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Headlines (19 October) :
Hughes excited by keen competition
Mark Hughes expects the battle for Premier League
honours to be more keenly contested than ever this season.
Emotional Brawn hails team effort
Ross Brawn paid tribute to staff past and present who
helped turn a team on the brink of extinction into Formula One world
champions.
Button looks to future
Jenson Button will now look to thrash out his future
with Brawn GP after becoming Formula One world champion.
Tweddle sets sights on 2012
Beth Tweddle is hopeful she will still be around to
lead the British medal bid at the London Olympics after getting a
taste of what is to come at the Gymnastics World Championships.
Hodgson hopes fans cheer Bullard
Roy Hodgson admits Jimmy Bullard may get a frosty
reception if he makes his long-awaited comeback from injury at Craven
Cottage on Monday.
Bougherra back for Unirea clash
Rangers defender Madjid Bougherra is set to face
Unirea Urziceni on Tuesday night after Walter Smith accepted his
reason for returning late from international duty.
Tomkins eager for more England action
England hat-trick hero Sam Tomkins is hoping his
heroics in Wales will be enough to secure him a role in the Gillette
Four Nations series.
Froch open to foreign venue
Promoter Mick Hennessy is set to turn his attention to
deciding on a location for Carl Froch's blockbuster Super Six
showdown with fellow world champion Mikkel Kessler - but admits the
Englishman may have to go to his rival's backyard.
Allardyce primed for Di Santo exit
Blackburn manager Sam Allardyce is resigned to
returning Franco di Santo to Chelsea in January when his loan move
ends.
St Ledger backs Republic to cause upset
Sean St Ledger believes the seeded teams will be
anxious to avoid the Republic of Ireland in the World Cup
qualification play-offs. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 18
October 2009
FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Blackburn 3 Burnley 2 Wigan 1 Man City 1
RUGBY UNION
Heineken Cup Pool 3
Ospreys (22) 25 Clermont Auvergne (3) 24
Heineken Cup Pool 4
Bath (21) 27 Stade Francais (12) 29
Amlin Challenge Cup Pool 1
Leeds Carnegie (12) 37 Overmach Parma (3) 13
Amlin Challenge Cup Pool 5
Newcastle (21) 45 Albi (3) 3
RUGBY LEAGUE
European Cup
Group 2
Ireland 82 Serbia 0
GOLF
BMG Classic
Collated final round scores & totals in the
Sunshine Tour BMG Classic, Glendower Golf Club, Johannesburg, South
Africa(Rsa unless stated, par 72):
205 Graham DeLaet (Can) 68 69 68 206 Jeff Inglis (Eng)
73 69 64 207 Louis de Jager 65 76 66, Jacques Blaauw 70 71 66,
Brandon Pieters 68 69 70 208 Neil Cheetham (Eng) 72 66 70 209 Trevor
Fisher Jnr 69 72 68, Doug McGuigan 68 72 69
Japan Open
Collated final round scores & totals in the Japan
Tour Japan Open Golf Championship, Musashi Country Club Toyooka
Course, Saitama, Japan(Jpn unless stated, par 72):
282 Ryuichi Oda 74 70 71 67 (won play-off), Ryo
Ishikawa 70 76 65 71, Yasuharu Imano 73 69 70 70 285 Hiroyuki Fujita
69 72 75 69, Hirofumi Miyase 72 70 74 69 287 Kenichi Kuboya 70 75 73
69, Shintaro Kai 72 74 72 69, Hidemasa Hoshino 72 75 66 74, David
Smail (Nzl) 71 71 72 73
Administaff Small Business Classic
Collated final round scores & totals in the USPGA
Champions Tour Administaff Small Business Classic, The Woodlands
Country Club, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America(USA
unless stated, par 72):
205 John Cook 65 72 68 207 Jay Haas 70 66 71, Bob Tway
67 70 70 208 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 68 71 69, Dan Forsman 64 71 73,
Tom Lehman 69 71 68 209 Russ Cochran 68 71 70, Tom Watson 69 68 72,
Olin Browne 69 70 70
Portugal Masters
Collated final round scores & totals in the
European Tour Portugal Masters, Oceanico Victoria Clube de Golfe,
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 72):
265 Lee Westwood 66 67 66 66 267 Francesco Molinari
