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US swimmers complete domination Beenamol qualifies for 400m semis
3rd consecutive gold for Dimas Malaysia hold Pak Cameroon’s golden
goal sinks Brazil Debevec ends
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Tough outing for
Gurbinder Norman upset Baljit fastest woman athlete Chowrasia’s team wins Xerox Golf
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US swimmers complete domination SYDNEY, Sept 23 (AFP) — US swimmers staged a grandstand finish with two relay world records today to complete their domination of the pool, and the spotlight switched to the track where the world’s fastest man and woman tags were to be decided. Dutch swimmer Inge De Bruijn meanwhile completed the perfect Sydney Games — three events, three golds and three world records and British rower Steve Redgrave joined the Olympic legends with a fifth consecutive gold medal. The Americans wrapped up the final session of swimming with two more world records, in the men’s and women’s 4x100 m medley relays, with the women’s team becoming the first to break four minutes for the event with a 3:58.30. On the swimming medal table, the USA ended with a haul of 12 gold to five each for Australia and the Netherlands. Although Australia’s target of dethroning the USA as the world’s swimming power was well and truly sunk, Grant Hacket restored some honour in the men’s 1,500 m freestyle where he denied Kieren Perkins a third gold medal in the event in an Aussie 1-2. De Bruijn whipped through one length of the pool to win the women’s 50m freestyle final in 24.32 sec, closing out a victorious campaign. She also dominated the 100m free and the 100 m butterfly, to give her gold in her three individual events, while taking silver with the Netherlands team in the 4x100 m freestyle relay. Redgrave laid claim to being the greatest rower of all time with a fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal, and a special accolade from IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch who presented him with a special gold Olympic pin to acknowledge his unprecedented record in an endurance sport. The 38-year-old Redgrave, who teamed with Matthew Pinsent, Tim Foster and James Cracknell to beat Italy by less than half a second in the coxless four final, reversed the Olympic motto, making clear that it is the winning that counts to him. “It was close, but that doesn’t matter,” said the man whose run of five consecutive golds dates back to Los Angeles in 1984. On the second day of track field, first time Olympian Maurice Greene and Marion Jones were set to be crowned the speed king and queen of the Games. Obadele Thompson of Barbados and Trinidad’s Ato Boldon Greene’s training partner, both ran quicker than Greene yesterday with heat times of 10.04 sec, but none of the leading sprinters fully extended themselves. Greene’s compatriot Jones began her bid for five gold medals cruising through the women’s 100 m heats yesterday with unruffled ease. Jamaican Merlene Ottey, whose team mates protested her inclusion in the 100 m after the world governing body’s arbitration panel lifted her drug ban for the steroid nandrolone, won both her heats. The one other athletics gold on offer was the men’s javelin with Czech Jan Zelezny clearly the best
qualifier with an 89.39 m throw as he seeks a third straight Olympic title. In an early drama today, defending women’s heptathlon champion Ghada Shouaa of Syria crashed out with an ankle injury in the opening 110 m hurdles. World champion Eunice Barber of France led after two events, with her main rival Denise Lewis of Britain trailing badly. Chinese diver Fu Minxia failed in her attempt for a fourth gold medal when she and partner Guo Jinging had to settle for second behind Russia’s Vera Ilina and Ioulina Pakhalina in the women’s synchronised springboard dive. She has another chance next week in the individual event to join Americans Greg Lougainis and Pat McCormick as the most successful divers in Olympic history. Paola Pezzo of Italy made it two consecutive women’s cross country mountain bike gold medals, while Slovenia and Ukraine closed out the shooting competition with golds. |
