Italy enjoyed a fine third day of the European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, winning medals in four of six finals.

won the women's 5km race in 58:45.2.Italy's Giulia Gabbrielleschi was second and Océane Cassignol of France

Lidia Valentin of Spain, who has won gold, silver and bronze medals at the Olympic Games, is moving up to a new weight in an attempt to qualify for Tokyo 2020.

also won the women’s 49kg in which Manuela Berrio totalled 176kg, finishing ahead of Anais Michel of France

Ravindra Pal Singh and Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, members of the last Indian hockey team to win gold at the Olympic Games, died on the same day from COVID-19.

the victorious Indian side at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, died within hours of each other, Agence France-Presse

The pools for the final Tokyo 2020 Olympics qualifying tournament in rugby sevens, the World Rugby Sevens Repechage, have been drawn ahead of the competition taking place next month in Monaco.

to continue the form that saw them qualify for their first World Cup in 2018.Rio 2016 Olympic teams France

The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) has announced the 2021 Flag Football World Championships will feature a record 42 teams.

Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Britain,

The International Biathlon Union (IBU) claims participants in the Biathlon Climate Challenge are on track to planting 50,000 trees by the middle of this month courtesy of their lung-busting efforts.

Ukraine.Germany’s Franziska Preuß, Italy’s Dorothea Wierer, Estonia’s Regina Oja, Émilien Jacquelin of France

Organisers have announced the schedule for the Tokyo 2020 wheelchair rugby competition following the completion of the draw for the event.

Britain take on Canada in Pool B before hosts Japan play the final match of day one when they face France

Sixty national teams have been entered into the 2021 edition of the FIFAe Nations Cup.

is the second edition of the two-on-two competition - now being played on the FIFA 21 game - after France

Australia has begun vaccinating its athletes against COVID-19 ahead of Tokyo 2020, with two-time Olympic swimming gold medallist Cate Campbell being the first to receive a Pfizer jab.

Carroll said it "provides comfort" for Olympians given the COVID-19 concerns in Japan, per an Agence France-Presse

Para athletics is set to take centre stage at the National Stadium in Tokyo as preparations continue for the rescheduled Paralympic Games.

Getty Images"It's weird running in a stadium with no fans," the Athens 2004 gold medallist told Agence France-Presse

Reigning champions Spain are set to meet four-time winners Sweden in the preliminary round group stages of next year’s European Men’s Handball Championship.

placed in Group E which also features the Czech Republic and Bosnia-Herzegovina.Three-time winners France

Coronavirus concerns have forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to cancel three sub regional Europe qualifiers for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in 2022.

Hungary, Luxembourg and Sweden.The A qualifier had been to start three days later with Bulgaria, Cyprus, France

Armenia and Romania both qualified two wrestlers for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the men’s Greco-Roman categories on the third day of the United World Wrestling (UWW) World Olympic Games qualifier in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Japan.Nasibov will face Karen Aslanyan of Armenia in the final after he narrowly beat Mamadassa Sylla of France

International para-taekwondo returns this weekend as the best athletes from Europe that have yet to qualify for the 2020 Paralympic Games meet in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to seek a passage to Japan.

Kutalmis Atesli of Turkey.In the women's under-67kg category, the gold medals went to Althea Laurin of France

A proposed law in France seeks to require governing bodies to have gender parity following the Paris

The "Bill to democratise sport in France" was first filed in January and was adopted by France’s National