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Sport-in-brief - your weekly update from the high performance sports community

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Natalie Broadbent 31 August 2010

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

Triathlon: Jonathan Brownlee took silver in a sprint finish at the 2010 Vila Nova de Gaia ETU Triathlon U23 and Youth European Championships in Portugal on Saturday. Portugal’s Joao Silva won the race.
Brownlee was third fastest in the 1500m swim, rode in the lead pack on the hilly bike course and took to the front on the run.
British Triathlon

Meanwhile, plans for the 2012 Olympic triathlon and marathon swim have been submitted with organisers hoping to showcase London's famous landscape.
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Athletics: Steph Twell has smashed Yvonne Murray's 15-year-old Scottish 5000m record and leapt to fourth place in the all-time British 5000m rankings.
She took 22 seconds off her personal best, recording a time of 14.54.08 beating Murray's record, which was set in London in 1995, by 2.86sec.
UK Athletics

Luol Deng

Basketball: Britain's basketball team will find out next year whether they have been given a place in the London 2012 Olympics. Both the men and women's teams have qualified for next summer's European Championships, which the sport’s governing body, Fiba, says is a “substantial step” toward a place in London.
British Basketball

Hockey: England were off to a winning start at the FIH World Cup after beating Spain 3-2 in Argentina. Alex Danson scored on her 100th appearance to bring England level with Spain. Crista Cullen's penalty corner then gave England the lead just before the half-hour mark. Susie Gilbert scored the winning goal.
The women's team then beat Olympic silver medal winners China on Tuesday. Hannah Macleod scored the only goal of the match from a penalty corner.

England take on Korea on Friday.
England Hockey

Modern Pentathlon: Great Britain will have three women in Saturday’s Modern Pentathlon World Championships final in China after Heather Fell, Samantha Murray and Freyja Prentice all qualified from today’s (Thursday) semis. Britain's three male pentathletes missed out on places in the final.

Meanwhile, Medway is to host the 2011 Modern Pentathlon European Championships.
British Pentathlon

Women's Rugby: England beat Australia in the semi final of the Women's Rugby World Cup. They will face New Zealand in the final, the third time in a row the two teams have contested the title, on 5 September.
Women's Rugby World Cup

Wheelchair Tennis: British players won all seven first round singles matches they were involved in during Tuesday's first day of the US Open USTA Wheelchair Tennis Championships in St Louis, the fifth and final Super Series event on the 2010 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour.
The Tennis Foundation

Sailing: As the Laser World Championships head into the final phase at Hayling Island, Great Britain's Paul Goodison is in second place.
The Skandia Team GBR sailor, who is Olympic and defending World Champion, goes forward to the three days of Finals 14 points behind Australia's double World Champion Tom Slingsby.
RYA

Cycling: David Millar will replace Geraint Thomas in Britain's three-man team for the road cycling World Championships. Thomas, 24, withdrew on Thursday insisting that he had "not felt so good" since July's Tour de France.

Meanwhile, Annie Last took silver in the under-23 cross country event at the 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.
British Cycling

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