Athletics

Stockholm Diamond League

Results from the 12th round of the Diamond League series in Stockholm on Thursday:

Men

110m hurdles

1. David Oliver (USA) 13.21

2. Sergey Shubenkov (RUS) 13.35

3. William Sharman (GBR) 13.36

200m

1. Serhiy Smelik (UKR) 20.54

2. Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (NOR) 20.58

3. Rasheed Dwyer (JAM) 20.64

400m

1. LaShawn Merritt (USA) 44.69

2. Luguelin Santos (DOM) 45.25

3. Pavel Maslak (CZE) 45.33

1500m

1. Ayanleh Souleiman (DJI) 3:33.59

2. Silas Kiplagat (KEN) 3:33.92

3. Nixon Kiplimo Chepseba (KEN) 3:34.05

3000m steeplechase

1. Hillary Kipsang Yego (KEN) 8:09.81

2. Gilbert Kirui (KEN) 8:11.55

3. Conseslus Kipruto (KEN) 8:12.35

Long jump

1. Aleksandr Menkov (RUS) 8.18

2. Godfrey Khotso Mokoena (RSA) 8.06

3. Eusebio Caceres (ESP) 8.00

Discus

1. Piotr Malachovski (POL) 65.86

2. Ehsan Adadi (IRI) 63.64

3. Martin Wierig (GER) 63.20

Women

100m

1. Kerron Stewart (JAM) 11.24

2. Alexandria Anderson (USA) 11.25

3. Barbara Pierre (USA) 11.29

400m hurdles

1. Zuzana Hejnova (CZE) 53.70

2. Kaliese Spencer (JAM) 54.88

3. Dalila Muhammad (USA) 55.74

800m

1. Eunice Sum (KEN) 1:58.84

2. Alysia Montao (USA) 1:58.96

3. Malika Akkaoui (MAR) 1:59.74

3000m

1. Meseret Defar (ETH) 8:30.29

2. Mercy Chenoro (KEN) 8:31.23

3. Sifan Hassan (ETH) 8:32.53

High jump

1. Svetlana Shkolina (RUS) 1.98

2. Anna Chicherova (RUS) 1.98

3. Mariya Kuchina (RUS) 1.94

Pole vault

1. Silke Spiegelburg (GER) 4.69

2. Yarisley Silva (CUB) 4.59

3. Fabiana Murer (BRA) 4.59

Triple jump

1. Caterine Ibargen (COL) 14.61

2. Olha Saladukha (UKR) 14.07

3. Hanna Knyazheva (ISR) 13.95

Shot put

1. Valerie Adams (NZL) 20.30

2. Christina Schwanitz (GER) 19.26

3. Michelle Carter (USA) 18.56

Baseball

Results from the MLB games on Thursday (home team in CAPS):

CINCINNATI 2 Arizona 1

LA Dodgers 6 MIAMI 0

NY YANKEES 5 Toronto 3

Minnesota 7 DETROIT 6

Washington 5 CHICAGO CUBS 4 (13 innings)

PHILADELPHIA 5 Colorado 4

ST. LOUIS 6 Atlanta 2

Chicago White Sox 4 KANSAS CITY 3 (12 innings)

Pittsburgh 10 SAN FRANCISCO 5

Cricket

Fifth Ashes Test

Scoreboard at the close of the second day of the fifth and final Ashes test between England and Australia at The Oval on Thursday.

England first innings

A.Cook not out 17

J.Root not out 13

Extras (b-1 lb-1) 2

Total (for no wicket, 17.3 overs) 32

Bowling: Starc 5-1-10-0 Harris 4-3-2-0 Faulkner 3-0-8-0 Siddle 5.3-1-10-0

Australia first innings

C.Rogers c Trott b Swann 23

D.Warner c Prior b Anderson 6

S.Watson c Pietersen b Broad 176

M.Clarke b Anderson 7S.Smith not out 138

P.Siddle b Anderson 23

B.Haddin b Trott 30

J.Faulkner c Trott b Woakes 23

M.Starc b Swann 13

R.Harris c & b Anderson 33

N.Lyon not out 0

Extras (b-1 lb-12 nb-5 w-2) 20

Total (for nine wickets dec., 128.5 overs) 492

Fall of wickets: 1-11 2-118 3-144 4-289 5-320 6-385 7-422 8-446 9-491.

Bowling: Anderson 29.5-4-95-4 (1w), Broad 31-4-128-1 (4nb), Swann 33-4-95-2, Woakes 24-7-96-1 (1w), Kerrigan 8-0-53-0 (1nb), Trott 3-0-12-1

Golf

US PGA Barclays

Partial scores on Thursday in the weather-disrupted first round of The Barclays, $8 million opening event in the US PGA Tour playoffs (darkness halted play, round to resume Friday. USA unless noted, par-71)

64 - Kevin Stadler

65 - Ryan Palmer, Henrik Stenson (SWE), Camilo Villegas (COL)

66 - Jason Day (AUS), Matt Kuchar

67 - Nicholas Thompson, Brendon de Jonge (ZIM), Graham DeLaet (CAN), Tiger Woods, Matt Every, Morgan Hoffmann

68 - Nick Watney, Josh Teater, Brian Gay, Charley Hoffman, Charl Schwartzel (RSA), Justin Rose (ENG), Geoff Ogilvy (AUS), Jeff Overton, James Hahn, Carl Pettersson (SWE)

Johnnie Walker Championship

Selected scores from the first round of the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles on Thursday (GBR and IRL unless stated):