(Ita) 63 66 68 70 269 Padraig Harrington 69 62 71 67 270 Peter Hanson
(Swe) 71 65 66 68, Marcel Siem (Ger) 67 69 67 67 271 Retief Goosen
(Rsa) 68 64 64 75, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 65 65 71 70, Justin Rose 65
70 70 66, Alexander Noren (Swe) 70 70 69 62, Danny Willett 69 68 66
68, Johan Edfors (Swe) 69 66 68 68
Justin Timberlake Open
Collated final-round scores & totals in the USPGA
Tour Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, The TPC
at Summerlin, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America (USA unless
stated, par 71):
265 Martin Laird (Sco) 63 67 67 68 (Martin won at the
third play-off hole), Chad Campbell 67 62 67 69, George McNeill 66 69
63 67 266 Jeff Klauk 65 67 66 68, Jim Furyk 64 67 73 62 267 Charley
Hoffman 66 69 64 68 268 Tim Petrovic 65 68 72 63, Andres Romero (Arg)
68 69 67 64, Matt Kuchar 66 64 72 66, Tom Pernice Jnr. 62 69 68 69,
Rickie Fowler 67 64 69 68, Ryan Moore 67 63 70 68, D.J. Trahan 71 65
65 67
TENNIS
WTA HP Open Final:
(3) Samantha Stosur (Aus) bt (4) Francesca Schiavone
(Ita) 7-5 6-1
WTA Generali Ladies Linz Final:
(3) Yanina Wickmayer (Bel) bt Petra Kvitova (Cze) 6-3 6-4
ATP Shanghai Masters 1000 Final:
(6) Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) bt (1) Rafael Nadal (Spa)
7-6 (7-3) 6-3
FORMULA ONE
BRAZILIAN GRAND PRIX
1 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 1hr 32mins 23.081secs
2 Robert Kubica (Pol) BMW Sauber 1:32:30.707
3 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren 1:32:42.025
4 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 1:32:42.733
5 Jenson Button (Gbr) Brawn GP 1:32:52.086
6 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1:32:56.421
7 Sebastien Buemi (Swi) Scuderia Toro Rosso
1:32:59.072
8 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Brawn GP 1:33:08.535
9 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) McLaren 1:33:11.481
10 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Toyota 1:33:26.081
11 Giancarlo Fisichella (Ita) Ferrari 1:33:33.746
12 Vitantonio Luizzi (Ita) Force India 1:33:34.469
13 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Renault at 1 Lap
14 Jaime Alguersuari (Spa) Scuderia Toro Rosso at 1
Lap
Jenson Button finally
has his hands on the Formula One world title following a pulsating
Brazilian Grand Prix. A combination of brilliant driving and dramatic
incidents elevated Button into fifth place, with his title rivals
Sebastian Vettel and Rubens Barrichello finishing fourth and eighth respectively.
SWIMMING
Eleanor Simmonds produced
a dominant performance to win the S6 400m freestyle title at the IPC
Swimming European Championships in Reykjavik. The 14-year-old, in a
time of five minutes 37.31 seconds, led home fellow Briton Natalie
Jones to claim her first European title.
GYMNASTICS
Britain's Beth Tweddle
hailed her gold medal at the Gymnastics World Championships in London
as the biggest achievement of her career. The 24-year-old from
Liverpool bounced back from her failure to reach the final in her
strongest event on the uneven bars with a superb display in the floor
exercise to win her second world title.
ATHLETICS
Kenyan Gilbert Yegon won the Amsterdam Marathon and
set a new course record on a brilliant debut over the distance. Yegon
completed the course in two hours, six minutes and 19 seconds, and
despite suffering from cramp in the closing stages that meant he had
struck one second off the previous record set by Haile Gebrselassie
four years ago.
MOTORCYCLING
Casey Stoner claimed his third successive win at the
Australian Grand Prix on a day when Valentino Rossi moved a step
closer to retaining his FIM MotoGP World Championship title. Fiat
Yamaha rider Rossi finished second behind Stoner but more importantly
saw his team-mate and nearest title rival Jorge Lorenzo fail to make
it beyond the first corner after the Spaniard tangled with Nicky Hayden.
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