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Natalie Broadbent 24 August 2010

Sport in brief – 24 August
Sport-in-brief is UK Sport’s weekly update on what is happening in the high performance sports community in the UK.

Badminton: Briton Rajiv Ouseph won his first match of the World Badminton Championships in Paris. He will face world number one Lee Chong Wei in the third round.
Nathan Robertson and Jenny Wallwork reached the last 16 of the mixed doubles by beating Bulgaria's Stilian Makarski and Diana Dimova 21-9 21-12.
Olympic silver medallist Robertson also enjoyed success in the men's doubles as he and Anthony Clark overcame Vitaliy Konov and Dymytro Zavadsky of Ukraine 21-11 21-9.

Badminton England

Basketball: Great Britain's women reached the European Championship finals for the first time in 54 years by beating Germany 77-59 at the Echo Arena. The GB men's team also confirmed their qualification.
British Basketball

Canoeing: Britain's Ed McKeever is the new world champion of men's K1 200m racing after victory at the World Sprint Canoe Championships in Poland. He finished 0.348 seconds clear of his nearest rival, Germany's Ronald Rauhe.
Tim Brabants won silver in the K1 1000m, while Rachel Cawthorn took bronze in the K1 500m crossing the line in one minute 50.929 seconds.
Liam Heath and Jon Schofield were third in the K2 200m.

GB Canoeing

Cycling: Sarah Storey and Rachel Morris won their second gold medals for Britain at the 2010 UCI World Paracycling Road Championships in Canada.
Storey outsprinted Poland's Anna Harkowska in the final 500m to win the C5 category.
Morris finished the handcyclist race in a time of one hour 18:04secs, over 80 seconds ahead of silver medallist Sandra Graf of Switzerland.

Meanwhile, Emma Pooley won the Grand Prix de Plouay race - the ninth and final round of the UCI Road World Cup - for the second year in a row.
She said: “It is just amazing this victory. Actually, I didn’t expect that but the course and terrain of Western France seems to suit me.
“We were a group of four riders coming into the final lap. As I am not so strong in sprints, I tried my luck at the Côte de Kerihuel and attacked but Marianne Vos was still on my wheels on the top. So I attacked again at Ty Marrec and this time I was able get away and pushed hard on the final kilometers for the victory. It is great to win here in Plouay again.”

British Cycling has announced the team who will represent Great Britain at the forthcoming UCI Road World Championships taking place in Melbourne, Australia on the 29 September – 3 October 2010.
The team for the Commonwealth Games in October has also been announced and includes Emma Pooley, Sarah Storey and Lizzie Armitstead.

British Cycling

Handball: GB winger Kelsi Fairbrother will play for top Danish side Esbjerg this season.
Esbjerg finished sixth in the Liga last season, and qualified for European handball, where Kelsi hopes to play against some of the top names in the sport.
She began her a trial period with Esbjerg in July, and attended several camps and team-building sessions with her new colleagues.
Kelsi will also be working with renowned coach Jan Paulsen who has close links with Great Britain coach Jesper Holmris.
“I really appreciate the confidence and trust that Jan has shown by taking me into his team,” says Kelsi. “I have known and respected him since arriving in Denmark and meeting him as one of the coaches at the Academy in Aarhus.
“He has been great to work with so far, making training both hard work and fun and I am sure I will develop further under his guidance.”

British Handball

Modern Pentathlon: Three young British modern pentathletes will make their senior World Championship debuts in China next week.
Twenty one-year-old Katy Burke, Samantha Murray, aged 20, and 19-year-old Jamie Cooke are members of a seven-strong British team competing at the championships in Chengdu.
They are joined by another young Brit, 20-year-old Freyja Prentice, who made her world championship debut in London last year.
The GB team also features a trio of athletes who represented Great Britain at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games – Heather Fell, Sam Weale and Nick Woodbridge.

PentathlonGB

Swimming: Great Britain ended the IPC Swimming World Championships with a total of 18 gold medals. There were 10 GB medalists on the final day of the event in Eindhoven.
Daniel Pepper won gold in the men’s S14 200m freestyle while World Champion Sascha Kindred added silver to his 200m IM title in the S6 50M Butterfly.
James Crisp won silver in the men's S9 100m backstroke after returning from injury in 1:03.52sec.
Stephanie Millward won silver in the S9 100m backstroke, Matthew Walker won silver in the men's S7 50m butterfly in a new personal best of 32.00, and James Anderson won his third medal of the week in the S2 100m freestyle in 2:29.02.
Meanwhile, Natalie Massey who made her World Championships debut, secured bronze in the S14 200m freestyle in 2:17.81 while Rhiannon Henry took bronze in the S13 100m freestyle after touching in 1:01.13.
In the last race of the evening the women's 34 point 4x100m medley relay team of Millward, Harriet Lee, Claire Cashmore and Ellie Simmonds won silver.

British Swimming

Triathlon: Jonathan Brownlee won his first world title in a British one-two in Lausanne on Sunday. Brownlee finished 12 seconds ahead of team mate Tim Don at the inaugural ITU Sprint Triathlon World Championship.
He said: “I guess I'm lucky because I raced as a Junior last year, and Juniors race the sprint distance. I think I have a bit more experience at this kind of race than a lot of these guys and that helped today."

British Triathlon Federation

Youth Olympics: British windsurfer Kieran Martin ensured Team GB finished the Youth Olympic Games on a high by claiming the bronze medal in the BIC Techno event on the final day of competition. Read about all the action in Signapore on the Team GB website.

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