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Headlines (11 August) :
Equestrian team into bronze position
William Fox-Pitt rode fastest for Great Britain to
help move the team up to third in the rankings after the
cross-country section of eventing in Hong Kong.
Disappointment for Daley
Teenage diving sensation Tom Daley's much-hyped
Olympic debut ended in disappointment after he and partner Blake
Aldridge finished last in the men's synchronised 10metre platform event.
Adlington ends swimming gold drought
Rebecca Adlington became the first British woman to
win Olympic swimming gold for 48 years with a brilliant victory in
the 400 metres freestyle in Beijing on Monday.
Magnificent Harrington wins US PGA
Padraig Harrington broke a 78-year European jinx as he
won the 90th US PGA Championship at Oakland Hills to claim
back-to-back majors after a nerve-wracking duel with Sergio Garcia.
Broad plans to strike it big
Stuart Broad hopes his three-wicket haul in the final
Test against South Africa can help establish him as one of England's
front-line seamers in the future.
Cooke strikes gold for Britain
Nicole Cooke claimed Great Britain's first medal of
the Beijing Games with a brilliant gold in the women's cycling road race.
City owner misses court date
Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra has travelled
to England on the day he was due to make a court appearance in Thailand.
Dejected Morgan rules out play-offs
Hull KR coach Justin Morgan claimed he is no longer
worried about making the engage Super League play-offs after his side
went down 40-16 to Harlequins and is more concerned with the poor
performance his side put in on Sunday.
Kaboul to lift Pompey's spirits
Younes Kaboul has lifted some of the gloom over
Portsmouth's penalty shoot-out shambles at Wembley by agreeing a
four-year contract to sign from Tottenham.
Fergie thrilled with Tevez show
Sir Alex Ferguson claimed Carlos Tevez fully deserved
his Community Shield man-of-the-match prize - he is just sorry it was
not capped by a goal. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 10 August 2008
OLYMPICS - BEIJING
Archery
Women's Team Gold Medal
Match 1: Korea bt China 224 pts-215 pts Team Bronze
Medal Match 2: France bt Gr Britain 203 pts-201 pts Team Semi-final:
Match 1: Korea bt France 213 pts-184 pts Match 2: China bt Gr Britain
208 pts-202 pts
Cycling
Women's Road Race:
1 Nicole Cooke (Gbr) 3h32:24,
2 Emma Johansson (Swe) 3h32:24, 3 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) 3h32:24, 4
Christiane Soeder (Aut) 3h32:28, 5 Linda Melanie Villumsen Serup
(Den) 3h32:33, 6 Marianne Vos (Ned) 3h32:45, 7 Priska Doppmann (Swi)
3h32:45, 8 Paulina Brzezna (Pol) 3h32:45, 9 Edita Pucinskaite (Lit)
3h32:45, 10 Zulfiya Zabirova (Kaz) 3h32:45, 11 Jolanta Polikeviciute
(Lit) 3h32:45, 12 Yulia Martisova (Rus) 3h32:45, 13 Christel Ferrier
Bruneau (Fra) 3h32:45, 14 Maryline Salvetat (Fra) 3h32:45, 15 Noemi
Cantele (Ita) 3h32:45, 16 Gao Min (Chn) 3h32:52, 17 Leigh Hobson
(Can) 3h32:52, 18 Nicole Brandli (Swi) 3h32:52, 19 Anna Sanchis (Spa)
3h32:52, 20 Trixi Worrack (Ger) 3h32:52, 21 Susanne Ljungskog (Swe)
3h32:52, 22 Yevgeniya Vysotska (Ukr) 3h32:55, 23 Emma Pooley (Gbr)
3h32:55, 24 Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (Fra) 3h32:57, 25 Kristin
Armstrong (USA) 3h33:07, 26 Anita Valen de Vries (Nor) 3h33:17, 27
Modesta Vzesniauskaite (Lit) 3h33:17, 28 Joanne Kiesanowski (Nzl)
3h33:17, 29 Oenone Wood (Aus) 3h33:17, 30 Grete Treier (Est) 3h33:17,
31 Miho Oki (Jpn) 3h33:17, 32 Tatiana Stiajkina (Ukr) 3h33:17, 33
Amber Neben (USA) 3h33:17, 34 Marissa van der Merwe (Rsa) 3h33:17, 35
Sharon Laws (Gbr) 3h33:17, 36 Mirjam Melchers-van Poppel (Ned)
3h33:17, 37 Erinne Willock (Can) 3h33:23, 38 Sara Carrigan (Aus)
3h33:25, 39 Hanka Kupfernagel (Ger) 3h33:25, 40 Natalia Boyarskaya
