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Egypt stroll into men's team final at ITTF African Championships

  • Table Tennis

Egypt comfortably advanced to the final of the men's team event at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) African Championships in Yaoundé in Cameroon.

the loser in the bronze-medal match.Kenya secured ninth place in the classification round as hey beat South

Africa 3-2 in a thrilling back-and-forth series.Kenya's Josiah Wandera won the decisive match with a



US Open able to continue following New York flash flooding which killed at least 12

  • Tennis

New York City, which is hosting the US Open, has been hit by severe flash flooding as the remnants of Storm Ida dumped record levels of rain across the north-east United States.

sidewards rain penetrating the playing surface.The match between Diego Schwartzman and Kevin Anderson of South

Africa was suspended and moved to the Arthur Ashe Stadium, where the encounter was able to continue


Schurter looks to equal Absalon at UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Lenzerheide

  • Cycling

Nuno Schurter will be looking to make history at the 2021 International Cycling Union Mountain Bike World Cup in Lenzerheide in Switzerland as he has the chance to equal France's Julien Absalon's record of 33 cross country World Cup victories.

Thibaut Dapréla of France holds a slender lead ahead of Austria's Troy Brosnan and Greg Minnaar of South

Africa, while Myriam Nicole of France and Camille Balanche of Switzerland are tied at the top of the


Nigeria and Egypt live up to expectations in 2021 ITTF African Championships

  • Table Tennis

Nigeria and Egypt dominated in both the men's and women's team events at the 2021 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) African Championships in Yaoundé in Cameroon.

Taiwo Mati, Olajide Omotayo and Azeez Solanke comfortably defeated South Africa 3-0 in the first group

withdrawal from the competition.Mauritius is living up to its first seed status in the group, dismissing South

Africa and Cameroon while receiving an automatic 3-0 victory against Congo.The island nation faces Egypt


Simon takes gold at UCI 2021 Junior Track Cycling World Championships

  • Cycling

Jette Simon took the gold medal in the women's scratch race final at the International Cycling Union (UCI) 2021 Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Cairo in Egypt with a blistering average speed of 42.17 kilometres per hour.

the third African country to host the UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships, after Morocco and South

Africa ©Getty ImagesMeanwhile Poland and Malaysia are set to compete for the bronze medal.Italy, Russian


Group stages reach finale in FINA World Men's Junior Water Polo Championships 2021

  • Water Polo

Croatia has confirmed its place in the International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Men's Junior Water Polo Championships 2021 quarter-finals following its 13-5 victory over Russia in Prague.

fixture.Montenegro dominated Kazakhstan 13-2 to take top spot in Group D with three wins from three.Italy will play South

Africa in the first knockout game tomorrow while Spain are favourites for their match against Brazil.Russia


Ruslan Kuznetsov

  • Russian Summer Paralympic Athletes

Ruslan Kuznetsov has secured another road cycling gold for the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) at Tokyo 2020, triumphing in a dramatic men’s H3 road race.

and time trial at Cascais in Portugal this June, bettering his performances at Pietermaritzburg in South

Africa and Emmen in the Netherlands in 2017 and 2019 respectively.He is ranked seventh in the world


Croatia top Group A in FINA World Men's Junior Water Polo Championships 2021 after humiliating Uzbekistan

  • Water Polo

Croatia annihilated Uzbekistan 31-1 in the International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Men's Junior Water Polo Championships 2021 in Prague in Czech Republic.

produced a sensational comeback against Egypt in Group C to take its first win of the tournament.The South

game left Montenegro in second place but with a game in hand against winless Kazakhstan.Elsewhere, South

Africa beat Kazakhstan 10-8 in a dead rubber.Tomorrow's action will see the conclusion of the group


UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships to start in Cairo featuring 22 events

  • Cycling

The International Cycling Union (UCI) Junior Track Cycling World Championships returns tomorrow in the Egyptian capital Cairo at the new velodrome in the capital's Nasr City district, featuring 22 events.

was not held because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and this will be the first time it has been hosted in Africa

since Cape Town in South Africa back in 2008.At its last edition in Frankfurt, it was the hosts Germany


Taekwondo official's posthumous award delivered to family in Egypt

  • Member National Association and Continental Unions News

South Korea's ambassador to Egypt has delivered taekwondo official Ahmed Fouly's posthumous Order of

Fouly, who was President of World Taekwondo Africa and a World Taekwondo vice-president, was named as

of the Cheongryong Medal in May.The medal is the highest Order of Sports Merit honour available in South

Korea and was approved by the country's President Moon Jae-in.Hong Jin-wook, South Korea's ambassador

contribution to taekwondo - a Korean martial art - and sports governance.His family were unable to travel to South

was posthumously awarded the Cheongryong Medal in May but his family could not attend the ceremony in South


Venezuela win two Paralympic 100 metres gold medals in 15 minutes as Malaysian disqualification sparks fury at Tokyo 2020

  • Athletics News

Venezuela won their first two Paralympic Games gold medals of Tokyo 2020 here tonight, thanks to the sprinting efforts of Linda Patricia Perez Lopez and Lisbeli Marina Vera Andrade.

Perez Lopez gave the South American nation its first gold medal at the Games since Beijing 2008, when

disappointed with silver, despite a personal best.Also getting a personal best was Sheryl James of South

Africa in third.Jose Rodrigo Chessani Garcia of Mexico broke the North American record in the men's

Paralympic record in the F56 set by Germany's Martina Willing at Beijing 2008, throwing 24.50m.New South


Streng seals gold as photo finish needed in dramatic men's T64 100m Paralympic final

  • Athletics News

Germany's Felix Streng won a dramatic men's T64 100 metres final at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, where the top four athletes were separated by only three hundredths of a second.

Mexico broke the women's T11 1500 metres world record in 4min 37.40sec ahead of Louzanne Coetzee of South

Africa who broke the African record for silver and bronze medallist Nancy Chelangat Koech of Kenya.


New dates announced for All Africa University Games

  • Universiade

The 10th All Africa University Games is set to be contested from June 6 to 10 2022 at Kenyatta University

With the support of the Federation of Africa University Sports (FASU) and the Kenyan University Sports

Association (KUSA), an official invitation was sent to every university in Africa signed by the Organising

We are excited to see that the All Africa University Games are still being organised and are showing

strong participation in its 10th edition," said FISU Acting President Leonz Eder.The 2018 All Africa

from national university teams to individual universities since the eighth edition at Johannesburg, South


British sprinters grab gold on day two of athletics at Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

  • Athletics News

Britain's Thomas Young and Sophie Hahn ended the second day of athletics at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games with gold medals in the 100 metres at the Olympic Stadium.

Colombia's Darian Faisury Jimenez Sanchez six hundredths back and Germany's Lindy Ave in bronze.South Africa

Committee's (RPC) Anastasiia Soloveva placed third.Ntando Mahlangu made it a second gold in 30 minutes for South

Africa with a T61 world record in the men's T63 long jump with a mark of 7.17 metres.Incredible scenes