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The Australian Rollers men's national wheelchair basketball team have named their final 12 players who will represent Australia at the 2014 IWBF World Championships in South Korea.

WAIS athletes Luke Durbridge, Scott Sunderland and Melissa Hoskins have been named in Cycling Australia's 41-strong squad for the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

The Hockeyroos qualified for the semi-finals of the hockey World Cup for the first time since 2006 with a tight 0-0 draw against rivals New Zealand.

A ferocious opening 25 minutes in which they scored four unanswered goals saw the Kookaburras progress to the semi-finals of the Hockey World Cup with a 100% record after beating India 4-0 to top Pool A with a maximum 15 points.

WAIS athlete and IAAF World Championships silver medallist Kim Mickle (WA) has placed third in the women's javelin at Round 4 of the IAAF Diamond League in Rome (ITA).

Triple Olympian Eamon Sullivan has had to withdraw from the Australian Swim Team for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in July, due to an ongoing shoulder injury, with his place on the team to be taken by former training partner Matthew Abood.

WAIS javelin thrower Kim Mickle will tonight (early Friday morning Perth time) compete at the Rome Diamond League in the fourth instalment of the global athletics series.

Western Australian Institute of Sport pole vaulter Vicky Parnov has today been officially selected for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after Athletics Australia announced its final team of 103 athletes.

The Australian men's water polo team, the Aussie Sharks, have come away with the bronze medal at the FINA World League Intercontinental Cup in Shanghai, China after a 16-8 victory over host nation China.

The second half of 2014 shapes as a busy period for members of the WAIS Sailing Program with athletes involved in competitions spanning the globe, highlighted remarkably, by the start of the 2016 Olympic qualification process.