Hosts The Netherlands took two of six gold medals on offer on day one of the World Para Snowboard World Cup in Landgraaf today.

’s Reinhold Schett was runner-up in 45.84secs and Croatia’s Bruno Bosnjak third in 47.01.Elsewhere, China

took the win with over nine seconds to spare.Her time of 46.33 dominated the event with Liu Yunhai of China

Barbados Olympic Association President Sandra Osborne has been appointed chairperson of the newly-created International Tennis Federation (ITF) Ethics Commission.

Committee was given the green light by the ITF Board of Directors during its meeting in Chengdu in China

Men’s singles seventh seed Bai Yupeng of China made a surprise exit in the second round of the Badminton

A fourth successive draw in the World Chess Championship in London between titleholder Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana was preceded by a curious incident when a clip of the American challenger's confidential preparation was uploaded to YouTube before being swiftly taken down.

year younger than him at 26.Caruana, however, resisted the initiative.Defending champion Ju Wenjun of China

the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk, defending champion Ju Wenjun of China

Three seeded pairs were knocked out as the mixed doubles event began the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Hong Kong Open today.

representatives from their country competing in Hong Kong ©Getty ImagesFifth seeds Zhang Nan and Li Yinhui from China

Organisers of the Badminton World Federation World Tour Finals in Guangzhou are looking ahead with excitement to the season-ending event andbelieve the Chinese city is ready to play host.

men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles.Helen Wong, the chief executive of sponsor HSBC in Greater China

The Genting Resort Secret Garden in Zhangjiakou, venue for snowboarding and freestyle skiing at the 2022 Olympic Games, has officially opened its doors to the public for the first time this winter.

coming back quite often over the past years and I definitely noticed the sport's growth," McMorris told China

people out there riding, that's a great sign that snowboarding is alive and well here," Davis told China

 "Thanks to China for taking such a liking to snowboarding."

Federation (FIS) and the Chinese Ski Association are ready to launch a joint "Get Into Snow Sports (GISS)" China

Garden, Wanlong, Wanlong Bayi and the Beijing Olympic Forest Dry Slope will be used as official GISS-China

 These educators then trained 47 ski instructors as GISS-China teachers who will teach participants

of the programme.The Taiwoo ski resort will be used as a pilot resort for GISS-China ©Beijing 2022"The

progression that is built into the GISS-China participant sessions for beginner skiers and snowboarders

 "I am certain that GISS-China will be a great success."

The world's best badminton players are arriving in Hong Kong for the Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Tour Super 500 event which gets underway tomorrow.

singles event as he hopes to continue the run of form which has seen him take titles in the Fuzhou China

are China's Zheng and Huang who beat compatriots Wang Yilyu and Huang Dongping in last week's Fuzhou China

China's Wu Dajing set the pace in the men's 500 metres and posted a world record time of 39.505sec as the International Skating Union Short Track World Cup leg concluded in Salt Lake City.

38.505sec, marginally edging the Dutch team who finished in 2:38.512.France followed on 2:38.807 as China

Six countries have been confirmed as competing in the 2019 Asia Pacific Softball Cup in Australia.

joined by defending champions Japan, who are building towards their home Tokyo 2020 Games, as well as China

Hosts Malaysia and China finished the International Swimming Federation Diving Grand Prix with more gold

Duan Yu added the men's 10 metre platform gold to his title in the synchronised event as China took the

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) confirmed competitions for 2019 and 2020 and created an Electoral Committee at their 2018 Congress in Cyprus.

Seoul.Xiamen was confirmed to be the host of the UIPM Pentathlon World Championships, also in 2020, with China

China's Xu Jiayu clocked a world record time in the men's 100 metres backstroke as the penultimate leg of the International Swimming Federation World Cup circuit came to its end in Tokyo.

taking gold in 2:04.65, with her closest rival Japan's Yui Ohashi in silver in 2:05.29.Ye Shiwen of China

Defending women's world chess champion Ju Wenjun, already through to the quarter-finals of the World Championship underway in the Russian city Khanty-Mansiysk, learned today that she will next face one of the tournament's surprise packages.

surprise package of the Women's World Chess Championships, now faces defending champion Ju Wenjun of China