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Equestrian: Gal in the lead after the first day of the Dutch Championship dressage
10.55 pm: Edward Gal takes the lead in the Dutch Dressage Championships after the first day. Gal won the Grand Prix with his youngest stallion GLOCK’s Total US. With his GLOCK’s Toto jr NOP one year older, he took second place. Hans Peter Minderhoud finished third with GLOCK’s Dream Boy NOP.
Gal will have to choose which of his two horses he will start with on Sunday in the final, the Freestyle to music. Dinja van Liere also has to make that choice. She is fourth and sixth respectively with her horses Hermès and Haute Couuren. Marlies van Baalen is fifth with Go Legend.
Beach volleyball: Brouwer/Meeuwsen to semifinals in Ostrava
9.57 pm: Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen have reached the semifinals of the four-star tournament in the World Tour of Ostrava. They did that by beating their compatriots Christiaan Varenhorst and Steven van de Velde in two sets. The set positions were 21-19 and 21-18. Varenhorst and Van de Velde had already secured a ticket for the Tokyo Olympics in Ostrava. Before that, winning bronze would have been enough.
Due to the defeat, the duo can only obtain an Olympic ticket via the Continental Cup Final. The European Continental Cup, which serves as the last Olympic qualifying tournament in Europe, will be played in The Hague from 23 to 26 June. There is only a ticket for the winning country with the men and women.
Equestrian sport: Jumping riders miss out on victory in Valkenswaard
9.26 pm: The Dutch show jumpers missed out on the win at the Global Champions Tour competition in Valkenswaard. Maikel van der Vleuten finished second with Beauville Z behind the British winner Ben Maher. He set the best time with Explosion W in the jump-off with a clear round of 44.00 seconds.
Van der Vleuten was second behind Maher with a time of 46.02 seconds. Frank Schuttert was right behind with Lyonel D with 46.24. Harrie Smolders fell just outside the podium with Dolinn NOP. He was faster with 45.67, but made a jumping error. Willem Greve, Johnny Pals and Marc Houtzager did not make the jump-off.
Swimming: Van Heijningen re-elected to global federation board
7:20 p.m.: The Dutch federation continues to have an influential voice in the governance of the global federation FINA. Erik van Heijningen was re-elected to the board with a large majority of the votes at the general congress in Doha, according to the KNZB.
Van Heijningen, who is honorary chairman of the Dutch association, will start his second four-year term on the board. He has also been appointed as a member of the so-called FINA Executive.
“The reappointment as a member of the FINA board fits in well with the strategy of the KNZB board to be active at European and world level and to organize major swimming events in the Netherlands,” explains the KNZB.
The FINA also has a new chairman since Saturday. Husain Al-Musallam from Kuwait succeeds Uruguayan Julio Maglione, who has led the global swimming federation for the past twelve years. Al-Musallam was already deputy chairman and received 302 out of 319 votes.
Athletics: Fraser-Pryce second fastest ever at 100 meters with 10.63
6.01 pm: Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has by far run the fastest 100 meters this year at competitions in Kingston. The reigning world champion and two-time Olympic champion clocked a personal best of 10.63 and with that time she moved to second place in the eternal ranking. Only the American Florence Griffith-Joyner was ever faster and her world record of 10.49 from 1988 still stands.
The 34-year-old Fraser-Pryce is clearly aiming for a third Olympic gold medal in the 100 meters in Tokyo this summer, after her titles at the Beijing Games in 2008 and London in 2012. She dived almost a tenth below 10.72 of the up-and-coming American talent Sha’Carri Richardson, who was the fastest of this year on the king’s number until Saturday. In the all-time ranking, Jamaican passed Marion Jones (10.65) and Carmelita Jeter (10.64).
Cycling: Tiller beats Van Poppel in Dwars door het Hageland
5:43 PM: Danny van Poppel has just missed the victory of Dwars door het Hageland in Belgium. The 27-year-old rider of Intermarché was well placed for a sprint in Diest, but on the ascending finish he was surprised by the strong Norwegian Rasmus Tiller of Uno-X. Van Poppel finished second ahead of the Belgian Yves Lampaert.
A leading group of eight riders, including Boy and Danny van Poppel, took a lead of about 40 seconds on the section between Aarschot and Diest, with a few gravel sections and ten climbs. Boy van Poppel tried to drive away with 8 kilometers from the finish, but that didn’t work. He then took the lead to position his brother Danny as best as possible for the sprint. However, he was surprised by the strong final shot uphill from 24-year-old Norwegian Tiller.
The Czech Zdenek Stybar had to give up after a heavy fall at 42 kilometers before the finish.
Quartararo five poles in a row in MotoGP
3.11 pm: Fabio Quartararo has secured pole position in MotoGP for the fifth time in a row. The Frenchman also won qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix on his Yamaha factory bike.
He was just faster than Australian Jack Miller (Ducati) on the Barcelona circuit. The difference was 37 thousandths. The Frenchman Johann Zarco (Ducati) drove the third fastest time.
Quartararo is also the championship leader. He has already won three Grands Prix this year. Zarco is the number 2 in the standings.
