By Mike RowbottomNew Zealand finished top of the medals table at the World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam as victories on the final day from Emma Twigg - after seven years of trying - in the women's single sculls and their women's double sculls crew gave them a total of six golds.

indicated they were ready to regain their title, and they took a slight early lead over Britain and Poland

By Gary AndersonA thrilling day of action at the Para-cycling Road World Championships in Greenville saw gold medals in two races decided by photo-finishes as British duo Lora Turnham and Corrine Hall claimed victory in the women's B/VI tandem race, while American Jamie Whitmore edged the women's C3 class.

world title of her career as she prevailed in another thriller with silver medallist Anna Harkowska of Poland

By Mike Rowbottom at Stadion Narodowy in WarsawA sell-out crowd of 70,000 in Poland's national football stadium here tonight to witness the opening match of the 2014 World Volleyball Championships between the hosts and Serbia after a lengthy, glitzy, pumped-up Opening Ceremony – an experience that the President of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), Dr Ary Graça, believes will prove a landmark for his sport.

The bulk of the audience got the desired result as Poland won by three sets to nil, with the decisive

By Gary AndersonHost nation the United States claimed four gold medals at the Para-cycling Road World Championships in Greenville, which also saw a 17th cycling world title go the way of Britain's multi-Paralympic champion Dame Sarah Storey.

Para-cycling world champion for the 17th time after finishing almost 50 seconds ahead of Anna Harkowska of Poland

Donchila of Moldova, Olena Kremzer of Ukraine, Kuomba Larroque of France and Natalia Iwona Strzalka of Poland

victories for China, US and Poland18:12 Third and final boxing gold of the day goes to Elzbieta Wojcik of Poland

the way on 260 points.Pairs from Hungary and Mexico are second, Belarus and Kazakhstan are third and Poland

By Mike RowbottomNew Zealand's world and Olympic champions in the men's pair, Eric Murray and Hamish Bond, produced a display of predictable mastery as they branched out at the FISA World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam by doubling up for a historic debut in the men's coxed pair.

Poland joined them after winning the other heat, where Russia, second in last year's World Cup at Lucerne

By Zjan ShirinianRoger Federer is on the prowl for his first Grand Slam in two years, with a generous half of the draw and the injury-forced absence of Rafel Nadal putting him firmly in the frame.

Wimbledon final.Bouchard is seeded seventh, while Czech Kvitova is seeded third.Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland

By Gary AndersonThe International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has begun working on creating two new trophies after both the men's and women's indoor World Championship trophies were stolen from a Rio de Janeiro car park on Friday (August 22).

The men's trophy was scheduled to arrive in Warsaw, Poland on Saturday (August 30) for the start of the

beat Romania 19-11, Argentina beat Venezuela 21-13, Russia won 12-8 over Brazil, and Lithuania beat Poland

United States, Spain and Belgium already in the women's, while France, Romania, Venezuela, Argentina, Poland

Germany's Nicole Amann will also want to keep an eye out for familiar opponent Natalia Strzalka of Poland

By Mike RowbottomAustralia's defending champion in the women's single sculls, Kim Crow - beaten twice in this season's World Cup by New Zealander Emma Twigg -  put down a heavy marker in today's opening heats at the FISA World Championships in Amsterdam.

12.95.Britain's Kat Copeland, the London 2012 champion, and Imogen Walsh were chased but not caught by Poland

stay in third place, and very nearly pip Sarakin and take second.19:55 A fourth gold of the Games for Poland

face an all-European pair in the final: Jil Teichmann of Switzerland and Jan Stanislaw Zielinski of Poland

action is upon us.China kick-started the play with a 22-10 victory over Indonesia, before Argentina and Poland

Action has just begun on court A where Kamil Adrian Majchraz of Poland fights for men's singles gold

By Emily GoddardWorld and Paralympic champion Jason Smyth today secured gold in the men's 200 metres T12 to complete the sprint double at the International Paralympic Committee Athletics European Championships.

Apinis was joined on the podium by silver medal winner Robert Jachimowicz of Poland and Slovenian bronze

By Mike Rowbottom at the Olympiastadion in Stockholm Renaud Lavillenie's unique winning run of 22 pole vault competitions came to an abrupt and unexpected end here in the 1912 Olympic Stadium tonight as he failed to record a mark at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting.

Greece's IAAF World Indoor champion, who won with 5.60m on countback from second-placed Piotr Lisek of Poland

Would he, the questioner wondered, be able to deal with all the public and media interest back home in Poland