American pairing Austen Smith and Vincent Hancock have won gold in the mixed skeet at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championships here in Baku.

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The United States' Ryan Crouser twice beat his own men's shot put World Championships record of 22.94m

There was a dramatic finish to day one of the World Athletics Championships here, where The Netherlands were twice denied by stumbles approaching the finish line in the women's 10,000 metres and mixed 4x400m finals.

relay.Liemarvin Bonevacia, Lieke Klaver and Isaya Klein Ikkink gave The Netherlands a slender lead over the United

States and Britain going into the anchor leg taken by Bol.The European champion looked set to hold off

back-to-back Olympic champion Ryan Crouser defended his men's shot put title with a Championships record.The United

States' Ryan Crouser is now back-to-back Olympic and back-to-back world men's shot put champion ©Getty

The first game of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Women’s World Cup Final between Aleksandra Goryachkina and Nurgyul Salimova ended in a draw.

In the other semi-final, Fabiano Caruana of the United States drew with white against India’s 18-year-old

Newly appointed United States Ski Mountaineering Association (USSMA) executive director Anthony Armstrong

role as he looks to set out a plan for the future.Among his goals include strengthening ties with the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and creating a better platform to enable athletes to develop

South Korea claimed double gold on day one of the Gangwon Chuncheon 2023 World Taekwondo Cultural Festival, as action got underway across the Octagon Diamond Game, Beach Games and Demonstration Team Championships.

finals took place in the under-17 age group, with the men’s gold going to Sung hyun Eric Gun of the United

States and the women’s to Sofya Tishkova, competing as an individual neutral athlete.The first ever

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has revealed that the FIFA Women’s World Cup has broken even as he praised Australia and New Zealand for co-hosting a "truly transformational" event.

Female players cannot all go to play in a few clubs in Europe or the United States," added Infantino.

Efthimios Mitas of Greece has won the men’s skeet at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championships here in Baku. 

Mehelba of Egypt took bronze with a score of 46.Triple Olympic gold medallist Vincent Hancock of the United

States had to settle for fourth.With his victory, Mitas also secured a quota place for Greece and Kallioinen

with qualification two days ago.Christian Elliott and Dustan Taylor joined him on the podium for the United

States, with silver for Greece and bronze for Italy.

a programme to train athletes for careers in technology through its continued partnership with the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC).

This year's women's recurve stage winners Penny Healey and Lim Si-hyeon were eliminated before the semi-finals of the Archery World Cup in Paris, serving as a test event for next year's Olympic Games.

French home favourite Lisa Barbelin.In the other half of the draw, third seed Casey Kaufhold of the United

States reached the last four with a shoot-off victory against Chinese Taipei's Peng Chia-mao in the

and world champion Mete Gazoz of Turkey lost 7-1 in the second round to Australia's Ryan Tyack.The United

States reached the mixed team compound final with a 158-154 win against The Netherlands, and are joined

Legendary Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser has led the tributes to double Olympic gold medallist John Devitt, who has died at the age of 86.

won the 100 metres freestyle title at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games in a race with Lance Larson of the United

States that entered swimming lore.Devitt and Larson had touched almost simultaneously but in the days

Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championships after a tremendous contest against Dania Vizzi of the United

States which went to a shoot off for gold in Baku.

Bartekova celebrates after winning her first World title in a tense shoot off against Dania Vizzi of the United

States©ITG"The final was extremely difficult because of the breeze, so it took me some time to read

European Broadcasting Union (EBU) members are set to show 2,500 hours of live coverage from the World Athletics Championships which is due to here tomorrow, a considerable increase on last year's event in Eugene.

until August 27.The planned live coverage represents a 38 per cent increase on last year's event in the United

States, held in a time zone nine hours behind central Europe, and forms part of a combined 2,700 hours

Hayden Wilde of New Zealand, who headed into the race as number one, pulled up injured as Britain’s Alex Yee won the men’s triathlon Olympic Games Test Event for Paris 2024.

capping off a good day on a home course for French competitors.Sixth place went to Morgan Pearson of the United

States, with seventh to Tim Hellwig of Germany, who both secured Paris 2024 spots.The field for the

Canada’s men’s and women’s teams will be hoping to make home advantage count as they aim to emerge victorious from North American rugby sevens qualifier for next year’s Olympics in Paris.

next two days.Having failed to secure a top-four finish in the men’s World Rugby Sevens Series, the United

States and Canada are poised to do battle in the Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens.Canada have been