Football: Hollerbach new coach Sint-Truiden
1.31 pm: Bernd Hollerbach has been appointed coach of Sint-Truiden. The Belgian football club, also known as STVV, announced this on Saturday.
The 51-year-old German succeeds Peter Maes, who went to Beerschot. Hollerbach has been without a club since he left Mouscron in June 2020. In the 2019-2020 season, he guided that club to tenth place in the Belgian Jupiler Pro League. “We are delighted to be able to bind an experienced coach with a good knowledge of the Belgian competition to us,” reports the club from Belgian Limburg.
Hollerbach started his coaching career as an assistant at VfL Wolfsburg under Felix Magath, with whom he later worked at Schalke before returning to Wolfsburg. In 2019 he started his first job in Belgium.
Volleyball: Fifth defeat of Dutch men in Nations League
11:56 a.m.: The Dutch volleyball players were unable to continue their first victory in Friday’s Nations League against Germany. Argentina was too strong for the team of national coach Roberto Piazza in three sets: 25-19 25-20 25-23.
It was the fifth defeat for the Orange in the tournament that will be played in the bubble of the Italian Rimini. Previously lost to Russia, Japan, Iran and Slovenia.
Maikel van Zeist, Nimir Abdelaziz, Thijs ter Horst, Wessel Keemink, Robbert Andringa, Fabian Plak and libero Just Drinkers were the basic players with whom Piazza started. In the course of the match, he let almost all his bench players make minutes against the Argentines, the number 10 in the world. Orange is eighteenth. With 22 points, Abdelaziz was, as usual, top scorer at the Orange squad, which continues the tournament on Wednesday with a game against Brazil.
In the next three days, it will be the women’s turn again in Rimini, with a duel with Japan on Sunday for the Netherlands.
Archery: Silver for compound women at EK
11.12 am: The Dutch women took silver at the European Archery Championships in Antalya, Turkey, in the compound component for teams. Sanne de Laat, Inge van der Ven and Jody Vermeulen lost in the final of France.
Compound is a non-Olympic event. De Laat will compete individually later in the day for the bronze with the Belgian Sarah Prieels.
Among the men, Steve Wijler, Sjef van den Berg and Rick van der Ven will be in the team final of the recurve section on Sunday. The Orange trio then meets the shooters of Ukraine.
Beach volleyball: Varenhorst and Van de Velde beat favorites and qualify for the quarterfinals
10.20 am: Beach volleyball players Christiaan Varenhorst and Steven van de Velde have qualified for the quarterfinals of the four-star tournament from the WorldTour in Ostrava. The Dutch couple eliminated the European champions Anders Mol and Christian Sørum: 21-17 21-18. The Norwegians were the number 1 on the placement list in the Czech Republic.
In the battle for a place in the semi-finals, they will face their compatriots Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen on Saturday afternoon, who were too strong for Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot in a Dutch get-together: 21-19 21-15.
Tennis: Wawrinka also misses Wimbledon due to injury
10.09 am: Tennis player Stan Wawrinka has withdrawn from Wimbledon, the grass tournament that starts on June 28. The Swiss is still too bothered by a left foot injury that also kept him away from Roland Garros, where he captured one of his three Grand Slam titles in 2015.
The former number 3 in the world underwent surgery on the injured foot earlier this year. He has been out of action on the tennis court since March. Wawrinka participated in Wimbledon fifteen times, reaching the quarterfinals in 2014 and 2015. The 36-year-old tennis player is working on his recovery in his hometown of Monaco. He previously said he hopes to be fit in time for the grass season.
Basketball: Mavericks and Clippers need seventh game
08:52 am: The Los Angeles Clippers basketball players have won a seventh game against the Dallas Mavericks for a place in the second round of the NBA playoffs. The Clippers won the sixth game in Dallas, 104-97, meaning that all six games played so far in this best-of-seven series were won by the away team. That has never happened before in the history of the American professional league.
Great was the role of Kawhi Leonard. The 29-year-old LA Clippers player scored 45 points in front of more than 18,000 spectators in Dallas, equaling his best score ever in the playoffs. At Dallas, star player Luka Doncic was disappointing. He only hit twice out of nine attempts from outside the three-meter line and got stuck on 29 points.
Brazil beat Ecuador in World Cup qualifier
8.39am: Brazil has booked its fifth victory in five matches in the battle for qualification for next year’s World Cup. Against Ecuador, the team of national coach Tite won 2-0. Neymar scored the second goal from a controversial penalty.
Attack Richarlison had opened the score in the 65th minute of the game that was played without an audience in Porto Alegre due to the corona measures. In stoppage time, referee Alexis Herrera converted a free kick just outside the penalty area into a penalty after minutes of consultation with the VAR. Neymar saw his bet, after a faltering run, stopped by goalkeeper Alexander Dominguez. The game went on until Herrera, after being whispered by the VAR, whistled for the penalty to be taken over. Dominguez had moved too early. Neymar hit the mark in the second instance.
On Tuesday, Brazil will play Paraguay.
