Both Canada and Bulgaria notched up second consecutive victories to reach the knockout stage at the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship on Monday.
The third day of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo produced five gold medals on Monday, highlighted by Sweden's Armand Duplantis clearing 6.30 meters to break the men's pole vault world record for the 14th time in his career.
FC Barcelona brushed aside the challenges of playing in front of just 6,000 fans and without Lamine Yamal, as Hansi Flick's side thrashed Valencia 6-0 at the Johan Cruyff Stadium on Sunday night.
Giorgian de Arrascaeta and Emerson Royal scored either side of halftime as leaders Flamengo cruised to a 2-0 away win over Juventude in Brazil's Serie A on Sunday.
Chengdu Rongcheng maintained its lead in the Chinese Super League after a 1-0 home win over Changchun Yatai in the 24th round, with Wei Shihao scoring the decisive early goal.
Jamaica's Oblique Seville and American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden were crowned the world's fastest man and woman after storming to 100m titles at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday.
Spaniard Maria Perez retained her 35-kilometer race walk title at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo while Canada's Evan Dunfee came from behind to win his first world title in the men's 35km race walk on Saturday.
?Denmark's Anders Lind fought a tough seven-game battle against defending champion Lin Shidong of China on Saturday, winning 4-3 to reach the semifinals at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Champions Macao 2025.
?Bayern Munich secured its third win in as many matches in the Bundesliga season with a dominant 5-0 home victory over newly-promoted Hamburg on Saturday.
?Jonas Vingegaard of Visma-Lease-A-Bike won the penultimate stage of the Vuelta a Espana on Saturday to all but assure he will be crowned as the overall winner on Sunday in Madrid.
?Real Madrid played with 10 men for almost an hour but held on for a 2-1 win away to Real Sociedad to maintain a perfect winning start to the La Liga season on Saturday.
World No.1 Poland registered its opening victory in the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in Manila on Saturday, as it put down its marker for the title race with a 3-0 victory over Romania.