Thursday, 31 July 2014

Commonwealth Games Day 8 GOLD medals

Athletics: Men's Discuss Vikas Shive Gowda (IND)
T54 1500m David Weir (ENG)
800m Nijel Amos (BOT)
400m Hurdles Cornel Fredericks (SA)
200m Rasheed Dwyer (JAM)
Women's Long Jump Ese Brume (NIG)
T54 1500m Angela Ballard (AUS)
400m Hurdles Kaliese Spencer (JAM)
200m Blessing Okagbare (NIG)

Bowls: Open Triples (SA)
Women's Triples (ENG)

Cycling: Men's individual time trial (Dorsett ENG)
Women's individual time trial (Linda Villumsen NZ)

Diving: Men's 3m Springboard Ooi Tze Liang (MAL)
Women's 10m Platform Meaghan Benefeito (CAN)

Gymnastics: Men's Pommel Horse Daniel Keatings (Scotland) 
Rings, Scott Morgan (CAN)
Floor (Max Whitlock ENG)
Women's Vault Claudia Fragapane (England) 
Uneven Bars Rebecca Downie (ENG) 

Weightlifting: Men's 105kg (Kobaladze CAN)

Wrestling: Men's 65kg (Yogeshwar Dutt (India)
86kg Tamerlan Tagziev (CAN)
Women's 63kg Danielle Lappage (CAN)
55kg Babita Kumari (India)

Wednesday, 30 July 2014

Commonwealth Games Day 7 GOLD Medals

Athletics: Men's High Jump, (Derek Drouin CAN)

Long Jump (Greg Rutherford ENG)

400m (Kirani James ENG)

Women's 300m Steeplechase Purity cherotich Kirui (KEN)

Heptathlon (Brianne Theisen-Eaton CAN)

Javelin Kim Mickle (Australia)
Shot Put Valerie Adams (New Zealand)

Gymnastics: Men's all around individual (Whitlock ENG)
Women's all around individual (Claudia Fragapane (England)

Diving: Women's 10m Synchro Meaghan Benfeito, Roseline Filion CAN 

Women's 3m Synchro Springboard Blagg and Gallantree (ENG)
Men's 1m Springboard (Laugher ENG)

Weightlifting: men's 105kg David Katoatau (KIR) = Kiribati
Women's 75kg Maryam Usman (Nigeria) 

Wrestling: Women's 53kg (Odunayo Adekuoroye NIG)
58kg (Minat Adeniyi NIG)
69kg (Dori Yeats CAN)
Men's 61kg  (David Tremblay CAN)
97kg Arjun Gill (Canada)

Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Commonwealth Games Day 6 GOLD medals

Athletics: Men's 110m hurdles, Andrew Riley (Jamaica)
hammer throw (Jim Steacy CAN)
decathlon, Damian Warner (CAN)
women's 400m, Stephanie McPherson (Jamaica) 
1500m, (Kibiegon KEN)
10,000m Joyce Chepkiri (Kenya) 
triple jump Kimberly Williams, (JAM)
Cycling: Men's cross country (Anton Cooper (New Zealand)
Women's cross country (Catharine Pendrel CAN)
Gymnastics: Men's team final (ENG)
women's team final (ENG)
Shooting: Men's trap, (Adam Vella AUS)
25m rapid fire pistol (David J Chapman AUS)
50m rifle three positions, (Daniel Rivers ENG)

Queen's prize (David Luckman ENG)
women's 50m rifle three positions, (Jasmine Ser SIN)
Swimming: Men's 50m free, (Ben Proud ENG)
1500m free, Ryan Cochrane (Canada) 
200m medley, (Tranter AUS)
4x100m medley relay, (ENG)
women's 400m free, (Lauren Boyle NZ)
50m back, Georgia Davies (Wales) 
4x100m medley relay (AUS)
Para-sport 200m SM10 medley (Sophie Pascoe (New Zealand)
Weightlifting: Women's 75kg, (Marie-Eve Beauchemin-Nadeau CAN)
men's 94kg (Steven Kukuna Kari PNG)
Wrestling: Men's 57kg, (Amit Kumar IND)
74kg Sushil Kumar (India) 
125kg, (Korey Jarvis CAN)
women's 48kg (Vinesh IND)
75kg.(Erica Wiebe CAN)

Monday, 28 July 2014

Commonwealth Games Day 5 GOLD medals

Athletics: Men's 100m, Bailey-Cole (JAM)
shot put, O'Dayne Richards (Jamaica)
Para-sport 100m T37 (Van der Merwe RSA)

and Para-sport discus F42/44 (Dan Greaves ENG)
women's 100m, Okagbare (NIG)

hammer throw Sultana Frizell (Canada) 
and Para-sport 100m T12) Libby Clegg (SCO)
Badminton: Mixed team final (MAL)
Lawn bowls: Men's pairs (Paul FOSTER, Alex MARSHALL SCO)

and triples (RSA)
Shooting: Men's 50m pistol (Jitu Rai IND)
50m rifle prone events (Warren Potent AUS)
women's trap (Laetisha Scanlan AUS)
50m rifle prone events (Sally Johnson (New Zealand)
Squash: Men's singles (Matthew ENG) 
women's singles (Nicol David MAL)
Swimming: Men's 200m back (Larkin AUS)
50m breast, (Van Der Burgh RSA)
100m fly (Le Clos RSA)
and Para-sport 200m SM8 medley, Ollie Hynd (England)
women's 800m free Jazz Carlin (Wales) 
100m free, (Cate Campbell AUS)
100m breast Sophie Taylor (England)
and 200m fly (Lacroix CAN)
Table Tennis: Men's team (Singapore)
Weightlifting: Women's -69kg Marie Fegue (CMR)
men's 85kg. Richard Patterson (NZ)

Sunday, 27 July 2014

Commonwealth Games Day 4 GOLD medals

Athletics: Men's marathon (Shelley AUS)
Women's Marathon (Flomena Cheyech Daniel Kenya)

men's 5,000m, (Caleb Ndiku Kenya)

women's Para-sport long jump T37/38 (Jodi Elkington (Australia)
Cycling - track: Men's keirin, Matthew Glaetzer (Australia)

scratch race, (Archbold NZL)


women's sprint, (Morton AUS)


points race (Laura Trott (England)


Para-sport 1,000m time trial B tandem (Thornhill/Scott ENG)
Lawn bowls: Women's singles  Jo Edwards (New Zealand)

fours. (RSA)


Rugby Sevens: South Africa
Shooting: Men's double trap (Steven Scott ENG)
women's double trap (Charlotte Kerwood (England)
Swimming: Men's 100m free, James Magnussen (Australia)

50m back (Treffers AUS)


4x200m free relay (AUS)


women's 200m back, Belinda Hocking (Australia) 

50m fly, (Fran Halsall ENG)


200m medley (Siobhan-Marie O'Connor ENG)


 Para-sport 100m SB9 breast. Pascoe (NZ)
Table tennis: Women's team (Singapore)
Weightlifting: Women's 63kg, Olauwatoyin Adesanmi (NIG)

men's 77kg. Sathish Kumar Sivalingam (India)

Tour De France Stage 21/21 Evry to Paris

Vincenzo Nibali won the 101st edition of the Tour de France as he finished the final stage on the Champs-Elysees in Paris safely in the peloton.
The Italian is the sixth man to win all three Grand Tours - the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana.
His winning margin of seven minutes 37 seconds over Jean-Christophe Peraud in second is the biggest since Jan Ullrich won by more than nine minutes in 1997.
Germany's Marcel Kittel won Sunday's traditional final-stage sprint finish.
The Giant-Shimano rider outsprinted Norway's Alexander Kristoff to win his fourth stage of this year's Tour, with Garmin-Sharp's Lithuanian Ramunas Navardauskas in third.
For Nibali, the 21st and final stage was all about reaching the finish safely because Tour tradition dictates that the leader going into the final stage should not be challenged.
The 29-year-old Astana rider dominated the Tour from the moment he took the race lead on stage two in Sheffield and wore the race leader's yellow jersey for 18 of the race's 21 days.
He is the first Italian winner of the race since Marco Pantani in 1998.

