HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. men club Mexico to take CONCACAF World Cup lead; Erin Jackson & Brittany Bowe score World Cup skating wins!

Headline outcomes of noteworthy competitions all over the world:

● Alpine Snowboarding ● The second occasion of the FIS World Cup season was a showcase for Austria on residence snow in Lech/Zeurs in a Parallel Slalom.

Christian Hirschbuehl defeated Dominik Raschner within the all-Austrian closing, with Atle Lie McGrath profitable the all-Norwegian third-place races over Henrik Kristoffersen. It was Hirschbuehl’s first profession World Cup win, at age 31!

The ladies’s title went to Andreja Slokar (SLO), 24, over Thea Louise Stjernesund (NOR), with Norway’s Kristin Lysdahl third. It was additionally Slokar’s first profession World Cup medal.

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American famous person Mikaela Shiffrin reported that she is again in heavy coaching and expects to contest the well-known Slalom races at Levi (FIN) subsequent week. She gained the season-opening Large Slalom in Austria in October, however has been sidelined by again spasms.

● Basketball ● The US reached the finals of each the lads’s and ladies’s tournaments within the first ever FIBA 3×3 Americup tournament, held in Miami.

The lads’s crew of Trey Bardsley, Canyon Barry, Charlie Brown Jr. and Kareem Maddox edged Mexico, 22-12, and Uruguay by 22-14 in pool play, then out-scored Jamaica, 22-17, within the quarterfinals. The U.S. beat Puerto Rico by 21-17 within the semis.

The Individuals confronted Brazil within the closing, to be performed later at this time.

Barry and Maddox performed on the gold-medal-winning 2019 U.S. males’s 3×3 World Championships crew.

The ladies’s quartet of Ciera Burdick, Blake Dietrick, Haley Gorecki and Brionna Jones defeated Trinidad & Tobago and Argentina by 22-2 scores, then breezed previous the Dominican Republic by 21-7 within the quarterfinals. The semifinals noticed a 21-11 win over Puerto Rico, resulting in the ultimate, additionally in opposition to Brazil, later at this time.

● Bobsled & Skeleton ● The ladies’s Monobob World Series continued with the fourth and fifth occasions of the season, this time in Lillehammer (NOR) with a sweep by 2021 Worlds silver medalist Stephanie Schneider of Germany.

She gained the primary race on Thursday (eleventh) in 1:51.15, ending simply forward of Karlien Sleper (NED: 1:51.68) and did it once more on Friday (twelfth) in 1:51.16, with Sleper second in 1:51.51.

The following step shall be Innsbruck (AUT) on the twentieth after which two races within the U.S. (Park Metropolis) on the twenty third and twenty fourth.

● Fencing ● The FIE Grand Prix for Sabre in Orleans (FRA) resulted in a uncommon 1-2 for Greece within the ladies’s closing, with unheralded Despina Georgiadou defeating Theodora Gkountoura by 15-14, for her first profession Grand Prix medal!

The lads’s event noticed 2018 World Champion Junghwan Kim (KOR) out-point Italy’s
Luca Curatoli, the 2019 Worlds bronze medalist, 15-3 within the closing. Kim needed to defeat countryman and fellow World Champion (in 2019) Sang-Uk Oh, 15-13, within the semis.

● Determine Skating ● Superb to comprehend that the ISU Grand Prix has handed the midway mark, with the NHK Trophy in Tokyo the fourth of six stops. Japan and Russia cut up the 4 titles.

PyeongChang silver medalist Shoma Uno (JPN) delighted the gang with a decisive 290.15-260.69 win over American Vincent Zhou within the males’s division. Uno gained each the Quick Program and the Free Skate for his sixth profession Grand Prix win. Zhou was second within the Quick Program, then dropped to sixth within the Free Skate, however collected his third straight Grand Prix medal. Korea’s Junhwan Cha (259.60) was third.

Japan went 1-2 within the ladies’s competitors, with Kaori Sakamoto profitable over Mana Kawabe, 223.34-205.44. Korean Younger You (203.60) was third and American Alysa Liu (202.90) was fourth. The victory was the second profession Grand Prix win for Sakamoto after profitable final 12 months’s NHK Trophy as nicely.

Russians went 1-2 in Pairs, with Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov scoring 227.28 to 213.27 for Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, with Japan’s Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara third (209.42). The U.S. was 4-5 with Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy Leduc (202.79) and Audrey Lu and Misha Mitrofanov (190.03).

A really tight Ice Dance noticed Russia’s Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov (215.44) edge American Madison Chock and Evan Bates (210.78). Britain’s Lilah Concern and Lewis Gibson have been third (191.91).

The Grand Prix schedule will conclude with the Internationaux de France in Grenoble subsequent week and the Rostelecom Cup in Sochi on 26-28 November. The Grand Prix closing shall be held in Osaka (JPN) from 9-12 December.

● Soccer ● The U.S. males completed the primary half of its CONCACAF World Cup qualifying schedule with a 4-1-2 report and 14 factors to steer the standings on objective differential over Mexico (additionally 4-1-2).

That’s as a result of the Americans defeated arch-rival Mexico, 2-0, in Cincinnati on Friday, to assert their third win over El Tri in the course of the 2021 calendar 12 months, reportedly for the primary time ever.

