Luxembourg achieved the biggest shock of the first day of the women's tournament at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Chengdu as they claimed an impressive victory against South Korea.

Japan clinched their place in the Second Round of the Women’s World Volleyball Championship with a superb victory against Olympic silver medallists Brazil.

Serbia’s rising star Angelina Topić has set her sights on become "one of the greatest ever" high jumpers after winning the European Olympic Committees’ (EOC) Summer Piotr Nurowski European Young Athlete Prize here.

Italy and Britain added to their gold medal tallies in the Shotgun World Championships in Osijek in Croatia with triumphs in the team events.

The United States and Poland have been drawn together for this season's Billie Jean King Cup which could see a rematch of this year's French Open women's singles final between the respective countries' Coco Gauff and Iga Świątek.

International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev has claimed that "the time has now come" for Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete under their own flag at all sports events, and insisted that Ukrainian athletes should also have that right amid a row at the European Junior Championships.

United World Wrestling (UWW) has approved an updated qualification process for the Paris 2024 Olympics which has switched some quota places from the 2023 World Championships to the third event offering spots for the Games, the 2024 World Olympic Qualifiers.

Women's rights group Open Stadiums has called on FIFA to "immediately expel Iran" from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar because of the country's mistreatment of women, amid protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death. 

Wayne Mitchell has been re-elected as vice-president of Taekwondo Canada, while the organisation has awarded its 2023 National Championships to Toronto.

Hosts Australia fell agonisingly short of making a second appearance in the Women's Basketball World Cup final as they lost a dramatic semi-final 61-59 to seventh seeds China - watched by a crowd of 11,916 at the Sydney SuperDome.

Representatives from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) met with the Colombian Weightlifting Federation (CWF) in Bogotá to discuss preparations for the upcoming and potentially record-breaking World Championships.

Joel Embiid, the Philadelphia 76ers’ prized seven-foot centre, has kept speculation alive over which country he might represent at the Paris 2024 Olympics after becoming a United States citizen.

Reynaldo Vasquez, the former President of the Salvadoran Football Federation (FESFUT), has been given a 16-month prison sentence in the United States for accepting bribes from television companies in exchange for broadcast rights to El Salvador's matches.

Thailand whitewashed South Korea to secure a spot in the next round of the Women’s World Volleyball Championship in Gdańsk.

Sir Mo Farah, who has been obliged to withdraw from the TCS London Marathon on Sunday (October 2) because of a hip injury, has set his sights on returning for next year’s event, scheduled to return to its traditional spring timing on April 23.