Five of the eight qualified teams for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics are set to battle it out for the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Blind Football World Grand Prix crown in Shinagawa.

2020.Paralympic champions Brazil had been invited by the IBSA to participate at the event along with China

Japan and the United States top the early standings in the women’s Volleyball Nations League as the preliminary action continued today in Rimini.

have nine points after notching up three wins, with Japan, who yesterday overcame Olympic champions China

Italy has selected its luge squad for the Beijing 2022 winter season.

and five female sliders have been chosen with all in contention to appear at the Winter Olympics in China

Lee Ming-fai was crowned as Hong Kong's first singles champion in teqball and will now hope to compete at the Asian Beach Games.

Teqball as a new sport is a great fit as the tables are not very large," said Lee to the South China

World champions Serbia rallied from an opening-match defeat to beat Poland at the Volleyball Nations League (VNL) in Rimini.

neighbours Canada and are second in the early standings.Only Japan, who today overcame Olympic champions China

The 17-year-old Indonesian Rizki Juniansyah put in a sensational performance to claim all three junior world records held by the American CJ Cummings at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Junior World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

more than the 341kg made by the European champion Daniyar Ismayilov, of Turkey.Only Shi Zhiyong of China

The World Karate Federation (WKF) has announced the first 40 qualifiers for Tokyo 2020, with host nation competitors and the top ranked athletes earning berths at the Games.

Dacosta will compete in the men's under-67kg kumite event ©Getty ImagesWorld number one Xioayan Yin of China

Olympic champions China and defending champions the United States both made winning starts to this year's

face tomorrow, suffered a 23-25, 25-11, 25-9, 25-14 defeat at the hands of Brazil.Olympic champions China

Forty 3x3 basketball teams - 20 per gender - have gathered in the Austrian city of Graz to compete for six places - three men’s, three women’s - at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where the discipline makes its Games debut.

fact that they are the highest-ranked teams in the FIBA 3x3 rankings not yet qualified.Serbia, ROC and China

men's teams in the FIBA 3x3 ranking along with Olympic host Japan.Women's qualifiers will join the ROC, China

Hangzhou 2022 has launched an English speaking contest as it bids to recruit volunteers who can speak the language for next year's Asian Games.

The China Mobile Cup English Star competition will challenge entrants to give a speech in English and

each of the three groups will be given the opportunity to advance to the national semi-finals of the China

website here, where they will need to submit a short video.Hangzhou 2022 will be the third time that China

tennis venue for the 2021 Summer World University Games in Chengdu has received praise after hosting the China

players competed at the event at the Chengdu High Tech Zone Sports Centre Gymnasium.It was hosted by the China

East China University of Science and Technology won the women's singles crown through Wang Xiaotong,

Championships in Oregon.Eighteen sports are on the programme for the Games, which will be the third in China

In a rare instance of a Chinese national team traveling outside the country during the coronavirus pandemic, China's women's volleyball side - the reigning Olympic champions - will compete in the Volleyball Nations League (VNL), starting tomorrow.

women's volleyball ©Getty ImagesSerbia face 2018 VNL runners-up Turkey in their opening match, while China

where each side will play 15 games.The men's VNL, which uses the same format, begins on Friday (May 28).China

China and Britain topped the medal table at the second regatta of the Rowing World Cup series after notching

Grant as they beat Romanian and French crews to win the lightweight women's double sculls in 7.00.33.China

Twenty-one people have been confirmed dead after extreme weather hit an ultramarathon race in China.

China’s Huiru Li and Italy’s Niels Torre captured the respective women’s and men’s lightweight single sculls titles at the Rowing World Cup regatta in Lucerne.

before a further four events determined their finalists.World champions Zhiyu Liu and Liang Zhang of China