Wheelchair rugby, one of a number of sports dropped from the UK Sport funding programme in December 2016, will receive £500,000 ($630,000/€554,000) - the maximum investment for a team sport - through a newly established UK Sport Aspiration Fund.

Russian Kirill Prigoda lit up the third day of the International Swimming Federation World Short Course Championships as he broke the world record on his way to securing the men's 200m breaststroke gold medal in Hangzhou.

A late Mink van der Weerden goal sent The Netherlands through to the semi-finals as they broke Indian hearts with a 2-1 win over the host nation at the International Hockey Federation Men's World Cup in Bhubaneswar.

Germany’s Isabell Werth and horse Weihegold Old have moved back to the top of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) dressage world rankings following their win in the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Freestyle to Music at the Sweden International Horse Show in Stockholm.

China's Chen Yufei is on the brink of an early exit from the Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Tour Finals after she was beaten by Michelle Li of Canada in Guangzhou today.

Unified pair Jang Woojin, of South Korea, and Cha Hyo Sim, from North Korea, energised the opening day of the International Table Tennis Federation's World Tour Grand Finals in Incheon by beating the world champions to reach the last four of the mixed doubles.

Reigning champion Kim So-hui of South Korea survived a scare as she edged Qing Guo of China in a tense golden point round to progress to the quarter-finals of the women's under-49 kilograms category at the World Taekwondo Grand Slam Champions Series in Wuxi.

Home athlete Nadya Ochner held off the Olympic double gold medallist Ester Ledecká to earn a first International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Snowboard World Cup win in the parallel giant slalom at Carezza in Italy today.

Dorothea Wierer of Italy denied Finland's Kaisa Mäkäräinen a third straight International Biathlon Union World Cup victory as she won today's 7.5 kilometres sprint in Hochfilzen.

The opening night of equestrian's inaugural Global Champions League (GCL) Prague play-offs saw 12 teams enter the O2 Arena chasing eight places in tomorrow's semi-finals of the of the Super Cup.

Canada’s Brian McKeever maintained his unbeaten run in the vision impaired cross-country short race on the second day of competition at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Vuokatti in Finland.

Georgia's Irma Khetsuriani earned her second successive Wheelchair Fencing World Cup gold on the opening day of the latest version of the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation’s series in Kyoto.

Britain's Sochi 2014 gold medallist Kelly Gallagher and France's quadruple Pyeongchang 2018 champion Marie Bochet won both their morning and afternoon runs en route to gold on the opening day of the World Para Alpine Skiing Europa Cup in St Moritz.

A total of 10 divisions were in action on the second day of competition at the World Adaptive Surfing Championships in La Jolla in San Diego.