US golfer Grayson Murray, who won his second PGA TOUR title at the Sony Open in January, died Saturday at the age of 30, the tour said in a statement. Murray had withdrawn from the Charles Schwab Challenge with an unspecified illness during Friday's second round in Texas, Agence France-Presse reported late Saturday. 

The vice-president of the Mauritania Football Association (MFA), Pape Amghar Dieng, has died following his nation's victory over Mali at the African Nations Championship in Algeria.

Tributes have poured in from across British athletics following the death of coach Lloyd Cowan, who guided Christine Ohuruogu to world and Olympic 400 metres titles and Andy Turner to European and Commonwealth 110m hurdles gold medals.

No sooner had Jade Jones won her taekwondo gold at the European Games last night than she was reflecting upon her growing collection of significant victories – and looking hungrily ahead to the two remaining boxes she needed to tick (world, European) in order to consider herself a “legend of the sport”.

Ron Clarke, Australia’s revered Olympic distance runner and more recently Mayor of the Gold Coast, has died aged 78 after a short illness.