August 2011 in sports
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Current sporting seasons
Australian rules football 2011
Auto racing 2011
- Formula One
- Sprint Cup
- Nationwide Series
- Camping World Truck Series
- IRL IndyCar Series
- World Rally Championship
- WTCC
- V8 Supercar
- Formula Two
- GP2 Series
- GP3 Series
- American Le Mans
- Le Mans Series
- Rolex Sports Car Series
- FIA GT1 World Championship
- Auto GP
- World Series by Renault
- Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
- Super GT
Baseball 2011
Basketball 2011
Canadian football 2011
Cricket 2011
Football (soccer) 2011
- National teams competitions
- 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
- UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
- 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
- UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying
- International clubs competitions
- UEFA (Europe) Champions League
- UEFA Europa League
- UEFA Women's Champions League
- Copa Sudamericana
- AFC (Asia) Champions League
- AFC Cup
- CAF (Africa) Champions League
- CAF Confederation Cup
- CONCACAF (North & Central America) Champions League
- Domestic (national) competitions
- Argentina
- Brazil
- England
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- Norway
- Portugal
- Russia
- Scotland
- Spain
- Major League Soccer (USA & Canada)
- Women's Professional Soccer (USA)
Golf 2011
Motorcycle racing 2011
Rugby league 2011
Rugby union 2011
Tennis 2011
Volleyball 2011
- National teams competitions
Winter sports
Days of the month
August 31, 2011 (Wednesday)
Athletics
- World Championships in Daegu, South Korea:
- Women's 20 kilometres walk:
Olga Kaniskina (RUS) 1:29:42 
Liu Hong (CHN) 1:30:00 
Anisya Kirdyapkina (RUS) 1:30:12
- Kaniskina wins the event for the third successive time.
- Women's 20 kilometres walk:
Basketball
- EuroBasket in Lithuania:
- FIBA Americas Championship in Mar del Plata, Argentina:
- Group A:
- Venezuela
89–92 
Dominican Republic - Canada
57–69 
Brazil
- Standings: Dominican Republic, Brazil 4 points (2 games), Venezuela 2 (2),
Cuba, Canada 1 (1).
- Standings: Dominican Republic, Brazil 4 points (2 games), Venezuela 2 (2),
- Venezuela
- Group B:
- Puerto Rico
101–55 
Paraguay - Argentina
86–51 
Uruguay
- Standings: Puerto Rico, Argentina 4 points (2 games), Paraguay 2 (2),
Panama, Uruguay 1 (1).
- Standings: Puerto Rico, Argentina 4 points (2 games), Paraguay 2 (2),
- Puerto Rico
- Group A:
Cricket
- Australia in Sri Lanka:
- India in England:
- Only T20 in Manchester:
India 165 (19.4/20 overs); 
England 169/4 (19.3/20 overs). England win by 6 wickets.
- Only T20 in Manchester:
Cycling
- Grand Tours:
- Vuelta a España, Stage 11: David Moncoutié (FRA) (Cofidis) 4h 38' 00" Beñat Intxausti (ESP) (Movistar Team) + 1' 18" Luis León Sánchez (ESP) (Rabobank) + 1' 18"
- General classification (after stage 11): (1) Bradley Wiggins (GBR) (Team Sky)
42h 50' 41" (2) Chris Froome (GBR) (Team Sky) + 7" (3) Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) (Liquigas–Cannondale) + 11"
- General classification (after stage 11): (1) Bradley Wiggins (GBR) (Team Sky)
- Vuelta a España, Stage 11:
Football (soccer)
- Copa Sudamericana Second stage, first leg: Lanús 2–2 Godoy Cruz
Tennis
- Grand Slams:
- US Open in New York City, United States, day 3:
- Men's singles, first round:
- Andy Murray (GBR) [4] def. Somdev Devvarman (IND) 7–6(5), 6–2, 6–3
- Julien Benneteau (FRA) def. Nicolás Almagro (ESP) [10] 6–2, 6–4, 6–3
- Women's singles, second round:
- Vera Zvonareva (RUS) [2] def. Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) 7–5, 3–6, 6–3
- Maria Sharapova (RUS) [3] def. Anastasiya Yakimova (BLR) 6–1, 6–1
- Christina McHale (USA) def. Marion Bartoli (FRA) [8] 7–6(2), 6–2
- Samantha Stosur (AUS) [9] def. CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) 6–3, 6–4
- Men's singles, first round:
- US Open in New York City, United States, day 3:
August 30, 2011 (Tuesday)
Athletics
- World Championships in Daegu, South Korea:
- Women's pole vault: Fabiana Murer (BRA) 4.85m Martina Strutz (GER) 4.80m Svetlana Feofanova (RUS) 4.75m
- Men's discus throw: Robert Harting (GER) 68.97m Gerd Kanter (EST) 66.95m Ehsan Haddadi (IRI) 66.08m
- Harting wins the event for the second successive time.
