22 Monday, September 11, 2017 SPORTS Boom clinches Marquez wins Tour of Britain

Misano SanAdriatico, Italy Marino orld champion Marc Marquez of Spain won the SanW Marino MotoGP in slippery conditions yesterday to join Italy’s at the top of the Lars Boom (Picture courtesy: theguardian) world championship standings. London Marquez, on a Honda, finished ars Boom clinched his second Tour of ahead of Italy’s Ducati rider Britain title after Edvald Boasson Hagen Danilo Petrucci on a wet track wonL the final stage in Cardiff yesterday. with Dovizioso, also on a Ducati, Norwegian Boasson Hagen, who rides for finishing third. Team Dimension Data, powered clear with Both Marquez and Dovizioso three kilometres remaining in the 180km have 199 points in the world eighth stage from Worcester. championship standings with five Dutchman Boom, a Team Lotto NL-Jumbo races left in the season. rider, finished in the peloton to win by eight “I tried to control my pace seconds from Boasson Hagen, who moved throughout the race and in these ahead of Switzerland’s Stefan Kung. conditions I had to be patient, “It feels good to finally get this victory. but in the end I had to go We had a plan from the beginning of the Repsol Honda Team’s Spanish rider Marc Marquez competes Marc Marquez for it,” said Marquez after day for me to try to attack with two or celebrates on claiming his fourth win of the three kilometers to go,” Boasson Hagen said. the podium season. took the lead from Petrucci on the final Earlier Swiss rider Dominique (AFP) “It’s a very lap to secure his 33rd win the MotoGP Agerter (Suter) won the San Moto2 San Marino Grand important victory. category. Grand Prix ahead of Kalex duo We have to keep The top three in the title race lined up Thomas Luthi of Switzerland and Prix results: pushing, we have a on the front row but it was Ducati’s Jorge Malaysian Hafizh Syahrin, to claim 1. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 50min 41.565sec good level,” added Lorenzo who got the best start from the his second career win. Football 2. Danilo Petrucci (ITA/Ducati) 1.192 the Spaniard with second row. Italy’s Romano Fenati of Honda 3. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 11.706 the next race at But Lorenzo was one of several riders defied driving rain to claim his eighth Scores as of closing 4. Maverick Vinales (ESP/Yamaha) 16.559 home in Aragon to come off his bike in the slippery career win in Moto3. English Premier League: 5. Michele Pirro (ITA/Ducati) 19.499 on September 24. conditions along with fellow Spaniard In a race hampered by numerous Burnley 1 Crystal Palace 0 6. Jack Miller (AUS/Honda) 24.882 It was a 59th Hector Barbera. falls and skids off the track, Fenati Swansea 0 Newcastle 1 7. Scott Redding (GBR/Ducati Pramac) 33.872 career win for Petrucci battled with the reigning finished ahead of Spanish world 8. Alex Rins (ESP/Suzuki) 34.662 Marquez, who champion and Marquez finally pounced champion leader and Italy’s German Bundesliga: 9. Jonas Folger (GER/ Yahama Tech3) 54.082 started from third on the last lap to notch up a 25-point Fabio Di Giannantonio, both also Hertha Berlin 1 Werder Bremen 1 10. Bradley Smith (GBR/KTM) 57.964 on the grid and haul. riding for Honda. (AFP) Schalke 3 Stuttgart 1 Italian Serie A: Inter Milan 2 SPAL 0 Atalanta 2 Sassuolo 1 Farah grabs fourth Great North Run Cagliari 1 Crotone 0 London Masya, who was champion four Udinese 1 Genoa 0 ritain’s Mo Farah announced times in the 1990s. Verona 0 Fiorentina 5 he will compete in the 2018 Farah, who last month finished Lazio 4 AC Milan 1 BLondon Marathon after winning his glittering track career with Benevento 0 Torino 1 the Great North Run for a record- a thrilling 5,000m victory at the Russian Premier League: breaking fourth successive year Diamond League final in Zurich, Dynamo Moscow 0 Zenit St Petersburg 0 yesterday. produced his trademark ‘Mobot’ Ufa 0 Krasnodar 1 It will be Farah’s third London celebration in Newcastle as he Akhmat Grozny 1 Lokomotiv Moscow 1 Marathon after he took part in the crossed the line. event in 2013 and 2014. Robertson was six seconds back Spanish La Liga: “I can’t wait to start a new in second place, with Ethiopia’s Deportivo La Coruna 2 Real Sociedad 4 adventure racing on the roads in Feyisa Lilesa coming third. Athletic Bilbao 2 Girona 0 2018, starting with the world’s Farah told the BBC after his Celta Vigo 1 Alaves 0 greatest marathon,” he said. season-concluding race: “That Villarreal 3 Real Betis 1 “The London Marathon is my was really, really tough. I’m sore home race and it is so special to me. everywhere - I’ve never been this The previous times I have taken sore! part were amazing.” “With four miles to go I was just Anderson on top of the Just hours earlier, Farah, a four- hanging on, gritting my teeth. time Olympic champion, saw off “As we got closer, I managed to world rankings a determined challenge from New believe in myself and dig, and I was London Zealand’s Jake Robertson in the thinking ‘if I can just sit on him ames Anderson’s career-best figures have closing stages of the Great North (Robertson), at the end I can sprint’. catapulted the England paceman to the top of Run to finish in a time of one hour “I’m so pleased with how the Jthe International Cricket Council’s Test bowling and six seconds. season has gone. I’ll go on a little rankings. The 34-year-old is the first athlete holiday with the missus and then The swing bowler produced something of a to win the Great North Run four come back fresh. clinic as he took seven for 42 against West Indies times in a row. “I’m looking forward to sticky -- a haul that included his 500th Test wicket -- in He is now level in terms of most toffee pudding and apple pie!” England’s nine-wicket win at Lord’s on Saturday. Britain’s Mo Farah does his trademark Mobot gestures victories with Kenya’s Benson (AFP)