Kaniskina wins 20km walk after farcical start
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OSAKA, Japan  - Russia's Olga Kaniskina easily won gold in the women's 20 kilometers walk at the world championships after a farcical start to the race on Friday.
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Paceman Michael Kasprowicz struck twice in the one over to put Australia on the front foot early on the opening day of the first Test against New Zealand at the Gabba.
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The Cobh athlete recorded a time of 16 minutes and 20.90 seconds - over one and half minutes slower than her run in Australia - to finish in 14th position.
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Svetlana Kuznetsova stepped closer to claiming her third title in four weeks after thrashing Serbia's Jelena Jankovic 6-4 6-1 in the quarter-finals of the Stuttgart Grand Prix on Friday.
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China&#39;s Xing Huina came from nowhere to win the Olympic gold medal in women&#39;s 10,000m race in Athens on Friday. The 20-year-old Xing, making her first Olympic appearance, clocked a winning time of 30 minutes 24.
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Greece, shamed and angered by Olympic  doping scandals, went wild with delight Monday when Athanasia  Tsoumeleka won the women's 20 km walk to give the Olympic hosts  their first athletics gold medal.
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Competing under a flawless blue sky in the tree-lined grove devoted to Zeus, the European gold medallist equaled American champion Adam Nelson&#39;s opening mark of 2.16 to capture his first major title on a countback.
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Katerina Neumannova of the Czech Republic won a 10-kilometer freestyle cross-country race Friday in a World Cup competition.
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Slesarenko cleared 2.04m at the first attempt which none of her rivals could match and she went on to set a new Olympic record of 2.06.
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There was the Aussie leading the race. There was the American with the Aussie-themed daughter named Sydney hanging tough in second.
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Allyson Felix is off to a much better start than at her last major international competition. Felix led three American women into the semifinals of the 200 meters Monday night, winning her heat in both the first and second rounds.
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Italy&#39;s former world champion Ivano Brugnetti returned to the limelight to upstage favorite Jefferson Perez and win the Olympic men&#39;s 20km race walk on Friday.
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Craig Barrett couldn&#39;t improve on his efforts of four years ago as he ended more than four hours of hot toil with a 29th placing in the Olympic Games 50km walk here today.
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Australian Jelena Dokic claimed her first significant tour victory in almost three years, beating Germany's Martina Muller in the first round at the Hobart International here Monday.
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Italian Ivano Brugnetti strode to victory in the first athletics final of the Athens Olympics on Friday with a commanding performance in the men&#39;s 20km walk.
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Kelly Holmes won the women&#39;s 1,500 meters to become the third woman to win that race and the 800 meters at the same Olympics. The 34-year-old runner from the UK added the metric-mile gold medal in 3 minutes, 57.
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Outsider Athanasia Tsoumeleka snatched the women&#39;s Olympic 20km race walk title after a thrilling finish to give hosts Greece their first athletics gold of the Games.