WOMEN’S FOOTBALL: Rangers still top the Scottish Premiership by a point after they netted two late goals to see off Aberdeen 3-0 while second-placed Glasgow City maintained the league’s only 100 per cent record by brushing aside Hearts 5-1. 

Title-holders Hibernian drew 1-1 at third-placed Celtic, bottom club Hamilton remain without a point after going down 2-0 at Montrose and Motherwell drew 1-1 with Partick Thistle.

CYCLING: Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel won his third consecutive World Time-Trial championship after finishing over a minute ahead of Australia’s Jay Vine in Rwanda on Sunday. 

Evenepoel’s compatriot Ilan van Wilder was third, one second ahead of Tadej Pogacar. Switzerland’s Marine Russer picked up the women’s title ahead of Dutch riders Anna van der Breggen and Demi Vollering. Briton Anna Henderson finished eighth.

SPEEDWAY: A week after leading the British team to gold at the Long Track World Championships Saltford-born racer Zach Wajtknecht claimed the individual world title for the first time. 

Chris Harris, who was also a member of the victorious British team, took the silver medal after Sunday afternoon’s final grand prix meeting in the Netherlands with last year’s runner-up Germany’s Luke Finehage picking up bronze. 

WOMEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE: Tries from Katie Mottershead and Caitlin Casey sealed St Helens’ narrow 12-8 victory over defending Super League champions York Valkyrie in their play-off semi-final on Sunday afternoon. 

The Saints will meet Wigan in the Grand Final in a fortnight’s time after the regular season table-toppers ran in seven tries to ease past Leeds 38-0 on Sunday evening. Wigan last won the title in 2018.