hello and welcome to sportsday. i m marc edwards. raising the bar. italy s olympic champion gianmarco tamberi thrills home fans by taking highjump gold at the european athletics championships. erik staying hag, the dutchman, will remain as manager of manchester united following a post season review and still in with a chance. pakistan beat canada as they live to fight another day at the t20 world cup. hello and thanks forjoining us on sportsday. we begin with the penultimate day of the european athletics championships in rome with some of contenders sure to star at the olympic games in paris at the end ofjuly in action on tuesday. italy s olympic champion gianmarco tamberi thrilled the home fans by taking high jump gold while dutch star femke bol won the women s 400 metres hurdles gold. our correspondent natalie pirks is in the italian capital. well, another very busy night began with back to back championship records in both the men and women s 400 metre hurdles from world c
Yesterdaywith just a few metres to go, the french duo of pierre lacore and leyo bergere were neck and neck . it was lacorre who pipped his countryman at the line. hayden wild s third place was enough to see the new zealander become the new overall leader in the series, with one event remaining. france s cassandre beaugrand, who won in hamburg earlier this month, was first in the women s race. that is all the support from us for now. back to you. well, we re going to have another sportsman studio a little bit he is somebody who competed for gigabits, he is a gb canoeist, in 1972, but now, as if that were not remarkable enough, he is going to be going into space. enough, he is going to be going into sace. a . ~ enough, he is going to be going into sace. 1, . ~ 1: z: space. back in 2005 we interviewed john goodson space. back in 2005 we interviewed john goodson on space. back in 2005 we interviewed john goodson on breakfast, - space. back in 2005 we interviewed john goodson on breakf
Of these games. he would not have bet on himself of this when considering his form in tokyo so far. disappointment for his wife, laura. they are recycling power couple and she came sixth but she had already taken gold this week in the being the first british woman to win three gold at three 0lympics. the being the first british woman to win three gold at three olympics. in win three gold at three olympics. in the corner of my eye on the corner of yours on the feed we have lauren prius. she is something, isn t she? a kick oxo, footballer and now contending for a gold in the boxing. we are into the second round. the women s we are into the second round. tue women s middleweight we are into the second round. tte women s middleweight division. lauren prius, heavily fancied content of the team gb here in the gold medal match against the chinese competitor and at the moment, like you say, it is not quite at the end of that one yet, just keeping across it now and this has been an incredible m