Sweden’s Henrik Roger Larsson and Ireland’s Ciara Neville claimed the much-coveted boy’s and girl’s 100 metre titles on day two of the Tbilisi 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF).

’s Richard Marton finishing third.Valle’s compatriot Hugo Gonzalez de Oliveira went one better for Spain

Sergey Bubka today vowed not to withdraw his bid to become President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) even though two more countries today publicly promised to back his rival, Sebastian Coe.

Spain and The Netherlands both announced that they would be voting for the double Olympic 1500 metres

If you watched Sepp Blatter’s press conference last week in Zurich, and if you’re anything like me, you would have cringed at the state of world football administration. Is this the best they can do? I’m not just talking about Blatter here either. There are 25 other people on the FIFA Executive Committee, including Michel Platini, who announced today he is standing to succeed Blatter.

Another vice-president Angel Maria Villar Llona from Spain for 17 years.

Defending Olympic champions Italy's men's team were forced to come from behind against India to seal an place in the quarter-final phase of the recurve competition at the World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, sealing an Rio 2016 Olympic quota place.

on offer in the women's competition with Mexico earning the first berth after making light work of Spain

Great Britain beat Slovakia to successfully defend their BC1/BC2 team title at the 2015 Boccia European Team and Pairs Championships in Guildford, England, and secure qualification for next year's Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

Smith, Nigel Murray and Joshua Rowe went on to record a 5-4 win against the Slovakians, who beat Spain

Portugal bounced back from their semi-final defeat to register a convincing 10-3 victory against Spain

in a tiebreaker to win the bronze medal match at the expense of Russia.Meanwhile in the BC3 pairs, Spain

Russia's Egor Panyushkin and Spain's Beatriz Villamandos-Lorenzo won the men’s and women’s singles titles at the 1st World Deaf Tennis Championships today at Nottingham Tennis Centre.

Hosts Great Britain are on course to defend their BC1/BC2 team and BC4 pairs titles at the 2015 Boccia European Team and Pairs Championships in Guildford, England,  after qualifying from the round-robin stage in both events.

Britain lost to Spain in Pool A of the BC1/BC2 team event, but still finished second thanks to wins

and Israel.They now go on to face Portugal, winners of Pool B, in tomorrow’s semi-finals, while Spain

in the final.As for the BC3 pairs event, France and Belgium advanced from Pool A, while Greece and Spain

progressed from Pool B.The semi-final line-up sees France take on Spain and Belgium test themselves

FIFA President Sepp Blatter and Russia President Vladimir Putin were on hand to open today’s draw ceremony for the 2018 World Cup in St Petersburg's Constantine Palace as defending champions Germany avoided arguably the strongest second-seeded teams, France and Italy, in the qualifying section for Europe.

 Italy, the 2006 champions, have been pitted against the 2010 winners Spain in Group G, while

Germany's Simon Geschke finished solo at the end of the 161 kilometres route from Digne-les-Bains to Pra Loup to claim victory on stage 17 of the Tour de France, while two of the main general classification riders suffered in the saddle following the second rest day.

unscathed.Froome, though, will expect further attacks from Quintana and third-placed Alejandro Valverde of Spain

England Hockey and the European Hockey Federation (EHF) have announced Dutch financial services company Rabobank will be a partner of the 2015 Unibet EuroHockey Championships, due to take place on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London next month.

men’s and women’s sides have been entered into the event, with hosts England competing along with Spain

the men's tournament.The women’s competition features England, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain

Russia finished top of the medals table as the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming World Championships drew to a close at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow tonight but there was no doubt the individual star of the event was Brazil's Daniel Dias. 

Spain did have a gold medal to celebrate as Paralympic champion Teresa Perales won the women's S5 100m

Japanese teenager Tsukasa Yoshida claimed the women’s under 57 kilograms gold medal in only her second senior International Judo Federation (IJF) event on day one of the Tyumen Grand Slam.

In the women’s under 48kg, Tbilisi Grand Prix silver medallist Julia Figueroa of Spain won her first

America's Gwen Jorgensen won her 11th consecutive World Triathlon Series race in Hamburg today, stretching a run that started back at Yokohama in May 2014. 

Javier Gomez with 300 metres remaining to win his first World Triathlon Series event.Mario Mola of Spain

Germany's Tony Martin finally took the yellow jersey at this year's Tour de France after after breaking clear riding a team mates bike to win stage four from Seraing to Cambrai.

year's Tour on stage four.Froome crossed the line in the peloton alongside rivals Alberto Contador of Spain

Olympic champions The Netherlands were able to overcome a defensively minded South Korean team to win the women’s final at the World Hockey League semi-final in Antwerp, Belgium.

Belgium, the highest ranked of the fourth place finishers at either the Semi-Final events in Valencia in Spain