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Results at a glance

ARCHERY

Men’s team event: 1. South Korea (227), 2. Italy 225), 3. China (222).

BASKETBALL

Women’s preliminaries: USA 108 bt China 63; Russia 77 bt Korea 72; Belarus 80 bt Latvia 57; Spain 85 bt New Zealand 62; Czech Republic 81 bt Mali 47.

DIVING

Men’s 10m synchronised final: 1. Yue Lin & Liang Huo (Chn), 2. Patrick Hausding & Sascha Klein (Ger), 3. Gleb Galperin & Dmitriy Dobroskok (Rus).

FENCING

Women’s Individual Foil final: 1. Vezzali Maria Valentina (Ita), 2. Hyunhee Nam (Kor), 3. Granbassi Margherita (Ita).

HANDBALL

Women’s preliminaries: France 21 bt Kazakhstan 18; Norway 31 bt Angola 17; Brazil 28 drew with Hungary 28; Korea 30 bt Germany 20.

HOCKEY

Men’s pool matches: New Zealand 3 bt South Korea 1; Germany 4 bt China 1; Great Britain 4 bt Pakistan 2; Australia 6 bt Canada 1; Spain 4 bt Belgium; Netherlands 5 bt South Africa 0.

JUDO

Men’s 73kg final: 1. Elnur Mammadli (Aze), 2. Kichun Wang (Kor), 3. Rasul Boqiev (Tjk)/ Leandro Guilheiro (Brz).

Women’s 57kg final: 1. Giulia Quintavalle (Ita), 2. Deborah Gravenstijn (Ned), 3. Ketleyn Quadros (Brz)/ Xu Yan (Chn).

SHOOTING

Men’s 10m air rifle final: 1. Abhinav Bindra (Ind), 2. Q. Zhu (Chn), 3. H. Hakkinin (Fin)

Women’s trap final: 1. S. Makela-Nummela (Fin), 2. Z. Stefecekova (Svk), 3. C. Cogdell (US).

SWIMMING

Men’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay final: 1. United States 3:08.24 (WR), 2. France 3:08.32, 3. Australia 3:09.91.

Women’s 400m freestyle final: 1. R. Adlington (GB) 4:03.22, 2. K. Hoff (US) 4:03.29, 3. J. Jackson (GB) 4:03.52.

Men’s 100m breaststroke final: 1. K. Kitajima (Jpn) 58.91 (WR), 2. A. D. Oen (Nor) 59.20, 3. H. Duboscq (Fra) 59.37.

Women’s 100m butterfly final: 1. L. Trickett (Aus) 56.73, 2. C. Magnuson (US) 57.10, 3. J. Schipper (Aus) 57.25.

TENNIS

Men’s singles: First round: Roger Federer (Sui) bt Dmitry Tursunov (Rus) 6-4 6-2; Gilles Simon (Fra) bt Robin Soderling (Swe) 6-4 6-4; Nicolas Kiefer (Ger) bt Max Mirnyi (Blr) 6-3 6-1; Janko Tipsarevic (Ser) bt David Ferrer (Spa) 7-6 (10-8) 6-2; David Nalbandian (Arg) bt Zeng Shaoxuan (Chn) 6-2 6-1; Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) bt Jiri Vanek (Cze) 6-4 6-1; Stanislas Wawrinka (Sui) bt Frank Dancevic (Can) 4-6 6-3 6-2; Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) bt Jonas Bjorkman (Swe) 7-5 7-6 (7-2); Rafael Nadal (Spa) bt Potito Starace (Ita) 6-2 3-6 6-2; Igor Andreev (Rus) bt Sam Querrey (US) 6-4 6-4; Lu Yen-Hsun (Tpe) bt Andy Murray (GB) 7-6 (7-5) 6-4.

Women’s singles: First round: Vera Zvonereva (Rus) bt Yan Zi (Chn) 6-2 6-0; Serena Williams (US) bt Olga Govortsova (Blr) 6-3 6-1; Alize Cornet (Fra) bt Nicole Vaidisova (Cze) 4-6 6-1 6-4; Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) bt Ai Sugiyama (Jpn) 6-2 7-5; Dinara Safina (Rus) bt Mara Santangelo (Ita) 6-3 7-6 (1); Iveta Benesova (Cze) bt Sania Mirza (Ind) 6-1 2-1 RET; Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) bt Yung-Jan Chan (Tpe) 6-1 7-6 (8-6).

VOLLEYBALL

Women’s preliminaries: Serbia bt Algeria 3-0, Italy bt Kazakhstan 3-0, Cuba bt USA 3-0, Brazil bt Russia 3-0, China bt Poland 3-1.

WEIGHTLIFTING

Men’s 62 kg final: 1. Zhang Xiangxiang (Chn), 2. Diego Salazar (Col), 3. Triyanto (Ina)

Women’s 58kg final: 1. Chen Yanqing (Chn), 2. Marina Shainova (Rus), 3. O Jong Ae (PRK).

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