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Four athletes have been selected to represent the Novuna Great Britain and Northern Ireland team at the IAU 100km World Championships in Ames, Spain.

The University of Wolverhampton welcomed students, staff, and visitors to Walsall Campus Sports Centre for this year’s highly anticipated Varsity 2026 event – the third consecutive year the competition has taken place in partnership with University College Birmingham (UCB) and Newman University.

During an Easter period of high-octane Netball Super League (NSL), defending champions London Pulse completed a third consecutive victory as they brushed aside Birmingham Panthers 78-45 - the biggest winning margin of the season so far.

Following Derek Chisora’s loss to Deontay Wilder, it left him with emotions churning in overdrive after the defeat in what was his final exhilarating fight the O2 Arena, in London.

In his 50th bout of an eventful professional career, the Zimbabwe-born fighter showed immense powers of recovery to come back from a punishing eighth round to take former WBC champion Wilder the distance. With the American showed the power early on, the fight threatened to turn into a nightmare for Chisora during a one-sided start.

Billed as Chisora’s ‘Last Dance’, as one of the most formidable punchers in heavyweight history, he was able to rally in sensational fashion in a thrilling fourth and after he got up off the canvas in round eight, the 42-year-old made it through to earn a hero’s reception before, during and after his last three-minute round in the professional ranks. Of the fight, he (Chisora) said: “Some of the rounds were very close.

“Wilder pushed me on to the ropes, but I was able to come back at him every time. I came out of the ring,” he went to say, “but it is what it is!

“Thank you very much United Kingdom, I really appreciate you. I came here when I was 16, I was born in Zimbabwe, came here to visit my mother, I got into trouble, I started boxing and I didn’t know I would be addicted to boxing.

For a victorious Wilder, he said that he “move down the gears” to help his friend before he extended an invite to the whole Chisora family to visit his home of Alabama.

“I knew Derek was going to come and bring everything that he had to fight,” Wilder started. “Now it’s over for us and I want him to live for his kids. It’s time for us to take care of each other.”

Meanwhile, in Cardiff, Lauren Price retained her world welterweight titles, after a bruising fight against Puerta Ricon fighter, Stephanie Pineiro. It came after five-weight world champion, Price suffered severely bad cut in round five.

However, the Welshwoman managed to get a points win and is now set for a face-off with multi-world title, and former mixed-martial arts champion, winning American Claressa Shields.

The first open sale of tickets for the 2026 World Cup showed Fifa is charging up to $10,990 (£8,333) to be at the final.

Deontay Wilder says he is as confident as he has ever been ahead of his heavyweight showdown with Derek Chisora.

Solihull’s Copt Heath Golf Club has announced a record number of entries for the 2026 Peter McEvoy Trophy, marking the highest level of demand in the tournament’s four decade-long history.

A further 500 spaces have been released for the Bryn Meadows Caerphilly 10K after the initial allocation of race entries filled up following strong demand.

On March 30, the torch relay of the 6th Asian Beach Games took place in Sanya, China.

Ronnie “Tre” Lawson, an educator from Macon, Georgia, in the U.S.A., who survived a 2017 car crash that caused a spinal cord injury, is living beyond what doctors first expected.

A week on from the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Poland, the world's best athletes are turning their attention to the outdoor season and the 2026 Wanda Diamond League campaign.

The 2026 Generali Prague Half Marathon delivered a spectacular morning of elite racing and cosmopolitan feel as 17,000 runners from 117 nationalities took to the streets of the Czech capital under chilly but sunny skies, with temperatures ranging from 1°C to 10°C.

Newly crowned World Indoor 3000m Champion, Josh Kerr, has confirmed that he will attempt to break the men’s mile world record at the Novuna London Athletics Meet, part of the Wanda Diamond League series, on Saturday 18 July.

The Basketball Africa League (BAL) have announced that a record 15 marketing and merchandising partners, including five new partners, will support the 2026 BAL season that tips off today at the SunBet Arena in Pretoria, in South Africa.

The Wanda Diamond League meeting in Doha is currently scheduled to go ahead as planned on May 8, but the Diamond League continues to monitor the situation in Doha, working in close coordination with meeting organisers, the Qatar Athletics Federation, the relevant authorities in Qatar and World Athletics.

The women's category of Olympic sports will be limited to biological females from 2028.