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Headlines (17 August) :
Yngling trio bag gold
Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson claimed a
gold medal for Britain with victory in the Yngling medal race at the
Olympic sailing regatta on Sunday.
More gold for rowers
Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase won Great Britain's
second rowing gold medal of the Olympic Games with victory in the
lightweight men's double sculls.
Romero claims pursuit win
Rebecca Romero won Olympic cycling gold in the women's
pursuit at the Laoshan Velodrome, beating fellow Briton Wendy
Houvenaghel in the final.
Radcliffe satisfied to complete course
Paula Radcliffe insisted she would have walked all the
way to the marathon finish line if necessary after her quest for an
elusive Olympic medal ended once more in pain and tears.
Ainslie strikes gold again
Ben Ainslie clinched a gold medal for the third
consecutive Games on Sunday after winning the Finn medal race at the
Olympic sailing regatta.
Benitez committed to Reds '100%'
Rafael Benitez has distanced himself from claims that
he has been close to resigning as Liverpool manager - and once again
made it clear to his club's power brokers why Gareth Barry was his
principal summer transfer target.
Phelps surpasses Spitz record
Michael Phelps' quest for swimming immortality became
a reality on Sunday morning as the United States' 4x100m medley relay
team handed him his historic eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games.
Heskey in as Crouch misses out
Emile Heskey has earned an England recall from Fabio
Capello but there is no place for Peter Crouch in the squad to face
the Czech Republic on Wednesday.
Brown hails Tigers' feat
Hull manager Phil Brown hailed the spirit of his side
after they came from behind to claim a gutsy Premier League
opening-day win over Fulham.
Dragons edge past battling Giants
Catalans Dragons clinched a home tie in the engage
Super League play-offs, by coming from behind to secure a 22-20
victory in front of a bumper crowd of 12,127 at Huddersfield. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 18 August 2008
OLYMPIC GAMES BEIJING
Athletics
Men's 100m Final: 1 Usain Bolt
(Jam) 9.69 WR, 2 Richard Thompson (Tri) 9.89, 3 Walter Dix
(USA) 9.91, 4 Churandy Martina (Aho) 9.93, 5 Asafa Powell (Jam) 9.95,
6 Michael Frater (Jam) 9.97, 7 Marc Burns (Tri) 10.01, 8 Darvis
Patton (USA) 10.03
Shot Put Final: 1 Valerie Vili (Nzl) 20.56m, 2
Natallia Mikhnevich (Blr) 20.28m, 3 Nadzeya Ostapchuk (Blr) 19.86m, 4
Misleydis Gonzalez (Cub) 19.50m, 5 Gong Lijiao (Chn) 19.20m, 6 Anna
Omarova (Rus) 19.08m, 7 Nadine Kleinert (Ger) 19.01m, 8 Li Meiju
(Chn) 19.00m, 9 Olga Ivanova (Rus) 18.44m, 10 Mailin Vargas (Cub)
18.28m, 11 Christina Schwanitz (Ger) 18.27m, 12 Jillian Camarena
(USA) 18.24m, 13 Chiara Rosa (Ita) 18.22m, 14 Li Ling (Chn) 17.94m,
15 Michelle Carter (USA) 17.74m
Heptahlon
Overall Ranking: 1 Nataliia Dobrynska (Ukr) 6733 pts,
2 Lyudmila Blonska (Ukr) 6700 pts, 3 Hyleas Fountain (USA) 6619 pts,
4 Tatiana Chernova (Rus) 6591 pts, 5 Kelly Sotherton (Gbr) 6517 pts,
6 Jessica Zelinka (Can) 6490 pts, 7 Anna Bogdanova (Rus) 6465 pts, 8
Karolina Tyminska (Pol) 6428 pts, 9 Lilli Schwarzkopf (Ger) 6379 pts,
10 Jolanda Keizer (Ned) 6370 pts,
Cycling
Men's Individual Pursuit Final: 1
Bradley Wiggins (Gbr), 2 Hayden Roulston (Nzl), 3
Steven Burke (Gbr), 4 Alexei Markov (Rus), 5 Volodymyr
Dyudya (Ukr), 6 Antonio Tauler (Spa), 7 Taylor Phinney (USA), 8
Alexander Serov (Rus), 9 Bradley Mcgee (Aus), 10 Sergi Escobar (Spa),
11 David O'loughlin (Irl), 12 Brett Lancaster (Aus), 13 Jens Mouris
(Ned), 14 Vitaliy Popkov (Ukr), 15 Fabien Sanchez (Fra), 16 Carlos
