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Equestrian: Great Britain’s Carl Hester (picture) has finished third at the FEI World Cup dressage final in Omaha, Nebraska. The Gloucestershire-based rider, making his first World Cup final appearance since 2005, posted a freestyle score of 83.757 per cent aboard his Rio Olympics ride Nip Tuck to complete the podium places behind winner Isabell Werth, of Germany, and runner-up Laura Graves, of the US. There was no stopping Werth, whose score of 90.784 per cent with Weihegold gave her an emphatic victory over Graves, riding Verdades. It was Werth’s third World Cup final victory.

Snooker: Mark Selby fine-tuned his preparations for what he hopes will be a successful defence of his world title later this month by winning the China Open yesterday. The Leicester man secured a fourth crown of the season in seeing off Mark Williams 10-8 in the final. Williams was hoping for a first ranking event win since 2011 and knew if he had done so then his place at the Worlds in Sheffield was guaranteed. Victory would have taken him into the top 16 ahead of fellow Welshman Ryan Day, but he must now play three best-of-19 matches and win them all in order to make the 32-man draw in South Yorkshire.

Rowing: Oxford won the 163rd University boat race yesterday, beating Cambridge by more than a length in one of the longest running competitions in world sport. The Oxford crew were favourites going into the race, first rowed in 1829, and secured the favoured Surrey side of the Thames where the long bend after Hammersmith Bridge worked in their favour. By halfway down the 6.8km course between Putney and Mortlake in southwest London, the Oxford men’s crew, 26kg lighter than Cambridge, had opened clear water. Cambridge made a last push after Barnes Bridge but could not catch their rivals who finished in 17 minutes.

Motorcycling: Chaz Davies ended rival Jonathan Rea’s five-race winning streak with a hard-fought victory in race two in the third round of the Superbike World Championship in Spain, yesterday. The Ducati rider bounced back from his crash on Saturday at the Aragon circuit, when he slid off on the penultimate lap to hand victory to the Northern Irishman. Davies made no mistake second time around as he won his duel with the reigning champion, nudging home half a second clear of Rea, with Ducati team-mate Marco Melandri in third. Rea’s second place was still enough to extend his lead in the championship standings to 50 points, with the Kawasaki rider looking set to become the first rider in history to win three straight World Superbike titles.

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