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    The Jerusalem Post
    November 4, 2004, Thursday

    The Local Scene

    Lionel Gaffen, Jerusalem Post Sports Staff


    Shooters 4th in World Cup Finals

    Israeli Olympic shooters Alex Danilov and Guy Starik each narrowly
    missed medals last week at the International Shooting Sport Federation
    year-end event, the World Cup Final, held this year in Bangkok.

    The pair were each invited to take part in the prestigious 12-man
    competitions due to their performances this year on the World Cup
    circuit.

    Starik, whose specialty is the 50-meter Men's Prone Rifle, finished
    with a combined score of 699.4, leaving him 0.5 short of a medal,
    behind Sergei Martynov of Belarus. Germany's Christian Lusch took gold
    with 702.1, while silver went to another Belarusian, Yury
    Scherbatsevich, with 700.6. Starik, who was ranked second in the world
    prior to the Olympics, placed a disappointing 16th of 47 riflemen in
    Athens.

    Danilov came even closer in the Men's 50-meter pistol, finishing with a
    combined 660.5 total, just 0.1 behind the bronze medalist Zonglian Tan
    of China. Martin Tenk of the Czech Republic took top honors with 664.1,
    followed by China's Xinglong Shi in second with 661.6. Danilov placed
    15th of 47 shooters in Athens.* Lionel Gaffen

    Friedman gets NIS 285,000 from OCI

    The Olympic Committee of Israel financially rewarded the county's top
    athletes and their coaches for their 2004 performances at a ceremony in
    Caesarea on Wednesday night.

    Olympic gold medalist Gal Friedman leads the list of recipients with
    NIS 285,000 - NIS 240,000 for the gold plus NIS 45,000 as the inaugural
    winner of the Yoram Oberkovich Athlete of the Year award.

    Sailing coach Gur Steinberg, who guided Friedman and Lee Korzits in
    Athens, was presented with NIS 150,000. Israel's other Olympic
    medalist, judoka Arik Ze'evi, received NIS 110,000 - NIS 80,000 for his
    Olympic bronze and NIS 30,000 for his European championship title.

    Tigers 1-hit Eilat before showdown

    Ilan Spira and Elyaeed Moore combined to strike out nine batters as the
    Tigers geared up for next week's matchup with fellow unbeatens Penticon
    by one-hitting Otsma Eilat for a 10-6 win in the Israel Softball
    Association fall tournament. Eilat's only hit was a double by Yoni
    Weiss.

    Eilat also lost to Tri United 8-3. Ari Shapiro broke a 3-3 tie with a
    single and then made a beautiful catch in the outfield as the Tri-U
    defense came up big on several occasions. Stu Schrader homered and Mark
    Chass had three hits for the winners. Guy Liyani had three hits
    including a triple, and Yoni Weiss had three hits and a home run for
    Otsma.

    Triple T rode a nine-run second inning to a 17-9 defeat of Elmhurst
    Dairy. Roni Bossin scored four runs and David Rubinstein drove in four
    with a pair of homers to lead the Triple T offense. Yosi Ajzenwaser
    pitched two fine innings in his return to the mound. Binyamin Kamilar
    had two hits and two runs for Elmhurst.

    Magic Homes forfeited to Penticon.

    The fall tournament comes to a close this week as Penticon and the
    Tigers meet to decide first place and Triple T and Tri United will lock
    horns over third place.

    Fifth place finish for chess masters

    An Israel draw with Cuba combined with Armenian and American 3.5-0.5
    wins over Georgia and Norway, respectively, saw Israeli fall to fifth
    place on the final day of the Chess Olympics that came to a close on
    Sunday in Majorca, Spain.

    Israel's team, consisting of Boris Gelfand, Emil Sutovsky, Ilia Smirin,
    Boris Avrukh, Alexander Huzman, and Michael Roiz, won seven, drew five,
    and lost just two matches at the three-week tourney, while totaling
    34.5 points. Third place Armenia (8-4-2) tallied 36.5 points, while the
    Americans (7-4-3) finished with 35.

    Ukraine, the only team to go undefeated of the 129 in the competition,
    earned 39.5 points with its 10-4-0 mark. Russia (11-0-3), which also
    had 36.5 points, edged Armenia for second based on its better record.

    Israel was among the teams that managed a draw against the Ukrainians,
    but a draw against Moldova, which placed 36th, and defeats against
    Russia and Armenia proved costly in the end.

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    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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