Rhian Brewster started Liverpool's pre-season as he means to go on with an impressive display crowned with two goals and an assist in a 6-0 win at Tranmere Rovers.

The 19-year-old, who manager Jurgen Klopp revealed will have "an important role to play" as attacking cover for the front three in the upcoming campaign, was the standout performer in the opening 45 minutes at Prenton Park.

The striker -- stepping up after Daniel Sturridge was released this summer -- spotted Nathaniel Clyne in space on the right flank, playing a low ball into the area for the fullback, who took a touch and found the top corner on six minutes.

Brewster's work off the ball will have impressed Klopp as much as his quick, clever passes in possession. The teenager, who has battled back from a serious ankle and knee injury picked up while playing for Liverpool's U23s last January, deservedly got on the scoresheet himself before the interval.

First, he headed in Harry Wilson's deflected cross and then was alert to convert the rebound after Tranmere goalkeeper Scott Davies couldn't hold James Milner's effort.

Yasser Larouci, the Algeria-born speedster signed to Liverpool's Academy from Le Havre in 2017, was another player to catch the eye in the first half.

Signed as a winger, he was switched to a left-back by Under-18s coach Barry Lewtas to brilliant effect.

Aggressive, always available and displaying variety in his game, the star of the FA Youth Cup victory will get more opportunities to make an impression on Klopp during pre-season.

It was all change to the XI in the second half, which featured Champions League hero Divock Origi -- wearing the captain's armband -- who signed a new contract with the club on Wednesday.

A more attacking line-up promised more goals and so it proved, with Curtis Jones tapping in Ben Woodburn's cross towards the back post on 53 minutes.

A fifth goal arrived courtesy of Joel Matip lifting a long ball into the path of Origi's run. The Belgium international applied a stunning first touch, taking it around Davies before drilling it in.

Bobby Duncan, cousin of Steven Gerrard, added another after Paul Glatzel was challenged inside the box after fine work from the excellent Ki-Jana Hoever.

A rare moment of relief for Tranmere arrived when Danny Walker-Rice put the ball in the back of the net, but it was ruled offside to boos from all corners of the ground.

Glatzel had to be replaced through injury after falling awkwardly while trying to close down the goalkeeper, with Klopp throwing on Academy stopper Daniel Atherton on as his replacement in outfield.

That sight will not have been unfamiliar to Liverpool fans, who watched gloveman Shamal George come on to replace Lucas during pre-season in 2016.

The European champions travel to Bradford City next, before flying to the United States where they will tackle Borussia Dortmund at Notre Dame Stadium, Sevilla at Boston's Fenway Park and Sporting at New York's Yankee Stadium.

A test with Napoli at Murrayfield follows, before they tackle Lyon in Geneva and close off pre-season by contesting the Community Shield with Manchester City on August 4.

First-half team: Mignolet, Clyne, Phillips, Gomez, Larouci, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lallana, Kent, Wilson, Brewster.

Second-half team: Jaros, Hoever, Matip, Johnston, Lewis, Fabinho, Jones, Woodburn, Duncan, Glatzel, Origi.

Additional substitute: Atherton

Jason Roy has avoided suspension, and only been slapped with a 30% fine of his match fees, for his animated outburst aimed at umpire Kumara Dharmasena after being given out - incorrectly - in the World Cup semi-final against Australia at Edgbaston on Thursday.

Roy, leading England's chase of Australia's 223, was batting on 85 when he attempted to pull Pat Cummins' short delivery and missed by a fair margin, as replays later confirmed. Alex Carey dived to his left behind the stumps and pulled off an excellent collection and went up in appeal along with the bowler and some of the Australian fielders. Umpire Dharmasena looked uncertain but raised his finger, and with Jonny Bairstow having wasted England's review earlier in the innings, Roy had to go.

He stood his ground at first and then walked off clearly unhappy, remonstrating with the umpires - Marais Erasmus was the other on-field official - on his way out and making his displeasure obvious. The stump mics even caught a furious Roy yelling "that's f***ing embarrassing".

