SPORTSLINE (09/28/03)

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Track and field

Ukraine won four medals at the 2003 Track and Field World Championships in Saint-Denis, France, on August 23-31. The United States took first place in the overall medal count with 20 medals. Russia finished in second place with 19 medals, while Ethiopia finished in third place with seven medals. Ukraine finished 36th in the medal count.

Ukraine's Ivan Heshko took third place in the men's 1,500-meter competition, finishing the race in 3 minutes and 33.17 seconds. Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj took first place with a time of 3:31.77, while France's Mehdi Baala took second place with a time of 3:32.31.

In the men's high jump Andrii Sokolovskyi of Ukraine took eighth place with a jump of 7.51 feet, while South Africa's Jacques Freitag took first place, clearing 7.71 feet. Sweden's Stefan Holm took second place with a jump of 7.612, and Canada's Mark Boswell took third with a jump of 7.61.

Denys Yurchenko of Ukraine took sixth place in the men's pole vault, clearing 18.7 feet. Italy's Giuseppe Gibilisco took first place with a jump of 19.36, while South Africa's Okkert Brits took second place with a jump of 19.19. Sweden's Patrik Kristiansson took third, clearing 19.19 feet.

Ukraine's Volodymyr Ziuskov took sixth place in the men's long jump with a mark of 26.51 feet. America's Dwight Phillips took first place with a jump of 27.30 feet, and Jamaica's James Beckford took second with a jump of 27.17 feet. Spain's Yago Lamela took third place with a jump of 26.97 feet.

Yurii Bilonoh of Ukraine took a bronze medal in the men's shot put with a throw of 69.23 feet. Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus took the gold medal with a throw of 71.16 feet, and Adam Nelson of the United States took the silver medal with a throw of 69.75 feet.

In the men's hammer throw Ukraine's Andrii Skvaruk took fourth place with a throw of 261.42 feet, while Ivan Tikhon of Belarus took first place with a throw of 272.47 feet. Hungary's Adrian Annus took second place with a throw of 263.65, and Koji Murofushi of Japan took third place, throwing 262.86.

In the women's 4x100-meter relay Ukraine's team of Tetiana Tkalich, Anzhela Kravchenko, Olena Pastushenko and Oksana Kaidash took fourth place, finishing the race in 43.07 seconds. France took first place with a time of 41.78, and the United States took second with a time of 41.83. Russia took third place with a time of 42.66.

Zhanna Block of Ukraine took fifth place in the women's 200-meter event, finishing the race in 22.92 seconds. America's Kelli White took first place with a time of 22.05, and Russia's Anastasiya Kapachinskaya took second place with a time of 22.38, and American Torri Edwards took third place with a time of 22.47. Ukraine's Kravchenko took eighth place with a time of 23.00 seconds.

Ukraine's Block then took third place in the women's 100-meter event with a time of 10.99 seconds. Americans White and Edwards took first and second places, respectively, with times of 10.85 and 10.93.

Vira Zozulia took 17th place in the women's 20-kilometer walk with a time of 1 hour, 33 minutes and 34 seconds. Russia's Yelena Nikolayeva won the event with a competition record time of 1:26:52. Ireland's Gillian O'Sullivan took second place with a time of 1:27:34, and Valentina Tsybulskaya of Belarus took third place with a time of 1:28:10.

Ukraine's Olena Antonova took fourth place in women's discus with a throw of 216.21 feet. Irina Yatchenko of Belarus won the event with a throw of 220.87 feet. Anastasia Kelesidou of Greece took second place with a throw of 220.28 feet, and her teammate Ekterini Voggoli, took third place with a throw of 218.93 feet.

Vita Pavlysh of Ukraine took the bronze medal in women's shot put with a throw of 65.88 feet, while Russia's Svetlana Krivelyova took the gold medal with a throw of 67.68 feet. Nadezhda Ostapchuk of Belarus took the silver medal with a throw of 66.01 feet.

Ukraine's Olena Hovorova took seventh place in the women's triple jump with a mark of 47.18 feet. Russia's Tatyana Lebedeva won the event with a mark of 49.80 feet, and Cameroon's Franise Mbango Etone took second place, jumping 49.38 feet. Italy's Magdelena Martez took third with a jump of 48.89 feet.

Ukraine's Vita Palamar took fifth place in the women's high jump, clearing a height of 6.40 feet. South Africa's Hestrie Cloete won the event by clearing 6.76 feet, and Russia's Marina Kuptsova took second place, jumping 6.56 feet. Sweden's Kajsa Bergqvist took third place with a jump of 6.56 feet.

