dundee united's lawrence shankland has been called up by scotland for the euro 2020 qualifiers againstand san marino. the scottish championship striker has scored 13 times in seven games so far this season. johnny sexton will captain for the first time. seven of the forwards will start their first game of the tournament. england's world cup—winning captain eoin morgan is one of the players to have made themselves available for the hundred player draft later this month. the new 100—ball competition will take place next summer and be made up of eight city—based teams. after over 140 years of racing, towcester, the course where ap mccoy rode his 4000th winner, has been permanenetly closed. it went into administration last year, its ten race—days in the calendar will be re—allocated. it's been a rest day the world cup today, a chance for the 10's of thousands of rugby fans to further enjoy their hosts hospitality. the tournament has been agreat success so far, as japan looks to secure a lasting legacy for the sport and the fans have contributed to that. here's our sports correspondent kati

while lawrence shankland and stuart findlay marked their first starts with goals and stuart armstrong'ssult doesn't help scotland to advance from the group but they can still get to the finals next year via the play—offs. they move above kazakhstan after they lost at home to belgium earlier. and with cyprus being beaten by 5—0 by russia, the scots are now one point behind them ahead of their fixture next month. wales are in action at the moment. they're facing group e leaders croatia in cardiff — it's the croats who are leadnig 1—0 at the moment with around 15 minutes left in the first half. all tonight's results on the bbc sport website. simone biles has become the most succesful gymnast in world championship history. the american won her 24th world championship medal taking the gold on the beam in stuttgart. her victory on the vault yesterday meant she had equalled the record held by vitaly scherbo. and biles made it 25 medals shortly after wiht her 18th shortly after with her 18th gold after winning the floor event, finishing ahead of her compatriot sunisa lee and angelina melikova o

john mcginn scored his first career hat—trick, while lawrence shankland and stuart findlay marked their. there's a new world record in the women's marathon, after kenya's brigid kosgei eclipsed the previous record by 81 seconds. she stormed to victory in the chicago marathon to blow away paula radcliffe's record, which has stood for 16 years. radcliffe was on hand to congratulate the kenyan as she crossed the finish line. iam i am feeling good, and i was happy. because i was not expecting to run like this. but today i run my best time, which i could not ever run, and then i was happy again. the men's marathon was won by kenya's lawrence cherono but it was a disappointing day for mo farah as he failed to defend his title. after a difficult build up to the race, with questions about the integrity of his former coach alberto salazar, farah was way off the pace, finishing in eighth place — his slowest marathon by more than a minute. simone biles has become the most succesful gymnast in world championship history, winning her 24th and 25th medals today. both of them gold, too, with victory o

bother tojohn mcginn though — he's scored four for the hosts so far — plus another one from lawrence shanklandeir group after a disappointing campaign but can still qualify for the tournament via the play—offs, which begin in march, having earned the chance to progress by winning their nations league group last year. belgium top their qualifying group and continued their flawless record and they beat kazakhstan 2—0 earlier. and russia are currently leading cyprus 3—0. wales play croatia at 7.45pm in the cardiff city stadium. wales wil be without aaron ramsey. thejuventus midfielder missed thursday's1—1 draw in slovakia. wales have played croatia 4 times and lost every time. whenever we've played, we've always lost by one goal, so it's always been quite a tight game. we obviously know what a great team they are, they had a great world cup and they've shown year after year how great they are. but we know it's going to be very tough, but i think being at home gives us a little bit more of an advantage and we know the welsh crowd is going to be behind us, like always, cheering us on, being the 12t