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Beenamol qualifies for 400m semis SYDNEY, Sept 23 (PTI) — India’s K.M. Beenamol came up with a strong kick on the home stretch over the last 35 metres in the women’s 400 metres to become the first Indian after 16 years to qualify for the semifinals, and only the third woman ever, at the Olympic Games athletics competition here today. The 25-year-old Railway officer from Kerala, considered to be the heir-apparent to the great P.T. Usha, was sixth going into the final straight and then produced a blistering finishing run which helped her edge out Nigeria’s Olabisi Afolabi and end up fourth in heat 3 in 51.81 seconds. Afolabi was fifth in 51.87. The top four in each of the four second round heats run today made it to the semifinals which are to be held tomorrow. Beenamol thus followed in the footsteps of two other Kerala athletes, Shiny Wilson (800 metres) and Usha (400 m hurdles) who were the earlier two Indian women to have made it to the semifinals in the Olympics in athletics. Shiny had been the first to achieve the feat, in the 1984 games at Los Angeles, but did not make it to the final of the women’s two-lap race. Usha not only made it to the final of the one-lap hurdles race introduced in the same games but also missed the bronze medal by one hundredth of a second while finishing fourth. Beenamol had saved India many blushes in the track and field events yesterday by making up for the dismal show put up by her male compatriots on way to qualifying for today’s second round. Today Beenamol ran a tactical race, conserving her energy till the last straight after being drawn in lane four and then giving it everything to qualify for the semifinals though her time of 51.81 was slower than the 51.51 she had clocked while winning her first round qualifying heat. Growing in confidence with each outing and pitted against the likes of Lorraine Graham of Jamaica in her heat, the talented runner returned the 18th-best time in the second round heats after leading the list in the first round yesterday. Her chances of making it to the final tomorrow may not be bright but she has been the lone Indian athlete here who has shown a lot of spunk even as her male compatriots dished out dismal displays. Beenamol has clocked 51.41, which is expected to be recognised as the official national record soon in place of Usha’s 15-year-old 51.61 set up in the Canberra world cup, while winning the silver medal in last month’s Asian championship in Jakarta. She has a good chance of improving upon it in the semifinals tomorrow. There was no pressure on the young athlete yesterday, who has suddenly drawn media attention here following her superb run in which her time was better than that of even gold medal favourite Cathy Freeman of Australia. Freeman headed the list of runners by clocking 50.31 in the fourth heat which she won comfortably to qualify for the semifinals on a chilly evening. Graham won heat 3 in 50.66 and was followed by Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza (Mexico, 51.19), Amy Mbacke Thiam (Senegal, 51.64) and Beenamol. UNI adds: In Heptathlon, Pramilla Gudandda Ganapathy and Soma Biswas were placed 26th and 27th, respectively, in a pack of 30 athletes at the end of three of the seven events. After the 100 m hurdles, high jump and shot put rounds, Pramilla earned 2,393 points while Soma got 2,375. Natalya Sazanovich (Belarus) led with 2,934 points, followed by Denise Lewis of Britain (2,904) and Germany’s Sabine Braun (2,859). Soma threw the iron ball to a distance of 11.69 m and Pramilla 11.14 m to come 10th and 14th in group 2. Soma (14.11 seconds) Pramilla (14.22 seconds) came in second and third in heat 2 of 100 m hurdles, collecting 963 and 947 points, respectively. In the high jump event, Pramilla cleared 1.69 m and Soma 1.63 m to be positioned eight and 14th in group 2.The race includes 100 m hurdles, shot put, javelin, 200 m sprint and 800 m besides two jumps (long and high). |
