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.

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. 

Russia’s Anzor Khizriev proved too powerful for Georgia’s world under-23 champion Givi Matcharashvili as he won the freestyle 125 kilograms final to earn a third gold for his country on the opening medal day of men’s freestyle wrestling at the European Games here. 

Home pairing Volha Khudzenka and Maryna Litvinchuk sprung a huge surprise in canoe sprint’s women’s K2 500 metres final at the European Games today as they claimed gold against a Hungarian paring laden with gold medal experience.

Belarusian Vasil Kiryienka successfully retained his European Games men's road cycling time trial title here having only just returned to competition following a year out due to a heart problem.

Russia became the European Games - and European Championship - judo mixed team champions here tonight in the most dramatic of circumstances after coming back from 3-0 down against Portugal to win 4-3 thanks to a sudden-death golden score deciding contest.