It seemed that he might draw the ire of the match officials for his show of dissent and cop a serious sanction, but was allowed to get away with the fine and two demerit points.

Demerit Points stay for a period of two years on a player's disciplinary record from the date of enforcement. If Roy is handed two more demerit points, he will run the risk of a suspension point, two of which will then lead to a ban of one Test or two ODIs or two T20Is, whichever is scheduled first.

Roy's performance with the bat - 85 off 65 balls with nine fours and five sixes - made a big difference to England's cause as they crossed the line with eight wickets and 107 balls in hand, reaching their fourth World Cup final and first since 1992.

Roy is a key member of their plans, his blazing starts, which have so far added up to 426 runs in six innings, a big part of their success in recent years. So the fact that he has been let off with a rap on the knuckles and not handed a more severe punishment, perhaps even a one-match suspension, will make the England camp happy.

Australia chose the worst possible time to put in their "worst performance" of the tournament, an eight-wicket thumping not only ending their world title defence but also consigning them to a first semi-final defeat at a World Cup.

In days to come the defeat might sting less, especially in light of where Australia's ODI form has been over the last year, but Aaron Finch could not hide his disappointment.

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"In terms of where we were 12 months ago, obviously I think we have made a huge amount of progress," he said. "Really proud of everyone involved for how much hard work and how far we have come, but at the same time we came here today to win a semi-final and get ourselves into a position to win another World Cup.

"So that was really disappointing how it ended, especially to put up probably one of our worst performances overall for the tournament, so that was really disappointing."

There was a brief phase, during a 103-run partnership between Steve Smith and Alex Carey, when Australia were threatening to do what countless Australian sides before them have done at these tournaments. But Australia were otherwise outplayed, as Finch admitted. And it was the very first ten overs of the game in which the semi-final was lost, Australia left dazed, confused and almost down at 27 for 3.

"The damage was really done with the ball," Finch said. "That sets you back. That forced us to rebuild for such a long time and start to drag some momentum back and then, like I said, you lose a couple of quick wickets again, new batters starting, it is always tough against really good leg-spin and good quicks as well.

"So, all in all, we were totally outplayed to be honest all throughout the day, so you look back at that and you can analyse each ten overs, but just outplayed."

Carey apart, each of the players who had done so much to get Australia to this point - the ones who stand up in big games, said Finch - failed. They're not at all in the crisis that England found themselves in after the 2015 World Cup - and this tournament, as Finch pointed out, has been part of overall progress - but a longer-term look towards the next World Cup will be a natural outcome. Part of that will take in the new ODI league that leads into qualification for 2023.

"I think that after a World Cup you always start looking and you have one eye towards the next one," Finch said. "I think that as a management, senior players, I'm sure over the next next couple of months or so we will sit down and start talking about that and start planning how we think that we can best plan and prepare and improve over the next four years to get us to go, well two steps further.

"I think that every team will do that. You start looking at what you can improve most, areas that you can identify that you need some work to be done and that will happen no doubt - that happens naturally with players when you are talking about the game and trying to find ways to improve.

"But as a coaching staff, as a management, that will be really important as well that everyone gets on the same page and everyone pulls in the same direction which is what we have done. We have been really lucky. Everyone has bought into the way we have played and it is unfortunate we have come up short."

Jorge Masvidal is interested in a UFC welterweight title shot next. That is no surprise. But the rising 170-pound star made another intriguing callout Thursday on The Dan Le Batard Show: Conor McGregor.

Masvidal, just five days removed from a UFC record five-second knockout of Ben Askren at UFC 239, told Le Batard that he wants UFC champion Kamaru Usman or McGregor in his next bout.

"I want McGregor, man," Masvidal said. "I want to break his face. I think that's an easy paycheck. He's got these cash symbols written all over his face for me. I just don't see it going his way at all, if I'm honest with you."

Masvidal said he doesn't necessarily have a preference between Usman or McGregor, the UFC's biggest star who has not fought since falling to Khabib Nurmagomedov last October. McGregor, though, is the one who will line his pockets more, Masvidal said.

