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RESULTS AT A GLANCE

ATHLETICS

Decathlon: 1.Bryan Clay (USA) 8791 pts, 2. Andrei Krauchanka (Blr) 8551, 3. Leonel Suarez (Cub) 8527.

Men’s 50km Walk: 1. Alex Schwazer (Ita) 3:37:09, 2. Jared Tallent (Aus) 3:39:27, 3. Denis Nizhegorodov (Rus) 3:40:14.

Women’s 5000m: 1. Tirunesh Dibaba (Eth) 15:41.40, 2. Elvan Abeylegesse (Tur) 15:42.74, 3. Meseret Defar (Eth) 15:44.12.

Women’s Long Jump: 1. Maurren Higa Maggi (Bra) 7.04m, 2. Tatyana Lebedeva (Rus) 7.03m, 3. Blessing Okagbare (Nig) 6.91m.

Men’s Pole Vault: 1. Steve Hooker (Aus) 5.96m, 2. Evgeny Lukyanenko (Rus) 5.85m, 3. Denys Yurchenko (Ukr) 5.70m.

Women’s 4x100m Relay: 1. Russian (Evgeniya Polyakova , Aleksandra Fedoriva , Yulia Gushchina, Yuliya Chermoshanskaya) 42.31s, 2. Belgium (Olivia Borlee, Hanna Marien, Elodie Ouedraogo, Kim Gevaert) 42.54s, 3. Nigeria (Franca Idoko, Gloria Kemasuode, Halimat Ismaila, Oludamola Osayomi) 43.04s.

Men’s 4x100m Relay: 1. Jamaica (Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell) 37.10s WR, 2. Trinidad/Tobago (Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender, Richard Thompson) 38.06s, 3. Japan (Naoki Tsukahara, Shingo Suetsugu, Shinji Takahira, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.15s.

Women’s Modern Pentathlon: 1. Lena Schoneborn (Ger) 5792 pts, 2. Heather Fell (GBR) 5752, 3. Victoria Tereshchuk (Ukr) 5672.

BASKETBALL

Men’s semifinals: Spain 91 bt Lithuania 86; USA 101 bt Argentina 81.

BEACH VOLLEYBALL

Men’s Final: Philip Dalhausser & Todd Rogers (USA) Bt Marcio Araujo & Fabio Magalhaes (Bra) 23-21, 17-21, 15-4.

Bronze Medal Match: Ricardo Santos & Emanuel Rego (Bra) Bt Jorge Terceiro & Renato Gomes (Geo) 21-15, 21-10.

BOXING

Men’s super heavyweight (+91kg) semifinals: Zhilei Zhang (Chn) w/o Vyacheslav Glazkov (Ukr); Roberto Cammarelle (Ita) bt David Price (GBR) 9-0.

Men’s light heavyweight (81kg) semifinals: Xiaoping Zhang (Chn) bt Yerkebulan Shynaliyev (Kaz) +4-4; Kenny Egan (Ire) bt Tony Jefferies (GBR) 10-3.

Men’s welterweight (69kg) semifinals: Bakhyt Sarsekbayev (Kaz) bt Jungjoo Kim (Kor) 10-6; Carlos Banteaux Suarez (Cub) bt Silamu Hanati (Chn) 17-4.

Men’s lightweight (60kg) semifinals: Daouda Sow (Fra) bt Yordenis Ugas (Cub) 15-8; Alexey Tishchenko (Rus) bt Hrachik Javakhyan (Arm) 10-5.

Men’s bantamweight (54kg) semifinals: Badar-Uugan Enkhbat (Mon) bt Veaceslav Gojan (Mda) 15-2; Yankiel Leon Alarcon (Cub) bt Bruno Julie (Mau) 7-5.

Men’s light flyweight (48kg) semifinals: Serdamba Purevdorj (Mon) bt G. Yampier Hernandez (Cub) 8-8; Shiming Zou (Chn) bt Paddy Barnes (Ire) 15-0.

Men’s heavyweight (91kg) semifinals: Rakhim Chakhkiev (Rus) bt Osmai Acosta Duarte (Cub) 10-5; Clemente Russo (Ita) bt Deontay Wilder (USA) 7-1.

Men’s flyweight (51kg) semifinals: Andris Laffita Hernandez (Cub) bt Georgy Balakshin (Rus) 9-8; Somjit Jongjohor (Tha) bt Vinenzo Picardi (Ita) 7-1.

Men’s featherweight (57kg) semifinals: Vasyl Lomachenko (Ukr) bt Yakup Kilic (Tur) 10-1; Khedafi Djelkhir (Fra) bt Shahin Imranov (Aze) ret.

Men’s light welterweight (64kg) semifinals: Manus Boonjumnong (Tha) bt Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo (Cub) 10-5; Felix Diaz (Dom) bt Alexis Vastine (Fra) 12-10.

Men’s middleweight (75kg) semifinals: James Degale (GBR) bt Darren John Sutherland (Ire) 10-3; Emilio Correa Bayeaux (Cub) bt Vijender Kumar (Ind) 8-5.

FOOTBALL

Men’s bronze medal match: Brazil 3 (Diego, Jo-2) bt Belgium 0

HANDBALL

Men’s semifinal: Iceland 36 bt Spain 30; France 25 Croatia 23.

Men’s placement 5-8 matches: Russia 28 bt Denmark 27; Poland 29 bt South Korea 26.

HOCKEY

Women’s final: The Netherlands 2 (van AS Naomi, Maartje Goderie) bt China 0. Women’s bronze medal match: Argentina 3 (Rosario Luchetti, Carla Rebecchi, Noel Barrionuevo) bt Germany 1 (Anke Kuehn).

Women’s classification matches: 5-6: Australia 2 bt Great Britain 0; 11-12: South Africa 4 bt New Zealand 1.

TABLE TENNIS

Women’s singles final: Yining Zhang (Chn) bt Nan Wang (Chn) 8-11, 13-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-3.

Women’s singles bronze medal match: Yue Guo (Chn) bt Jia Wei Li (Sin) 11-6, 14-12, 9-11, 7-11, 11-3, 11-4.

Women’s singles semifinals: Yining Zhang bt Jia Wei Li (Sin) 9-11, 11-8, 12-10, 11-8, 11-5; Nan Wang bt Yue Guo 3-11, 11-8, 4-11, 11-7, 11-3, 11-6.

Men’s singles quarterfinals: Wang Hao (Chn) bt Lai Chak Ko (HK) 11-7, 8-11, 11-6, 11-7, 11-9; Jorgen Persson (Swe) bt Zoran Primorac (Cro) 7-11, 11-6, 11-8, 14-12, 11-9; Wang Ligin (Chn) bt Ruiwu Tan (Cro) 11-7, 11-5, 11-8, 11-8; Ma Lin (Chn) bt Sang Eun Ho (Kor) 11-3, 11-5, 11-9, 12-10.

VOLLEYBALL

Men’s semifinals: USA bt Russia 25-22, 25-21, 25-27, 22-25, 15-13; Brazil bt Italy 19-25, 25-18, 25-21, 25-22.

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