Tatiana Tereschuk Antipova of Ukraine took fifth place in the women's 400-meter hurdles, finishing the race in 54.61 seconds. Australia's Jana Pittman won the race with a time of 53.22 seconds, while Sandra Glover of the United States took second place with a time of 53.65 and Russia's Yuliya Pechonkina took third place, finishing in 53.71 seconds.

In the women's 10,000-meter event Ukraine's Natalia Berkut came in 22nd place with a time of 33 minutes and 12.84 seconds. Ethiopia's Berhane Adere won the event with a competition record time of 30:04.18, while her teammate Werknesh Kidane took second place with a time of 30:07.15. China's Yingjie Sun took third place with a time of 30:07.20.

Ukraine's Nelia Neporadna took 11th place in the women's 1,500-meter event, finishing the race in 4 minutes and 4.44 seconds. Russia's Tatyana Tomashova won the gold medal with a competition record time of 3:58.52, while Turkey's Sureyya Ayhan took second place with a time of 3:59.04, and Great Britain's Hayley Tullet took third place with a time of 3:59.95.

Gymnastics

The Ukrainian team of Oleksander Beresh, Valerii Honcharov, Ruslan Miezientsev, Oleksander Svitlychnyi, Serhii Vialtsev and Roman Zozulia took eighth place in the men's team competition at the 2003 World Championships in Anaheim, Calif., on August 16-24. China took first place with 171.996 points, and the United States took second place with 171.121 points, while Japan took third place with 170.708 points. The Ukrainian team finished with 165.108 points.

In the women's team competition Ukraine's Alina Kozych, Iryna Krasnianska, Aliona Kvasha, Maryna Proskurina, Natalia Sirobaba and Iryna Yarotskaya took seventh place with 108.235 points. The United States took first place with 112.573 points, Romania took second place with 110.833 points, and Australia took third place with 110.335 points.

Ukraine's Yarotskaya took fourth place in the women's all-around competition with 37.311 points, while her teammate Kozych took eighth place with 36.974 points. Russia's Svetlana Khorkina took first place with 38.124 points, and Carly Patterson of the United States took second place with 37.936 points. Nan Zhang of China took third place with 37.624 points.

Ukraine's Zozulia took ninth place in the men's all-around competition with 56.161 points, while teammate Miezientsev took 10th place with 55.724 points. Paul Hamm of the United States took first place with a score of 57.774, and China's Wei Yang took second with a score of 57.710. Japan's Hiroyuki Tomita took third with 57.435 points.

In the women's vault Ukraine's Kvasha took eighth place with a score of 9.031. Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan took first place with a score of 9.481. North Korea's Yun Mi Kang and Russia's Elena Zamolodchikova tied for second place with 9.443 points.

Ukraine's Krasnianska took seventh place in the women's balance beam with a score of 8.550. China's Ye Fan won the event with 9.812 points, and Catalina Ponor of Romania took second place with 9.587 points, while Russia's Liudmila Ezhova took third place with a score of 9.550.

Krasnianska took seventh place in the women's uneven bars with a score of 8.875, while teammate Yarotskaya took sixth place with a score of 9.300. American teammates Hollie Vise and Chellsie Memmel tied for first place in the event with a score of 9.612. Great Britain's Elizabeth Tweddle took third place with a score of 9.512.

Kvasha took eighth place in the women's floor exercise with a score of 7.687, while Brazil's Daiane Dos Santos won the event with a score of 9.737. Romania's Catalina Ponor took second place with a score of 9.700, and Elena Gomez of Spain took third with a score of 9.675.

Swimming

Ukraine's Yana Klochkova took the gold medal and a competition record in the women's 200-meter individual medley at the 10th Federation Internationale de Natiation (FINA) World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, on July 12-27. Australia's Alice Mills took second place with a time of 2 minutes and 12.75 seconds, while China's Yafei Zhou took third place with a time of 2:12.92. Klochkova finished the race in 2:10.75.

Iryna Amshennikova of Ukraine took sixth place in the women's 100-meter backstroke, finishing in 1 minute and 1.43 seconds. Antje Buschschulte of Germany took first place with a time of 1:00.50. Louise Ornstedt of Denmark and Katy Sexton of Great Britain tied for second place with a time of 1:00.86.

Amshennikova took fourth place in the women's 200-meter backstroke finishing the race in 2 minutes and 10.17 seconds. Great Britain's Sexton won the event with a time of 2:08.74, Margaret Hoelzer took second place with a time of 2:09.24, and Russia's Stanislova Komarova took third place with a time of 2:10.17.

