Olympics: NZ results on day 8

9.15am

New Zealand results on day eight of the Athens Olympics (Saturday/Sunday NZ time):

Athletics: women's pole vault qualifying, Melina Hamilton 24th 4.15m, women's discus final, Beatrice Faumuina 7th 63.45m.

Cycling: women's individual pursuit qualifying, Sarah Ulmer 3min 26.400secs (wr) bt Olga Slyusareva (Russia) 3min 35.177secs; Round 1 Ulmer 3min 27.444secs bt Slyusareva 3min 36.263secs.

Basketball: men's preliminaries, New Zealand lost to Argentina 94-98. Halftime: 47-42. New Zealand: Phillip Jones 25, Pero Cameron 21, Kirk Penney 13, Ed Book 11, Mark Dickel 11, Sean Marks 6, Dillon Boucher 5, Aaron Olson 2.

Hockey: men's preliminaries, New Zealand bt India 2-1. Halftime: 0-0. New Zealand: Phillip Burrows (field goal), Hayden Shaw (penalty corner).

Rowing: finals, women's single sculls, Sonia Waddell 7min 31.66sec 5th, women's coxless pairs, Nicola Coles and Juliette Haigh 7:23.52 6th, men's coxless pairs, George Bridgewater and Nathan Twaddle 6:34.24 4th, women's double sculls, Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell 7:01.79 1st, men's coxless fours, Mahe Drysdale, Donald Leach, Carl Meyer and Eric Murray 6:15.47 5th.

Sailing: men's Mistral, Thomas Ashley 15th and 18th (13th overall after eight races), Finn, Dean Barker 10th (13th overall after final 11th race), men's 470, Andrew Brown and Jamie Hunt 20th (26th overall after final 11th race), women's Mistral, Barbara Kendall 5th and 3rd (6th after eight races), women's 470, Linda Dickson and Shelley Hesson 13th (16th overall after final 11th race), Yngling, Sharon Ferris, Kylie Jameson and Joanna White 9th (7th overall after final 11th race).

- NZPA