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Canada’s Alison Jackson (TibcoSilicon Valley Bank) became the first rider to wear the Baillie Gifford Yellow Jersey, as she yesterday claimed a sensational stage win at the Women’s Tour of Scotland in Perth.

With an impressive sprint in the final 200m, she capped off what was a thrilling day of racing on day two.

A bunch sprint finish through the packed streets of Perth also saw 21-year-old Emma White (Rally UHC Cycling) and Stine Borgli (Norway National Team) earn a place on the podium going into today’s final stage in Edinburgh.

Earlier yesterday, it looked like there could be one main contender for the Baillie Gifford Leaders Jersey, with Brodie Chapman (Tibco-silicon Valley Bank) holding a 1 minute 45 second lead ahead of the peloton around the 90km mark.

However, she was quickly caught by the remaining riders as the race headed for an exhilarating finish.

Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (Bigla) held on to the Eventscotland Queen of the Mountains Jersey for a second successive stage after her team’s impressive performance on the climb, while her team-mate Leah Thomas tops the Motorola Solutions Queen of Sprints competition standings.

Emma White (Rally UHC Cycling) took the Deloitte Best Young Rider Jersey for her second-placed effort.

Great Britain and Northern Ireland are in fourth place ahead of today’s final day of the European Athletics Team Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Poland lead the standings with 193 points ahead of France (181.5) and Italy (171), with Great Britain (162.5) just outside the top three.

The GB men’s 4x100metres relay team were promoted to winners, after France were disqualified, to claim maximum points in yesterday’s last event, following a third place for the women’s four.

Charlie Da’vall Grice finished second in the men’s 1,500m with Harry Aikines-aryeetey fourth over 100m in a time of 10.57seconds.

Rosie Clarke was third in the 3000m women’s steeplechase and Dwayne Cowan came second in the men’s 400m in 46.18s.

Shelayna Oskan-clarke placed second in the women’s 800m in 2:01.45 and Daryll Neita was second in the women’s 100m in 11.33s.

Chris Baker jumped 2.22 in the high jump for second spot.

West Lothian driver Paul Di Resta was controversially penalised in round 11 of the DTM Championship at Brands Hatch yesterday.

Having qualified fourth-fastest in his Aston Martin, the 2010 DTM champion made a blistering start to sweep past three cars and take the lead at the first corner.

Video evidence appeared inconclusive, but race stewards found him guilty of a jump-start and handed him a five-second penalty to be served in the pits.

That cost Di Resta any chance of winning the race, although he was still in the points in ninth when his car broke down with barely a lap to go.

The Scot will hope for better luck when round 12 gets underway this afternoon.