Bailey Leads Parade of Olympic Winners

Olympic gold medalists Donovan Bailey and Marie-Jose Perec kept up the domination of their events Saturday, beating other medalists from the Atlanta Games in the Monaco Grand Prix meet.

In addition to Bailey’s win in the men’s 100-meter dash and Perec’s victory in the women’s 400, the other Olympic gold medalists to repeat were: American Allen Johnson in the 110 hurdles; Joseph Keter of Kenya in the 3,000 steeplechase; American Kenny Harrison in the triple jump; and Russia’s Svetlana Masterkova in the women’s 800.

In a 100 runoff between American women, Atlanta bronze medalist Gwen Torrence out-sprinted Olympic gold winner Gail Devers, winning in 10.92 to 10.98.

Tennis

Defending champion Andre Agassi ran down everything Thomas Muster got over the net and cruised to a 6-4, 6-1 victory in the semifinals of the $2.2-million ATP Championship in Mason, Ohio.

“I was working him left and right, hitting six and seven shots to get the one ball I was waiting on,” Agassi said after beating the world’s No. 2-ranked player in 63 minutes.

Agassi, ranked seventh in the world, advanced to the final, where he will play the winner of the Michael Chang-Thomas Enqvist match.

Muster had won four of seven matches against Agassi, although Agassi had taken the last two in straight sets.

Arantxa Sanchez Vicario of Spain reached the final of the $1.3-million du Maurier Open at Montreal by defeating Kimberly Po of Rolling Hills, 6-0, 6-4.

Sanchez Vicario’s opponent in today’s final figured to be top-ranked Monica Seles, who had a semifinal match Saturday night against unseeded Yayuk Basuki of Indonesia.

Immediately after her singles win, Sanchez Vicario and partner Larisa Neiland of Latvia reached the doubles final with a 7-5, 6-2 victory over Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina and Brenda Schultz-McCarthy of the Netherlands.

Alberto Costa won a hard-fought tiebreaker to defeat unseeded Marcelo Charpentier, 6-4, 7-6 (11-9), setting up an all-Spanish final against Felix Mantilla in the San Marino International tournament. Mantilla, seeded second, defeated fellow Spaniard Javier Sanchez, 7-5, 6-4.

Top-seeded Barbara Paulus of Austria advanced to the final of the Styrian Open at Maria Lankowitz, Austria, beating unseeded Stephanie De Ville of Belgium, 6-1, 7-5. In the other semifinal, Sandra Cecchini defeated Silivia Talaja of Croatia, 6-3, 6-2.

Auto Racing

Alex Zanardi broke the track record in a duel with teammate Jimmy Vasser and won his third pole position in qualifying for the Miller 200 at Lexington, Ohio.

Zanardi’s fastest lap of 122.100 mph came near the end of a 30-minute qualifying session in which the old mark of 121.192 mph was shattered four times--first by Zanardi, then by Vasser, then twice more by Zanardi.

Bill Elliott, who fractured his left leg in a crash April 28 at Talladega, Ala., called upon SCCA Trans-Am star Dorsey Schroeder to drive his Ford Thunderbird at the Glen Winston Cup stock car race today at Watkins Glen, N.Y.

World champion Michael Schumacher earned his fourth pole position of the Grand Prix season. On one of his last runs of the hour-long qualifying session for today’s Hungarian Grand Prix at Budapest, the German piloted his Ferrari around the 2.465-mile Hungaroring track in 1 minute, 17.129 seconds, an average speed of 114.827 mph.

Golf

Bobby Stroble shot a seven-under-par 65 to open a three-stroke lead over Bruce Summerhays with one round to play in the PGA Senior Tour’s First of America Classic at Ada, Mich.

Stroble’s 11-under 133 total for two rounds left him four strokes ahead of defending champion Jimmy Powell and U.S. Senior Open champion Dave Stockton.

Karrie Webb birdied the last three holes, including the par-five 18th that she four-putted the previous round, to shoot 68 for the third round and take a two-stroke lead in the LPGA Ping Welch’s Championship at Canton, Mass.

Kelli Keuhne of McKinney, Texas, successfully defended her title in the 96th U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship, beating Colombia’s Marisa Baena, 2 and 1, in the 36-hole final at Firethorn Golf Club in Lincoln, Neb.

Boxing

Germany’s Dariusz Michalczewski retained his WBO light-heavyweight title, drawing against Graciano Rocchigiani in a fight that ended after he was knocked down in the seventh round from a late blow at Hamburg, Germany.

Michalczewski (31-0-1, 26 KOs) was counted out after his compatriot stunned him with a left to the chin midway through the round. But the blow appeared to come after referee Joseph O’Neill stepped between the fighters and twice called for them to break apart.

Thailand’s Sirimongkol Singmanasak knocked out Mexico’s Jose Luis Bueno in the fifth round to win the vacant WBC bantamweight title at Bangkok.

The knockout came less than a minute into the fifth round of the scheduled 12-rounder, when Bueno charged at Sirimongkol, letting down his guard as he prepared to deliver a right cross.

Names in the News

Marcus Bullard, last season’s starting point guard at Mississippi State, could face a three-year prison sentence that would end his college basketball career. Records filed in Harrison County Circuit Court in Gulfport, Miss., state Bullard has failed to follow requirements of a probation agreement made in 1994 when he pleaded guilty to cocaine possession.

A court in central Poland has waived a temporary arrest warrant and a prosecutor in Warsaw said he will not seek to arrest heavyweight fighter Andrew Golota, a United States resident, who faces 1990 charges of assault and robbery.