Great Britain and Northern Ireland got off to a fantastic start on day one of European Team Championships First Division, sitting second in the standings behind Italy on 131.5 points after 12 events.

There was a second-place finish for Hannah Nuttall (coach: Helen Clitheroe, club: Charnwood) in the women’s 5000m, as well as third positions for Jeremiah Azu (Marco Airale, Cardiff) and Zak Seddon (Geoff Wightman, Bracknell) in the men’s 100m and 3000m steeplechase respectively, all adding crucial points to the team total. Hannah Nuttall produced a superb display of 5000m running in only her second ever track 5000m race, as she finished in second position overall in a time of 15:29:49.

Acorns will be the face of the Bears’ Vitality Blast game against Worcester Rapids after lead partner Talbots Law donated their match sponsorship to the children’s hospice.

Talbots Law – the Bears lead Blast sponsor – has invited Acorns to be their chosen charity for the clash to help raise awareness of their work with local families and much needed funds. Acorns Children’s Hospice provides specialist palliative care for life limited and life threatened children across Birmingham, Worcester and the wider West Midlands, as well as support for their families.

The US$1.5 million St Andrews Bay Championship will be the 12th leg of the 2023 Asian Tour season and the sixth stop on The International Series. “As our first tournament in the country that gave golf to the world, the St Andrews Bay Championship promises to be a momentous week for us,” said Cho Minn Thant, Asian Tour Commissioner & CEO.

“It’s fitting, therefore, that we should have Major champions such as Sergio and Charl and players of the calibre of Joaquin and Mito to grace this auspicious occasion.”

Australia finally came out on top in what was a testing and compelling Edgbaston Ashes Test in a two-wicket victory, to take a 1-0 lead in the series against England.

In a breathless match, it was down to the Aussie strike bowlers, Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon, to win the match for the ‘Baggy Green Caps’ – with the bat. Their unbroken unbeaten knock of 55 at the crease got the tourists over the line to their target of 281 in the final hour of play.

The first wave of Great Britain and Northern Ireland junior athletes has been selected for the European U20 Championships which take place in Jerusalem, Israel on 7-10 August. Following the completion of round one in the selection process, 21 athletes have earned a call-up to the GB & NI team.

They booked their place in the squad after winning at the Trials held at the England Athletics U20 Championships in Chelmsford last weekend as well as achieving the qualification standard. The final team will be selected on July 10.

Reigning Olympic champion, Swede Daniel Ståhl and Slovakian 2022 world gold medallist Kristjan Čeh will headline a stellar line-up of Olympic and world medallists in the men’s discus at the London Athletics Meet on Sunday 23 July. With more than 40,000 tickets already sold for the meet, it will be the biggest athletics fixture since the World Athletics Championships London 2017.

Čeh – who threw the joint fourth furthest throw in history at a meeting in Estonia on Friday at 71.86m - has two Diamond League wins to his name so far in 2023 after victories in Doha and Rabat.