Olympic Survey (Sept 24)

Yugoslav goalkeeper Sostar had a few glorious saves

Today Yugoslavia has defeated the USA national team in the second round in the B group of the Olympic tournament water polo with the score of 8:5 (3:1, 2:2, 2:1, 1:1).

Yugoslav water polo national team has continued with successful performances at the Olympic Games, defeating today, deservedly and convincingly, USA national team. Our national team functioned perfectly.

The Yugoslav team had, apart from the very beginning of the match, when it was 1:1,the advantage of two to three goals until the last beep. Unpassable Vujasinovic directed our team's firm defence, goalkeeper Sostar simply "killed" the opponents wish to score, while Sapic and Ikodinovic were the insoluble problem to the American goalkeeper Hacket.Sostar had to the end of the second quarter a great intervention, when Credel tried to score from the distance of only two meters.

RESULTS - September 24

Group A
Italy - Russia 7-7
Spain - Slovakia 7-6
Australia - Kazakhstan 11-11

Group B
Hungary - Netherlands 16-8
YUGOSLAVIA - US 8-5
Croatia - Greece 9-5

Dmitry Torgovanov (left, Russia) and Aco Knezevic (Yugoslavia)

In the last match of the fifth round, group A at the Olympic tournament for hanballers, Russian national team defeated Yugoslav in Sidney today, with the score of 27:25 (14:12).

Yugoslavia won the third place in its group and will meet France, the second in the group B, in the quarter-finals.

The match had been decided only after some ten minutes of the second half, when the Yugoslavs made a sudden turnover from 12:14 to 16:15,in the serious fight which was about to begin.

However, in the continuation of the match the Yugoslav team's performance declined and they allowed their rival to achieve the serial of 3-0.Until the very end of the match they hopelessly tried to come close to the dominant Russians.The only thing the Yugoslav team managed to do was to drew to 20:21,after which the Russian players "came off" and ensured the deserved victory.

RESULTS - September 24

Group A
Russia - YUGOSLAVIA 27-25 (14-12)
Egypt - Germany 22-21 (8-11)
South Korea - Cuba 35-28 (15-13)

Group A - Final standings

Russia        5    4    0    1    129-121    8
Germany       5    3    1    1    128-113    7
YUGOSLAVIA    5    3    0    2    130-127    6
Egypt         5    3    0    2    122-115    6
South Korea   5    1    1    3    128-131    3
Cuba          5    0    0    5    128-158    0

Group B
Sweden - Spain 28-27 (13-14)
France - Australia 28-16 (13-7)
Slovenia - Tunisia 22-20 (9-12)

Group B - Final Standings

Sweden        5    5    0    0    155-121    10
France        5    3    1    1    120-104     7
Spain         5    3    0    2    144-126     6
Slovenia      5    2    1    2    137-127     5
Tunisia       5    1    0    4    111-117     2
Australia     5    0    0    5    106-178     0

Quarterfinals - September 26
Russia - Slovenia
YUGOSLAVIA - France
Spain - Germany
Sweden - Egypt

Yugoslav athlete Sinisa Pesa had been eliminated from the further course of the tournament at the Olympics in Sidney, since he was in 400 meters hurdles, among 62 contestants, with his time of 52,14 seconds in the fifty fourth place.