By Mike RowbottomLithuania's modern pentathlon world champions of 2013 - reigning Olympic champion Laura Asadauskaite and Justinas Kinderis - used all their experience to win a hugely competitive battle with Britain's young pairing of Kate French and Joe Evans to win the mixed relay title on the final day of the 54th UIPM World Championships in Warsaw.

was unable to reverse.Bronze went to the home pairing of Oktawia Nowacka and Szymon Staskiewicz.Hosts Poland

By Paul OsborneGreat Britain have been crowned champions of the Under-22 Wheelchair Basketball European Championship after a 51-40 victory over Germany in Zaragoza, Spain.

victory.In the classification games, France beat Israel 71-32 to secure fifth, while hosts Spain defeated Poland

AndersonGreat Britain's Oliver Bridge made it a clean sweep at the Formula Kite European Championships in Poland

and German Erwin Gruber.Russian Elena Kalinina was crowned the new women's European champion, denying Poland

By Mike RowbottomAry Graça, President of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), has assured insidethegames that his sport, which he accused earlier this year of being "too far from the Olympic Movement", is now enjoying better relations with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) than ever before.

the relationship is very good now.The Opening Ceremony for the Volleyball Men's World Championship in Poland

The World Championship currently underway in Poland has been described by Graça as a "launchpad" for

storiesSeptember 2014: President Graça gets rocket science right as FIVB uses Volleyball World Championship in Poland

fought from behind to defeat Italy and set up a thrilling final day of pool play action in Kraków, Poland

round, while South Korea, Finland and Cuba battle for the final two spaces in tomorrow's play.Hosts Poland

By Mike RowbottomThe Volleyball Men's World Championship currently underway in Poland has been described

Poland has on occasions been referred to as "Volleyball-land", such is the popularity of the sport there

No nation welcomes volleyball like you do in Poland."

Next we are going to have the Olympics in Brazil, which is, like Poland, a country of volleyball, where

Also, for the World Championship in Poland this year we had 146 countries trying to qualify."

"The markets in places like Japan, Brazil and Poland are very important, but we need to say to the world

By Mike RowbottomAleksander Lesun earned his second individual modern pentathlon world gold in Warsaw today to complete an outstanding hat-trick of international victories in 2014.

European medallist since making his breakthrough in the sport in 2010, and he used all his experience in Poland

By Paul OsborneGermany and Great Britain will go head to head for continental glory after making it to the final of the Under-22 Wheelchair Basketball European Championship in Zaragoza, Spain.

final, losing semi-finallists Italy and Turkey will battle for bronze, while France and Israel, and Poland

By Zjan ShirinianCuba survived an early wobble to win their crunch game against South Korea at the Volleyball World Championship and keep alive hopes of going one better than they did four years ago.

The squad faced an early elimination in Poland if they lost to South Korea in their Pool B match played

While Cuba won their first game of three in Poland, their Pool B opponents Brazil kept their perfect

By Paul OsborneThe German men's under-22 wheelchair basketball team have taken a step closer to defending their crown after progressing to the semi-finals of the Under-22 European Championship in Zaragoza, Spain.

Poland.Despite the final group defeat, Italy will join Germany in the semi-finals after overcoming Poland

By Gary AndersonIran's best ever start to a Volleyball World Championships came to a halt with defeat against France, who won 3-1 at the Kraków Arena tonight.

points respectively.Italy and Belgium came into their clash both having lost one and won one so far in Poland

champions Italy roared back to take the next three sets for a crucial win.At the Halla Stulecia in Wroclaw, Poland

By Emily GoddardThe International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has cancelled an international artistic gymnastics tournament due to take place in Ukraine next week because of the political unrest in the European nation.

next FIBA Europe board meeting on September 8, with Germany, France, Israel, Croatia, Finland, Latvia, Poland

By Zjan ShirinianIran stunned the United States in five thrilling sets of volleyball to win their second game of the Men's World Championship.

with a 3-1 win over three-times champions Italy, while the US won their first game against Belgium 3-2.Poland

made easy meat of Australia to give the home crowd plenty to cheer ©Getty Images for FIVBHosts Poland

of Australia, winning 25-17, 25-19, 25-22 in Wrocław.Serbia made amends for falling at the hands of Poland

their Volleyball Men's World Championship campaign underway with a straight sets win over Canada in Poland

By Duncan Mackay at the Traktor Sport Arena in ChelyabinskEven the presence of Vladimir Putin could not inspire Russia to their first gold medal of the 2014 World Judo Championships here today.

her teammates jumped for joy matside.The bronze medals were won by Germany and Japan, who defeated Poland