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SYDNEY, Sept 23 (AFP) — British rower Steven Redgrave has earned a unique place in Olympic history after winning a gold medal in his fifth consecutive Games — an unparalleled achievement for an endurance athlete. Only Hungarian Aladar Gerevich, who won six golds between 1932 and 1960 in the far less gruelling sport of fencing, has done better. The 38-year-old’s triumph is just the latest conquest of a man who has overcome class barriers — and more recently diabetes — to become the undisputed king of world rowing and the greatest ever British Olympian. His victory alongside Matthew Pinsent, Tim Foster and Jamie Cracknell was also his third in the company of Pinsent, who partnered him in 1992 and 1996 in his coxless pairs triumphs. It also comes four years after his triumph in Atlanta where he retired immediately after winning the gold medal and saying: “Anyone who sees me go anywhere near a boat again, ever, you’ve got my permission to hoot me.” Fortunately the marksmen held their fire and Redgrave has now completed that historic fifth victory. And it confirms his reputation as the talisman of the British Olympic team. For the third consecutive Games Redgrave was the choice of his compatriots to carry the flag at the opening ceremony but at Sydney he chose to let Pinsent take that honour. Redgrave’s gold run had begun in 1984 when he triumphed in the coxed fours alongside Martin Cross, Richard Budgett, Andrew Holmes and Adrian Ellison. He teamed up with Holmes in Seoul for his second title in 1988 but the pair split. A partnership with Simon Berrisford ended when the latter injured his back and Pinsent, then only 19, was the new man. Approaching the Sydney Games there had been indications that at the age of 38, Redgrave was finding it hard to maintain the high levels of fitness required for the event. He was diagnosed with diabetes and a television documentary showed him in great distress in training as his three team-mates were outperforming him in a 6,000m run on rowing machines. And the invincibility that had surrounded him for 16 years was also slipping as the British “Oar-some Foursome” — a nickname disputed by the Australian quartet until the Sydney final settled the issue — were defeated both in the semifinal and final of the World Championships in Lucerne, Switzerland. Redgrave, also a nine-time world champion, gave short thrift to claims that he was past it, saying: “I’m not as good as I was at the last Olympics — I’m better. “I’m stronger mentally than I was before and in many of the tests we do in training I am still at the same level I was before Atlanta.” |
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3rd consecutive gold for Dimas SYDNEY, Sept 23 (AFP) — ‘Golden Greek’ Pyrros Dimas, fired by a tongue-lashing from his coach after a shaky start, won his third straight Olympic weightlifting gold medal today. Dimas took the title with a herculean lift of 215kg in the clean and jerk and beat Germany’s Marc Huster, also second at the Atlanta Games four years ago, and George Asanidze of Georgia on lower body weight after all three lifters totalled 390kgs. The 29-year-old Dimas sent the flag-waving Greek supporters into raptures with his winning lift and he acknowledged them with a huge smile and a one finger victory salute. He returned to the stage for a world record attempt of 218.5kg but, with his golden mission already successful, was not focused and failed. He responded to chants from the crowd to come out for curtain call and he danced with delight on the winner’s podium after receiving his medal. Dimas, dubbed the ‘Golden Greek’ despite being born in Albania, was at the centre of a dramatic opening snatch discipline. The defending Olympic champion missed his first attempt at 175kg as he was timed out just as he bent to lift the bar. Obviously ruffled, he failed in his second attempt and was manhandled by his coach on the way back to the warm up room where he verbally lambasted him. A few minutes later a more composed Dimas came to the stage and successfully hoisted 175kg, glancing right and then left in his trademark fashion with the bar still raised above his head. Dimas was near to tears of relief as he strode off the stage. His two failures opened the door for his rivals and world record holder at the snatch, Asanidze lifted 180kg to take a 2.5kg lead over Germany’s Huster. One of the favourites, world champion Shahin Nasirinia of Iran retired hurt after just one attempt. Nasirinia, the surprise winner of last year’s World Championships, grimaced in pain while trying to snatch 175kg and grabbed his right elbow which seemed to be dislocated. He was helped from the stage by his coach and took no further part in the
