Compound archery is scheduled to make its debut on the Pan American Games programme at Lima 2019, the sport’s world governing body has announced.

record list of 17 sports for the event following a three-day meeting in the Peruvian capital.Badminton, shooting

The jokey phrase that has travelled the rounds within the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to describe lightweight rowing at the Games - "basketball for short people" - makes it clear what the leadership of the sport has been up against over the last couple of years in trying to maintain at least some lightweight elements in future Olympic programmes.

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Germany’s Laura Dahlmeier won her third gold medal of the 2017 International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Championships today after claiming the women's 15 kilometres individual crown in Austrian town Hochfilzen.

relay titles she already had to her name.Gabriela Koukalová of Czech Republic matched Dahlmeier on the shooting

early in the competition, held on what was the warmest day of the Championships.She showed her best shooting

Laukkanen’s time despite her one penalty in the first prone.Runggaldier, meanwhile, repeated her clean shooting

Frenchman Martin Fourcade and Germany's Laura Dahlmeier successfully defended their International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Championship pursuit titles by winning the men's and women's races respectively in Hochfilzen today.

nbsp;"After the first miss I knew I had to hit all the targets; the big fight took place in the last shooting

Gabriela Koukalová of the Czech Republic ended her long wait for an individual International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Championships gold medal as she won today's 7.5 kilometres sprint race in Hochfilzen.

chase.Dahlmeier, the 64th athlete to enter the race, then overtook the Frenchwoman thanks to her clean shooting

Paralympic silver medallist Wang Zhoubin of China has announced he will retire from football following the conclusion of the ASEAN Para Games in Malaysia in September.

“But our shooting skills and our physical strength is not as good as the other teams.

Olympic silver medallist Simon Schempp anchored Germany to mixed relay victory on the opening day of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Championships in Hochfilzen.

rocked by a doping raid conducted by Austrian police on the eve of the World Championships.Clean prone shooting

United States Track and Field (USATF) has withdrawn from this year’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Under-18 Championships in Nairobi due to security concerns.

nation.Back in 2013, the group killed 67 people at Nairobi's Westgate Shopping Mall.Those involved in a shooting

Kazakhstan’s Galina Vishnevskaya claimed her second biathlon gold medal of the 2017 Winter Universiade after winning the women’s 12.5 kilometres mass start event today.

 She hit all the targets during the first three shooting rounds and despite missing once in the

Kazakhstan's Darya Ussanova lost her chance of winning a medal after missing four targets during the last shooting

Slovenian National Paralympic Committee (NPC) representatives have met with the country's Minister of Education, Science and Sport to discuss a new law on Para-sport.

will also be recognised as the governing body for Para-sport in the European nation.Double Paralympic shooting

World Shooting Para Sport has published an updated version of its technical rules and regulations.

document, available here, have come into force with immediate effect and will run until 2018.The 2017 Para-shooting

athletes with rankings calculated on a rolling basis.A new rankings system has been introduced for Para-shooting

while changes have been made to finals ©Getty ImagesResults from World Shooting Para Sport competitions

some cases in an attempt to make some rules clearer and easier to understand.Tyler Anderson, World Shooting

The World Shooting Para Sport season will begin in Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates, with a World Cup

Kuwait's Sports Minister Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah has resigned from his position just two days before he was due to face a Parliamentary vote of no confidence.

dissolved along with nine other sporting bodies, with many blaming Sheikh Salman, the former Asian Shooting

unsuccessfully in 2014 to replace Mexico's Olegario Vázquez Raña as President of the International Shooting

Beijing 2008 shooting gold medallist Abhinav Bindra has been named as part of an eight-member taskforce

Russia dominated the men's biathlon 12.5 kilometres pursuit competition today securing a one-two-three at the Alatau Cross-Country Skiing and Biathlon Complex here in Almaty.

Suchilov.Ivanov took second in 32:19.2 but incurred three penalties, two of which were at the prone shooting

event.However, she endured a miserable day today after she incurred five penalties at the second prone shooting

Ninety-five volunteers from aid organisation Compassion International have received diplomas in El Salvador after taking a sports administration course.

handed out ©Getty ImagesESNOC President Eduardo Palomo was also in attendance, alongside the country's shooting