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Headlines (12 August) :
Spofforth so close to Olympic medal
Britain's Gemma Spofforth endured the agony of missing
out on a medal at the Beijing Olympic Games by just four-hundredths
of a second in the 100metres backstroke.
Injury blow for Pienaar
Everton winger Steven Pienaar has been ruled out for
up to seven weeks after breaking his toe.
Pietersen has Ashes win in his sights
Kevin Pietersen welcomed in his new England captaincy
era with a win and boldly predicted Ashes success with a repeat
performance next summer.
Phelps earns third gold
American Michael Phelps equalled the record for the
most Olympic gold medals in history by claiming his third gold medal
at the 2008 Games on Tuesday.
Thaksin committed to City vision
Thaksin Shinawatra remains committed to his
"10-year vision" for Manchester City, according to
executive chairman Garry Cook.
I wish I had more time - Radcliffe
Paula Radcliffe wishes she had more time to recover
from the thigh injury she suffered in May but has decided to
"give it a go" in Sunday's Beijing Olympics marathon.
Florence grabs silver
David Florence won silver for Britain after a perfect
run in the slalom canoeing final at the Shunyi white water park.
Cas swoop for Widders
Castleford have completed the signing of South Sydney
back-row forward Dean Widders.
Bent in Capello's thoughts
Fabio Capello is considering whether to offer
Tottenham striker Darren Bent an England recall.
Walcott will be world-class: Cole
Joe Cole has backed Theo Walcott to become a key man
for England - even though it could mean the Chelsea man drops out of
Fabio Capello's team. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 11 August 2008
OLYMPICS BEIJING
Archery
Men's Team Gold Medal Match:
Match 1: Korea bt Italy 227 pts-225 pts Team Bronze
Medal Match: Match 2: China bt Ukraine 222 pts-219 pts
Diving
Men's Synchronised 10m Platform Final:
1 China 468.18 pts, 2 Germany 450.42 pts, 3 Russian
Feder 445.26 pts, 4 Australia 444.84 pts, 5 United States 440.64 pts,
6 Colombia 423.66 pts, 7 Cuba 409.38 pts, 8 Gr Britain 408.48 pts
Swimming
100m Breaststroke Final:
1 Kosuke Kitajima (Jpn), 2 Alexander Dale Oen (Nor), 3
Hugues Duboscq (Fra)
4x100m Freestyle Relay Gold: United
States (Nathan Adrian, Matt Grevers, Cullen Jones, Jason Lezak,
Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Ben Wildman-Tobriner) WR Silver:
France (Alain Bernard, Frederick Bousquet, Fabien Gilot, Amaury
Leveaux, Gregory Mallet, Boris Steimetz) Bronze: Australia (Leith
Brodie, Ashley Callus, Andrew Lauterstein, Patrick Murphy, Eamon
Sullivan, Matt Targett)
100m Butterfly Final:
1 Lisbeth Trickett (Aus), 2 Christine Magnuson (USA),
3 Jessicah Schipper (Aus)
400m Freestyle Final:
1 Rebecca Adlington (Gbr),
2 Katie Hoff (USA), 3 Joanne Jackson (Gbr)
Judo
Men's 73 kg Gold Medal Contest:
Match 1: Elnur Mammadli (Aze) bt Kichun Wang (Kor)
Ippon (00:13) & Schnider (Swi) bt Klemperer & Koreng (Ger)
2-0 (21-15 21-15)
Shooting
Men's 10m Air Rifle Final:
1 Abhinav Bindra (Ind) 596 pts, 2 Zhu Qinan (Chn) 597
pts, 3 Henri Hakkinen (Fin) 598 pts, 4 Alin George Moldoveanu (Rom)
596 pts, 5 Konstantin Prikhodtchenko (Rus) 595 pts (10.0), 6 Peter
Sidi (Hun) 595 pts (9.1), 7 Stevan Pletikosic (SRB) 595 pts, 8
Serguei Kruglov (Rus) 595 pts, 9 Gagan Narang (Ind) 595 pts, 10
Thomas Farnik (Aut) 594 pts, 11 Oleksandr Lazeykin (Ukr) 594 pts, 12
Niccolo Campriani (Ita) 594 pts, 13 Vaclav Haman (Cze) 593 pts,
Women's Trap Final:
1 Satu Makela-Nummela (Fin) 91 pts, 2 Zuzana
Stefecekova (Svk) 89 pts, 3 Corey Cogdell (USA) 86 pts, 4 Yukie
Nakayama (Jpn) 86 pts, 5 Daina Gudzineviciute (Lit) 86 pts, 6 Elena
Struchaeva (Kaz) 86 pts, 7 Deborah Gelisio (Ita) 66 pts, 8 Susanne
Kiermayer (Ger) 65 pts, 9 Irina Laricheva (Rus) 64 pts, 10 Nadine
Stanton (Nzl) 63 pts, 11 Susan Nattrass (Can) 63 pts, 12 Liu Yingzi
(Chn) 63 pts, 13 Delphine Racinet (Fra) 62 pts, 14 Stacy Roiall (Aus)
62 pts, 15 Daniela Del Din (Smr) 62 pts, 16 Charlotte Kerwood (Gbr)
58 pts, 17 Diane Swanton (Rsa) 57 pts, 18 Yong Hui Pak (Prk) 56 pts,
19 Bo Na Lee (Kor) 55 pts, 20 Gaby Diana Ahrens (Nam) 52 pts
Weightlifting
Men's 62kg Final:
1 Zhang Xiangxiang (Chn), 2 Diego Salazar (Col), 3
Triyatno (Ina)
62kg After 1st group:
Heat B: 1 Mohamed Abd Elbaki (Egy) 288kg, 2
Sheng-Hsiung Yang (Tpe) 287kg, 3 Henadzi Makhveyenia (Blr) 278kg, 4
Manuel Minginfel (Fsm) 275kg, 5 Jasvir Singh (Can) 266kg Sardar
Hasanov (Aze) DNF
Women's 58kg Final:
1 Chen Yanqing (Chn), 2 Marina Shainova (Rus), 3 Jong
Ae O (Prk)
CRICKET
England v South Africa The Brit Oval Fourth npower
Test Match
England beat South Africa by 6 wkts.
GOLF
Lexus Open
Collated final-round scores (Par 72):
271 Jeppe Huldahl (Den) 66 68 68 69 273 Steven O'Hara
(Sco) 68 69 68 68 274 Richard Bland (Eng) 68 70 64 72, Alessandro
Tadini (Ita) 69 67 69 69 275 Jaakko Makitalo (Fin) 70 67 68 70 276
Johan Skold (Swe) 69 70 68 69, Peter Gustafsson (Swe) 68 68 73 67,
Gary Boyd (Eng) 69 70 71 66 278 George Murray (Sco) 69 68 72 69,
Gareth Shaw (NIrl) 68 71 67 72, Tiago Cruz (Por) 69 69 72 68, Paul
Nilbrink (Nor) 68 67 72 71, Mark Tullo (Chi) 67 70 69 72, Anders
Kristiansen (Nor) 66 71 70 71 279 Branden Grace (Rsa) 68 71 71 69,
Raphael De Sousa (Swi) 68 69 71 71, Adam Gee (Eng) 64 73 72 70 280
Benjamin Miarka (Ger) 70 67 72 71, Fredrik Henge (Swe) 68 69 71 72,
Matthew Bliss (Can) 69 68 70 73, Knut Borsheim (Nor) 71 68 70 71 |
