Olympics: NZ results on day 9

7.25am

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

ATHLETICS: women's marathon, Liza Hunter-Galvin, 51st 2hr 50.23min, men's 1500m semifinals, Nick Willis 3min 41.46sec 6th, did not qualify for final.

BASKETBALL: women's preliminaries, New Zealand lost to Czech Republic 57-74 . Halftime: 20-40. New Zealand: Gina Farmer 19, Angela Marino 18, Donna Loffhagen 5, Tania Tupu 5, Rebecca Cotton 4, Aneka Kerr 3, Megan Compain 3

CYCLING: men's team pursuit qualifying, Hayden Godfrey, Peter Latham, Matthew Randal and Marc Ryan, 10th, 4min 10.820sec, did not qualify for first round, women's 3000m individual pursuit, gold medal final, Sarah Ulmer 3:24.537 (world record) bt Katie Mactier (Australia) by 3.113sec.

EQUESTRIAN: individual showjumping first qualifying round, Grant Cashmore and Franklins Flyte 1st-equal, 0 penalties, Daniel Meech and Diagonal 63rd-equal, 13 penalties, Guy Thomas and Madison 69th-equal, 16 pen alties, Bruce Goodin and Braveheart 74th and 28 penalties.

HOCKEY: women's hockey preliminaries, New Zealand bt Spain 3-2. Halftime: 2-1. New Zealand: Jaimee Provan penalty corner (pc), Niniwa Roberts-Lang pc, Lizzy Igasan penalty stroke.

SAILING: Europe, Sarah Macky 17th (8th overall after final 11th race), Laser, Hamish Pepper 21st (7th overall after final 11th race).

- NZPA