"It'd just be more money, more fans," Masvidal said. "And then fight for the title. Or the title. Either one of them makes sense to me.

"I think either or equal out to big, big checks. So I'm happy with either or. I think Conor is a bigger check, so I wouldn't mind Conor. I want to put money away in the bank. Like I said, I've been doing this a while."

Masvidal, 34, said the difference between him and McGregor is that McGregor has shown a willingness to back down.

"He taps," Masvidal said. "I have never tapped in my whole entire career. He's tapped a couple of times. That's backing down right there in my book. So, that's something that I've never done and I feel like I'd break him. It'd be an easy fight."

Masvidal said he's not worried about McGregor's trash talk, which would lead to the Irishman getting "extra punished."

McGregor is a former two-division UFC champion at lightweight and featherweight. Masvidal currently fights at welterweight, but has spent most of his career at lightweight. McGregor, who does not have a fight currently scheduled, fought Nate Diaz twice at welterweight.

"I'm the hot ticket," Masvidal said. "Nobody has moved the needle like this in a long time in MMA. With me breaking the record and whose face I did it on, those things go into consideration. I think strike while the iron is hot. We've both got a hot name. Let's do it, let's just compete. If not, let me just fight the champion already."

Ron Adams has turned down an assistant-coaching job with the Los Angeles Lakers and will remain in a revised role on the Golden State Warriors coaching staff, league sources told ESPN.

Adams has been a key assistant coach for the Warriors. He just finished his fifth season on Steve Kerr's staff and 25th season overall as an NBA assistant coach.

The Lakers had received permission from the Warriors to talk with Adams about the possibility of joining Frank Vogel's staff.

The Lakers still are searching for another coach to join assistants Jason Kidd and Lionel Hollins.

ESPN's Dave McMenamin contributed to this report.

When each night of baseball begins, the player I want to watch more than any other is Fernando Tatis Jr. There are scores of players I'm interested in, hot streaks to follow, stat chases to track, pennant races to care about, matchups, backstories, new players, breakouts, a constantly changing treasure map of where the good stuff is. But more constant than all of that is Tatis.

He has the best arm of any shortstop. Only 10 hitters in all of baseball have hit a ball harder than his max velocity of 115.9 mph. He's stunningly aggressive on the bases, scoring twice on sacrifice flies to the second baseman. He plays like his hair is on fire, and when his helmet falls off -- as it often does -- he looks like it, too. Consider a single play:

Our Fernando Tatis Jr. button is stuck on fast forward. ⏩#FriarFaithful pic.twitter.com/HlLULvwA9A

— San Diego Padres (@Padres) June 30, 2019

His casual, upright posture as he takes his lead; the intimidating flash of the bluffed steal; the speed of his head traveling the bottom of the screen as the base hit drops in; the juxtaposition of Jose Martinez running, and then Tatis running; the helmet shaking off at the final second, the fire; the way he ran so hard his shirt came unbuttoned; the way players can be so beautiful they can wear a camouflage baseball jersey and look good; the eye contact and smile he gives to Eric Hosmer, making sure Hosmer acknowledges Tatis just gifted him an RBI; the irony of Tatis, making the league minimum, making money fingers at Hosmer, a player paid 40 times more than that; the comic timing of doing money fingers from inside an oven mitt.

And he's incredibly good, too. Prorate his stats over a full season and he'd have 40 homers and 35 stolen bases, 130 runs scored and (as a leadoff man) 95 runs driven in. He's in the top 10 in the National League in all three slash stats. He's a leadoff hitter who slugs .620. He missed all of May and he's 16th in the majors in WAR. He's 20, the second-youngest hitter in the majors.

What do we call this? Most Fun Player In Baseball? Most Exciting? Most Watchable? The final word probably works the best, and is the least easily misunderstood, though it's also a little clunky. The idea we're going for is threefold: a player who is almost certain to do something interesting in a given game; who can frequently do something stunning, unprecedented or GIFable; and who plays in a way that evokes some secondary emotion, apart from the mere thrill of victory/agony of defeat that all sport offers. Whatever the word, Tatis -- regardless of what happens with the rest of his career -- has now joined a lineage of players who were, for a time, the most entertaining player in the game.

