ATHLETICS

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

HELSINKI, Women: 100m: 1. Lauryn Williams (US, 10.93) 2. Veronica Campbell (Jam, 10.95) 3. Christine Arron (Fra, 10.98) High Jump: 1. Kajsa Bergqvist (Swe, 2.02) 2. Chaunte Howard (US, 2.00) 3. Emma Green (Swe, 1.96) 3000m Steepl-echase: 1. Docus Inzikuru (Uga, 9:18.24) 2. Yekaterina Volkova (Rus, 9:20.49) 3. Jeruto Kiptum (Ken, 9:26.95) Hammer Throw: 1. Ivan Tikhon (Blr, 83.89) 2. Vadim Devyatovskiy (Blr, 82.60) 3. Szymon Ziolkowski (Pol, 79.35).

CHESS

NATIONAL B

NEW DELHI, Round IX ? Sriram Jha (6.5) lost to R. B. Ramesh (8) Vikramaditya Kamble (7) drew Muralikrishna (7) Himanshu Sharma (6.5) lost to M.R. Lalith Babu (7.5) Diwakar Prasad Singh (6.5) lost to Valay Parikh (7.5) Rishi Pal Singh (7) drew Deepan Chakravarthy (6.5) V. Saravanan (6) lost to B.S. Shivanandan (7) Nisha Mohta (7) bt C. S. Gokhale (6) K. Rathnakaran (6) lost to S. Arun Prasad (7) P.D.S. Girinath (7) bt N. Sanjay (6) N. S. Babu (6.5) drew Saptarshi Roy (6.5) R.R. Laxman (6.5) drew Gurpreet Pal Singh (6.5) G.B. Joshi (5.5) lost to Lanka Ravi (6.5) Nassir Wajih (5.5) lost to P. Konguvel (6.5) T Abhay (5.5) lost to D. Harika (6.5) Roktim Bandyopadhyay (6) drew T. Purushothaman (6) G. Rohit (6.5) bt L. Imocha (5.5) Akash Thakur (5.5) lost to MS Thej Kumar (6.5) Vishal Sareen (6) drew M. Vinoth Kumar (6) CN Vaidya (6) drew T.S. Ravi (6) Punit Jaiswal (5.5) lost to Abhijeet Gupta (6.5) K. Nikhilesh Kumar (5.5) lost to D.K. Sharma (6.5) Vikas Sharma (6) drew Somak Palit (6) S.S. Soman (6) drew Kiran Manisha Mohanty (6) L Ishwarya Shobhana (6.5) bt N.K. Mishra (5.5) R. Preetham Sharma (6.5) bt Anewash Upadhyay (5.5) R. Ashwath (6.5) bt Shashikant Kutwal (5.5) N. V. S. Ramaraju (5.5) lost to .T. Anil Kumar (6.5) S. Mari Arul (6.5) bt Ajay Pandey (5.5) Rupesh Kant (5) lost to Arghyadip Das (6) Deep Sengupta (6) bt S. Nitin (5) B. Adhiban (6) bt Prathamesh Mokal (5) Parimarjan Negi (5) lost to Y. Dhanabir (6) Akshat Khamparia (6) bt Rajesh Upadhyay (5) S.C. Sahu (6) bt Debaditya Sinha Biswas (5) A.K. Jagadeesh (5) lost to Saurabh Kherdekar (6).

FOOTBALL

CFL Premier Division

East Bengal 3 (Soumik Dey, Dipankar Roy pen., Sasthi Duley) Calcutta Port Trust Tollygunge Agragami 0 Ever-Ready 1 (Habib Ali).

