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Headlines (20 August) :
Terry plays down ambition
John Terry has banished any talk of England going for
World Cup glory as he begins his second term as captain of the
national side.
Pakistan issue Champions Trophy threat
Pakistan will not participate in the Champions Trophy
if the tournament is moved to another country the Pakistan Cricket
Board have stated.
British duo claim open water medals
Britain made it five swimming medals in Beijing as
Keri-Anne Payne and Cassie Patten claimed silver and bronze in the
open water event.
Capello: Terry choice down to me
Fabio Capello has insisted the choice of John Terry as
England captain was his alone.
Reade bounces back from early fall
Olympic gold medal favourite Shanaze Reade survived an
injury scare in her first seeding race for the semi-finals of
Thursday's BMX.
Robinho's dream Chelsea move 'broken'
Robinho no longer has any chance of joining Chelsea
due to Real Madrid's refusal to even discuss a possible deal,
according to the Brazilian's advisor.
Bronze for windsurfer Shaw
Bryony Shaw secured Britain's fifth sailing medal of
the Beijing Olympic Games, coming home second in the RS:X women's
medal race to claim a bronze in Qingdao.
England game called off
England's Twenty20 international against South Africa
was called off 24 hours in advance following heavy rain at the
Chester-le-Street ground.
Brilliant Ohuruogu lands 400m gold
Christine Ohuruogu sank to her knees in disbelief on
Tuesday night after becoming the first British woman ever to win the
Olympic 400metres title.
Hoy celebrates gold hat-trick
Chris Hoy has become the first British athlete for 100
years to win three gold medals at a single Olympics with victory in
the men's individual sprint. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 19 August 2008
OLYMPIC GAMES BEIJING
Artistic Gymnastics
Horizontal Bar Final: 1 Zou Kai (Chn) 16.200 pts, 2
Jonathan Horton (USA) 16.175 pts, 3 Fabian Hambuechen (Ger) 15.875
pts, 4 Igor Cassina (Ita) 15.675 pts, 5 Takuya Nakase (Jpn) 15.450
pts, 6 Hiroyuki Tomita (Jpn) 15.225 pts, 7 Epke Zonderland (Ned)
15.000 pts, 8 Yann Cucherat (Fra) 14.825 pts
Women's Beam Final: 1 Shawn Johnson (USA) 16.225 pts,
2 Nastia Liukin (USA) 16.025 pts, 3 Cheng Fei (Chn) 15.950 pts, 4
Anna Pavlova (Rus) 15.900 pts, 5 Gabriela Dragoi (Rom) 15.625 pts, 6
Li Shanshan (Chn) 15.300 pts, 7 Ksenia Afanasyeva (Rus) 14.825 pts, 8
Koko Tsurumi (Jpn) 14.450 pts
Sailing
Mixed 49er Skiff
Final: 1 Denmark 61.0 pts, 2 Spain 64.0 pts, 3 Germany
66.0 pts, 4 Italy 66.0 pts, 5 Australia 73.0 pts, 6 United States