- Women's heptathlon: Tatyana Chernova (RUS) 6880 points Jessica Ennis (GBR) 6751 Jennifer Oeser (GER) 6572
- Men's 800 metres: David Rudisha (KEN) 1:43.91 Abubaker Kaki Khamis (SUD) 1:44.41 Yuriy Borzakovskiy (RUS) 1:44.49
- Women's 3000 metres steeplechase: Yuliya Zaripova (RUS) 9:07.03 Habiba Ghribi (TUN) 9:11.97 Milcah Chemos Cheywa (KEN) 9:17.16
- Men's 400 metres: Kirani James (GRN) 44.60 LaShawn Merritt (USA) 44.63 Kevin Borlée (BEL) 44.90
- Women's pole vault:
Basketball
- FIBA Americas Championship in Mar del Plata, Argentina:
- Group A:
- Dominican Republic 90–60 Cuba
- Brazil 92–83 Venezuela
- Dominican Republic
- Group B:
- Paraguay 52–84 Argentina
- Panama 66–99 Puerto Rico
- Paraguay
- Group A:
Football (soccer)
- Copa Sudamericana Second stage, first leg:
- Arsenal 2–0 Estudiantes
- Nacional 1–1
Aurora
- Arsenal
Tennis
- Grand Slams:
- US Open in New York City, United States, day 2:
- Men's singles, first round:
- Novak Djokovic (SRB) [1] def. Conor Niland (IRL) 6–0, 5–1 ret.
- Rafael Nadal (ESP) [2] def. Andrey Golubev (KAZ) 6–3, 7–6(1), 7–5
- David Ferrer (ESP) [5] def. Igor Andreev (RUS) 2–6, 6–3, 6–0, 6–4
- Women's singles, first round:
- Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) [1] def. Nuria Llagostera Vives (ESP) 6–3, 6–1
- Victoria Azarenka (BLR) [4] def. Johanna Larsson (SWE) 6–1, 6–3
- Simona Halep (ROU) def. Li Na (CHN) [6] 6–2, 7–5
- Francesca Schiavone (ITA) [7] def. Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 6–3, 1–6, 6–4
- Andrea Petkovic (GER) [10] def. Ekaterina Bychkova (RUS) 6–2, 6–2
- Men's singles, first round:
- US Open in New York City, United States, day 2:
August 29, 2011 (Monday)
Athletics
- World Championships in Daegu, South Korea:
- Men's hammer throw: Koji Murofushi (JPN) 81.24m Krisztián Pars (HUN) 81.18m Primož Kozmus (SLO) 79.39m
- Men's pole vault: Paweł Wojciechowski (POL) 5.90m Lázaro Borges (CUB) 5.90m Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) 5.85m
- Women's shot put: Valerie Adams (NZL) 21.24m (CR) Nadzeya Astapchuk (BLR) 20.05m Jillian Camarena-Williams (USA) 20.02m
- Adams wins the event for the third successive time.
- Women's 400 metres: Amantle Montsho (BOT) 49.56 Allyson Felix (USA) 49.59 Anastasiya Kapachinskaya (RUS) 50.24
- Men's 110 metres hurdles: Jason Richardson (USA) 13.16 Liu Xiang (CHN) 13.27 Andy Turner (GBR) 13.44
- Dayron Robles (CUB) initially wins the race, but is disqualified for obstruction of Liu over the last hurdle.
- Women's 100 metres: Carmelita Jeter (USA) 10.90 Veronica Campbell Brown (JAM) 10.97 Kelly-Ann Baptiste (TRI) 10.98
- Jeter wins her second world championship title.
