Top seeds Julia Sude and Chantal Laboureur beat home duo Marleen Ramond-van Iersel and Joy Stubbe today to progress through to the women's quarter-finals at the European Beach Volleyball Championships in The Netherlands.

Sandra Ittlinger.The one other quarter-final pits fourth seeds Victoria Bieneck and Isabel Schneider of Germany

Top seed Rowan Reda Araby made it through to round three as the women's competition began at the World Junior Individual Squash Championships in Indian city Chennai.

3/4 seeds Omar El Torkey and Mostafa El Serty both also advancing.El Torkey saw off Nils Schwab of Germany

The unified Korean pairs have officially made their debut at the 2018 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Korea Open, where the main draws started today in Daejeon.

unified team to win today were Lee Sangsu and Pak Sin Hyok, who beat Patrick Baum and Keinath Thomas of Germany

A couple of years before the Rio 2016 Olympics I asked British Rowing's head coach Jürgen Grobler, currently seeking to extend his extraordinary record of success to the Tokyo 2020 Games that will probably - but only probably - mark his last competitive challenge, a question which evoked a strange noise.

I wanted to leave Germany because I wanted to prove I could succeed in a different system."

Reading University celebrated two gold medals as finals of the rowing competition took place at the European Universities Games in Coimbra.

city.Their women’s quadruple sculls team saw off competition from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from Germany

Germany won gold as the Mixed Team European Judo Championship was held in Ekaterinburg today.

Netherlands made it onto the board as Hilde Jager beat Szaundra Diedrich in the women's under-70kg, but Germany

Top seeds Chantal Laboureur and Julia Sude of Germany recovered from losing their opening match by winning

Russia continued their prolific start to the women's European Water Polo Championships as they thrashed Germany

France have won three gold medals on the opening day of the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Canoe Slalom Under-23 and Junior World Championships in Ivrea in Italy.

golds were up for grabs, with the Czech Republic picking up two, and one gold medal going to each of Germany

Ekaterinburg is set to host the Mixed Team European Judo Championship with 21 nations due to compete at the one-day event.

90kg and over 90kg weights will be contested.France are the top seeds for the tournament, with Russia, Germany

Glasgow 2018 have announced the teams for the inaugural European Golf Team Championships at Gleneagles.

highest representation in the event, with two men’s teams and three women’s.Austria, Denmark, France, Germany

World champions Croatia eased to victory in their opening match of the European Water Polo Championships in Barcelona.

against Slovakia.Hungary were impressive 12-5 winners against Georgia in Group A, while Italy beat Germany

Holders China beat Iran today to make it two wins out of two in the women’s event at the Sitting Volleyball World Championships in The Netherlands.

15-11 win over Iraq.In Pool B, Paralympic champions Iran made it back-to-back victories by beating Germany

So the FIFA World Cup, which ended yesterday with France lifting the trophy for the second time with a 4-2 victory over Croatia at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, was officially the greatest in the tournament's 88-year history.

 For me personally, I will always have great memories of Germany 2006, travelling around to watch

One of the leading behind-the-scenes figures in the fight against doping is off work after suffering what is described as "a minor stroke".

expected to begin a gradual return to work in coming weeks.In the meantime, senior colleagues at the Germany-based