• France's Grégory Bourdy wins first Ryder Cup qualifier
• Britain's Rachel Atherton wins mountain bike world title
Cycling
Moreno wins stage to take Vuelta lead
Spain's Daniel Moreno claimed the leader's red jersey in the Vuelta a España on Sunday after he won the ninth stage between Antequera and Valdepeñas de Jaén. Ireland's Nicolas Roche, of Team Saxo-Tinkoff, had held the red jersey overnight but Moreno now leads by one second after this latest victory.
The Team Katusha rider led home a Spanish trio at the end of the 163.7km stage, collecting his second stage win of the grand tour having succeeded on stage four on Wednesday. Alejandro Valverde and Joaquim Rodríguez finished four seconds shy of their compatriot Moreno, who burst clear in the closing stages of the uphill finish to collect the 10sec lead he needed with a provisional finishing time of 4hr 18min 57sec.
Coupled with his eight-second lead over Roche, who finished fourth, the 31-year-old has moved to the top of the general classification ahead of the Irishman. Moreno will be heartened by his stage win, with 11 stages remaining before the final flat stage to Madrid on 15 September.
Golf
France's Grégory Bourdy produced a closing hat-trick of birdies to win the ISPS Handa Wales Open, the first qualifying event for next year's Ryder Cup.
Bourdy birdied the 16th, 17th and 18th at Celtic Manor to deny Peter Uihlein his second victory of the season, the American finishing two behind because of a bogey on the last as he tried to find the birdie needed to force a play-off.
Uihlein began the day three shots clear of Bourdy and another Frenchman, Thomas Levet but had fallen two behind after playing his first 10 holes in two over par. He finished in outright second on six under, with Denmark's Soren Kjeldsen a shot further back after a closing 66 marred only by a bogey on the 18th. Elsewhere Colin Montgomerie secured his first win on the European Senior Tour as he romped to a six-shot victory at the Travis Perkins plc Senior Masters at Woburn.
Mountain biking
Great Britain secured their first title of the world championships as Rachel Atherton regained the elite women's downhill crown she last held in 2008.
The 25-year-old looked impressive all weekend and beat the French rider Emmeline Ragot by a margin of 8.6sec in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
It was a less successful day for Atherton's team-mate Manon Carpenter as the 20-year-old crashed out on course and finished last.
Atherton's brother, Gee, was also involved in finals action in the elite men's downhill event but he could manage only a seventh-placed finish as the defending champion, South Africa's Greg Minnaar, retained his title. Britain's best finish came from Matt Simmonds, who took fifth.
