The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has promised an exciting 2019 after confirming its calendar for next year.

an Olympic test event.The Lima 2019 Pan American Games, the Asia/Oceania Championships in Kunming in China

Next year the Universiade will head to both Krasnoyarsk and Naples to celebrate the 60th anniversary of a worldwide event under the control of the International University Sport Federation (FISU). But 2019 will also mark 150 years since a race which could be said to have launched international student competition.

world take notice that if any event of general importance, say a revolution in Paris, a rebellion in China

Organisers of Gwangju 2019 held a press conference to share the milestones they claim to have reached in preparing for next year's International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Aquatics Championships. 

After the conclusion of the FINA World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou in China this month, President

International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) President Ri Yong-son has promised the body will work hard to develop the sport with World Taekwondo.

Ri was speaking at the 2018 World Taekwondo Wuxi Forum in China as senior stakeholders across the global

An online Olympic store has been launched for the first time on Tmall, China's largest marketplace for brands and retailers.

Partner sponsorship programme.Tmall is a part of the Alibaba company with the development coming as China

television and marketing services managing director, said: "These Games will be a landmark moment for China

Japan's men's basketball team is on track to earn a spot at their home Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, according to the chair of an International Basketball Federation (FIBA) taskforce Ingo Weiss.

performance.Recently though the side has won six games in a row in qualifying for the World Cup in China

China's Cai Xuetong topped women's qualification on home snow as the International Ski Federation Snowboard Halfpipe World Cup began in Secret Garden.

Cai with a score of 86.00 with Hikaru Oe third on 83.75.Jan Scherrer topped men's qualification in China

Timothy Fok, who was re-elected unopposed as President of the Hong Kong Olympic Committee (HKOC), has urged the territory's Government to act fast in supporting the city's bid for the 2021 Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) World Beach Games before others join the race.

who is also chairman of the Events Working Group at ANOC, made the comments after visiting Sanya in China

, which is set to stage the Asian Beach Games in 2020.The South China Morning Post quoted him as saying

According to the South China Morning Post, Fok said the Government has already requested information

Tsingtao and Yanjing have been named as the official beers of the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

sponsors ©Getty ImagesTier one partners, the top level, have already been signed up.They include Bank of China

, Air China, Yili Group, ANTA, China Unicom, Shougang Group, CNPC and Sinopec Group.

;Snowboard Halfpipe World Cup season will continue tomorrow with the second leg in Secret Garden in China

compatriot Maddie Mastro, second in Copper Mountain, is another not to travel to Secret Garden.It means China

Discussions over the future of elite level swimming are set to intensify tomorrow when a two-day brain-storming summit is held by the International Swimming League (ISL) in London amid the ongoing conflict with the International Swimming Federation (FINA).

referenced by the FINA Athletes Committee at their meeting at the World Short Course Championships in China

Hungary’s Katinka Hosszú and South Africa’s Chad Le Clos have been chosen as winners of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Best Swimmer Awards for 2018.

backstroke swimmer Xu Jiayu was given a special recognition award as the "Best Breakthrough Athlete of China

Belgium have topped the men's International Hockey Federation (FIH) world rankings for the first time after winning the World Cup yesterday.

places from 20th to 15th after beating expectations to reach the quarter-final of the tournament, while China

Russia took gold and silver medals on the fourth and final day of the Wheelchair Fencing World Cup in Kyoto.

Grand Prince Hotel in the Japanese city was all about team competition.Russia’s men had to give best to China

Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto, 15 years and 172 days old, today became the youngest singles winner - male or female - of the International Table Tennis Federation’s World Tour Grand Finals, requiring just five games to beat China’s Lin Gaoyuan in Incheon.

two players had faced each other on only one previous occasion, with Lin winning 4-1 at this year’s China

semi-finals.It is the 20th time since the tournament was first staged in 1996 that a player representing China