Qatar Drawn Alongside Croatia and Japan for Men's World Handball
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14 Monday, September 7, 2020 Sports Schippers sets pace for Doha show with Thompson-Herah TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK sixth. But the last time they were in the DOHA Khalifa International Stadium was for 2019 Ex-world World Championships, where Ta Lou took NETHERLANds’ Dafne Schippers won 100m bronze, just 0.03 ahead of Thomp- champ Vetter the 100m race at the IAAF World Athlet- son-Herah. Schippers, meanwhile, had to ics Continental Gold meeting at Kamila withdraw due to injury. Nasser Al Attiyah on the second day of Rally Baja Poland in Drawsko Skolimowska Memorial in Chorzow, Thompson-Herah’s season’s best of lands second Pomorskie, Poland, on Saturday. Poland, on Sunday to signal a forth- 10.88 set in Kingston on 8 August is the coming head-to-head clash with second fastest of the year to date. best ever double Olympic sprint champion “I’ve been fortunate to be able to race at Brinke, Przygonski Elaine Thompson-Herah, and multi- home over the summer, but nothing beats javelin throw ple world medallist Marie-Josée Ta Lou, the thrill of lining up in an overseas, inter- at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in national meet,” said the Jamaican. “I can’t of Overdrive Doha on September 25 (Friday). wait to get back on the circuit, especially as The two-time world 200m champion part of a quality field in Doha where I’ve re- Schippers displayed sizzling form on Sun- ally enjoyed competing in the past.” Racing excel day as she won the 100m race in 11.29secs, Ta Lou will be looking to build on her ahead of Poland’s Ewa Swoboda (11.34), Wanda Diamond League performances in and Swiss Ajla Del Ponte (11.35). England’s Monaco and Stockholm where she finished at Baja Poland Amy Hunt ended fourth in 11.59secs. fourth (11.39) and third (11.32) respectively, Schippers’ good form means that the Netherlands’ Dafne Schippers wins the 100m while Schippers will make her season’s de- AGENCIES Drawsko Pomorskie military Dutch will go head-to-head with sprint race at the IAAF World Athletics Continental but over 100m in Doha. Germany’s Johannes Vetter SZCZECIN (POLAND) training grounds on Saturday. champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, and Gold Meeting at Kamila Skolimowska Memo- Doha’s Qatar Sports Club will host the celebrates winning the javelin Holowczyc was the pacesetter multiple world medallist Marie-Josee Ta rial in Chorzow, Poland, on Sunday. (AFP) revised 12-event programme – the final competition at the IAAF World Ath- DUTCHMAN Bernhard Ten through the opener and a time Lou in Doha at the Suhaim Bin Hamad competitive meeting of the truncated 2020 letics Continental Gold meeting at Brinke and Belgian co-driver of 2hrs 09min 37sec gave the Stadium. The three women have met at Ta Lou placing third. Wanda Diamond League season – which Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Tom Colsoul claimed second Pole an outright lead of 5min this meeting on two previous occasions. They clashed again one year later, this includes sprint hurdles and 800m for both Chorzow, Poland, on Sunday. (AFP) place for Overdrive Racing 35sec over Al-Attiyah. Pr- Thompson-Herah triumphed over 200m time over 100m, and Ta Lou came out on men and women; 100m, 3000m and long in the Wysoka Grzęda Baja zygonski came in a close third in 2017, clocking 22.19 into a -2.3m/s head- top, running 10.85. Thompson-Herah was jump for women; and 200m, 400m, 1500m AFP Poland, the second round of and moved up to a similar po- wind with Schippers finishing second and third on that occasion and Schippers was and pole vault for men. CHORZOW (POLAND) the heavily revised and short- sition in the overall standings ened 2020 FIA World Cup for and Dakar veteran Stéphane FORMER world champion Cross-Country Bajas. Peterhansel was fourth. Ten Johannes Vetter launched the With no FIA Cross-Coun- Brinke also climbed a place to Qatar wins lion’s share of World FIA Smart Driving Challenge awards second best javelin throw in try rallying action taking place fifth in the rankings. history on Sunday with an ef- in either of the two disciplines Unfortunately, Al Attiyah’s fort of 97.76 metres at an ath- since the Qatar Cross-Country engine suffered water damage letics meet in Poland. Rally in February – over six on the muddy and flooded re- At the Continental Tour months ago – it was a wel- peat of the stage and the Qatari Gold level event in Chorzow, come return to action for three was forced to retire. Peterhan- 27-year-old Vetter, who won Toyota Hilux crews after the sel claimed the stage win and gold at the 2017 worlds in imposed lockdowns and travel the outright lead from Ten London, came to less than a restrictions brought