The draw for the beach soccer and beach handball tournaments at this year's inaugural World Beach Games has been made in host nation Qatar.

Denmark, Hungary, Argentina, the US and Tunisia will lock horns, with Greece, Spain, Poland, China, Australia

The Netherlands and China qualified the first boats for next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo, after winning their heats in the women's quadruple sculls at the World Rowing Championships in Austria.

of the women's eight after finishing the opening heat in 6:07.04.The American crew were followed by Australia

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has announced a prize money purse of more than $5 million (£4 million/€4.5 million) for this year's Premier12 tournament.

Olympic hosts are joined at the tournament by United States, South Korea, Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Mexico, Australia

Netball Australia and Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA) have established a partnership to develop netballers

Athletes who have shown potential to represent Australia at the highest level will participate in camps

with the nation’s high-performance netball programme.They will be selected annually by the Netball Australia

“We’ve partnered with Commonwealth Games Australia on this concept in preparation for Birmingham in 2022

pathway to ensure we are ready for Birmingham in 2022 and the Netball World Cup in Cape Town in 2023.”Australia

goal is to be the number one nation in both gold and overall medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.”Australia

Canada defeated the United States for the second time to confirm themselves as winners of the International Cricket Council (ICC) T20 World Cup Americas Regional Finals.

United Arab Emirates in October and November.It will offer six places for the 2020 ICC T20 World Cup in Australia

Croatian Franko Grgić smashed the men's 1,500 metres freestyle junior record in winning gold on the final day of the International Swimming Federation World Junior Championships in Budapest.

Grgić clocked 14:46.09 as he swam the sixth fastest 1,500m in world swimming in 2019.Thomas Neill of Australia

57.98.Walsh clocked 24.71 to touch out countrywoman Maxine Parker by 0.04 to seal gold.Meg Harris of Australia

Martin and Valent Sinković of Croatia topped their heat in the men's pairs event on the first day of the World Rowing Championships in Linz Ottensheim in Austria.

Eisser of the United States, who won heat four in 7:12.760.Jessica Morrison and Annabelle McIntyre of Australia

Gowler of New Zealand triumphed in heat five with 7:13.980.Jessica Morrison and Annabelle McIntyre of Australia

were the winners in heat two with 7:14.750.In the women's four, Australia were the fastest qualifiers

victors in heat four with 6:01.520, with Britain finishing in 6:02.620 in heat one.Heat three was won by Australia

Defending champion Novak Djokovic heads into the US Open as favourite to secure a 17th men's singles Grand Slam title.

face Nicole Gibbs of the US in round one as second seed, while French Open winner Ashleigh Barty of Australia

The results of an International Cycling Union (UCI) survey on the future of road events has revealed fears over a small number of teams dominating competition.

in the United States, France, Spain, Belgium and Italy with the United Kingdom, Germany, Colombia, Australia

Canada beat hosts Bermuda by eight wickets on the penultimate day of action at the International Cricket Council (ICC) T20 World Cup Americas Regional Finals.

United Arab Emirates in October and November.It will offer six places for the 2020 ICC T20 World Cup in Australia

Japan will face Thailand in the final of the Asian Women's Volleyball Championships after they both earned 3-1 victories today in Seoul.

final tomorrow, following the third place match between China and the South Koreans.Earlier, India and Australia

round.India achieved this in the morning match, defeating Hong Kong in straight sets 25-19, 25-14, 25-22.Australia

South Korea and China have won the second-round pools at the Asian Women's Volleyball Championship, with the teams involved in the semi-finals having already been decided.

finish bottom ranked of the 13 teams competing in the South Korean capital.They were beaten 3-0 by Australia

Britain's Emma Wiggs successfully defended her women's VL2 500 metres world title on day two of the International Canoe Federation Paracanoe World Championships in Szeged.

webelieve #tokyo2020 #womeninsport #paracanoe @QldAcademySport pic.twitter.com/jfPFIHGtYr— Paddle Australia

Hosts South Korea beat Chinese Taipei to secure their place in the semi-finals of the Asian Women's Volleyball Championship in Seoul.

Pool H and New Zealand will go up against the winner.Pool H is due to conclude tomorrow, when leaders Australia

Jo Brigden-Jones and Jaime Roberts of Australia booked their place in the women's K2 200 metres final