Istvan Kovacs, secretary general of the International Boxing Association (AIBA), has said that the AIBA Men’s World Boxing Championships later this year in Belgrade will "raise the bar significantly" for the sport in the region.

flagship tournament, which follows last month’s staging of the AIBA Youth World Championships in Kielce, Poland

Portugal has emerged as the favourite to host the all-English Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester City after talks between UEFA and the British Government over moving the event from Istanbul reportedly face deadlock.

announced tomorrow.The Europa League final is still expected to take place at the Gdansk Stadium in Poland

to advance to the second round of the Italian Open, while fellow Grand Slam champion Iga Świątek of Poland

European Athletics (EA) chief executive Christian Milz revealed today a team had to be excluded entirely from the weekend's European Throwing Cup in Split because of positive COVID-19 tests.

officials in the wake of positive tests during and after the European Indoor Championships at Torun in Poland

Intel will host a virtual esports tournament in the build-up to the rescheduled Olympic Games in Tokyo, giving gamers around the world the chance to compete.

event was originally announced in September 2019 and set to run as a physical event in Katowice in Poland

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has insisted athletes want to take part at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games despite continuing concerns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

there had not been any positive COVID-19 cases stemming from last weekend's World Athletics Relays in Poland

following the death of Rashed Al-Swaisat of Jordan during the recent AIBA Youth World Championships in Poland

Armenia and Romania both qualified two wrestlers for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the men’s Greco-Roman categories on the third day of the United World Wrestling (UWW) World Olympic Games qualifier in Sofia, Bulgaria.

finished 1-1.Kuosmanen will face Alin Alexuc of Romania in the final after he overcame Rafal Krajewski of Poland

International para-taekwondo returns this weekend as the best athletes from Europe that have yet to qualify for the 2020 Paralympic Games meet in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to seek a passage to Japan.

women's under-57kg category, gold medals were awarded to Fani Tzeli of Greece and Patrycja Adamkiewicz of Poland

"Neutral" Russian Veronika Chumikova secured an emotional late win by fall to book her Tokyo 2020 place as women's freestyle wrestling took centre stage on the second day of the United World Wrestling (UWW) World Olympic Games qualifier in Sofia in Bulgaria.

takedowns in each period.In the under-50kg category, Seema Bisla of India narrowly beat Anna Lukasiak of Poland

Twelve more freestyle wrestlers booked their places at Tokyo 2020 today after reaching the finals of their respective categories on the opening day of the United World Wrestling (UWW) World Olympic Games qualifier in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Olympics in the 86kg category, when 2017 world champion Sohsuke Takatani beat Zbigniew Baranowski of Poland

The International Ski Federation (FIS) has confirmed the four candidates bidding to succeed longstanding head Gian-Franco Kasper as President during its virtual Congress next month.

postponed its Congress to 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.Dean Gosper (Australia), Wojciech Gumny (Poland

Twenty-two athletes from 13 sports and all six populated continents are on the ballot for the summer representative positions of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes' Council.

ballot.So too are four swimmers - Daniel Dias from Brazil, Malta's Vladyslava Kravchenko, Joanna Mendak of Poland

Three-time champion Petra Kvitová emerged victorious from a three-set battle against Veronika Kudermetova to advance to the quarter-finals of the Madrid Open.

tournament in 2020 because of the coronavirus crisis, defeated current French Open champion Iga Świątek of Poland

There were plenty of dominant performances in the finals of the first Rowing World Cup regatta at Jarun Lake in Zagreb, Croatia.

technical display of sculling to take gold for France.A good battle for the silver medal ensued behind with Poland

and Dorian Mortelette taking an early lead and holding on to claim gold.A battle ensued behind with Poland

the third quarter of the race before holding on to take victory.Behind them the silver medals went to Poland