Home favourite Violeta Del Reino maintained her lead after the fourth and final day of racing ahead of the medal competitions in the Para World Sailing Championships in Puerto Sherry in the Spanish city of Cádiz.

Dutch rider Mike Teunissen earned a surprise stage one win in the Tour de France after a mass crash with 1.5 kilometres to go had brought down his Jumbo-Visma team mate and stage favourite Dylan Groenewegen, alongside defending champion Geraint Thomas of Britain.

New Zealand’s Sam Meech had a perfect day at the International Laser Class Association Laser Standard Men’s World Championship at Japan’s Miho Bay to top the qualifying standings going into the three days of championship racing starting tomorrow in Sakaiminato.

Noah Lyles trimmed 0.08 seconds off Usain Bolt’s meeting record at the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League in Lausanne as he won the men's 200 metres in 19.50sec.

A goal from Sadio Mané gave Senegal a 1-0 victory over Uganda at Cairo International Stadium tonight and earned them a spot in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals.

Colombia’s Diego Posada and Italy’s Martina Paciolla won the men’s and women’s downhill titles in Barcelona today at the second edition of the World Roller Games. 

Belarus will join Cuba in the last four of the Volleyball Men’s Challenger Cup in Ljubljana following the latter team’s victory over Egypt.

Highly-regarded pairs from Poland and Russia were eliminated by teams from Brazil and the United States, respectively, in the men’s round of 16 ahead of tomorrow’s Beach Volleyball World Championships quarter-finals.

New Zealand’s place in the International Cricket Council Cricket World Cup semi-finals was confirmed today after Pakistan failed to defeat Bangladesh by at least 308 runs.

France, who have never managed better than third place at the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Under-19 World Cup, today defeated reigning champions Canada 85-80 to earn a place in the semi-finals.

After a third day of racing, new leaders emerged in two of the four classes being raced at the Para World Sailing Championships in Puerto Sherry in the Spanish city of Cádiz.

Moldova’s Alexandra Mirca and Dan Olaru earned their country a first gold medal match in the Archery World Cup as they qualified for Sunday’s recurve mixed team final in Berlin against top seeds South Korea.

The Closing Ceremony for the 2nd European Games here last night harked back to Belarus folk history - but also looked forward to the country’s burgeoning technological future.

Caster Semenya came back, saw and re-conquered at the Prefontaine Classic meeting  held at the temporary venue of Stanford, California today as she won by almost three seconds in the women’s 800 metres at the seventh International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meetings of the season.