Ireland's Olympic bronze and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Jim McCourt has died at the age of 79, it has been announced.

then followed-up with bronze in the following year's European Championships that were held in East Germany

Kasra Mehdipournejad and Cindy Winner Djankeu Ngamba have been named as the first-ever European Olympic Committees (EOC) Refugee Team flagbearers for tomorrow's Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games Opening Ceremony here.

The announcement coincided with the United Nations' World Refugee Day.Iranian-born and Germany-based

Holders Serbia secured their place in the last eight of the International Basketball Federation Women’s EuroBasket tournament, after edging past Britain in one of four qualification to the quarter-finals matches.

with 17 points and eight boards, while Marija Lekovic finished with 15 points.Elsewhere in Ljubljana Germany

overcame Slovakia 79-69.Marie Guelich was the standout player for Germany registering 26 points, nine

line-up has now been completed for the quarter-finals with Hungary facing Czech Republic, Spain taking on Germany

Ukrainian athletes were able to compete at the European Fencing Championships in Plovdiv where Russians and Belarusians were present without the risk of losing state funding after the country’s Sports Ministry adjusted its stance.

support for the war in Ukraine.Organisers of World Cup competitions in Bonn and Tauberbischofsheim in Germany

An expanded third edition of the European Games is due to begin here in Kraków, with competition set to be held in 12 other cities in the wider Małopolska region across 29 sports.

finishing on Thursday (June 22).Croatia and Hungary on the men's side and Denmark, The Netherlands and Germany

United States and Netherlands took the men’s and women’s titles at the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation World Championships in Dubai.

scored with 22 points, with her teammate Bo Kramer notching up 18.In the bronze-medal match the US beat Germany

57-42, with Maike Miller the top scorer in the match for Germany with 15 points.The US top points scorer

The International Testing Agency (ITA) is aiming to collect 1,200 samples during doping control at this year's European Games here, while the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has revealed its athlete engagement and independent observer (IO) programme teams.

to organisers.This four-member team is chaired by head of testing at the National Anti-Doping Agency Germany

Star forward Antoine Griezmann has revealed he will exert "extraordinary pressure" to be allowed to play for France at next year's Olympic Games in Paris, if he is called up to the squad.

Griezmann and others hoping to play in the Olympics is that Euro 2024 is also scheduled next year in Germany

Back-to-back world champions Serbia recovered from a difficult Women's Volleyball Nations League (VNL) opener with three wins in the second week, but still have significant work to do to reach the Finals having been left outside the top eight.

well as their defeats to Poland and Italy, with Brazil in fifth overcoming South Korea, Serbia and Germany

China have won the latest International Basketball Federation 3x3 Women’s Series event with a 21-11 win in the final over Chinese commercial side Sichuan (SC) Yuanda in Baoding.

#3x3WS standings 💪 pic.twitter.com/QftnuJ3sDD— FIBA3x3 (@FIBA3x3) June 20, 2023SC Yuanda defeated Germany

Women's 3x3 Tour standings, China lead the way with 350 points.SC Yuanda are second with 245 points and Germany

Olympic gold medallist Jess Fox experienced mixed fortunes at the International Canoe Federation Canoe Slalom World Cup in Ljubljana as she clinched K1 gold after missing a gate in the C1.

for Slovenia in the men's C1 ©Getty ImagesViktoriia Us off Ukraine won K1 silver as Elena Lilik of Germany

champion Joe Clarke won the men's kayak cross, in front of Anatole Delassus of France and Stefan Hengst of Germany

The first medals were awarded in open water swimming, powerlifting and athletics at the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin today.

Hosts Germany enjoyed success with two golds on the Regatta Course Grünau in open water swimming, in

25.2.The unified sports race was won by Mexico's Pablo Escalona and Oscar Inowe Perez in 25:18.2, with Germany

Standing on the track within the Slaski Stadium, which will host the European Athletics Team Championships that start here tomorrow, it was impossible not to try and work out exactly where it had happened, a little over 50 years earlier.

possession and ran on to score Poland’s decisive second goal.England could still have made it to West Germany

Hosts Italy won three lightweight gold medals in consecutive races to spark home jubilation at the World Rowing Cup in Varese.

second World Cup of the season on Lago di Varese, thanks to Luca Rambaldi and Matteo Sartori.Elsewhere, Germany

blowing away the field to win the women's pair.🚩 A-FINAL : Men’s Eight🥇 Great Britain🥈 Australia🥉 Germany

The International Luge Federation (FIL) has awarded the 2027 World Championships to Innsbruck, Austria, on the second day of its 71st Congress in Bucharest, Romania.

artificial track.These were awarded to St Moritz, Switzerland, for the 2025 version, and Winterberg in Germany