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Headlines (18 August) :
O'Neill optimistic over Young deal
Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill is hoping winger
Ashley Young will follow Gabriel Agbonlahor and John Carew in signing
a new contract with the midlands club.
Patel handed England debut
All-rounder Samit Patel was handed his debut as
England made changes for the inaugural one-day international against
Scotland at the Grange.
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.
Ferguson content to buy or not to buy
Sir Alex Ferguson has insisted he is prepared to go
through the new season with his current squad of Manchester United players.
Nadal is number one
Rafael Nadal has been confirmed as the new world
number one, knocking Roger Federer off top spot for the first time in
237 weeks.
Brits qualify for triple jump final
Phillips Idowu justified his position as gold-medal
favourite in the triple jump with a brilliant performance to qualify
easily for Thursday's final.
Berbatov wants dream move
Dimitar Berbatov's position at Tottenham looks
increasingly untenable after he asked to be given the chance to
"follow my dream".
Lampard: Blues will only get better
Frank Lampard insists there is more to come from
Chelsea this season following Sunday's victory over Portsmouth that
got Luiz Felipe Scolari's reign off to a flying start.
Silver for 470 duo
Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield overcame a poor start to
win the silver medal in the men's 470 class after finishing third in
the medal race at the Olympic sailing regatta on Monday.
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. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 17 August 2008
OLYMPIC GAMES BEIJING
Artistic Gymnastics
Men's Floor Exercise Final:
1 Zou Kai (Chn) 16.050 pts, 2 Gervasio Deferp (Spa)
15.775, 3 Anton Golotsutskov (Rus) 15.725, 4 Fabian Hambuechen (Ger)
15.650 5 Kohei Uchimura (Jpn) 15.575, 6 Diego Hypolito (Bra) 15.200,
7 Marian Dragulescu (Rom) 14.850, 8 Alexandr Shatilov (Isr) 14.125
Pommel Horse Final: 1 Xiao Qin (Chn) 15.875 pts, 2
Filip Ude (Cro) 15.725, 3 Louis Smith (Gbr) 15.725,
4 Wei Yang (Chn) 15.450, 5 Hiroyuki Tomita (Jpn) 15.375, 6 Jihoon
Kim (Kor) 15.175, 7 Alexander Artemev (USA) 14.975, 8 Jose Luis
Fuentes Bustamante (Ven) 14.650
Women's Floor Exercise Final:
1 Sandra Izbasa (Rom) 15.650 pts, 2 Shawn Johnson
(USA) 15.500, 3 Nastia Liukin (USA) 15.425, 4 Yuyuan Jiang (Chn)
15.350, 5 Ekaterina Kramarenko (Rus) 15.025, 6 Daiane Santos (Bra)
14.975, 7 Fei Cheng (Chn) 14.550, 8 Anna Pavlova (Rus) 14.125
Vault Final: 1 Un Jong Hong (Kor) 15.650pts, 2 Oksana
Chusovitina (Ger) 15.575, 3 Fei Cheng (Chn) 15.562, 4 Alicia
Sacramone (USA) 15.537, 5 Ariella Kaslin (Swi) 15.050, 6 Carlotta
Giovannini (Ita) 14.550, 7 Jade Barbosa (Bra) 14.487, 8 Anna Pavlova
(Rus) 15.625
Badminton
