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Day one how Irish fared

In cycling, Enda Smyth took two seconds off his own Irish record in the Men’s Individual C1-2-3 1km race against the clock.

Fri Aug 31 2012 - 01:00

In cycling, Enda Smyth took two seconds off his own Irish record in the Men’s Individual C1-2-3 1km race against the clock.

Smyth, who broke his elbow two months ago, finished 16th out of the 28 competitors and was ranked 7th of the C3 riders.

Rena McCarron Rooney lost her opening match in the Table Tennis Women’s Singles F1-2 preliminaries at the ExCel Arena to France’s Isabelle Lafaye Marziou and will tomorrow face Jordan’s Maha Bargouthi at 11.40am.

Eimear Breathnach also lost her opening match to Italy’s Pamela Pezzutto and tomorrow will play France’s Florence Sireau.

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Philip Quinlan lost his first game in the Table Tennis Men’s Singles M1 preliminaries to France’s Jean-Francois Ducay. He is scheduled to play against Great Britain’s Robert Davies at 12.20pm tomorrow.

COLLATED RESULTS – IRISH INTEREST

Cycling:

Individual Pursuit B Bronze Medal Ride-off 1 K Modra S McPhee (Aus) 4:17.756, 2. B Lindores S Finning 4:22.269 (Aus), 3. MA Clemente Solano DJ Munoz (Spa) 4:24.015. 4. James Brown Damien Shaw (Ire) 4:26.075.

Individual 1km Time Trial C1-3 Medal Winners: 1. Y LI Zhang (Chn) 1:05.021, 2 ML Colbourne 1:08.471, 3 T Graf 1:09.979. Other: 16. Enda Smyth (Ire) 1:13.890.

Table Tennis:

Women’s Singles F1-2 Preliminaries: P Pezzutto (Ita) bt Eimear Breathnach (Ire) 11-3, 11-7, 11-8 I Lafaye Marziou (Fra) bt Rena McCarron Rooney (Ire) 11-5, 11-9, 8-11, 11-8.

Men’s Singles M1 Preliminaries: JF Ducay (Fra) bt Philip Quinlan (Ire) 11-7, 11-3, 11-9 M2 Preliminaries V Boury (Fra) bt Ronan Rooney (Ire) 11-2, 11-2, 11-3, M Ludrovsky (Slo) bt Ronan Rooney (Ire) 11-2, 11-8, 11-5.

Equestrian:

Equestrian Team Test – Grade II (22 of 23 riders) Ranking: 1. N Baker (Brit) 76.095, 2. B Napel (Ger) 72.571, 3. L Barwick (Can) 72.095, Other: 7. Eilish Byrne (Ire) 67.714.

Swimming:

Women’s 100m Butterfly Final

1. N du Toit (Rsa) 1:09.30, 2. S Gascon (Spa) 1:10.94, 3. E Stone (USA) 1:10.10. Other: 7. Ellen Keane (Ire) 1:14.04.

Men’s 50m Freestyle S5 Heats

1. D Dias (BRA) 33.02, 2. S Rodriguez (SPA) 33.80, 3. R Perkins (USA) 34.16, Other: 9. James Scully (Ire) 38.18 [8 to qualify].