Ukraine's Oleh Lisohor took second place in the men's 50-meter breaststroke with a time of 27.74 seconds. Great Britain's James Gibson won the event with a time of 27.56, while Hungary's Mihaly Flaskay took third place with a time of 27.79.

Ukraine's Denys Sylantiev and Serhiy Advena took fifth and sixth places, respectively, in the men's 200-meter butterfly, finishing the race in 1:56.36 and 1:57.21. Michael Phelps of the United States won the event with a time of 1:54.35. Japan's Takashi Yamamoto took second place with a time of 1:55.52, and American Thomas Malchow took third place with a time of 1:55.66.

Ihor Cherynskyi of Ukraine took third place in the men's 800-meter freestyle event, finishing the race in 7 minutes and 53.15 seconds. Australia's Grant Hackett won the event with a time of 7:43.82, while Larsen Jensen of the United States took second place with a time of 7:48.09.

Natalia Khudiakova of Ukraine took seventh place in the women's 50-meter butterfly, finishing the race in 27.10 seconds. Inge De Bruijn of the Netherlands won the event with a competition record time of 25.84 seconds. Jenny Thompson of the United States took second place, finishing in 26.00 seconds, and Anna-Karin Kammerling of Sweden took third place with a time of 26.06.

In the men's 50-meter freestyle event Ukraine's Oleksander Volynets took sixth place with a time of 22.40 seconds. Russia's Alexander Popov won the event in a competition record time of 21.92 seconds. Great Britain's Mark Foster took second place with a time of 22.20, and Pieter Van Den Hoogenband of the Netherlands took third with a time of 22.29 seconds.

Ukraine's Andrii Serdinov took third place in the men's 100-meter butterfly event, finishing in 51.59 seconds. Ian Crocker of the United States won the event with a world record time of 50.98, while his teammate Michael Phelps took second place, finishing in 51.10.

Diving

Also at the 10th FINA World Championships in Spain, Ukraine's Olena Zhupina took fourth place in the women's 10-meter platform competition with a score of 526.26. Canada's Emilie Heymans won the event with a score of 597.45. China's Lishi Lao and Na Li took second and third places, respectively, with scores of 595.56 and 563.43.

Ukraine's Olha Leonova and Zhupina took seventh place in the women's 10-meter synchronized platform competition with 269.31 points. China's Lao and Ting Li took first place with 344.58 points, Australia's Lynda Dackiw and Loudy Tourky took second place with 323.34 points, and Russia's Evgenya Olshevskaya and Svetlana Timoshinina took third place with 300.12 points.

Ukraine's Kristina Ischenko and Olena Fedorova took seventh place in the women's 3-meter synchronized event with a score of 287.04 points. China's Mingxia Wu and Jingjing Guo took first place with 357.30 points. Russia's Julia Pakhalina and Vera Ilyina took second place with 321.24 points, while Mexico's Paola Espinosa and Laura Sanchez took third place with 299.64 points.

Zhupina and Fedorova took ninth and 11th places, respectively, in the women's 3-meter springboard event with 505.26 and 502.74 points. China's Guo won the event with 617.94 points, Russia's Pakhalina took second place with 611.58 points, China's Wu took third place with 589.80 points.

Anton Zakharov of Ukraine took eighth place in the men's 10-meter platform event with a score of 614.52. Canada's Alexandre Despatie took first place with 716.91 points, and Mathew Helm of Australia took second place with 697.74 points, while Liang Tian of China took third place with 696.06 points.

Roman Volodkov and Zakharov of Ukraine took second place in the men's 10-meter synchronized event with a score of 372.60. Australia's Helm and Robert Newbery took first place with 384.60 points, and China's Tian and Jia Hu took third with 367.14 points.

Synchronized swimming

Ukraine's Daria Shemiakin took fourth place in the women's solo event at the FINA World Championships in Barcelona with a score of 92.167, while Virginie Dedieu of France took first place with a score of 99.251. Russia's Anastasia Ermakova took second place with a score of 97.417, and Spain's Gemma Mengual took third place with a score of 97.334.

Ukraine's Iryna Gayoronska and Daria Yushko took 11th place in the women's synchronized duet with a score of 91.834. Russia's Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova took first place with a score of 99.084, while Japan's Miya Tachibana and Miho Takeda took second place with a score of 98.084, and Spain's Mengual and Paola Tirados took third place with a score of 96.667.

Ukraine took eighth place in the women's team synchronized competition with 92.667 points. Russia took first place with 99.500, and Japan took second place with 98.333 points. The United States took third place with 97.500 points.

- compiled by Andrew Nynka

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