Hungary has been selected as the host country for the 2027 World Women’s Handball Championship, the Hungarian association said on its Facebook page.

Olympic and world champion swimmer Katinka Hosszú was presented with the International Sports Press Association’s (AIPS) European Sportswoman of the Year Award at a gala event in Budapest.

Hungary’s Liu Shaoang has won men’s super final at the European Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Debrecen.

On 26th January, Kobe Bryant basketball player and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna died in a tragic helicopter accident next to the city of Los Angeles.

The executive board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has suspended IWF head Tamás Aján for 90 days, pending an investigation into charges of corruption levelled against him in a recent documentary aired on the German ARD channel, the insidethegames.biz website said.

World champion swimmers Katinka Hosszu and Kristóf Milák have been elected Hungary’s Athletes of the Year by the country’s sports journalists.

The Hungarian anti-doping body (MACS) rejected claims of a documentary of the German state broadcaster ARD, which alleged systematic doping in weightlifting events supervised by the body.