Lee Wai-sze had to settle for fifth place in the women's 500-metre time trial after a mediocre performance in the track cycling World Cup classic in Glasgow. Her time of 19.351 seconds put her in the second ranking after the first 250 metres, but when the sprint mattered most in the next and last lap, Lee failed to match her opponents with a 15.131-second finish and an aggregate time of 34.482 seconds. Lee set the Asian record in the event when she won the gold medal at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games in 33.945 seconds. Olga Panarina of Belarus won the Glasgow race in 34.121 seconds, followed by German rider Kristina Vogel and Tania Calvo of Spain. Lee will also compete in the sprint and keirin. She grabbed the sprint gold in the opening leg of the World Cup series in Cali, Colombia, last month. Chan Kin-wa
World number three Luke Donald fired a level-par 71 in the third round of the Dunlop Phoenix yesterday to retain a four-shot lead heading into the final round of the Japan Golf Tour event. Donald mixed three birdies with three bogeys for a 13-under 200 total at the Phoenix Country Club, where play was held up for two hours because of inclement weather on the Hitotsuba Pacific Coast in the south of the country. The Englishman, who last year became the first golfer to win the European and PGA Tour money lists in the same season, leads Australian Brendan Jones (67) and Japan's Shunsuke Sonoda (71) at the US$2.46 million event. Japan's Hiroyuki Fujita and Hirohito Koizumi are tied fourth a further shot back. Reuters