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nated. Colombia, who had beaten Brazil and Argentina in the pre-Olympic tournament, and the Danes fresh from their European Cup success, could manage only last place in groups B and D. On the other hand the Ghanaians, in great shape with five junior world champions in their team including the striker Kwame Ayew, qualified by equalizing against Mexico seven minutes before time, and went on to beat Paraguay in the quarter-final after extra time. These quarter finals were played in Valencia. On the day before the official opening of the Games, the Italians had got this Olympic tournament under way by beating the United States team 2-0 thanks to Demetrio Albertini. The match was played in front of only 18,000 spectators in this low season for football which meant that the stadiums were far from full. The fantastic attendance figure for the final was therefore all the more striking. The revelation of the tournament was without a doubt the valiant team from Australia who, after qualifying for the Games by beating the Dutch, showed that they were not afraid of anyone. Thanks to their swift and effective style of play, they knocked out Sweden 2-1 to reach the semi-finals. Left way behind by the Poles, they took a very creditable fourth place behind Ghana. * Quarts de finale - Quarter finals Cuartos de final A1-B2 POL-QAT B1-A2 ESP-ITA C1-D2 SWE-AUS D1-C2 GHA-PAR * Demi-finales - Semi finals Semifinales POL-AUS ESP-GHA * Finale - Final (3-4 places) AUS-GHA 2-0 1-0 1-2 4-2 6-1 2-0 0-1 * Finale - Final (1-2 places) POL-ESP 2-3 1. ESP: Jose Santiago Cañizares Ruiz, Albert Ferrer Llopis. Mikel Lasa Goicoechea, Roberto Solozabal Villanueva, Juan M. Lopez Martinez, David Villabona Elxaleku, Jose Amavisca Garate, Luis Enrique Martinez Garcia. Josep Guardiola Sala, Abelardo Fernandez Antuña, Javier Manjarin Pereda, Francisco Vera Fragoso. Antonio Jimenez Sistachs, Gabriel Vidal Nova, Francisco Soler Atencis. Miguel Hernandez Sanchez. Rafael Berges Marin, Antonio PiniIla Miranda, Quico Narvaez, Alfonso Perez Muñoz. 2. POL: Aleksander Klak, Marcin Jalocha, Tomasz Lapinski, Marek Kozminski, Tomasz Waldoch, Dariuz Gesior, Piotr Swierczewski, Dariusz Adamczuk, Grzegorz Mielcarski, Jerzy Brzeczek. Andrzej Juskowiak, Arkadiusz Onyszko, Ryszard Staniek, Marek Bajor, Andrzej Koby- Ianski. Miroslaw Waligora, Dariusz Szubert, Tomasz Wieszczycki. Dariusz Kosela, Wojciech Kowalczyk. 3. GHA: Simon Addo, Sammi Adjei, Mamood Amadu, Frank Amankwah, Bernard Nii Aryee, Isaac Asare, Kwame Ayew, lbrahim Dossey, Mohammed Cargo, Mohammed Dramani Kalilu, Maxwell Konadu, Osei Kuffuor. Samuel Ablade Kumah, Nii Odartey Lamptey. Anthony Mensah, Alex Nyarko, Yaw Preko, Shamo Quaye, Oli Rahman. A close match: Ghana versus Australia. 519
520 PALAU SANT JORDI, PALAU D’ESPORTS GYMNASTICS he only rivalry in the men’s team competi- Ttion was for silver and bronze. In a sport decided by hundredths and thousandths, the Unified Team gymnasts, all bar one of the six past or present world champions, won the gold with five points to spare over their nearest rivals, the Chinese, whose silver was their third-ever team medal, and the Japanese, who repeated their bronze in Seoul. In the Palau Sant Jordi designed by Arata Isozaki, emblematic of Barcelona’s new image as a city with a sporting future, attention inevitably focused on individual performances. Vitali Chtcherbo Vitali Chtcherbo. of Belarus won four apparatus, tying on the pommel horse with Valeri Belenky of Azerbaijan, the Ukrainian Grigori Misioutine the other two, the vault and the horizontal bar. Unsurprisingly, then, the individual allround competition was decided between these three EUN team-mates, now competing with a clean slate and under the flags of their individual Republics. Only the last event determined who would get what but the final order was the same as their individual standings in the team competition, Chtcherbo’s 9.9 on the rings hooping the gold, Misioutine the silver, Belenki bronze. The individual apparatus gave the first real opening for gymnasts from other teams - after Chtcherbo had taken the parallel bars, the rings and the vault and tied for the gold with Gil-Su Pae (PRK) on the pommel horse to enter Olympic history with six golds won at the same Games. Gil, who shares the world title on the apparatus with Chtcherbo and Jing Li (CHN), earned his place in the record book as the first gymnast from the DPR of Korea to win an Olympic medal. It was difficult to steal some of Chtcherbo’s limelight. But a triple back somersault in the floor exercise, a gravity-defying feat by Xiaosahung Li of China, rarely attempted and still less carried off in major competition, did just that. The landing was imperfect, but the score a deservedly golden 9.925. Yukio Iketani of Japan, who shared the bronze in 1988, tied again on 9.787, this time for silver, with Misioutine. Chtcherbo, who had scored the best marks on the floor in both team and allround competition, came sixth in his favourite exercize after a 0.10 penalty for stepping outside the square. Trent Dimas performed a routine with three impressive releases in the horizontal bars to the delirium of the American fans, finally able to see a USA gymnast take gold. Misioutine won his third silver in the individual apparatus competition, tying with the German Andreas Wecker, who had won a bronze on the horse, and a bronze, also tied with Xiaoshung Li, on the rings. Jing Li was second on the rings and the parallel bars.
