Sport in brief

Rowing

Former British Rowing chairman Dame Di Ellis has died at the age of 79. A former international competitor with England and Great Britain, Ellis became GB team manager in 1988. A year later she took over as chair of the Amateur Rowing Association, which became British Rowing in 2009, staying at the helm until 2013.

Football

Luca Waldschmidt scored the vital goal as Hamburg beat Wolfsburg 2-1 to ensure their Bundesliga survival on the final day of the season. Wolfsburg now face a relegation play-off.

Boxing

France’s Hassan N’Dam claimed the vacant World Boxing Association middleweight title by defeating Japan’s Ryota Murata on a surprising split decision despite being floored in the fourth round in Tokyo. Kazakh Gennady Golovkin is the category’s unified champion.

Olympic Games

At least 130 medals won at the Rio Olympics have been returned to the organisers because they have rusted or developed black spots on them. Most of the defective medals are bronze, including some from the Paralympics. They are being fixed by the Brazilian Mint who made them for last year’s event. Games spokesman Mario Andrada said: “The most common issue is that they were dropped or mishandled and the varnish has come off and they’ve rusted or gone black in the spot where they were damaged. The second thing to say is that about 10 had problems with the extreme cold.”

Ice Hockey

Champions Canada staged a stunning third-period comeback, when they scored all their goals, to beat Russia 4-2 and reach today’s World Championship final against either Sweden or Finland in Cologne where they will eye a third straight title.

Judo

Amy Livesey won Great Britain’s first medal of the Ekaterinburg Grand Slam in Russia, taking bronze in the under-63kg category after beating Russia’s Daria Davydova, who is ranked 15 places above her.