July 23, 2011 (Saturday) July 2011 in sports

1 july 23, 2011 (saturday)

1.1 athletics
1.2 auto racing
1.3 baseball
1.4 basketball
1.5 cricket
1.6 cycling
1.7 diving
1.8 equestrianism
1.9 football (soccer)
1.10 golf
1.11 open water swimming
1.12 rugby union
1.13 snooker
1.14 synchronized swimming
1.15 water polo

july 23, 2011 (saturday)
athletics

european junior championships in tallinn, estonia:

men s 200m: 01 ! david bolarinwa (gbr) 21.07 02 ! pierre vincent (fra) 21.22 03 ! jeffrey john (fra) 21.24
men s 1500m: 01 ! adam cotton (gbr) 3:43.98 02 ! thomas solberg eide (nor) 3:44.70 03 ! alexander schwab (ger) 3:44.82
men s 5000m: 01 ! gabriel navarro (esp) 14:07.06 02 ! bartosz kowalczyk (pol) 14:07.17 03 ! jonathan hay (gbr) 14:07.78
men s 110m hurdles: 01 ! jack meredith (gbr) 13.50 02 ! andy pozzi (gbr) 13.57 03 ! rahib mammadov (aze) 13.78
men s 10 km walk: 01 ! hagen pohle (ger) 40:43.73 02 ! ihor lyashchenko (ukr) 41:10.43 03 ! luís alberto amezcua (esp) 41:34.13
men s high jump: 01 ! nikita anishchenkov (rus) 2.27m 02 ! janick klausen (den) 2.25m 03 ! gianmarco tamberi (ita) 2.25m
men s javelin throw: 01 ! zigismunds sirmais (lat) 81.53m 02 ! marcin krukowski (pol) 79.19m 03 ! pavel mialeshka (blr) 76.59m
women s 200m: 01 ! jodie williams (gbr) 22.94 02 ! jamile samuel (ned) 23.31 03 ! jennifer galais (fra) 23.55
women s 800m: 01 ! anastasiya tkachuk (ukr) 2:02.73 02 ! rowena cole (gbr) 2:03.43 03 ! ayvika malanova (rus) 2:03.59
women s 3000m: 01 ! amela terzic (srb) 9:17.61 02 ! esma aydemir (tur) 9:19.61 03 ! lisa jäsert (ger) 9:30.23
women s 100m hurdles: 01 ! nooralotta neziri (fin) 13.34 02 ! isabelle pedersen (nor) 13.37 03 ! ekaterina bleskina (rus) 13.47
women s 3000m steeplechase: 01 ! gesa-felicitas krause (ger) 9:51.08 02 ! gulshat fazlitdinova (rus) 9:56.98 03 ! elena panaet (rom) 10:17.37
women s pole vault: 01 ! angelica bengtsson (swe) 4.57m 02 ! lilli schnitzerling (ger) 4.20m 03 ! natalia demidenko (rus) 4.20m
women s shot put: 01 ! lena urbaniak (ger) 16.31m 02 ! anna wloka (pol) 16.23m 03 ! anna rüh (ger) 16.01m
women s hammer throw: 01 ! barbara Špiler (slo) 67.06m 02 ! kıvılcım kaya (tur) 66.74m 03 ! alexia sedykh (fra) 65.02m



auto racing

nationwide series:

federated auto parts 300 in gladeville, tennessee: (1) carl edwards (ford; roush fenway racing) (2) ricky stenhouse, jr. (ford; roush fenway racing) (3) austin dillon (chevrolet; kevin harvick incorporated)

drivers championship standings (after 20 of 34 races): (1) reed sorenson (chevrolet; turner motorsports) 702 points (2) stenhouse, jr. 697 (3) elliott sadler (chevrolet; kevin harvick incorporated) 688





baseball

nippon professional baseball all-star series:

game 2 in chiba: pacific league 4, central league 3. series tied 1–1.

saitama seibu lions third baseman takeya nakamura wins game mvp after hitting 2 home runs.





basketball

wnba all-star game in san antonio: eastern conference 118, western conference 113

the eastern conference win first all-star game since 2007.



cricket

india in england:

1st test in london, day 3:  england 474/8d & 5/0 (5 overs);  india 286 (95.5 overs; rahul dravid 103*). england lead 193 runs 10 wickets remaining.



