South Africa’s Hank McGregor, who won his seventh men’s K1 title at the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Canoe Marathon World Championships in Pietermaritzburg yesterday, produced another home gold in the concluding final as he and team-mate Jasper Mocke defeated a hugely strong field to win the K2 final.

Home karateka 20-year-old Shara Hubrich produced one of the surprises of the last Karate 1-Premier League event of the season in the German cities of Halle and Leipzig with a shock 4-1 win over female under 50kg kumite favourite Miho Miyahara, one of Japan’s few losers on a day when they took five gold medals.

Home pairing Nikolay Teplyy and Nadezda Konovalova brought the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Shotgun World Championships in Moscow to a popular conclusion as they became the first ever gold medallists in the skeet mixed team.

Sir Mo Farah became the first athlete to win four Great North Run titles in a row today as he overtook Jake Robertson with 400 metres remaining to sprint home in 60min 06sec, with the New Zealander, who had tried to get away over the final mile, second in 60:12 and Ethiopia’s Olympic marathon silver medallist Feyisa Lilesa third in 61:32.

France’s final presentation this month as a bidder for the 2023 Rugby World Cup along with Ireland and South Africa – from which the French President Emmanuel Macron has withdrawn – could take place without the French rugby union (FFR) President, Bernard Laporte.

Sir Mo Farah’s dedicated road-running career starts tomorrow as he seeks a fourth consecutive win at the Simplyhealth Great North Run - but this will be no victory parade for the 34-year-old Briton given the recent addition to the field of Olympic marathon silver medallist Feyisa Lilesa.

Italy's recently crowned European champions Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti finished two points clear at the top of the leaderboard after the first day of gold fleet racing at the Nacra 17 World Championships on the bay of Aigues Mortes at La Grande-Motte in France.

Belgium's Thomas de Gendt produced what he described as "the sprint of my life" to win the 19th leg of the Vuelta a España at Gijon as Britain's Chris Froome maintained an overall lead of 97 seconds over Italy's Vincenzo Nibali before tomorrow’s decisive stage.

All four Rio 2016 gold medallists qualified safely for this weekend's main action at the International Canoe Federation's final Canoe Slalom World Cup of the season – but it was far from easy for Britain's K1 champion Joseph Clarke and France's C1 winner Denis Gargaud Chanut.

Britain's double Olympian shot putter Paul Edwards, banned for life in 1997 after a second positive doping test, has launched a Facebook page as part of his longstanding efforts to be cleared from charges that took place long before social media existed.

Players from England, Wales and Scotland will be absent from next month’s World Cup in Kobe on the 40th anniversary of the event being established by the World Darts Federation (WDF) for "budgetary reasons".

Final day victories by Pierre Senska and Kerstin Brachtendorf helped Germany top the medals table at the International Cyclng Union (UCI) Para-cycling Road World Championships in Pietermaritzburg.

Germany struck double gold on the final day of the fourth Canoe Slalom World Cup at Ivrea in Italy, with Ricarda Funk earning her third consecutive K1 title and Sideris Tasiadis taking his second C1 title for 2017.

Britain's Chris Froome increased his overall lead on another tough day in the mountains at the Vuelta a España as Colombia's Miguel Angel Lopez finished clear of all opposition to win stage 15.