Tatis was born Jan. 2, 1999. Since then, by our reckoning, there have been almost two dozen players who have held this unofficial title.* The churn is rapid. We grow complacent, we seek novelty, and age takes its toll on players. As it is now, though, Tatis fits perfectly at the end of this list:

April 1999-July 1999: At the time Omar Vizquel was, by reputation, the best defensive shortstop in baseball, a trick-shot master of barehanded snags, back-to-the-infield catches, and fake-out throws to trick runners. He didn't hit much. But in the final month of 1998, he hit .338/.413/.493 with 10 steals in 21 games, a hint of the breakout that would come in 1999, when he set career highs in all three slash stats (despite just five home runs). He was the opposite of Mark McGwire in every way, and in the hangover period after the 1998 home run chase -- and as McGwire and Sammy Sosa kept bopping cheap-60s home run totals -- Vizquel's offensive style seemed livelier and less repetitive. He batted second in a Cleveland lineup that scored 1,009 runs in 1999, the only team to do that since 1950 (and still the most recent). And while it was in 2000, not 1999, that Vizquel first completed a straight steal of home, he was already the sort of player who felt like he might steal home. He also was in the process of inventing the post-walkoff celebration that is now the sport's standard.

July 1999-July 2000: In the 1999 All-Star Game, when Pedro Martinez famously struck out five batters in two dominant innings, the hardest throw might well have been by Ivan Rodriguez, who nailed Matt Williams on a strikeout/throw-out double play to complete Martinez's second inning. Rodriguez, by statistic and by anecdote, was the greatest thrower in catching history, and in 1999 he picked off 11 runners and threw out 55 percent of those who tried to steal. He also fulfilled his manager's prophecies by becoming an incredible offensive force, hitting 35 homers, stealing 25 bases (while allowing only 34!) and batting .332. He was even better the next year, hitting .347/.375/.667 before an injury ended his season in July.

July 2000-end of that season: Vladimir Guerrero is a defensible answer for any time period between June 3, 1997, and Aug. 14, 2009. His limbs moved like the flames in a barrel fire, barely contained, ever reaching over the sides, with a terrifying appetite to do more and more. He swung at everything, and every swing was his hardest; he tried to throw out every baserunner, and every throw was all the way on the fly. He led the league in outfield errors six consecutive years, and was typically high on the leaderboards of outs made on the bases, but he also hit .345/.410/.664 for the 2000 season, with 13 home runs in September alone.

2001: If Guerrero was muscular chaos, Ichiro was all precision and straight lines: Direct routes, low throws, line drives. His "iconic throw to third base," a video of him throwing out Terrence Long, has more than 5 million views on YouTube, and came in his eighth career game. By that point he was hitting .371, an average that would drop only to .350 by the end of his rookie season. He led the league in steals, hits, batting average and fielding percentage. He was way skinnier than the rest of the stars, he hit with a totally unconventional swing that produced very little power, but for parts of that season you would have been sure he was the best in the world at four of the five scouting tools.

2002 through June 2003: In 2002, Guerrero came within one homer of baseball's fourth 40-40 season, for an Expos team that was threatened the previous offseason with contraction but turned out to be a surprise contender.

June 2003 through the end of the season: Miguel Cabrera entered the year ranked 12th among all prospects on Baseball America's preseason list, and then hit .365 with power at Double-A. He ended his major league debut with the Marlins by hitting a walk-off home run (over center fielder Rocco Baldelli, another Most Exciting contender in 2003), and he crushed the Cubs in that year's National League Championship Series. He was still skinny, and I swear I remember him making swell plays at third base in that postseason.

