SPORT 16 SATURDAY 12 AUGUST 2017 Mutaz Essa Barshim IOC snubs of Qatar reacts after qualifying for the final round of the men’s Infantino and Barshim high jump competition at the IAAF World Coe in new Championships in London yesterday. members list The gravity defying Qatari star breezed through yesterday’s Berlin ready for qualification, clearing Reuters the automatic he Presidents of world qualifying height of soccer body FIFA and 2.31 metres with the the international athlet- greatest of ease. T ics federation IAAF have not been proposed for appoint- golden leap ment to the International Olympic Committee when the IOC session votes in new London Bondarenko, who beat him to the members in September. Reuters 2013 title, while Danil Lysenko, IAAF chief Seb Coe and competing under a neutral flag fol- FIFA’s Gianni Infantino were utaz Essa Barshim lowing the Russian Federation’s ban, passed over for a second year leapt into tomorrow’s also qualified easily after just one running as they battle doping high jump final at the failure. and corruption scandals in World Athletics There was delight for the home their fields. Previous FIFA and Championships in the crowd as Robbie Grabarz confirmed IAAF Presidents had seats at Mmanner of a man ready to finally his place in the final amid plenty of the IOC table for decades. ascend to the very summit of his cheering by going over 2.31m at the The IOC’s nine proposed sport. last attempt. new members, named yes- The wiry Qatari, who has Erik Kynard of the United States, terday, include Luis Mejia jumped higher than anyone in his- who won the Olympic silver in this Oviedo, head of the Domini- tory except Cuban world record arena five years ago, had to pull out can Republic’s Olympic holder Javier Sotomayor, breezed injured after one unsuccessful committee, Khunying Patama through yesterday’s qualification, attempt at his opening height of Leeswadtrakul, Thai entre- clearing the automatic qualifying 2.17m. preneur and head of her height of 2.31 metres with the great- country’s badminton federa- est of ease. MEN’S HIGH JUMP QUALIFICATION tion, Ingmar De Vos, Barshim, whose only global title 1. Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatar) 2.31m International Equestrian Fed- came at the world indoor champi- eration chief, and 2. Bohdan Bondarenko (Ukraine) 2.31m onships in 2014, demonstrated why Jean-Christophe Rolland, 3. Danil Lysenko (Neutral) 2.31m he is a warm favourite to win his world rowing President. first major outdoor crown follow- 4. Mateusz Przybylko (Germany) 2.31m The IOC gave no reason ing silver and bronze at the last two 4. Tihomir Ivanov (Bulgaria) 2.31m for the exclusion of Coe and Olympics. 6. Robert Grabarz (Britain) 2.31m Infantino, who represent two The 26-year-old, who has an 7. Bryan McBride (US) 2.29m of the biggest federations of Asian record best of 2.43m, is one 7. Ilya Ivanyuk (Neutral Athlete) 2.29m the Games. of six athletes who cleared 2.31 but 7. Majed Aldin Ghazal (Syria) 2.29m The IOC also said Sam- the only one to go through the morn- 10. Eike Onnen (Germany) 2.29m sung Chairman Lee Kun-hee ing without failing on a single jump. 10. Edgar Rivera (Mexico) 2.29m would not be up for member- His main danger again looks set 12. Wang Yu (China) 2.29m ship re-election at to come from Ukraine’s Bohdan September’s session in Peru at his family’s request due to illness. Schippers retains world crown in 200m Reese wins fourth London for a fourth straight world title in long jump world title Dafne Schippers AP the 1,500 meters, coming from of the Netherlands way back with a strong final kick London afne Schippers of the Neth- winning the women’s to qualify for tomorrow’s final. Reuters erlands successfully 200 metres final at Kiprop finished just behind Ddefended her 200-meter the World Athletics Kenyan teammate Elijah Manan- merican Brittney Reese claimed a fourth world title at the world championships Championships in goi to go through as automatic long jump title yesterdaywhile titleholder and yesterday, dipping at the line just London yesterday. qualifiers. In the second semifinal AOlympic champion Tianna Bartoletta had to be con- ahead of Marie-Josee Ta Lou. heat, Kenya got a third runner to tent with the bronze. Shaunae Miller-Uibo, the 400 go through when Timothy Cherui- Darya Klishina, competing as a neutral athlete after Olympic champion, took bronze. yot finished second behind Jakub the Russian federation was banned over state-sponsored Schippers came out of the Holusa of the Czech Republic. doping, took the silver and Serbia’s Ivana Spanovic missed bend just ahead of Ta Lou and fin- Today, Qatar’s Ahmed Budair out on a medal, finishing fourth. ished in 20.05 seconds. Ta Lou set will compete in the men’s javelin Reese, Olympic champion at the same stadium five an Ivory Coast record of 22.08, throw final. years ago, won the world title in 2009, 2011 and 2013 while Miller-Uibo crossed in 22.15. Budair, who won the World before her compatriot Bartoletta took gold in Beijing two Ta Lou has twice been edged hammer throw world title.Valeriy Fajdek won with a throw of Champion for Youth last year, dis- years ago. at the line. She settled for silver in Pronkin of Russia, competing as a 79.81 meters. Pronkin got silver at played one of his best The 30-year-old Reese secured victory with her third the 100 behind Tori Bowie. Schip- neutral athlete because of his 78.16 on his last throw, while performances to reach a distance jump of 7.02 metres, beating Klishina by two centime- pers got bronze in that race. nation’s doping suspension, took Nowicki secured bronze with a of 83.83, finishing third in Group tres. Bartoletta was out of the medals until she produced Earlier, Pawel Fajdek of silver ahead of Wojciech Nowicki throw of 78.03. A in the qualifying round on a leap of 6.97 metres with her final attempt at the Lon- Poland won his third straight of Poland. Asbel Kiprop stayed on course Thursday. don Stadium. Qatari players train in England EPL: Giroud rescues Arsenal in opener Qatari football players in action during their Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud training camp at St. George’s Park in Burton-upon- London celebrates after scoring their Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom yesterday. Al AP fourth goal against Leicester City Annabi scored an impressive 2-0 win over English livier Giroud completed an in the opening match of English Championship side Leeds United in the first of exhilarating comeback as Premier League Premier League three friendlies on Wednesday and will play against Arsenal beat Leicester 4-3 in London yesterday. Nottingham Forest tomorrow. The last warm-up O yesterday to ensure Arsene game against Andorra will be played on August 16. Wenger’s side opened the English Premier League with a victory for only the second time in eight seasons. Arsenal turned around the league’s first Friday opener in the closing minutes at Emirates Sta- dium. After Aaron Ramsey leveled in the 83rd minute, Giroud sealed the three points within two min- utes on an evening of thrilling the opening round, Arsenal which so astonishingly won the attacks gifted by fragile imploded as Shinji Okazaki and league in 2016, couldn’t hold on defending. Jamie Vardy put Leicester in front. for its first win at Arsenal since Arsenal record-signing Alex- Although Danny Welbeck lev- 1973. Instead, Wenger avoided a andre Lacazette got off to a perfect eled on the stroke of halftime, third successive season-opening by scoring inside two minutes of Vardy restored Leicester’s lead loss at the start of his new two- kickoff. But as so often happens in after the break. But Leicester, year contract. SATURDAY 12 AUGUST 2017 SPORT 17 Winning start for Qatar at FIVB World Championship qualifiers The Peninsula 21-25 15-25 25-21 25-18 15-13 victory three opportunities and it allowed the group qualifying for the World Cup finals commanding the proceedings. Lozano’s over four-time Asia champions at the Koreans to win the set and go up. in Italy and Bulgaria in the summer of men fought tooth and nail to remain on atar mounted a pulsating rally and 6000-seat Rezazadeh Stadium. “The loss of the second set was also 2018. top. Kazakhstan did their best to nar- stunned mighty South Korea 3-2 In another match, China posted a fall-out of the bad first one. However, In the first set, the Chinese took an row down the gap and they successfully Qin the opening Group A match of 25-15, 25-21, 22-25, 25-23 victory over all the guys gave their best. Otherwise, early 8-5 lead and never let go as they did it, though they lost the set 25-21. the FIVB World Championship Qualifi- Kazakhstan. you can’t win such matches. We have increasingly widened the gap after a Kazakhstan showed improvement cations in Ardabil, Iran on Thursday. Qatar coach Giaccardi was another tough game on Friday and hope monster spike by Jiang Chuan. The in the third set and made the Chinese Qatar, coached by Italian Massimil- extremely pleased with the stirring tri- to do our best again,” added the Kazakhs, who made seven mistakes, battle for each point. However Kaza- iano Giaccardi, made a few errors in the umph by his boys.”Bravo...all the guys.