- Women's heptathlon (standings after 4 events): (1) Jessica Ennis (GBR) 4078 points (2) Tatyana Chernova (RUS) 3927 (3) Hyleas Fountain (USA) 3887
- Men's hammer throw:
Cycling
- Grand Tours:
- Vuelta a España, Stage 10: Tony Martin (GER) (HTC–Highroad) 55' 54" Chris Froome (GBR) (Team Sky) + 59" Bradley Wiggins (GBR) (Team Sky) + 1' 22"
- General classification (after stage 10): (1) Froome 38h 09' 13" (2) Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) (Leopard Trek) + 12" (3) Wiggins + 20"
- General classification (after stage 10): (1) Froome
- Vuelta a España, Stage 10:
Tennis
- Grand Slams:
- US Open in New York City, United States, day 1:
- Men's singles, first round:
- Roger Federer (SUI) [3] def. Santiago Giraldo (COL) 6–4 6–3 6–2
- Gaël Monfils (FRA) [7] def. Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) 7–6(4) 6–3 6–4
- Mardy Fish (USA) [8] def. Tobias Kamke (GER) 6–2 6–2 6–1
- Tomáš Berdych (CZE) [9] def. Romain Jouan (FRA) 6–2 7–6(4) 6–1
- Women's singles, first round:
- Vera Zvonareva (RUS) [2] def. Stéphanie Foretz Gacon (FRA) 6–3 6–0
- Maria Sharapova (RUS) [3] def. Heather Watson (GBR) 3–6 7–5 6–3
- Alexandra Dulgheru (ROM) def. Petra Kvitová (CZE) [5] 7–6(3) 6–3
- Marion Bartoli (FRA) [8] def. Alexandra Panova (RUS) 7–5 6–3
- Samantha Stosur (AUS) [9] def. Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) 6–2 6–3
- Men's singles, first round:
- US Open in New York City, United States, day 1:
Surfing
- Men's World Tour:
- Billabong Pro Teahupoo in Teahupoo, Tahiti, French Polynesia: (1) Kelly Slater (USA) (2) Owen Wright (AUS) (3) Josh Kerr (AUS) & Travis Logie (RSA)
- Standings (after 5 of 11 events): (1) Slater 26,950 points (2) Smith 26,500 (3) Joel Parkinson (AUS) 26,200
- Billabong Pro Teahupoo in Teahupoo, Tahiti, French Polynesia: (1) Kelly Slater (USA) (2) Owen Wright (AUS) (3) Josh Kerr (AUS) & Travis Logie (RSA)
August 28, 2011 (Sunday)
Athletics
- World Championships in Daegu, South Korea:
- Men's 20 kilometres walk: Valeriy Borchin (RUS) 1:19:56 Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS) 1:20:27 Luis Fernando López (COL) 1:20:38
- Borchin wins the event for the second successive time.
- Women's long jump: Brittney Reese (USA) 6.82m Olga Kucherenko (RUS) 6.77m Ineta Radēviča (LAT) 6.76m
- Reese wins the event for the second successive time.
- Women's discus throw: Li Yanfeng (CHN) 66.52m Nadine Müller (GER) 65.97m Yarelys Barrios (CUB) 65.73m
- Men's 10,000 metres: Ibrahim Jeilan (ETH) 27:13.81 Mo Farah (GBR) 27:14.07 Imane Merga (ETH) 27:19.14
- Men's decathlon: Trey Hardee (USA) 8607 points Ashton Eaton (USA) 8505 Leonel Suárez (CUB) 8501
- Hardee wins the event for the second successive time.
- Men's 100 metres: Yohan Blake (JAM) 9.92 Walter Dix (USA) 10.08 Kim Collins (SKN) 10.09
- World record holder and defending world champion Usain Bolt (JAM) was disqualified from the final for a false start.
