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International Results Roundup
Dateline 23 August 2008
OLYMPIC GAMES BEIJING
Athletics
Men's 800m Final:
1 Wilfred Bungei (Ken), 2 Ismail Ahmed Ismail (Sud)
1:44.70, 3 Alfred Kirwa Yego (Ken) 1:44.82, 4 Gary Reed (Can)
1:44.94, 5 Yusuf Saad Kamel (Brn) 1:44.95, 6 Yeimer Lopez (Cub)
1:45.88, 7 Nabil Madi (Alg) 1:45.96, 8 Nadjim Manseur (Alg) 1:47.19
5000m Final: 1 Kenenisa Bekele (Eth), 2 Eliud Kipchoge
(Ken), 3 Edwin Cheruiyot Soi (Ken), 4 Moses Ndiema Kipsiro (Uga)
13:10.56, 5 Abreham Cherkos (Eth) 13:16.46, 6 Tariku Bekele (Eth)
13:19.06, 7 Juan Luis Barrios (Mex) 13:19.79, 8 James Kwalia C'Kurui
(Qat) 13:23.48, 9 Bernard Lagat (USA) 13:26.89, 10 Kidane Tadesse
(Eri) 13:28.40, 11 Aelemayehu Bezabeh (Spa) 13:30.48, 12 Thomas
Pkemei Longosiwa (Ken) 13:31.34, 13 Matthew Tegenkamp (USA) 13:33.13,
14 Jesus Espana (Spa) 13:55.94 Alistair Cragg (Irl) DNF
4 x 400m Relay Final: 1 United States, 2 Bahamas, 3
Russian Feder, 4 Gr Britain 2:58.81, 5 Belgium 2:59.37, 6 Australia
3:00.02, 7 Poland 3:00.32, 8 Jamaica 3:01.45
Javelin Throw Final: 1 Andreas Thorkildsen (Nor), 2
Ainars Kovals (Lat), 3 Tero Pitkamaki (Fin), 4 Tero Jarvenpaa (Fin)
83.95m, 5 Teemu Wirkkala (Fin) 83.46m, 6 Jarrod Bannister (Aus)
83.45m, 7 Ilya Korotkov (Rus) 83.15m, 8 Uladzimir Kazlou (Blr)
82.06m, 9 Vadims Vasilevskis (Lat) 81.32m, 10 Scott Russell (Can)
80.90m, 11 Magnus Arvidsson (Swe) 80.16m, 12 Vitezslav Vesely (Cze) 76.76m
Women's 1500m Final: 1 Nancy Jebet Langat (Ken), 2
Iryna Lishchynska (Ukr), 3 Nataliya Tobias (Ukr), 4 Lisa Dobriskey
(Gbr) 4:02.10, 5 Maryam yusuf Jamal (Brn) 4:02.71, 6 Natalia
Rodriguez (Spa) 4:03.19, 7 Shannon Rowbury (USA) 4:03.58, 8 Iris
Fuentes-pila (Spa) 4:04.86, 9 Anna Mishchenko (Ukr) 4:05.13, 10 Siham
Hilali (Mor) 4:05.57, 11 Anna Alminova (Rus) 4:06.99, 12 Btissam
Lakhouad (Mor) 4:07.25
4 x 400m Relay Final: 1 United States, 2 Russian
Feder, 3 Jamaica, 4 Belarus 3:21.85, 5 Gr Britain 3:22.68, 6 Cuba
3:23.21, 7 Nigeria 3:23.74, 8 Germany 3:28.45
High Jump Final: 1 Tia Hellebaut (Bel), 2 Blanka
Vlasic (Cro), 3 Anna Chicherova (Rus), 4 Elena Slesarenko (Rus)
2.01m, 5 Vita Palamar (Ukr) 1.99m, 6 Chaunte Howard (USA) 1.99m, 7
Ariane Friedrich (Ger) 1.96m, 7 Ruth Beitia (Spa) 1.96m, 9 Emma Green
(Swe) 1.96m, 10 Antonietta di Martino (Ita) 1.93m, 10 Marina Aitova
(Kaz) 1.93m, 12 Iva Strakova (Cze) 1.93m, 12 Vita Styopina (Ukr)
1.93m, 14 Svetlana Shkolina (Rus) 1.93m, 15 Romana Dubnova (Cze) 1.89m
Basketball
Women's Gold Medal Match: USA bt Australia 92-65
Bronze Medal Match: Russian Feder bt China 94-81
Canoe/Kayak
Men's Canoe Single (C1) 500m Final: 1 Maxim Opalev
(Rus), 2 David Cal (Spa), 3 Iurii Cheban (Ukr), 4 Mathieu Goubel
(Fra) 1:49.056, 5 Aliaksandr Zhukovski (Blr) 1:49.092, 6 Li Qiang
(Chn) 1:49.287, 7 Florin Georgian Mironcic (Rom) 1:49.861, 8 Pawel