Vincenzo Nibali's Grand Tour record

YearGiro d'ItaliaTour de FranceVuelta a Espana
DNE - did not enter
2007
19th
DNE
DNE
2008
11th
20th
DNE
2009
DNE
7th
DNE
2010
3rd
DNE
Winner
2011
2nd
DNE
7th
2012
DNE
3rd
DNE
2013
Winner
DNE
2nd
2014
DNE
Winner
-
"It's very difficult to make a comparison between Pantani's victory and my victory, because Marco won his in the last week, two days before the end," the Sicilian said.
"For me it's the contrary - I had the yellow jersey on my back after two days.
"After winning the Vuelta, the Giro and the Tour, I'll keep focusing on Grand Tours but I'd also like to crown it all with a world champion's rainbow jersey one year."
He added: "The Vuelta was perhaps the most important competition because it gave me the strength to go into the Giro and the Tour in the following year.
"The Giro was an important competition for the Italian public. Within the context of the Tour de France it's something even greater than the Giro. It's a more emotional, intense moment."
Nibali won the hilly second stage in Yorkshire, that had begun in York, and strengthened his position on the cobbles of northern France on stage five, finishing more than two minutes ahead of two-time Tour winner Alberto Contador, while Britain's defending champion Chris Froome crashed out.
Contador was then forced to pull out with a fractured leg after crashing on stage 10, as Nibali tightened his grip on the race by winning hissecond stage.
A third stage victory followed in the Alps and a fourth in the Pyrenees as the Italian underlined his superiority in the race.
Sunday's 137.5km stage began in pedestrian fashion in Evry with Nibali collecting champagne flutes from his Astana team car to distribute among his team-mates and then posing for photographs with race officials.
The pace finally quickened as the peloton reached the outskirts of Paris for eight laps of a seven kilometre route that had earlier been used for the women's La Course, which was won by Dutch world champion Marianne Vos.
France's Sylvain Chavanel was the first rider to attack on the Champs-Elysees on the opening lap in Paris, while Germany's Jens Voigt was allowed to race clear on the second lap, in recognition of it being the 42-year-old's 17th and final Tour.
There was a slight scare for Peraud, who crashed on the third of the eight circuits of Paris, but Nibali, as Tour etiquette dictates, told the peloton to slow down to allow the Frenchman to rejoin the main bunch.

