to the International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Triathlon Series with victory in Cape Town, South Africa

picked up the mantle for the Brownlee family and the British team, who were hoping to leave South Africa

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has condemned a recent wave of xenophobic and racist attacks in the country that have left at least seven people dead.

“No individual should ever feel unsafe in South Africa because of the colour of their skin, their ethnic

all sectors in a bid to help with the problem, while saying that sporting federations across South Africa

2015:  Economic impact report already available to public, says Durban 2022 chiefApril 2015:  South Africa

Brazilian teenager Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos stunned T47 200 metres Paralympic and world champion Yohansson Nascimento on the second day of International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics Grand Prix, positing a world record time in front of a home crowd in São Paulo.

was among several South African sprinters to win 200 metre races in São Paulo ©Getty ImagesBut South Africa

Fanie van der Merwe and Dyan Buis triumphed in the men’s T12, T37 and T38 races.While Brazil and South Africa

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) claim they expect next year's Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to exceed a global television audience of four billion for the first time.

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International Cycling Union (UCI) President Brian Cookson remains confident track events will take place at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Durban, with a proposal having been submitted to hold events 80 kilometres away in Pietermaritzburg.

during the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Durban, UCI President Brian Cookson has claimed ©Cycling South Africa

The International Paralympic Committee have launched the IPC Academy Campus 2016, which they hope will help to transfer knowledge and expertise to 1,200 key stakeholders during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Paralmypic Committee holds athletics education programme in Ecuador to train officialsApril 2015:  Africa

American multiple Paralympic and world champion Tatyana McFadden has sealed her third consecutive wheelchair race win at the Boston Marathon.

:29:53 to finish ahead of defending champion and 10-time winner of the race Ernst van Dyk of South Africa

South Korea have claimed the gold medal and secured promotion back to Division IA of the Ice Hockey World Championship at the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Division I Group B tournament in Eindhoven.

In the Division II Group B event in South Africa, the hosts suffered a 7-3 defeat by already promoted

Australia, New Zealand and hosts Canada boasted unbeaten records in the pool stage of the fourth World Rugby Women's Sevens Series leg of the season in Westhills Stadium in Langford, British Columbia.

We were pretty clinical against South Africa which is good but a little impatient against the US,” said

South Sudan could become the 206th member of the International Olympic Committee at its Session in Kuala Lumpur in July, meaning athletes from the world’s newest nation would be able to compete under their own national flag at Rio 2016.

“We’re in close contact with sports organisations and, in fact, during a visit to Africa last year,

Great Britain moved to within a single victory of guaranteeing promotion from the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Division I Group B after beating hosts The Netherlands in Eindhoven.

victory against Mexico in Division II Group B ensured their promotion to Division II Group A.Hosts South Africa

Rio 2016 and the Brazilian Paralympic Committee today begun a series of workshops in São Paulo in partnership with the Agitos Foundation, aimed at improving coaching, classification and sport management.

International Paralympic Committee holds athletics education programme in Ecuador to train officialsMarch 2015: Africa

National Paralympic Committees (NPC) and Regional Organisations have been invited to submit funding proposals for the Agitos Foundation’s 2015 Grant Support Programme which would help to develop and educate athletes, coaches and technical officials, while attempting to raise the profile of Paralympic sport.

International Paralympic Committee holds athletics education programme in Ecuador to train officialsMarch 2015: Africa

Some of the world’s best competitors are preparing for the first ever Asian Para-Taekwondo Championships, due to get underway in Taipei City on Friday (April 17).

taekwondo's Paralympic dreamJanuary 2015: Para-taekwondo due to make first major appearance in Asia and Africa

American Gwen Jorgensen made International Triathlon Union (ITU) history by claiming her eighth consecutive World Triathlon Series victory, the longest winning streak since the event began, while Britain’s Jonathan Brownlee clinched victory in the men’s race in the Gold Coast.

Gomez finishing five seconds ahead of his fellow Spaniard Hernandez in 1:47.21.Cape Town in South Africa