competition. Dimas has been a superstar in Greece since fleeing there from Albania a decade ago. Born into the Greek ethnic minority, he switched his allegiance to the land of his father after a promising early career in weightlifting. Back-to-back victories in the 1992 Barcelona and the 1996 Atlanta Games ensured sporting icon status in Greece. |
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SYDNEY, Sept 23 (AFP) — Pakistan penalty corner ace Sohail Abbas saved his side from a humiliating exit from the Olympic men’s hockey with a last-minute equaliser against Malaysia here today. The Malaysians appeared set to end a 14-year losing streak against Pakistan when, with one minute to go, they led 2-1 through goals by Suhaimi Ibrahim. Pakistan, however, earned a penalty corner 35 seconds before the final hooter and Abbas pushed home to earn his side a valuable point. The draw left Pakistan on six points from four matches and facing a must-win last game against the Netherlands next Tuesday to stay in contention for the semifinals. Malaysia went ahead in the 21st minute when Suhaimi pounced on a rebound off goalkeeper
Ahmed Alam’s Pads and flicked into the open goal. Pakistan drew level three minutes later through Atif Bashir as both sides crossed over locked 1-1. The rivals made fluent counter-attacks in the second half and Malaysia took the lead again seven minutes before the final whistle when Ibrahim dived in front to deflect a penalty corner shot into the goal. Abbas’s stunning equaliser ended a brilliant display by Malaysian goalkeeper Nasihin Ibrahim, who replaced Roslan Jamaluddin to take his first appearance in the tournament. Germany draw with Dutch World
champions the Netherlands were held to a 2-2 draw by Germany today to throw open the race for the semifinals in the Olympic men’s hockey here. The Dutch let slip a 2-0 lead to leave themselves and the Germans with eight points each in group A with one more round of matches to go. Pakistan, who are lying third with six points, play the Netherlands in their last match on Tuesday. The Germans clash with Great Britain the same day. The Dutch earned a penalty stroke in the third minute, which Stephen Veen easily converted to give his team an early lead. Teun de Nooijer made it 2-0 in the 20th, but the Germans drew level before half-time with two quick goals. Bjorn Michel scooped from the top of the circle in the 31st minute, while Ulrich Moissl equalised a few seconds before the interval by deflecting in pass from the right flank. Aussies, Argentina tied Hosts Australia scored twice in a six-minute burst to come from behind and beat Argentina 2-1 in the Olympic men’s hockey here today. Argentina were headed for an upset when versatile striker Jorge Lombi scored his seventh goal of the tournament to put his team ahead in the 54th minute. The Australians, backed by a full house at the 15,000 seater State Hockey Centre, drew level two minutes later through Daniel Sproule. Michael Brennan then scored the winner in the 62nd minute to lift Australia to the top of group B with eight points and a game in hand against South Korea on Tuesday. |
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Cameroon’s golden
goal sinks Brazil SYDNEY, Sept 23 (Reuters) — A golden goal winner in the 113th minute from Modeste Mbami gave nine-man Cameroon a 2-1 win over Brazil today and a place in the Olympic soccer semifinals on Tuesday when they will meet Chile in Melbourne. Chile booked their berth with an easy 4-1 win over champions Nigeria after leading 3-0 at halftime. The other semifinal in Sydney will be between Spain, who beat Italy 1-0 with a late goal from Gabri, and the USA who edged out Japan 5-4 on Penalties after drawing 2-2 at the end of extra time. |
