Britain’s Rosie Rudin began the International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Junior Championships in style as she claimed the women’s 400 metres individual medley title in a world junior record time on the opening day of the event in Singapore.

More than 1,000 local residents turned out for a wheelchair basketball event in Tokyo today to mark five-years-to-go until the 2020 Paralympic Games begin in the Japanese city.

Women’s British weightlifting clean and jerk record holder Rebekah Tiler will be England’s flagbearer for the upcoming Commonwealth Youth Games in Apia, Samoa, it has been announced. 

Egyptian pair Eslam Hamad and Haydy Morsy became the latest athletes to secure a spot at next year’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as they both won gold at the Modern Pentathlon African Championships on home soil in Cairo.

The inaugural International Youth Olympic Games of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has got underway in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe, where 60 people aged 18-25 will compete over six days of action.

Britain’s Lucy Shuker and Shota Kawano of Japan claimed two titles apiece at the German Open wheelchair tennis event, winning both the singles and doubles in their respective categories in Berlin.

Germany’s men will bid to earn a third consecutive EuroHockey Championships title when this year’s event gets underway at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

Concerns over pollution in Guanabara Bay have intensified after South Korean windsurfer Wonwoo Cho was taken to hospital during a Rio 2016 sailing test event. 

Next year’s British Para-Swimming International Meet, part of the selection process for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, will take place at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, it has been announced.

SPORTEL have revealed 99 per cent of the exhibition at their convention in Monte Carlo, Monaco in October has been booked, with more than1,200 participants already signed up for the event.

Dutch city Rotterdam will host the 2016 International Triathlon Union (ITU) Para-triathlon World Championships, the sport’s governing body has announced.

Pyeongchang 2018 have announced they have published, what they claim is, South Korea’s first sustainability report ahead of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, aimed at providing a legacy to enable the country to host more major sporting events in the future.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has become only the fourth man to be made an honourary 10th Dan black belt in taekwondo, the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) has announced.

Toronto 2015 Pan American Games light welterweight gold medallist Arthur Biyarslanov continued his excellent form, securing a narrow victory over Brazil’s Joedison Teixeira on the second day of the AMBC American Confederation Boxing Championships in Vargas, Venezuela.