on by the Brinke with the eighth quick- metre of three-time Olympic global COVID-19 situation. est time giving Przygonski champion Jan Zelezny’s 1996 Poland’s Jakub Przygonski sixth in the rankings after the world record of 98.48m. “I and German navigator Timo Pole shed a wheel and spent 40 don’t really know what to say, in Gottschalk crewed the second minutes carrying out repairs. javelin there are little details that of the Overdrive Racing cars Ten Brinke said: “We had make it possible to make very with additional support from problems throughout the morn- good throws, when everything Orlen and reached the Szc- ing with visibility through the fits perfectly,” said Vetter. “With zecin finish in fifth place after wind shield but the mechanics a headwind I could have gone winning the last two stages. did a great job to fix it.T hen our much further, but I showed that Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al charging system broke and we you can also throw very far in a Attiyah and French naviga- had to stop and plug in a spare closed stadium like this.” tor Matthieu Baumel crewed battery. We managed to restart German Vetter’s throw was the third Toyota Hilux built by the car, but we covered the final Qatari driver Abdul Aziz Al Jabri finished second in the overall individual rankings as Qatar won the lion’s share of the awards of the first edition also more than three metres Toyota Gazoo Racing South Af- kilometres with practically no of the World FIA Smart Driving Challenge in both team and individual categories. Qatari drivers who led their respective teams were Abdullah Al further than his previous best, Khelaidfi, Adel Hussein Abdulla, Nasser Al Kuwari. The FIA Smart Driving Challenge is a global competition that rewards smart, safe and environmen- and moves him nearly four me- tally friendly driving. Using a smartphone app connected to a digital platform, regular motorists can compete to become the world’s smartest driver tres ahead of compatriot Thom- by using their own car. The challenge has been created to challenge everyday motorists to adopt smarter, cleaner and safer driving behaviour. (TNN) as Rohler’s 93.90m in 2017. Qatar’s Nasser Al Attiyah and his co-driver Mathieu Baumel in action Qatar drawn alongside Croatia and their Toyota Hilux, built by Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa. Attiyah’s engine suffered water damage on the muddy and flooded repeat of the stage and he was forced to retire following technical problems. Japan for men’s World Handball 2020 Baja Poland POSITIONS AFTER SS7 QNA Championship bronze me- 1. Stéphane Peterhansel (FRA)/Edouard Boulanger (FRA) MINI All4 Racing 5hr 52min 20sec CAIRO dalists Slovenia, Asian run- 2. Bernhard Ten Brinke (NLD)/Tom Colsoul (BEL) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 6hr 05min 08sec ners-up South Korea, and 3. Michal Maluszynski (POL)/Julita Maluszynska (POL) MINI John Cooper 6hr 15min 24sec THE draw for the 27th IHF 10th-placed finisher at the 4. Aron Domzala (QAT)/Szymon Gospodarcznk (POL) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T4) 6hr 17min 02sec Men’s World Championship EURO 2020, Belarus. 5. Jakub Przygonski (POL)/Timo Gottschalk (DEU) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 6hr 28min 12sec saw Qatar being drawn along The first three places of each with Croatia, Japan, and An- group will qualify for the second 6. Vasily Gryazin (RUS)/Oleg Uperenko (LVA) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 6hr 28min 43sec gola in Group C at a colourful round (the main round), which 7. Krzysztof Holowczyc (POL)/Lukasz Kurzeja (POL) MINI John Cooper 8hr 20min 53sec ceremony on Saturday. includes 24 teams that will be 8. Martin Prokop (CZE)/Viktor Chytka (CZE) Ford Raptor RS Cross-Country 8hr 39min 57sec IHF Men’s World Champi- divided into four groups, each 9. Gerard Farrés (ESP)/Armand Monleón (ESP) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T4) 9hrs 28min 15sec onship debutants Uruguay and of which includes six teams 10. Patrycja Brochocka (POL)/Rafal Marton (POL) Toyota Land Cruiser VDJ200 12hr 48min 00sec Cape Verde find themselves in competing with each other in a a tough group -- Group A, with one-round league system, pro- rica and won the opening super electric devices – lights, wipers European sides Germany and vided that the two teams qualify special stage. After slipping to or airflow.” Hungary, both of which fin- for the first and second places second overall on the first of the Four short specials fol- ished inside the top 10 at the of each group to the quarter- longer selective sections, their lowed on Sunday, starting 2020 Men’s EHF EURO. finals, the start of the play-off engine filters ingested water with the 9.59km of a tricky Group B saw the very first rounds in the tournament.