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Johnson, Greene, Jones prove superiority SYDNEY, Sept 23 (AFP) — Maurice Greene and Marion Jones became the world’s sprint King and Queen when they each raced to 100m victories at a chilly Stadium Australia here tonight. Greene’s 100m title saw him become only the third man in history to hold the “Big Three” sprint titles at the same time — Olympic, world championship and world record. The 26-year-old now joins legend Carl Lewis and Canada’s Donovan Bailey. For Jones, today’s success was only the first of a record busting five gold medals she plans to win here — making her the most successful woman athlete in history. The brash Greene, who never doubted that the Blue Riband title was always going to be his, came home in 9.87 seconds to head off Ato Boldon of Trinidad and Tobago and Obadele Thompson of Barbados. Greene had to overcome a sluggish start, but his strength told over the final 20 metres and neither Boldon nor Thompson were close enough to threaten. Boldon clocked 9.99 and Thompson 10.04. “Four years ago in Atlanta I sat in the stands and cried. Those were tears of misery. Those you see now are tears of joy,” said an emotional Greene afterwards. The 24-year-old Jones clocked 10.75 to head off the challenge from Greece’s silver medalist Ekaterini Thanou and bronze winner Tanya Lawrence of Jamaica. It was a brilliant Olympic debut for the former basket all star who turned down a chance to compete in the US 4x100 relay team at the Barcelona Games in 1992, claiming she was not ready. Jones has not lost a 100m race since 1997 and she never like losing her record here as she ran her fastest 100m of the year. “It’s a dream come true,” said a tearful Jones afterwards. “It’s finally here. I have dreamed about this for 19 years. Now for the other four.” Jan Zelezny of the Czech Republic, winner of the Olympic javelin titles in 1992 and 1996, today established a piece of Games history when he won the title for a third time, with a 90.17-metre throw. Zelezny, the 34-year-old world record-holder, beat Britain’s Steve Backley into the silver medal position. Backley, runner-up to Zelezny in Atlanta four years ago and bronze medallist at the 1992 Barcelona Games, threw 89.85m. The bronze medal went to Russia’s Sergey Makarov with 88.67m. Only a road accident can stop Michael Johnson becoming the first athlete in history to defend his Olympic 400m title. The 33-year-old ran into the semi-finals with a second round run that simply underlined why he is untouchable over the distance. He began slowing 100 metres out, looking left and right to see if anyone else was up with him. They weren’t. The only challenge facing the American is the 43 second barrier which he has vowed to break here. A supremely confident Maria Mutola moved to within one race of securing Mozambique’s first ever Olympic gold when she powered to victory in her 800m semi-final heat. The 28-year-old 1998 Commonwealth Games champion pushed to the front in the final 20 meters to come home in 1:58.86, well outside her personal best of 1:55.19 but faster than her opening round 1:59.88secs. “Everything is coming together. I like this track. It is fast and suits me. Now I just have to keep it going,” Mutola said. Austria’s Stephanie Graf, the European indoor champion and a major threat to Mutola, had an impressive victory in her semi-final, racing home in a fast 1:57.56, ahead of England’s Kelly Holmes and the Czech Republic’s Helena Fuchsova. World champion Eunice Barber of France dropped like a tone through the standings as the Olympic heptathlon passed the halfway mark tonight. Natalya Sazanovich of Belarus, silver medallist at the Atlanta Olympics four years ago, was the overnight leader on 3903 points, 31 ahead of Russia’s Natalya Roshchupkina (3872), with Britain’s Denise Lewis third after four of the seven disciplines with 3852. Barber, after holding a healthy lead following victories in the 100 metres hurdles and high jump sections, finished the day a demoralised seventh, 196 points off the leading mark. Hampered by injuries throughout the summer, Sierra Leone-born Barber’s fitness for the all-round test of the complete woman athlete was suspect coming into the Games, and it began to be exposed in the third event, the shot. The Frenchwoman could manage only 11.27m in the throw, beaten by 26 of her rivals in a field of 32. Lewis, the European champion, made the most of Barber’s discomfort, her 15.55m winning the shot and propelling her from eighth to second, with two more strong events, the long jump and javelin, to come tomorrow. |
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Perec was
