HIGHLIGHTS: Shiffrin opens season with 70th World Cup win; Zhou surprises at Skate America; U.S.’s Nedoroscik wins Pommel Horse gold

Headline outcomes of noteworthy competitions around the globe:

● Alpine Snowboarding ● The FIS Alpine World Cup season opened in Soelden (AUT) with Big Slaloms for women and men and the return of American celebrity Mikaela Shiffrin to the highest of the rostrum.

Shiffrin trailed Swiss rival Lara Intestine-Behrami by 0.02 seconds after the primary run, however stormed down the hill with the quickest second run (1:04.40) and ended with a decent, 2:07.22-2:07.36 win for the seventieth World Cup victory of her profession. It was her first in Soelden since 2014.

Intestine-Behrami was second and Slovakian star Petra Vlhova (2:08.52) was third. American Nina O’Brien was ninth.

Swiss Marco Odermatt recorded his fifth profession World Cup win on Sunday, edging Austria’s Roland Leitinger, 2:05.94-2:06.01. American River Radamus was sixth (2:06.62).

The skiers will relaxation for a month after which begin the season in earnest in Levi (FIN) on 20-21 November.

● Athletics ● One other weekend, one other world street file, as Ethiopia’s Letsenbet Gidey mauled the Half Marathon mark, winning in Valencia (ESP) in 1:02:52, destroying the 1:04:02 mark by Kenyan star Ruth Chepngetich in April.

Sunday’s race was the debut on the distance for Gidey, who gained the ten,000 m bronze in Tokyo and owns the world information on the monitor for five,000 m (14:06.63 in 2020) and 10,000 m (29:01.03 in 2021).

Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw was a distant second, but additionally beneath the previous mark at 1:03:51, and Kenyan Sheila Chepkirui was third at 1:04:53.

The lads’s race was additionally speedy, gained by Abel Kipchumba (KEN) in a world-leading 58:07, adopted by Rhonex Kipruto (KEN: 58:09) and Daniel Mateiko (KEN: 58:26), with seven beneath 59 minutes.

For Kipchumba, he strikes to no. 6 on the all-time listing (no. 6 efficiency) and Kipruto’s time is the seventh-fastest efficiency in historical past.

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Olympic bronze medalist Bashir Abdi (BEL) gained the always-fast Rotterdam Marathon in 2:03:36, no. 2 on the world listing for 2021.

Abdi beat Kenya’s Marius Kipserem (2:04:04: no. 6 in 2021) and Dawit Wolde (ETH: 2:04:27) to the road and is now equal-14th quickest ever, in his sixth profession marathon.

Kenyan Stella Barsorio gained the ladies’s race in 2:22:08 over Natalya Lehonkova (UKR: 2:30:28) and Bornes Kitur (KEN: 2:30:41).

● Badminton ● The BWF Thomas and Uber Cup in Aarhus, Denmark obtained new champions because the 2020 match was lastly performed – due to Covid – in 2021.

Within the Thomas Cup (for males), Indonesia gained its first title since 2002, defeating China within the remaining by 3-0. The Chinese language had gained six of the final eight.

The Uber Cup remaining (for ladies) noticed China sail previous Japan, 3-1, within the remaining, for its tenth victory within the final 12 editions of the occasion.

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Within the Victor Denmark Open that concluded on Sunday, house favourite – and Tokyo Olympic champ – Viktor Axelsen gained the lads’s Singles over no. 1-ranked Kento Momota of Japan by coming from behind: 20-22, 21-18, 21-12.

Japan gained three different divisions, with Akane Yamaguchi successful the ladies’s Singles, Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi successful males’s Doubles and Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino taking the ladies’s Doubles. China’s DongPing Huang and Yu Zheng gained the Combined Doubles.

● Biking ● Germany, the Netherlands and Italy dominated the UCI World Track Cycling Championships in Roubaix (FRA), with Dutch sprinter Harrie Levreysen and Germany’s Lea Friedrich each taking three golds every.