89.0 pts, 7 Brazil 99.0 pts, 8 Austria 99.0 pts, 9 Gr Britain 100.0
pts, 10 France 109.0 pts, 11 Portugal 100.0 pts, 12 Japan 103.0 pts,
13 Norway 128.0 pts, 14 Canada 134.0 pts, 15 Ukraine 139.0 pts, 16
Poland 147.0 pts, 17 Croatia 158.0 pts, 18 Sweden 163.0 pts, 19 China
176.0 pts
Triathlon
Women's Final:
1 Emma Snowsill (Aus) 1h58:27.66, 2 Vanessa Fernandes
(Por) 1h59:34.63, 3 Emma Moffatt (Aus) 1h59:55.84, 4 Laura Bennett
(USA) 2h00:21.54, 5 Juri Ide (Jpn) 2h00:23.77, 6 Nicola Spirig (Swi)
2h00:30.48, 7 Daniela Ryf (Swi) 2h00:40.20, 8 Andrea Hewitt (Nzl)
2h00:45.99, 9 Kiyomi Niwata (Jpn) 2h00:51.85, 10 Debbie Tanner (Nzl) 2h01:06.92,
Athletics
1500m Final: 1 Rashid Ramzi (Brn) 3:32.94, 2 Asbel
Kipruto Kiprop (Ken) 3:33.11, 3 Nicholas Willis (Nzl) 3:34.16, 4
Mehdi Baala (Fra) 3:34.21, 5 Juan Carlos Higuero (Spa) 3:34.44, 6
Abdalaati Iguider (Mor) 3:34.66, 7 Juan van Deventer (Rsa) 3:34.77, 8
Belal Mansoor Ali (Brn) 3:35.23, 9 Andy Baddeley (Gbr) 3:35.37, 10
Augustine Kiprono Choge (Ken) 3:35.50, 11 Daham Naim Bashir (Qat)
3:37.68, 12 Christian Obrist (Ita) 3:39.87
High Jump Final:
1 Andrey Silnov (Rus) 2.36m, 2
Germaine Mason (Gbr) 2.34m, 3 Yaroslav Rybakov (Rus)
2.34m, 4 Stefan Holm (Swe) 2.32m, 5 Raul-Roland Spank (Ger) 2.32m, 6
Jaroslav Baba (Cze) 2.29m, 7 Tomas Janku (Cze) 2.29m, 8 Tom Parsons
(Gbr) 2.25m, 9 Martyn Bernard (Gbr) 2.25m, 10 Jesse de Lima (Bra)
2.20m, 10 Filippo Campioli (Ita) 2.20m, 12 Rozle Prezelj (Slo) 2.20m
Discus Throw Final: 1 Gerd Kanter (Est) 68.82m, 2
Piotr Malachowski (Pol) 67.82m, 3 Virgilijus Alekna (Lit) 67.79m, 4
Robert Harting (Ger) 67.09m, 5 Yennifer Frank Casanas (Spa) 66.49m, 6
Bogdan Pishchalnikov (Rus) 65.88m, 7 Rutger Smith (Ned) 65.39m, 8
Robert Fazekas (Hun) 63.43m, 9 Mario Pestano (Spa) 63.42m, 10 Rashid
Shafi Al-Dosari (Qat) 62.55m, 11 Frantz Kruger (Fin) 61.98m, 12
Aleksander Tammert (Est) 61.38m
Women's 100m Hurdles Final:
1 Dawn Harper (USA) 12.54, 2 Sally Mclellan (Aus)
12.64, 3 Priscilla Lopes-Schliep (Can) 12.64, 4 Damu Cherry (USA)
12.65, 5 Delloreen Ennis-London (Jam) 12.65, 6 Bridgitte
Foster-Hylton (Jam) 12.66, 7 Lolo Jones (USA) 12.72, 8 Sarah Claxton
(Gbr) 12.94
400m Final: 1 Christine Ohuruogu
(Gbr) 49.62, 2 Shericka Williams (Jam) 49.69, 3 Sanya
Richards (USA) 49.93, 4 Yulia Gushchina (Rus) 50.01, 5 Anastasia
Kapachinskaya (Rus) 50.03, 6 Tatiana Firova (Rus) 50.11, 7 Rosemarie
Whyte (Jam) 50.68, 8 Amantle Montsho (Bot) 51.18
Cycling - Track
Men's Sprint Finals:
Match 1Heat 1: Chris Hoy (Gbr)
10.228 Jason Kenny (Gbr) Match 1Heat 2: Mickael Bourgain
(Fra) time-11.047 Maximilian Levy (Ger)
