More than $6,000 (£4,800/€5,600) was raised for the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) at the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Junior Championships in Burnaby in Canada.

donations.Athletes, fans and referees also joined in as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's bear mascot.The New

Zealand team performed a haka - the famous Maori war dance - to show their support and promote the initiative.More

Choue officially announced his plan to establish the THF in his speech at the UN headquarters in New

World Sailing has re-opened the bid process for its 2017 Youth World Championships following Israel’s decision to pull out from hosting the event due to an inability to secure adequate funding.

The bid process to select a new venue for the 2017 Youth Sailing World Championships has commenced and

TwitterWorld Sailing were also forced to re-award the 2016 Youth Sailing World Championships to Auckland in New

Zealand earlier this year after the withdrawal of Oman.A new host was required after Oman's sudden withdrawal

in February - with speculation suggesting the country could not meet new criteria designed to prevent

played in the event of a gold medal.World Sailing condemned the events as "unacceptable" and introduced new

The draw for the Japan 2019 Rugby World Cup will take place in Kyoto on May 10 next year, it has been announced.

finalised for the quadrennial event.Argentina, Australia, England, France, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New

Zealand, Scotland, South Africa and Wales automatically qualified courtesy of finishing in the top three

which hosts England failed to progress after being paired with Australia, Wales, Fiji and Uruguay.New Zealand

will be seeking a third successive World Cup triumph in Japan ©Getty ImagesNew Zealand, England, Australia

New Zealand's double Commonwealth Games champion Jo Edwards suffered a shock loss to Canada's Kelly McKerihen

 Elsewhere on the opening day of action, the New Zealand women's four bounced back to beat South

world singles and pairs champion Val Smith, lost 17-14 to Singapore.After beating the South Africans, New

Zealand also claimed a 21-13 win over their Australian rivals.In the men's pairs event, Glasgow 2014

The 2016 World Bowls Championships are due to get underway in Christchurch in New Zealand tomorrow, where

over whether the Championships would remain in Christchurch arose after an earthquake was felt across New

Zealand earlier this month.Kerry Clark, the chief executive of Bowls New Zealand and chairman of the

The United States, Spain and Belgium all joined The Netherlands and Argentina in the quarter-finals of the 2016 Women’s Hockey Junior World Cup in Santiago in Chile following the final round of matches in both Pools A and D today.

victory of the event so far, winning 13-0 which included five goals for Frederique Matla.Spain eased past New

Zealand 4-0 to reach the last eight ©FIHA thrilling conclusion was expected in Pool D as all four teams

the score from a penalty corner.Following the draw Belgium were forced to wait for the result of the New

Zealand and Spain match to find out their fate, with the Chinese knocked out.New Zealand needed to win

Host nation Russia will take on UEFA European Championships winners Portugal in the group stage of next year’s Confederations Cup after the draw for the tournament was made in Kazan today.

have been placed into Group A and will be joined by Oceania Football Confederation Nations Cup victors New

Zealand and Mexico, who lifted the CONCACAF Gold Cup last year.World Cup holders Germany will go up

tournament, used as a test event for the following year’s World Cup, will begin with Russia’s clash with New

Zealand on June 17.The match is scheduled to be held at Saint Petersburg’s brand-new 68,000-seater stadium

Rugby’s return to the Olympics this summer - after a 92-year absence - ended, figuratively speaking, in an exhilarating run to the try line followed by a touch down between the posts. If any International Olympic Committee (IOC) members were undecided over the sport’s claim to a core place in the Games, the drama and excitement of the sevens game appears to have converted them.

the game in new areas."

Zealand to victory over Fiji before leading a rare post-match haka.Jonah Lomu (front centre) shows the

joy of sevens as he leads New Zealand in a post-match haka after beating favourites Fiji to win the

We use it to estimate the new fans coming into the sport.

Zealand in the Rio 2016 sevens final.

Defending champions The Netherlands made it two wins from two at the Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup as they earned a comfortable 5-1 victory over the United States at the Club Deportivo Manquehue in Santiago.

In Pool D, China picked up their second consecutive 2-2 draw, this time against New Zealand, while Spain

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has urged FIFA to be “more active” in promoting the 2018 World Cup as Gianni Infantino arrived in the country for tomorrow’s Confederations Cup draw.

concerning the construction of some of the venues which will be used for the event.Saint Petersburg’s brand-new

the draw.Pot two includes 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners Mexico, Asian Cup champions Australia and New

Zealand, winners of the Oceania Football Confederation Nations Cup.They will be joined by the team which

The Netherlands got their pursuit of a third straight Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup title off to the perfect start as they thrashed South Korea in their opening match at the Club Deportivo Manquehue in Santiago.

snatch a vital equaliser to rescue a late point.Belgium went to the top of the group as they edged New

Zealand 2-1.Action in Pool B, which features Argentina, Germany, Japan and France, gets underway tomorrow

Australia have reclaimed the number one spot in the Rugby League International Federation (RLIF) world rankings after their victory in the Four Nations tournament.

The Kangaroos beat rivals New Zealand 34-8 in the final on Sunday (November 20) at Anfield in Liverpool

, and jumped above the Kiwis in the standings in the process.New Zealand, who have slipped to second,

into the top four, their highest-ever placing.Scotland have climbed to fourth after their draw with New

Zealand ©Getty ImagesThis comes after they became the first country to avoid defeat against one of the

top three nations since Papua New Guinea in 1990, thanks to a 18-18 Four Nations draw with New Zealand

Representatives from Georgia, Romania and the United States have been officially added onto an expanded World Rugby Council during an interim meeting in London.

governing body with "immediate effect owing to ongoing governance issues".The addition of the three new

countries onto the ruling Council comes as World Rugby seeks a "new governance model paving the way

for wider representation" under new Chairman Bill Beaumont."

this year ©Getty ImagesVoting rights for nine unions - Australia, England, France, Ireland, Italy, New

Zealand, Scotland, South Africa and Wales - have also been expanded in "accordance with wide-ranging

Debbie Hockley has been appointed as the first female President in New Zealand Cricket's (NZC) 122-year-history

nation.Fifty-four-year-old Hockley played 118 one-day internationals (ODIs) and 19 test matches for New

nbsp;In 2014 she was inducted into the International Cricket Council's Hall of Fame.NZC also elected a new

Team sizes for jumping, dressage and eventing have been capped at three for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo following a key vote at the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) General Assembly in the Japanese capital.

proposal, with a further 10 nations joining them.Albania, Bulgaria, France, Latvia, Luxembourg, Monaco, New

Zealand, The Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland also opposed the changes.A total of 107 National Federations