Austria’s David Serdaroglu, Greece’s Ioannis Sgouropoulos and Poland’s Tomasz Lewandowski were among the surprise qualifiers for the men’s singles main draw at the European Table Tennis Championships in Budapest as the opening phase concluded today. 

Olympic and world champion Carolina Marin recovered from match point down against home favourite Julie Dawall Jakobsen to book her place in the second round of the Yonex Denmark Open at the Arena Fyn in Odense today.

Gold Coast 2018 chairman Peter Beattie has defended his organisation’s recruitment plan following criticism from legendary ceremony producer Ric Birch for "overlooking" Australian talent.

The Ski Association of Slovenia (SAS) has extended its partnership with Infront Sports & Media for a further 10 years, covering national and international media rights for International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup events taking place in the country.

The International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) development arm, the Agitos Foundation, and the Japan Sport Council (JSC) are set to roll out the second phase of a new programme aimed at growing Para-sports in South East Asia before Tokyo 2020.

British judo star Stephanie Inglis has taken up coaching the sport a little over five months after she was involved in a motorcycle accident that almost killed her in Vietnam.

Organisers of the 2017 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Alpine Skiing World Championships have had the opportunity to share their knowledge and insight on accessibility in sports at "Barcolana", the historic international sailing regatta held annually in the Gulf of Trieste.

Egypt’s Mazen Hesham has pulled out of the upcoming 2016 Professional Squash Association (PSA) Men’s World Championship in Cairo after failing to recover from the hip injury he suffered during last month’s Al Ahram Squash Open in Giza.

Zlatko Matesa has been re-elected President of the Croatian Olympic Committee (COO) until 2020.

Liberia was one of three West African countries to participate at the 2016 Nanjing International Youth Sports and Cultural Week, having been invited as a result of their gesture to voluntarily withdraw from the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in the Chinese city due to the outbreak of the Ebola epidemic in the region.

Great Britain’s Mo Farah and Spain’s Ruth Beitia have been crowned the respective men’s and women’s European athletes of the year at the Golden Tracks gala here tonight.

Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut stunned world number one Novak Djokovic to reach the final of the Shanghai Masters at the Qi Zhong Tennis Center today.

Aleksey Troshkin is set to be stripped of the Jersey Marathon title he won earlier this month having been deemed ineligible to compete due to the current ban on Russian athletes.

Andy Cosslett has been elected chairman of England’s Rugby Football Union (RFU) Board, replacing Bill Beaumont who took up World Rugby’s equivalent role earlier this year.