Sport in brief

Press, 22 August 1989, Page 40

Sport in brief

Todd wins again PA London New Zealand equestrian rider Mark Todd’s pun>le patch continued yesterday when he won the Scottish three-day championship title at Thirlestane Castle. Double Olympic champion Todd, riding 10-year-old Jued Lad, won the title from the top English rider, Virginia Leng and Master Craftsman. Both recorded 45 points over the dressage, cross-country and showjumping disciplines, but Todd won on a countback. Another New Zealand rider, Blyth Tait, took third place on his horse, Messiah, finishing with 50 points. Todd retained his British Open title at Gatcombe Park on Bahlua this month and also picked up fourth with Jued Lad in the same event. Last month he won the Stockholm threeday title on Welton Greylag. N.Z. bowlers lose p A Wellington The New Zealand Emerging Players team yesterday lost, 3-1, to its New South Wales counterpart in a match played at Dover Heights in Sydney. The New Zealanders have a chance to redeem themselves today when they play the same team again at South Coogee bowling club in Kingsworth, Sydney. First darts title p A Wellington King Country won its first darts title when it captured the women’s provincial team’s event at the New Zealand darts championships at the Walter Nash Stadium, Lower Hutt, on Sunday. Hutt Valley won all three of its play-off matches to secure the men’s title. Results of the team finals: Women: King Country beat Wellington 10-5, beat Nelson-Marlborough 8-7, beat Manawatu Wanganui 13-2, 1; Nelson-Marlborough beat ManawatuWanganui 11-4, beat Wellington 8-7, 2; Welington beat Manawatu-Wanganui 9-6, 3; Manawatu-Wanganui 4. Men: Hutt Valley beat Southland 13-2, beat Canterbury 9-6, beat Otago 113,1; Canterbury beat Southland 9-6, beat Otago 10-5, 2; Otago beat Southland 9-6, 3; Southland 4. Kasparov blunders NZPA-Reuter Skelleftea, Sweden The Soviet world champion, Garry Kasparov, blundered when he was in a winning position and had to settle for a draw against a former world champion, Mikhail Tai, in round seven of the World Cup chess tournament. The result left Kasparov sharing first place with two other Soviet grandmasters, Jaan Ehlvest and Valery Salov, both of whom won their matches. Kasparov had a two-pawn advantage over Tai and was cruising towards victory but made a simple mistake as time ran short for both players. He grabbed a third pawn, allowing Tai to win his bishop and an easy draw. The tournament is the final competition in a series in which 16 of the world’s top players are playing each other. Brazil on rampage NZPA-Reuter Rio de Janeiro Brazil — with the international striker, Careca, scoring four goals — put on one of its finest performances for some time yesterday to crush Venezuela, 6-0, in a South American Group three World Cup soccer qualifying match. The three-time world champion, which has never lost a qualifying match or missed the World Cup finals, is now in a comfortable position to win the group in September when it plays second-placed Chile in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium. In other South American qualifying matches Bolivia beat Peru, 2-1, in the first match of Group one and two goals by the Colombian striker, Iguaran, gave his country a 2-0 victory over Ecuador in the opening match of Group two.

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