(Rus) 3h33:45, 41 Judith Arndt (Ger) 3h33:51, 42 Oksana Kashchyshyna
(Ukr) 3h34:13, 43 Alexandra Burchenkova (Rus) 3h36:32, 44 Lieselot
Decroix (Bel) 3h36:35, 45 Alessandra Giusseppina Grassi (Mex)
3h36:35, 46 Monika Schachl (Aut) 3h36:37, 47 Chantal Beltman (Ned)
3h3 (Ger) bt Asahi & Shiratori (Jpn) 2-0 (21-18 21-18)
Fencing
Men's Individual Epee Gold Medal
Match 1: Matteo Tagliariol (Ita) bt Fabrice Jeannet
(Fra) 15 pts-9 pts Individual Epee Bronze Medal Match 2: Jose Luis
Abajo (Spa) bt Gabor Boczko (Hun) 8 pts-7 pts
Individual Epee Semi-finals
Semi-final 1: Matteo Tagliariol (Ita) bt Jose Luis
Abajo (Spa) 15 pts-12 pts Semi-final 2: Fabrice Jeannet (Fra) bt
Gabor Boczko (Hun) 15 pts-12 pts
Men's Individual Epee Gold Medal
Match 1: Matteo Tagliariol (Ita) bt Fabrice Jeannet
(Fra) 15 pts-9 pts Individual Epee Bronze Medal Match 2: Jose Luis
Abajo (Spa) bt Gabor Boczko (Hun) 8 pts-7 pts
Individual Epee Semi-finals
Semi-final 1: Matteo Tagliariol (Ita) bt Jose Luis
Abajo (Spa) 15 pts-12 pts Semi-final 2: Fabrice Jeannet (Fra) bt
Gabor Boczko (Hun) 15 pts-12 pts
Swimming
400m Individual Medley Final:
1 Michael Phelps (USA) 4:03.84 WR,
2 Laszlo Cseh (Hun) 4:06.16, 3 Ryan Lochte (USA) 4:08.09
400m Individual Medley Final:
1 Stephanie Rice (Aus) 4:29.45 WR,
2 Kirsty Coventry (Zim) 4:29.89, 3 Katie Hoff (USA) 4:37.71
Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final:
1 Netherlands, 2 United States, 3 Australia
Shooting
Trap Final:
1 David Kostelecky (Cze) 146 pts, 2 Giovanni Pellielo
(Ita) 143 pts, 3 Alexey Alipov (Rus) 142 pts, 4 Michael Diamond (Aus)
142 pts, 5 Josip Glasnovic (Cro) 140 pts, 6 Erminio Frasca (Ita) 140
pts, 7 Karsten Bindrich (Ger) 119 pts, 8 Mansher Singh (Ind) 117 pts,
9 Erik Varga (Svk) 117 pts, 10 Jesus Serrano (Spa) 116 pts, 11 Pavel
Gurkin (Rus) 116 pts, 12 Manavjit Singh Sandhu (Ind) 116 pts, 13
Glenn Kable (Fij) 115 pts, 14 Mario Filipovic (Svk) 115 pts, 15 Young
Sik Lee (Kor) 115 pts, 16 Li Yang (Chn) 115 pts, 17 Yves Tronc (Fra)
115 pts, 18 Naser Meqlad (Kuw) 115 pts, 19 Juan Carlos Dasque (Arg)
115 pts, 20 Graeme Ede (Nzl) 114 pts, 21 Li Yajun (Chn) 113 pts, 22
Bret Erickson (USA) 113 pts, 23 Dominic Grazioli (USA) 113 pts, 24
Stefan Ruettgeroth (Ger) 113 pts, 25 Stephane Clamens (Fra) 112 pts,
26 Giuseppe Di Salvatore (Can) 112 pts, 27 Manuel Silva (Por) 111
pts, 28 Wung Yew Lee (Sin) 110 pts, 29 Derek Burnett (Irl) 110 pts,
30 Ahmed Almaktoum (UAE) 110 pts, 31 Craig Henwood (Aus) 109 pts, 32
Adham Medhat (Egy) 108 pts, 33 Alberto Fernandez (Spa) 106 pts, 34
Cesar David Menacho Flores (Bol) 106 pts, 35 Eric Ang (Phi) 106 pts
Women's 10m Air Pistol Final:
1 Guo Wenjun (Chn) 390 pts, 2 Natalia Paderina (Rus)
391 pts, 3 Nino Salukvadze (Geo) 386 pts, 4 Viktoria Chaika (Blr) 384
pts, 5 Miroslawa Sagun Lewandowska (Pol) 384 pts, 6 Jasna Sekaric
(SRB) 384 pts, 7 Mira Nevansuu (Fin) 384 pts, 8 Munkzul Tsogbadrah
(Mgl) 387 pts, 9 Svetlana Smirnova (Rus) 383 pts, 10 Claudia
Verdicchio (Ger) 383 pts, 11 Maria Grozdeva (Bul) 382 pts, 12
Gundegmaa Otryad (Mgl) 382 pts, 13 Zauresh Baibussinova (Kaz) 382
pts, 14 Sonia Franquet (Spa) 382 pts, 15 Yong Suk Jo (Prk) 382 pts,
16 Yun Mi Gim (Kor) 382 pts, 17 Cornelia Froelich (Swi) 381 pts, 18
Lalita Yauhleuskaya (Aus) 381 pts, 19 Ren Jie (Chn) 381 pts
Weightlifting
Men's 56kg Final:
1 Long Qingquan (Chn), 2 Anh Tuan Hoang (Vie), 3 Eko
Yuli Irawan (Ina)
Women's 53kg Final:
1 Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon (Tha), 2 Jinhee
Yoon (Kor), 3 Nastassia Novikava (Blr)
FOOTBALL
Scottish Premier
Celtic 1 St Mirren 0
Coca-Cola Championship
Nottm Forest 0 Reading 0
FA Community Shield
Man Utd 0 Portsmouth 0
CRICKET
Sri Lanka v India Third Test Match at Colombo
Sri Lanka 396 all out 134.2 ovs 71 - 2 25.5 ovs India
249 all out 80 ovs 268 all out 87.5 ovs Sri Lanka need 51 more runs
to win.
