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Cycling: Katie Archibald (picture) suffered a fractured wrist on the second day of the Track World Cup in Glasgow but won women’s Madison gold with Manon Lloyd anyway. Archibald and Lloyd, on her 20th birthday, tumbled to the track after 18 laps of the 80-lap event before responding to win the first global women’s Madison competition. The 22-year-old Archibald took to Twitter to post photos of the crash and her visibly injured wrist. She underwent X-rays at Glasgow Royal Hospital yesterday which showed a fracture of her distal radius (forearm) and scaphoid, British Cycling said.

Swimming: Liam Tancock has announced his retirement from swimming. The 31-year-old Briton, who trained at Loughborough, won medals at four successive World Champion-ships, including 50 metres backstroke gold in Rome in 2009 and two years later in Shanghai. Tancock also won European and Commonwealth medals, but an Olympic podium place proved elusive in two Games and he did not compete in Rio. His best event, 50m backstroke, is not on the Olympic programme.

Tennis: Petra Kvitova overcame a poor start to win the season-ending WTA Elite trophy with a 6-4 6-2 victory over Elina Svitolina in Zhuhai, China, yesterday. Kvitova began slowly and trailed 4-1 in the opening set after struggling to hold serve and making a string of unforced errors. The big-hitting Czech, however, eventually found her range with her first serve and cranked up the aggression to win the next five games in quick succession and wrap up the opening set. Kvitova carried her momentum into the second, sweeping aside her Ukrainian opponent to secure victory in one hour and 10 minutes.

Horse Racing: Second choice Arrogate stole the limelight from favourite California Chrome with a storming finish to win the showpiece $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic by half a length at Santa Anita Park on Saturday. Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith piloted the three-year-old colt past the celebrated field in a dramatic stretch run, overtaking California Chrome over the last 50 yards in front of a packed grandstand to win America’s richest race.

Athletics: Distance running great Haile Gebrselassie has been elected president of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation, as the country grapples with doping issues and poor results on the track. Ethiopia, which alongside neighbour Kenya has for many years dominated distance running, had its credibility questioned earlier this year when six of its athletes came under investigation for doping. It subsequently announced that it would carry out tests on up to 200 athletes. In August, Gebrselassie said the whole athletics set-up “needed a revamp”.