European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday july 22, 1991 the stars and stripes c Page 25lynch completes 6 by the associated press los Angeles a gymnast Jair Lynch of Washington d.c., ran his Gold medal count to five saturday night in a dominant performance in the . Olympic festival. Lynch who attends Stanford won the Pommel horse High bar and parallel bars after having won the All around title and a team Gold medal thursday night. The nine Day festival entered its final weekend with Competition in 17 sports including diving track and Field baseball and soccer. Lynch 19, tied kayaker Mitch Kahn of san Clemente calif., and roller skater Dante Muse of Des Moines Iowa for the most Gold medals in this festival. His Silver medal in the floor exercise made him one of three athletes to win six medals. �?o1 knew i had a Strong Chance in my Best events the Pommel horse and the parallel bars but taking All of them was a Surprise a Lynch said. The other Gold medals in gymnastics went to Kerry Huston of Houston in the floor exercise Jason Whitfield of Detroit on the still rings and Dennis Harrison of the University of Nebraska in the vault. In diving defending Champion Mark Bradshaw won the 3-meter title while . Champion cokey . Olympic festival won the women a 10-meter platform Competition. Bradshaw of Columbus Ohio trailed after the com Pul sories and scored poorly on his seventh dive a Forward straight in dive with a Low degree of difficulty. But he took the Lead for Good with Good scores on his eighth dive an inward 2vz somersault in the Pike position. He finished with 640.92 Points. A the key was the fact my last four rounds were All around 8,�?� said Bradshaw a 1988 olympian a i had two dives that were mediocre at Best but As it turned out everyone had misses. A i Felt after my seventh round that i was still in it and everything evened out. The eighth round was definitely the Kent Ferguson the current platform world Champion rallied in the closing rounds to finish second with 619.41. Patrick Jeffrey who won the preliminary round took the Bronze with 611.25. Both Are from fort Lauderdale Fla. A my problem was i was ready five hours Early a Ferguson said. A if they had scored my workout i might have Smith of Ann Arbor mich., compiled 418.74 Points on her eight dives to beat Linda Pesek of Houston who scored 405.90. The Bronze medal went to Courtney Nelson of Concord calif., who had won the preliminary round. Smith 26, said her final three dives were the difference. She received nothing lower than an 8 for her reverse 2v somersault tuck on her sixth dive then followed that with a backward 2vi Pike that resulted in her Best score of the Day 70.47.she finished with a backward 1 Byz somersault with 2yi twists. A a they re the ones in be been doing the longest and they come the easiest Quot she in track and Field National Champion Mike Barnett of Glendora calif., broke his festival record in the javelin with a throw of 260 feet 7 inches. The previous Mark was 260-1 set in 1987. Bob Briggs of Alexandria va., smashed the festival record in winning the 50-Kilometer walk. Briggs finished in 4 hours 19 minutes 24 seconds breaking the record of 4 28.58 set in 1981 by Vince of Sullivan of London. Another festival Mark fell in the 10,000-Mcter run in which to Reed of Flagstaff ariz., finished in 28 26.82. The previous record of 28 53.80 was set by Pat Porter of Alamosa colo., in 1982. Andretti sets Mark in wire to wire win Toronto up Michael Andretti led from Start to finish sunday to capture the Molson indy cart race his fourth Victory of the year. Andretti who broke the track record to win the pole position in qualifying piloted his Lola Chevrolet around the 103 laps of the 1.78-mile Street circuit at an average Speed of 99.143, a race record. _ Mario Andretti placed second nearly 16 seconds behind his son with Bobby Rahal third. They were the Only three cars on the Lead Lap at the end of the race held in overcast humid conditions. Scott Pruett placed fourth followed by John Andretti and Scott Brayton. Hometown favorite Scott Goodyear finished seventh. Only 12 of the 23 entrants were running at the end. Andretti moved up in the Points standing and now trails Rahal the Leader 139-116, the Newman Haas prepared entry dominated the Field building a comfortable Early Lead and holding it through both sets of pit stops. At the Halfway Point Michael led his father by 10 seconds with Rahal third. There were no changes in the positions in the top five finishers after the 40th Lap. John Andretti Michael a Cousin spun his car in the first Corner with eight laps remaining but was Able to restart without needing a yellow Flag. A yellow Flag would have bunched the Field behind Michael Andretti and made for a closer finish. A number of contenders were eliminated in the Early going. Defending race Champion Al Unser or. Retired on the seventh Lap when his front a Arm collapsed under braking. Unser was running second at the time and looked to be Able to match Michael Andretti space. The Penske team suffered dual misfortune within a Lap of each other. Rick Mears retired on Lap 19 with mechanical problems on his Penske Chevrolet and Emerson Fittipaldi a race ended a Lap earlier with fuel pump problems while he was running second. Fittipaldi started alongside Andretti on the front Row. Arie Luyendyk had moved up to third behind the Andretti when electrical problems forced him into the pits on Lap 29. He made a couple of efforts to return but retired placing 19th. The race was Accident free with Only Unser a mishap requiring a Brief three Lap caution to remove the car. The next race on the cart series is aug. 4 at Michigan International Speedway. Rainey tops 500cc in France be caste let France a american Wayne Rainey took another step toward defending his world 500cc motorcycle title sunday with a Victory Over australians Michael Doo Han in the French grand prix. Doohan finished four seconds Back followed by americans Eddie Lawson and Kevin Schwantz. Rainey racing for Yamaha has 168 Points in the season standings after 10 races compared to 160 for Doohan. Schwantz is third at 136 and Lawson fourth at 108. . Hooters rip Panama 7-1 Dublin Ohio a Dante Washington and Curt Onalfo scored two goals apiece As the United states routed Panama 7-1 saturday in a group c olympic qualifier. The United states was in control throughout the game and out shot Panama 26-2. The United states is 2-0-1 in its round Robin series with Panama and swimmer sweeps Sheffield England a French freestyle Stephan Caron completed a clean sweep of victories at the world University games saturday when he added the 50 meters Gold to his triumphs in the 100 and 200 off the Block the olympic 100 Bronze medallist surged past Germany a Robert Pufler in the last 20 meters to win in 22.97 seconds and collect a Trio of titles no one has won before. Only romanian Naomi lung who won four golds at Zagreb Yugoslavia four years ago has won More. Lung had two individual Medley medals at Zagreb. Pufler clocked 23.15 with Poland a Krzysztof Cwalina and american Eric Han University games sen tied for the Bronze with 23.20. American swimmers Raymond Carey and Brian Gunn finished 1-2 in the 200 Butterfly final and collected Silver and Bronze behind Canadian Deke Botsford in the 100 backstroke. The quartet of Barbara Bedford Katherine Hedman Kristin Stoudt and Melanie Morgan won the 400 Medley relay Gold for the american team ahead of canadians Manon Simard Guylaine Cloutier Deborah Gaudin and Andrea Nugent. The . Menus basketball team survived a scare coming from behind to beat Spain 74-71 in the quarterfinals. The americans can Clinch a berth in the olympic regional finals for North and Central America and the Caribbean with a win or tie aug. 25 at port a Prince Haiti. Two teams from the regional will Advance to the 1992 olympics. The game Drew a standing room crowd of 10,256 at Dublin High school in suburban the top photo for a amps Bob Watt senior division jumper Dave Goosen of Ramstein makes his height sunday in route to the High jump Silver medal at Sulzbach Germany. Complete results of the air forces Continental sports conference track and Field championships appear on Page 24