- Men's 20 kilometres walk:
Auto racing
- Formula One:
- Belgian Grand Prix in Spa, Belgium: (1) Sebastian Vettel (GER) (Red Bull–Renault) (2) Mark Webber (AUS) (Red Bull-Renault) (3) Jenson Button (GBR) (McLaren–Mercedes)
- Drivers' championship standings (after 12 of 19 races): (1) Vettel 259 points (2) Webber 167 (3) Fernando Alonso (ESP) (Ferrari) 157
- Belgian Grand Prix in Spa, Belgium: (1) Sebastian Vettel (GER) (Red Bull–Renault) (2) Mark Webber (AUS) (Red Bull-Renault) (3) Jenson Button (GBR) (McLaren–Mercedes)
- IndyCar Series:
- Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma in Sonoma, California (all Team Penske): (1) Will Power (AUS) (2) Hélio Castroneves (BRA) (3) Ryan Briscoe (AUS)
- Drivers' championship standings (after 14 of 18 races): (1) Dario Franchitti (GBR) (Chip Ganassi Racing) 475 points (2) Power 449 (3) Scott Dixon (NZL) (Chip Ganassi Racing) 400
- Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma in Sonoma, California (all Team Penske): (1) Will Power (AUS) (2) Hélio Castroneves (BRA) (3) Ryan Briscoe (AUS)
Basketball
- FIBA Africa Championship in Antananarivo, Madagascar:
- Bronze medal game: Nigeria
77–67 
Ivory Coast - Final: Angola
56–67 
Tunisia
- Tunisia win the title for the first time, and qualify for the 2012 Olympics.
- Angola and Nigeria qualify for the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament.
- Bronze medal game:
- FIBA Asia Championship for Women in Ōmura, Japan:
- Bronze medal game: Japan
83–56 
Chinese Taipei - Final: China
65–62 
South Korea
- China win the title for the 11th time, and qualify for the 2012 Olympics.
- Korea and Japan qualify for the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament.
- Bronze medal game:
Cycling
- Grand Tours:
- Vuelta a España, Stage 9: Dan Martin (IRL) (Garmin–Cervélo) 4h 52' 14" Bauke Mollema (NED) (Rabobank) s.t. Juan José Cobo (ESP) (Geox–TMC) + 3"
- General classification (after stage 9): (1) Mollema
37h 11' 17"(2) Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) (Team Katusha) 
+ 1" (3) Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) (Liquigas–Cannondale) + 9"
- General classification (after stage 9): (1) Mollema
- Vuelta a España, Stage 9:
- UCI World Tour:
- GP Ouest-France: Grega Bole (SLO) (Lampre–ISD) 6h 32' 41" Simon Gerrans (AUS) (Team Sky) s.t. Thomas Voeckler (FRA) (Team Europcar) s.t.
- UCI World Tour standings (after 22 of 27 races): (1) Cadel Evans (AUS) (BMC Racing Team) 574 points (2) Philippe Gilbert (BEL) (Omega Pharma–Lotto) 568 (3) Alberto Contador (ESP) (Saxo Bank–SunGard) 471
- GP Ouest-France:
Equestrianism
- European Eventing Championship in Luhmühlen, Germany:
- individual: Michael Jung (GER) on Sam FBW Sandra Auffarth (GER) on Opgun Louvo Frank Ostholt (GER) on Little Paint
- team:
Germany (Ingrid Klimke, Michael Jung, Sandra Auffarth, Andreas Dibowski) 
France (Donatien Schauly, Nicolas Touzaint, Stanislas de Zuchowicz, Pascal Leroy) 
Great Britain (Mary King, Piggy French, William Fox-Pitt, Nicola Wilson)
- individual:
- 2011 CHIO Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands (CSIO 5*):
- Show jumping Grand Prix: Beezie Madden (USA) on Coral Reef Via Volo Jeroen Dubbeldam (NED) on Simon Carsten-Otto Nagel (GER) on Corradina
- Show jumping Grand Prix:
Field hockey
- Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Mönchengladbach, Germany:
- Bronze medal match: Belgium
1–2 (a.e.t.) England - Final: Netherlands
2–4 Germany
- Germany win the title for the seventh time.
- Bronze medal match: Belgium
Football (soccer)
- CAF Champions League Group stage Matchday 4:
- Group A: Coton Sport
2–0 
Al-Hilal
- Standings (after 4 matches): Enyimba 8 points, Al-Hilal 7, Coton Sport 4,
Raja Casablanca 2.
- Standings (after 4 matches):
- Group B: MC Alger
0–0 
Al-Ahly
- Standings (after 4 matches): Espérance ST, Wydad Casablanca 6 points, Al-Ahly 5, MC Alger 2.
- Standings (after 4 matches):
- Group A: Coton Sport
- CAF Confederation Cup Group stage Matchday 4:
- Group A:
- Kaduna United 2–1 ASEC Mimosas
- Inter Luanda 2–1 Club Africain
- Standings (after 4 matches): Inter Luanda 7 points, Club Africain, Kaduna United 5, ASEC Mimosas 4.