Alzate (Col), 17 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mol), 18 Jenning
Keirin Final: 1 Chris Hoy (Gbr),
2 Ross Edgar (Gbr), 3 Kiyofumi Nagai (Jpn), 4 Shane Kelly
(Aus), 5 Carsten Bergemann (Ger), 6 Arnaud Tournant (Fra), 7 Gregory
Bauge (Fra), 8 Ryan Bayley (Aus), 9 Josiah Ng (Mal), 10 Mohd
Azizulhasni Awang (Mal), 11 Kamil Kuczynski (Pol), Theo Bos (Ned)
Fencing
Women's Team Foil Semi-final Summary:
Match 1: Russian Feder bt Italy 22 pts-21 pts Match 2:
United States bt Hungary 35 pts-33 pts
Team Foil Gold Medal
Match 1: Russian Feder bt United States 28 pts-11 pts
Team Foil Bronze Medal Match 2: Italy bt Hungary 32 pts-23 pts
Team Foil Final: 1 Russian Feder, 2 United States, 3
Italy, 4 Hungary, 5 Germany, 6 China, 7 Poland, 8 Egypt
Rowing
Single sculls Final: 1 Olaf Tufte (Nor), 2 Ondrej
Synek (Cze), 3 Mahe Drysdale (Nzl), 4 Tim Maeyens (Bel), 5 Alan
Campbell (Gbr), 6 Lassi Karonen (Swe), 7 Marcel Hacker (Ger), 8
Mindaugas Griskonis (Lit), 9 Andre Vonarburg (Swi), 10 Ioannis
Christou (Gre), 11 Ken Jurkowski (USA), 12 Peter Hardcastle (Aus),
Double Sculls Final: 1 Australia, 2 Estonia, 3
Gr Britain, 4 New Zealand, 5 France, 6 Slovenia, 7
Belarus, 8 Belgium, 9 Germany, 10 Bulgaria, 11 Russian
Four Final Summary: Heat 1: 1 Gr
Britain 6:06.57, 2 Australia 6:07.85, 3 France 6:09.31, 4
Slovenia 6:11.62, 5 Czech Republic 6:16.56, 6 Germany 6:19.63
Lightweight Double Sculls Final B: 1 Denmark 7:06.94,
2 Australia 7:07.17, 3 Japan 7:08.49, 4 United States 7:09.02, 5 Gr
Britain 7:11.24, 6 Cuba 7:20.07
Shooting
Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Final:
1 Oleksandr Petriv (Ukr) 580 pts, 2 Ralf Schumann
(Ger) 579 pts, 3 Christian Reitz (Ger) 579 pts, 4 Leonid Ekimov (Rus)
581 pts, 5 Keith Sanderson (USA) 583 pts, 6 Roman Bondaruk (Ukr) 580
pts, 7 Leuris Pupo (Cub) 578 pts, 8 Alexei Klimov (Rus) 577 pts, 9
Iulian Raicea (Rom) 576 pts,
Swimming
Men's 50m Freestyle Final:
1 Cesar Cielo Filho (Bra) 21.30, 2 Amaury Leveaux
(Fra) 21.45, 3 Alain Bernard (Fra) 21.49, 4 Ashley Callus (Aus)
21.62, 5 Ben Wildman-Tobriner (USA) 21.64, 6 Eamon Sullivan (Aus)
21.65, 7 Roland Schoeman (Rsa) 21.67, 8 Stefan Nystrand (Swe) 21.72
200m Backstroke Final:
1 Kirsty Coventry (Zim) 2:05.24, 2 Margaret Hoelzer
(USA) 2:06.23, 3 Reiko Nakamura (Jpn) 2:07.13, 4 Anastasia Zueva
(Rus) 2:07.88, 5 Elizabeth Beisel (USA) 2:08.23, 6 Elizabeth Simmonds
(Gbr) 2:08.51, 7 Meagen Nay (Aus) 2:08.84, 8 Belinda Hocking (Aus) 2:10.12
800m Freestyle Final: 1 Rebecca
Adlington (Gbr) 8:14.10, 2 Alessia Filippi (Ita) 8:20.23,
3 Lotte Friis (Den) 8:23.03, 4 Camelia Alina Potec (Rom) 8:23.11, 5
Li Xuanxu (Chn) 8:26.34, 6 Kylie Palmer (Aus) 8:26.39, 7 Elena
Sokolova (Rus) 8:29.79, 8 Cassandra Patten (Gbr) 8:32.35
FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Arsenal 1 West Brom 0 Bolton 3 Stoke 1 Everton 2
Blackburn 3 Hull 2 Fulham 1 Middlesbrough 2 Tottenham 1 Sunderland 0
Liverpool 1 West Ham 2 Wigan 1 Scottish Premier
Hibernian 3 Falkirk 2 Inverness CT 0 Hamilton 1
Motherwell 0 Aberdeen 1 Rangers 2 Hearts 0 St Mirren 0 Kilmarnock 0
Coca-Cola Championship
Barnsley 1 Coventry 2 Bristol City 1 Derby 1 Burnley 0
Ipswich 3 Doncaster 1 Cardiff 1 Norwich 1 Blackpool 1 Preston 2
Crystal Palace 0 Reading 2 Plymouth 0 Sheff Utd 3 QPR 0 Southampton 1
Birmingham 2 Swansea 3 Nottm Forest 1 Watford 1 Charlton 0
Wolverhampton 4 Sheff Wed 1
TENNIS
ATP Legg Mason Tennis Classic Semi-final:
(2) Juan Martin Del Potro (Arg) bt (4) Tommy Haas
(Ger) 6-2 6-1Viktor Troicki (Ser) bt Igor Kunitsyn (Rus) 6-4 6-2
WTA W&S Financial Group Open Semi-final:
Nathalie Dechy (Fra) bt (5) Amelie Mauresmo (Fra) 6-4
3-6 6-2 (2) Nadia Petrova (Rus) bt (3) Maria Kirilenko (Rus) 1-6 6-2 |
