Roundup of Saturday's events



MEN'S SOCCER
XEmad Mohammed's 12-yard bicycle kick in the 64th minute gave Iraq a 1-0 victory over Australia in the quarterfinals. In other quarterfinals, Argentina beat Costa Rica 4-0, Italy beat Mali 1-0 and Paraguay beat South Korea 3-2.
ARCHERY
XSouth Korea beat Taiwan 251-245 to win the gold medal in men's team archery. Im Dong-hyun, Park Kyung-mo and Jang Yong-ho won South Korea's third archery gold of these Olympics. Ukraine beat the United States 237-235 to win the bronze.
BADMINTON
XZhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China won the gold medal in women's badminton, beating Huang Sui and Gao Ling of China 7-15, 15-4, 15-8. Ra Kyung-min and Lee Kyung-won of South Korea won the bronze. Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia won the men's gold, beating Shon Seung-mo of South Korea, 15-8,15-7. Soni Dwi Kuncoro of Indonesia won bronze.
BASEBALL
XGreece won for the first time ever in Olympic baseball, getting 14 hits from its Greek-American lineup to beat Italy 12-7. Japan beat Taiwan 4-3 in 10 innings on Michihiro Ogasawara's sacrifice fly. Antonio Scull hit a two-run home run in the second for Cuba, which improved to 5-1 with a 5-2 win over Canada. Australia (4-2) routed the Netherlands 22-2.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
XThe two American women's pairs advanced to the quarterfinals with straight-set victories in their medal-round openers. Fourth-ranked Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs defeated 12th-seeded Czech pair Eva Celbova and Sona Novakova 21-16, 21-16. Misty May and Kerri Walsh, the No. 1 seeds, beat seventh-seeded Chinese duo Tian Jia and Wang Fei 21-11, 21-18.
CYCLING
XBritain's Bradley Wiggins won the gold medal in men's individual pursuit, finishing the 4,000-meter final in 4 minutes, 16.304 seconds. Wiggins' time was 4.132 seconds ahead of silver medalist Brad McGee of Australia. Spain's Sergi Escobar, with a time of 4:17.947, beat Britain's Rob Hayles for bronze. Germany's team sprint trio of Jens Fiedler, Rene Wolff and Stefan Nimke edged Japan for the gold medal. The Germans finished in 43.980 seconds. Japan's time for the three-lap gold medal race was 44.246 seconds. France won the bronze medal in 44.359 seconds. In the 3-kilometer pursuit, New Zealand's Sarah Ulmer set a world record to lead qualifying. She was timed in 3:26.400 to improve the mark of 3:29.945 Australia's Katie Mactier had set minutes earlier.
DIVING
XDefending Olympic champion Laura Wilkinson of the United States was fourth after the platform diving semifinals, needing a comeback and some mistakes by competitors for a chance at another medal. Chinese teammates Lao Lishi and Li Ting were 1-2 heading into Sunday's final. The duo already won gold in the synchronized platform.
EQUESTRIAN
XFrance was awarded the gold medal in the three-day equestrian team event and Britain's Leslie Law got the individual gold after three countries won a joint appeal against an earlier decision that gave both victories to Germany. The ruling Saturday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport means Germany drops to fourth in the team event while Britain gets silver and the United States takes the bronze. Since the team event was also a qualifier for the individual medals, the decision stripped Bettina Hoy of her gold medal, giving it to Law. American Kim Severson moved up to silver from bronze and Pippa Funnell of Britain took third.
FENCING
XAfter upsetting Germany in the quarterfinals, the United States men's foil fencing squad lost to China in the semifinals and then to Russia in the bronze-medal bout. Italy won the gold medal, fending off a late run by China to win 45-42. In their medal match, the Americans were tied with 10 points to go, then were down 41-38 when Dan Kellner and Youri Motchan both recorded touches. The referee awarded the point to Russia and Moltchan went on to close it out.
FIELD HOCKEY
XNew Zealand scored a last-minute goal for a 2-1 win that denied India a chance at winning a ninth men's field hockey gold medal. Lee Jung-seon scored five goals to help South Korea beat Egypt, 11-0. Eduardo Tabau scored three for Spain in a 4-0 win over Pakistan. The Netherlands improved to 4-0 in Group B with a 4-2 win over Argentina, Australia improved to 3-0-1 with a 3-2 win over South Africa, and Germany defeated Britain 2-1.
MEN'S VOLLEYBALL
XGreece beat France to reach the medal round in the country's first Olympic men's volleyball appearance. The Greeks won in five sets, 25-22, 14-25, 26-24, 23-25, 15-10, and clinched a berth in the quarterfinals. Ryan Millar scored 17 points for the United States in a 3-1 victory over Austrailia, grabbing the final spot in the quarterfinals from Pool B.
ROWING
XBritain's Matthew Pinsent won his fourth gold medal after his boat beat Canada in the coxless four in a finish that left every Briton in the venue cheering wildly. Britain was first with a time of 6:06.98, or .08 seconds ahead of Canada. Italy took bronze, 3.43 seconds behind Britain.
TEAM HANDBALL
XBojana Radulovics scored 10 goals to lead Hungary over Brazil, 35-26. Woo Sun-hee and Lee Sang-eun each scored seven goals for South Korea in a 36-21 win over Spain, Nataliya Lyapina had seven for Ukraine in its 29-20 win over Greece, and Veronique Pecqueux Rolland led France over Angola 29-21 with eight points.
SHOOTING
XRalf Schumann of Germany shot 102.9 in the final round to win the gold medal in 25-meter rapid-fire pistol. Russian Sergei Poliakov shot 100.7 in the final to finish with 692.7 and the silver. His countryman, Sergei Alifirenko shot 100.3 and won bronze.
TABLE TENNIS
XChen Qi and Ma Lin of China won the gold medal in doubles table tennis, beating Lai Chak Ko and Ching Li of Hong Kong 11-6, 11-9, 7-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-5. Michael Maze and Finn Tugwell of Denmark won the bronze.
Trampoline
XYuri Nikitin of Ukraine won the men's trampoline gold with 41.5 points, topping five-time world champion Alexander Moskalenko of Russia. Moskalenko, who came out of retirement to win trampoline's first gold medal in Sydney, won silver with 41.2 points. World champion Henrik Stehlik of Germany won the bronze with 40.80 points.
WEIGHTLIFTING
XA former world champion Russian weightlifter was pulled from the Olympics because of a positive drug test. Albina Khomich was barred from competing in the 165-pound (75-kg) heavyweight division by the international weightlifting federation after testing positive in a pre-competition screening by the Russian federation. Also, Tang Gonghong of China broke world records in the clean and jerk and total lift for women's super heavyweights while winning the gold medal.
WATER POLO
Hungary 14, Kazakhstan 4
Italy 13, Egypt 4
Germany 11, Spain 5
Greece 10, Australia 9
Russia 9, United States 7
Serbia-Montenegro 11, Croatia 8
XRussia got three goals each from Alexander Eryshov and Revaz Chomakhidze to defeat the United States, 9-7, and forcing the Americans into a make-or-break match against Serbia-Montenegro. Aleksandar Sapic scored five goals as the Serbians held off Croatia's comeback, 11-8.
Associated Press
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