WEDNESDAY'S SPORTS ROUNDUP

WOMEN'S TRIATHLON
XKate Allen of Austria passed half of the field during the final leg of the swim-cycle-run endurance test, finishing in 2 hours, 4 minutes, 43.45 seconds. Closer to the rear of the pack than the front for most of the race, she passed everyone during the closing 10-kilometer run, including leader Loretta Harrop of Australia only a few strides before the finish. Susan Williams, the last American to qualify for the race over the summer, won the bronze despite crashing early in the cycling leg.
EQUESTRIAN
XAnky van Grunsven and her horse Salinero danced their way to gold in the Olympic individual dressage finals. Van Grunsven of the Netherlands finished first in the musical freestyle to overtake Germany's Ulla Salzgeber on Rusty, who had been leading. Final scores were 79.278 percent for Van Grunsven to 78.833 percent for Salzgeber. Bronze went to Spain's Beatriz Ferrer-Salat on Beauvalais, who finished with 76.667 percent.
CYCLING
XRyan Bayley of Australia added the Keirin title to his sprint gold medal, highlighting Australia's overwhelming dominance of cycling at the Athens Games. Bayley is the double individual gold medalist, and teammate Graeme Brown won gold in both the team pursuit and Wednesday's Madison. Brown teamed up with Stuart O'Grady for the Madison. Russian veteran Olga Slyusareva controlled the points race from start to finish and finally added an Olympic gold to her impressive list of titles. The United States failed to win a track cycling medal for the first time since 1976.
DIVING
XYulia Pakhalina of Russia led the Olympic preliminaries of 3-meter springboard diving, beating out Canada's Blythe Hartley and China's Guo Jingjing. The Americans had another frustrating day at the pool. Rachelle Kunkel advanced to the semifinals with a 12th-place showing, but Kimiko Soldati was quickly eliminated from her only event.
CANOE-KAYAK
XAtlanta Olympic champion Martin Doktor of the Czech Republic will get a chance to regain his flatwater canoe crown in a race against the man who took it from him in Sydney. Doktor easily won his semifinal heat in the 1,000-meter single canoe (C-1), setting up a showdown in the finals with defending gold medalist and three-time defending world champion Andreas Dittmer of Germany.
MEN'S WATER POLO
XRevaz Chomakhidze scored three first-half goals, and Russia overpowered Germany 12-5 to set up an Olympic water polo semifinal against defending champion Hungary. Aleksandar Sapic scored three times -- including twice in a minute in the last quarter to break a 5-5 deadlock -- as Serbia-Montenegro defeated Spain 7-5 and into a semifinal against Greece. Pietro Figlioli and Nathan Thomas scored twice each to help Australia beat Kazakhstan 10-5. Damir Buric scored three goals for Croatia in its 12-1 rout of Egypt.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
XEmanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos, the world's top-ranked team, overpowered Spain's Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera 21-16, 21-15 to capture the gold medal.
SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING
XAmericans Alison Bartosik and Anna Kozlova earned a bronze medal in the Olympic duet final, finishing behind the Russians and Japanese. Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova won the gold with 99.334 points. Miya Tachibana and Miho Takeda took silver with 98.417. Bartosik and Kozlova totaled 96.918.
FIELD HOCKEY
XAustralia and the Netherlands advanced to the final of the men's tournament, with the Aussies overcoming Spain 6-3 and the Dutch defeating Germany 3-2 in the semifinals. Grant Schubert and Michael McCann each scored twice for Australia. In a highly anticipated classification showdown, Pakistan won its sixth game in six meetings with India this year, 3-0. Greg Nicol scored three goals for South Africa in its 5-1 win over Egypt. Also, Britain defeated Argentina 4-1 and New Zealand defeated South Korea 4-3.
WEIGHTLIFTING
XIran's Hossein Rezazadeh won the Olympic super heavyweight lifting title. He had a 581-pound (263.5-kg) clean and jerk, setting a world record and matching the record total lift of 1,041.7 pounds (472.5 kg) he set four years ago in Sydney. Silver medalist Viktors Scerbatihs of Latvia was 38.6 pounds (17.5 kg) behind Rezazadeh. Velichko Cholakov of Bulgaria won the bronze.
Associated Press
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