Alamin emerged victorious by Technical Knockout against his Thai counterpart, bringing pride to Bangladesh with his remarkable performance in the ring by completing the 4-round bout within the first round, according to a press release from Xcel Sports Management & Promotions

Ramhim Lian Bawm created a piece of history in the National Table Tennis Championship in Chattogram today, becoming the first player to win both boys’ and men's singles titles.

Rafiqul Islam Tipu, a renowned face in Bangladesh’s sports community, passed away today at a hospital in Dhaka.

Mahfuza Khatun Shila is the country's first and only female swimmer to win a gold medal in the South Asian Games. Shila, currently an employee of Bangladesh Navy, won two gold medals in 2016 SA Games while setting a record in 50m breaststroke. After calling time in 2021, the 33-year-old prepared herself for the coaching profession before getting appointed as the assistant coach of Bangladesh swimming team for the upcoming Asian Games. In an interview with Anisur Rahman of The Daily Star, Shila expressed her thoughts on coaching, present condition and scope of swimming here. The excerpts of the interview are as follows:

Shooter Sharmin Akter emerged champion from the open group of boys and girls in the Inter-Club Shooting Championship in 2000 when she was a sixth grader. The BKSP student then shone in the Islamabad SA Games in 2004, bagging gold in the 10m air-rifle, before winning a silver in the next edition of the SA Games in 2006 in Sri Lanka. Sharmin was on a roll in domestic competitions after that, becoming champion a total of five times in the national and inter-club shooting championships. After calling time on her long 22-year playing career following the 2021 Bangladesh Games completion, the 34-year-old former shooter stepped into coaching and started working as one of the three assistant coaches to the national shooting team’s Iranian head coach Zaer Rezaei. In an exclusive interview with The Daily Star’s Anisur Rahman, Sharmin talked about different aspects of the sport. The excerpts from the interview are as follows:    

With more and more success of women in different sporting disciplines in recent times, there has been a considerable amount of transition from athletes to coaches from among former female athletes in recent times than ever before.

Woman Candidate Master (WCM) Warsia Khusbu won the gold medal in the Girls Under-11 Group of the Asian School Chess Championships after the ninth round in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Wednesday.

State Premier Daniel Andrews said the initial estimated Aus$2 billion (US$1.36 billion) needed to hold the Games would more likely be around Aus$7 billion, which he called "well and truly too much"

Futures Sporting Club, with support from Shawn Smash Up, has organised a two-day table tennis tournament at the iconic building of Lab Aid in Kalabagan, Dhaka which got underway today.

Bangladesh sprinters skipped the heat of the 4x100m relay event at the 25th Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday to help Imranur Rahman's cause in today's 100m event.

World number three Daniil Medvedev reached his first Wimbledon quarter-final on Monday when Czech opponent Jiri Lehecka retired with an injury.

The actor's as-yet untitled movie is being filmed at Silverstone this weekend during the British Grand Prix, with the production having a garage and pitwall stand as a fictional 11th 'APX GP' team.

Beefed up security to prevent protesters disrupting the Wimbledon tennis championships has been put in place, organisers said on Thursday, a day after environmental protesters disrupted the Ashes cricket Test at Lord's.

The Spaniard's fifth title of the season moves him back ahead of 23-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic at the top of the rankings.

The Under-19 Basketball Tournament was held on Monday and Tuesday at the basketball court in the new permanent campus of Sunnydale at Bashundhara.

Police raided the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Tuesday just over a year before the opening ceremony of the quadrennial sporting showpiece.

Woman Fide Master (WFM) Wadifa Ahmed became the runners-up in the women’s category of the South Asian Chess Council Chess Championship after beating Sujana Lohani of Nepal in the seventh and final round held in Kathmandu, Nepal on Sunday.

Swiss rider Gino Mader has died after crashing into a ravine on the descent towards the finish line in Thursday's stage five of the Tour de Suisse, his team Bahrain Victorious said on Friday.

Gymnast Rafil Ahmed stood tall in an individual event of 2023 Asian Artistics Gymnastics Championships but narrowly missed the bronze medals in the final of vault junior event in Singapore on Monday.

The celebrated Italian constructor won the centenary edition to foil Toyota's hunt for a sixth successive win in motorsport's fabled endurance classic