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Sayari and Merritt named IWBF Asia Oceania Championships MVPs

  • Wheelchair Basketball News

Mohamadhassan Sayari and Amber Merritt have been crowned Most Valuable Players (MVPs) and included in the All-Star sides for the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Asia Oceania Championships.

All-Star selection were Japan's Mari Amimoto, Thailand's top scorer Natnapa Ponin, Georgia Inglis of Australia


Australian Taekwondo gets funding for national integrity manger

  • Member National Association and Continental Unions News

a national integrity manger after securing funding from the Australian Sports Commission via Sport Australia

The integrity manger will also work with Judo Australia and Boxing Australia, given the three sports’

sport and ensuring a healthy environment is provided for taekwondo, judo and boxing practitioners in Australia

responsible for implementing and immersing the National Integrity Framework at all levels of taekwondo in Australia

Judo Australia and Australian Taekwondo have both signed up to the National Integrity Framework.



Australia's Birmingham 2022 swimwear unveiled

  • Birmingham 2022

Australia’s swimmers are to wear 100 per cent chlorine-resistant race suits at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Speedo which has supplied Australian Commonwealth Games teams since the 1958 event in Cardiff, when Australia

athletes because they are trusted and give the athletes the best swimwear there is," Commonwealth Games Australia

swimming team of 73, a line-up which includes 27 Para swimmers.At the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, Australia


Name for 2023 Pacific Games mascot sought through children's contest

  • Solomon Islands 2023

Organisers of the 2023 Pacific Games have launched a competition to name the event's mascot.

Islands also signed a bilateral security cooperation agreement in recent months which raised alarm in Australia

than 100 people were arrested and peacekeeping forces were dispatched from Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Australia




Wells set to join Brisbane 2032 Board after becoming Australia's Sports Minister

  • Brisbane 2032

Australia's new Sports Minister Anika Wells is expected to be appointed onto the Board of the Brisbane 2032 Organising Committee, replacing predecessor Richard Colbeck.

to make the most of this unique opportunity, not only for her home state of Queensland, but for all Australia

the green and gold runway of sport that leads to Brisbane 2032, the major sporting events coming to Australia

We look forward to the Commonwealth Games returning to Australia when regional Victoria plays host in

Sport has such a critical role to play in contributing to a healthy Australia and helping tackle significant

In conjunction with our colleagues with Commonwealth Games Australia we have developed our 10+10 sport


South Korea victorious in ISSF World Cup team events in Baku

  • Shooting

South Korea were one of the most successful nations today in team events at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Baku, with victories in air, rifle and pistol disciplines.

women's gold in a shoot-off, pipping Laetisha Scanlan, Catherine Skinner and Charlie Hudson-Czerniecki of Australia


Australian Olympic sailing champion Forbes dies at 88

  • Sailing

Australian David Forbes, who won the sailing gold medal in the star class at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games, has died at the age of 88.

Championship in 1970, the 1974 Sydney to Hobart race and 10 Australian Championships.Forbes represented Australia

America's Cup appearance was also on his record, as he was a part of the Greta II crew in 1970.Sport Australia

Forbes was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1988 as an athlete member for his contribution



Wimbledon to drop "Mrs" and "Miss" titles from women's honours board

  • Tennis

The winner of this year's Wimbledon women's singles tournament will not have a title included before their name on the honours board for the first time.

husbands' initials and surnames on the board.For example, 1980 champion Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia


Biggest World Rugby Sevens Series yet planned for 2023 including two Hong Kong stops

  • Rugby Sevens

Next season's World Rugby Sevens Series calendar features a record number of events, with Paris 2024 qualification due to be up for grabs as the circuit returns to pre-pandemic levels.

Australia are the current women's World Rugby Women's Sevens Series champions ©Getty ImagesRugby sevens

made its Olympic debut at Rio 2016, when Australia won the women's title and Fiji the men's - for what


Scherr claims World Lacrosse's deal with ESPN boosts sport's Los Angeles 2028 ambitions

  • Los Angeles 2028

World Lacrosse chief executive Jim Scherr has claimed that a new agreement with broadcaster ESPN covering World Championship events "provides a significant boost" to the sport's bid for inclusion at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

six matches on linear channels - hosts and defending champions the US' fixtures against Canada and Australia


Danielle Williams

  • Universiade Legends

  2013 Summer Universiade, Kazan: women's 100m hurdles bronze. 2015 Summer Universiade, Gwangju: women's 100m hurdles gold.

podium as she won in 12.78 from Russia’s Nina Morozova, who clocked 12.83, and Michelle Jenneke of Australia