BRIEFLY : RECORDS SMASHED.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Penny Heyns of South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. broke the world record for the women's 100-meter breaststroke at the Pan Pacific swimming championships The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships is a long course swimming event first held in 1985. The meeting was initially staged biennially, however from 2002 became a quadrennial event. early today in Sydney, Australia. Heyns' time of 1 minute, 6.52 seconds in a qualifying heat broke her own record of 1:06.95, which she set in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. on July 19. It was her fifth world record in a month and she will have two more chances to lower it in the semifinals today and Tuesday's final. On Sunday, Australian teen-ager Ian Thorpe Ian James Thorpe OAM (born 13 October 1982 in Sydney, New South Wales), also known as the Thorpedo or Thorpey, is a former Australian freestyle swimmer. smashed the world 400-meter freestyle record by almost two seconds. Thorpe, 16, added the record to the world title he won 18 months ago when he broke the mark of Australia's most famous swimmer, Kieren Perkins. Thorpe's time of 3 minutes, 41.83 seconds crushed Perkins' record of 3:43.80, set at the 1994 world championships in Rome. Thorpe added a second gold medal when he anchored Australia's 400 relay team to a win over the United States in 3:16.08, the third-fastest time in history and the first time the United States had ever lost the event at a major meet. HOCKEY: Former St. Louis Blues forward Tony Twist one of the NHL's top enforcers - says injuries from a motorcycle accident will sideline him for this season and possibly longer. The best-case scenario is for Twist to return to hockey in nine months. But he could be out 14 months or more. ``The knee thing is a lot more serious than I thought at first,'' said Twist, who is recuperating at his home in west St. Louis County St. Louis County is the name of multiple counties in the United States:
BOXING: Brian Viloria and Ricardo Williams Jr. advanced to the quarterfinals of the World Amateur Boxing Championships The World Amateur Boxing Championships is the highest competition for boxing amateurs, organised by world's governing body AIBA, which stands for the Association International de Boxe Amateur. in Houston, the first time since 1995 any American fighter has gotten that far. Viloria, of Waipahu, Hawaii, defeated Rudolf Dydi of Slovakia 9-4 in a 106-pound fight. Williams, of Cincinnati, outpointed Victor Castro of Argentina 9-2 in the 139-pound division. In the 1997 World Championships, no U.S. fighter advanced past the second round. In the other bout involving a U.S. fighter Sunday at the George R. Brown Convention Center The George R. Brown Convention Center was opened on September 26, 1987 on the east side of downtown Houston. The center was named for the prominent Houstonian George R. Brown, an entrepreneur, civic leader and philanthropist. , Juan Hernandez of Cuba defeated Larry Mosley of Los Angeles 10-3 in the 147-pound class. |
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