(Reuters) -Ducati's Marc Marquez maintained his perfect start to the 2025 MotoGP season when the polesitter won the Americas Grand Prix sprint on Saturday to remain undefeated and extend his lead in the championship.
PETALING JAYA: Raya cheers came early for Mohd Shah Firdaus Sahrom with his ascension into the top rungs of the track cycling world rankings.
SHANGHAI: Lewis Hamilton has won his first race for Ferrari, securing Saturday's Sprint victory from pole position following an early duel with Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen at the Chinese Formula 1 Grand Prix.
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia may find it hard to earn qualification in the team sprint event at the World Championships in Santiago, Chile in October after a slow start to their campaign in the Track Nations Cup in Konya, Turkiye.
PETALING JAYA: Nurul Izzah Izzati Mohd Asri continued to break new ground in women's track cycling when she blitzed her way to a new national record in the sprint qualifying rounds at the UCI Track Nations Cup in Konya, Turkiye.
PETALING JAYA: Mohd Shah Firdaus Sahrom bowed out on a commendable note after posting a personal best time en route to reaching the last-16 stage of the men's sprint at the Track Nations Cup in Konya, Turkiye.
TERMAS DE RIO HONDO, Argentina (Reuters) - Marc Marquez beat his younger brother Alex in Saturday's sprint at the Argentina Grand Prix to extend his lead in the MotoGP championship and Francesco Bagnaia came in third as Ducati swept the podium.
KUALA LUMPUR: National track cycling queen Nurul Izzah Izzati Mohd Asri continued to shine when she once again broke her own national record with a time of 10.578s in the individual sprint event at the Nations Cup Championships in Konya, Turkiye Saturday (March 15).
BURIRAM, Thailand (Reuters) -Six-times MotoGP champion Marc Marquez made a dream start to life at factory Ducati when he led from lap one to the chequered flag to win the sprint at the season-opening Thailand Grand Prix on Saturday, as his younger brother Alex Marquez came in second.
TRONDHEIM, Norway (Reuters) -Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo anchored his team to victory in the team sprint classic on Wednesday to claim his fourth gold medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships, with Jonna Sundling and Maja Dahlqvist triumphing for Sweden in the women's race.
TRONDHEIM, Norway (Reuters) - Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo and Jonna Sundling of Sweden dominated as they won the men's and women's sprint finals at the Nordic Ski World Championships on Thursday, with both retaining the titles they won in Planica in 2023.
(Reuters) - A tremendous spurt on the final straight gave Norwegian Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo gold in a thrilling men's 20km skiathlon race at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim on Saturday, his first individual world title in a distance race as Norway swept the podium.
PETALING JAYA: National sprinter Mohd Azeem Fahmi chose to be a man of few words after qualifying for the 60m final of the Southeastern Conference Indoor Cham-pionships at the Fasken Indoor Track and Field at Texas A&M University on Friday.
LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Johannes Thingnes Boe outclassed the field to win gold for Norway in the men's 10km sprint at the International Biathlon Union World Championships on Saturday, with Campbell Wright clinching a shock silver for the United States.
LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Johannes Thingnes Boe's blistering win in the men's 10 km sprint on Saturday made him the most successful biathlete at the World Championships as he eclipsed Norwegian compatriot Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, and he might not be done yet.
KUALA LUMPUR: Sprint sensation Mohd Azeem Fahmi has gotten off to a flying start in 2025.
BENTONG: A security guard is thankful that his quick action in sprinting towards a helicopter that crashed while landing to refuel in Bentong on Thursday meant saving the pilot's life.
PETALING JAYA: National track cyclist Mohd Ridwan Sahrom is not in a hurry to seal the second spot in the sprint events at the Asian Championships in Nilai next month.
(Reuters) - The sight of riders celebrating a teammate's victory in bunch finishes could become a thing of the past after governing body the UCI toughened up its rules in a bid to improve safety.
DOHA (Reuters) -Lando Norris ignored team orders and gifted Oscar Piastri victory at the line in the Qatar Grand Prix sprint on Saturday as McLaren took another stride towards a first Formula One constructors' title in 26 years.