Olympic champion Carissa Moore started strongly as she recorded the best women's heat score on day one of the World Surfing Games in El Salvador.

miles away in Tahiti, through the World Surfing Games.These will be the highest ranked surfers from Africa

Santiago.Brazil's Gabriel Medina set the best heat score in the men's competition ©Getty ImagesIt means that South

Bangkok in Thailand will host this year's International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Summit, it has been announced.

Busan in South Korea has been awarded next year's event, the ITTF Executive Board announced following

Petra Sörling has hailed the success of the World Championships in Durban, the first to be held in Africa

yesterday of a successful World Championship Finals in Durban, the first time the event had been held in Africa

China dominated the event winning all five gold medals with South Korea claiming two silver and bronze

Japan have regained the Asia Rugby Women's Championship by thrashing host nation Kazakhstan in the final in Almaty.

Kokaji.Japan's victory qualified them for the second tier of World Rugby's inaugural WXV competition in South

Africa in October of this year, while Kazakhstan are set to participate in WXV3.

World number one players Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha secured a Chinese clean sweep at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban as the country won all five gold medals on offer.

Thank you, South Africa. Thank you, Durban."

Russia has claimed that more than 30 countries have confirmed their participation at its International University Sports Festival in Yekaterinburg.

More than 30 countries from Latin America, Africa and Asia have confirmed their participation," he said

Organisation (SCO) and the Commonwealth of Independent States.BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China, South

Africa - could also compete.Former FISU President and current Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin

Omar Assar of Egypt became the second man from Africa to reach the quart-finals of the World Table Tennis

I would like to express my appreciation to him, my brother Khalid Assar, my family, Egypt and team Africa

was business as usual for reigning Olympic champion Ma Long of China, who eased past Lim Jong-hoon of South

11-7, 10-12, 11-5, 11-5.Sun reached the women’s singles quarterfinals, brushing past Yubin Shin of South

The four parties interested in hosting the 2027 Women's World Cup have signed a binding agreement with FIFA, committing to adhering to the key principles of the process.

Standalone bids from Brazil and South Africa are rivalled by two joint-proposals - one from Europe involving

capacity of 65,000 is required to host the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup Final ©Getty ImagesBrazil and South

Africa are recent hosts of the men's World Cup in 2014 and 2010 respectively, but neither have previously

England is considering a bid to host the 2031 FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament.

host has been announced.Four bids have been submitted for the 2027 World Cup - one by Brazil, one by South

Africa, a combined bid between the United States and Mexico and a combined bid between Belgium, the

Australia has named its netball squad for this year's Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago - where the Fast5 format will be used for the first time.

Packer and Voyvodic were part of the South Australia team which won the under-19 title at the National

power plays and "super shots".Hosts Trinidad and Tobago and Australia are due to joined by England, South

Africa, Botswana, Canada, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Scotland for the inaugural Commonwealth

Dutch rider Demi Vollering won the final stage of the Vuelta a Burgos Feminas in Spain for her fifth victory of the season on the International Cycling Union (UCI) Women's World Tour.

by three seconds.Van Anrooij staved off AG Insurance-Soudal-Quick-Step's Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio of South

Africa at 1min 40sec off the pace.Those two riders completed the overall podium, van Anrooij trailing

When the African Weightlifting Championships officially closed in Tunis on Friday (May 19) the medals table looked just like it usually does, with Egypt and other northern nations dominating.

funding.Algeria also has a chance of qualifying at least one athlete for Paris 2024.And sub-Saharan Africa

and support staff, plus professionally run National Federations with salaried administrators, further south

country that even trying on specialist weightlifting shoes for the first time was a novelty ©ITG South

No coaching structure is in place in Kenya or anywhere else in sub-Saharan Africa."

There are three zones in Africa [nNorth; East West and Central; Southern].

Olympic champions Ma Long and Chen Meng eased through to the second round on the opening day of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Table Tennis Championships Finals in Durban.

Ceremony of the landmark World Championships, ITTF President Petra Sörling reflected on host nation South

Africa boasts the youngest population among continents, and it is increasingly important to empower the

the governing body in South Africa, paving the way for other sports organisations to take similar initiatives

 "Today, I am immensely proud to open the World Championships in South Africa."

Africa", the first on the African continent since 1939 ©ITTFBack-to-back men's singles Olympic gold

Boxing governing bodies in Russia and South Africa have signed a cooperative agreement in the latest

The Russian Boxing Federation (RBF) invited the South African National Boxing Organisation (SANABO) Moscow

deal, the two organisations have agreed to organise at least two training camps a year in Russia and South

Africa while allowing athletes to compete in international tournaments in both countries.Other pledges

national squads, exchanging experience of coaches and holding "long-term training" of members of the South

Russia is looking to forge stronger links with South Africa with both nations members of BRICS – a political

Rugby is to give a first trial to "smart ball" technology at the World Rugby Under 20 Championships in South

Africa next month.

Sara Samir made a significant move in the Paris 2024 ranking lists when she won her third continental senior title at the African Weightlifting Championships in record-breaking style.

I believe she will win the gold medal in Paris for Africa and the Arab nations."

from the impressive 16-year-old Cameroonian Tanga Onana, who made a 320kg total, to the 43-year-old South