Play on the final day was disrupted for an hour following an incredible incident in which the goalposts at one end of the venue became caught in branded tarpaulin covering the stand and were rendered out of use during the Britain against Belgium women's semi-final.

It took a team of more than 10 people, including firefighters, around 30 minutes to find a solution to free the posts, with play resuming a further half-an-hour later.

Britain went on to beat Belgium 36-12, while hosts Poland overcame the Czech Republic 29-7.

In the final, Britain proved too strong for the host nation, triumphing 33-0 helped by two tries from Emma Uren.

Britain advanced directly to Paris 2024, while Poland secured a place at next year's Final Olympic Qualifying Tournament, along with the Czech Republic, who beat Belgium 24-17 for bronze.

In the men's tournament, two huge rugby nations in Ireland and Britain played in the qualifier having finished eighth and ninth respectively on the World Rugby Sevens Series.

Ireland dominated their semi-final 24-0 against Portugal, while Britain came from behind to beat Spain 19-7.

In the final, Ireland were deserved 26-12 winners, helped by two tries from Jordan Conroy.

Rio 2016 silver medallists Britain have to win the 12-team repechage tournament as their last chance to qualify for Paris 2024, and are set to be joined in that event by Spain who dominated their bronze medal match against Portugal and triumphed 42-0.

Solveig Løvseth won the first gold medal of the day for Norway in the women's triathlon at the Nowa Huta Lake venue, making a decisive attack with a couple of kilometres remaining in the 10km run which played out in torrential rain to triumph in 1 hour 57min 5sec.

She was 10 seconds clear of Austria's Julia Hauser in second and 12 clear of Jolien Vermeylen of Belgium in third.

In today's table tennis at the Hutnik Arena, Xiaoxin Yang won Monaco's first-ever European Games medal in the women's singles, but allowed a 2-0 and 3-1 lead to slip in the final in defeat to Romania's Bernadette Cynt Szocs.

The final ended 4-11, 4-7, 11-7, 8-11, 13-11, 11-9, 11-3 in Szocs' favour for a remarkable gold.

The men's singles final was also a thriller, with France's Felix Lebrun triumphing in seven games 9-11, 11-5, 11-5, 4-11, 6-11 11-2, 13-11 against Portugal's Marcos Freitas.

Romania's Elizabeta Samara won bronze in the women's event  in seven games against Poland's Jakub Rajewski, but on the men's side Alexis Lebrun - brother of Felix also representing France - was forced to withdraw against Andrej Gaćina of Croatia because of injury.

In today's action at the Wrocław Shooting Centre, Ukraine won the first gold through Pavlo Korostylov and his sister Yulia Korostylova 16-6 in the mixed 25 metres rapid fire pistol final against Matěj Rampula and Alžběta Dědová of the Czech Republic.

Italy won the women's team skeet final 7-1 against Slovakia, but their men's team lost the men's skeet gold medal by the same scoreline to Finland.

Ukraine were the top performers in the muaythai combat finals at the Myślenice Arena, winning three of the 10 available golds.

Five-time world champion Igor Liubchenko beat Poland's Oskar Siegert in the men's under-67 kilograms final, Oleksandr Yefimenko held off Gonçalo Noite of Portugal in the men's under-71kg and Oleh Pryimachov provide too strong for Enrico Pellegrino Pellegri of Italy in the men's under-91kg.

Turkey were the next-best performing nation with two golds, achieved through Gülistan Turan against Poland's Roksana Dargiel in the women's under-51kg and Bediha Tacyıldız against the Czech Republic's Tereza Štechová in the women's under-63.5kg.

Artiom Livadari secured Moldova's first-ever European Games gold medal with a unanimous 30-27 points victory against Ukraine's Yehor Skurikhin in the men's under-71kg, and Gianny De Leu of Belgium was the other male winner against Sercan Koç of Turkey at under-60kg.

Martyna Kierczyńska provided home success for Poland in the women's under-54kg final against Axana Depypere of Belgium, and the other winners were Patricia Nathal Axling of Sweden against Spain's Matilde Maria Ro at under-57kg and Astrid Johanna Grents of Estonia at under-60kg versus Turkey's Kübra Kocakuş.

Siblings Christina Wassen and Elena Wassen of Germany dominated the women's 10m platform synchronised diving final at the Rzeszów Diving Arena, scoring 297.72 to beat closest challengers Kseniia Bailo and Sofia Esman of Ukraine by more than 23 points.

Another German diver in Timo Barthel was a comfortable winner in the men's 10m platform, scoring 435.50 points to take gold.

Britain's Robbie Lee was his nearest rival on 413.20 points.

Fencing at the Tauron Arena Kraków brought the final gold medals for The Netherlands and Ukraine.

Tristan Tulen won the men's épée final for the Dutch 15-10 against Miguel Frazao of Portugal, and four-time Olympic medallist Olha Kharlan outclassed Romania's Ilinca Pantis 15-3 for women's sabre gold.

Summer ski jumping on the Zakopane Hills is one of the most intriguing events of this year's European Games, and Jacqueline Seifriedsberger of Austria was the first winner in the women's normal hill event with 262.6 points from jumps of 99.0 and 98.5 metres,

Slovenia's Nika Prevc was a close second with 262.2 from 97.5m and 100.5m efforts.

Day seven of competition at Kraków-Małopolska 2023 tomorrow is due to feature 11 medal events in seven sports, including the last in diving and first in teqball.