Sports News from Slovakia

(Mon 11 Oct 04) Slovakia's national soccer team crushed Latvia in its fourth World Cup 2006 European Zone Group 3 qualifier, played in Bratislava on Saturday. Slovakia got off...

(Mon 27 Sep 04) President Ivan Gasparovic has sent a telegram to Slovakia's disabled cyclist Rastislav Turecek, congratulating him on his gold medal in the division-A 28-kilometer handbike race...

(Wed 22 Sep 04) The table tennis player Jan Riapos won the gold medal at the 12th edition of the Paralympics Games in Athens. He defeated Kim Gong Yong...

(Tue 07 Sep 04) Slovak tennis player Dominik Hrbaty won the Monday match in the last grand-slam tournament of this year in New York. In a 5 set drama,...

(Mon 30 Aug 04) Slovakia's medal collection from the Olympic Games in Athens remains at six: two gold, one silver, and two bronze. Though Marcela Erbanova was close to...

(Fri 27 Aug 04) Slovakia's favourites to win the Olypmic kayak four competition managed a bronze medal on Friday morning, losing the 1km race to teams from Hungary and...

(Mon 23 Aug 04) Slovak marksman Jozef Gonci missed out on qualifying for the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Final on Sunday at the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Range Centre. Shooting...

(Fri 20 Aug 04) Reigning Olympic canoe pairs champions, Peter and Pavol Hochschorners, showed their class in Athens in Friday's final, winning by gap of more than 3 seconds....

(Thu 19 Aug 04) President Ivan Gasparovic was among the spectators celebrating Olympic medals hauled by Slovak whitewater canoeists at the Olympic Games in Athens - Helliniko on Wednesday....

(Wed 18 Aug 04) Slovakia got two medals in one hour on Wednesday. Both Michal Martikan and Elena Kaliska finished first in C1. But after a protest filed by...