‘attacked thrice’ PARIS, Sept 22 (AFP) — France’s triple Olympic champion Marie-Jose Perec walked out of the Sydney Games because she was attacked three times, her trainer has claimed. And in a further blow, her sponsors have decided to withdraw a TV advertising campaign featuring the sprinter. In an interview in the daily newspaper, Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui, her German coach Wolfgang Meier said: “After the third time she was attacked, in a supermarket, she decided it was time to leave.” “I was aware of the first attack in the hotel parking lot and a second in her hotel room. I managed to persuade her to stay after those two but there was nothing I could do after the third,” he added. Meier, who supervised Perec’s Olympic build-up in Rostock, in the former East Germany, said he had also received a telephone call from the runner saying she had been involved in a car accident. The initial reason Perec gave for fleeing the Olympics was that a stalker had threatened her in her Sydney hotel room. |
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SYDNEY, Sept 23 (DPA) — Chinese world champion Liu Guoliang powered past unseeded German veteran Joerg Rosskopf today in the Olympic table-tennis men’s quarter-finals, while Chinese women reigned supreme in the semifinals of their singles. Taiwan’s Chen Jing won her first set against Mainlander Wang Nan, but then went down 12-21, 22-20, 21-17, 21-15. It was a similar story for Singapore’s Jing Jun Hong: her challenge to Li Ju of China fell short 15-21, 21-13, 21-12, 21-19. In the men’s singles, Atlanta gold medallist Liu Guoliang made short work of left-hander Rosskopf, who has a couple of Olympic medals under his belt but at 31 is at the sunset of his career. The German went down in straight sets 21-11, 21-14, 21-7 and said later he was relieved just to be back among the top 20 in the game. Head-shaven Liu sparkled with constantly changing serves. A fresh epic struggle between the Swedes and Chinese shaped up with reigning world champion Liu to play the number 5 seed, Jan-Ove Waldner, in one semifinal and Joergen Persson facing a fellow former world champion, Kong Linghui, in the other. |
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Debevec
ends Olympic medal drought SYDNEY, Sept 23 (AFP) — World record holder and four-time Olympian Rajmond Debevec of Slovenia finally ended his Olympic medal drought today, taking gold in the men’s Olympic 50-metre free rifle. Debevec, who competed at the Los Angeles, Barcelona and Atlanta Games holds the world record in both three-position free rifle and the 10m air rifle. But the two-time world shooter of the year had never won an Olympic medal before today, when he set an Olympic qualifying record of 1,177 points in the preliminary rounds to take a two-point lead into the final. He then built on his lead to set another Olympic record as he finished with 1,275.1 points ahead of Juha Hirvi of Finland (silver) and Norway’s Harald Stenvaag (bronze). “This is the thrill of my life,” Debevec told reporters. “I am really happy to finally win.” The 37-year-old Debevec, who was left off the then Yugoslavian team for the Seoul Olympics, started shooting at age eight when his uncle gave him an air rifle. He is now a member of the Slovenian Ministry of Defence’s sport shooting squad.
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Tough outing for
Gurbinder SYDNEY, Sept 23 (UNI) — Lone Indian wrestler Gurbinder Singh might find it tough grappling with Algeria’s Yassine Djakrir in the 63 kg Greco-Roman category at the 27th Olympiad tomorrow. The 23-year old- Punjab Police Sub-Inspector, national champion for the last four years, will find it difficult to repeat the performance of Kashara
Jadhav, who won the bronze at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Singh came fifth in the Asian meet in Seoul and made it to the games as those ahead of him had already won the qualifying slots at other meets. A training stint for Olympics in Minsk in Belarus did not come through. He will try to forget the controversy surrounding the replacement of his coach Hargobind Singh, who had moulded his career since 1994, just before the games. |
