Wednesday 9 September 2009

Day 3 Report

Provided by UK Deaf Sport

Athletics

Lauren Peffers secures GB's first silver medal!

Team GB squad members mingled with supporters to cheer on Lauren Peffers in her bid to win the 400m in the Taipei Stadium this evening.

Peffers was always going to be there or thereabouts after her storming semi-final run but despite straining every sinew down the straight, she could not quite catch her Belarusian rival Tsiarentsyeva.

Lauren now turns to defend her title in the 800m.


Swimming

Hannah Fitton grabs second bronze medal

Hannah Fitton, who landed GB's first medal of the Games, repeated her bronze feat of yesterday. This time, she took third place in her preferred event, the 200m individual medley.

Hannah's efforts mean she has two medals in her first-ever Deaflympics at the tender age of 16.

Team Manager Vincent Dickson was ecstatic:

"Hannah sacrificed her social life to put in hard work at the swimming pool and this is the result - a bronze medal with five seconds off her PB. Fantastic!"


Football

Team GB's hold on the gold medal is over after they crashed to a 3-1 defeat against USA.

Jamie Clarke put GB ahead but the Americans equalised on 24 minutes with a high shot that was beyond the reach of Gary Spotswood.

There was a further setback for Team GB when USA went ahead just before half-time. USA now needed to score just one more goal to send GB crashing out at the first stage and it came with a free kick.

This left GB with a mountain to climb and they threw everything forward in the last few minutes but the ball just would not go in the net.

"It was just not meant to be", said a rueful captain Jon Evans afterwards.

Team GB finished level on points with the USA but with a poorer goal difference.


Tennis

Lewis Fletcher continued his good form by swiftly seeing off the challenge of his Slovakian opponent 6-2, 6-1 to book his place in the next round.

Darren O'Donnell raced into a 5-0 lead against Gunnar Kett from Germany with the help of some sublime lobs and won the first set, 6-3.

The German took the next set but always looked in some discomfort and walked off the court, seemingly injured while 3-1 down in the decider.

Fletcher and O'Donnell teamed up later on to come back from a set down to win their Doubles match, making it a superb day on court for the British duo.

Anthony Sinclair was in a battle of the baseliners against Japanese teenager Reiki Kajishita. Sinclair took the first set 6-3 but was rattled by an outrageous line call at a crucial point in the second, which he lost 6-4.

A crowd gathered to watch the players in the deciding set, which Kajishita swept away Sinclair's singles hopes, 6-0.

Daniel Tunstall only had an outside chance against his highly-ranked Hungarian opponent and went out in two sets. Tunstall also lost his Doubles match, with Jamie King.


Great Britain currently hold 31st place in the overall medals table, with a total of 3 medals: 1 silver and 2 bronze

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