By James CrookApril 19- The second stage of the 2013 International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Triathlon Series will return to the birthplace of the sport, San Diego, this weekend, with the much anticipated debut appearance at the event of Britain's Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee proving to be a point of interest as he looks to take the title his brother Jonathan currently holds.

Mooloolaba World Cup this season, but is set to face tough competition from the likes of Andrea Hewitt from New

Zealand, Barbara Riveros Diaz of Chile and American Sarah Groff.The race features a 1.5 kilometre swim

By Emily GoddardApril 18 - Scotland face a tough challenge in the group stages of the 2013 World Youth Netball Championships (WYNC) on home soil after they were picked in Group C alongside third seeds Jamaica, Wales, the Cayman Islands and Samoa - all big names in the sport - in the draw at Glasgow's Emirates Arena.

top, right) carried out the draw, which also saw fourth seeds England drawn against Barbados, Papua New

Guinea, Republic of Ireland and Singapore, and Northern Ireland alongside New Zealand, Trinidad and

will be some closely fought matches not just between our top netballing nations but also amongst our new

Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Northern Ireland, Bermuda, MaltaGroup C - Jamaica, Wales, Cayman Islands

, Samoa, ScotlandGroup D - England, Barbados, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Ireland, SingaporeContact

By Emily GoddardApril 15 - Germany's ice sledge hockey captain Frank Rennhack has been named as the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) Athlete of the Month for March after leading his team to gold at the 2013 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool in Nagano.

received 40 per cent of the public's vote, just beating Paralympic champion swimmer Mary Fisher of New

Zealand, who finished with 37 per cent.German nordic skier Andrea Eskau, Japanese ice sledge hockey

By Emily GoddardApril 12 - Twenty-seven of the world's top curling squads are gearing up to compete in the 2013 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, which gets underway tomorrow in Fredericton.

2010, and France's 2011 bronze medallist at St Paul, Pauline Jeanneret, will both play in Canada with new

Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, New

Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United States

Yana Nekrasova will be at the 2013 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship with a new teammate If they

By James CrookApril 11 - England have unveiled their daring new rugby sevens kits at Twickenham today

The kits, designed by leading rugby apparel manufacturers Canterbury of New Zealand, feature pixelated

Series - which are due to take place at Twickenham on the weekend of May 11.To mark the launch of the new

kits, Canterbury have launched a "Home or Away" campaign.England unveiled their bold new rugby sevens

kits at Twickenham todaySeven London taxis have been given a makeover to reflect the new kit designs

Canterbury have also created two viral Lego videos to accompany the launch of the new kits, which can

By Emily GoddardApril 10 - England Hockey chief executive Sally Munday has claimed her organisation is going to do everything to make sure it wins the rights to host the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup after the nation was shortlisted for the event by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) last month.

will help us grow the profile of the sport and growing the profile of the sport helps us with driving new

Park in 2018, it will go up against old rivals Australia, who are also bidding along with Belgium and New

We are really excited about that, being back at the Olympic Park at the new legacy venue," she added.

England will be the only country focussing exclusively on the female event, with Australia, Belgium and New

Zealand all offering to host both men and women's tournaments.Final bids for the 2018 World Cup have

By Emily GoddardApril 7 - Sweden has become the first team to hold both the world and European titles in the same season after they beat hosts Canada by 8-6 in the gold medal final of the Ford World Men's Curling Championship.

based on points gathered in the 2012 and 2013 World Men's Curling Championships.The United States, New

Zealand, Czech Republic, France, Japan, Germany, Finland and Korea are now eligible to send men's teams

By Tom DegunApril 6 - Spain's Javier Gomez and Germany's Anne Haug put down a strong marker in the first race of 2013 as they claimed victory in the men's and women's events respectively in the opening round of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Triathlon Series in Auckland.

comfortable win on the Auckland in a time of 1 hour 55min 51sec to maintain his unbeaten record in New

Zealand with four wins over the past decade.The London 2012 silver medallist is looking to claim back

It's pretty amazing to win here again, fourth race in New Zealand," said Gomez, who won the event last

crowned.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesApril 2013: New

By Emily GoddardApril 5 - The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has revealed the schedules for the women's hockey World League semi-finals taking place in Rotterdam and London in June as the competing teams step up their preparations for the 2014 World Cup qualifying tournaments.

playing on home soil against an elite field that includes South Korea, Japan and Chile in Pool A, with New

Zealand, Germany, India and Belgium in Pool B.

Pool B matches begin the action with New Zealand facing India and Germany playing against Belgium on

home nation battling Japan complete the first day.Day two sees India take on Belgium, Germany playing New

Zealand, Japan against Chile and South Korea facing the Netherlands.The Netherlands will play in Pool

of the stars from the Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool  in contention, along with New

Zealand swimmer Mary Fisher, who broke multiple world records last month.

Championships B-Pool in NaganoMarch was an incredible month for the 20-year-old Mary Fisher, who set new

world records in her class in the 50 metres butterfly and the 200m butterfly at the New Zealand

Fisher also became the first disabled athlete to win the People's Choice Award at the New Zealand Swimming

Awards and was named as one of the New Zealand Herald's "Future Stars" last month.

Zealand Paralympic stars Pascoe and Fisher smash world records at national championshipsMarch 2013:&

By Tom DegunApril 4 - The 2013 ITU World Triathlon Series is set to get underway in Auckland, New Zealand

to secure Gomez the title ahead of Brownlee.With both the Brownlee brothers sitting out the race in New

Zealand, Gomez will be looking to establish an early lead on his rivals in the race for this year's

By James CrookMarch 28 - Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) have announced that former Australia coach Jon

haul at London 2012Shaw himself spoke of his eagerness to produce an even stronger performance from New

Zealand's Paralympic swimmers"New Zealand Paralympic swimming is going from strength to strength and

development athletes coming through the programme and build the number of high performance para-swimmers in New

Zealand,"Contact the writer of this story at [email protected]

By James CrookMarch 28 - Host nation for the Li Ning Badminton World Federation (BWF) Sudirman Cup, Malaysia, claim they are content with their draw for the tournament this May, and are setting their sights on reaching at least the quarter-finals.

each other in Group 2A, as the Netherlands, France, Canada and Austria face off in Group 2B.Ukraine, New

Zealand, Turkey and Sri Lanka are in Group 3A and Switzerland, Vietnam, Australia and Lithuania are

Organising Committee's Paralympic Games Chef De Mission Briefing Seminar was always going to contain some new

Added to that is the amazing development of the region, be it new roads, rail and airport and a significant

Whether it is Canada with its team of nearly 50 athletes or  New Zealand with just two or three,

least nine cities on five continents, including London for the World Championships, will feature in the new

race while also hosting the ITU World Cup and the PATCO Junior Pan American Cup.Disability thletes new

CanadaPara-triathlon Continental Championships:March 9: 2013 Wellington OTU Triathlon Oceania Championships, New

Zealand (Classification)April 27: 2013 Subic Bay ASTC Triathlon Asian Championships, PhilippinesMay

2010: Triathlon and canoeing celebrate inclusion in Rio 2016 ParalympicsDecember 2010: Two new