GoddardEnglish former county cricketer Andy Smith has been named as the new high performance director for Hockey

County Cricket Club athlete replaces Trish Heberle and takes up the role immediately after working as Hockey

international team and first class cricket operations departments.Australia's men and women secured the hockey

our vision of consistent Australian team performance and team success at our benchmark events," said Hockey

"Keeping our men's and women's teams - the Kookaburras and Hockeyroos - at the forefront of world hockey

Australia's hockey teams have enjoyed considerable success on the world stage in recent years, having

ButlerHosts Canada moved one step closer to a final clash with arch rivals United States at the World Sledge Hockey

[email protected] storiesFebruary 2015: Canada and US take maximum points in World Sledge Hockey

Challenge openersJanuary 2015: Babey appointed Canada's ice sledge hockey head coachJanuary 2015: Leduc

Recreation Centre to host 2015 World Sledge Hockey ChallengeJanuary 2015: Sledge hockey players given

surprise visit from NHL stars in advertSeptember 2014: IPC Ice Sledge Hockey launches new-look websites

By Mike RowbottomQatar's achievement in becoming the first non-European nation to reach the final of the Men's World Handball Championships shows this Gulf state is now a serious sporting competitor at world level, claimed Sheikh Saoud Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, general  secretary of the Qatar Olympic Committee.

been designed to be transformed into an ice rink, which fulfils the standards of the International Hockey

By Michael PavittThe English Institute of Sport (EIS) Sheffield and iceSheffield have become the latest high profile venues to be incorporated into the Olympic Legacy Park (OLP) project.

second venue added to the OLP project and is a national Centre of Excellence for figure skating and ice hockey

By Michael PavittThe 2015 World Sledge Hockey Challenge got underway in Leduc, Canada, where the hosts

in the four team tournament prior ahead of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey

at [email protected] storiesJanuary 2015: Babey appointed Canada's ice sledge hockey

head coachJanuary 2015: Leduc Recreation Centre to host 2015 World Sledge Hockey ChallengeJanuary 2015

: Sledge hockey players given surprise visit from NHL stars in advertSeptember 2014: IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

new-look websites ahead of Buffalo 2015 World ChampionshipsMay 2014: United States awarded 2015 Ice Sledge Hockey

By Michael PavittThe Slovakian leg of the 2015 Winter Universiade came to a close today, with the Russian team once again rising to the top of the podium in Štrbské Pleso.

Ceremony, and will stage competition in Alpine skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey

By Mike RowbottomAs competitors and spectators gather in Colorado for the Alpine World Ski Championships which are due get underway tomorrow, Gian-Franco Kasper - President of the International Ski Federation (FIS) is looking forward to the Vonn Effect.The presence in Vail/Beaver Creek of Lindsey Vonn, who last month equalled and then broke Annemarie Moser-Proll's 35-year-old record of 62 World Cup victories, will intensify the focus on a sporting event which is second only to the winter Olympics in terms of prestige.Not least because the outgoing American has come back this year from a serious knee injury which prevented her competing...

We already have many stadiums in the Winter Games, for sports like curling, skating and ice hockey.

smaller events such as ice stock, which is also known as Bavarian curling, or bandy, which is like ice hockey

Looks like not.USA take on Sweden in bandy, a sport similar to ice hockey but with a ball rather than

man he has replaced as AWIOF President, fellow Swiss Rene Fasel, who is head of the International Ice Hockey

By Nick ButlerTaekwondo will make its Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020, it was decided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board today, meaning a total of 22 sports will feature, but sailing and football seven-a-side will miss out.

inclusion, with powerchair football three-on-three, intellectually impaired basketball, electric wheelchair hockey

By Daniel Etchells in the Montafon Valley in AustriaGermany and Russia ended the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) on six gold medals apiece after both countries added two more to their tallies on the final day of action here in Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein.

also coming out on top, while Russia's 4x5 kilometres mixed cross-country skiing relay team and ice hockey

The ice hockey competition gold medal match saw Russia overcome the Czech Republic 9-5 in a fiery encounter

and Maxim Bain took Russia out of sight and sparked jubilant scenes at the final whistle.Russia's ice hockey

By Daniel Etchells in the Montafon Valley in AustriaAustria's Raphael Haaser won the boys' Alpine skiing slalom event on the penultimate day of the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein to move the co-hosting nation level with Germany, Russia and France on four gold medals overall.

Slovakia beat Austria 9-1 to claim fifth place in the ice hockey competition ©EYOF 2015In the ice hockey

tomorrow includes Nordic combined, Alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, ski jumping and the ice hockey

By Daniel Etchells in the Montafon Valley in AustriaFrance were the biggest winners on day three of the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein, adding three gold medals to their tally.

Austria were comfortably beaten by Finland in the ice hockey competition ©EYOF 2015Elsewhere, the boys

were the silver and bronze medallists, coming through in 31:50.80 and 32:30.80 respectively.In the ice hockey

four each, while Russia and Austria have three apiece.The action is due to continue tomorrow with ice hockey

By Michael PavittThe fourth day of competition at the 2015 Winter Universiade in Slovakia saw four medal events take place and Russia continued their domination by winning 10 of the 12 medals up for grabs.

Granada from February 4, as the Spanish city will stage Alpine skiing, curling, figure skating, ice hockey

By Daniel Etchells in the Montafon Valley in AustriaRussia claimed two gold medals on day two of the European Youth Olympic Festival in Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein as Sofia Tikhonova came out on top in the girls' HS 66 ski jumping event and Sergei Demichev won the boys' biathlon 7.5 kilometres sprint.

Austria's ice hockey team were comprehensively beaten by Russia ©ÖOC/GEPAThe girls' Alpine skiing slalom

There were also two more matches played in the ice hockey competition as Switzerland beat Slovakia 2-

The EYOF is due to continue tomorrow with biathlon, ice hockey, figure skating, cross-country skiing,

By Emily GoddardThe Powerchair Hockey International Committee (PCHC) has launched a competition for the

recently underwent an overhaul, which included a name change for the sport itself from electric wheelchair hockey

By Daniel Etchells in the Montafon Valley in AustriaVorarlberg's Pascal Fritz secured a gold medal for co-hosting nation Austria on day one of the European Youth Olympic Festival after coming out on top in the boys' Alpine skiing giant slalom in Malbun, Liechtenstein.

Paul was the girls' bronze medallist.Czech Republic and Russia both made winning starts in the ice hockey

Tomorrow's action consists of biathlon, ice hockey, Alpine skiing, ski jumping and snowboard as more