Tom Sorsby helped England to secure their qualification for the Men’s FIH Hockey World Cup as they defeated Pakistan 4-1 in the final of the 2026 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup Qualifiers. England remained undefeated in their group stage matches, having not conceded a single goal, before they put on their most convincing performance to defeat Malaysia 7-1 in the semifinal.

Two-time Olympic champion Helen Glover has teamed up with Aldi in a bid to get kids in Sheffield outdoors during the ‘wetter and colder’ months. This comes after new research shows that many families across Sheffield go into ‘hibernation mode’ during winter, with 42% of Sheffield primary school-aged children spending 20 minutes or less outdoors each day.

Over 600 athletes will compete across nearly 80 medal events at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games, which will officially commence on 6th March. Six sports will feature at the games, with ParalympicsGB having representation in four of those sports across the 12 days of Paralympic action.

A determined Lancaster Lionesses team faced Keswick Falcons on their home pitch at Lancaster University Sports Centre rugby pitches. Keswick started strongly, using an effective kicking game, powerful forward runners, and some speedy youngsters out wide. However, the Lionesses’ defence stood firm, with a brutal blitz defence disrupting Keswick’s phase play and shutting down offloads.

We are already in the last week of February, and we end the month with more Yorkshire action as we await another weekend. Here are our picks on what to expect from another bumper midweek of sports.

Saturday 14th February will see England Men take on Scotland Men in 144th edition of the Calcutta Cup in the second round of the Guinness Men’s Six Nations. The first meeting of these two nations, which was also the first ever international rugby union fixture, took place in 1871 at the Raeburn Place in Edinburgh.

McLaren and Aston Martin have now completed the 2026 Formula 1 launch season after holding events in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, respectively, to unveil their new race liveries, and we now await the first of two three-day tests in Bahrain before the new campaign begins in earnest in Melbourne, Australia, in early March.

Formula 1’s governing body, the FIA, and the 11 teams had agreed that this week’s pre-season running at Spain’s Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya would be known as a shakedown rather than a test and that it would be held behind strictly closed doors.

The launch of the 143rd edition of the Men’s Six Nations (M6N) was held at Edinburgh Castle as players and the head coaches from all six countries were present to kick off this year’s tournament.

Ferrari hasn’t won a Formula 1 Drivers’ title nor a Constructors’ one since way back in 2007 and 2008, respectively, and Lewis Hamilton suffered his worst ever season in the sport last year after arriving from Mercedes amidst a fanfare of pre-season hype and publicity.

Anya Butterworth won two of Badminton England’s eight medals at last week’s Egypt Para Badminton International, with the rising star winning both the women’s singles and mixed doubles SH6 classification titles.