Sal 2019 held an event to mark the six-month countdown to the inaugural African Beach Games in Cape Verde

Moniz Secondary School and the Santa Maria Educational Complex took part in activities.This included beach

handball, beach volleyball, beach tennis and beach soccer.Freestyle football, karate kata and athletics

programme includes freestyle frisbee while taekwondo will be making a first major appearance at a regional beach

a programme which prioritises events actually taking place on water and sand more than at the Asian Beach

Games.Beach versions of handball, volleyball, tennis, freestyle football and 3x3 basketball are also

participate in eight sports - athletics, baseball, basketball, diving, football, swimming, tennis and volleyball

It is officially opened by Macau chief executive, Edmund Ho.2008 - The first edition of the Asian Beach

Yet again, China top the medal table with 151 gold, 109 silver and 85 bronze.Thailand hosts the Asian Beach

The two centres for hosting the fourth edition of the event are Patong Beach and Karon Beach.2016 - 

;The fifth edition of the Asian Beach Games is held at the popular tourist destination of Danang.

Sanya City in China was announced as host of the 2020 Asian Beach Games in June 2018, following an Olympic

visit.Boasting a heritage of several thousand years, Sanya is set to welcome more than 5,000 athletes.The Asian Beach

been recommended for inclusion on the programme.The sports are football, handball, 3x3 basketball, volleyball

, aquatics, athletics and coastal rowing.The Host City Contract for the 2020 Asian Beach Games in Sanya

that the "pearl of the South China Sea" is ready to shine when it hosts the sixth edition of the Asian Beach

Alexander Ratner, the new International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) secretary general, has spelt out the thinking behind the decision for both him and Vladimir Lisin, the new President, to put their weight behind shooting’s push for a place at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham today, arguing that the sport should be in "all the major competitions".

Shooting is one of a number of sports - the others being beach volleyball, disability table tennis, archery

Shooting will still need to do a lot of persuading if it is to convince organisers of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham to change their minds and include it on the programme after they initially decided to omit it. 

Birmingham 2022 ©Getty ImagesThe other four sports bidding for inclusion - particularly women's cricket and beach

volleyball - can probably feel more optimistic about their chances of being added to the Birmingham

Council, UK government, Commonwealth Games England and West Midlands Combined Authority," Reid said.Beach volleyball

Commonwealth sport, having only appeared twice on the programme before, at Brisbane 1982 and Delhi 2010 Beach

volleyball made its Commonwealth Games debut on Australia’s Gold Coast this year, where it was considered

The new International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) leadership will visit the United Kingdom next week to promote shooting sport’s case for a place at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Shooting is one of a number of sports - the others being beach volleyball, disability table tennis, archery

Lima 2019 has launched a drawing and painting competition that seeks to promote the sports featuring on the programmes of next year’s Pan and Parapan American Games in Peru’s capital.

informed about the sports that will be contested at the venues of San Miguel’s Costa Verde, such as beach

volleyball, road cycling, skateboarding and speed skating.The 2019 Pan American Games are set to bring

The Argentine Olympic Committee (COA) organised the fifth Session of its Olympic Academy for Adults in Rio Hondo.

which Argentina hosted in Buenos Aires last month, was also on the agenda alongside anti-doping.Beach volleyball

30 people took part in the event in all, including Olympians Maria del Pilar Pereyra, a swimmer, and beach

volleyball player Georgina Klug.Speakers included the director of the Olympic education programme at

Representatives of Lima 2019 have visited a school in the local San Miguel District to promote next year’s Pan American and Parapan American Games in Peru’s capital.

informed about the sports that will be contested at the venues of San Miguel’s Costa Verde, such as beach

volleyball, road cycling, skateboarding and speed skating.Students are said to have expressed their

Powerlifting will make its debut in the International University Sports Federation (FISU) programme in 2022 as a World University Championship (WUC).

chess - and Combat Sports, comprising of boxing, karate, muay thai, sambo, wrestling and wushu.Beach volleyball

FISU World Championship event ©FISUA total of 21 Championships will be held during 2022, including beach

volleyball, canoe sports, cross country, cycling, futsal, golf, modern pentathlon, orienteering, rowing

The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Taekwondo Federation, Seyed Mohammed Pouladgar, visited Kish Island in preparation for three international events that will be held there next year. 

Kish Island has had experience hosting major sporting events, having held legs of the International Volleyball

Federation Beach World Tour.

announced here today that his organisation will be taking part next February in the South American Beach

The 2019 South American Beach Games are being staged at Rosario, in Argentina, from March 14 to 23.These

edition of an event first held at Montevideo in Uruguay in 2009 and which has featured sports such as beach

soccer, beach handball, beach volleyball, sailing and surfing.The IFBB already participates in numerous

Committee, including the Southeast Asian Games, the Asian Games, the South American Games, the Asian Beach

Bids have been received from Gibraltar and Trinidad and Tobago for the 2021 Commonwealth Youth Games, it has been announced.

Opening Ceremony would be held in Queen’s Park Savannah on Emancipation Day, which falls on August 1.Beach

volleyball, aquatics and cycling are also set to feature should they be awarded the Games.Esports and

For the first time, three European teams stepped onto the podium at an International Volleyball Federation

(FIVB) Beach World Tour four-star event on American soil as Norway's Anders Mol and Christian Sørum

 Norway's world number ones Anders Mol and Christian Sørum toast victory in the FIVB Beach World

©FIVBIn the women’s tournament, Canada's Heather Bansley and Brandie Wilkerson won their first FIVB Beach

The women's final of the four-star International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour event