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TENNIS | Page 4 FFOOTBALLOOTBALL | Page 7 Murray Leicester through to inspire all 20 To Advertise here quarters aft er teams to dream Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 Fognini scare about title Friday, August 12, 2016 Dhul-Qa’da 9, 1437 AH FOOTBALL Brazil fi nd scoring TIMES boots even as Argentina exit Page 2 SWIMMING Medals tally Country G S B T 1. United States 11 11 10 32 Chalmers ends Aussie drought with storming win 2. China 10 6 9 25 3. Japan 6 1 11 18 AFP He became the youngest winner of record as the lead-off swimmer in the 4. Australia 5 3 5 13 Rio de Janeiro the men’s 100m freestyle gold medal in 4x100m relay but could only manage 5. Hungary 5 1 1 7 36 years but his joy was tempered by the fourth in the individual fi nal. fact his teammate Cameron McEvoy Ian Thorpe collected a surprise 6. Russia 4 7 4 15 ustralian teenager Kyle fi nished seventh. bronze when he entered the sprint at 7. South Korea 4 2 3 9 Chalmers ended 48 years McEvoy was ranked number one in Athens in 2004 after winning gold in 8. Germany 4 2 1 7 of agony and frustration for the world heading into the Olympics but the 200m and 400m, but the last two his swimming-crazy country could not reproduce his best times in Rio. Olympics have been the most heart- 9. Italy 3 6 3 12 Awhen he won the men’s 100m free- “It’s very exciting but it’s hard in this breaking for Australia. 10. Great Britain 3 5 6 14 style gold medal at the Rio Olympics on situation because my teammate Cam- Eamon Sullivan broke Alain Bernard’s 11. France 2 3 3 8 Wednesday. eron McEvoy has looked after me all world record, which had been set just a 12. Kazakhstan 2 2 3 7 The 18-year-old stormed home on week and I’ve roomed with him,” said few minutes earlier, in the semi-fi nals at the fi nal lap after turning in seventh Chalmers. “I don’t want to celebrate Beijing in 2008 only to fi nish a close sec- 13. Thailand 2 1 1 4 place to get his hands on the wall fi rst too much because I know it would have ond to the Frenchman in the fi nal. 14. Switzerland 2 0 1 3 in a blanket fi nish.He won in a time of been really hard for him tonight but I’m And four years ago in London, Aus- 15. Croatia 2 0 0 2 47.58 seconds, breaking his own world sure towards the end of the week I’ll be tralia’s James Magnussen suff ered an junior record. a bit more excited.” agonising defeat to Adrian, losing the 16. Netherlands 1 2 2 5 He fi nished just 0.22 ahead of Bel- “I’ve won an Olympic gold medal and gold by just 0.01 seconds in the closest 17. New Zealand 1 2 0 3 gian silver medallist Pieter Timmers he probably hasn’t swum to his best but Olympic 100m Olympic fi nal ever. 17. Sweden 1 2 0 3 and 0.27 in front of American Nathan hopefully he turns around tomorrow UNFATHOMABLE FRUSTRATION ian won another medal in the event, “I actually had no idea about that. Adrian, the gold medallist in London and swims well in the 50. He’s a great The last Australian to win the Olympic with Mark Stockwell fi nishing runner- I’m not someone who follows swim- 19. Belgium 1 1 1 3 four years ago, who went into the fi nal guy and we get along really well so it’s gold was Mike Wenden, at Mexico City up to American Rowdy Gaines at Los ming too much. I kind of stay away and 20. Brazil 1 1 0 2 as the fastest qualifi er. hard.” in 1968. Angeles. follow basketball and soccer and foot- 20. Colombia 1 1 0 2 “I’m very happy with tonight’s exe- The 100m freestyle is the blue riband For a country surrounded by water The drought had already stretched ball a lot better,” Chalmers said. 20. Slovenia 1 1 0 2 cution of the race,” said Chalmers, who event of men’s swimming, a race that and obsessed with swimming, the wait to 32 years when Australia hosted the “I know we’ve been beaten a few won the world junior title a year ago but tests the nerves as much as the speed of for a successor has been an unfathom- 2000 Olympics in Sydney and hopes of times when we’ve gone in fastest so I just 20. Slovakia 1 1 0 2 has soared up the rankings to reach the competitors with medals often decided able source of national frustration. a breakthrough were high. wanted to do it for myself, my family, my 20. Vietnam 1 1 0 2 pinnacle of the sport. by the length of a fi ngernail. It wasn’t until 1984 that an Austral- Michael Klim broke the 100m world country and all my friends back home.” HANDBALL STAR OF THE DAY Kyle Chalmers of Australia Qatar draw The Star of the Day is Olympic debutant Kyle Chalmers, who swam fast for himself, eclipsing better-fancied teammate Cameron McEvoy to take his first individual Olympic gold medal after claiming bronze in Sunday’s 4x100m freestyle. Trailing seventh at the turn, Chalmers powered through the field in the last 50 metres to be- with Tunisia come the first Australian man to win the event since Mike Wenden at the Mexico City Games in 1968. The victory also made him Australia’s youngest swimming Olympic champion since Ian Thorpe won gold at the 2000 Sydney Games aged 17. “I have definitely flown under the radar,” said in thriller the Australian of a win that took him by surprise. “I flew under the radio at the trials, I stayed away Maroons play out 25-25 draw in their third group game from the media and just did my own thing. “Coming into this, I didn’t think it was possible,” Agencies he added of the victory. Rio de Janeiro atar’s national handball team shared the spoils with their Tunisian counterparts in a 25-25 draw in the third Qgame of Group C of the handball com- petition in the Rio 2016 Olympics. The result takes Qatar’s total to three points and revives the Maroon’s hopes of qualifying for the second round, having beaten Croatia 30-23 before suff ering a 35-20 defeat at the hands of world champions France. Tunisia, on the other hand, man- aged their fi rst point of the tourna- ment after losing their opening two games 25-23 and 31-23 to France and Denmark respectively. The Maroon play Denmark next to- Qatar’s Zarko Markovic (left) has his shot blocked during the men’s preliminaries morrow before wrapping up the fi rst Group A handball match against Tunisia in Rio de Janeiro yesterday. (AFP) round against Argentina on Monday. The game was largely an equal con- mi, who worked well in partnership ing the gap to two with his eighth goal test that saw Tunisia take the lead late with Jallouz to fi nish with eight goals (16-18, 44th), and it was he who struck in the fi rst half and hold it through in the match. Tunisia took the lead at again from 10 metres, taking his side to the last three minutes when Qatar 10-9 courtesy of Amine Bannour, at within one with 15 minutes remaining. suddenly grabbed the momentum to which point Qatar had not scored for The Asian team could not level the record a draw. almost 10 minutes, but they fi nally score however, and with six minutes on Tunisia left back Wael Jallouz broke added another to level at 10-10 in with the clock Marggaiz made yet another through the middle of Qatar’s defence three minutes remaining in the half. save on a fast break that kept Tunisia in to put the score at 5-5. With the score Qatar’s Zarko Markovic added the front 23-21, before Boughanmi scored progressing one for one, neither team last goal of the period to put the dis- his eighth with a tricky shot through could pull ahead by a signifi cant dif- tance at one at the break, but Tunisia Danijel Saric’s legs that took the score to ference until Qatar did so, with Ra- pulled ahead when the match resumed 24-21 inside the last fi ve minutes. fael Capote scoring a long-range shot to lead 16-14. Goalkeeper Marouen With three minutes remaining the to open up the two-goal diff erence at Marggaiz, who was on a 46 percent diff erence stood at four (21-25) before 8-6 in the 18th. After Capote added save rate after 50 minutes, stopped a Qatar completely turned the momen- his fi fth to put the score at 9-7 neither Qatar shot in the 49th to keep Tunisia tum around. The Asian side scored team could fi nd the goal until the 24th in front at 17-14, and when Bannour four consecutive goals from Abdul- when Tunisia’s line player Issam Tej added another goal to put the diff er- razzaq Murad, Capote, Markovic and scored from six metres (8-9).