England v South Africa Fourth npower Test Match at The
Brit Oval
England 316 all out 95.2 ovs 9 - 0 6.1 ovs South
Africa 194 all out 64.5 ovs 318 all out 99.2 ovs England need 188
more runs to win.
GOLF
USPGA
Collated fourth scores (USA unless stated, par 70):
277 Padraig Harrington (Ireland)
71 74 66 66 279 Sergio Garcia (Spain) 69 73 69 68, Ben
Curtis 73 67 68 71 281 Camilo Villegas (Colombia) 74 72 67 68, Henrik
Stenson (Sweden) 71 70 68 72 282 Steve Flesch 73 70 70 69 284 Phil
Mickelson 70 73 71 70, Andres Romero (Argentina) 69 78 65 72 285
Alastair Forsyth (Britain) 73 72 70 70, Justin Rose (Britain) 73 67
74 71, Jeev Milkha Singh (India) 68 74 70 73, Charlie Wi (South
Korea) 70 70 71 74 286 Ken Duke 69 73 73 71, Aaron Baddeley
(Australia) 71 71 71 73 287 Paul Casey (Britain) 72 74 72 69, Stuart
Appleby (Australia) 76 70 69 72, Prayad Marksaeng (Thailand) 76 70 68
73, Graeme McDowell (Britain) 74 72 68 73, David Toms 72 69 72 74 288
Brian Gay 70 74 72 72, Robert Karlsson (Sweden) 68 77 71 72, Angel
Cabrera (Argentina) 70 72 72 74, Boo Weekley 72 71 79 66 289 Brandt
Snedeker 71 71 74 73, Nicholas Thompson 71 72 73 73, Fredrik Jacobson
(Sweden) 75 71 70 73, Mark Brown (New Zealand) 77 69 74 69, Retief
Goosen (South Africa) 72 74 69 74
MOTOR CYCLING
British Superbikes, Knockhill
Leading positions after 1st Race: 1 Tom Sykes (Gbr)
Suzuki 25mins 09.296secs, 2 Shane Byrne (Gbr) Ducati 25:12.389, 3
James Ellison (Gbr) Honda 25:12.775, 4 Michael Rutter (Gbr) Ducati
25:15.048, 5 Leon Camier (Gbr) Ducati 25:18.641, 6 Michael Laverty
(Gbr) Suzuki 25:18.757, 7 Karl Harris (Gbr) Yamaha 25:28.347, 8 Simon
Andrews (Gbr) Yamaha 25:45.351, 9 Tristan Palmer (Gbr) Honda
25:48.393, 10 Gary Mason (Gbr) Honda 25:49.317
Leading positions after 2nd Race: 1 Leon Haslam (Gbr)
Honda 11mins 58.300secs, 2 Michael Rutter (Gbr) Ducati 12:01.514, 3
Karl Harris (Gbr) Yamaha 12:01.841, 4 Tom Sykes (Gbr) Suzuki
12:01.980, 5 James Ellison (Gbr) Honda 12:04.891, 6 Simon Andrews
(Gbr) Yamaha 12:14.176, 7 Cal Crutchlow (Gbr) Honda 12:14.839, 8 Leon
Camier (Gbr) Ducati 12:16.908, 9 Billy McConnell (Aus) Kawasaki
12:21.728, 10 Chris Burns (Gbr) MV Augusta 12:24.739
Driver Championship Standings: 1 Shane Byrne (Gbr)
Ducati 332pts, 2 Cal Crutchlow (Gbr) Honda 222, 3 Tom Sykes (Gbr)
Suzuki 214, 4 Leon Haslam (Gbr) Honda 199, 5 Leon Camier (Gbr) Ducati
179, 6 James Ellison (Gbr) Honda 177, 7 Michael Rutter (Gbr) Ducati
174, 8 Michael Laverty (Gbr) Suzuki 110, 9 Simon Andrews (Gbr) Yamaha
108, 10 Tristan Palmer (Gbr) Honda 75 |
