Membership of Kosovo in international sports federations

A national boxing team from Kosovo spent the weekend travelling from Kosovo to the Serbian border three times for a planned journey to the Men's World Boxing Championships in Belgrade before finally returning home after Serbia refused to let them enter the country.

Spain's decision to ban athletes from Kosovo - which it does not recognise - from competing under their national flag at the 2018 World Karate Championship in Madrid has highlighted the hurdles that athletes from disputed countries face, Besim Hasani, head of the Kosovo Olympic Committee, told BIRN on Tuesday.

BELGRADE – The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Congress voted on Tuesday in favor of the football federation of the partially recognized state of Kosovo becoming a member of the European football administrative body. The 54-member congress voted 28/24 in favor of Kosovo’s membership, with two states abstaining from the vote. The decision comes

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has accepted Kosovo as its full-fledged member, the TASS news agency has reported.

The decision was announced at the IAFF congress in Beijing. A total of 204 delegates took part in the vote.

BEIJING - The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has admitted the Kosovo Athletic Federation into provisional membership, the organization's executive committee said on Wednesday.

LAUSANNE - The International Swimming Federation (FINA) granted full membership to the Kosovo Swimming Federation, FINA posted on its website.

According to the short release, the decision to admit the Kosovo Swimming Federation as the 208th FINA member was adopted at the FINA Bureau.

BELGRADE - Vlade Divac, president of the Serbian Olympic Committee, said that he is not surprised by the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to grant full recognition to Kosovo.

MONTREUX - The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted provisional recognition to Kosovo late on Wednesday, clearing the way for the unilaterally declared republic to take part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 as an independent state.