6 May 10, 2021 Lewandowski Eyes Iran Wins Three More Golds at World 49-Year-Old Mueller Record Para Powerlifting World Cup After Hat-Trick Heroics Solhipour Avanji (up to 97kg), Sa- medalist Mansour Pourmirzaei also man Razi (up to 107kg) and Man- won a gold medal in the men’s over sour Pourmirzaei (over 107kg) +107kg category by lifting 249kg. dominated the stage in their respec- Georgian powerlifter Iago Gor- tive categories. godze snatched a silver medal and Hamed Solhipour Avanji claimed the bronze medal went to Kazakh- a gold medal at the men’s under-97 stan’s Gani Issentemirov. kg by lifting 227kg. Nader Moradi also won a silver in Iraqi Thaer Al-Ali and Malaysian the men’s under -72kg class. Mohd Shahmil Md Saad won the Thailand won the team classifi- silver and bronze medal, respec- cation trophy with 72 points, fol- tively. lowed by Iran with 71 points. Saman Razi won a gold medal This was the first time Thailand in the men’s under -107kg with a staged a powerlifting World Cup, Robert Lewandowski 237kg lift. with competition running between BERLIN (Dispatches) - Bay- three places all occupied by TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian There was not room for surpris- Iraqi powerlifter Abbas Nai- May 6-8 and gathering 54 athletes ern Munich may have wrapped powerlifters claimed three more gold es in the male competitions. Ira- san and Malaysian Wan Nur Wan from nine countries. Mueller, the legendary poacher medals on the final day of the 2021 nian Worlds medalists Amir Jafari Azman from seized the silver and The World Cup season’s next stop up a record-breaking ninth of the 1960s and 1970s. World Para Powerlifting World Cup Arangeh (up to 65kg), Rouhollah bronze medal, respectively. is Tbilisi, Georgia, from May 20 to straight Bundesliga title on Sat- Nicknamed the “Bomber of on Saturday. Rostam (up to 80kg), Seyed Hamed Three-time World Championships 23. urday, but sharpshooter Robert the Nation”, Mueller scored 40 Lewandowski still has one more goals in 1971-72, 38 in 1969- historic target in his sights. 70 and 36 in 1972-73, ending Sabalenka Downs World Number One Barty to Claim Madrid Crown The Polish striker scored a hat- his Bundesliga career with 365 MADRID (Dispatches) - Aryna tralian reeling, serving it out in- trick in Bayern’s 6-0 thrashing goals in 427 games. Sabalenka was in ominous form side 25 minutes. of Borussia Moenchengladbach Lewandowski may never as she overpowered world number The world number seven had this weekend, leaving him just break that record, but he is with- one Ash Barty 6-0 3-6 6-4 to win the not dropped a set coming into the one goal short of Gerd Muel- in touching distance of Muel- Madrid Open on Saturday. final and after threatening to run ler’s 49-year-old record of 40 ler’s 40-goal mark. In claiming victory, the Belaru- away with the title, Barty finally goals in a single Bundesliga “Gerd Mueller was my idol sian gained revenge after being broke her momentum by breaking season. when I was young, but what beaten by the Australian in the in the first game of the second set. Stuttgart Open final a fortnight Barty failed to hold on to that Lewandowski, whose tally this Gerd Mueller was in my youth, ago. advantage but showed her depth term stands at 39, has two more Lewandowski is today,” said On a windy day in Madrid, Sa- of talent to break again and send games to equal and break the Bayern coach Hansi Flick on balenka’s first set shotmaking the match into a decider. mark set by Bayern and Germa- Saturday. was nothing short of sensational Both players held serve until ny legend Mueller back in 1972. “If he manages the record, it With 275 goals in 348 games will have been more than de- as she combined her trademark Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka defeated Australia’s Ashleigh Barty during Sabalenka broke Barty to love to big hits from the baseline with their 2021 WTA Tour Madrid Open tennis tournament singles final go 5-4 up before serving out to se- for Bayern and Dortmund, Le- served.” deft dropshots to leave the Aus- match at the Caja Magica in Madrid on May 8, 2021. cure the win. wandowski is already the sec- Flick also warned that Lewan- ond-most successful striker in dowski “will need to be care- Bundesliga history after Muel- ful” as he chases the record, as Filippo Ganna Storms to Opening Giro d’Italia Victory in Time Trial ler, he risks missing the last game TURIN, Italy (AP) — Italian cy- als, but the Ineos Grenadiers rider Last season, the Pole’s 34 of the season at home to Augs- clist Filippo Ganna lived up to his obliterated his rivals on the