Russia topped qualification in both the men's and women's senior air rifle at the European 10 Metres Shooting Championship in Osijek.
Sweden and Russia have both qualified for the play-offs after the latest day of round-robin action at the Women's World Curling Championship in Danish town Silkeborg.
Chinese Taipei and Singapore completed the quarter-final line-up as group play finished at the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships today.
Ryoyu Kobayashi was in predictably good form as he topped qualification at the final Ski Jumping World Cup leg of the season in Planica.
Home favourite Tove Alexandersson won the women's sprint event today to claim her second gold medal of the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) World Ski Orienteering Championships in Piteå in Sweden.
Recently-crowned world champion Anastasiya Kuzmina of Slovakia secured the sprint crystal globe and moved into fourth in the race for the overall title with victory on the opening day of the International Biathlon Union World Cup season finale in Oslo.
Four events on the International Fencing Federation (FIE) World Cup tour are scheduled to begin tomorrow with competition taking place across three continents.
Aliaksandr Dziadkou and Pavel Piatrushka of Belarus progressed to the main draw as the Beach Volleyball World Tour two-star event in Siem Reap in Cambodia began today.
Overall titles will be at stake when the International Ski Federation Cross-Country World Cup season concludes in Québec this weekend.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has said that its verdict in the Caster Semenya testosterone case will now not be announced until the end of April.
The International Teqball Federation (FITEQ) has announced a commitment to maintaining its mixed gender status, making it one of the few sports in the world where women and men compete on an equal playing field.
The winners of this year's Women’s World Cup in France will get prize money of $4 million (£3 million/€3.5 million), just over one-tenth of the $38 million (£28.8 million/€33.5 million) which the French team received for winning last year's men's tournament.
A Street League Skateboarding (SLS) World Tour event will be held in London for the second year running in 2019, it has been announced.
China's Wenjing Sui and Cong Han won pairs gold at the World Figure Skating Championships but the event was overshadowed by a claim that South Korean Lim Eun-soo was deliberately injured by American Mariah Bell.
The International Skating Union (ISU) has awarded the 2020 European Short Track Championships to Hungary.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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