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Summer Youth Olympic Games: Day three of competition

  • Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games Live Blogs

We have rowing, badminton, tennis, fencing and swimming for starters.The shooting final begins at 11:

7-0 lead against Japan.10:24 Qualification for the first final of the day, in the girl's 10m rifle shooting

one beginning at 17:00.Meanwhile, Sarah Hornung of Switzerland's leads midway through the 10m rifle shooting

09:23 Qualification in the shooting for this morning's final has already begun.

No triathlon this morning so the first one will come at the Fangshan Shooting Hall with the girl's 10m


Pool provides golds galore on day two of Nanjing 2014

  • Nanjing 2014

By Paul Osborne at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre NatatoriumIt was golds galore in the pool today, with nine champions crowned here on day two of the second Summer Youth Olympic Games.

Huang won the women's under 49kg category and Yu-Jen Huang followed suit in the men's under 55kg, while shooting


Summer Youth Olympic Games: Day two of competition

  • Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games Live Blogs

More medals in swimming, judo, taekwondo, fencing, shooting and weightlifting will be won, with gymnastics

There was a symbolic moment earlier on today when Pavlo Korostylov was presented with his 10m pistol shooting

at the Opening Ceremony.The man at the head of the Olympic Movement has paid a visit to the Fangshan Shooting

with the women taking to the apparatus today.10:27 Our next medals are set to come from the Fangshan Shooting

air pistol qualifications have just come to an end.South Korea's Cheongyong Kim led the way in that shooting


China win three gold medals on enthralling first day of action at Nanjing 2014

  • Nanjing 2014

By Paul Osborne at the Main Media Centre in Nanjing China have lifted themselves to the top of the pile here in Nanjing with two weightlifting gold medals complimenting a stellar performance in the pool, to place the hosts atop the medals table at the end of the opening day of action at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games.

women's under 44kg division.Other competitions saw Agata Nowak of Poland win gold in the 10m air pistol shooting


Summer Youth Olympic Games: Day one of competition

  • Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games Live Blogs

Germany.Nowak wins gold for Poland in pistol shooting11:30 Agata Nowak of Poland has won the 10m air pistol shooting

They started well, with a 29-5 victory over Japan.10:49 The next medal to be won will come in shooting

with the women's 10m air pistol competition over at the Fangshan Shooting Hall.



Further testing to be undertaken after demonstration events at IPC Shooting World Championships

  • Shooting News

AndersonFollowing successful demonstrations at last month's International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting

World Championships, visually impaired and Para-clay target shooting disciplines have been approved

in action during the Championships in Suhl, Germany, before being approved during a vote at the IPC Shooting

athletes are one of a few groups of Para-athletes not represented at the World Championships, an issue IPC Shooting

Forum in Suhl ©AFP/Getty ImagesIn the Para-clay target shooting discipline, 22 athletes from six countries

Volo (FITAV) in Todi, Italy, from October 8 to 11.It follows a meeting earlier this year between IPC Shooting

, the International Shooting Sport Federation and FITAV which discussed the implementation of a research


German long jump champion Rehm named IPC Athlete of the Month for July

  • Paralympics

By Paul Osborne German Paralympic champion Markus Rehm - who was told he could not compete at the European Athletics Championships because his prosthetic leg would give him an advantage - has been named July's Allianz Athlete of the Month, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced today.

Glasgow, Great Britain.Sweden's Jonas Jacobsson, who won his 18th and 19th world titles at the IPC Shooting



Three-way tie for lead after day one at USPGA as defending champion Dufner forced out through injury

  • Golf

By Gary AndersonEngland's Lee Westwood shares the lead at six-under par with Americans Kevin Chappell and Ryan Palmer after the first round of the USPGA Championship in Kentucky, while defending champion Jason Dufner withdrew from the tournament midway through his opening round due to injury.

While Dufner was struggling, Westwood was setting the pace after shooting his joint lowest round in a


Pistorius "more interested in defending his life than the truth", claims prosecution

  • Athletics News

By Nick ButlerOscar Pistorius has been accused of being "more interested in defending his life than the truth" by chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel as part of a damning closing argument in the final stages of his murder trial in Pretoria. 

The 27-year-old six-time Paralympic champion is accused of deliberately shooting dead his girlfriend

caseJuly 2014: Australian TV network denies illegally obtaining footage of Pistorius re-enacting fatal shooting


Peru's new High Performance Centre set to be completed by late October

  • PASO

By Paul Osborne Work on Peru's High Performance Centre (CAR) is progressing in the established time frame and will be completed by October, according to the Peruvian Olympic Committee (COP).

construction work is complete the centre will accommodate athletes from 23 sports, including, gymnastics, shooting


Lawyers submit summary of arguments ahead of Pistorius murder trial resumption

  • Athletics News

By Zjan ShirinianDefence and prosecution lawyers in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius have submitted a summary of their arguments ahead of closing statements beginning on Thursday (August 7).

reconvenes after a one month adjournment, and Friday.The Paralympic athlete is accused of deliberately shooting


New website launched by Zimbabwe Olympic Committee

  • ANOCA

By Nick ButlerA new website has been launched by the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC) in order to continue its successful modernisation drive of recent months.

at the African Youth Games in Gabarone in May, including a gold for Petra Mukonde in the basketball shooting