Madison: 1 Argentina +8, 2 Spain +7, 3 Russian Feder
+6, 4 Belgium +17, 5 Germany +15, 6 Denmark +14, 7 France +12, 8
Netherlands +6, 9 Gr Britain +6, 10 New Zealand +5, 11 Switzerland
+3, 12 Canada +5, 13 Czech Republic +3, 14 Italy 0, 15 Ukraine 0, 16
United States +3
Women's Sprint Finals:
Match 1Heat 1: Victoria Pendleton (Gbr)11.363
Anna Meares (Aus) Match 1Heat 2: Guo Shuang (Chn) 11.420 Willy Kanis (Ned)
Gymnastics-Trampoline
Men's Final:
1 Lu Chunlong (Chn) 41.00 pts, 2 Jason Burnett (Can)
40.70 pts, 3 Dong Dong (Chn) 40.60 pts, 4 Tetsuya Sotomura (Jpn)
39.80 pts, 5 Yuriy Nikitin (Ukr) 39.80 pts, 6 Dmitry Ushakov (Rus)
38.80 pts, 7 Alexander Rusakov (Rus) 38.50 pts, 8 Mikalai Kazak (Blr)
38.10 pts
FOOTBALL
International
Australia 2 South Africa 2
European Under-21 Championship Qualifying Group Four
Kazakhstan U21 3 Poland U21 0
Group Eight
Hungary U21 5 San Marino U21 0
Group Nine
Moldova U21 1 Germany U21 0
Under-21 International Austria U21 1 Rep of Ireland
U21 1 England U21 2 Slovenia U21 1
TENNIS
ATP & WTA Pilot Pen Tennis, New Haven,
Connecticut, United States of America
Men's 2nd rd:
Ivo Minar (Cze) bt (15) Eduardo Schwank (Arg) 7-5 6-3
Robby Ginepri (USA) bt (12) Agustin Calleri (Arg) 6-2 4-6 6-2 Mischa
Zverev (Ger) bt (5) Juan Monaco (Arg) 6-3 6-3 (3) Jesse Levine (USA)
bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa) 6-0 6-3 Steve Darcis (Bel) bt (13)
Marcel Granollers-Pujol (Spa) 6-2 6-2 (9) Marc Gicquel (Fra) bt
Albert Montanes (Spa) 7-5 6-3 (8) Mardy Fish (USA) bt Wayne Odesnik
(USA) 6-1 4-6 6-1 (6) Marin Cilic (Cro) bt Viktor Troicki (Ser) 2-1
ret (11) Jurgen Melzer (Aut) bt Arnaud Clement (Fra) 7-6 (7-1) 7-5
(16) Victor Hanescu (Rom) bt Denis Gremelmayr (Ger) 6-7 (5-7) 7-6
(7-3) 6-2, (4) Igor Andreev (Rus) bt Olivier Rochus (Bel) 6-3 6-4 (7)
Andreas Seppi (Ita) bt Potito Starace (Ita) 4-6 6-4 6-4 Fabio Fognini
(Ita) bt (10) Simone Bolelli (Ita) 6-2 5-7 6-4 Luka Gregorc (Slo) bt
(14) Jose Acasuso (Arg) 6-4 6-4 (2) Ivo Karlovic (Cro) bt John Isner
(USA) 6-7 (4-7) 6-3 6-4
Women's 1st rd:
(6) Flavia Pennetta (Ita) bt Gisela Dulko (Arg) 6-3
6-1 Amelie Mauresmo (Fra) bt Kaia Kanepi (Est) 6-2 6-7 (3-7) 6-2
Monica Niculescu (Rom) bt Maria Kirilenko (Rus) 6-7 (7-9) 6-2 6-1
Women's 2nd rd:
(4) Agnes Szavay (Hun) bt Sara Errani (Ita) 6-4 6-7
(3-7) 6-4 (3) Marion Bartoli (Fra) bt Tsvetana Pironkova (Bul) 2-6
6-4 7-5
WTA Forest Hills Classic
1st rd:
Martina Muller (Ger) bt Petra Cetkovska (Cze) 6-2 6-3
Vera Dushevina (Rus) bt Sofia Arvidsson (Swe) 6-2 6-2 (3) Iveta
Benesova (Cze) bt Elena Vesnina (Rus) 6-1 6-7 (5-7) 7-5 Ekaterina
Makarova (Rus) bt Gail Brodsky (USA) 7-5 6-2 |