Magnus Backstedt - Former Tour de France stage winner

"Nibali has stayed out of trouble. We've had some difficult terrain and he's a worthy winner. You have to stay on your bike and get to Paris. He has been the best man to do that and he's had a superb team, who have looked after him every step of the way. He won it across the cobblestones on stage five. He put so much time into everyone else. For me this has been the best Tour in a number of years."
Peraud stayed upright for the remainder of the race to finish second overall, ahead of compatriot Thibaut Pinot, who also won the white jersey as the quickest under-25 rider.
It is the first time in 17 years that a home rider has finished in the top three - Richard Virenque was second in 1997 - and the first time in 30 years that two Frenchmen will finish on the podium - Laurent Fignon beat Bernard Hinault to the title in 1984. Hinault was also the last French winner in 1985.
Richie Porte, who took over as Team Sky's leader after Froome crashed out, was responsible for the day's biggest break, building an advantage of more than 20 seconds with Tinkoff-Saxo rider Michael Morkov and Lampre's Jose Serpa.
Porte raced clear on his own with two laps remaining. However, there was no fairy-tale ending for the Australian - who has endured a torrid Tour - or his British-based team, which has won the previous two editions with Froome and Sir Bradley Wiggins. Porte was caught with 7.5km remaining.
The final lap was all about the sprinters and Kittel was fastest as he won the final stage in Paris for a second successive year.
Stage 21 result
1. Marcel Kittel (Ger/Giant-Shimano) 3hrs 20mins 50secs
2. Alexander Kristoff (Nor/Katusha) Same time
3. Ramunas Navardauskas (Lit/Garmin-Sharp)
4. Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto-Belisol)
5. Mark Renshaw (Aus/Omega Pharma - Quick-Step)
6. Bernhard Eisel (Aut/Team Sky)
7. Bryan Coquard (Fra/Europcar)
8. Alessandro Petacchi (Ita/Omega Pharma - Quick-Step)
9. Peter Sagan (Svk/Cannondale)
10. Romain Feillu (Fra/Bretagne-Seche)
Final classification
1. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Astana) 89hrs 59mins 06secs
2. Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra/AG2R) +7mins 37secs
3. Thibaut Pinot (Fra/FDJ.fr) +8mins 15secs
4. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +9mins 40secs
5. Tejay van Garderen (US/BMC Racing) +11mins 44secs
Selected:
22. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) +59mins 14secs

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GREEN JERSEY
 
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Saturday, 26 July 2014

Commonwealth Games Day 3 GOLD Medals

Gold medals won today: 29. 

Cycling men's 1,000m time trial (Scott Sunderland AUS) 
points race (Thomas Scully NZL)
Para-sport sprint B tandem (Fachie/McLean SCO) 

women's scratch race (Edmondson AUS)

gymnastics rhythmic individual hoop (Patricia Bezzoubenko CAN), 
individual balls (Patricia Bezzoubenko CAN) 
clubs (Patricia Bezzoubenko CAN)
ribbon (Frankie Jones WAL)

judo (men's -90kg Zack Piontek South Africa)
-100kg (Burton SCO)
and +100kg, Sherrington (SCO)

women's 

-78kg Natalie Powell (Wales) 
+78kg Sarah Adlington (SCO)

lawn bowls Para-sport mixed pairs B2/B3 (RSA)

shooting (men's skeet (Achilleos CYP) 
and 10m air pistol (Daniel Repacholi AUS)
Queen's Prize Pairs David Luckman and Parag Patel (England) 

women's 10m air rifle (Chandela IND)
and 25m pistol, (Rahi Sarnobat IND)

swimming men's 100m breast, Adam Peaty ENG
200m fly (Chad Le Clos RSA) 
Para-sport 200m S14 free (Daniel Fox (Australia)

women's 50m free (Fran Halsall (England) 
100m back, Emily Seebohm (AUS)
200m breast (Taylor McKeown AUS)
4x200m free relay (AUS)

 triathlon team relay (ENG)

weightlifting women's 58kg (Zoe Smith ENG)
men's 69kg (Mohd Hafifi Mansor MAL)

Tour De France Stage 20 Time Trial Bergerac - Périgueux

Italy's Vincenzo Nibali is poised to win the Tour de France after Tony Martin won the penultimate stage, a 54km time trial to Perigueux.
World time trial champion Martin completed the hilly course in one hour six minutes and 21 seconds, 99 seconds quicker than Dutchman Tom Dumoulin.
Nibali finished fourth to extend his lead to seven minutes 52 seconds ahead of Sunday's processional race to Paris.
France's Jean-Christophe Peraud moved up to second ahead of Thibaut Pinot.
It will be the first time in 17 years that a Frenchman will finish in the top three - Richard Virenque was second in 1997 - and the first time in 30 years that two Frenchmen will finish on the podium - Laurent Fignon beat Bernard Hinault to the title in 1984.

