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Borneo Bulletin, Monday July 15, 2019
B
OXING
Olympic silver medalist Stevenson wins
featherweight match in Jersey hometown
AP
Shakur Stevenson knocks out Alberto Guevara during their
featherweight match
NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) - Shakur
Stevenson came ready to put on a
show in his hometown.
He delivered with a big
knockout (KO) - and a promise
of big fights at home to come.
Stevenson
stamped
his
homecoming fight with a third-
round
knockout
of
Alberto
Guevara, keeping the New Jersey
fighter and 2016 Olympic silver
medalist undefeated and in line
for a featherweight title fight.
From Newark, Stevenson was
never challenged in the brief time
he was in time in the ring in front
of thousands of his hometown
fans last Saturday night at the
Prudential Center.
“That was a great performance
I put on for the city of Newark,”
Stevenson said.
The 22-year-old Stevenson (12-0,
seven KOs) had the crowd of 5,150
on its feet and pointing phones
towards the big screens to film
his ring entrance. Ring announcer
Jimmy Lennon Jr was about
drowned out by applause during
his introduction of Stevenson as
“making his hometown return, as
he proudly represents Newark,
New Jersey”.
Stevenson, his trunks trimmed
in sparkling purple, battered
Guevara from the start in the main
event of the Top Rank card and
dropped the Mexican with a body
shot late in the second round that
might have ended the fight had it
not been for the bell.
No worries. The celebration was
moments away, and Stevenson
connected on a left at 2:37 in the
third to score the knockout on a
wildly overmatched Guevara (27-
5).
“Top Rank, you all have to give
me better competition. I want the
IBF and WBO (belts),” he said.
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Andrew
Landry and Cameron Tringale
opened up a one-shot lead at the
PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic last
Saturday after Jhonattan Vegas’s
challenge imploded.
Landry followeduphis back-to-
back 65s over the first two rounds
with a four-under-par 67 at TPC
Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois.
That was good enough to send
him to the top of the leaderboard
alongside Tringale, who carded
seven birdies against one bogey
on his way to a six-under-par 65.
Tringale is yet to win a solo title
on the PGA Tour while Landry is
chasing only his second career
win following victory in the Valero
Texas Open last year.
Tringale’s low-scoring round
came despite a bogey on the
first hole. He recovered from
that setback with birdies on the
second and third, before making
three more before the turn.
Two birdies and seven pars
down the stretch brought him
home at six under, for a 16 under
aggregate.
Landry and Tringale have little
breathing space at the top of the
leaderboard, with two players,
2011 FedEx Cup champion Bill
Haas and Adam Schenk lurking
just one shot back on 15 under.
Haas put himself in contention
withabogey-free seven-under-par
64 as he chases a first tournament
win since 2015.
Tringale, Landry lead John Deere Classic by one shot as Vegas fades
G
OLF
S
WIMMING
GWANGJU, South Korea (AP) - Xin
Xin of China won the women’s
10-kilometre open water event
yesterday, lifting China to its
fourth gold medal of the world
swimming championships.
Xin finished in a time of one
hour, 54 minutes, 47:20 seconds.
The 22-year old, who finished
fourth in the same event at the
Rio Olympics, is now guaranteed
a spot at next year’s Olympics in
Tokyo.
Haley Anderson of the United
States (US) took silver, 0.90
seconds behind, and Italy’s
Rachele Bruni finished third to
take bronze, 1.80 seconds behind
Anderson.
“My
goal
before
this
competition was to qualify for
the Olympics,” said Xia, who will
compete in her third Olympics at
Tokyo. “I believe that I can race
better and better in the future.”
“My strategy today was to relax
and save energy in the first half,
and to keep clear in the mind and
also to keep the confidence in
myself.”
In a frantic finish, a large
pack of swimmers jostled for
a top-ten placing which would
earn qualification for next year’s
Olympics, with Xin and Anderson
surging ahead in the final 20
meters to claim top spots on the
podium.
American Ashley Twichell
finished seventh to join Anderson
in qualifying for Tokyo, as did
reigning
Olympic
champion
Sharon Van Rouwendaal of the
Netherlands who finished tenth.
“It was always my goal to be
on the podium here, it wasn’t
just about finishing in the top 10
today,” said Anderson, who won
silver at the London Olympics in
2012. “I am really excited about
how I finished, not just where
FROM LEFT: United States’ silver medalist Haley Anderson, China’s
goldmedalist Xin Xin and Italy’s bronze medalist Rachele Bruni stand
on the podium after the women’s 10km open water swim at the World
Swimming Championships
Xin wins 10-kilometre
open water swim at
world championships
AP
I finished. This is a great set up
for me for the Olympics next
summer.”
Last
Saturday,
Kristof
Rasovszky of Hungary won the
men’s five-kilometre open water
event to claim the first medal
of
the
world
swimming
championships, before China
completed a sweep of all three
diving events on the opening day.
Other upcoming open water
races include a five-kilometre
team relay on Thursday and the
men’s and women’s races over 25
kilometres on Friday.