Men's Singles Gold Medal
Match 1: Lin Dan (Chn) bt Chong Wei Lee (Mal) 2-0
(21-12 21-8)
Mixed Doubles Gold Medal
Match 1: Lee & Lee (Kor) bt Liliyana &
Widianto (Ina) 2-0 (21-11 21-17)
Doubles Bronze Medal
Match 2: He & Yu (Chn) bt Limpele & Marissa
(Ina) 2-1 (19-21 21-17 23-21)
Fencing
Men's Team Sabre Gold Medal
Match 1: France bt United States 45 pts-37 pts
Team Sabre Bronze Medal Match 2: Italy bt Russian
Feder 45 pts-44 pts
Sailing
Yngling Keelboat Final:
1 Gr Britain 24.0 pts,
2 Netherlands 31.0 pts, 3 Greece 48.0 pts, 4 Germany 56.0 pts, 5
France 56.0 pts, 6 Russian Feder 56.0 pts, 7 United States 61.0 pts,
8 China 63.0 pts, 9 Norway 69.0 pts, 10 Australia 71.0 pts, 11
Finland 60.0 pts, 12 S Africa 63.0 pts, 13 Canada 66.0 pts, 14 Spain
67.0 pts, 15 Italy 74.0 pts
Mixed Finn Heavyweight Dinghy Medal Race:
1 Ben Ainslie (Gbr) 2 pts,
2 Jonas Hoegh-Christensen (Den) 4 pts, 3 Rafa Trujillo (Spa) 6 pts,
4 Guillaume Florent (Fra) 8 pts, 5 Rafal Szukiel (Pol) 10 pts, 6 Zach
Railey (USA) 12 pts, 7 Daniel Birgmark (Swe) 14 pts, 8 Christopher
Cook (Can) 16 pts, 9 Ivan Kljakovic-Gaspic (Cro) 18 pts, 10 Gasper
Vincec (Slo) 20 pts
Athletics
10,000m Final: 1 Kenenisa Bekele (Eth) 27:01.17, 2
Sileshi Sihine (Eth) 27:02.77, 3 Micah Kogo (Ken) 27:04.11, 4 Moses
Ndiema Masai (Ken) 27:04.11, 5 Zersenay Tadese (Eri) 27:05.11, 6
Haile Gebrselassie (Eth) 27:06.68, 7 Martin Irungu Mathathi (Ken)
27:08.25, 8 Ahmad Hassan Abdullah (Qat) 27:23.75, 9 Fabiano Joseph
Naasi (Tan) 27:25.33, 10 Boniface Kiprop Toroitich (Uga) 27:27.28,
Hammer Throw Final: 1 Primoz Kozmus (Slo) 82.02m, 2
Vadim Devyatovskiy (Blr) 81.61m, 3 Ivan Tsikhan (Blr) 81.51m, 4
Krisztian Pars (Hun) 80.96m, 5 Koji Murofushi (Jpn) 80.71m, 6
Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (Fin) 79.59m, 7 Szymon Ziolkowski (Pol)
79.22m, 8 Libor Charfreitag (Svk) 78.65m, 9 Markus Esser (Ger)
77.10m, 10 Andras Haklits (Cro) 76.58m, 11 Dilshod Nazarov (Taj)
76.54m, 12 James Steacy (Can) 75.72m
Women's 100m Final:
1 Shelly-ann Fraser (Jam) 10.78, 2 Kerron Stewart
(Jam) 10.98, 2 Sherone Simpson (Jam) 10.98, 4 Lauryn Williams (USA)
11.03, 5 Muna Lee (USA) 11.07, 6 Jeanette Kwakye (Gbr) 11.14, 7
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (Bah) 11.19, 8 Torri Edwards (USA) 11.20
Marathon: 1 Constantina Tomescu (Rom) 2h26:44, 2
Catherine Ndereba (Ken) 2h27:06, 3 Zhou Chunxiu (Chn) 2h27:07, 4 Zhu
Xiaolin (Chn) 2h27:16, 5 Martha Komu (Ken) 2h27:23, 6 Mara Yamauchi
(Gbr) 2h27:29, 7 Irina Timofeeva (Rus) 2h27:31, 8 Lidia Elena Simon
(Rom) 2h27:51, 9 Souad Ait Salem (Alg) 2h28:29, 10 Salina Kosgei
(Ken) 2h29:28, 11 Zivile Balciunaite (Lit) 2h29:33, 12 Kum Ok Kim
(Prk) 2h30:01, 13 Yurika Nakamura (Jpn) 2h30:19, 14 Anna Incerti
(Ita) 2h30:55, 15 Dire Tune (Eth) 2h31:16, 16 Nina Rillstone (Nzl)
2h31:16, 17 Bruna Genovese (Ita) 2h31:31, 18 Luminita Talpos (Rom)