Nibali still has to finish the race in Paris, but it is a largely leisurely ride into the French capital which usually finishes in a bunch sprint on the Champs-Elysees and should not affect the overall standings.
"It was not an easy time trial, it required a lot of power," said 29-year-old Nibali. "I never thought about that (becoming the first Italian to win since Pantani), I'm not sure I have realised yet."
The Astana rider has dominated this year's Tour, winning four stages and spending 17 days in the race leader's yellow jersey. He is set to become the first Italian since Marco Pantani in 1998 to win the world's most prestigious stage race.
He will also become just the sixth man to win all three of cycling's Grand Tours - the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana.
Nibali won the Giro in 2013 and the Vuelta in 2010. His previous best finish in the Tour was third place, behind Britain's Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome, in 2012.

Nibali's winning margin of almost eight minutes will be the biggest since Jan Ullrich won by nine minutes, nine seconds in 1997.
Saturday's individual time trial went largely to form with Omega Pharma - Quick-Step rider Martin averaging 48.4km/h to comfortably win.
Nibali finished ahead of his rivals in the general classification to extend his lead by 40 seconds, while 37-year-old AG2R rider Peraud overturned a 13-second deficit to leapfrog Pinot and take second overall, despite having a flat tyre and needing to change bikes during the stage.
Pinot, 24, will also claim the white jersey as the quickest under-25 rider in the race.
Spanish time trial champion Alejandro Valverde had been expected to challenge the Frenchmen but he finished more than two minutes behind Peraud and more than one minute adrift of Pinot.
Stage 20 result
1. Tony Martin (Ger/Omega Pharma - Quick-Step) 1hr 06mins 21secs
2. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Giant-Shimano) +1min 39secs
3. Jan Barta (Cze/NetApp Endura) +1min 47secs
4. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Astana) +1min 58secs
5. Leopold Koenig (Cze/NetApp Endura) +2mins 02secs
6. Tejay van Garderen (US/BMC Racing) +2mins 08secs
7. Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra/AG2R) +2mins 27secs
8. Sylvain Chavanel (Fra/IAM Cycling) +2mins 36secs
9. Markel Irizar (Spa/Trek) +2mins 39secs
10. Daniel Oss (Ita/BMC Racing) +2mins 58secs
General classification after stage 20
1. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Astana) 86hrs 37mins 52secs
2. Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra/AG2R) +7mins 52secs
3. Thibaut Pinot (Fra/FDJ.fr) +8mins 24secs
4. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +9mins 55secs
5. Tejay van Garderen (US/BMC Racing) +11mins 44secs

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POLKA-DOT JERSEY
 
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Friday, 25 July 2014

Commonwealth Games Day 2 GOLD medals

Cycling (men's sprint (Sam Webster New Zealand) 
individual pursuit (Jack Bobridge AUS)
Para-sport 1,000m time trial B tandem, (Neil Fachie Scotland)
women's individual pursuit (Joanna Rowsell ENG)

gymnastics (rhythmic individual all-around, Patricia Bezzoubenko CAN)

judo (men's -73kg (Danny Williams ENG) and -81kg (Owen Livesey ENG)
women's -63kg (Sarah Clark SCO) and -70kg (Megan Fletcher ENG) 

shooting (men's 10m air rifle (Abhinav Bindra IND)
women's skeet (Laura Coles AUS) and 10m air pistol (Shun Xie Teo SIN)

swimming (men's 200m free (Thomas Fraser-Holmes AUS
100m back (Chris Walker-Hebborn (England)
50m fly (Benjamin Proud ENG), 400m medley (Daniel Wallace SCO
and 4x100m free relay (AUS)

women's 50m breast (Leiston Pickett AUS), 100m fly (Katerine Savard CAN
and Para-sport 100m S8 free (Maddison Elliott AUS

weightlifting women's 53kg (Chika Amalaha NIG)

men's 62kg (Dimitris Minasidis (Cyprus)