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Official FIFA Awards: Golden Ball, Golden Scorer, Golden Glove and Fair Play FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Ravenna/Italy 2011 Official FIFA Awards Adidas Golden Ball Award Award Player Team / No adidas Golden Ball Ilya LEONOV RUS / 8 adidas Silver Ball ANDRE BRA / 9 adidas Bronze Ball Frank VELASQUEZ SLV

Australia’s Ellie Cole has been voted the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) Athlete of the Month for August after swimming to six gold medals at the Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championships in Edmonton, Canada. Cole received 41 percent of the vote on the IPC’s Facebook poll to beat Portugal’s Boccia star, Abilito Valente,

The International Archery Federation (FITA) was founded in 1931 at a meeting in Lwow, Poland. Seven founding nations were present : France, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, the United States and the former Czechoslovakia. The head office for FITA is in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2005, Prof Dr Ugur ERDENER (TUR) was elected president. Dr

On the Shanghai riverside Reo WILDE (USA) shot a perfect 150 in his compound men’s final. He also won a team gold and came back strongly in the Longines Prize for Precision. Jamie VAN NATTA won in Compound Women. At World Cup Stage 4 in Shanghai, the compound finals were contested on

A new US archer is on the rise. After winning two medals in Odgen last month, Joe FANCHIN (USA) won the gold in individuals and team this week in Shanghai! The young Inna STEPANOVA (RUS) also won her first World Cup in Recurve Women. The finals of the Archery World Cup Stage

Here are the athletes qualified for the Istanbul World Cup Final 2011 on 24-25 September. Based on the top three results of the four World Cup stages, the top 7 archers of the season per category (with a maximum of two archers per country) qualify for the Archery World Cup Final (Istanbul

By Louise Parkes: Spain’s record-breaking partnership of Maria Alvarez Ponton and Nobby took their fourth Championship title in a row when putting in another phenomenal performance at the FEI European Endurance Championships 2011 in Florac, France yesterday.  And the host nation had plenty to celebrate too, as Virginie Atger, Julien Goachet, Sunny

Sochi 2014 mountain venues, Preparations for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games are continuing, with work expected to be completed on many of the mountain venues by the end of this year. During the 2014 Games, events will be focused around two different areas – a coastal cluster of venues in Sochi

Coastal venues progressing Work on the venues that will be used during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games is progressing well, with the Olympic Park on schedule for completion next year. During the 2014 Games, events will be focused around two different areas – a coastal cluster in Sochi consisting of the

The IOC today announced an agreement has been reached between Olympic Broadcasting Services (www.obs.es) and Worldwide TOP Partner Panasonic to provide equipment and technology to enable the first ever live 3D coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games. “For the past two decades, Panasonic has been a valued partner of the Olympic