Turkey were the biggest winners on the final day of athletics competition in Chengdu where high jumper Rose Yeboah sealed Ghana’s first gold medal of the International University Sports Federation Summer World University Games.

butterfly final and Adela Piskorska securing the women’s 200m freestyle title.Jackson Jones of the United

States won the men’s 200m backstroke final, while Japan sealed men’s 4x200m freestyle relay gold.Czech

The United States have powered to a dominant 10-4 victory over Chinese Taipei to clinch a fifth World

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Melbourne Rectangular Stadium in the eagerly-anticipated round-of-16 contest between Sweden and the United

States ©Getty ImagesDutch players said they were confident of beating anybody after securing a quarter-final

FIFA Women's World Cup defending champions the United States have been knocked out of the tournament

Britain and Italy finished joint top of the medals table in the World Rowing Under-19 Championships at the Stade Nautique Olympique in Vaires-sur-Marne, which will year host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic regattas at Paris 2024.

entered the final 500 metres Romania had taken over the lead from Germany, and the defending champions United

States had moved into third place from Britain.Germany eventually moved back ahead of Romania, but only

medal haul early on in the session when they picked up gold in the men’s coxed four shortly after the United

States had made a successful defence of the women’s coxed four title.The World Rowing Under 19 Championships

It was a day which started with the Commonwealth Games organisers hoping to put its issues securing a host for future editions of its events to one side for the duration of Trinbago 2023 here. 

it can provide multi-sport events with feasibility and relevance in the modern world.Cities in the United

and swimming the only two compulsory Commonwealth Games sports and the launch of the "Commonwealth United

not a sideshow", insisting it provides a way for the CGF to "embrace in particular the small island states

 It also provides a reminder of the necessity to embrace all of its member states instead of a select

America's Simone Biles made a winning return to gymnastics at the US Classic event in Chicago 732 days after winning the Olympic bronze medal on the balance beam at Tokyo 2020. 

2021 ahead of the re-arranged Olympics in Tokyo, and she is now planning to continue competing.The United

States Championships due to take place in San Jose between August 24 and 27, followed by the World Championships

American Jessica Long won a remarkable 37th gold medal at the Para Swimming World Championships with women's SM8 200 metres individual medley success in Manchester.

China by 3.95sec and Italy's Xenia Francesca Palazzo by 5.28.Christie Raleigh-Crossley later took the United

States' second gold on the penultimate day of competition with a 1:09.87 effort in the women's S9 100m

Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret demonstrated why she is widely regarded as one of the world’s best ever sport climbing athletes after taking the women’s bouldering crown at the International Federation of Sport Climbing World Championships.

of France finished fourth in her debut World Championship as a senior, with Natalia Grossman of the United

States, the 2021 bouldering world champion, placing fifth.The field for the final was completed by Japan

Britain and Denmark took the team pursuit titles on the third day of action at the combined International Cycling Union World Championships in Scotland.

C5 1km time-trial as Blaine Hunt took victory in 1:03.341.Silver went to Christopher Murphy of the United

States, with bronze won by Niels Verschaeren of Belgium.French youngster Heidi Gaugain took gold in

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that sporting sanctions imposed against his country were a "sign of weakness" as he declared the CIS Games open.

edition of the CIS Games.Belarus and Russia are among nine members of the Commonwealth of Independent States

Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have sent athletes along with Iran, Egypt, Malaysia, Lebanon, the United

the traditions, the heroic history of Belarus, which is typical for all Commonwealth [of Independent States

A date has been set for members of the Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA) to vote on whether the national governing body should join World Boxing.

is seeking IOC recognition, although it has been described as a "rogue organisation" by the IBA.The United

States, Switzerland and New Zealand have quit the IBA to seek World Boxing membership, and Argentina

governs Olympic boxing on the island of Ireland, including in Northern Ireland which is part of the United

Germany’s Emma Hinze won her second gold medal of the International Cycling Union (UCI) Cycling World Championships in Glasgow when she claimed victory in the 500 metres time trial.

Lea Sophie Friedrich, winner of the 500m time trial in 2020 and 2021.The women’s scratch race saw the United

States’ Jennifer Valente win the sixth rainbow jersey of her career, but the first in this discipline.The

Shocks continued at the International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Cup in Baku with the elimination of the sport’s power couple and three-time World Blitz Champions, Alexander Grischuk and Kateryna Lagno.

the final game against Iran’s Bardiya Daneshvar after missing a winning move.Among the favourites, United

States pair Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So and The Netherlands’ Anish Giri are through after winning

while at the same time advancing his runners on the queenside to book a third-round meeting with the United

A total of 2,214 athletes from 22 countries have registered to take part in the CIS Games, which started in Belarus capital Minsk today and which is due to feature a spectacular Opening Ceremony tomorrow.

The nine members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), formed following the dissolution of

more than 400 from Russia, will be competing alongside teams from Iran, Egypt, Malaysia, Lebanon, the United

relations of Belarus and Russia towards athletes from the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States