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nated. Colombia, who had beaten Brazil and<br />
Argentina in the pre-Olympic tournament,<br />
and the Danes fresh from their European Cup<br />
success, could manage only last place in<br />
groups B and D. On the other hand the Ghanaians,<br />
in great shape with five junior world<br />
champions in their team including the striker<br />
Kwame Ayew, qualified by equalizing against<br />
Mexico seven minutes before time, and went<br />
on to beat Paraguay in the quarter-final after<br />
extra time. These quarter finals were played<br />
in Valencia.<br />
On the day before the official opening of<br />
the Games, the Italians had got this Olympic<br />
tournament under way by beating the United<br />
States team 2-0 thanks to Demetrio Albertini.<br />
The match was played in front of only 18,000<br />
spectators in this low season for football<br />
which meant that the stadiums were far from<br />
full. The fantastic attendance figure for the<br />
final was therefore all the more striking.<br />
The revelation of the tournament was<br />
without a doubt the valiant team from Australia<br />
who, after qualifying for the Games by<br />
beating the Dutch, showed that they were not<br />
afraid of anyone. Thanks to their swift and effective<br />
style of play, they knocked out<br />
Sweden 2-1 to reach the semi-finals. Left way<br />
behind by the Poles, they took a very creditable<br />
fourth place behind Ghana.<br />
* Quarts de finale - Quarter finals<br />
Cuartos de final<br />
A1-B2 POL-QAT<br />
B1-A2 ESP-ITA<br />
C1-D2 SWE-AUS<br />
D1-C2 GHA-PAR<br />
* Demi-finales - Semi finals<br />
Semifinales<br />
POL-AUS<br />
ESP-GHA<br />
* Finale - Final (3-4 places)<br />
AUS-GHA<br />
2-0<br />
1-0<br />
1-2<br />
4-2<br />
6-1<br />
2-0<br />
0-1<br />
* Finale - Final (1-2 places)<br />
POL-ESP 2-3<br />
1. ESP:<br />
Jose Santiago Cañizares Ruiz, Albert Ferrer Llopis.<br />
Mikel Lasa Goicoechea, Roberto Solozabal Villanueva,<br />
Juan M. Lopez Martinez, David Villabona Elxaleku,<br />
Jose Amavisca Garate, Luis Enrique Martinez Garcia.<br />
Josep Guardiola Sala, Abelardo Fernandez Antuña,<br />
Javier Manjarin Pereda, Francisco Vera Fragoso. Antonio<br />
Jimenez Sistachs, Gabriel Vidal Nova, Francisco<br />
Soler Atencis. Miguel Hernandez Sanchez. Rafael<br />
Berges Marin, Antonio PiniIla Miranda, Quico Narvaez,<br />
Alfonso Perez Muñoz.<br />
2. POL:<br />
Aleksander Klak, Marcin Jalocha, Tomasz Lapinski,<br />
Marek Kozminski, Tomasz Waldoch, Dariuz Gesior,<br />
Piotr Swierczewski, Dariusz Adamczuk, Grzegorz Mielcarski,<br />
Jerzy Brzeczek. Andrzej Juskowiak, Arkadiusz<br />
Onyszko, Ryszard Staniek, Marek Bajor, Andrzej Koby-<br />
Ianski. Miroslaw Waligora, Dariusz Szubert, Tomasz<br />
Wieszczycki. Dariusz Kosela, Wojciech Kowalczyk.<br />
3. GHA:<br />
Simon Addo, Sammi Adjei, Mamood Amadu, Frank<br />
Amankwah, Bernard Nii Aryee, Isaac Asare, Kwame<br />
Ayew, lbrahim Dossey, Mohammed Cargo, Mohammed<br />
Dramani Kalilu, Maxwell Konadu, Osei Kuffuor.<br />
Samuel Ablade Kumah, Nii Odartey Lamptey.<br />
Anthony Mensah, Alex Nyarko, Yaw Preko, Shamo<br />
Quaye, Oli Rahman.<br />
A close match: Ghana versus<br />
Australia.<br />
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