The International Fistball Association (IFA) has created a new 2x2 format of the sport, and launched a series of STAR event tournaments as part of its introduction.

featured in The World Games since 1985 and is set to be contested at the 2022 edition in Birmingham in the United

States.

Lee Pearson claimed the 14th Paralympic gold medal of his career after completing a hat-trick of Tokyo 2020 para dressage triumphs at the Japanese capital’s Equestrian Park.

was awarded to Regine Mispelkamp, riding Highlander Delight’s, as the German rider finished on 76.820.United

States’ Roxanne Trunnell won the Grade I freestyle test on 86.927, after a superb performance with Dolton.Latvia

Randall Woodfin has been re-elected as the Mayor of Birmingham in Alabama for another four-year term, and will be in office for the 2022 World Games.

rescheduling of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games due to COVID-19.Next year's event will be the first time that the United

States has hosted the World Games since California's Santa Clara staged the inaugural edition in 1981

China celebrated gold medal success in five races as Paralympic swimming competition continued at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, as Belarus' Ihar Boki maintained his individual dominance at Tokyo 2020.

eased to victory in a time of 34.69.Ireland’s Nicole Turner was 1.61 seconds behind the winner, while United

States’ Elizabeth Marks rounded off the podium in 36.83.Zheng Tao made it a hat-trick of Chinese victories

a world record time of 2min 42.14sec, while Cai was 0.77 seconds further back to take silver.United States

s Pipo Carlomagno was close behind in 1:08.83, with Israel’s Mark Malyar securing bronze in 1:10.08.United

States added two gold medals to its tally - Mallory Weggemann claimed her second Paralympic title by

The schedule for the Chengdu 2021 International University Sports Federation (FISU) World University Games has been released, with 18 sports set to be contested.

second most successful country in the all-time Universiade table with 443 gold medals, behind only the United

States which has 513.

The fascinating inner dynamics of the pole vault world were in evidence once again in Paris this weekend as the Diamond League continued on its European route to the concluding final in Zurich from September 8 to 9.

Garden Clash.The Three Musketeers of the event - Lavillenie, double world champion Sam Kendricks of the United

States and Sweden’s Louisiana-based world record holder Mondo Duplantis - put on a carefully synchronised

years ago against the rising talent of Duplantis.He is also, as of 2016, a first lieutenant in the United

States Army Reserve.This is a tough man.

States and home long jumper Luz Long during qualifying at the Berlin 1936 Olympics.After two fouls,

Germany's Felix Streng won a dramatic men's T64 100 metres final at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, where the top four athletes were separated by only three hundredths of a second.

Omonov set a new Paralympic record of 14.06m in the men's F41 shot put for gold.Hagan Landry of the United

States set a new North American record of 13.88m for second and Germany's Niko Kappel was third.Iranian

Games in a row in a time of 15.01.Rheed McCracken of Australia was second and Mohamed Alhammadi of the United

Turin has stepped in to host the third leg of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating season, following the cancellation of the planned competition in China.

The International Skating Union (ISU) said Debrecen in Hungary, Norwood in Massachusetts in the United

States and Turin were all put forward as replacement venues, with the Italian city selected.A third

The United States retained both the men's and women's titles at the 2021 International Basketball Federation

Puerto Rico upset hosts Mexico and the United States defeated Costa Rica to advance to tomorrow's semi-finals

We know that the United States is an excellent team and our execution is messy.

Two teachers that escorted schoolchildren to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games have tested positive for coronavirus.

in the schools programme with 600 present to see the wheelchair rugby final between Britain and the United

States."

Coleman Stewart of the United States set a world record in the men’s 100 metres backstroke on the way

Salum Ageze Kashafali clocked the quickest 100 metres time in Paralympic Games history here in Tokyo before reflecting on his life as a refugee.

athlete set by Petrucio Ferreira Dos Santos of Brazil at the 2019 World Championships.Noah Malone of the United

States came second, with Roman Tarasov of the Russian Paralympic Committee third.Smyth may have lost

Friday (August 27) and picked up from where he left off to top the podium again.Raymond Martin of the United

States led for much of the race before Sato overtook him and had enough in the tank to cross the line

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the women's under-73 kilogram category ©Getty ImagesBiathlon gold medallist Kendall Gretsch of the United

States won summer Paralympic gold in the Women's PTWC triathlon, defeating Australia's defending world

Paralympic gold medal ©Getty ImagesBritain won a historic first ever wheelchair rugby gold, defeating the United

States 54-49 in a hotly contested final ©Getty ImagesNorway's Salum Ageze Kashafali ended the athletics

A Women’s World Boxing Championships is set to be organised before the end of the year, it has been revealed by the International Boxing Association (AIBA).

12th edition of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships since it was first held in Scranton in the United

States in 2001.The event has been widely credited with helping the campaign to get women’s boxing added