Tamas Darnyi`s world record, his second of the competition, highlighted Sunday`s final day at the European Swimming Championships in Strasbourg, France. The 20-year-old Hungarian was timed in 2 minutes 00.56 seconds in the 200-meter individual medley to better Canadian Alex Baumann`s mark of 2:01.42 set at the 1984 Olympic Games. Last Tuesday, Darnyi set a world record of 4:15.42 in the 400 individual medley.
With East Germans Kathleen Nord (200 butterfly) and Cornelia Sirch (200 backstroke) winning Sunday, the East German team finished with 18 gold medals, tops in the competition. The women had 14 victories in 16 events. The men`s supremacy was shared by the two Germanys. Each finished with four victories after West Germany`s Rainer Henkel edged East Germany`s Uwe Dassler in a stirring 1,500 freestyle Sunday.
Britain`s Linford Christie, one of the few threats to Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis at next week`s World Championships, prepared for the Rome meet by beating 100-meter world record-holder Calvin Smith with a time of 10.6 seconds in London. Smith`s time was 10.21. Christie also won the 200 meters in 20.52. Britain`s Steve Cram won the 1,000 meters in 2:17.15, American Tom Petranoff won the javelin with a throw of 262 feet 1 inch and Thomas Jefferson of the U.S. won the 300 meters in 31.73, just .03 off Kirk Baptiste`s world mark. In the 110-meter hurdles, Greg Foster, running with a heavily bandaged sprained wrist suffered in the Pan American Games, clipped the seventh and eighth hurdles and lost his stride over the ninth, collapsing on to the track.
The 3d U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, rejecting arguments by a New Jersey prosecutor, has upheld the release of former boxer Rubin
”Hurricane” Carter, whose conviction for three murders was overturned in 1985 after 18 years in prison.
Dale Earnhardt recorded his ninth victory in 19 starts this season, winning the Busch 500 NASCAR stock-car race in Bristol, Tenn. Earnhardt, who averaged 90.373 miles an hour, led 414 of 500 laps on the .533-mile, high-banked track and earned $45,175. He beat Rusty Wallace by 5.59 seconds.
Jack Hewitt roared from behind to establish a track record in winning the U.S. Auto Club`s Tony Bettenhausen 100 Silver Crown dirt-car race at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. Hewitt, of Troy, Ohio, covered the 100 miles in a time of 56:07, with an average speed of 106.920 m.p.h., shattering the old marks of 1:00:28.40 and 99.217 m.p.h., set by Larry Dickson in 1982.
