BOXING: Two-time Olympic gold-medallist Claressa Shields stopped Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse in two rounds to become a four-weight world champion in Detroit today. Shields is now unbeaten in 15 fights.

Forty-year-old Derek Chisora beat Joe Joyce by a unanimous points decision in Saturday night’s non-title heavyweight bout in London, where Dennis McCann outpointed Ionut Baluta to win the European super-bantamweight belt.

MEN’S RUGBY UNION: Duhan van der Merwe overtook Stuart Hogg as Scotland’s leading try-scorer when he touched down for the 28th time in just 41 games as the Scots carved out a scrappy 31-19 win in Uruguay.

Ranked 11 places below Scotland, the Uruguayans were the highest rated team they faced on their unbeaten four match tour of the Americas which saw them gain big victories over Chile, Canada and the US.

CYCLING: Australia’s Grace Brown took the gold medal in Saturday’s rain-soaked women’s Olympic time trial after finishing 91 seconds ahead of Britain’s Anna Henderson who took silver, with USA’s Chloe Dygert securing bronze.

World champion Remco Evenepoel won the men’s event ahead of Filippo Ganna and Wout van Aert. Britain’s Josh Tarling missed out on a medal by two seconds after suffering a front-wheel puncture.

MEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE: Super League table-toppers Warrington have signed John Bateman on loan from the NRL’s Wests Tigers until the end of the season.

Bateman has won 28 caps for England and Britain and is set to make his first appearance on Friday against second-placed Hull KR.

Fellow ex-England international Sam Tomkins marked his return from retirement with a try in Catalans Dragons’ 24-6 win over Hull FC on Saturday evening.