Baraszkiewicz (Pol) 1:50.048, 9 Attila Sandor Vajda (Hun) 1:50.156
Canoe Double (C2) 500m Final: 1 China, 2 Russian
Feder, 3 Germany, 4 Belarus 1:41.996, 5 Canada 1:42.450, 6 Romania
1:43.195, 7 Bulgaria 1:43.971, 8 Ukraine 1:44.157, 9 Poland 1:44.389
Kayak Single (K1) 500m Final: 1 Ken Wallace (Aus)
1:37.252, 2 Adam van Koeverden (Can) 1:37.630, 3
Tim Brabants (Gbr) 1:37.671, 4 Eirik Veraas Larsen (Nor)
1:37.949, 5 Anton Ryakhov (Rus) 1:38.187, 6 Akos Vereckei (Hun)
1:38.318, 7 Anders Gustafsson (Swe) 1:38.447, 8 Steven Ferguson (Nzl)
1:38.512, 9 Stjepan Janic (Cro) 1:38.729
Kayak Double (K2) 500m Final: 1 Spain 1:28.736, 2
Germany 1:28.827, 3 Belarus 1:30.005, 4 Hungary 1:30.285, 5 Denmark
1:30.569, 6 Canada 1:30.857, 7 France 1:31.312, 8 Poland 1:31.869, 9
Italy 1:31.934
Women's Kayak Single (K1) 500m Final: 1 Inna
Osypenko-Radomska (Ukr), 2 Josefa Idem (Ita), 3 Katrin
Wagner-Augustin (Ger), 4 Katalin Kovacs (Hun) 1:51.139, 5 Zhong
Hongyan (Chn) 1:52.220, 6 Spela Ponomarenko (Slo) 1:52.363, 7 Lucy
Wainwright (Gbr) 1:53.102, 8 Jennifer Hodson (Rsa) 1:53.353, 9
Yuliana Salakhova (Rus) 1:53.973
Kayak Double (K2) 500m Final: 1 Hungary, 2 Poland, 3
France, 4 Germany 1:42.899, 5 Japan 1:43.291, 6 Australia 1:43.969, 7
Finland 1:44.176, 8 Czech Republic 1:44.870, 9 Austria 1:44.965
Diving
Men's 10m Platform Overall Final: 1 Matthew Mitcham
(Aus) 537.95 pts, 2 Zhou Luxin (Chn) 533.15 pts, 3 Gleb Galperin
(Rus) 525.80 pts, 4 Huo Liang (Chn) 508.40 pts, 5 Jose Antonio Guerra
Oliva (Cub) 507.15 pts, 6 Mathew Helm (Aus) 467.70 pts, 7 Thomas
Daley (Gbr) 463.55 pts
Boxing
Heavyweight (91kg) Final Bout:
Match 1: Rakhim Chakhkiev (Rus) bt Clemente Russo
(Ita) Pts (4-2)
Middleweight (75kg) Final Bout: Match 1: James
Degale (Gbr) bt Emilio Correa Bayeaux (Cub) Pts (16-14)
Light Welterweight (64kg) Final Bout: Match 1: Felix
Diaz (Dom) bt Manus Boonjumnong (Tha) Pts (12-4)
Featherweight (57kg) Final Bout: Match 1: Vasyl
Lomachenko (Ukr) bt Khedafi Djelkhir (Fra) RSC (Round 1)
Men's Flyweight (51kg) Final Bout: Match 1: Somjit
Jongjohor (Tha) bt Andris Laffita Hernandez (Cub) Pts (8-2)
Cycling - Mountain Bike
Men's Cross Country: 1 Julien Absalon (Fra)
time-1h55:59, 2 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) time-1h57:06, 3 Nino
Schurter (Swi) time-1h57:52, 4 Christoph Sauser (Swi) time-1h57:54, 5
Marco Aurelio Fontana (Ita) time-1h59:59, 6 Christoph Soukup (Aut)
time-2h00:11, 7 Liam Killeen (Gbr) time-2h00:14, 8 Inaki Lejarreta
Errasti (Spa) time-2h00:21, 9 Sven Nys (Bel) time-2h01:00, 10 Jose
Antonio Hermida Ramos (Spa) time-2h01:01,
Taekwondo
Men's Over 80kg Gold Medal Contest: Match 3: Dongmin
Cha (Kor) bt Alexandros Nikolaidis (Gre) by Pts (5-4)
Over 80kg Bronze Medal: Match 1: Arman Chilmanov (Kaz)
bt Angel Valodia Matos (Cub) Disq (Round 2) Match 2: Chika Yagazie
Chukwumerije (Ngr) bt Akmal Irgashev (Uzb) by Pts (4-3)