2h31:41, 19 Madai Perez (Mex) 2h31:47, 20 Christelle Daunay (Fra)
2h31:48, 21 Benita Johnson (Aus) 2h32:06, 22 Svetlana Zakharova (Rus)
2h32:16, 23 Paula Radcliffe (Gbr) 2h32:38, 24
Vault Final: 1 Un Jong Hong (Prk) 15.650 pts, 2 Oksana
Chusovitina (Ger) 15.575 pts, 3 Cheng Fei (Chn) 15.562 pts, 4 Alicia
Sacramone (USA) 15.537 pts, 5 Ariella Kaslin (Swi) 15.050 pts, 6
Carlotta Giovannini (Ita) 14.550 pts, 7 Jade Barbosa (Bra) 14.487
pts, 8 Anna Pavlova (Rus) 7.812 pts
Triple Jump Final: 1 Francoise Mbango Etone (Cmr)
15.39 (Wind speed: +0.5)m, 2 Tatyana Lebedeva (Rus) 15.32 (Wind
speed: +0.5)m, 3 Hrysopiyi Devetzi (Gre) 15.23 (Wind speed: +1.6)m, 4
Olga Rypakova (Kaz) 15.11 (Wind speed: +0.3)m, 5 Yargelis Savigne
(Cub) 15.05 (Wind speed: +0.1)m, 6 Marija Sestak (Slo) 15.03 (Wind
speed: +1.1)m, 7 Victoria Gurova (Rus) 14.77 (Wind speed: +1.1)m, 8
Anna Pyatykh (Rus) 14.73 (Wind speed: -0.2)m, 9 Olga Saladukha (Ukr)
14.70 (Wind speed: +1.2)m, 10 Kaire Leibak (Est) 14.13 (Wind speed:
+0.8)m, 11 Tricia-Kaye Smith (Jam) 14.12 (Wind speed: +0.5)m, 12 Xie
Limei (Chn) 14.09 (Wind speed: +0.8)m
Cycling
Individual Pursuit Finals:
Heat 1: Rebecca Romero (Gbr) bt
Wendy Houvenaghel (Gbr) 3:28.321-3:30.395 Heat 2: Lesya
Kalitovska (Ukr) bt Alison Shanks (Nzl) 3:31.413-3:34.156
Rowing
Men's Leightweight Double Sculls Final A:
1 Gr Britain 6:10.99, 2 Greece 6:11.72,
3 Denmark 6:12.45, 4 Italy 6:16.15, 5 China 6:16.69, 6 Cuba 6:19.96
Quadruple Sculls Final A:
1 Poland 5:41.33, 2 Italy 5:43.57, 3 France 5:44.34, 4
Australia 5:44.68, 5 United States 5:47.64, 6 Germany 5:50.96
Lightweight Four Final A:
1 Denmark 5:47.76, 2 Poland 5:49.39, 3 Canada 5:50.09,
4 France 5:51.22, 5 Great Britain 5:52.12, 6 Netherlands 5:54.06
Eight Final A: 1 Canada 5:23.89, 2
Gr Britain 5:25.11, 3 United States 5:25.34, 4
Netherlands 5:29.26, 5 Poland 5:31.42, 6 Australia 5:35.10
Women's Lightweight Double Sculls Final A:
1 Netherlands 6:54.74, 2 Finland 6:56.03, 3 Canada
6:56.68, 4 Germany 6:56.72, 5 China 7:01.90, 6 Greece 7:04.61
Quadruple Sculls Final A:
1 China 6:16.06, 2 Gr Britain 6:17.37,
3 Germany 6:19.56, 4 Ukraine 6:20.02, 5 United States 6:25.86, 6
Australia 6:30.05
Eight Final A:
1 United States 6:05.34, 2 Netherlands 6:07.22, 3
Romania 6:07.25, 4 Canada 6:08.04, 5 Gr Britain 6:13.74, 6 Australia 6:14.22
Shooting
Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Final:
1 Qiu Jian (Chn) 1272.5 pts, 2 Jury Sukhorukov (Ukr)
1272.4 pts, 3 Rajmond Debevec (Slo) 1271.7 pts, 4 Matthew Emmons
(USA) 1270.3 pts, 5 Thomas Farnik (Aut) 1268.9 pts, 6 Mario Knoegler
(Aut) 1268.4 pts, 7 Valerian Sauveplane (Fra) 1267.1 pts, 8 Vebjoern
Berg (Nor) 1266.5 pts,
Swimming
Men's 1500m Freestyle Final:
1 Oussama Mellouli (Tun) 14:40.84, 2 Grant Hackett
(Aus) 14:41.53, 3 Ryan Cochrane (Can) 14:42.69, 4 Yuriy Prilukov
(Rus) 14:43.21, 5 Larsen Jensen (USA) 14:48.16, 6 David Davies (Gbr)
