Next month's World Junior Curling Championships has been moved from Turkey to Denmark because of fears over terrorism.

The World Curling Federation (WCF) has announced that VoIP Defender will be the title sponsor for next month's World Junior Curling Championships in Copenhagen.

The Finnish city of Tampere is the only bidder in the race to stage the 2018 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Junior Championships while Copenhagen, Sopot and Valencia are the three cities vying to host the World Half Marathon Championships in the same year, the sport’s governing body has announced.

Danish capital Copenhagen has proposed a three-day running festival as part of its bid to host the 2018 World Half Marathon Championships.

Fifth seeds Russia claimed their first world title in women’s recurve team competition for 28 years as the World Archery Championships came to a close in Copenhagen.

Germany and Indonesia took advantage of a second chance tournament at the World Archery Championships in Copenhagen to claim the final two men’s individual recurve quota places at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Five women’s and six men’s individual quota places for for next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro were taken up during the third elimination round of recurve competition at the World Archery Championships in Copenhagen. 

Hosts Denmark are one of 18 nations still in the running for Rio 2016 Olympic quota places following two elimination rounds of the men’s recurve individual competition at the World Archery Championships in Copenhagen.

Chinese Taipei’s Lin Shih-Chia fended off a late surge from London 2012 champion Ki Bo Bae to top the women’s recurve qualification standings at the World Archery Championships in Copenhagen.

World Archery today elected six new members as it prepared to host its biggest-ever World Championships in Copenhagen.

The number of competitors in the men’s individual recurve event at the World Archery Championships in Copenhagen has passed the 200 mark, it has been announced, making the competition the biggest in the sport’s history.

This year’s edition of the World Archery Championships in Copenhagen is set to be the “biggest ever by 25 per cent”, it is claimed, with 699 athletes from 100 countries already registered to compete.

I doubt that Barack Obama includes Denmark among his favourite sports event venues. The Danish capital Copenhagen, after all, was the scene in 2009 of Chicago’s stunning exit from the race to host next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games, even though the US President jetted in hoping to help the Windy City to victory.

Outside the White House though, a growing body of opinion now sees this small European nation, perched on top of Germany like the logo on the bonnet of an old Mercedes-Benz, as a leading player in this peculiar branch of the marketing industry.

And, as its reputation has grown, so event hosting has emerged as one of a number of poles of excellence that have steadily transformed Denmark’s image from a byword for blue cheese and bacon to a beacon of civilised living.

Denmark has announced its candidacy to host the 2017 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Copenhagen.