Britain earned three of the seven golds on offer during the fourth day of the International Association of Athletics Federations World Under-20 Championships in the Finnish city of Tampere.

Top home team USA Red beat Puerto Rico 5-0 to maintain their perfect record on day five of the USA Softball International Cup, to earn a place in the Championship match at Irvine, California.

South Korea's Lee Jongjun won his first international medal in the men's skeet final at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup event at Tucson, Arizona - a gold - before taking aim at the world title that will be up for grabs in his home country next month.

Kevin Anderson signalled that Grand Slam tournaments needed to change their rules over the length of matches after reaching the Wimbledon final today, in a semi-final against US player John Isner that took six hours and 35 minutes - the longest last four game ever played at the Championships.

World 60 metres record holder Christian Coleman, back after a month's injury lay-off, re-staked his claim to be considered the fastest new sprinter on the block as he won the men's 100m in Rabat in a season's best time of 9.98sec that equalled the meeting record.

Multiple world and Olympic champion Marianne Vos, without a win in the first half of the season, corrected that statistic in emphatic fashion today as she won stage eight of the Giro Rosa in Breganze, Italy.

China's Dong Jie and Hang Ting delighted their home fans as they reached the quarter-finals of the Beach Volleyball Under-19 World Championships in Nanjing with a 22-20, 21-19 win over Bolivia's Maria Fernanda Canedo and Nicole Alessandra Nogales.

A day after the fall of the top seed Shingo Kunieda of Japan in the men's wheelchair singles at Wimbledon, the second seed - home player Alfie Hewitt - has made his exit.

The first and second string home sides, respectively USA Red and USA Blue, underlined the strength of their challenge in the inaugural USA Softball International Cup at Irvine, California as they extended their perfect records in the two main pools.

Kimberly Rhode duly converted her overnight lead in the skeet women's event in Tucson, Arizona after winning a shoot-off against her American team-mate Caitling Connor.

The best men's 1,500 metres field ever assembled for an International Association of Athletics Federations World Under-20 Championships produced the kind of spectacle that was expected in the Finnish city of Tampere as Kenya's George Manangoi marginally defeated another prodigiously talented middle distance runner, Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway.

Ukraine's Danyil Boldyrev won the men's speed climbing at the International Federation of Sport Climbing World Cup in Chamonix - repeating his triumph of four years ago at the French Alpine resort.

Annemiek van Vleuten of The Netherlands took a commanding lead in the Giro Rosa today, winning the stage seven time trial in Diga di Campo Moro by a margin of 2min 29sec.

Serena Williams will face Germany's Angelique Kerber for an eighth Wimbledon singles title after both won their semi-finals in straight sets today.