Jonny Weeks April 13, 2012

The week in sport – in pictures

The best images from around the globe in a week when the Masters was won with the most lurid golf clubs ever seen at Augusta and when visitors to Aintree learned why racing and heels don't mix

best of the week: A competitor poses — This chap is competing for the title of 'Mr. Mumbai'. Not sure why he's strutting his stuff in a stairwell, but the guy watching him seems curiously transfixed. His bronze glow perfectly complements the stairwell. That's gotta be worth extra points, surely? Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

best of the week: An athlete competes — Vladimir Kalinichenko from Belgorod carries a 200 kg weight which looks suspiciously like an ice cream. Presumably he has to eat it at the end of the competition? You'd hope so Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

best of the week: The Beach Boys band member — The Beach Boys. At the baseball Photograph: Danny Moloshok/Reuters

best of the week: Los Angeles Angels — Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher C.J. Wilson gets all balletic as he throws a pitch that strikes out Minnesota Twins batter Joe Mauer during the first inning of their MLB game Photograph: Eric Miller/Reuters

best of the week: RUGBYU-EUR-CHALLENGE-STADE-FRANCAIS-EXETER — The same can't be said of Stade Français' flanker George Smith during the European Challenge Cup quarter final rugby union match against Exeter at the Charléty Stadium in Paris Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images

best of the week: Cricket — At Edgbaston in England, here's a view from new the Pavilion stand with Birmingham City centre in the distance. Beautiful isn't it? No? Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

best of the week: - — French boxer Salim Larbi forgets that boxing is meant to be a masculine sport as he sheds a tear after being knocked-out at the end of his World Boxing Organization interim champion match against Czech boxer Lukas Konecny Photograph: Radek Mica/AFP/Getty Images

best of the week: The early arrivals — There she goes! Platforms on a grassy slope at Aintree. Did not see that accident coming at all. Photograph: Kelvin Bruce / Max Mumby/Enigma

best of the week: Watson of the U.S. hits his tee shot — Not since Nicklas Bendtner has a sportsman dared to go pink. Unlike Bendtner, Bubba Watson still manages to look mean. And he's a winner too. Another considerable difference with the big Dane Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

best of the week: sport — A pair of gymnasts perform somersaults during the 23rd European Trampoline championships in St. Petersburg. Simultaneously. Wowzers. Photograph: Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images

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