TENNIS

LOS ANGELES OPEN

Women’s Singles, Round I ? Rika Fujiwara (Jpn) bt Antonella Serra Zanetti (Ita) 6-0, 6-2 Amy Frazier (US) bt Abigail Spears (US) 7-6 (6), 6-0 Francesca Schiavone (13, Ita) bt Dally Randriantefy (Mad) 7-5, 6-3 Jie Zheng (Chn) bt Shinobu Asagoe (11, Jpn) 6-7(3) 6-3 6-0 Gisela Dulko (14, Arg) bt Fabiola Zuluaga (Col) 6-3, 6-3 Sama-ntha Stosur (Aus) bt Alina Jidkova (Rus) 6-3, 6-2 Lisa Raymond (US) bt Lilia Osterloh (US) 6-0, 6-2 Dinara Safina (12, Rus) bt Kristina Brandi (Pur) 7-6 (5), 6-3 Angela Haynes (US) bt Marta Domachowska (Pol) 6-4, 7-5 Aiko Nakamura (Jpn) bt Flavia Pennetta (10, Ita) 6-3, 6-4 Klara Koukalova (15, Cze) bt Maja Matevzic (Slo) 7-6 (3), 6-1 Vauvara Lepchenko (Uzb) bt Galina Voskoboeva (Rus) 6-1, 7-6 (6) Maria Kirilenko (Rus) bt Marissa Irvin (US) 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 Marion Bartoli (7, Fra) bt Maria Elena Camerin (Ita) 6-1, 6-4 Anna Chakvetadze (16, Rus) bt Na Li (Chn) 7-5, 6-4.

CANADA MASTERS

MONTREAL, Men’s Singles, Round I ? David Nalban-dian (9, Arg) bt Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg) 6-4, 6-1 Max Mirnyi (Blr) bt Fernando Gonzalez (16, Chi) 7-6 (5), 6-4 Jonas Bjorkman (Swe) bt Vince Spadea (US) 6-3, 6-2 Dominik Hrbaty (Svk) bt Tim Henman (10, GBR) 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 Tommy Robredo (Esp) bt Kevin Kim (US) 7-5, 3-6, 6-1l Karol Beck (Svk) bt Noam Okun (Isr) 6-3, 6-2 Olivier Rochus (Bel) bt Nicolas Mahut (Fra) 6-3, 6-4 Mario Ancic (Cro) bt Cyril Saulnier (Fra) 6-3, 7-6 (8) Richard Gasquet (15, Fra) bt Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) 6-3, 7-6 (3) Andrei Pavel (Rom) bt Christophe Rochus (Bel) 6-1, 7-5 Ricardo Mello (Bra) bt Philip Bester (Can) 6-4, 6-2 Mariano Puerta (8, Arg) bt Luis Horna (Per) 7-6 (7), 7-6 (3) Nikolay Davydenko (5, Rus) bt Frederic Niemeyer (Can) 6-2, 6-1 Greg Rusedski (GBR) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (Sui) 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3 Andre Agassi (4, US) bt Alberto Martin (Esp) 6-4, 6-2 Gaston Gaudio (6, Arg) bt Davide Sanguinetti (Ita) 1-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5.

STOCKHOLM OPEN

Women’s Singles, Round I ? Anabel Medina Garrigues (4, Esp) bt Michaela Pastikova (Cze) 6-4, 7-6 (4) Camille Pin (Fra) bt Stephanie Cohen-Aloro (Fra) 6-2, 6-2 Mara Santangelo (Ita) bt Sandra Kleinova (Cze) 6-4, 6-1 Emilie Loit (Fra) bt Laura Pous Tio (8, Esp) 6-0, 6-2 Katarina Sre-botnik (5, Slo) bt Denisa Chlad-kova (Cze) 6-3, 6-4 Ekate-rina Bychkova (Rus) bt Ludmila Cervanova (Svk) 6-4, 6-2.

For the book

Three-time world road race champion Oscar Freire will be unable to defend his crown in Madrid in September because of an injury to his lower back.”I’m still unable to train and it will be impossible for me to go to Madrid," the Spaniard was quoted as saying in a sports daily. Freire, who won the world championship in 1999, in 2001 and again last year, abandoned the Tour of Switzerland in June.