cycling

grand tours:

tour de france, stage 20: 01 ! tony martin (ger) (htc–highroad) 55 33 02 ! cadel evans (aus) (bmc racing team) + 7 03 ! alberto contador (esp) (saxo bank–sungard) + 1 06

general classification (after stage 20): (1) evans 83h 45 20 (2) andy schleck (lux) (leopard trek) + 1 34 (3) fränk schleck (lux) (leopard trek) + 2 30





diving

world aquatics championships in shanghai, china:

women s 3 m springboard: 01 ! wu minxia (chn) 380.85 points 02 ! zi (chn) 379.15 03 ! jennifer abel (can) 365.10

wu wins second title of championships , sixth world title overall.





equestrianism

show jumping – global champions tour:

7th competition in chantilly, oise (csi 5*): 01 ! edwina alexander (aus) on itot du château 02 ! luciana diniz (por) on lennox 03 ! pénélope leprevost (fra) on mylord carthago

standings (after 7 of 10 competitions): (1) alexander 195 points (2) ludger beerbaum (ger) 186.5 (3) diniz 186





football (soccer)

2014 fifa world cup qualification (afc), second round, first leg:

thailand  1–0  palestine
lebanon  4–0  bangladesh
china pr  7–2  laos
turkmenistan  1–1  indonesia
kuwait  3–0  philippines
oman  2–0  myanmar
saudi arabia  3–0  hong kong
iran  4–0  maldives
syria  2–1  tajikistan in amman, jordan
qatar  3–0  vietnam
iraq  2–0  yemen
singapore  5–3  malaysia
uzbekistan  4–0  kyrgyzstan
united arab emirates  3–0  india
jordan  9–0    nepal


copa américa in argentina:

third-place match in la plata: 03 ! peru  4–1  venezuela


uefa european under-19 championship in romania (team in bold advances semifinals):

group a:

czech republic  2–1  republic of ireland in mogoşoaia
romania  0–1  greece in berceni

standings (after 2 matches): czech republic 6 points, republic of ireland, greece 3, romania 0.




group b:

turkey  1–1  belgium in buftea
serbia  0–4  spain in chiajna

standings (after 2 matches): spain 6 points, serbia 3, turkey, belgium 1.






dfl-supercup in gelsenkirchen: borussia dortmund 0–0 (3–4 pen.) fc schalke 04

schalke win cup first time.



golf

senior majors:

the senior open championship in surrey, england:

leaderboard after third round: (t1) mark calcavecchia (usa), russ cochran (usa) & david frost (rsa) 209 (−7)





open water swimming

world aquatics championships in shanghai, china:

men s 25 km: 01 ! petar stoychev (bul) 5:10:39.8 02 ! vladimir dyatchin (rus) 5:11:15.6 03 ! csaba gercsák (hun) 5:11:18.1
women s 25 km: 01 ! ana marcela cunha (bra) 5:29:22.9 02 ! angela maurer (ger) 5:29:25.0 03 ! alice franco (ita) 5:29:30.8



rugby union

tri nations series:

australia  39–20  south africa in sydney



snooker

australian goldfields open in bendigo, australia, semi-finals:

shaun murphy (eng) 2–6 stuart bingham (eng)

bingham reaches first ranking final.


ken doherty (irl) 2–6 mark williams (wal)



synchronized swimming

world aquatics championships in shanghai, china:

team free routine: 01 !  russia (anastasia davydova, natalia ishchenko, elvira khasyanova, svetlana kolesnichenko, daria korobova, aleksandra patskevich, alla shishkina, angelika timanina) 98.620 points 02 !  china (chang si, fan jiachen, huang xuechen, jiang tingting, jiang wenwen, liu ou, luo xi, wu yiwen) 96.580 03 !  spain (clara basiana, alba maría cabello, ona carbonell, margalida crespí, andrea fuentes, thaïs henríquez, paula klamburg, irene montrucchio) 96.150

russia win 7 events contested.
ishchenko wins sixth title of championships , 15th world title overall.
khasyanova wins third title of championships , eighth world title overall.
davydova wins third title of championships , fifth world title overall.
kolesnichenko, korobova, patskevich, shishkina , timanina win third title of championships.





water polo

world aquatics championships in shanghai, china:

women s tournament:

playoff round:

netherlands  14–6  new zealand
hungary  9–10  australia
russia  26–4  cuba
spain  6–15  china


classification 13–16 semifinals:

kazakhstan  14–13  uzbekistan
brazil  10–9  south africa