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SYDNEY, Sept 23 (AFP) — The carnage in the men’s Olympic tennis tournament claimed another victim today when Swedish third seed Magnus Norman was sent packing by fired-up Frenchman Arnaud Di Pasquale. Di Pasquale (21) beat the Swedish third seed 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/2) to reach the quarterfinals. Norman’s exit means 11 of the 16 men’s seeds have now been eliminated from the tournament. “This was probably one of the highlights of my career and I blew it,” a bitterly disappointed Norman said. The Swede showed clear signs of fatigue after a long hard season. He failed to serve out for the first set at 6-5 and then squandered a 5-1 lead in the second. “Mentally I was not there,” he admitted. Di Pasquale, who will now face Juan Carlos Ferrero, the eighth seed from Spain, said the experience of playing for France in the Olympics had fired him up. “I have more motivation here, I can really feel it,” he said. Norman’s exit further enhanced Gustavo Kuerten’s status as the favourite to claim the gold medal. The Brazilian played his best match so far to cruise into the quarterfinals at the expense of Croatia’s Ivan Ljubicic. Venus and Serena Williams also enjoyed themselves in the Sydney sunshine, reaching the doubles quarterfinals after dropping the first set against Russian pair Elena Likhovtseva and Anastasia Myskina. But it was third time unlucky for Spain’s Conchita Martinez and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, who were eliminated by Belarus’s Natasha Zverva and Olga Barabanshchikova. The Spaniards won silver at the Barcelona Olympics and bronze in Atlanta four years ago. Kuerten, the second seed, looked close to his best in 7-6 (7/2), 6-3 win over Ljubicic that had him beaming: “I’ve got my rhythm back.” The Brazilian went into the tournament with his confidence at a low ebb after crashing out in the first round of the recent US open. But three wins here have brought it flooding back. The Brazilian, who won his second French Open in June, faces a tough quarterfinal clash against the winner of tonight’s match between Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia and Mark Philippoussis, the last Australian man left standing. |
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India’s schedule
today SYDNEY, Sept 23 (PTI) — India’s schedule at the Olympic Games tomorrow. (all timings
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India at a glance SYDNEY, Sept 23 (UNI) — The following is the summary of India’s performance at the 27th Olympics here today. Hockey: Asian Games champions India kept the hopes alive for a semifinal berth beating Atlanta silver medallists Spain 3-2 in a pool ‘B’ encounter. Athletics: Kerala-born K. M. Beenamol qualified for the semifinals in the women’s 400m with the fourth spot in heat three of the second round. In heptathlon, Pramila Gudandda Ganapathy and Soma Biswas were placed 26th and 27th respectively in a pack of 30 athletes after three events. |
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Medal tally SYDNEY, Sept 23 (AFP) — Final update of the Olympic medals table today: (Given in the following order: Country, Gold, Silver,
Bronze, Total) USA 20 12 18 50 China 17 11 11 39 Australia 10 16 11 37 France 10 10 5 25 Italy 9 4 11 24 Russia 8 8 12 28 Netherlands 7 3 3 13 Romania 6 2 4 12 Germany 4 6 12 22 South Korea 4 5 7 16 Japan 4 4 4 12 Ukraine 3 6 4 13 Great Britain 3 6 3 12 Sweden 3 2 1 6 Bulgaria 3 2 0 5 Poland 2 3 0 5 Cuba 2 2 2 6 Czech Rep 2 1 3 6 Hungary 2 1 1 4 Spain 2 0 2 4 Slovenia 2 0 0 2 Turkey 2 0 0 2 Switzerland 1 5 1 7 Indonesia 1 3 2 6 Greece 1 3 1 5 Slovakia 1 3 1 5 Belarus 1 1 6 8 Canada 1 1 3 5 Finland 1 1 0 2 Mexico 1 1 0 2 Lithuania 1 0 1 2 New Zealand 1 0 1 2 Azerbaijan 1 0 0 1 Colombia 1 0 0 1 Croatia 1 0 0 1 Brazil 0 2 1 3 Denmark 0 2 0 2 Belgium 0 1 2 3 North Korea 0 1 1 2 Norway 0 1 1 2 South Africa 0 1 1 2 Chinese Taipei 0 1 1 2 Moldova 0 1 0 1 Nigeria 0 1 0 1 Trinidad & Tobago 0 1 0 1 Uruguay 0 1 0 1 Yugoslavia 0 1 0 1 Costa Rica 0 0 2 2 Estonia 0 0 2 2 Georgia 0 0 2 2 Armenia 0 0 1 1 Barbados 0 0 1 1 India 0 0 1 1 Jamaica 0 0 1 1 Kyrgyzstan 0 0 1 1 Kuwait 0 0 1 1 Latvia 0 0 1 1 Portugal 0 0 1 1 Thailand 0 0 1 1 |
