CYCLING: Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky has been awarded the women’s Velo D’Or award after a season in which she retained her World Road title and won 15 other races including the European time trail, Strade Bianche Donne and Paris-Roubaix femmes. 

Tadej Pogacar won the men’s award and also collected the Eddie Merckx trophy for the best Classics rider with Dutch rider Harry Lavreysen picking up the Chris Hoy trophy as best Olympic cyclist.

MEN’S BOXING: Denzel Bentley earned a dominant unanimous points win over Brad Pauls to claim the British and European middleweight belts in an exciting bout at Wembley Arena on Saturday night. 

Bentley knocked Pauls down in round 10 on the way to improving his record to 21 wins in 25 fights. 

On the undercard Sam Noakes defended his British and Commonwealth lightweight titles after beating Ryan Walsh on points.

NETBALL: The revamped Super League competition will be introducing a two-goal “super shot” for its 2025 season. 

Similar to a three-pointer in basketball, a super shot will be made from an outer zone of the shooting circle, but only during the last five minutes of every quarter. Standard one goal shots can still be made at all times. 

The rule was first introduced by the Australian Super League in 2020.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Reading-born Jamie Gittens continued his good goalscoring form after netting in Dortmund’s 1-1 draw at Borussia Monchengladbach on Saturday. 

The 20-year-old, who has represented England at all ages groups since the under 15s, has scored four in his last four games.

Bayern Munich now lead the Bundesliga by six points following their 4-2 win over Heidenheim while second place Frankfurt drew 2-2 with Augsburg.