The world’s best sailors in their class have converged on Marina Degli Aregai in Italy for the 470 European Championships which start tomorrow and run until May 14.

Games.Some 29 countries are taking part, with entries from as far afield as China, Japan, Australia, India, New

Zealand, Brazil, Argentina and the United States.Australia’s 2017 world champions Matt Belcher and Will

hunt will be Britain’s London 2012 silver medallist Luke Patience, now teamed up with Chris Grube, New

South Korean Se Young-an completed a remarkable achievement at the Badminton World Federation (BWF) New

Zealand Open today by beating China’s Li Xuerui in the final.

beating Japan’s top seed Akane Yamaguchi.Indonesia's third seed Jonatan Christie, runner-up at the BWF New

Zealand Open last year, went one better this year ©Getty ImagesBut she had no answer to Se, who has

A group of nine teams are set to compete at the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women's Qualifier Africa 2019 in Zimbabwe to earn a spot at the Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 and Women’s Cricket World Cup 2021.

, Thailand and Sri Lanka have already booked their place at the tournament.The World Cup will be in New

Zealand.

double Olympic champion Lin Dan to reach the men's singles final at the Badminton World Federation (BWF) New

Zealand Open in Auckland.

The test events for Tokyo 2020 are set to begin next month under the banner of "Ready, Steady, Tokyo" and feature some 56 competitions.

the Second World War, the Soviets relaunched the event in 1956 with 1979 proving the seventh in the new

Mir", the Russian word for "peace" was prominent throughout.The goodwill did not extend to New Zealand

Our new socialist Ethiopia can learn a lot from that," said Yifter.Latvia won the women’s basketball,

Men's top seed Anthony Ginting of Indonesia has exited the Badminton World Federation (BWF) New Zealand

 Japan's Akane Yamaguchi has reached the semi-final of the BWF New Zealand Open ©Getty ImagesThe

top seed Akane Yamaguchi progressed to the singles quarter-finals at the Badminton World Federation New

Zealand Open.

China’s Wang Zhiyi produced the shock result of the day at the Badminton World Federation New Zealand

United States 21-8, 21-13.India's second seed Saina Nehwal made a surprise first-round exit at the BWF New

Zealand Open ©Getty ImagesAn Se-young of South Korea won the toughest match of the round, progressing

Malaysia had a profitable day in men’s qualifying at the Badminton World Federation’s New Zealand Open

were India’s Lakshya Sen and China’s Sun Feixiang.Indonesia's Anthony Ginting, top seed at the BWF New

Zealand Open, will start his tournament with a first-round match tomorrow against Bryce Leverdez of

Australia progressed to the semi-final of the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships for the first time following victories against defending champions Switzerland and Japan in Stavanger. 

curling pic.twitter.com/XDicgQql0u— World Curling (@worldcurling) April 26, 2019Sweden had eased past New

Zealand 9-4 and the Czech Republic 8-3 to progress.The remaining semi-final is between Canada and the

Nigeria secured the maiden international victory by an African member association against France at the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Stavanger.

progress as the second place team.Sweden, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Switzerland, England, Finland and New

Zealand have also qualified.The round of 16 will be played tomorrow.

Australia won men’s and women’s matches as their teams faced New Zealand on Anzac Day in the latest round

sealed the win as the visitors strengthened their grip on fourth place in the standings.Defeat for New

Zealand, whose solitary goal came courtesy of Deanna Ritchie, left them sixth.They have lost ground

Australia’s men were given a stern test by New Zealand before winning 4-3 thanks to strikes from Tom

New Zealand had us scrambling toward the end and it made it interesting for the crowd, but luckily we

Anzac Day is observed by Australia and New Zealand and commemorates the citizens of both nations who

Germany scored two second-half goals to beat Britain 2-0 in the women's International Hockey Federation (FIH) Pro League in Mönchengladbach.

Britain will play the United States at Lee Valley Hockey Centre in London on Saturday (April 27), while New

Zealand and Australia are meeting tomorrow at North Harbour Hockey Stadium in Auckland.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has condemned the "heinous and cowardly" bombings which devastated Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.

investigation had found the bombings were in retaliation to the deadly attacks on mosques in Christchurch in New

Zealand last month.He did not provide any evidence to support his claim, according to reports.Most of

Russia's Mikhail Melnik triumphed in the men's individual competition to deny Olympic gold medallist Uladzislau Hancharou victory in front of his home crowd at the International Gymnastics Federation Trampoline World Cup in Minsk.

 Teams from Japan and New Zealand were second and third respectively.In the women's individual competition