Gallery: Weekend In Sport
With the sun shining down on London, Saracens and Luton Town grabbed headlines in the capital over the weekend. In Monaco, rainy conditions affected the latest Formula 1 Grand Prix, but Red Bull and Verstappen still came out on top. We’ve looked at the weekend’s sporting highlights…
Saracens clinched their sixth Gallagher Premiership title and their first in four years with a 35-25 win over Sale.
Two tries in four minutes in the final quarter from Elliot Daly and Ivan van Zyl sealed victory for the London side.
Saracens recently signed a five-year sponsorship renewal with principal partner Shawbrook.
Everton secured Premier League safety on the final day of season after the Toffees beat Bournemouth 1-0 at a jubilant Goodison Park.
The victory meant that fellow strugglers Leicester City and Leeds United saw their stays in English football’s top-flight come to end with relegation to the Championship confirmed.
Last week, Everton reached an exclusivity agreement with MSP Sports Capital for a ‘significant investment’.
British number one male tennis player Cam Norrie made it through to the second round of the French Open with a 7-5 4-6 3-6 6-1 6-4 win over Frenchman Benoit Paire.
After winning the first set, Norrie was controversially penalised for hindrance early in the second after being ruled to have put off Paire by shouting mid-point. Norrie called the decision “absurd”.
Back in November, Norrie signed with UK-based sports management and sponsorship sales business ARETÉ.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen survived a mid-race downpour to win the Monaco Grand Prix from Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso.
Verstappen’s win, his fourth in six races this year, moved him 39 points clear of team-mate Sergio Perez in the championship.
Luton Town completed their journey from non-league to Premier League as they beat Coventry City 6-5 on penalties to win the Championship play-off final at Wembley.
Gustavo Hamer equalised for Coventry to cancel out a first-half strike from Jordan Clark as the game finished in a 1-1 draw after 120 minutes.
Earlier in the year, former Luton Town striker Mick Hartford launched Prostate FC to raise awareness and find research around prostate cancer.
Chelsea won the Women’s Super League for a fourth successive season as they cruised to a final-day victory against Reading and consigned the home side to relegation.
Chelsea’s only challengers were Manchester United, who won 1-0 at Liverpool but finished two points behind in the table.
Unilever became the latest brand to invest in women’s football last week after it agreed a deal with FIFA which will see several of its personal care brands become official sponsors FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023.
Chris Billam-Smith became the new WBO cruiserweight champion as he dethroned former gym-mate Lawrence Okolie in Bournemouth.
Fighting in his home town in front of 15,000 fans, underdog Billam-Smith floored Okolie three times en route to a majority points victory.
