Cycling: An Oxford educated Slovakian ski instructor who trains in Newport delighted the Brazilian crowd after claiming Paralympic gold in the velodrome. Jozef Metelka won the C4 four-kilometres individual pursuit, catching Australia’s Kyle Bridgewood in the final and celebrated by dancing for the enraptured capacity crowd. The dance moves began on his victory lap and continued once he dismounted the bike. Metelka said: “They joined in and then you go with the flow. That was superb.” The 30-year-old still lives in Oxford, where he was injured in 2009 while studying at Oxford Brookes University.

Tennis: Britain’s Jamie Murray and Brazil’s Bruno Soares swept the Spanish duo of Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-2 6-3 to win the US Open doubles for their second grand slam title of the year. Murray and Soares had each lost in the Flushing Meadows final with a different playing partner – Murray last year with Australian John Peers, and Soares in 2013 with Austrian Alexander Peya. They made sure the trophy would not slip away a second time, adding the US Open to the Australian Open title they won to start the year.

Snooker: Ding Junhui has dramatically become the SangSom Six Red World Champion, after edging out Stuart Bingham in an 8-7 thriller. It was the second world final of 2016 for Ding, who made amends for his 18-14 loss against Mark Selby at the Crucible. The 2015 world champion Bingham hadn’t lost a match in the lead-up to the final, after winning all five of his group stage games. Both players had opportunities in the final frame and like the opener, it went all the way to the last black. It was Ding who made it to claim his first Six Red World title.