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Olympic Results

Badminton (semi-finals)

Women's singles: Mia Audina (Ina) bt Kim Ji-hyun (Kor) 11-6, 9- 11, 11-1; Bang Soo-hyun (Kor) bt Susi Susanti (Ina) 11-9, 11-8

Men's singles: Dong Jiong (Chn) bt Rashid Sidek (Mas) 15-6, 18- 16; Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen (Den) bt Hariyanto Arbi (Ina) 15-11, 15-6

Mixed doubles: Park Joo-bong/Ra Kyung-min (Kor) bt Liu Jianjun/Sun Man (Chn) 15-10, 15-4; Kim Dong-moon/Gil Young-ah (Kor) bt Chen Xingdong/Peng Xingyong (Chn) 15-6, 15-8

Women's doubles, bronze medal match: Qin Yiyuan-Tang Yongshu (Chn) bt Helene Kirkegaard-Rikke Olsen (Den) 7-15, 15-4, 15-8

Men's doubles, bronze medal match: Antonius-Denny Kantono (Ina) bt Soo Beng Kiang-Tan Kim Her (Mas) 15-4, 12-15, 15-8

Modern pentathlon

Final standings: 1. Aleksandr Parygin (Kaz) 5,551pts; 2. Eduard Zenovka (Rus) 5,530; 3. Janos Martinek (Hun) 5,501

Mountain bike

Men's cross country final: 1. Bart Jan Brentjens (Ned) 2:17:38 (avg speed 21.239 km/h); 2. Thomas Frischknecht (Sui) 2:20:14; 3. Miguel Martinez (Fra) 2:20:36

Women's cross country final: 1. Paola Pezzo (Ita) 1:50:51 (avg speed: 17.261 Km/h); 2. Alison Sydor (Can) 1:51:58; 3. Susan Demattei (USA) 1:52:36

Softball

Final positions: 1. United States; 2. China; 3. Australia

Weightlifting

Over 108kg: 1. Andrey Chemerkin (Rus) 457.5kg (NWR of 260kg for clean and jerk, old mark 255kg by Ronny Weller of Germany); 2. Ronny Weller (Ger) 455kg; 3. Stefan Botev (Aus) 450kg.

Yachting

Tornado final standings: 1. Fernando Leon-Jose Luis Ballester (Esp) 30; 2. Mitch Booth-Andrew Landenberger (Aus) 42; 3. Lars Grael-Kiko Pellicano (Bra) 43

Baseball (round-robin) United States 17 Netherlands 1 Japan 12 Italy 1

Basketball

Men's, quarterfinals: Lithuania 99 Greece 66 Yugoslavia 128 China 61 Australia 73 Croatia 71 United States 98 Brazil 75

Consolation Round: Argentina 97 S. Korea 79 Puerto Rico 76 Angola 67

Handball (Women's)

Group A: Denmark 27 Hungary 22 China 31 United States 21

Group B: Germany 27 Angola 12 South Korea 25 Norway 21

Hockey

Women's, round-robin: South Korea 1 Germany 0 Britain 5 Argentina 0 United States 2 Spain 0 Australia 4 Netherlands 0

Soccer (men's semifinal) Argentina 2 Portugal 0

Table tennis

Men's doubles: 1. Kong Linghui-Liu Guoliang (Chn); 2. Lin Lu-Wang Tao (Chn) 21-8, 13-21, 21-19, 21-11; 3. Lee Chul-seung/Yoo Nam- kyu (Kor)

Men's singles, quarterfinals: Joerg Rosskopf (Ger) bt Kim Taek- soo (Kor) 12-21, 26-24, 21-12, 16-21, 26-24; Petr Korbel (Cze) bt Jean-Michel Saive (Bel) 21-10, 21-13, 21-19; Wang Tao (Chn) bt Vladimir Samsonov (Blr) 16-21, 16-21, 21-10, 21-15, 21-15; Liu Guoliang (Chn) bt Huang Wen (Can) 9-21, 21-19, 21-16, 21-16