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Baljit fastest woman athlete CHANDIGARH, Sept 23 — Baljit of Bhiwani emerged the fastest woman in the 34th Senior Haryana State Athletic Championship in Sonepat which began at CRA College athletic track today. She won the 100 m race clocking 12.6 sec. Mamlesh of Ambala finished second with 13.2 sec and Promila of Rohtak remained third with 13.8 sec time. Seema Antil of Sonipat created the new record in shot put women section. Poonam of Bhiwani finished second with 10.53 m throw while Gurpreet Kaur of Sirsa remained third with 9.22 m distance. Vinod of Hisar clinched the title in 1500 m (men) race clocking 4:08.00 minute time while Sunil Kumar (Bhiwani) and Rajesh Phogat (Haryana Police) finished second and third clocking 4:09.2 and 4:09.7 minutes respectively. Paramjit Kaur of Ambala won the gold medal in 1500 m race clocking 4:51.4 minute. She maintained the lead in all the laps and finished the race with a good margin. Sunil Joon of Jhajjar was second with 4:59.3 minute and Savita of Rohtak finished third with 5:10.8 minute. Chaman Singh won the first position in long jump (men) 7.13 m distance while Vishal Prashar of Ambala and Vikram (Bhiwani) got second and third positions with 6.94 m and 6.55 m respectively. |
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Chowrasia’s team wins Xerox Golf NEW DELHI, Sept 23 — Calcutta-based professional Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia led his team to a fine victory in the pro-am event of the inaugural Rs 6 lakh Xerox Open Golf Championship, which concluded at the Jack Nicklaus-designed Classic Golf Resort at Gurgaon today. Chowrasia and his team, comprising Parikshit Sagar, H.S. Bindra and B.B. Singh, aggregated 123 points at the end of the 18-hole event, which was played on a medal format. The team led by Mukesh Kumar, and comprising Pradeep Jain, Ashwin Kapur and Ravi Mehra finished second with a score of 125 points to beat the second runners-up team of Mike Ross, Arun Kumar and Andy Robinson, which was led by Xerox Open champion Jyoti Randhawa. They aggregated 129 points. |
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Shivalik academy
defeat Hawks CHANDIGARH, Sept 23 —Shivalik School Academy out-stroked Ropar Hawks 5-3 via the tie-breaker in the opening match of the 30th S. N. Vohra Gurmit Memorial Hockey Tournament which commenced at the Sector 18 hockey stadium here today. The two teams were level 0-0 at the end of the stipulated 70 minutes of play. The match, which more or less was a listless affair, saw the two teams making a cautious start. Ropar Hawks, however, had the upper hand for fairly long spells with Harnek, Satwinder and Sarabjit carving out several intelligent moves but they failed to beat Mandeep Singh under the Shivalik School Academy bar. Ropar Hawks were certainly unlucky as, despite being on the attack, they failed to score. Shivalik School Academy, who played a defensive game, were lucky to emerge unscathed as they converted all the five strokes in the subsequent tie-breaker. The scorers were Paramjit Singh, Harwant Kumar, Rajinder Singh, Damandeep Singh and Ravinder Pal Singh. For Ropar Hawks the scorers were Gurinder Singh, Satwinder Singh and Manjinder Singh. Dheeraj Kumar found his stroke being blocked and the promising lads from Ropar made an early exit from the tournament in which top outfits of the country will demonstrate their prowess over the next 10 days. Patiala beat Ludhiana PATIALA, Sept 23 — Gaganinder Garry’s superbly organised knock of 90 and his 175 opening partnership with Binwant Singh (73) enabled Patiala romp home convincingly against Ludhiana by virtue of their 104 runs first innings lead in the Punjab State Katoch Shield Cricket Tournament, which concluded at the Dhruv Pandove Stadium here today. Gaganinder Garry, who has been among the runs this season, having scored three successive centuries in the Punjab State [under-19] Cricket Tournament earlier this month, succumbed to pressure in the nervous 90. He got into a horrible mix up with Pankaj Dharmani and was run out. Brief Scores: Ludhiana: Ist Innings: 146 all out. Patiala:Ist Innings: 250 for 7 [Gaganinder Garry 90, Binwant Singh 73, Munish Bali 40 n.o., Rajiv Sirhindi 25, Ankur Kakkar 3 for 64 and Gagandeep Toor 1 for 24] Ludhiana:
IInd Innings: 89 for 1 [Rakesh Saini 41 n.o. and Gautam Mandora 1 for 30] |
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