2004: Carlos Beltran was the biggest name on the midseason trade market, and poised to be the best free agent that winter, so a couple dozen teams' fans could watch him dominate two leagues in 2004 while fantasizing about their team somehow acquiring him. He hit 38 homers that year while stealing 42 bases (and getting caught just three times), but it was what he did after a trade to Houston that was most memorable: 28 stolen bases without being caught, 23 homers (and seven triples!) in just 90 games, and then perhaps the greatest postseason in history: eight homers in 12 games, a .435/.536/1.022 slash line, and six stolen bases.

2005-2006: This was a very clutch-skeptical era, especially in the snarky stathead writing that captured the zeitgeist of the period. David Ortiz was, of course, beloved for myriad reasons, an incredible hitter with a huge smile and a fantastic backstory. He was also, after the 2004 postseason, the most Obviously Clutch hitter in the world, and the tension of these two things drove a lot of people nuts. As Ken Tremendous wrote at the time, "This kills me to write, but ... there is no such thing as clutch hitting. The reason it kills me is because I have watched David Ortiz win thirteen games with walk-off hits in the last three years, including three in the playoffs, and two in the last two days. David Ortiz/clutch hitting is like one of those magic eyes holograms -- you know there is no 3-D space shuttle in the book you are holding, but holy Christ does it look like there is a 3-D space shuttle." It was fun.

2007: Since integration there have been three players who've had 20 triples, 20 homers and 20 steals in the same season: Willie Mays, in 1957, and Curtis Granderson and Jimmy Rollins, both in 2007. Each could have been the Most Exciting that year, but Rollins was also one of the two or three best defensive shortstops in baseball at the time, and the better base stealer, and he struck out much less frequently.

April 2008 through July 2008: Josh Hamilton's comeback from addiction was, by 2007, already enough to justify an autobiography. But in 2008 he played his first full season, started the All-Star Game in center field, and set Home Run Derby records with his 28-homer first round. "Josh Hamilton is the best baseball player to ever walk the planet," his teammate Ian Kinsler said that year, which was obviously not true in the traditional sense but had a sort of logic to it all the same.

August 2008 through the end of that season: When Manny Ramirez was happy, you half expected him to sprout rocket boosters, take off into the sky and do a bunch of whirlies in the clouds. When he got traded to the Dodgers on the final day of July 2008, he got really happy, and he hit .396/.489/.743 the rest of the way, then .520/.667/1.080 in eight postseason games. He was 36, but in a way he felt like a prospect being called up. Just a total phenomenon.

2009: In my lifetime, "Son of Vladimir Guerrero" has only one competitor for most exciting prospect biographical note: "Son of Cecil Fielder." Prince Fielder might have actually been more exciting in 2007, when he hit 50 homers as a 23-year-old, or 2011, when he took the Brewers to the NLCS, but 2009 was probably his best year, and it was also the year of the still-never-topped bomb-drop celebration at home plate.

2010: Citing a hot streak isn't quite in the spirit of the exercise, but Troy Tulowitzki's Two Weeks In September 2010 is my permanent standard for How Hot Can A Player Get? Over 16 games -- one-tenth of a season -- he hit 14 home runs, slugging 1.121 in that time. It wasn't just those two weeks, though: He was probably the best defensive shortstop in baseball at the time, seemingly oversized for the position but with an outrageously strong arm that he could utilize from any orientation. He just couldn't seem to stay healthy, so you made sure to watch when he was, as he mostly was in the first year of this decade.

2011: Pablo Sandoval, in 2011, hit .306/.383/.551 -- on pitches out of the strike zone! (He hit .319/.319/.546 on pitches in the zone.) He would swing at anything, he would hit it, it was all great fun, and there was the cool nickname/merchandising tie-in to go along with it. The 2011 season was also the one when he was phenomenal defensively, according to both advanced metrics and the eye test.

2012: Mike Trout. He stole four home runs with leaping catches. He might well have been the fastest player in baseball -- he led the league in steals, and in breathless accounts from scouts with stopwatches -- and he was almost certainly the fastest starting from a stopped position, plowing up infield dirt behind him. At one point in the summer he was leading the majors in baserunning runs, hitting runs and fielding runs at his position, the three main components of WAR. He has somehow become a better player since then, but that was peak fun.

