Membership of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has grown to 148 nations after six countries were added on the opening day of the world governing body’s 81st Congress here.

the first time, would stage the 2018 Congress.Presidents of the four Continental Unions - in Asia, Africa

An official promotional video for the men's Under-23 Baseball World Cup has been released by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) ahead of the tournament getting underway in Monterrey in Mexico on October 28.

Argentina, while Australia are flying the flag for Oceania.Completing the 12-strong line-up is South Africa

The International Surfing Association (ISA) has announced a broadcast partnership with Eurosport Asia Pacific, which will see the channel air the highlights of all of their World Championships held in 2016.

seen huge growth of the sport across the world in recent years, especially in Asia, Latin America and Africa

World Rugby chief executive Brett Gosper has admitted he fears the build-up to the 2019 World Cup could be overshadowed by the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo but claimed preparations for the tournament were firmly on track.

of the biggest upsets in Rugby World Cup history when they earned a famous 34-32 victory over South Africa

Stephane Houdet and David Wagner retained their respective men’s singles and quad singles titles and both added doubles prizes as the United States Tennis Association (USTA) US Open Wheelchair Championships came to a close in St. Louis.

, and his fourth Super Series singles title of 2016 after previous victories this year at the South Africa

successive quad singles title and seventh US Open crown after defeating second seed Lucas Sithole of South Africa

Punta Canta in the Dominican Republic was proposed as the venue for the 2018 International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World Congress at the conclusion of this year’s edition in Buenos Aires.

to hear from the FIVB commissions.Presentations from the FIVB’s five confederations - representing Africa

The official competition schedule for this month’s Under-23 Baseball World Cup in Mexican city Monterrey has been announced by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC).

action sees three matches played in both Group A and Group B.In Group A, the top-ranked nation in Africa

will meet South America's equivalent as South Africa go up against Venezuela.South Korea, bronze medallists

The 2018 Ironman 70.3 World Championship will be held in Nelson Mandela Bay in South Africa, it has been

Championship ©Getty Images"Tens of thousands of athletes have enjoyed racing in our events in South Africa

South Africa were today warned that they have less than two months to meet a series of conditions or

 "This historic decision awarded the Games to Africa for the first time - an inspiring and important

Therefore, we need to resolve this situation with our colleagues from South Africa expeditiously."

Our first priority is to find a solution with South Africa."

The first-ever South African Adaptive Surfing Championships will take place at Muizenberg Pavilion Beach in Cape Town later this month, it has been announced.

event, which is scheduled to be held on October 16, will be organised and run by Adaptive Surfing South Africa

Smyth, Dries Millard and JP Veaudry, along with New Zealand-based Bruce Campbell, represented South Africa

 Brian Abrahams, a Surfing South Africa Board member and experienced contest official, will travel

appointed as contest director.The day before the start of the Championships, ASSA and Surfing South Africa

 The 2016 South Africa Adaptive Surfing Championships is sponsored by Triggerfish Animation Studios

A proposal for the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) to be incorporated as a private company limited by guarantee in the United Kingdom was passed unanimously here today.

offices from London to Kuala Lumpur following protests from several countries, particularly those from Africa

Any remaining doubts about whether the headquarters of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) will stay in the United Kingdom are set to be ended with a plan for it to be incorporated as a private company limited by guarantee.

offices from London to Kuala Lumpur following protests from several countries, particularly those from Africa

Piara Powar, director of Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE), has claimed the indictment of former FIFA vice-president and previous head of the their anti-racism taskforce Jeffrey Webb was one of the reasons it was disbanded.

In South Africa, at the 2010 World Cup, we saw very little acts of criminality and similarly with the

Two Grand Slam matches were among the 96 flagged as potentially suspicious to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) between July and September of this year, it was announced today.

September 22 for betting on 220 matches between February 2012 and June 2015.Joshua Chetty of South Africa

International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) secretary general Maureen Orchard is confident more African nations will compete in the women’s wheelchair basketball qualification tournament for future Paralympic Games after Algeria became the continent’s first-ever representatives at Rio 2016. 

53-38 but Algeria’s participation alone made Paralympic history.They qualified after beating South Africa

in the final of the 2015 IWBF Africa Championship in Algiers, securing the sole spot on offer.

We were delighted to have representation from the Africa zone and full representation at the zonal qualification

Our work with the Africa zone showed our commitment to them and will result in even more teams in the