Women's singles, semifinals: Deng Yaping (Chn) bt Liu Wei (Chn) 21-23, 21-17, 21-19, 21-9; Chen Jing (Tpe) bt Qiao Hong (Chn) 21- 9, 23-21, 21-17

Tennis (quarterfinals)

Men's singles: Sergi Bruguera (Spa) bt Malivai Washington (USA) 7-6 (10-8), 4-6, 7-5; Andre Agassi (USA) bt Wayne Ferreira (RSA) 7-5, 4-6, 7-5; Leander Paes (Ind) bt Renzo Furlan (Ita) 6-1, 7-5; Fernando Meligeni (Bra) bt Andrei Olhovskiy (Rus) 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, 6-3

Women's doubles: Gigi Fernandez/Mary Joe Fernandez (USA) bt Valda Lake/Clare Wood (Gbr) 6-2, 6-1; Jana Novotna/Helena Sukova (Cze) bt Jill Hetherington/Patricia Hy-Boulais (Can) 6-2, 6-4; Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario/Conchita Martinez (Spa) bt Benjamas Sanagram/Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha) 6-2, 6-1; Manon Bollegraf/Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (Ned) bt Martina Hingis/Patty Schnyder (Sui) 6-4, 6-3

Volleyball

Women's, quarterfinals: China 3 Germany 0 Russia 3 Netherlands 1 Cuba 3 United States 0 Brazil 3 South Korea 0

Boxing (quarterfinals)

Light flyweight (48kgs): Daniel Petrov Bojilov (Bul) bt Somrot Kamsing (Tha) pts 18-6; Oleg Kiryukhin (Ukr) bt Albert Guardado (USA) pts 19-14; Mansueto Velasco (Phi) bt Hamid Berhili (Mar) pts 20-10, Rafael Lozano (Esp) bt La Paene Masara (Ina) pts 10-9.

Bantamweight (54kgs): Arnaldo Mesa (Cub) bt Rachid Bouaita (Fra) pts 15-8, Raimkul Malakhbekov (Rus) bt Uavacatseren Tseyen-Oidov (Mgl) pts 21-9; Khadpo Vichairachanon (Tha) bt Hicham Nafil (Mar) pts 13-4; Istvan Kovacs (Hun) bt Crinu Olteanu (Rom) pts 24-2; Terrance Cauthen (USA) bt Phongsit Veongviact (Tha) pts 14-10

Lightweight (60kgs): Tontcho Tontchev (Bul) bt Michael Strange (Cub) pts 16-10; Hoeina Soltania (Alg) bt Eun-Chui Shin (Kor) pts 16-10, Leonard Doroftei (Rom) bt Koba Gogoladze (Geo) pts 17-8

Welterweight (67kgs): Marian Simion (Rom) bt Hasan Al (Den) pts 16-8, Juan Hernandez (Cub) bt Nurzhan Smanov (Kaz) pts 16-8; Oleg Saitov (Rus) bt Kamel Chater (Tun) pts 9-3, Daniel Santos (Pur) bt Nariman Atayev (Uzb) pts 28-15.

Middleweight (75kgs): Malik Beyleroglu (Tur) bt Tomasz Borowski (Pol) pts 16-12, Mohamed Bahari (Alg) bt Brian Magee (Irl) pts 15-9; Rhoshii Wells (USA) bt Dilshood Yarbekov (Uzb) 8-8 (tiebreaker); Ariel Hernandez (Cub) bt Alexander Lebziak (Rus) pts 15-8

Heavyweight (91kgs): Nate Jones (USA) bt Jiang Tao (Chn) pts 21- 4; David Defiagbon (Can) bt Christophe Mendy (Fra) disq 3rd rd; Luan Krasniqi (Ger) bt Serguei Dychkov (Bel) pts 10-5, Felix Savon (Cub) bt Giorgi Kandelaki (Geo) pts 20-4.

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