Lavreysen, the Olympic champ within the Dash, gained his third Worlds Dash title over teammate Jeffrey Hoogland, then additionally gained the Keirin over Hoogland and teamed with Hoogland and Roy van den Berg to win the Staff Dash.

Hoogland obtained a person gold within the 1,000 m Time Trial. American Ashton Lambie gained the one U.S. males’s medal with a win within the Particular person Pursuit. France’s Donovan Grondin and Benjamin Thomas gained the Scratch and Factors races, respectively and Italian star Elia Viviani took the Elimination Race. Danes Lasse Norman Hansen and Michael Morkov gained the Madison and Ethan Hayter (GBR) gained the Omnium.

German ladies gained six of the 11 races, with Friedrich successful the five hundred m Time Trial, Keirin and teaming with Emma Hinze (who gained the Dash) and Pauline Grabosch to win the Staff Dash. Lisa Brennauer gained the Particular person Pursuit and led the German Staff Pursuit squad to victory.

Italy obtained wins from Martina Fidanza within the Scratch Race and Letizia Paternoster gained the Elimination Race. Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky gained the Factors Race and British star Katie Archibald gained the Omnium. Amy Pieters and Kirsten Wild (NED) gained the Madison.

American Jennifer Valente, the Tokyo Omnium champ, gained bronzes within the Scratch and Elimination races, giving her a profession complete of 11 Worlds medals at simply age 26!

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The UCI Girls’s World Tour concluded on Saturday with the famed Ronde van Drenthe race within the Netherlands, gained by house favourite Lorena Wiebes in a remaining dash forward of Italy’s Elena Cecchini and Eleonora Gasparinni, with all instances in 4:07:34 for the 134.1 km route.

The ultimate seasonal standings noticed Dutch star Annemiek van Vleuten win her second title with 3,177 factors, effectively forward of Demi Vollering (NED: 2,563).

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In Sakarya, Turkey, the primary of two weeks of BMX SuperCross World Cup racing was held, with Swiss Simon Marquardt successful the primary race over French veteran Joris Daudet. On Sunday, it was Colombia’s Carlos Ramirez – the Tokyo bronze medalist – who obtained to the road first in 35.682, over Romain Racine (FRA: 36.276).

American Felicia Stancil – fourth in Tokyo – gained the primary ladies’s race, out-distancing Czech Elena Bartunkova, 37.656-38.445. Stancil was robust once more on Sunday, however Dutch star Laura Smulders – the 2018 World Champion – prevailed by 39.603-39.829.

● Determine Skating ● American Vincent Zhou gained his first ISU Grand Prix title with a sterling 295.56-point efficiency at Skate America at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, ending effectively forward of Japan’s Shoma Uno (270.68) and World Champion Nathan Chen (USA: 269.37). Zhou gained each the Brief Program and the Free Skate, whereas Chen was fourth and second, together with his worst end in a Grand Prix since 2016. American Jimmy Ma was fifth (228.12).

Russians took the highest two locations within the ladies’s skating, with Alexandra Trusova taking her third Grand Prix title at 232.37 factors, successful each the Brief Program and Free Skate. Daria Usacheva was second (217.31) and Korea’s Younger You (216.97) third. American Amber Glenn completed sixth (201.02).

In Pairs, Russia’s Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov gained simply at 222.50, forward of Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara (JPN: 208.20) and Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitrii Kozlovskii (RUS: 205.53). People Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier had been fourth (202.97) and Jessica Calalang and Brian Johnson fifth (197.42).

The U.S. claimed gold and silver in Ice Dance, with Worlds silver medalists Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue successful at 209.54, adopted by Madison Chock and Evan Bates (208.23), each ending effectively forward of Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen (CAN: 190.13).

● Soccer ● The U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Staff played to a dreary 0-0 tie with South Korea on Thursday (twenty first) in Kansas Metropolis, ending a 22-game win streak on house soil due to star goalkeeping from Younggeul Yoon for the guests.

