Archery: Patrick Huston has become the first British archer to qualify for the Rio Olympics. The 20-year-old beat Serbia’s Luka Popovic in a third-place play-off match at the European Archery Championships in Nottingham to secure his Olympic place. Huston won the fourth set to draw ahead and then the pair split the fifth, both shooting 27 points, for the Briton to take the match and the Rio invitation.

Boxing: Nicola Adams has been crowned world champion for the first time after a split decision win over Thailand’s Peamwilai Laopeam in Kazakhstan. Victory for the 33-year-old secures the one major title that had eluded her after picking up three consecutive silver medals in 2008, 2010 and 2012. Adams’s win in the flyweight division was clearer than the verdict suggests, with a dominant second round setting the tone for the contest she was largely able to dictate. Adams can now set her sights on becoming the first British boxer since Harry Mallin in 1924 to successfully defend an Olympic gold medal.

Giro D'Italia: Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali won stage 19 of the Giro d’Italia yesterday, but Esteban Chaves’s third-place finish saw him take the pink jersey from Steven Kruijswijk, who crashed on the treacherous Colle dell’Agnello. Kruijswijk started the 162km stage with a three-minute lead over Chaves but ploughed into a snow bank at the Colle dell’Agnello and dropped to third with two days to go. Nibali, the Italian champion, is in second place overall, 44 seconds behind the leader, after holding off Chaves’s challenge on the last climb to Risoul.