The sport was tense as anticipated, with the U.S. utilizing excessive strain to maintain Mexico from having the ability to comfortably arrange its offense, and sustaining a 54-46% edge in possession in a scoreless first half. Mexico had the higher possibilities, however the U.S. led on pictures, 7-5.

The U.S. was stronger offensively within the second half, with a turning level approaching a scratching-the-face, yellow-card foul by Mexican midfielder Luis Rodriguez within the 68th minute in opposition to American striker Brenden Aaronson. Star midfielder Christian Pulisic got here in to switch Aaronson and scored the primary objective of the sport quickly after, heading in an ideal right-to-left cross by Tim Weah within the seventy fifth minute.

An more and more determined Mexico left some holes in its protection and Weston McKennie scored on a deflected cross in entrance of the objective that allowed him to ship a diagonal shot from proper to left into the Mexican web. That was 2-0 and it ended that method.

The sport was tough, with 25 fouls, and 4 yellow playing cards handed out to the U.S. and two to Mexico. Defender Miles Robinson was red-carded on a second yellow within the 89th minute, but it surely didn’t influence the ultimate rating. The U.S. ended with an 18-8 edge on pictures.

After seven of the 14 video games within the CONCACAF “Octagonal,” the U.S. and Mexico are each 4-1-2, with Canada third (3-0-4: 13 factors) and Panama fourth (3-2-2: 11). The highest three groups qualify to the 2022 World Cup and the fourth-place crew advances to a play-off. The U.S. performs at Jamaica (1-3-3) on Tuesday (sixteenth).

● Pace Skating ● The five-stage ISU World Cup series opened in Tomaszow Mazowiecki (POL) with three American victories, together with the primary two profession wins for sprinter Erin Jackson.

A 2018 Olympian, Jackson set a observe report in profitable the primary 500 m race, after lacking the 2020 season as a result of a freak eye harm from a bungee twine suffered whereas shifting between homes.

However she introduced her presence on the World Cup scene, profitable on Friday over reigning Olympic champ Nao Kodaira (JPN), 37.613-37.744, then coming again on Saturday for a 37.555-37.635 win over Russian Angelina Golikova, in one other observe report. Kodaira was third (37.789).

U.S. teammate Brittany Bowe returned to the observe with a win within the ladies’s 1,000 m (1:46.786, observe report) over Japan’s Olympic bronze medalist Miho Takagi (1:15.385) and Kodaira (1:15.711). Takagi got here again to win the 1,500 m (1:56.000, observe report) with Bowe second (1:56.606).

Irene Schouten (NED) gained the three,000 m in a observe report 4:04.990 after which doubled up within the Mass Begin race in 8:25.210, forward of Canadian star Ivanie Blondin (8:25.490).

The lads’s 500 m sprints have been gained by China’s Tingyu Gao (34.265, observe report) and Tatsuya Shinhama (JPN: 34.699), and the 1,000 m was a Dutch sweep for Hein Otterspeer (1:08.676 observe report), Thomas Krol (1:08.699) and Kjeld Nuis (1:08.836).

American Joey Mantia claimed a bronze medal within the males’s 1,500 m, gained by Min Seok Kim (KOR: 1:46.152), forward of Zhongyan Ning (1:46.191) and Mantia (1:46.388). Nils van der Poel (SWE: 6:15.562, observe report) took the 5,000 m and Masahito Obayashi (JPN: 7:56.910) gained the Mass Begin forward of Ruslan Zakharov (7:56.990).

The World Cup tour heads to Norway, with competitors in Stavanger from 18-20 November.

● Swimming ● The ISL playoffs started this week in Eindhoven (NED), with two semifinals to find out the contestants within the season three championship.

The primary match pitted season one winners Power Normal (FRA) and the Cali Condors (USA), with the Condors profitable on the ultimate occasion – the lads’s 50 m Free Skins – by 534.5 to 522.0. D.C. Trident was third (359.5).

The massive individual-event winners included Breaststroke star Ilya Shymanovich (BLR), who took the 50-100-200 m races; Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey within the ladies’s 100-200-400 m Freestyles, American Lilly King, who took the 50-100-200 m Breast and added sterling relay obligation, and American Beata Nelson, who gained the 100-200 m Medleys and the 200 m Again.

Two-event winners included American Kelsi Dahlia within the 100-200 m Fly occasions and Swedish dash star Sarah Sjostrom, who gained the 50 m Free and 50 m Fly.

The second semi noticed the L.A. Present out-score the London Roar (GBR) by 506.0-494.5, with Toronto third (398.5). The person stars have been triple Backstroke winner Ryan Murphy (USA) within the 50-100-200 m occasions and American Fly specialist Tom Shields, who gained the 50-100 m Fly occasions and was second within the 50 m Fly Skins race (to Matteo Rivolta/ITA) to clinch the L.A. Present crew win.

Two-event winners included Australian dash star Kyle Chalmers (males’s 50-100 m Free), and Dutch stars Luc Kroon within the 200-400 m Frees and Arno Kamminga within the 100-200 m Breast occasions. Australia’s Emma McKeon gained the ladies’s 100 m Free and 100 m Fly, with Summer time McIntosh (CAN) taking the 400 m Free and 400 m Medley.

The ultimate may also happen in Eindhoven and is scheduled for 3-4 December.

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