From: rsharma@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Rajesh K. Sharma)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: NEWS 07/31/92  14:39 CST.
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:43:58 GMT
Organization: Indiana University



   U.S. Men Swimmers Tie World Mark    
     To Add More Gold To Medal Pool    
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    The U.S. team of Jeff Rouse, Nelson
Diebel, Pablo Morales and Jon Olsen won
the gold medal in the men's 400-meter
medley relay in world-record-tying time
Friday at the Olympics in Barcelona.
    Rouse set a world record in the
100-meter backstroke in the opening
leg.
    The Unified team won the silver and
Canada took the bronze.
 

    Summer Sanders of the U.S. won the
gold medal Friday in the women's
200-meter butterfly swimming
competition at the Barcelona Olympics.
    Greg Burgess and Angel Martino gave
the U.S. a silver and a bronze in other
events so far today.
    Australian long-distance swim star
Kieren Perkins and China's Yang Wenyi
shattered world records.
    Sanders, of Roseville, Calif., also
has a gold, a silver and a bronze from
the Barcelona Games. Sanders was timed
in two minutes, 8.67 seconds.
   
    In the 200 butterfly, Wang Xiouhong
of China won the silver medal and Susan
O'Neill of Australia took the bronze.
    Burgess of the U.S. won the silver
in the men's 200 individual medley
swimming competition.
    Tamas Darnyi of Hungary won the
gold and Attila Czene of Hungary won
the bronze.
    Ron Karnaugh of the U.S. finished
sixth.
 
 
 
   

    The race was a disappointment for
Karnaugh, who made the decision to swim
after his father died of a heart attack
during the opening ceremonies last
Saturday. Karnaugh had led early in the
race, but soon fell behind.
    Martino of the U.S. took the bronze
in women's 50-meter freestyle swimming,
the shortest event in the competition.
    Wenyi of China won the gold by
breaking her own world record of 24.98
seconds with a 24.79 clocking.
    Zhuang Yong of China won the
silver.
   

    Jenny Thompson of the U.S., a
favorite in the race, was fifth.
    Perkins of Australia won the gold
medal in the men's 1,500 freestyle
swimming competition in world-record
time.
    Perkins obliterated his own world
record in the 1,500, the longest
swimming event in the competition, by
finishing in 14 minutes, 43.48 seconds.
His previous record, set earlier this
year, was 14:48.40.
 
 
   

    Glen Housman of Australia won the
silver medal and Joerg Hoffman of
Germany took the bronze.
    Krisztina Egerzegy of Hungary won
the gold in the women's 200 backstroke
swimming competition.
    Egerszegy, who also won the
100-meter backstroke and the 400-meter
individual medley, set an Olympic
record of two minutes, 7.06 seconds.
    Lea Loveless of the U.S. was
fourth.
 
 
   

    Dagmar Hase of Germany won the
silver and Nicole Stevenson of
Australia won the bronze.
    U.S. swimmers put on a brilliant
show at the Olympics Thursday. The U.S.
won three gold medals and narrowly
missing a sweep of all six events.   

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    Americans Mike Stulce won the gold
and James Doehring won the silver in
the men's shot-put event at the
Olympics in Barcelona.
    The U.S. men's basketball team
returns to action, facing Brazil.
    As expected, the U.S. men are
unbeaten in their first three games.
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       Friday's Medal Winners        
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               SHOOTING
     MEN'S THREE-POSITION FREE RIFLE
    Gold -- Gratchia Petikiane, Unified
Team
    Silver -- Bob Foth, U.S.
    Bronze -- Ryochei Koba, Japan
               SWIMMING
    WOMEN'S 200-METER BUTTERFLY
    Gold -- Summer Sanders, U.S.
    Silver -- Wang Xiouhong, China
    Bronze -- Susan O'Neill, Australia
   
    MEN'S 200-METER INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY
    Gold -- Tamas Darnyi, Hungary
    Silver -- Greg Burgess, U.S.
    Bronze -- Attila Czene, Hungary
     WOMEN'S 50-METER FREESTYLE
    Gold -- Yang Wenyi, China
    Silver -- Zhuang Yong, China
    Bronze -- Angel Martino, U.S.
    MEN'S 1,500-METER FREESTYLE
    Gold -- Kieren Perkins, Australia
    Silver -- Glen Housman, Australia
    Bronze -- Joerg Hoffman, Germany
 

     WOMEN'S 200-METER BACKSTROKE
    Gold -- Krisztina Egerzegy, Hungary
    Silver -- Dagmar Hase, Germany
    Bronze -- Nicole Stevenson,
Australia
     MEN'S 400-METER MEDLEY RELAY
    Gold -- U.S. (Jeff Rouse, Nelson
Diebel Pablo Morales Jon Olsen)
    Silver -- Unified Team
    Bronze -- Canada
 
 
 
               CYCLING
            MEN'S SPRINT
    Gold -- Jens Fiedler, Germany
    Silver -- Gary Neiwand, Australia
    Bronze -- Curtis Harnett, Canada
           WOMEN'S SPRINT
    Gold -- Erika Salumae, Estonia
    Silver -- Annett Neumann, Germany
    Bronze -- Ingrid Haringa,
Netherlands
     MEN'S 4,000-METER TEAM PURSUIT
    Gold -- Germany
    Silver -- Australia
    Bronze -- Denmark
   

            WEIGHTLIFTING
          LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT
    Gold -- Pyrros Dimas, Greece
    Silver -- Krzysztof Siemion, Poland
    Bronze -- Ibrahim Samadov, Unified
Team
 
           TRACK AND FIELD
            MEN'S SHOT PUT
    Gold -- Mike Stulce, U.S.
    Silver -- James Doehring, U.S.
    Bronze -- Vyacheslav Lykho, Unified
Team
 
   
    MEN'S 20-KILOMETER WALK
    Gold -- Daniel Plaza, Spain
    Silver -- Guillaume LeBlanc, Canada
    Bronze -- Giovanni DeBenedictis, Italy   

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 Rajesh K. Sharma            
 rsharma@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
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