Sports: Weekly Review

Digest of sports news for the week Aug 9 - Aug 15

Saturday Beijing: Mangal Singh Champia sets alight the Olympic Green Archery Field to finish second in a field of 64 in the ranking round, which won him an easy draw in the elimination stage which starts on August 13.

Juyongguan (China): Samuel Sanchez of Spain takes the gold medal in the Olympic cycling men's road race today, winning a sprint finish of six riders at the end of a grueling course.

Sunday Juyongguan (China): Welshwoman Nicole Cooke hands Britain their first gold of the Beijing Olympic Games when she won the women's cycling road race here.

Beijing: Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia of China win the first diving gold medal of the Beijing Games, opening the host country's bid to sweep eight golds medals.

Beijing: Thai weightlifter Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon gives a fortune teller part of the credit for her Olympic gold medal.

Beijing: Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal continues her fine form, beating Ukrainian Larysa Gryga in straight games to advance to the women's singles pre-quarterfinals of the badminton competition at the Olympic Games here.

Monday Beijing: Italy's Giulia Quintavalle wins an upset-filled women's 57-kilogramme class at the Olympics and Azerbaijan's Elnur Mammadli avenge his loss last year to Wang Ki-chun of South Korea in the men's 73-kg class.

Beijing: World champion Abhinav Bindra clinches India's first ever individual gold medal at the Olympics, winning 10m air rifle event at the Beijing Games here.

Beijing: Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza crashes out of the women's singles event at the Olympics after retiring midway through her opening round match against Czech Iveta Benesova here. Colombo: Sri Lanka defeats India by eight wickets on the fourth day of the third and final cricket Test and clinch the series 2-1.

Tuesday Beijing: Michael Phelps puts on another dominating performance at the Beijing Olympics, winning the 200-meter freestyle with a third straight world record.

Beijing: Athens Olympics silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore crashes out of the Beijing Games after failing to qualify for the finals of the double trap shooting event here.

Beijing: Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi put behind their frosty relation and recreated the old magic to sail into the second round of the men's doubles event of the Beijing Olympics here.

Wednesday Beijing: World champions Wang Feng and Qin Kai win the men's synchronised 3m springboard title here to continue China's diving domination with the hosts' fourth straight gold in Beijing's diving pool.

Beijing: Indian challenge in the Olympics' badminton competition ends after Saina Nehwal bowed out of the women's singles event following a quarterfinal loss to Indonesian Maria Kristin Yulianti here.

Beijing: Michael Phelps becomes the greatest Olympian in history, capturing the 10th gold medal of his Games career with a world record-setting triumph in the men's 200m butterfly. Beijing: A half-fit Sania Mirza and rookie Sunitha Rao try every tricks in the book but still could not avert a defeat against top seeded Russians Svetlana Kuznetsova and Dinara Safina in the second round of the women's doubles tennis event of the Beijing Olympics here.

Beijing: Indian women shooters continue to disappoint at Beijing Olympics as Anjali Bhagwat and Avneet Kaur Sidhu failed to qualify for the 50m Rifle 3 position event here.

Thursday Beijing: Top seed Roger Federer and Venus and Serena Williams all went crashing out of the Olympic Games quarter-finals as the tournament was rocked by major upsets.

Friday Beijing: Indian pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi crash out of men's tennis doubles event losing their quarterfinal match to Swiss duo of Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka in the Beijing Olympics here.

Beijing: India's Akhil Kumar pulls off a major upset by stunning world champion Sergey Vodopyanov of Russia in the 54 kg pre-quarterfinal bout in the Olympics here.

-- Press Trust of India

 

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