- Kaduna United
- Group A:
Golf
- European Tour:
- Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles in Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross, Scotland:
- Winner: Thomas Bjørn (DEN) 277 (−11)PO
- Bjørn wins a five-way playoff for his second European Tour title of the season and 12th of his career.
- Winner: Thomas Bjørn (DEN) 277 (−11)PO
- Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles in Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross, Scotland:
- LPGA Tour:
- CN Canadian Women's Open in Mirabel, Quebec:
- Winner: Brittany Lincicome (USA) 275 (−13)
- Lincicome wins her second LPGA Tour title of the season and fifth of her career.
- Winner: Brittany Lincicome (USA) 275 (−13)
- CN Canadian Women's Open in Mirabel, Quebec:
- Champions Tour:
- Boeing Classic in Snoqualmie, Washington:
- Winner: Mark Calcavecchia (USA) 202 (−14)PO
- Calcavecchia defeats fellow American Russ Cochran in a playoff for his first Champions Tour title.
- Winner: Mark Calcavecchia (USA) 202 (−14)PO
- Boeing Classic in Snoqualmie, Washington:
- Amateur events:
- U.S. Amateur in Erin, Wisconsin:
- Final: Kelly Kraft (USA) def. Patrick Cantlay (USA) 2 up
- U.S. Amateur in Erin, Wisconsin:
Judo
- World Championships in Paris, France:
- Men's team: France Brazil Japan & South Korea
- Women's team: France Japan Cuba & Germany
- Men's team:
Motorcycle racing
- Moto GP:
- Indianapolis Grand Prix in Indianapolis, United States (ESP unless stated):
- MotoGP: (1) Casey Stoner (AUS) (Honda) (2) Dani Pedrosa (Honda) (3) Ben Spies (USA) (Yamaha)
- Riders' championship standings (after 12 of 18 races): (1) Stoner 243 points (2) Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) 199 (3) Andrea Dovizioso (ITA) (Honda) 174
- Moto2: (1) Marc Márquez (Suter) (2) Pol Espargaró (FTR) (3) Esteve Rabat (FTR)
- Riders' championship standings (after 11 of 17 races): (1) Stefan Bradl (GER) (Kalex) 193 points (2) Márquez 165 (3) Andrea Iannone (ITA) (Suter) & Alex de Angelis (SMR) (Motobi) 96
- 125cc: (1) Nicolás Terol (Aprilia) (2) Maverick Viñales (Aprilia) (3) Sandro Cortese (GER) (Aprilia)
- Riders' championship standings (after 11 of 17 races): (1) Terol 191 points (2) Johann Zarco (FRA) (Derbi) 165 (3) Viñales 152
- MotoGP: (1) Casey Stoner (AUS) (Honda) (2) Dani Pedrosa (Honda) (3) Ben Spies (USA) (Yamaha)
- Indianapolis Grand Prix in Indianapolis, United States (ESP unless stated):
Snooker
- Players Tour Championship – Event 4: Paul Hunter Classic in Fürth, Germany:
- Final: Mark Davis (ENG) 0–4 Mark Selby (ENG)
- Selby wins his sixth professional title.
- Order of Merit (after 4 of 12 events): (1) Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) 14,200 (2) Selby 12,200 (3) Judd Trump (ENG) 11,200
- Final: Mark Davis (ENG) 0–4 Mark Selby (ENG)
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix final round in Macau, China:
- Bronze medal match: Russia
0–3 
Serbia - Final: Brazil 0–3
United States
- The United States win the title for the second successive time and fourth time overall.
- Bronze medal match: Russia
- FIVB Boys Youth World Championship in Bahía Blanca, Argentina:
August 27, 2011 (Saturday)
Athletics
- World Championships in Daegu, South Korea (KEN unless stated):
- Women's Marathon: Edna Kiplagat 2:28:43 Priscah Jeptoo 2:29:00 Sharon Cherop 2:29:14
- Women's 10,000 metres: Vivian Cheruiyot 30:48.98 Sally Kipyego 30:50.04 Linet Masai 30:53.59
- Cheruiyot wins her second world championship title.
