Golf: Zach Johnson fired a bogey-free 65 in Monday’s final round to win the weather-delayed BMW Championship at Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest, Illinois, and move into great position for the Tour Championship. Johnson, the 2007 Masters champion, used a late charge to finish at 16-under-par 268 for a two-stroke victory over fellow American Nick Watney, who shot 64 on the rain-softened course in the penultimate event of the FedExCup playoffs. Lifted by clutch birdie putts at the 16th and 17th holes, Johnson moved to fourth from 27th on the points list going into next week’s Tour Championship in Atlanta.

Athletics: European indoor sprint champion Tezdzhan Naimova has been banned for life after testing positive for the banned steroid drostanolone, the Bulgarian athletics federation said yesterday. Naimova, 26, tested positive at the European indoor championships in Gothenburg last March where she won the 60 metres final in a personal best time of 7.10 seconds. She had already been banned for two years for tampering with her urine in an out-of-competition test in Sofia in 2009.

Snooker: World number one Neil Robertson boosted his hopes of a third consecutive China triumph with a 5-1 victory over Wang Yuchen in his first match at the Shanghai Masters yesterday. Robertson is bidding for an unprecedented hat-trick of ranking titles in the Far East having won the China Open last April and the Wuxi Classic in June. Local wild card Wang presented a tough challenge as he knocked out Joe Perry on Monday, but Robertson easily beat him with top breaks of 122 and 73.

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