Women's Over 67kg Gold Medal Contest: Match 3: Maria
del Rosario Espinoza (Mex) bt Nina Solheim (Nor) by Pts (3-1)
Over 67kg Bronze Medal: Match 1: Sarah
Stevenson (Gbr) bt Noha Abd Rabo (Egy) by Pts (5-1) Match
2: Natalia Falavigna (Bra) bt Karolina Kedzierska (Swe) by Pts (5-2)
FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Blackburn 1 Hull 1 Fulham 1 Arsenal 0 Liverpool 2
Middlesbrough 1 Newcastle 1 Bolton 0 Stoke 3 Aston Villa 2 Tottenham
1 Sunderland 2 West Brom 1 Everton 2 Scottish Premier
Aberdeen 1 Rangers 1 Celtic 3 Falkirk 0 Hearts 2 St
Mirren 1 Inverness CT 1 Hibernian 1 Kilmarnock 1 Hamilton 0
Motherwell 1 Dundee Utd 1
Coca-Cola Championship
Birmingham 2 Barnsley 0 Blackpool 1 Sheff Utd 3
Cardiff 2 Norwich 2 Charlton 4 Reading 2Coventry 0 Bristol City
3Crystal Palace 0 Burnley 0 Ipswich 0 Wolverhampton 2 Nottm Forest 3
Watford 2 Plymouth 0 Swansea 1 QPR 2 Doncaster 0 Sheff Wed 1 Preston 1
Coca-Cola Division One
Bristol Rovers 6 Hereford 1 Crewe 2 Walsall 1
Hartlepool 0 Stockport 1 Huddersfield 1 Milton Keynes Dons 3
Leicester 3 Tranmere 1 Leyton Orient 0 Carlisle 0 Northampton 0
Millwall 0 Oldham 4 Cheltenham 0 Scunthorpe 1 Peterborough 0 Swindon
1 Colchester 3 Yeovil 1 Leeds 1
GOLF
USPGA Tour The Barclays Collated third round scores
& totals in the USPGA Tour The Barclays, Ridgewood Country Club,
Paramus, New Jersey, United States of America(USA unless stated, par 71):
205 Kevin Streelman 67 70 68 206 Paul Casey (Eng) 66
71 69, Vijay Singh (Fij) 70 70 66, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 70 67 69, Mike
Weir (Can) 72 67 67 208 Kenny Perry 69 67 72, Robert Allenby (Aus) 69
73 66, Angel Cabrera (Arg) 69 67 72, Kevin Sutherland 70 69 69, Jason
Day (Aus) 74 68 66 209 Steve Stricker 68 64 77, Dudley Hart 67 69 73,
Patrick Sheehan 69 70 70, Jeff Overton 74 67 68, Bubba Watson 68 70
71, Ben Curtis 71 68 70, Hunter Mahan 62 73 74, Dean Wilson 72 70 67,
Anthony Kim 70 67 72, Jim Furyk 70 71 68, Briny Baird 69 71 69,
Stuart Appleby (Aus) 71 70 68
KLM Open Collated third round scores & totals in
the European tour The KLM Open, Kennemer G & CC, Zandvoort,
Netherlands(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 70):
198 Darren Clarke 68 64 66 201 Henrik Stenson (Swe) 68
65 68 202 John Bickerton 65 71 66 203 Michael Campbell (Nzl) 68 66
69, Marc Warren 72 64 67 204 Anthony Wall 67 68 69, Alexander Noren
(Swe) 66 66 72, Soren Hansen (Den) 65 69 70, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 69
67 68, Simon Dyson 70 64 70, Paul McGinley 69 68 67 205 Rolf Muntz
(Ned) 64 72 69, Damien McGrane 67 69 69, Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 72 66
67, Anders Hansen (Den) 69 66 70, Oliver Wilson 69 70 66, Ross
McGowan 69 64 72
TENNIS
ATP & WTA Pilot Pen
Women's Final:
Caroline Wozniacki (Den) bt (1) Anna Chakvetadze (Rus)
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