The Michigan Daily--Thursday, July 24, 1980-Page 15
RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO DOMINATE
Soviet di-"ve r wins despite potest
MOSCOW (AP) - A jury of appeals
rejected two protests and confirmed
Russian Aleksander Portnov as the
winner of the men's springboard diving
competition yesterday in the Olympic
Games.
A prepared statement released at the
Olympic Press Center said protests by
Mexico and East Germany were rejec-
ted. -
Carlos Giron of Mexico, who finished
second, protested that Portnov was
allowed to repeat a dive because of
crowd noise. Falk Hoffman of East
Germany protested that his request to
repeat a dive for the same reason was
denied.
Portnov finished with 905.025 points.
Giron won the silver medal with 892.140.
Franko Cognotto of Italy took the bron-
ze with 871.500. Hoffman finished fourth
with 858.510.
The awards ceremony was postponed
from Wednesday and will be held prior
Olympic
Roundup
to the start of the women's platform
diving competition.
Gymnastics
Soviet women gymnasts beat
Romania for the Olympic team gold
medal yesterday after superstar Nadia
Comaneci fell off the uneven bars on
her last event.
Preserving an unbeaten record going
back to the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, the
mighty Russian team, led by new star
Natalia Shaposhnikova, took revenge
for a loss to Romania at the 1979 World
Gymnastics Championship in Fort
Worth, Texas.
It was one of the most exciting team
competitions in Olympic gymnastics
history, with the outcome uncertain un-
til the last of eight events over two
days.
Comaneci's embarassing fall and a
brilliant Soviet finish in the floor exer-
cises, including one mark of 10 and
three 9.95s, decided the medals. East
Germany took the bronze.
Three young gymnasts scored perfect
los in the optionals at Lenin Sports
Palace, duplicating Comaneci's 10 on
the balance beam and Shaposhnikova's
perfect mark in vault in Monday's
opening compulsories.
Maxi Gnauck, 15, of East Germany
notched a 10 in the uneven bars in
leading her team to the bronze, and
finished with the best individual score
to lead the qualifiers for the Olympic
all-around championship Thursday.
Romanian 15-year-old Melita Ruhn
scored 10 in the vault and Yelena
Davydova, 18, of the Soviet Union got
her perfect mark in floor exercises to
the delight of nearly 12,000 boisterous
fans.
Comaneci ended up in fourth place,
but still is a big threat for a gold medal
in the all-around and on the individual
apparatus exercises Friday.
1 She won the all-around gold medal
and the uneven bars and balance beam
in Montreal fouryears ago.
Swimming
Par Arvidsson, a Swede who attends
college in California, won the 100-meter
butterfly event last night in the Olym-
pic Games.
Arvidsson, of the University of
California at Berkeley, holds the world
record in the 100-butterfly but he had to
struggle from behind in the last 50
meters to win in 54.92 seconds, only two-
hundredths ahead of silver medal win-
ner Roger Pyttel of East Germany.
Rica Reinisch of East Germany and
Vladimir Salnikov and Sergei
Kopliakov of the Soviet Union each won
their second gold medals in men's com-
petition, while Lina Kachushite of the
Soviet Union.stopped the East German
blitz of the women's events. She broke
the German string of golds at six by
winning the 200-meter breaststroke.
Weightlifting
Yanko Roussev of Bulgaria broke two
world records and beat another Olym-
pic mark yesterday to win the gold
medal in the 149-pound weightlifting
class.
He jerked 429 pounds and had a com-
bination of 743 pounds, both better than
the records he set last April in
Belgrade.
His snatch lift of 324.5 bettered an
Olympic mark that had stood since
1964.
Daniel Senet of France equaled
Roussev's lift in the snatch but disap-
pointed in the jerk and could finish only
fourth,
Joachin Kunz of East Germany
finished second with a combined lift of
737 pounds and Minchto Pachov of
Bulgaria was third with a total of 715
pounds.
Medal Standings
Gold Silver Bronze Total
Soviet Union ....... 17 10 5 32
E. Germany ....... 6 13 7 26
Hungary .......... 3 2 2 7
Bulgaria ....2 1 4 7
Romania. 0 2 2 4
Australia .......... 0 0 4 4
Sweden............ 2 0 1 3
Great Britain ...... 1 2 0 3
Poland ............ 0 1 2 3
Italy ......1 0 1 2
North Korea.. 1 1 2
Cuba .............. 1 0 0 1
Greece ............ 1 0 0 1
France .. 0 0 1
Czechoslovakia .. 0 0 1 1
Jamaica .......... 0 a0 0 1 1
Finland ........... 0 0 1 1
spain............., 0 0 1 1
Brazil ....... 0 0 1 1
Mexico .......0 1 0 1
BILLBOARD
The Second Annual Michigan Medal
Play Amateur Championship will take
place today through Sunday at the
University Golf Course.
Over 100 golfers are expected fbr the
tournament. Tee times are from 8 a.m.
until noon and admission is free to the
pubhlic.
Kiss and make up
Just to show that there were no hard feelings, Greece's Stilianos Migiakis,
center, gives Hungary's Istvan Toth a kiss and a hug after he beat Toth in the
final round of the 62 kilogram category of Greco-Roman wrestling at the
Olympics.