OLYMPIC BOXING: Middleweight Chantelle Reid will be looking to become the first British boxer to taste success at this year’s Olympics when she comes up against 2023’s IBA heavyweight world champion Moroccan Khadija Mardi in the preliminary round of the 71kg competition on Wednesday morning.

Colchester’s light-middleweight Lewis Richardson takes on Russian-born European champion Vahid Abasov in the men’s 71kg category later this evening.

MEN’S CRICKET: The much-maligned 50 over One Day Cup resumes tomorrow with Derbyshire looking to extend their 100 per cent record in Group A against bottom of the table Lancashire, Durham hosting Somerset at Chester-le-Street and unbeaten Hampshire visiting Kent.

Glamorgan will move top of Group B with a win over Nottingham while reigning champions Leicestershire face Essex at Chelmsford and Yorkshire take on Sussex.

SPEEDWAY: Substitute Richard Lawson scored 12 points as King’s Lynn earned a surprise 51-39 win over Sheffield Tigers on Monday evening.

The Tigers are currently second in the Premiership, just three points behind table-topping Ipswich. Monday’s other fixture saw bottom club Birmingham lose out in a last heat decider for the second week running as they slipped to a 46-44 home defeat to Belle Vue.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Latvia’s FK Auda take a 2-1 advantage into the second leg of their Europa Conference League second qualifying tie with Cliftonville in Kekava tomorrow evening.

Auda sit fifth in the Latvian Virsliga after winning 3-1 at FS Jelgava on Sunday while Cliftonville’s Irish Premiership season has yet to start. Austria Vienna, who lost to Liverpool in the 1985 European Cup quarter finals, are 2-1 down heading into their match with Finland’s Ilves FC.