ISTANBUL — Ryan Lochte won two more races at the short-course world championships on Sunday, finishing the event with six golds and one silver. The result matched his medal total from the last championships, in Dubai in 2010.
Lochte leaves
short-course
worlds with 6 golds
ISTANBUL — Ryan Lochte won two more races at the short-course world championships on Sunday, finishing the event with six golds and one silver. The result matched his medal total from the last championships, in Dubai in 2010.
Lochte won the 100-meter individual medley, a day after he broke the world record in the event. The five-time Olympic champion finished in 51.21 seconds, ahead of Kenneth To of Australia and George Bovell III of Trinidad and Tobago.
To started well and led at the halfway mark. He held off Lochte over the breaststroke leg, but the American accelerated in the freestyle to move ahead.
Lochte then joined the U.S. team of Matthew Grevers, Kevin Cordes and Thomas Shields to win the 4×100-meter medley relay in 3:21.03, with Russia second and Australia third. Lochte’s time of 45.22 seconds was the fastest on the team.
He also won silver in the 200 backstroke.
Radoslaw Kawecki of Poland beat Lochte and said he deployed the same tactics as his rival.
Lochte broke the world record in the 100 IM with a time of 50.71 in the semifinals at Sinan Erdem Arena on Saturday, eclipsing the mark set by Peter Mankoc of Slovenia in December 2009. On Friday, the American broke the world record in the 200 IM.
Davis Love III,
son Dru win
Father-Son Challenge
ORLANDO, Fla. — Davis Love III had a nice pitch shot on No. 18, and son Dru finished off the birdie to capture the Father-Son Challenge title Sunday.
With Larry and Josh Nelson already in at 22-under for the two-day scramble format, both Loves misfired in trying to reach the green in two at the par-5 finishing hole. Dru, an Alabama freshman who won five Georgia state titles in high school, went long and right near the grandstand at the Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes. Davis watched his ball roll onto the bank of a greenside pond.
But the elder Love found the right touch on his pitch from Dru’s position, and his son made the winning putt.
The Loves teamed for an 11-under 61 in the final round.
Michigan suspends
3 players for
Outback Bowl
ANN ARBOR, Mich. —Michigan coach Brady Hoke suspended cornerback J.T. Floyd, punter Will Hagerup and linebacker Brandin Hawthorne for a violation of team rules.
Hoke said in an announcement Sunday that the three players will not travel with the 19th-ranked Wolverines for the Outback Bowl against No. 11 South Carolina because each of them used poor judgment. He didn’t specify which team rules were broken.
Hoke said it’s an honor to play football for the University of Michigan and there are high standards and expectations for everyone that represents the program.
By wire sources