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On This Day in Sport (04 September 2011):

1990: Manchester United's Steve Bruce became the first top-flight player to be red-carded under the new professional foul rule, in a match against Luton.
2000: European champions Real Madrid reported they were more than £165million in debt.
2002: Former England cricket captain and opening batsman Geoffrey Boycott confirmed he had been diagnosed with cancer after tests on a lump in his neck.
2006: Thomas Bjorn let rip at Ian Woosnam after Europe's captain opted for Lee Westwood instead of the Dane as his second wild card for the defence of the Ryder Cup at the K Club. Bjorn described his relationship with Woosnam as "completely dead", calling the captain "barmy"

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International Results Roundup

Dateline 03 September 2011

FOOTBALL
International
Panama 0 Paraguay 2 Peru 2 Bolivia 2 USA 0 Costa Rica 1
European Championship Qualifying
Group I
Scotland 2 Czech Republic 2
Group Two
Andorra U21 0 Armenia U21 1
TENNIS
US OPEN
Men's Singles - Round 3
Novak Djokovic (1) 6 6 6 - - Nikolay Davydenko 3 4 2 - -
Alexandr Dolgopolov (22) 6 (4) 6 6 6 - Ivo Karlovic 7 (7) 2 4 4 -
Tomas Berdych (9) 4 0 - - - Janko Tipsarevic (20) 6 5 - - - Match won by retirement
Marcel Granollers (31) 1 3 - - - Juan Carlos Ferrero 6 4 - - - Match won by retirement
Roger Federer (3) 6 4 6 6 - Marin Cilic (27) 3 6 4 2 -
Juan Monaco 6 (3) 6 6 6 - Tommy Haas 7 (7) 3 2 3 -
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (11) 6 7 6 - - Fernando Verdasco (19) 3 5 4 - -
Kevin Anderson 4 6 (4) 6 (3) - - Mardy Fish (8) 6 7 (7) 7 (7) - -
Women's Singles - Round 3
Caroline Wozniacki (1) 6 6 - - - Vania King 2 4 - - -
Akgul Amanmuradova 4 2 - - - Svetlana Kuznetsova (15) 6 5 - - -
Andrea Petkovic (10) 6 6 - - - Roberta Vinci (18) 4 0 - - -
Silvia Soler Espinosa 0 4 - - - Carla Suarez-Navarro 6 6 - - -
Victoria Azarenka (4) 1 6 (5) - - - Serena Williams (28) 6 7 (7) - - -
Sloane Stephens 3 4 - - - Ana Ivanovic (16) 6 6 - - -
Jelena Jankovic (11) 4 4 - - - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (17) 6 6 - - -
Chanelle Scheepers 7 6 (5) 3 - - Francesca Schiavone (7) 5 7 (7) 6 - -
ATHLETICS
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
MEN
200m Final 1 Usain Bolt (Jam) 19.4secs, 2 Walter Dix (USA) 19.7, 3 Christophe Lemaitre (Fra) 19.8, 4 Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (Nor) 19.95, 5 Nickel Ashmeade (Jam) 20.29, 6 Bruno de Barros (Bra) 20.31, 7 Rondel Sorrillo (Tri) 20.34 DNF: Alonso Edward (Pan)
400m T53 Final: 1 Richard Colman (Aus) 49.36secs, 2 Byung-hoon Yoo (Kor) 50.69, 3 Dong-ho Jung (Kor) 50.76, 4 Joshua George (USA) 50.97, 5 Pichet Krungget (Tha) 51.31, 6 Michael Bushell (Gbr) 51.70, 7 Jun Hiromichi (Jpn) 51.93, 8 Erik Gauthier (Can) 53.08
1500m Final 1 Asbel Kiprop (Ken) 3mins 35.69secs, 2 Silas Kiplagat (Ken) 3:35.92, 3 Matthew Centrowitz (USA) 3:36.08, 4 Manuel Olmedo (Spa) 3:36.33, 5 Abdalaati Iguider (Mar) 3:36.56, 6 Mohamed Moustaoui (Mar) 3:36.80, 7 Mekonnen Gebremedhin (Eth) 3:36.81, 8 Eduar Villanueva (Ven) 3:37.31, 9 Mehdi Baala (Fra) 3:37.46, 10 Ciaran O'Lionaird (Irl) 3:37.81, 11 Tarek Boukensa (Alg) 3:38.05, 12 Nicholas Willis (Nzl) 3:38.69
