BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 10 : DAILY REPORT : ARCHERY : Flute Edges Chung for Gold as American Men Fail to Medal

Sebastien Flute, a 20-year-old Frenchman, defeated South Korean high school student Chung Jae Hun, 18, on Monday to win the gold medal in men’s individual archery. Flute defeated Chung, 110-107, in the 12-shot final round.

Simon Terry, 18, of Britain, defeated Bertil Grov of Norway, 109-103, for the bronze medal. Jay Barrs of Mesa, Ariz., advanced to the quarterfinal round, where he lost to Terry in a one-arrow shootout after the match was tied, 108-108.

In earlier elimination rounds, Barrs defeated 1980 Olympic champion Tomi Poikolainen of Finland and Erwin Verstegen of the Netherlands. Barrs, the 1988 gold-medal winner, had a four-point lead over Terry with three shots to go.

“I am extremely disappointed,” Barrs said. “Not so much about the medal but for letting somebody come back from the last three arrows.”

U.S. men had won every previous individual Olympic gold medal since the sport was reintroduced to the Olympics in 1972, with the exception of the boycott in 1980.

EQUESTRIAN

Lavell’s Performance Leads U.S. to Surprising Bronze Medal

The United States, led by an impressive performance by Carol Lavell of Fairfax, Va., won a bronze medal in team dressage at the Royal Polo Club in Barcelona. The United States has only one other dressage medal in Olympic history, a bronze in 1976.

Germany, as expected, won the gold medal, the Netherlands the silver.

“You only have special rides a few times in your life,” Lavell said. “That was one.”

Her performance vaulted the United States past Sweden and Denmark into third place.

Nicole Uphoff of Germany, riding Rembrandt, had the day’s highest score at 1,768. Lavell, riding her horse Gifted, earned 1,629, fifth best.

The other U.S. riders were Charlotte Bredahl of Solvang, Calif., Robert Dover of Lebanon, N.J., and Michael Poulin of Fairfield, Me.

WEIGHTLIFTING

Weller Reaches New Heights to Overcome CIS Champion

Ronny Weller of Germany, who came back from a serious automobile accident two years ago, had his best competitive performance to win an Olympic weightlifting gold medal at the Espana Industrial Hall.

On the final effort in the 242-pound division, Weller lifted 529 pounds in the clean and jerk, 22 more pounds than his previous best. The lift helped him stun Artour Akoev, the Russian world champion.

As Weller, Akoev of the Commonwealth of Independent States and third-place Stefan Botev of Bulgaria returned for the medal ceremony, the German gold medalist wiped away tears.

“I have been waiting for this moment all my life,” Weller said. “It was a case of now or never and, if I hadn’t won, it would have been something to make me unhappy for the rest of my life.”

Weller totaled 953 1/4 pounds from his best snatch and clean and jerk sequence ever. Akoev, who also was runner-up in the heavier super-heavyweight class at the 1990 world championships, had 947 3/4 and Botev had 920 1/4.

Botev, who won the world title in 1989 and ‘90, beat Romanian Nicu Vlad, who won gold in the 198-pound class at the Los Angeles Games and silver at 220 pounds at Seoul, for the bronze.

Weller missed all of 1990 competitions because of injuries he suffered in a car crash. He was out of competition for 1 1/2 years.

TABLE TENNIS

No Ping-Pong Diplomacy Here: China Wins Gold, Silver Medals

China swept the gold and silver medals in women’s doubles table tennis at North Station as Deng Yaping and Qiao Hong defeated Chen Zihe and Gao Jun, 21-13, 14-21, 21-14, 21-19, in the final.

The outcome was a reversal of last year’s world championships, where Chen and Gao defeated Deng and Qiao.

Li Bun Hui and Yu Sun Bok of North Korea, and Hong Cha Ok and Hyun Jung Hwa of South Korea took the bronze medals. Hyun was a 1988 gold-medal winner when table tennis was introduced as Olympic sport.

The final match was delayed for about 10 minutes while Qiao was treated for an ankle injury. She said she was still hurting after the match but was able to play in singles, where she led Deng, Hyun and Li into the semifinals.

MEDALISTS

ARCHERY

(Men’s Individual)

GOLD Sebastien Flute (France)

SILVER Chung Jae Hun (South Korea)

BRONZE Terry Simon (Britain)

EQUESTRIAN

(Team Dressage)

GOLD Germany

SILVER Netherlands

BRONZE United States

TABLE TENNIS

(Women’s Doubles)

GOLD Deng Yaping and Qiao Hong (China)

SILVER Chen Zihe and Gao Jun (China)

BRONZE (tie) Li Bun Hui and Yu Sun Bok (North Korea)

BRONZE Hong Cha Ok and Hyun Jung Hwa (South Korea)

WEIGHTLIFTING

(Heavyweight)

GOLD Ronny Weller (Germany)

SILVER Artour Akoev (CIS)

BRONZE Stefan Botev (Bulgaria)