Britain’s Olympic bronze medallists and Commonwealth champions Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis upset the odds today as they beat Denmark’s top seeds Anders Skaarp Rasmussen and Kim Astrup, the European champions, to the badminton men’s doubles European Games gold here today.

Spain won three gold medals on the opening day of the karate competition at the European Games here today, with both kata champions of Baku 2015 - Damián Quintero and Sandra Sánchez - retaining their titles, and Laura Palacio Gonzalez adding another title as she beat Meltem Hocaoglu of Turkey 4-1 to win the over-68 kilograms women’s kumite final.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to attend tomorrow's Closing Ceremony for the European Games here.

Two Italian teams made up of Olympic gold medallists finished first and second in the mixed team shotgun skeet event here. 

It was not quite the perfect ending the host nation had hoped for in the inaugural Dynamic New Athletics final here as they finished just 0.67 seconds behind Ukraine in the final race for gold - but after a stadium that looked close to its 22,246 capacity had been taken on a journey of rising hope as the hosts won five of the eight preceding events it was, broadly speaking, a great result for athletics at the 2nd European Games.

Gymnastics will be on the programme for the 3rd European Games in Kraków and the Małopolska region of Poland.

The European Olympic Committees (EOC) will be surveying stakeholders on the sports programme for the 2023 European Games in Kraków and the Małopolska region.

Teqball was on display at the Minsk 2019 European Games fan zone here as part of a wider celebration of Hungarian culture. 

Hosts Belarus built solidly on their position behind leaders Russia in the overall medals table at the 2nd European Games with a huge run of success on the rainswept, windswept second and final day of the canoe sprint competition, where - under the approving gaze of their President - they added four more golds.

The Netherlands, Russia, Greece and Ukraine won gold medals at the track cycling that is making its European Games debut here.

Four-time Olympian and 1983 world champion Ni Xialian of Luxembourg is one of six table-tennis players to secure a place at the next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo after competing at the European Games here.