65 - Ricardo Gonzalez (ARG), Bernd Wiesberger (AUT)

66 - Brett Rumford (AUS), Ross Fisher, Ignacio Garrido (ESP), Mark Foster, Thongchai Jaidee (THA), Oliver Fisher

67 - Andy Sullivan, Kristoffer Broberg (SWE), Markus Brier (AUT), Tom Lewis, Gregory Havret (FRA)

68 - Gareth Maybin, Matthew Nixon, Brooks Koepka (USA), Joel Sjoholm (SWE), Marcus Both (AUS), Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry, Eduardo De La Riva (ESP), Gregory Bourdy (FRA), Paul McGinley, Michael Hoey, Fredrik Andersson Hed (SWE)

69 - Martin Wiegele (AUT), Francesco Molinari (ITA), Soren Kjeldsen (DEN), Craig Lee, Richie Ramsay, Mark Tullo (CHI), Ricardo Santos (POR), Darren Fichardt (RSA), Gary Stal (FRA), Raphael Jacquelin (FRA), Gareth Wright, Christopher Doak

70 - Mikael Lundberg (SWE), Damien McGrane, Lasse Jensen (DEN), Anders Hansen (DEN), Jorge Campillo (ESP), Phillip Price, David Horsey, Matthew Baldwin, Moritz Lampert (GER), Simon Wakefield, Pablo Larrazabal (ESP), Alvaro Quiros (ESP), Tjaart Van Der Walt (RSA), Romain Wattel (FRA), Paul Lawrie, Keith Horne (RSA), Alexander Levy (FRA)

LPGA Canadian Women's Open

Scores on Thursday after the first round of the LPGA Canadian Women's Open (USA unless noted, par 71):

65 - Lydia Ko (NZL), Angela Stanford, Christel Boeljon (NED)

66 - Cristie Kerr, Paula Creamer

67 - Karine Icher (FRA), Park In-bee (KOR), Choi Na-yeon (KOR), Jennifer Kirby (CAN)

68 - Laura Davies (GBR), Stacy Prammanasudh, Brittany Lincicome, Park Hee-young (KOR), Nicole Castrale, Lee Jee-young (KOR), Feng Shanshan (CHN), Jenny Shin (KOR), Caroline Hedwall (SWE), Karlin Beck

Soccer

Europa League

Results play-offs, first-leg results on Thursday:

FH Hafnarfjrdur (ISL) 0 RC Genk (BEL) 2

Jablonec (CZE) 1 Real Betis (ESP) 2

Aktobe (KAZ) 2 Dynamo Kiev (UKR) 3

Salzburg (AUT) 5 Zalgiris Vilnius (LTU) 0

Saint-Gallen (SUI) 1 Spartak Moscow (RUS) 1

Molde (NOR) 0 Rubin Kazan (RUS) 2

Esbjerg fB (DEN) 4 Saint-Etienne (FRA) 3

Swansea City (ENG) 5 Petrolul Ploiesti (ROM) 1

Kuksi (ALB) 0 Trabzonspor (TUR) 2

Atromitos (GRE) 1 AZ Alkmaar (NED) 3

FC Minsk (BLR) 0 Standard Lige (BEL) 2

Maccabi Hafa (ISR) 2 FC Astra (ROM) 0

Tromso (NOR) 2 Besiktas (TUR) 1

IF Elfsborg (SWE) 1 Nordsjaelland (DEN) 1

Kalju Nomme (EST) 1 Dnipropetrovsk (UKR) 3

Kuban Krasnodar (RUS) 1 Feyenoord (NED) 0

Dinamo Tbilisi (GEO) 0 Tottenham (ENG) 5

Pandurii Targu-Jiu (ROM) 0 Sporting Braga (POR) 1

Apollon Limassol (CYP) 2 Nice (FRA) 0

Qarabag (AZE) 0 Eintracht Frankfurt (GER) 2

Chornomorets Odessa (UKR) 1 KS Skenderbeu (ALB) 0

HNK Rijeka (CRO) 2 VfB Stuttgart (GER) 1

Partizan Belgrade (SRB) 1 FC Thun (SUI) 0

FK Vojvodina (SRB) 1 Sheriff Tiraspol (MDA) 1

Zulte Waregem (BEL) 1 APOEL Nicosia (CYP) 1

Udinese (ITA) 1 Slovan Liberec (CZE) 3

Grasshopper Zurich (SUI) 1 Fiorentina (ITA) 2

Rapid Vienna (AUT) 1 FC Dila Gori (GEO) 0

Sevilla (ESP) 4 Slask Wroclaw (POL) 1

Estoril Praia (POR) 2 Pasching (AUT) 0

Tennis

ATP Winston-Salem Open

Results on Thursday (x denotes

Quarterfinals

Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR x10) bt Lu Yen-Hsun (TPE) 7-6 (2), 6-3; Gael Monfils (FRA x15) bt Fernando Verdasco (ESP x7) 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-4; Jurgen Melzer (AUT x9) bt Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 6-4, 6-3; Sam Querrey (USA x6) bt Ricardas Berankis (LTU) 6-3, 6-4.

WTA New Haven Open

Results on Thursday:

Quarterfinals

Petra Kvitova (CZE x3) bt Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 2-6, 6-2, 7-5; Simona Halep (ROM) bt Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 6-1, 7-6 (6); Klara Zakopalova (CZE) bt Elena Vesnina (RUS) 4-6, 6-0, 6-4; Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x4) bt Sloane Stephens (USA) 7-6 (6), 6-2.

(China Daily 08/24/2013 page15)