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Athlete from Ethiopia wins Minsk half-marathon 2018 For the fourth time, Minsk half-marathon gathered amateur runners. This year, the new record in the number of participants was set, 35,000 runners from 53 countries took part in the event. The largest was the Russian team with 600 runners from 89 cities. At the most prestigious distance of 21 km, our professional athlete Svetlana Kudelic fought for the first place, but came second. The Belarusian athlete lost only one second to Sheila Erotich...

... Only five days are left. Registration for the largest race in Belarus will end on Friday evening. About 35 thousand fans of a healthy lifestyle will participate in the race on Sunday. They will run along the main streets of the capital. Medals of the sporting event have already been presented to the public.

... guests of the 2nd European Games. The 2nd European Games will take place in Minsk on 21-30 June 2019. The opening ceremony will be held at the renovated Dynamo Stadium. Over 4,000 athletes from 50 countries will compete in about 200 medal events in 15 sports.

Sabalenka loses difficult fight to Japan's Naomi Osaka The best achievement of Belarusian tennis player Aryna Sabalenka will be remembered by US Open 2018. She leaves the tournament after a match for the quarterfinal. In a difficult struggle, world number 20 lost to Japan's Naomi Osaka. The performance at the US Open was the most successful in Sabalenka's career, with her beating the world's fifth racket Petra Kvitova from Czech Republic and American Daniel Collins in the main grid of the tournamedraw...

Adult World Rowing Championship kicks off on September 9 in Bulgaria Eight awards were won by the Belarusian team at the Junior European Rowing Championships in Brest. Athletes under 23 participated in the tournament. Belarusian athletes won one gold, six silver medals and one bronze medal. The women's crew consisting of Yana Tsupa, Victoria Zhuravlevich, Maria Bozhemaya, Maria Kolesnikova and Polina Katsevich triumphantly finished the competition. More than 500 athletes from 24 countries competed...

Teams from 18 countries participate in road cycling event in Minsk The international bicycle road race «Grand Prix of Minsk» ended with the victory of the «Minsk» cycling club racer Nikolai Shumov. Our athlete defeated Poland's Marek Rutkiewicz, who was in the lead two kilometers ahead of the finishing line. The third place was taken by another Belarusian Evgeni Akhramenko. On Sunday, athletes rode 149 kilometers. On Saturday, another rider of the Minsk team Bronislav Samoilov came in second in...

Dmitry Dyubin of Belarus won bronze in men’s 50km speed walking Belarus clinched two more medals at the 2018 European Athletics Championships. First, Alena Dubitskaya won the medal in the shot put. A little bit later, the decathlete Vitaly Zhuk, thanks to a super-successful performance managed to move to the final 3rd line from the 9th position after 5 events. Thus, the national team of Belarus has now three medals at the European Championships. Earlier, Dmitry Dyubin won bronze in the men’s 50km...

Viktoria Azarenko rated 95, Vera Lapko rated 66 Two Belarusians at once improved their positions in the World women's tennis association ratings. Viktoria Azarenko moved up to 13 lines to the position 95 and got into the world's top hundred due to her performance at the San Jose tournament, where she got to the quarterfinals. Vera Lapko moved from place 69 up to place 66. On Wednesday, Viktoria Azarenko and Arina Sobolenko will start at the Montreal tournament with the prize pool of more than 2...

Victoria Azarenka to face American Daniel Rose Collins Today, Victoria Azarenka will compete for the semi-final berth at the tennis tournament in the American San Jose. Belarusian’s rival is Danielle Roose Collins from US, who defeated Vera Lapko in the match of last 16. The American had not played with Azarenka before. In the world rating she is on the 42nd place, Victoria is 108th. But it is the Belarusian tennis player whom bookmakers call the favorite of the match.

Vera Lapko scores first victory at Premier category tournament Victoria Azarenka continues winning at the tennis tournament in San Jose. Today, in the round of 16 the Belarusian player will face Spain's Garbine Muguruza, WTA number 7. The athletes already met in 2016 at a tournament in Miami with Azarenka getting the upper hand. Another Belarusian, Vera Lapko, also went off to a good start at the prestigious Premier category tournament. She defeated China's Zhang Shuai. Her next rival will be world's...