Belgium and Poland have been awarded the 2020 European Korfball A and B Championships, respectively.

Witold Bańka won the vote that puts him in pole position to succeed Sir Craig Reedie as World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President by almost the narrowest possible margin, insidethegames understands.

Summer Universiade gold medallist, labelled Tuesday’s decision “a very important day for me and for Poland

Polish Sports Minister Witold Bańka has been chosen to succeed Sir Craig Reedie as President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

success.Writing on Twitter, the 34-year-old Bańka labelled the decision "a very important day for me and for Poland

/A very important day for me and for Poland.

Sir Craig steps down.This will happen during the World Conference on Doping in Sport in Katowice in Poland

Richard Pound will this week miss his first meeting of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Foundation Board almost two decades after the organisation was established.

candidate for one of the most taxing posts in sport, with the nod likely to go to either Witold Bańka from Poland

Yulia Nesterenko carried the European Games Flame for the second time in little more than a week when the Minsk 2019 Torch Relay crossed the border into Belarus at Brest.

The Torch had crossed the border from Poland with motorcycle outriders The One Chapter Belarus and it

The United States and China earned men’s and women’s gold, respectively, at the inaugural Beach Para Volley Standing World Series event in Pingtan in China today.

Chris Seilkop, Dave Newkirk and Eric Duda delivered a brilliant 21-19, 14-21, 15-8 finish to defeat Poland

“Poland played fantastic but our team came together and we had a few key plays that started us rolling

ParaVolley Standing World Series event in Pingtan, China ©ParaVolleyIn the men’s bronze medal match, Poland

win over the United States’ Autum Reagan, Meredith Gross and Skye McDermott.At the awarding ceremony, Poland

Sir Craig Reedie was keen to highlight the changes the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) had made during his tenure as President at the Annual Symposium in Lausanne in March.

“There are cheaters in Russia, in Poland and in the United States, for example, and we should give equal

Botswana and South Africa reached the final of the Women's Softball Africa Qualifier to secure their spots at the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Europe-Africa Softball Qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

will emerge out of the WBSC Europe Softball Championship, due to be co-hosted by Czech Republic and Poland

The United States and Poland 1 teams secured spots at the inaugural 2019 Beach ParaVolley Standing World

from a set down to beat Slovakians Rudolf Makovini, Martin Dubovsky and Juraj Kucej 16-21, 21-5, 15-12.Poland

Wypych 21-9, 19-21, 15-10 to earn their shot at gold.The gold medal match between United States and Poland

1 is scheduled for tomorrow after the bronze medal match between Slovakia and Poland 2.Australia’s Nic

Japan’s 4x100m men’s sprinters, who famously took silver at the Rio 2016 Games, suffered calamity on home ground today as they were disqualified in their heat on the opening day of the International Association of Athletics Federations World Relays event in Yokohama – which is a qualifier for this year’s IAAF World Championships in Doha.

.The US women also go into tomorrow’s 4x400m as fastest qualifiers, having recorded 3:25.72 to head Poland

Hosts Italy were among the five nations to claim two gold medals as action continued at the International Cycling Union Para-cycling Road World Cup in Corridonia.

Loic Vergnaud came third in 52:17.22.The four other countries that had two winners today were Germany, Poland

courtesy of Michael Teuber in the men’s C1 in 31:46.08 and Jana Majunke in the women’s T2 in 21:35.15.Poland

Germany and Poland 1 topped their respective groups with a sweep of all their matches in the pool play

Makovini, Martin Dubovsky and Juraj Kucej 21-10, 21-19.Also winning their matches on the second day were Poland

continue tomorrow with Germany facing the United States in the opening game, followed by matches between Poland

2 and India 2, India 1 and Slovakia, and Australia and Poland 1.In the clash of two teams from @ParaVolleyEU

Polish Sports Minister Witold Bańka has been given another boost in his bid to become the next President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) after he received the support of the European Union (EU) and its member states.

before Sir Craig officially steps down during the World Conference on Doping in Sport in Katowice in Poland

Nine men's teams and two women's teams have arrived in Pingtan in China to compete in the first Beach ParaVolley World Series Open. 

the men's competition alongside teams from Australia, the United States, Germany and Slovakia, with Poland

Romania, seen by many as contenders for relegation from IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group B in Tallinn, Estonia, provided a very different narrative as they earned promotion to Division I Group A.

campaign in Tallinn by beating the hosts on penalty shots to earn a 4-3 win, they then beat Japan and Poland

“The key game was against Poland.

We came here to win,” said Poland captain Tomasz Malasinski.Second place was a disappointment to Poland