk Elhnawy, with silver being claimed by Morocco’s Maryem El Kholti and bronze going to South

title went to Egypt, with Morocco second.The male version also went to Egypt, ahead of Morocco and South

Africa.

group performance after rain prevented there being a result in their fifth-place playoff in Benoni in South

Africa against Australia.

Ireland's women's hockey team have cancelled their planned trip to Malaysia in light of growing fears around the spread of coronavirus in the nation.

nbsp;The slot, from mid March to early April, needs filling, with one possibility being a return to South

Africa, where Ireland recently played against the hosts as well as Germany.Other nations are also relocating

Canada resulted in a shoot-out, which they won on home soil in Dublin.Ireland could return to play South

Africa and Germany for pre-Olympic preparation - two teams they will also face in the group stage ©Getty

ImagesTheir first Olympic group match will be against South Africa, having been drawn in a group with

Argentina earned a place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics today as they beat Colombia 2-1 in the South American

and the other qualifiers so far are France, Germany, Romania, Spain, New Zealand, Egypt, Ivory Coast, South

Africa, Australia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Argentina.

Mohamed Dridi won the first of four home golds in men’s Greco-Roman competition as junior action got underway on the third day of the African Wrestling Championships in Algiers.

was provided in the 63kg class thanks to Ahmed Merikhi, with Egypt's Yousef Eissa earning silver and South

Ismail won the 67kg category ahead of Abdelmalek Merabet of Algeria and third-placed Francois Du Toit of South

team-mate Mohamed Landolsi was victorious at 77kg ahead of Egypt’s Mahmoud Ahmed and Abdul Tchoufon of South

Africa.

Home athlete Moundir Benammar was among the most emphatic of gold medallists on a second day of the African Wrestling Championships in Algiers that saw Egyptian competitors win eight of the ten cadet freestyle titles on offer.

in Algeria’s capital city – Tunisia’s Mohamed Amine Thamlaoui, who took silver, and Lennie Steyn of South

Africa, who finished third.Steyn’s team-mate Francois Germishuys took gold in the 71kg class, with Egypt

taking silver and home wrestler Madjeddine Faidi bronze.Mohamed Salaheldin won the 92kg class ahead of South

Africa claimed bronze.Khaled Mohamed took the 60kg class for Egypt, with silver going to home wrestler

Mourad claimed the 48kg title with silver going to Tunisia’s Mohamed Hkiri and bronze to Brendin Louw of South

A brilliant knock of 73 by Ibrahim Zadran enabled Afghanistan to defeat hosts South Africa in the seventh-place

They coast home against South Africa by five wickets to win the 7th-place play-off!

158 for five in 40.2 overs to earn victory by five wickets.Odirile Modimokoane was the most effective South

African bowler, taking two for 37 in 10 overs.After today's defeat, South Africa will have to settle

Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a brilliant century as India thumped Pakistan by 10 wickets to advance to the International Cricket Council (ICC) Under-19 World Cup final.

total and sealing both the match and his hundred with a six.Having won the toss at Potchefstroom in South

Africa and chosen to bat, Pakistan made a steady start before collapsing to be all out for 172.Opener

Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan is set to return to the figure skating programme that won him gold at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. 

return to the Olympic programme at this week's Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in the South

with the sole exception of the Four Continents, a competition open to skaters from the Americas, Asia, Africa