Oly: How the Aussies Fared Aug 16

AAP General News (Australia)
08-17-2004
Oly: How the Aussies Fared Aug 16

ATHENS, Aug 16 AAP - How the Aussies fared at the Athens Olympics today:

Archery

Men's Individual Eliminations

David Barnes (SA) lost in first round

Tim Cuddihy (QLD) through to second round

Simon Fairweather (SA) lost in first round

Badminton

Men's Doubles Round of 16

Stuart Brehaut (Vic), Travis Denney (WA) lost to Thailand.

Women's Doubles Round of 32

Jane Crabtree (Vic) and Kate Wilson-Smith (SA) lost to Denmark in first round

Baseball

Aust lost to Taiwan 3-0

Basketball

Women's Preliminaries Australia 75 bt Russia 56

Beach Volleyball

Men's Preliminary Round

Julien Prosser (NSW) and Mark Williams (NSW) lost to Switzerland 21-16 20-22 9-15

Women's Preliminary Round

Natalie Cook (Qld) and Nicole Sanderson (Qld) bt China 21-19 17-21 17-15

Kerri Pottharst (NSW) and Summer Lochowicz (Qld) bt Greece 21-15 15-21 16-14

Boxing

Feather Weight (57kg) Preliminaries

Ryan Langham (Qld) lost in first round

Light Weight (60kg) Preliminaries

Anthony Little (WA) into second round

Diving

Women's Synchronised 10m Platform Finals

Lynda Folauhola (SA) and Loudy Tourky (Qld) 4th

Men's Synchronised 3m Springboard Finals

Steven Barnett (NSW) and Robert Newbery (SA) bronze

Equestrian

Individual Eventing Dressage - Day 2

Team Eventing Dressage - Day 2

Rebel Morrow (NSW) 7th, Andrew Hoy (NSW) 11th, Olivia Bunn (NSW) 16th, Phillip Dutton
(NSW) 21st, Stuart Tinney (NSW) 27th. Team is fifth overall

Fencing

Men's Individual Foil Eliminations

Frank Bartolillo (NSW) lost in first round

Hockey

Women's Preliminaries Australia bt South Africa 3-0

Judo

Men's -73kg Preliminaries

Andrew Collett (Vic) lost in second round

Women's -57kg Preliminaries

Maria Pekli (Vic) lost in first round

Sailing

Men's Single-handed Dinghy-Finn

Anthony Nossiter (NSW) 8th overall

Women's Keelboat Yngling

Nicky Bethwaite (NSW), Karyn Gojnich (NSW), Kristen Kosmala (NSW) 14th overall

Shooting

Women's Trap

Suzanne Balogh (NSW) won gold

Men's 10m Air Rifle

Matthew Inabinet (ACT) 41st, Timothy Lowndes (Vic) 35th

Softball

Australia bt Taiwan 1-0

Swimming

Women's 200m Freestyle

Elka Graham (NSW) DNQ, Linda MacKenzie (Qld) DNQ

Men's 200m Butterfly

Justin Norris (NSW) DNQ, Travis Nederpelt (WA) DNQ

Women's 200m IM

Lara Carroll (WA) into final, Alice Mills (Qld) DNQ

Men's 200m Freestyle final

Ian Thorpe (NSW) Gold, Grant Hackett (QLD) fifth

Women's 100m Backstroke final

Giann Ronney (Vic) DNQ

Men's 100m Backstroke final

Matt Welsh (Vic) 5th

Women's 100m Breaststroke

Brooke Hanson (Vic) Silver, Liesel Jones (Qld) Bronze

Tennis

Men's Singles First Round

Mark Philippoussis (Vic) lost to Olivier Rochus (Bel) 3-6 6-0 6-1

Men's Doubles First Round

Wayne Arthurs (Vic) Doubles, Todd Woodbridge (Vic) Doubles bt Czech Republic 6-4 6-3

Women's Singles First Round

Alicia Molik (SA) bt Elena Dementieva (Rus) 4-6 6-0 6-3

Nicole Pratt (Qld) bt Myriam Casanova (SUI) 6-3 7-5

Women's Doubles First Round

Nicole Pratt (Qld), Samantha Stosur (Qld) lost to Tathiana Garbin, Roberta Vinci (Ita) 6-0 6-1

Water Polo

Women's Preliminaries - Australia bt Italy 6-5

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