fast, goals were the fourth most in burg if he picks up a yellow card billing as the favorite by storming 8.6-kilometer (5.3-mile) course a Bundesliga season, The top against Freiburg next week. to victory in the opening stage time through the streets of Turin, finish- trial of the Giro d’Italia, beating his ing in 8 minutes, 47 seconds. closest rival by 10 seconds. Ganna and compatriot Edoardo Jazz Beat Rockets 124-116 Ganna, who is the world time Affini were the only cyclists to trial champion, will wear the first finish under nine minutes. Tobias for 50th Victory maglia rosa as the race leader. Foss was third fastest, 13 seconds He also wore the first maglia rosa slower than Ganna. of last year’s Giro rescheduled to There were fans lining the streets, October. wearing masks and respecting so- There were questions about Gan- cial distancing rules, and Ganna re- na’s form coming into the Giro vealed they helped him to win after Italian cyclist Filippo Ganna after he lost his past two time tri- problems with his team radio. Alvarez Stops Saunders to Unify Super Middleweight Titles LONDON (Dispatches) - Saul Alvarez, who improved to “Canelo” Alvarez stopped Billy 56-1-2 with 38 knockouts, Joe Saunders in eight rounds on was ahead on all three judges’ Saturday to unify three super scorecards, 78-74, 78-74 and middleweight titles in front of 77-75, when Saunders did not the largest U.S. crowd in history come out for the ninth round. Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert goes to the basket against the Houston to watch an indoor boxing event. The 31-year-old Saunders, Rockets during the second half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Four-weight world champion who dropped to 30-1 with 14 May 8, 2021, in Salt Lake City. Alvarez retained his World KOs, had during fight week SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - a sharpshooter from beyond Boxing Council and World argued, and won, his case to Boxing Association titles and increase the size of the ring Georges Niang tied a career high the arc. Starting just his eighth seized Saunders’ World Box- from 20 feet to 22 feet. But no with 24 points and the NBA- game, Niang scored 10 points in ing Organization belt when the amount of extra space was go- leading Utah Jazz beat the short- the third quarter and his 3-point- previously undefeated Briton ing to allow him to escape Al- handed Houston Rockets 124-116 er with 2:50 left in the period retired on his stool after taking varez’s devastating punching on Saturday night to reach 50 gave Utah its largest lead, 96- a beating in the eighth round. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez lands a big left-hand on Billy Joe Saunders power. victories. 75. during their super middleweight title fight in Arlington in Alvarez won by technical The victory serves as another Jordan Clarkson scored 21 The usually mild-mannered front of a record 70,000-plus fans knockout after Saunders’ cor- step in Alvarez’s quest to dom- points, and Bojan Bogdanovic Niang was so fired up, he drew precision blows. cause I broke his cheek.” ner called a halt in front of inate the 168-pound (76-kilo- added 20 - his seventh straight a technical for taunting after Alvarez could sense victory Saunders headed from the 73,126 fans at AT&T Stadium, gram) division. 20-point performance - for the draining a 3 that tied his career which was also the biggest in the eighth as he chased the ring to the hospital to get med- The Mexican pound-for- Jazz. high of 24 early in the final peri- to watch an American sports southpaw around the ring wav- ical treatment on his injured pound king’s only career loss Utah finished 5-0 on its home- od. He was 6 of 8 on 3-pointers. event since the coronavirus ing his arms in the air as if to eye. to date came as a 23-year-old stand despite missing All-Stars Rudy Gobert had 13 points and pandemic. let the pro-Mexican crowd The previous largest indoor against the legendary Floyd Saunders didn’t budge from know that the end was near. crowd for a boxing card in the Mayweather Jr in 2013. He has Donovan Mitchell and Mike 14 rebounds for the Jazz. his stool saying he couldn’t see “I knew it,” Alvarez said. “I United States had been 63,350 13 wins and a draw since los- Conley again. The Rockets have lost five out of his right eye which was think I broke his cheek. He for Muhammad Ali’s rematch ing to Mayweather by majority Niang took advantage of some straight and 20 of their past 23 badly swollen from Alvarez’s didn’t come out to fight be- against Leon Spinks in 1978. decision. post-ups in the paint and was games.