Germany claimed victory in the first men's team event of the 2016-17 International Ski Federation (FIS

Graabak.Austria’s David Pommer, Mario Seidl, Wilhelm Denifl and Philipp Orter came home 1:23.7 behind Germany

The German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB) and the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) have joined forces to offer people involved in sport and in possession of certain DOSB licenses a new career prospect through a university degree.

incentive to volunteer.Using information from polls they have conducted, the DOSB said that young people in Germany

Heidi Weng of Norway and Calle Halfvarsson of Sweden have won the women's and men's classic sprint competitions respectively on the opening day of the International Ski Federation (FIS) Cross-Country World Cup leg in Lillehammer, Norway.

with his last coming three years ago in the free technique sprint race in the Tour de Ski in Oberho in Germany

Croatian brothers Martin and Valent Sinkovic are among the Rio 2016 gold medallists who have been named as winners in the 2016 World Rowing Awards honours list announced today.

Romania, at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.He subsequently moved to Europe, coaching initially in Germany

The 11th edition of the men's World Floorball Championships (WFC) are due to begin in the Latvian capital of Riga tomorrow, where Sweden will be aiming to extend their dominance in the competition.

ranked second in the world, won every game of their qualifying campaign and feature in Group A alongside Germany

China and Japan will clash for ninth place at the Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup after both nations won their respective classification matches at the Club Deportivo Manquehue in Santiago.

Australia.The United States go up against Belgium in the first 5th to 8th place classification contest before Germany

Number three seed Yui Kamiji booked her place in the women’s singles semi-finals at the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters after beating world number one and defending champion Jiske Griffioen at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

her defeat to Kamiji, coming from behind to overcome last year’s beaten finalist Sabine Ellerbrock of Germany

Katharina Althaus of Germany topped the qualification standings as the women’s International Ski Federation

of her place as she leapt 91.5m for an overall total of 104.9 points.Olympic champion Carina Vogt of Germany

16 season due to injury.Hendrickson tore her right anterior cruciate ligament on a training jump in Germany

The early frontrunners in the International Luge Federation (FIL) World Cup standings will look to continue their strong starts to the campaign in the coming days as Lake Placid in the United States plays host to the second round of the season. 

slender advantage in the men’s event on 170 points, while Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, also of Germany

Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold is set to make her first competitive appearance for 21 months at the opening International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup event of the season, which begins in Whistler in Canada tomorrow.

Championships gold earlier this year, clinched the women’s skeleton World Cup title.Tina Hermann of Germany

booked their place in the semi-finals of the Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup as they comfortably beat Germany

“We expected a tough game - Germany is always a really tough game for us, it’s a classic game,” Dutch

Germany's Laura Dahlmeier stormed to victory in the opening individual event of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup season as she won the women's 15 kilometres competition amid tricky conditions in Östersund in Sweden today.

Kontiolahti, was fourth and Vanessa Hinz, a former cross country skier, was 10th.Laura Dahlmeier of Germany

Former FIFA secretary general Urs Linsi has been added to the list of suspects as part of the Swiss investigation into alleged corruption at world football’s governing body.

Niersbach, were members of the executive board of the organising committee for the 2006 World Cup in Germany

A further 250 seats for co-hosts Germany’s opening match of the 2017 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) men's World Championship have been made available today as organisers enter the next phase of ticket sales for the event.

is one of two venues due to host matches at the 2017 IIHF World Championship ©Getty ImagesFrance and Germany

The British Equestrian Federation (BEF) and British Eventing have appointed Christopher Bartle to a newly-created role of performance coach as part of the World Class eventing programme.

champion twice and finished fourth in the 1985 dressage European Championships.Under Bartles’ stewardship, Germany