NETBALL: Manchester Thunder still top the Super League on points difference after they swotted aside Team Bath 79-42 and second-placed Loughborough romped to a 72-36 win at bottom of the table Strathclyde.

Sigrid Burger shot 52 goals as the Severn Stars held on to edge out Leeds 58-56, London Pulse won 52-37 in Cardiff and Leeds Rhinos claimed just their second win of the season after holding off Surrey 64-60.

CYCLING: Mathieu van der Poel attacked on the wet and slippery Koppenberg cobbles to win his third Tour of Flanders and the €20,000 (£17,000) first-prize money on Sunday afternoon.

Luca Mozzato finished second with Michael Matthews next across the line, although Matthews was relegated after careless sprinting with Nils Politt promoted to third.

Italy’s national champion Elisa Longo Borghini won the women’s race from Katarzyna Niewiadoma and Shirin van Anrooij.

WOMEN’S FOOTBALL: Rangers remain a point clear in the Scottish Women’s Premier League after they came from behind to beat Hibs 2-1 and second-placed Celtic saw off reigning champions Glasgow City by the same score.

Hearts eased to a 3-0 win at Partick, Spartans won 4-2 at Dundee United, Aberdeen lost 3-0 at Motherwell and Aimee Ridgeway’s 89th-minute strike doomed bottom club Hamilton to a 2-1 defeat at Montrose.

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY: British ice hockey’s popularity continues to grow after the sell-out crowd for Dundee’s 5-1 win at Glasgow took total attendance figures in the Elite League to over a million for the second successive season.

With 22 games still to be played before the play-offs start, this is sure to be a record-breaking season. Crowds have increased by 73 per cent since 2010, the largest rise in any of the European leagues.