Olympics: NZ results on day 6

7.30am

BASKETBALL: Men's preliminaries, New Zealand bt Serbia & Montenegro 90-87. Halftime: 39-44. New Zealand: Kirk Penney 15, Pero Cameron 14, Phillip Jones 14, Ed Book 13, Mark Dickel 12, Sean Marks 10, Dillon Boucher 6, Tony Rampton 6.

HOCKEY: men's preliminaries, New Zealand bt Argentina 3-1. Halftime: 1-1. New Zealand: Hayden Shaw (penalty corner), Bevan Hari (field goal), Philip Burrows (penalty corner).

SAILING: Finn, Dean Barker 19th and 20th (13th overall), men's 470, Andrew Brown and Jamie Hunt 26th and 25th (26th overall), Europe, Sarah Macky 6th and 4th (7th overall), women's 470, Linda Dickson and Shelley Hesson 14th and 17th overall (17th overall), women's Yngling, Sharon Ferris, Kylie Jameson and Joanna White 12th and 7th (7th overall), Laser, Hamish Pepper 13th and 3rd (9th overall), women's Mistral, Barbara Kendall automatic last place for false start (12th overall), men's Mistral, Tom Ashley 18th (10th overall).

SWIMMING: women's 800m freestyle heats, Rebecca Linton 9min 02.41sec 7th (24th overall), men's 100m butterfly heats, Corney Swanepoel 53.07 7th (15th overall), semifinals52.99 8th (13th overall), women's 200m backstroke heats, Hannah McLean 2:13.33 3rd (9th overall), semifinals 2:12.87 5th (10th overall)

- NZPA