2013: This was a ridiculous year for watchable players. Manny Machado was 20 years old, leading the league in doubles and plausibly the best defensive third baseman of all time. Andrelton Simmons, meanwhile, was producing four GIFs a week with unprecedented shortstop play in his first full season. Billy Hamilton debuted, a year after stealing 155 bases in the minors, and raising all sorts of questions about the limits of speed; a showdown between him and Yadier Molina in September is an enduring memory from that season. Carlos Gomez, a nearly perfect accumulation of tools, put everything together for an MVP-caliber season, which culminated in the defining battle of this decade's Unwritten Rules Wars. Hanley Ramirez broke out of Florida -- where he'd been miserable -- and finished in the top 10 in MVP voting for the Dodgers, despite missing half a season. But it's definitely Yasiel Puig, who hit .517 in spring training, then .436 in his first full month in the majors, and who devoted every calorie he consumed to creating an outlandish highlight. He was unapologetic and seemed intent on pulling the sport his way until it could keep up with his pace.

2014: This was the year the Hunter Pence signs started -- "Hunter Pence eats pizza with a fork" and other rando stuff. The signs weren't that much fun, but they coincided with Freaky Pence Stuff really reaching its cultural peak. Only he could contort the way he did, only he threw and swung the way he did, and nobody else who has ever finished 11th in MVP voting (as he did that year -- his highest finish) looked more like he was making fun of baseball playing than he did.

2015: It's probably Bryce Harper, more because of the sense of payoff -- this was what we'd been investing our attention in since he was a high school sophomore -- than because the best player is necessarily always the most watchable. There's a case for Joey Votto here, bouncing back from a mostly lost 2014 season and mastering the strike zone like nobody since Barry Bonds had. There's a case for Jose Bautista, who flipped the danged bat (and also hit 40 regular-season homers, all of them majestic and beautiful). It's Harper, though.

Early 2016: Quoting myself, from around that time: "A good Mookie Betts day is the most fun you can have at a ballpark. He'll put the ball in play four times. One will be a sharp line drive up the middle on an impossible-to-hit 0-2 pitch. One will be a double into right-center -- no, wait, he's going to stretch it, it's going to be close, here'll come the throw and he'll be ... safe at third! He'll homer, and it'll look like Little Mac using one of his stars, a towering uppercut blow from the smallest guy in the lineup. He'll work a tough walk to keep a rally going, then he'll steal second, then he'll score from second on an infield single. He'll make a leaping catch in right field on a dead sprint; he'll cut a ball off on its way to the gap, and then he'll gun down the runner trying to go first to third. Wins Above Replacement stick to him like he's magnetized." There have been many brief challenges to Trout's title of best in baseball, but Betts' challenge has been the most sustained and his approach the closest, and it started in 2016.

Late 2016: Gary Sanchez had been an elite prospect, a name baseball fans knew for five whole years before he got called up for good Aug. 3. He hit 20 home runs in 52 games and, despite criticism for other parts of his defense, he threw as hard as any catcher in baseball. New York stars become extremely famous extremely fast, and for those two months it looked like Sanchez, not the still-to-come Aaron Judge, might quickly become the most famous baseball player in the world.

2017: I've never seen anybody swing harder than Javier Baez. I've almost never seen anybody swing more often. Over the course of a season, his swings alone burn twice as much fuel as an energy-efficient major leaguer's. He's astonishingly aggressive as a runner, taking extra bases (e.g., first to third or scoring from second on a single) more often in his career than much-faster Dee Gordon and Billy Hamilton. He's also the most creative defender in baseball, "El Mago," a magician who might conjure outs out of nothing anytime he's holding the baseball. He does the most mundane things with flair. He might be the most watchable player of my life, to be honest, and it was almost easier to appreciate this before he became an outright superstar in 2018.

2018: Shohei Ohtani. Easy one.

2019: Tatis.

