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Five highlights for Monday 22 June at the European Games

1. Gunning for more medals
Shooting, from 08:30
The Shooting competition finishes with a bang with three non-Olympic mixed team events.
One of the highlights of the day will come when Niccolo Campriani of Italy, who won silver in the men's 10m air rifle on Tuesday, teams up with his girlfriend Petra Zublasing, winner of the women's 50m rifle 3 positions on Friday. The couple shoot for gold in the mixed team 10m air rifle at the Baku Shooting Centre.

2. Big task for Belgium
Volleyball, from 09:00
The final round of men's pool matches takes place on Monday, and with Pool A's qualifiers already settled, Pool B takes centre stage. Italy are already out, but Belgium still have a chance to reach the final eight, although Germany stand in their way. The world no.7-ranked side are top and Belgium have to win in four sets or fewer to have a chance to progress to the quarter-finals.

3. Another shot at glory
Archery, from 09:00
Italy's Mauro Nespoli, London 2012 Olympic Games gold medallist and winner of a team gold medal at Baku 2015, will be going for more glory in the men's Archery individual event at the Tofiq Bahramov Stadium. Meanwhile, Dutchman Sjef van den Berg is hoping to go one better than his score on Friday - 89 out of 90 - and shoot a perfect round of nine 10s.

4. Won for the book
Sambo, from 10:00
Russia’s Artem Osipenko competes in the men’s +100kg category in Sambo. He is the 2014 world champion, 2015 European champion, three-time world title holder, and has even published a manual, 'How to Become a World Champion'.

5. Familiar ring to this bout
Boxing, from 12:30
The big boxing quarter-final showdown between Nicola Adams of Great Britain and Bulgaria’s Stoyka Petrova takes place in Crystal Hall 2 in the afternoon session. Adams beat the Bulgarian in the quarter-finals at the London 2012 Olympic Games, but Petrova avenged the defeat at the same stage of last year's European championship in Bucharest. Overall, Adams holds an 8-1 career advantage over Petrova.

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