Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen were crowned mixed doubles champions at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Championships in Budapest.

Kasumi Ishikawa of Japan.Yoshimura and Ishikawa had beaten Patrick Franziska and Petrissa Solja of Germany

Rio 2016 Olympic champion Laura Ludwig lost her first match back after a two-year break at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour event in Xiamen.

Ludwig is playing alongside former Germany team captain Margareta Kozuch at the four-star event.The duo

Australia won men’s and women’s matches as their teams faced New Zealand on Anzac Day in the latest round of International Hockey Federation (FIH) Pro League action in Auckland.

solitary goal came courtesy of Deanna Ritchie, left them sixth.They have lost ground on fifth-placed Germany

Germany scored two second-half goals to beat Britain 2-0 in the women's International Hockey Federation

 Their victory puts Germany in fifth in the FIH Pro League standings with a 53.33 per cent win rate.Britain

 A series of FIH Pro League matches will take place this weekend, with Germany hosting the Netherlands

Belgrade, Poznan and Trakai are vying to host the 2023 World Rowing Championships as the sport’s governing body confirmed bidders for a series of events.

Rowing will award the events at their Congress in September ©Getty ImagesOlympic courses in Munich in Germany

Kazakhstan's Viktor Kim has been suspended for the remainder of the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship and World Senior Curling Championship following an incident in his team's clash with Canada on Sunday (April 21).

Group D as both nations recorded their fifth wins.Norway overcame Estonia 8-4, while Scotland ousted Germany

Germany has emerged as a potential candidate to host the 2025 Summer Universiade after a delegation of

In a statement, FISU said the visit had been conducted "in preparation for a possible bid" from Germany

or region has been identified, FISU added.A feasibility study regarding a potential candidacy from Germany

collapsed following a referendum.Germany has not hosted the Summer Universiade since 1989 ©Wikipedia"For Germany

Olympic gold medallist Laura Ludwig will make her return after nearly two years away from the sport at the International Volleyball Federation Beach World Tour event in China this week.

Kira Walkenhorst, took time off to have a family in 2017.The German star has partnered with former Germany

Around 100 athletes are expected to attend the second edition of the 2019 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes’ Forum at the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Training Center in Colorado Springs in November.

The first Athletes' Forum was held in Duisburg, Germany, in 2017 and was a huge success."

Switzerland continued their pursuit of a second consecutive World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship title by thrashing Brazil in Stavanger.

pair their second victory of the tournament following their win over Chinese Taipei yesterday.Estonia, Germany

D.Olympic bronze medallists and hosts Norway overcame Lithuania 12-5, while Estonia defeated Slovakia 8-3.Germany

Reinhard Grindel has officially stood down from key roles at FIFA and UEFA after he was forced to resign as President of the German Football Association (DFB) following allegations of undeclared earnings and the acceptance of a watch as a gift.

Executive Committee member.In the immediate aftermath of the revelations, Grindel claimed the media in Germany

subsidiary.During a term of office marked by controversy, the one highlight under Grindel came last September when Germany

Hosts the Netherlands were crowned the first Under-19 World Korfball Championship winners as they beat Belgium in a dramatic final in Leuwarden.

the tournament on a high following the disappointment of losing in the semi-finals as they defeated Germany

in the third-place play off.The Asian side proved too strong for Germany, recording a 20-12 win to claim

Athlete representation has been the focus of the past couple of weeks in sports governance circles, with several different events featuring panellists musing over the topic.

His statement followed the recent ruling in Germany, which scaled back the advertising restrictions placed

Maybe it can be an international platform, maybe we can be a blueprint from Germany, we hope we can do

Greek veteran Dimitris Kyrsanidis and Hikari Izumi of Japan claimed International Gymnastics Federation Parkour World Cup victories as the latest International Festival of Extreme Sports (FISE) World Series event concluded in Hiroshima.

World Cup series, as she dominated the final on her way to scoring 91.25 points.Lara Marie Lessmann of Germany

Hosts The Netherlands will meet Belgium in the final of the first Under-19 World Korfball Championship after both sides came through their last four encounters in Leuwarden.

thrashed Hungary 54-6 in the quarter-finals at sportcentre 't Kalverdijkje.The Dutch team then dispatched Germany