14:52.11, 7 Zhang Lin (Chn) 14:55.20, 8 Sun Yang (Chn) 15:05.12
4 x 100m Medley Relay Final:
1 United States 3:29.34, 2 Australia 3:30.04, 3 Japan
3:31.18, 4 Russian Feder 3:31.92, 5 New Zealand 3:33.39, 6 Gr Britain
3:33.69, 7 S Africa 3:33.70 Italy DQ
Women's 50m Freestyle Final:
1 Britta Steffen (Ger) 24.06, 2 Dara Torres (USA)
24.07, 3 Cate Campbell (Aus) 24.17, 4 Lisbeth Trickett (Aus) 24.25, 5
Marleen Veldhuis (Ned) 24.26, 6 Kara Lynn Joyce (USA) 24.63, 7
Hinkelien Schreuder (Ned) 24.65, 8 Aleksandra Gerasimenya (Blr) 24.77
4 x 100m Medley Relay Final:
1 Australia 3:52.69, 2 United States 3:53.30, 3 China
3:56.11, 4 Gr Britain 3:57.50, 5 Russian Feder 3:57.84, 6 Japan
3:59.54, 7 Canada 4:01.35
FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Aston Villa 4 Man City 2 Chelsea 4 Portsmouth 0 Man
Utd 1 Newcastle 1
Scottish Premier
Dundee Utd 1 Celtic 1
Blue Square Premier
Rushden & D'monds 1 Wrexham 1
GOLF
Collated final round scores & totals in the USPGA
Tour Wyndham Championship, Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro,
United States of America(USA unless stated, par 70):
259 Carl Pettersson (Swe) 64 61 66 68 261 Scott
McCarron 65 64 64 68 263 Rich Beem 70 67 63 63 264 J J Henry 70 66 66
62, Martin Laird (Sco) 63 74 64 63 265 John Senden (Aus) 66 66 67 66,
Tim Clark (Rsa) 64 67 68 66, Kevin Streelman 66 64 67 68 266 Jerry
Kelly 66 65 68 67, Michael Letzig 67 66 67 66, Briny Baird 67 68 62
69, Bob Sowards 65 66 68 67, Shane Bertsch 67 68 67 64, Mark Wilson
68 67 67 64 267 Vaughn Taylor 67 67 66 67, Justin Bolli 68 66 68 65,
Scott Sterling 64 71 64 68, Lee Janzen 67 66 67 67, Garrett Willis 64
64 69 70
SAS Masters
Collated final round scores from the European Tour's
SAS Masters at Arlandastad GC near Stockholm, Sweden (Gbr & Irl
unless stated, par 70):
271 Peter Hanson (Swe) 66 66 68 71 272 Nick Dougherty
66 66 70 70, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 69 67 66 70 273 Gary Orr 67 68 67 71,
Sam Walker 72 68 64 69, Paul Broadhurst 67 68 70 68 274 Soren
Kjeldsen (Den) 69 65 68 72 275 Daniel Chopra (Swe) 71 64 67 73, Jamie
Donaldson 68 68 71 68, Paul McGinley 69 70 67 69, Raphael Jacquelin
(Fra) 73 68 65 69, Bradley Dredge 71 69 66 69, Oliver Fisher 69 69 68 69
Vodafone Challenge
Collated final round scores & totals in the
European Challenge Tour Challenge, G&CC An der Elfrather Muhle,
Dusseldorf, Germany(Par 72)
272 Richie Ramsay (Sco) 65 70 69 68 273 George Murray
(Sco) 67 69 68 69, Stephan Gross Jr (Ger) 68 66 69 70 275 Lars
Brovold (Nor) 70 69 65 71 277 Jesus Maria Arruti (Spa) 69 69 71 68,
Chris Gane (Eng) 68 69 69 71 278 Jaakko Makitalo (Fin) 69 72 68 69,
Michiel Bothma (Rsa) 70 69 66 73, Branden Grace (Rsa) 71 69 69 69,
Paul Nilbrink (Nor) 70 71 69 68, Liam Bond (Wal) 72 71 66 69 279
Pablo Del Grosso (Arg) 69 74 66 70, Colm Moriarty (Irl) 69 71 70 69,
Anthony Snobeck (Fra) 69 68 69 73 |
