Oly: How the Aussies fared on August 17

AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2008
Oly: How the Aussies fared on August 17

BEIJING, Aug 17 AAP - How the Aussies fared today:

SWIMMING

Women's 50m Freestyle Final

- Cate Campbell (bronze in 24.17 seconds)

- Libby Trickett (4th in 24.25)

Men's 1500m Freestyle Final

- Grant Hackett (silver in 14 minutes 41.53)

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay Final

- Leisel Jones, Emily Seebohm, Jess Schipper, Libby Trickett (gold in 3:52.69)

Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Final

- Andrew Lauterstein, Brenton Rickard, Hayden Stoeckel, Eamon Sullivan (silver in 3:30.04)

DIVING

Women's 3m Springboard Final - Sharleen Stratton - seventh

ATHLETICS

Women's 100m Hurdles

- Sally McLellan (qualified)

Women's Marathon Final

- Benita Johnson (21st in 2:32.06)

- Kate Smyth (44th in 2:36:10)

- Lisa Jane Weightman (33rd in 2:34:16)

CYCLING - TRACK

Men's Team Pursuit Qualifying Round

- Jack Bobridge, Graeme Brown, Mark Jamieson, Brett Lancaster, Brad McGee, Luke Roberts
(qualified)

Women's Sprint Qualifying Round (200m)

- Anna Meares (qualified)

Men's Sprint Qualifying Round (200m)

- Ryan Bayley (eliminated)

- Mark French (eliminated)

ROWING

Women's Quadruple Sculls Final A

- Amber Bradley, Amy Ives, Zoe Uphill, Kerry Hore (6th in 6:30.05)

Men's Quadruple Sculls Final A

- David Noonan, James McRae, Christopher Morgan, Brendan Long (4th in 5:44.68)

Women's Eight Final A

- Natalie Bale, Sarah Heard, Sally Kehoe, Brooke Pratley, Elizabeth Kell, Kate Hornsey,
Pauline Frasca, Elizabeth Patrick, Sarah Tait (6th in 6:14.22)

Men's Eight Final A

- Jeremy Stevenson, James Chapman, Thomas Laurich, Samuel Loch, Marty Rabjohns, Stephen
Stewart, James Tomkins, Sam Conrad, David Dennis (6th in 5:35.10)

EQUESTRIAN - to come

Team Jumping Final - Round 1 - Edwina Alexander, Laurie Lever, Peter McMahon, Matthew
Williams (equal 7th, qualified for team final)

Individual Jumping Qualification - 2nd Qualifier - Edwina Alexander, Laurie Lever,
Peter McMahon, Matthew Williams (all qualified)

SAILING

Skiff Dinghy-49er - Race 16(Medal Race)

- Ben Austin, Nathan Outteridge (finished 5th overall)

Women's Keelboat Yngling

- Angela Farrell, Karyn Gojnich, Krystal Weir (finished 10th overall)

Men's One Person Dinghy-Laser

- Tom Slingsby (25th after 6 races)

Women's One Person Dinghy-Laser Radial

- Sarah Blanck (7th after 6 races)

Multihull - Tornado

- Glenn Ashby, Darren Bundock (2nd after 4 races)

Men's Keelboat - Star

- Iain Murray, Andrew Palfrey (15th after 4 races)

SHOOTING

Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions

- Ben Burge (40th)

- Matthew Inabinet (45th)

BEACH VOLLEYBALL

Women's Quarterfinals - Tamsin Barnett, Natalie Cook - eliminated by Brazil 24-22 21-14

BASKETBALL

Women's Prelim

- Australia bt Russia 75-55

HOCKEY

Men's Preliminaries - Australia drew with The Netherlands 2-2

SOFTBALL

Australia bt Canada 4-0

WATER POLO

Women's Quarterfinals

- Australia bt China 12-11

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