Sporting Digest: Goodwill Games

(St Peterburg, Russia)

BASKETBALL Women: Final: US 87 France 63. 3rd/4th place: China 96 Russia 76. 5th/6th: Canada 82 Italy 48. Semi-finals: US 105 China 73; France 80 Russia 73.

DIVING 10m platform: Men: 1 V Timoshinin (Rus) 599.01pts; 2 Feng Wang (Ch) 592.87; 3 Hao Xu (Ch) 570.39. Women: 1 Min Xiong (Ch) 429.27pts; 2 M E Clark (US) 395.61; 3 Yong Deng (Ch) 392.22.

GYMNASTICS Mixed team final: 1 Belarus- Ukraine 96.137pts; 2 Russia I 95.712; 3 Russia- Uzbekistan 95.662.

ICE SKATING Women: free programme: 1 M Kwan (US) 1.0pt; 2 S Bonaly (Fr) 2.0; 3 M Butyrskaya (Rus) 3.0. Overall positions: 1 Bonaly 2.5; 2 Kwan 4.0; 3 Butyrskaya 5.0. Ice dancing: free programme: 1 I Romanova and I Yaroshenko (Ukr) 1.0pts; 2 I Lobacheva and I Averbuch (Rus) 2.0; 3 Y Svirina and S Sakhnovsky (Rus) 3.0.

ROWING 500m finals: Men: Single sculls: 1 J Gailes (US) 1min 39.13sec; 2 V Sokolov (Rus) 1:39.40; 3 S Kinyakin (Bela) 1:42.98; 6 P Haining (GB) 1:52.35. Eights: 1 Russia 1:18.58; 2 Germany 1:18.85; 3 US 1:20.68; 5 Great Britain 1:22.58. Women: Single sculls: 1 R Davidon (US) 1:51.79; 2 M Brandin (Swe) 1:54.85; 3 Y Khodotovich (Bela) 1:55.17. Eights: 1 China 1:29.61; 2 Russia 1:31.47; 3 USA 1:31.80. 1,000m finals: Men: Single sculls: 1 V Sokolov (Rus) 3:53.39; 2 J Gailes (US) 3:58.86; 3 G Suvorkov (Rus) 4:01.12. 4th/6th places: 1 S Kinyakin (Bela) 4:02.69; 2 J Burrow (Ger) 4:06.37; 3 P Haining (GB) did not finish. Eights: 1 US 2:56.96; 2 Germany 2:58.69; 3 Russia 3:00.11. 4th/6th places: 1 Netherlands 2:57.12; 2 Britain (H Garry, B Hunt-Davis, R Manners, R Obholzer, M Parish, R Phelps, J Cracknell, J David Walker; cox R Hamilton) 3:00.03; 3 Belarus 3:03.35. Women: Single sculls: 1 Y Khodotovich (Bela) 4:20.60; 2 R Davidon (US) 4:24.35; 3 M Brandin (Swe) 4:33.56. Eights: 1 Belarus 3:20.05; 2 China 3:23.56; 3 Russia 3:24.52.

SAILING Men: Mistral (sailboard): Final positions: 1 M McCraig (Can) 7; 2 J-M de Chavigny (Fr) 8; 3 K Hermeking (Ger) 14.

VOLLEYBALL Men: Final: Russia 3 US 0. Women: 3rd-4th place: Japan 3 China 1.