European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse A monday August 1, 1994 sports the stars ant gripes Page 35 Soldier gives . Only ring Gold Mcdowell nabs upset dec son against cuban Goodwill games by Bert Rosenthal St. Petersburg Russia a it was show time for the . Boxing team at the Goodwill games. Benjamin Showtime Mcdowell a 24-year-old sol Dier stationed at fort Bragg n.c., broke the cuban russian domination in boxing by winning the Only Gold medal for the americans saturday. Mcdowell a Light heavyweight scored a surprising 9 7 decision Over cuban Dinos Vany Vega. This is my biggest International win Mcdowell the 1994 . Champion said. I was the underdog and i like being the underdog. Maybe i can realistically think about the olympics now but first i want to take a vacation. I Don t want to get burned out on while Mcdowell saved the . Team from a shut out three americans lost two by shutouts. Flyweight. Carlos Navarro of los Angeles was out pointed by Waldemar font of Cuba 18-14. Middleweight Shane Swartz of fort Collins colo., was beaten by olym Pic Gold medallist and world Champion Ariel Hernandez of Cuba 8-0. And 6-foot-8 super heavyweight Lance Whitaker of Northridge calif., who has boxed for Only a year lost 17-0 to ale i Lezin of Russia. Overall the powerful cuban boxing team finished with six Gold medals and the russians had five in the 12-division boxing Competition. The . Also picked up a Gold and Silver in wrestling. Townsend Saunders a 149.5-Pounder from Phoe Nix took the Gold rallying to beat Vadim Bogaev of Russia 6-5, and world Champion Melvin Douglas a198-Pounder from Mesa ariz., got the Silver losing to two time olympic Gold medallist and five time Worl Champion Mak Harbek Khz Apartsev of Russia 1-0 in a referee s overtime decision in the final. In the other wrestling final Magomed Azizov of Russia pinned Carlos Castillo of Cuba at 4 05 in the136.5-Pound class. Meanwhile gymnastics began with Russia winning the Gold medal in women s team Competition with 117.375 Points followed by Romania 116.000ukraine 115.630 and the United states 115.375. Russia s Dina Kochetkova had the top score of the Competition with 39.15, while Shannon Miller the All around world Champion each of the past two years was third with 38.875. The top 16 gymnasts were to return j for the All around final sunday. Miller had the top Mark of the Competition 9.950, on the floor exercise however she had two slight missteps and scored 9.725 on the vault. She also had 9.675 on the uneven bars and 9.525 on the beams. Cycling also got under Way with Russia s out sprinting Buntain s David Williams for the Gold medal in the men s 125-Kilometer Road race. Both were timed in 2 hours 44 minutes 33 seconds. In preliminary round volleyball action Peru upset1992 olympic Champion Cuba 15-11,15-5,13-15,12-15, us. Boxer Benjamin Mcdowell covers up As he trades punches with Cuba s i Yosvany Vega in Goodwill games. 18-Lmhe United states Defeated the Netherlands 15-10, 15-8, 16-14, China beat Japan 15-10, 15-8, 15-11, and Russia downed Germany 15-11,15-6,15-10. Russia won the Gold medal in water Polo defeating Germany 11-9, and Italy beat Spain 9-8 for the Bronze. Mcdowell a fighter for the past five years with a 44 2 record has no intention of turning pro. I m just in the army and they let me Box said Mcdowell who is enlisted until 1997. The army has produced some Good fighters. I like it because it lets me train and lets me do what a do Best. That s one More reason i signed up so i can focus on my the inexperienced Whitaker was no match for Lezin losing to the three time russian National Champion Tor the third time. Lezin a left hander continually befuddled Whitaker beating him to the punch at almost every opportune to and preventing the american from using his height and weight advantages. He beat me he beat me Good Whitaker said. He was faster than me and i was about two seconds late with every punch i , nicknamed the Southpaw of Gold appeared on his Way toward winning the Gold in his slug test with font. He was leading the cuban to two Points in the third round before tiring. Navarro blamed his weakness on making the 112-Pound weight limit and said this would be his last fight in the flyweight class. He plans to go up to 119, Swartz lacking the technique of Hernandez could t Cope with the Slick Sharp punching cuban. In the other boxing finals Russia s Rama i Kalyani the world Bronze medallist upset Joel Casamayor the olympic featherweight Champion from Cuba 15-8, and Light welterweight Hector Vinent of Cuba the olympic and world Champion beat 1993 european Champion Nurhan sule Manoglu of Turkey 21-6 Saunders Gold was the first for the . Wrestling team which won the 1993 world team title. Saunders tied the score 5-5 with i a 2-Point move with less than minute left then scored the winning 1-Point take Down in the final 10 seconds. I won it on conditioning and putting on the pres sure Saunders said i knew i could score if i got him tired. When the score was tied he was just trying to hold me off. He took a couple of weak attempts. I knew had him Khz Apartsev s Victory Over Douglas made the Russia the first wrestler to win three Goodwill games Gold medals. Khz Apartsev scored a take Down to take a 1-0 Lead in regulation but did not collect the necessary 3points needed for Victory. No Points were scored during the three minute Over time period and officials awarded the match to Kha Yartsev. I needed to work harder Douglas said. It was eight minutes of talkr6f dream team matchup escalates by Wendy e. Lane san Francisco a the game everyone would loves to see the Origi Nal dream team is. Dream team ii is unlikely to Ever happen. 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