There are players we can't believe we didn't name. Jose Reyes, Adrian Beltre, Grady Sizemore, Giancarlo Stanton, Francisco Lindor, Carl Crawford, Buster Posey, Jose Ramirez, Byron Buxton, Lorenzo Cain, Nolan Arenado, Cody Bellinger, Aaron Judge, Torii Hunter, Yoenis Cespedes, Andrew McCutchen. Not to mention Ronald Acuna Jr. and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

Those final two are a daily challenge to Tatis' hold on this spot. For now, though, he's outrunning them both.

*We limited this title to position players. Pitching is just a different role entirely, entertainmentwise, and while we'd love to have spent Tuesday writing about Jose Fernandez and Dontrelle Willis, they feel like a separate category. We also restricted the pool of candidates to major leaguers only.

Brazilian adds 200m title to his 100m gold in Naples

Paulo André Camilo completed a prestigious sprint double by winning the men’s 200m on day four of athletics action at the World University Games in Naples.

The Brazilian showed his sprint pedigree by running a personal best time of 20.28 (+0.5m/sec) to win a second gold in three days.

The 100m silver medallist, Chederick Van Wyk, took a second silver medal for South Africa as he also ran a personal best (20.44).

Ireland’s Marcus Lawler took the bronze in 20.55, while Britain’s Jordan Broome was sixth in 20.75.

Camilo was not Brazil’s only gold medalist on Thursday as his team-mate Alison Santos took gold in the men’s 400m hurdles in 48.57.

Securing silver was South Africa’s Sokwakhana Zazini as he broke the African under-20 record with his time of 48.73, which moves him to 10th on the world under-20 all-time list.

The women’s 100m champion Dutee Chand was unable to replicate Camilo’s success as she finished fifth in the 200m final in 23.30. The race was won by Belarus’ Krystsina Tsimanouskaya in a personal best time of 23.00.

Alicja Konieczek won the women’s 3000m steeplechase with 9:41.46.

In the field events, Moldovan Andrian Mardare took the men’s javelin title with a throw of 82.40m, with Lithuanian Edis Matusevicius the only other athlete to break the 80-metre barrier (80.07m).

In the women’s pole vault final, Roberta Bruni won in front of a home crowd (4.46m), holding off American athletes Rachel Baxter (4.41m) and Antionette Guy (4.31m).

Canadian Sarah Mitton won the shot put with her throw of 18.31m. No other athlete managed to throw over 18 metres.

Briton Jessica Hunter finished sixth in her 100m hurdles semi-final in a time of 13.53. In the final, another home gold medal was achieved by Italian Luminosa Bogliolo in 12.79 (+0.6m/sec). Bogliolo was the only athlete in the field to break the prestigious 13 second mark.

Earlier in the day Britain’s Khai Riley-La Borde qualified for the semi-finals of the 110m hurdles. He took one of the fastest loser spots for his time of 13.80.

Both Nick Percy and Greg Thompson qualified for the discus final with respective throws of 60.61m and 59.57m.

Results can be found here.

A day one athletics report is here, while a day two round-up is here and a day three report here.

Frenchman takes first title of the championships as Cairess continues successful day for British athletes in Gävle

Jimmy Gressier won the first gold medal of the European U23 Championships in Gävle, Sweden, adding the 10,000m title to his two cross country titles.

Like his winning performance at the European Cross Country Championships in Tilburg in December, the Frenchman was dominant and celebrated in style. Unlike his victorious moment in Holland, however – where he attempted to slide over the line on his knees but ended up flat on his face in the mud with a flag in each hand – this time the colourful character stayed on his feet.

Weaving across the track with his arms in the air as he ran down the home straight, Gressier enjoyed a clear victory as he clocked 28:44.17 to win ahead of Israel’s Tadesse Getahon with 28:46.97.

Emile Cairess continued what proved to be a very successful first day for the British team in Gävle as he claimed the bronze medal, running 28:50.21 as his team-mates Jake Smith and Mahamed Mahamed were eighth in 29:01.08 and 14th in 29:10.46 respectively.

