Snooker World Championships: Ronnie O’Sullivan level with Stuart Bingham in quarter-final

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April 30, 2024

Trump, who started the tournament as one of the favourites to add to his 2019 world title, opened up in style against Jones with a 110 break.

But Welshman Jones, appearing in his second consecutive quarter-final, constructed a 69 and 94 as he went 3-1 up.

Trump took the first two after the break and doubled the final black in the eighth frame to leave the match delicately poised heading into the evening.

Resuming at 4-4, the players delivered more of the same, with Jones taking two protracted frames to go 6-4 up before the Englishman responded to get back to 6-6.

And the players shared out the remaining four frames with a 117 break from Jones in the final frame on Tuesday the highlight.

In contrast, Gilbert compiled breaks of 83, 110 and 130 as he impressed to open up a 7-1 lead over Maguire in the first session of their best-of-25 affair.

However, world number 28 Maguire rallied in the evening despite going 9-2 behind and seeing his opponent forge his second 130 of the match.

While Gilbert retains a healthy cushion, the Scot claimed four of the last five frames to keep his hopes of reaching a first Crucible semi-final for 12 years alive.

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Bethany Shriever: British Olympic BMX champion fractures collarbone

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May 19, 2024

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Great Britain’s Olympic BMX champion Bethany Shriever has fractured her collarbone two months before defending her title at the Paris 2024 Games.

The 25-year-old sustained the injury at the BMX Racing World Championships in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

She crashed out on the final straight in her semi-final on Saturday.

“Not how I wanted my World Champs to end, but it’s BMX,” Shriever posted on Instagram on Sunday.

“Leaving this four-week trip with a fractured collarbone, time to get our heads down and get to work. Grateful for the team behind me.”

Shriever claimed Britain’s first BMX Olympic medal with gold at Tokyo 2020.

This summer’s Olympics begin on Friday, 26 July.

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Challenge Cup: Huddersfield Giants 10-46 Warrington Wolves

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May 19, 2024

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Warrington Wolves secure a dominant 46-10 victory over Huddersfield Giants to reach their first Challenge Cup Final since 2019, where they’ll meet Wigan Warriors.

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World Para Athletics Championships: Sabrina Fortune sets world record to win shot put gold

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May 19, 2024

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Britain’s Sabrina Fortune twice extended the world record on her way to defending her shot put title at the World Para Athletics Championships in Japan.

Fortune, who competes in the F20 category for athletes with intellectual impairments, threw 14.56m in the second round in Kobe, improving the 14.39 mark set by Ecuador’s Poleth Mendes on her way to winning Paralympic gold in Tokyo in 2021.

The 26-year-old Welsh woman had taken the lead in the first round with 14.18 and with the gold medal secured, she improved again to 14.73 with the final throw of the competition.

“I’ve thrown two world records in a day which is incredible,” said Fortune, who also took world gold in Dubai in 2019 and retained her title in Paris last summer.

“I just had to tell myself after the first world record not to celebrate too early because I knew if I overdid it, I wouldn’t throw any further.

“It’s hard to put into words how it felt to throw even further. I just wanted to run round and round in circles.”

Mendes took silver with 13.90 with Neutral Paralympic Athlete Aleksandra Zaitseva in third with 13.01.

It is Britain’s third gold medal of the championships after victories for javelin thrower Hollie Arnold and high jumper Jonathan Broom-Edwards over the opening two days of competition.

Of the other Britons in finals action on Sunday, Mo Jomni was fifth in the men’s T53 400m while fellow wheelchair racer Mel Woods was seventh in the women’s T54 800m and sprinter Ali Smith seventh in the T38 100m.

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