SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Capsules of Friday's events at the Summer Olympics:
ARCHERY
South Korea won the Olympic gold medal Friday in men's team archery by defeating Italy, 255-247.
The United States, led by silver medal winner Vic Wunderle, got the bronze medal, beating Russia in a shoot-off.
BASKETBALL
The U.S. women's team scored four seconds into its game with New Zealand and rolled to a 93-42 victory, clinching at least a tie for first place in its preliminary group.
The 42 points were the fewest allowed by a U.S. women's basketball team in the Olympics. The fewest previously had been 47 on three occasions, most recently in a 107-47 victory over Zaire in 1996.
Every U.S. player scored, led by Katie Smith's 14 points. OK, Chamique Holdsclaw didn't score, but she's out with a stress fracture.
BOXING
For the second straight fight, Jeff Lacy of St. Petersburg, Fla., used smashing right hands to dominate Pawel Kakietek of Poland. Lacy advanced to the 165-pound quarterfinals with a 21-7 victory.
Three Americans now have advanced to quarterfinals. Five others have won bouts and two have yet to fight. David Jackson of Seattle was disqualified for not making weight.
DIVING
Fifteen-year-old Sang Xue of China was first after totaling 374.79 points on five dives, while teammate Li Na, 16, held second at 366.60 in the preliminaries of the 10-meter platform diving.
American Laura Wilkinson, 22, of The Woodlands, Texas, was in fifth and advanced to the semifinals.
Sara Reiling of Roseville, Minn., slipped into the semis as the top 18 move on.
EQUESTRIAN
David O'Connor of The Plains, Va., gave the United States its first equestrian gold since 1984 when he captured the individual three-day event. Riding Custom Made, O'Connor had a margin of two jump rails over Andrew Hoy of Australia as he entered the ring as the last rider and took down only one to beat Hoy.
ROWING
Lightweight rowers Christine and Sarah Garner won their semifinal heat to advance to the Olympic double sculls medals race as the Americans qualified nine boats for the weekend finals.
SAILING
J.J. Isler reclaimed first place in the women's 470 fleet, and men's 470 skipper Paul Foerster guided the third U.S. boat to a fleet race victory in the Olympic regatta.
With the breeze picking up, Jonathan and Charlie McKee led at all five turning marks to win the 11th fleet race in the 49er class. Coupled with two third-place finishes earlier in the day, they held onto first place.
Austrian sailors Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher clinched the Tornado class gold medal Friday with two races to go.
The 49ers raced on one of the innermost courses on Sydney Harbor, within sight of Sydney Opera House, the Harbor Bridge and several spectator vantage points on shore.
SHOOTING
Yang Ling of China protected a slim lead throughout the final to edge Moldova's Oleg Moldovan and win the 10-meter running target.
Maria Grozdeva of Bulgaria broke the Olympic record in the women's 25-meter pistol, after double-medalist Tao Luna set the Olympic qualifying mark. Tao ended up second.
SOFTBALL
A day after having a ceremony in the athletes' village to cleanse themselves of a "voodoo curse," the Americans snapped a three-game losing streak with a 2-0 victory over New Zealand.
Jennifer Brundage was 3-for-3 with a homer, and struggling star Lisa Fernandez snapped an 0-for-the-Olympics slump with a single as the defending Olympic champions moved one victory from the medals round.
SWIMMING
Brooke Bennett, a 20-year-old from Plant City, Fla., became the first woman since Janet Evans in 1988 to sweep the 400 and 800 freestyles.
Bennett captured the marathon of women's swimming in an Olympic record 8 minutes, 19.67 seconds — lowering the old mark of 8:20.20 set by Evans 12 years ago.
Americans Gary Hall Jr. and Anthony Ervin shared Olympic gold in the 50-meter freestyle Friday, tying in 21.98 seconds. They beat Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands, who won the 100 and 200 freestyles earlier.
Hall, of Phoenix, and Ervin, of Valencia, Calif., are training partners in Arizona. Ervin, who at 19 was the youngest swimmer in the eight-man final, is the first swimmer of black heritage to make a U.S. Olympic team.
Alexander Popov of Russia was sixth in 22.24, failing to win an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic title.
Lars Froelander of Sweden won the men's 100-meter butterfly and Diana Mocanu of Romania the women's 200-meter backstroke.
Inge de Bruijn of Netherlands set a world record in the women's 50 freestyle semifinals of 24.13.
TEAM HANDBALL
South Korea's Lee Sang-eun scored a record 18 goals as her team roared back from an 11-goal deficit to beat Hungary 25-14 in the battle for first place in Pool A.
Hungary led by seven midway through the first half, paced by Bojana Radulovic's six goals, but South Korea cut it to three by halftime.
In other games, defending champion Denmark beat Australia 38-12, Romania held off Angola 35-25 and Austria routed Brazil 45-19.
TENNIS
Chelsea Clinton watched as Venus Williams, seeded second, extended her winning streak to 29 matches and advanced to Sunday's quarterfinals, where she'll face fifth-seeded Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, the last player to beat her. Sanchez-Vicario, a four-time Olympic medalist from Spain, beat Colombian Fabiola Zuluaga 6-2, 6-0.
Meanwhile the American men finished to 1-5 after second-seeded Alex O'Brien and Jared Palmer were upset in their opening doubles match and Jeff Tarango went out in singles to Argentine Mariano Zabaleta 6-2, 6-3.
TRACK and FIELD
Marion Jones, Maurice Greene and Michael Johnson all strolled to wins in first-round heats as track and field began.
The first medal of the games went to Robert Korzeniowski of Poland in the 20-kilometer walk after Bernado Segura of Mexico, who crossed the line first, was disqualified. He was accused of improperly breaking contact with the ground three times during the race. Olympic officials rejected an appeal by Mexico.
Arsi Harju of Finland won the shot put with Americans Adam Nelson and John Godina taking the silver and bronze.
Jones began her quest for five golds with a leisurely win in 11.20 seconds in her heat of the women's 100.
Greene breezed to an easy victory in 10.31 seconds in his men's 100 first-round heat and Johnson won easily his first-round heat of the men's 400 with a 45.25.
Nearly all Americans qualified for the final round. The major casualty was the Czech Republic's women's 800 world champion Ludmila Formanova, who had to drop out during her heat.
VOLLEYBALL (BEACH)
Americans Rob Heidger and Kevin Wong won on a forfeit to move into the quarterfinals on Friday when their Mexican opponents dropped out due to injury.
They next face fellow Americans Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana, who defeated Jorre Kjemperud and Vegard Hoidalen of Norway.
Swiss brothers Martin and Paul Laciga overpowered the top-seeded Australian team of Julien Prosser and Lee Zahner 15-8 to reach the quarterfinals.
Also advancing were defending bronze medalists John Child and Mark Heese of Canada.
WEIGHTLIFTING
Ding Meiyuan of China broke world records in the snatch, the clean and jerk and total lift to win the gold medal in the 165-pounds plus women's event, totaling 661 1/4 pounds to edge 19-year-old Agata Wrobel of Poland by 11 pounds.
Cheryl Haworth of Savannah, a 5-foot-9, 300-pounder nicknamed "Fun" took the bronze, although she finished 66 pounds behind,
Tara Nott of Stilwell, Kansas, took the first American weightlifting gold in 40 years. She initially took the silver at 105 pounds on Sunday, then was awarded the gold when Bulgaria's Izabela Dragneva was stripped of the medal for using a banned drug.
Zhan Xugang of China won the men's 170 pounds with a total of 810 pounds.