Johannes Vetter produced a stunning effort at World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Chorzow tonight as he threw the javelin out to 97.76 metres, the second farthest mark ever behind the 1996 world record of 98.48m by the Czech Republic’s Jan Zelezny.

he cleared that mark with all six of his efforts, the best of which was 22.70m.The men's shot put in Poland

The spectacular Giza Pyramids and Sphinx tonight provided the spectacular backdrop for the 2021 International Handball Federation (IHF) Men's World Championship draw which saw defending champions Denmark drawn in Group D.

Group A, with Germany and Hungary.Group B saw the very first team drawn this evening, as wild-card side Poland

 Poland are due to co-host the 2023 IHF Men’s World Championship with Sweden.Just one European side

Crouser, whose performances have reached new levels this season, will be eagerly watched in Chorzow in Poland

The third day of the Finn European Championships belonged to Turkey’s Alican Kaynar after he won two races in Gdynia.

Championships and nine points between the top six, with Kaynar climbing to fifth after a double victory in Poland

After a long break I am really happy to be here and they have made us really welcome in Poland so it’

Witold Bańka has claimed the participation of athletes from the United States in major events, such as the Olympic Games, could be threatened should the country follow through with its warning to withdraw funding from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland

New dates for the postponed Lucerne 2021 World Winter University Games must be agreed by the end of October, the International University Sports Federation (FISU) secretary general Eric Saintrond has told insidethegames.

The Organising Committee in Bydgoszcz, Poland, has been able to switch to an online format for the Mind

Pole vault world record holder Armand Duplantis will seek his 12th consecutive victory of 2020 tomorrow when he competes against a stellar field at Lausanne in the fifth event on this season’s COVID-19-truncated Wanda Diamond League (WDL) programme.

Swedish prodigy, but his form appears to be on the rise, as evidenced by his jump of 5.82m in Chorzow in Poland

Football's world governing body FIFA invested nearly twice as much in last year’s Women’s World Cup in France as in the tournament’s previous edition in Canada in 2015.

expensive at $26 million (£19.2 million/€21.6 million).This was followed by the Under-20 World Cup in Poland

Four International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup events and two Short Track World Cup competitions have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Speed skating contests in Tomaszów Mazowiecki in Poland, Stavanger in Norway, Calgary in Canada and Salt

India and Russia were declared joint winners of the inaugural Online Chess Olympiad after two Indian players lost their internet connection.

2020Armenian players lodged an appeal claiming they had lost connection, but this was rejected.India then beat Poland

Former world champion Quentin Lafargue is targeting switching from sprint events to the team pursuit at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

most success in at international level.The Frenchman claimed the kilometre world title at Pruszkow in Poland

World Lacrosse is to give more than $95,000 (£72,000/€80,000) to 15 members in the form of relief grants.

Lacrosse Association ©Getty ImagesNational bodies from Ireland, Croatia, Greece, Luxembourg, Italy, Poland

A total of seven Para athletics world records were set over three days of competition in Kraków in Poland

Mongolia and China claimed top honours in the first International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Under 17 Global Skills Challenges event.

113-118 in the third-place game.Meanwhile, China scored a narrow one-point 118-119 victory against Poland

France's Axel Mazella recorded four wins from four on the second day of the International Kiteboarding Association Formula Kite European Individual Championships to move top of the men's standings.

medal races for the top 14 men's and women's athletes will take place on Sunday (August 23) in Puck in Poland