“Cross country is still my favourite event because I really enjoy running outside in the middle of nature,” said Gressier, who will also race the 5000m at the championships.

“Although running cross country comes very natural to me, I am slowly getting used to running on a stadium track, and I feel the 10,000m is the right event for me in the future.

“I couldn’t be happier with this European title, but now I want to focus on the 5000m on Saturday. I need to get some rest in my legs because I’d like to win another title here.

“During the press conference, I promised I’d celebrate in style again if I came first, but this track was too hard on my legs so I decided to just raise my arms and glide like an aeroplane.”

Kicking with four laps to go, it was the 22-year-old’s 61-second circuit which really made an impact and 21-year-old Cairess had moved up to third with three laps to go.

“Winning a bronze medal feels really good,” said BUCS cross country champion Cairess.

“Throughout the race I felt we were going really fast but, every time I looked around, there was still a lot of us in the group.

“I am happy the way I stayed alert, I knew I had to be ready to go if anyone made a move to the front.

“Before coming here I had hopes to get a medal, but there’s a long way between thinking it and that actually happening. I’m glad it worked for me today.”

On the first day of action in Sweden, every British athlete taking part in qualifying progressed to either the semi-finals or final in their respective events.

First up, Jacob Fincham-Dukes leapt 7.53m and Reynold Banigo 7.52m to qualify for the long jump final after placing in the top 12 in qualifying.

After being second-quickest in the men’s 100m heats with 10.46 (-1.0m/sec) behind Sweden’s Henrik Larsson with 10.45, British indoor 60m champion Dom Ashwell ran 10.63 (-1.4m/sec) to make the final, while Oliver Bromby clocked 10.83 into an even stronger headwind (-2.1m/sec) and then ran 10.49 (-1.2m/sec) in his semi-final.

European 4x400m silver medallist Cameron Chalmers won his 400m heat in 47.33.

Reigning European under-20 1500m champion Jemma Reekie, who is attempting a middle-distance double in Sweden, clocked 2:04.74 to go quickest in the 800m heats and she’ll be joined in the final by her fellow Briton Ellie Baker, who won heat two in 2:07.14.

Jake Heyward clocked 3:47.08 to win his 1500m heat and qualify quickest for the final, where he’ll be joined by Piers Copeland who ran 3:47.72 for third in the first heat.

All three of GB’s 110m hurdlers made the semi-finals as Cameron Fillery won his heat in 14.05 (-1.7m/sec), while Tade Ojora ran 14.15 (-2.8m/sec) and James Weaver clocked 14.21 (-2.5m/sec).

Britain’s three pole vaulters also qualified as Adam Hague, Joel Leon Benitez and Charlie Myers all cleared 5.20m and ho higher bars were needed to make the final.

Aimee Pratt won the first 3000m steeplechase heat in 10:05.79, while Anna Emilie Møller of Denmark won the second in 10:01.00.

It was one and done for Naomi Ogbeta as she booked her spot in the triple jump final with her first jump in qualifying of 13.57m (+1.5m/sec).

European indoor 60m champion Ewa Swoboda of Poland went quickest in both the 100m heats and semi-finals, clocking 11.48 and 11.41 respectively to make the final.

Reigning European indoor and outdoor long jump champion Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece automatically progressed to the final with a 7.80m leap, while European indoor shot put champion Konrad Bukowiecki will hope to continue his winning ways after claiming gold at the World University Games as he threw 20.44m in shot put qualifying.

Germany’s Sophie Weissenberg leads the heptathlon at the end of the first day, helped into the top spot by a PB of 14.18m in the shot put.

She has 3675 points after four events, ahead of Poland’s Adrianna Sulek with 3589 and Hanne Maudens of Belgium with 3576.

There was disappointment for France’s European indoor pentathlon bronze medallist Solène Ndama, however. After going fastest in the 100m hurdles with 13.38 she was then unable to clear her opening height of 1.67m in the high jump.

Results can be found here.