Jung creates history with individual eventing crown
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August 1, 2012, Wednesday
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GERMANY'S Michael Jung created equestrian history at the London Games yesterday, winning gold to become the first rider to hold the European, world and Olympic individual eventing titles.
It was a red letter day for the record-breaker as he had earlier picked up eventing team gold on his horse Sam, all of this on the day he celebrated his 30th birthday.
In silver came Sweden's Sara Algotsson-Ostholt, who suffered wretched luck as she was on target to become the first woman to take the title only for her gray mare Wega to knock the top pole off the final fence.
That left her with a combined total after the dressage and cross country of 43.30 points, behind Jung on 40.60.
Bronze went to Jung's compatriot, Sandra Auffarth, with 44.80 points, with Australian veteran Andrew Nicholson in fourth.
Vincent Hancock, a two-time Olympic champion in men's skeet shooting, defended his crown with a score of 148.
Anders Golding of Denmark finished two targets back to win the silver, and Qatar's Nasser al-Attiya won a shoot-off over Russia's Valery Shomin for the bronze at the Royal Artillery Barracks.
Hancock gave the US a skeet sweep, after Kimberly Rhode won the women's event.
Also, Maiya Maneza won Kazakhstan's second weightlifting gold and set an Olympic record in the women's 63kg class.
Svetlana Tsarukaeva of Russia was second with Canada's Christine Girard third.
Maneza was second after lifting 110 kilograms in the snatch but rose to first by taking 135kg in her first clean and jerk for a total of 245kg, an Olympic record.
The French added to their medals when Tony Estanguet won gold in the men's canoe slalom, regaining the Olympic title he won in 2000 and 2004. Sideris Tasiadis of Germany took silver and defending champion Michal Martikan of Slovakia won bronze.
It was a red letter day for the record-breaker as he had earlier picked up eventing team gold on his horse Sam, all of this on the day he celebrated his 30th birthday.
In silver came Sweden's Sara Algotsson-Ostholt, who suffered wretched luck as she was on target to become the first woman to take the title only for her gray mare Wega to knock the top pole off the final fence.
That left her with a combined total after the dressage and cross country of 43.30 points, behind Jung on 40.60.
Bronze went to Jung's compatriot, Sandra Auffarth, with 44.80 points, with Australian veteran Andrew Nicholson in fourth.
Vincent Hancock, a two-time Olympic champion in men's skeet shooting, defended his crown with a score of 148.
Anders Golding of Denmark finished two targets back to win the silver, and Qatar's Nasser al-Attiya won a shoot-off over Russia's Valery Shomin for the bronze at the Royal Artillery Barracks.
Hancock gave the US a skeet sweep, after Kimberly Rhode won the women's event.
Also, Maiya Maneza won Kazakhstan's second weightlifting gold and set an Olympic record in the women's 63kg class.
Svetlana Tsarukaeva of Russia was second with Canada's Christine Girard third.
Maneza was second after lifting 110 kilograms in the snatch but rose to first by taking 135kg in her first clean and jerk for a total of 245kg, an Olympic record.
The French added to their medals when Tony Estanguet won gold in the men's canoe slalom, regaining the Olympic title he won in 2000 and 2004. Sideris Tasiadis of Germany took silver and defending champion Michal Martikan of Slovakia won bronze.
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