Lenton leads Australia fightback at world short course meet
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INDIANAPOLIS: Australia, led by Lisbeth Lenton, mounted a fightback against arch rivals the United States by claiming three gold medals and a relay world record at the world short course championships on Saturday.
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Defending champion Robert Allenby shot a 6-under-par 66 Thursday in the Australian Masters at Huntingdale to take a one-shot lead over three other Australians who had completed their first rounds.
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Britain's Mark Foster defended his 50m freestyle title as home star Markus Rogan claimed two gold on the opening day of the European short course championship.
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New Zealand entry Konica Minolta pulled away from super maxi rival Skandia to take an extended lead Monday in the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race as rough seas battered some of the smaller and slower boats.
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Australia kicked off their European tour with a 31-14 defeat of Scotland at Murrayfield but the gloss was taken off the result by a stirring second-half fightback from the Scots.
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LIBBY LENTON swam the fastest 100 metres freestyle relay split of all time to anchor a world-record effort by Australia&#39;s women&#39;s 4x100m medley relay at the world short-course championships in Indianapolis yesterday.
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The U.S. team continued to  dominate the world short course championships Friday, claiming  five gold medals without the help of Michael Phelps after he  was forced out of the meeting with an injured back.
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Australia&#39;s David McKenzie shot an 8-under 64 Saturday to take a two-stroke lead in the Australian Masters, while Peter Lonard was four shots behind in his bid to became the first player to complete the Australian Slam.
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Ohno takes gold: Seattle&#39;s Apolo Anton Ohno and China&#39;s Yang (A) Yang won 1,500-meter short-track races last night in Madison, Wis.
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Australia's Brooke Hanson charged  to two gold medals while Ian Crocker needed a world record to  give the United States their only individual victory at the  world short course championships on Sunday.
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AUSTRALIA&#39;S Jana Pittman finished fifth in the women&#39;s 400m hurdles at the Athens Olympics overnight behind home-town hero Fani Halkia of Greece.
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Two of the three Australians who made the field for this week&#39;s US Amateur Championship at the famed Winged Foot Golf Club in New York, have made it into the top sixty four who will fight out the Match Play phase of the Championship.
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SUN CITY, South Africa  - American Jim Furyk held a three-stroke lead over Ireland's Padraig Harrington after the third round of the Sun City Golf Challenge on Saturday.
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Australia&#39;s Stuart Appleby, after a tough day in the trenches for the field, held a one-shot lead after the second round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge at the Gary Player Country Club on Friday.
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Ernie Els went into lunch one-down against Angel Cabrera in the quarter-finals of the World Match Play at Wentworth on Friday. The world number two went as much as three-up by the sixth but was hauled back
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Australia&#39;s Brooke Hanson charged to two gold medals while Ian Crocker needed a world record to give the United States their only individual victory at the world short course championships on Sunday.
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Peter Lonard was almost an afterthought last week at The Australian - until the last nine when his pressure-proof action flushed enough irons close enough to steal the championship from those who had borne the brunt of the leaders&#39; tension for three and a