The U.S. had a 19-8 edge in photographs and 8-1 on objective, however Yoon was equal to the problem each time. American keeper Adrianna Franch had just one shot to face, however saved a harmful shot close to the tip of the primary half.

The U.S. ladies will face the Koreans as soon as once more, in what is predicted to be the ultimate sport of Carli Lloyd’s good worldwide profession, on Tuesday (twenty sixth) in St. Paul, Minnesota at 8 p.m. Japanese time (proven on FS1 and TUDN).

● Freestyle & Snowboard ● The FIS World Cup seasons obtained entering into Chur (SUI), with Large Air occasions in each disciplines and large outcomes for the native favorites.

In Freestyle, Swiss followers cheered house hero Matej Svancer – the 2021 World Junior Champion – to a decent win within the males’s Large Air, scoring 99.00 to only edge Canada’s Teal Harle (98.00) and Norway’s Birk Ruud (97.25); all three obtained their scores on their second (remaining) run. The ladies’s occasion was gained by 2019 World Champion Tess Ledeux (FRA), who beat 2018 Olympic Slopestyle winner Sarah Hoefflin (SUI), 95.25-93.25.

In Snowboard, Swiss Jonas Boesiger gained his first profession World Cup title, simply successful the lads’s division by 162.00-141.00 over Finn Rene Rinnekangas. It was 16-year-old Kokomo Murase (JPN) with an upset within the ladies’s competitors, taking her first profession World Cup title and beating 2018 Olympic champ Anna Gasser (AUT), by 173.75-150.00.

● Gymnastics ● The fiftieth World Gymnastics Championships in Kitakyushu (JPN) produced a number of surprises, not the least of which was a Worlds gold for American Stephen Nedoroscik on the Pommel Horse.

Second within the qualifying at 15.366, Nedoroscik acquired the perfect rating within the remaining for execution at 8.766 and gained with 15.266 factors, forward of co-silver medalists Hao Weng (CHN) and Kaya Kazuma (JPN), each 14.900. American Alec Yoder was fifth (14.766).

It was the first-ever Worlds Pommel Horse title for the U.S. and first males’s gymnastics Worlds golds since Danell Leyna gained on Parallel Bars in 2011!

The U.S. males additionally obtained a bronze on the Horizontal Bar from Brody Malone for his first profession Worlds medal.

The lads’s All-Round noticed Olympic champ Daiki Hashimoto drop to silver, as China’s Boheng Zhang gained by 87.981-87.964. The distinction ended up being on Rings, the place Zhang scored 14.600 to Hashimoto’s 13.966. Ukraine’s Ilya Kovtun was third (84.899) and American Yul Moldauer was fourth (84.365), the perfect American end within the males’s All-Round since 2010.

The person occasions went to Nicola Bartolini (ITA: 14.800) on Ground, beating Minami Kazuki (JPN: 14.766); Xingyu Lan (CHN: 15.200) over Marco Lodadio (ITA: 14.866) on Rings; Carlos Yulo (PHI: 14.916) defeated Yonekura Hidenobu (JPN: 14.866) on Vault; Huwei Hu (CHN: 15.466) bested Yulo (15.300) on Parallel Bars (Moldauer was fifth), and Hu (15.166) outscored Tokyo winner Hashimoto (15.066) on the Horizontal Bar with Malone third.

Most of the stars of the Tokyo Video games skipped this Worlds, and the U.S. ladies entered a crew of rising stars. The American ladies gained three medals – one silver and two bronzes – however missed out on a Worlds gold for the primary time for the reason that 2006 occasion.

Within the All-Round, Olympic bronze medalist Angelina Melnikova (RUS) was the favourite and gained in a decent battle with People Leanne Wong and Kayla DiCello, 56.632-56.340 and 54.566.

Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade gained the Vault – as she did in Tokyo – scoring 14.966, forward of Italy’s Asia D’Amato (14.083); China’s Xiaoyuan Wei (CHN) took the Uneven Bars (14.733) forward of Andrade (14.633); Urara Ashikawa (JPN) gained the Beam at 14.100, with Pauline Schaefer-Betz (GER: 13.800) second, Wong fourth and DiCello eighth, and Japan’s retiring Mai Murakami gained on Ground, scoring 14.066, with Melnikova second (14.000) and Wong third (13.833); DiCello was fifth.

● Ice Hockey ● The “My Why Tour” between arch-rivals Canada and the U.S. opened with a 3-1 Canadian win in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Friday (twenty second).

Canada went up, 1-0, on a Sarah Fillner objective within the first interval, however Hayley Scamurra tied for the U.S. within the second interval. However two targets from Emily Clark within the third interval – one on an influence play – proved to be an excessive amount of for the People. The U.S. out-shot Canada, 29-19, however it didn’t matter.

The tour will proceed on Monday (twenty fifth) with a re-match in Hartford, Connecticut (proven on NHL Community).

● Taking pictures ● The ISSF President’s Cup in Shotgun was held in Larnaca, Cyprus, ending on Sunday, together with good performances from two U.S. stars.

Within the Males’s Skeet remaining, it was Gabriele Rossetti (ITA) with the win; American Vincent Hancock – the Tokyo gold medalist – was fourth. The ladies’s division noticed Austen Smith of the U.S., nonetheless simply 20 and the youngest 2021 U.S. Olympian in taking pictures, defeated Slovakian star Danka Bartekova, 33-32 for the victory.

In Lure, Tokyo silver winner David Kostelecky (CZE) gained the lads’s remaining by 31-29 over countryman Jiri Liptak (the Tokyo gold medalist), and Spain’s 2015 World Champion, Fatima Galvez, edged Olympic silver medalist Kayle Browning of the U.S. within the ladies’s occasion by 32-29.

● Brief Monitor ● The ISU World Cup opener in Beijing was additionally the take a look at occasion prematurely of the 2022 Winter Video games.

The races had been extremely aggressive, with 5 totally different international locations successful the six particular person occasions. Hungarian star Sandor Shaolin Liu took the five hundred m Dash in 40.711; Korea’s Daeheon Hwang gained the lads’s 1,000 m (1:26.020) and Russia’s Semen Elistratov gained the 1,500 m (2:18.285).

The ladies’s 500 m was a formidable win for Natalia Maliszewska (POL): 43.226); Dutch star Suzanne Schulting gained the 1,000 m (1:28.275) with American Kristen Santos third (1:28.433), and Korea’s Yubin Lee gained the 1,500 m (2:21.833) with Santos third once more (2:22.176).

● Swimming ● The third leg of the FINA (25 m) World Cup was held in Doha (QAT), with five-time World 25 m Championships gold medalist Daiya Seto of Japan exhibiting he’s in kind, regardless that Japan won’t be sending a crew to the 2021 World 25 m Championships in December resulting from quarantine restrictions.

Seto gained 4 occasions in Doha, taking the lads’s 200 m Breast, 200 m Fly and the 100 m and 400 m Medleys. He was adopted by South Africa’s Peter Coetzee, who gained all three Backstroke occasions – 50-100-200 m – and three males who gained twice: Matthew Sates (RSA: 400 m Free, 200 m Medley), American Tom Shields (50-100 m Flys) and Dutch star Arno Kamminga (50-100 m Breast).

The highest ladies’s winner was Dutch backstroker Kira Toussaint, who gained the 50-100-200 m occasions, and Russian Breaststroke star Yuliya Efimova, who gained the 50-100-200 m occasions in that stroke. The double ladies’s winners included Swiss Maria Ugolkova (100-200 m Medleys), Madison Wilson (AUS: 200-400 m Frees), Emma McKeon (AUS: 100 Free, 100 m Fly), Hungary’s Zsuzsanna Jakabos (200 m Fly, 400 m Medley) and Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED: 50 m Free, 50 m Fly).

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