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Danvers and Sebrle lead nominatons for European Athletes Commission

  • Athletics

June 14 - Britain's Olympic 400 metres hurdles bronze medallist Tasha Danvers (pictured) and the Czech Republic's world decathlon record holder and former Olympic champion Roman Sebrle are among 14 men and women who have been nominated for the European Athletics Athletes Commission election. 

Bulgarian sprinter Ivet Lalova, reigning World Championships pole vault silver medallist Monika Pyrek of Poland


London left to battle Beijing for 2015 World Athletics Championships

  • Athletics

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year June 8 - London's bid to host the 2015 World Championships in the Olympic Stadium have been boosted after one of its rivals had to withdraw, leaving only two candidates when the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) chooses the host city later this year.

Chorzow, located in the middle of the largest urban centre in Poland, the Upper Silesian Metropolitan

on the opportunity to host matches during the 2012 UEFA European Championships, which Poland


Skelhon leads way as British shooters win nine medals

  • Latest (Paralympics)

June 2 - Matt Skelhon (pictured) again led the way as Britain's disability shooters won nine medals, including three gold, at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Cup in Eurostand in Volmerange, France.

Butler and Stephen Robertson then went on to win silver with a score of 1,765, behind Slovakia with Poland


Ukraine planning bid for 2022 Winter Olympics

  • Beijing 2022

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year May 28 - Ukraine, whose slow preparations for football's 2012 European Championships have been heavily criticised, are planning to bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, the country's President Viktor Yanukovych announced today.

forced to reassure UEFA that Ukraine will be ready to host Euro 2012 which it is staging jointly with Poland


British fencers continue to impress in World Cup

  • Fencing

May 16 - British fencer Laurence Halsted (pictured) made his first World Cup podium by winning the bronze medal in Tokyo taking his international ranking  to 15. 

  She narrowly lost 15-14 to world number 24, Bogna Jozwiak, from Poland, who went on to


Brabants back in British squad for first time since Beijing

  • Canoeing

By Tom Degun May 12 - Olympic canoeing gold medallist Tim Brabants (pictured) is to return to the Great Britain team after 18 months away from the sport to qualify with ease for his first international competitions since the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

for the European Championships in Spain this June and World Championships which will take place in Poland



Britain's top weightlifter quits disillusioned with federation

  • Weightlifting

May 2 - Michaela Breeze (pictured), the first woman weightlifter to represent Britain at the Olympics, has announced that she plans to retire after this year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi because she can no longer face having to work with national performance director Tamás Fehér.

Later that year she won the European junior title in Poland.



"Dunkirk spirit" sees arrivals by sea and land for European Gymnastics Championships

  • Gymnastics

By Mike Rowbottom April 18 - This week’s European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham, delayed by a day until Thursday (April 22) because of travel difficulties caused by the shutdown of British airports, look likely to go ahead according to plan.

Eight other nations have confirmed their travel plans, while Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland


Funeral to be held Monday of Polish Olympic Committee President

  • Latest

By Duncan Mackay British Internet Sports Writer of the Year April 18 - The funeral of Piotr Nurowski, the President of the Polish Olympic Committee (POC), killed in the air crash that has been described as the country's biggest disaster since the end of World War Two will take place tomorrow.

"His extraordinary commitment and enthusiasm promoting the values of sport and Olympism in Poland


No silver linings for England's badminton players

  • Badminton

April 17 - England's hopes of turning bronze into silver or better ended in disappointment in the Yonex European Badminton Championships at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester today.

second-game comeback before going down to second seeds Robert Mateusiak and Nadiezda Kostiuczyk of Poland


Irish boxing hit by row over appointment of new high performance director

  • Boxing

April 16 - Irish boxing's preparations for London 2012, where they will be seeking to build on their success at Beijing in 2008 when they won three medals, including a bronze for light-flyweight Paddy Barnes (pictured) could be jeopradised after a row broke-out over the appointment of a new high performance director.

In 2009, Joe Ward won a world youth title in Armenia; Jason Quigley took European Youths gold in Poland


Turkish delight for British men and women boxers

  • Boxing

By Tom Degun April 13 - British Boxing’s men and women are returning from a successful tournament in Ankara, Turkey, where they picked up four medals and two golds, which were won by flyweight Khalid Yafai (pictured) and middleweight Savannah Marshall.

team’s stand-out performer as the fighter from Hartlepool saw off Katarzyna Furmaniak of Poland