On day one of the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Nairobi, Ethiopia secured a brilliant one-two in the 3,000 metres as Nigeria won the mixed 4x400m relay.

narrowly behind, trailing by 0.1, and India rounded out the medal places.In the field, Mirè Reinstorf of South

Africa won the women's pole vault, as her and France's Elise Russis were the only vaulters to clear

 In a media conference as reported by All Africa, he said: "We had to host the championships

Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games will be broadcast free-to-air to a record 49 sub-Saharan territories in Africa

to run until the autumn of 2024, and seeks to challenge disability stigma and discrimination across Africa

Sao Tome, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South

Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.This represents an increase

on December’s announcement on free-to-air coverage in Africa, which featured 24 of these countries.As

One of them is that for millions of people in Africa this will be the first time they will have seen

West Indies captain Stafanie Taylor and Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan have won the women's and men's International Cricket Council (ICC) Player of the Month Awards for July.

 "We're also looking forward to the series against South Africa at home, and we will be looking

Cricket West Indies (CWI) has announced that Barbados will represent the West Indies in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games after a qualifying tournament was postponed due to COVID-19.

©Getty ImagesCricket has once before featured at the Commonwealth Games, at Kuala Lumpur 1998, when South

Africa won a men's 50-over tournamentCWI has committed additional investment into West Indies women's

training camps.The first is underway in Antigua before a T20 and one-day international series against South

Pre-race favourite Annemiek van Vleuten won the queen stage of the Ladies Tour of Norway to take the overall race lead with just one stage remaining.

broke clear with little more than 2.5 kilometres left to claim a solo win.Ashleigh Moolman Pasio of South

Africa and SD Worx was the last rider left who could keep pace with Van Vleuten, but after she was dropped

The line-up for this weekend’s finals in the men’s, women’s and mixed cadet and junior team events in the compound and recurve disciplines were confirmed today at the World Archery Youth Championships in Wrocław.

Turkey respectively, and will face the United States for the gold medal as they edged both Russia and South

Africa by a three-point margin.The men’s recurve cadet team final will pit India against France.The

Britain's silver medal from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the men's 4x100 metres relay could be stripped after its sprinter CJ Ujah was provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) as two banned substances were present in his system after the Games.

June from Odhiambo, as confirmed by World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited laboratory in Bloemfontein in South

Africa on August 2.This sample was collected by the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya on June 24 and handed

New dates for the European qualifier for the next women's Rugby World Cup have been announced, with Italy to play host next month.

qualifier will join the United States and Canada in Pool B, along with an Asian team.England, France, South

Africa and Fiji are in Pool C, while hosts and defending champions New Zealand, Wales, Australia and

Brazil’s Filipe Toledo, who sits third in the World Surf League Championship Tour’s (WSL CT) season standings, was knocked out at the round of 32 stage, in a big upset on the second day of the Corona Open Mexico.

heat Connor O’Leary of Australia was the man who went out after scoring 8.67.Matthew McGillivray of South

Africa progressed with a score of 11.87, while Seth Moniz of Hawaii won the heat with 15.37.The second

World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue is set to be re-elected for a fifth full term unopposed, after being confirmed as the only candidate for the Presidency. 

The South Korean official is due to be re-elected on October 11 during an online General Assembly.The

for 17 positions.Four will be elected from Asia, four from Europe, four from the Americas, three from Africa

all wish to be re-elected to the Council as well.So too do Jordanian Nadin Farid Khalil Dawani and South

African Judo Union (AJU) President Siteny Randrianasoloniaiko is planning a "zoning" scheme that will help athletes across the continent gain greater access to high-level competitions, and it is claimed accelerate Africa's progress on the world stage.

We must make the honest and lucid observation that these were not good Games in terms of medals for Africa

qualified for the inaugural mixed team event - Randrianasoloniaiko wants to create a sense of "Team Africa

 "We see today that North Africa is more efficient than southern Africa.

 "We are therefore going to create north, south, east and west zones, to develop opportunities to

Randrianasoloniaiko added grassroots judo will also be invested in across Africa.

Former world number one James Willstrop was beaten by compatriot Patrick Rooney in an all English clash on the first day of the Professional Squash Association (PSA) Manchester Open.

Hania El Hammamy of Egypt facing Rachel Arnold of Malaysia, after Arnold today beat Alexandra Fuller of South

Africa 11-9, 11-6, 11-3.There will be new names on the men’s and women’s trophies with both Egyptian

The Bureau of the FIFA Council has decided to extend the mandate of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) Normalisation Committee until January 5 2022 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

President Hany Abou Rida and the entire board.Rida and the board resigned after Egypt's shock 1-0 defeat by South

Africa in the round of 16 of the 2019 African Nations Cup, which Egypt hosted.Mohamed Salah, left, and

Egypt were upset by South Africa in the Round of 16 at the 2019 African Cup of Nations, after which

Fouzi Lekjaa, the President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) and member of the FIFA Council, has branded opponents of proposals to make the World Cup a biennial event as "egotists", and said the idea would provide a real boost to African football.

with FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s aims to shift the dominance of the sport away from Europe and South

solutions for everyone not just for those who enjoy all privileges, who have all the resources and look at Africa

It’s easy to make headlines and campaigns against racism and discrimination but what Africa wants is

Cups held has previously been mooted by former FIFA President Sepp Blatter in 1999 and 2001, and by South

Bridget Umutoni, a Ugandan student, has received the scholarship for the International University Sports Federation's (FISU) Dream Together Master (DTM) program in Seoul.

I look forward to my time in Seoul National University and South Korea and know that this will be a stepping

stone for me and greatly impact sport in Uganda, Africa and the world," said Umutoni."

The Dream Together Master programme takes place at Seoul National University in South Korea ©Getty ImagesThe