Olympic Survey (Sept 30)

Dujshebaev (Spain) is pushed by Yugoslavia's Nenad Perunicic

The Yugoslav handball team did not succeed in winning the bronze medal at the Olympics in Sydney, since in the match for the third place it lost from Spain 26:22 (12:9).

YUGOSLAVIA: Peric, Sterbik, Nikolic 1, Jovanovic 4, Perunicic 3, Butulija, Lapcevic, Kapisoda 1, Milosavljevic 6 (2), Djukanovic 1 (1), Skrbic 6 (1), Golic.

SPAIN: Nunez, Barrufet, Ugalde 1, Xepkin 2, Guijosa 6, Masip 4 (1), Urdangarin 3 (1), Olalla, Dujshebaev 2, Lozano, Perez 1, Ortega 7 (4).

7m: Yugoslavia 6 (4), Spain 9 (6).

2mins: Yugoslavia 14, Spain 14 minutes.

Yugoslav basketball team won the sixth place, after being defeated by the Italian team in the match for the fifth place with 69:59 (33:31).

Yugoslav basketball players ended 6th placed at the Olympic tournament in Sydney, which represents the worst placing of the Yugoslav basketball national team since its first appearance at the Olympics in Rome in 1960.

Yugoslav team, obviously not motivated enough, performed a loose game, in today's match, and as an additional handicap Dejan Bodiroga was severely injured.

YUGOSLAVIA - ITALY 59-69 (31-33)

YUGOSLAVIA: Bodiroga 6, Obradovic 10 (3 steals), Stojakovic 9 (6 rebounds), Tarlac, Tomasevic 13, Danilovic, Rakocevic 4, Scepanovic, Lukovski 5, Rebraca 6, Drobnjak 2, Jestratijevic.

ITALY: Basile 13 (5 assists), Fucka 17, Meneghin 7 (9 rebounds), Mian 11, Chiacig 8, Scarone 2, Galanda 8, Marconato 1, Li Vecchi, Myers, Abbio, Damio.

2PFGs: YUGOSLAVIA - 21/43 (48.8%); ITALY - 17/38 (44.7).

3PFGs: YUGOSLAVIA - 1/10 (10.0); ITALY - 7/15 (46.7).

Free throws: YUGOSLAVIA - 14/17 (82.4); ITALY - 14/19 (73.7).

REBOUNDS: YUGOSLAVIA - 20 (6+14); ITALY - 33 (13+20).

Yugoslavia did not manage to place in the finals of the Olympic water polo tournament, having lost in the semi-finals from Hungary with 7:8 (2:3, 3:2, 2:2, 0:1).

The Yugoslav players saved very well, but lunged less decisively than their rival.

Our team missed the opportunity to determine the match in the third quarter, when it had a few chances to take the lead of two points and decide the winner.

In the last part of the match, the Hungarians took the lead with 8:7 and saving firmly, managed to save the net of their goal in last five minutes and approach the precious victory.

"We have been even throughout the game. I cannot explain how we missed the chance, inexperience might come into consideration. We were not afraid, that is for sure. We are sorry to play tomorrow "only" for the bronze", stated the Yugoslav team player Danilo Ikodinovic after the match.

Semifinals - Results

Hungary - YUGOSLAVIA 8-7 (1-0 2-2 2-3 3-2)

Scorers for Yugoslavia: Petar Trbojevic 5, Aleksandar Sapic, Veljko Uskokovic.
Scorers for Hungary: Gergely Kiss 3, Attila Vari 2, Peter Biros, Rajmund Fodor, Tamas Kasas.

Russia - Spain 8-7 (1-2 1-1 2-1 3-3), overtime 1-0 0-0 0-0

Men's classification matches for places 5 to 8

Italy - Australia 8-4 (2-0 2-0 2-2 2-2)
US - Croatia 9-8 (2-3 2-2 2-2 1-0), overtime 1-1 1-0

Men's classification matches for places 9 to 12

Netherlands - Greece 6-6 (3-0 1-3 2-1 0-2)
Kazakhstan - Slovakia 11-8 (2-4 2-2 3-1 4-1)

Standings

Kazakhstan       2    1    1    0    17-14    3
Netherlands      2    1    1    0    15-14    3
Greece           2    0    2    0    12-12    2
Slovakia         2    0    0    2    16-20    0

In the women's 10000 meters finals, the best Yugoslav athlete Olivera Jeftic won 11th place and set a new national record with a time of 31:29:65.

10000 METRES - Women - Final

                                               
1 Tulu Derartu (ETH)      30:17.49 (CR)
2 Wami Gete (ETH)         30:22.48 (PB)
3 Ribeiro Fernanda (POR)  30:22.88 (NR)
...
11 Jevtic Olivera (YUG)   31:29.65 (NR)

Yugoslav men's kayak four (Igor Kovacevic, Sasa Vujanic, Jozef Soti and Dragan Zoric) won the 9th place in the 1000 meters final race. The Yugoslavs ended the race with a time of 3:02, 316.

RESULTS

  1. Hungary           2:55,188
  2. Germany           2:55,704
  3. Poland            2:57,192
  4. Slovakia          2:57,696
  5. Bulgaria          2:59,112  
  6. United States     2:59,472
  7. Russia            2:59,778 
  8. Sweden            3:01,326
  9. YUGOSLAVIA        3:02,316