50km Race Walk Final 1 Sergey Bakulin (Rus) 3hrs 41mins 24secs, 2 Denis Nizhegorodov (Rus) 3:42:45, 3 Jared Tallent (Aus) 3:43:36, 4 Tianfeng Si (Chn) 3:44:40, 5 Luke Adams (Aus) 3:45:31, 6 Koichiro Morioka (Jpn) 3:46:21, 7 Chil-Sung Park (Kor) 3:47:13, 8 Faguang Xu (Chn) 3:47:19, 9 Takayuki Tanii (Jpn) 3:48:03, 10 Hirooki Arai (Jpn) 3:48:40, 11 Andres Chocho (Ecu) 3:49:32, 12 Marco De Luca (Ita) 3:49:40, 13 Rafal Sikora (Pol) 3:50:24, 14 Dong-Young Kim (Kor) 3:51:12, 15 Jarkko Kinnunen (Fin) 3:52:32, 16 Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi (Ita) 3:52:35, 17 Trond Nymark (Nor) 3:54:26, 18 Edgar Hernandez (Mex) 3:54:46, 19 Jose Leyver (Mex) 3:55:37, 20 Oleksiy Kazanin (Ukr) 3:56:18, 21 Omar Zepeda (Mex) 3:56:41, 22 Andreas Gustafsson (Swe) 4:00:05, 23 Bertrand Moulinet (Fra) 4:07:58, 24 Quentin Rew (Nzl) 4:08:46, 25 Jianbo Li (Chn) 4:10:26
Javelin Throw Final 1 Matthias de Zordo (Ger) 86.27m, 2 Andreas Thorkildsen (Nor) 84.78, 3 Guillermo Martinez (Cub) 84.3, 4 Vitezslav Vesely (Cze) 84.11, 5 Fatih Avan (Tur) 83.34, 6 Roman Avramenko (Ukr) 82.51, 7 Jarrod Bannister (Aus) 82.25, 8 Mark Frank (Ger) 81.81, 9 Antti Ruuskanen (Fin) 79.46, 10 Dmitri Tarabin (Rus) 79.06, 11 Stuart Farquhar (Nzl) 78.99, 12 Sergey Makarov (Rus) 78.76
WOMEN
800m T54 Final 1 Diane Roy (Can) 1min 50.91secs, 2 Wakako Tsuchida (Jpn) 1:51.11, 3 Rochelle Woods (Gbr) 1:51.27, 4 Madison de Rozario (Aus) 1:51.95, 5 Manuela Schaer (Swi) 1:52.01, 6 Gunilla Wallengren (Swe) 1:52.05, 7 Amberlynn Weber (USA) 1:55.43, 8 Kyung-sun Kang (Kor) 2:33.18
100m Hurdles Final 1 Sally Pearson (Aus) 12.28secs, 2 Danielle Carruthers (USA) 12.47, 3 Dawn Harper (USA) 12.47, 4 Tiffany Porter (Gbr) 12.63, 5 Tatyana Dektyareva (Rus) 12.82, 6 Nikkita Holder (Can) 12.93, 7 Phylicia George (Can) 17.97 DNF: Kellie Wells (USA)
4 x 400m Relay Final 1 United States (Sanya Richards-Ross, Allyson Felix, Jessica Beard, Francena McCorory) 3mins 18.09secs, 2 Jamaica (Rosemarie Whyte, Davita Prendergast, Novlene Williams-Mills, Shericka Williams) 3:18.71, 3 Russia (Antonina Krivoshapka, Natalya Antyukh, Lyudmila Litvinova, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya) 3:19.36, 4 Great Britain & N.I. (Perri Shakes-Drayton, Nicola Sanders, Christine Ohuruogu, Lee McConnell) 3:23.63, 5 Ukraine (Nataliya Pyhyda, Anastasiya Rabchenyuk, Hanna Yaroshchuk, Antonina Yefremova) 3:23.86, 6 Belarus (Hanna Tashpulatava, Yulyana Yushchanka, Ilona Usovich, Sviatlana Usovich) 3:25.64, 7 Czech Republic (Denisa Rosolova, Zuzana Bergrova, Jitka Bartonickova, Zuzana Hejnova) 3:26.57, 8 Nigeria (Omolara Omotosho, Muizat Ajoke Odumosu, Margaret Etim, Bukola Abogunloko) 3:29.82
High Jump Final 1 Anna Chicherova (Rus) 2.03m, 2 Blanka Vlasic (Cro) 2.03, 3 Antonietta Di Martino (Ita) 2, 4 Elena Slesarenko (Rus) 1.97, 5 Svetlana Shkolina (Rus) 1.97, 6 Xingjuan Zheng (Chn) 1.93, 6 Deirdre Ryan (Irl) 1.93, 8 Doreen Amata (Ngr) 1.93, 8 Svetlana Radzivil (Uzb) 1.93, 10 Brigetta Barrett (USA) 1.93, 11 Emma Green Tregaro (Swe) 1.89, 12 Anna Iljustsenko (Est) 1.89
GOLF
Omega European Collated third-round scores and totals, Crans-sur-Sierre, Crans Montana, Switzerland(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 71):
199 Jamie Donaldson 68 66 65 200 Lee Westwood 67 69 64 201 Rory McIlroy 65 69 67 202 Gary Boyd 65 69 68, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 68 68 66 203 Stephen Gallacher 70 66 67, Soren Hansen (Den) 71 66 66, Keith Horne (Rsa) 71 67 65, Danny Willett 71 64 68, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 65 70 68, Damian Ulrich (Swi) 69 67 67