- Men's decathlon (standings after 5 events): (1) Ashton Eaton (USA) 4446 points (2) Trey Hardee (USA) 4393 (3) Oleksiy Kasyanov (UKR) 4310
- Women's Marathon:
Auto racing
- Sprint Cup Series:
- Irwin Tools Night Race in Bristol, Tennessee: (1)
Brad Keselowski (Dodge; Penske Racing) (2) 
Martin Truex Jr. (Toyota; Michael Waltrip Racing) (3) 
Jeff Gordon (Chevrolet; Hendrick Motorsports)
- Drivers' championship standings (after 24 of 36 races): (1)
Kyle Busch (Toyota; Joe Gibbs Racing) 830 points (4 wins) (2) Jimmie Johnson (Chevrolet; Hendrick Motorsports) 830 (1 win) (3) 
Matt Kenseth (Ford; Roush Fenway Racing) 798
- Drivers' championship standings (after 24 of 36 races): (1)
- Irwin Tools Night Race in Bristol, Tennessee: (1)
Basketball
- FIBA Africa Championship in Antananarivo, Madagascar:
- Semifinals:
- Ivory Coast 57–60 Tunisia
- Nigeria 68–76 Angola
- Ivory Coast
- Semifinals:
- FIBA Asia Championship for Women in Ōmura, Japan:
- Semifinals:
- China 76–62 Japan
- South Korea 72–66 Chinese Taipei
- China
- Semifinals:
Cricket
- Friends Life t20 Final in Birmingham: Leicestershire Foxes 145/6 (20 overs); Somerset 127/9 (20 overs). Leicestershire win by 18 runs.
Cycling
- Grand Tours:
- Vuelta a España, Stage 8: Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) (Team Katusha) 4h 49' 01" Michele Scarponi (ITA) (Lampre–ISD) + 9" Bauke Mollema (NED) (Rabobank) + 9"
- General classification (after stage 8): (1) Rodríguez 32h 18' 16" (2) Daniel Moreno (ESP) (Team Katusha)
+ 32" (3) Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) (Leopard Trek) + 34"
- General classification (after stage 8): (1) Rodríguez
- Vuelta a España, Stage 8:
- UCI Women's Road World Cup:
- GP de Plouay in Plouay, France: Annemiek van Vleuten (NED) (Nederland bloeit) 3h 12' 28" Evelyn Stevens (USA) (HTC–Highroad Women) + 3" Marianne Vos (NED) (Nederland bloeit) + 46"
- Final standings: (1) van Vleuten 362 points (2) Vos 315 (3) Emma Johansson (SWE) (Hitec Products–UCK) 223
- GP de Plouay in Plouay, France:
Field hockey
- Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Mönchengladbach, Germany:
- Bronze medal match: England 2–1
Spain - Final: Netherlands 3–0 Germany
- The Netherlands win the title for the eighth time.
- Bronze medal match:
Football (soccer)
- 2012 CAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament final round first leg:
- South Africa
3–0 
Ethiopia - Nigeria 2–1 Cameroon
- South Africa
- CAF Champions League Group stage Matchday 4:
- CAF Confederation Cup Group stage Matchday 4:
- Group B:
- Motema Pembe
2–0 JS Kabylie - Sunshine Stars 1–1 Maghreb de Fès
- Standings (after 4 matches): Maghreb de Fès 8 points, Motema Pembe, Sunshine Stars 7, JS Kabylie 0.
- Motema Pembe
- Group B:
- Women's Professional Soccer Playoffs:
Golf
- PGA Tour:
- FedEx Cup Playoffs: The Barclays in Edison, New Jersey:
- Winner: Dustin Johnson (USA) 194 (−19)
- Johnson wins his fifth PGA Tour title.
- FedEx Cup points (all USA): (1) Johnson 3691 points (2) Matt Kuchar 2907 (3) Nick Watney 2256
- Winner: Dustin Johnson (USA) 194 (−19)
- FedEx Cup Playoffs: The Barclays in Edison, New Jersey:
Judo
- World Championships in Paris, France:
- Men's 100 kg: Tagir Khaybulaev (RUS) Maxim Rakov (KAZ) Lukas Krpalek (CZE) & Irakli Tsirekidze (GEO)
- Men's +100 kg: Teddy Riner (FRA) Andreas Tölzer (GER) Kim Sung-min (KOR) & Aleksandr Mikhailine (RUS)
- Riner wins his fifth world championship title.
- Women's +78 kg: Tong Wen (CHN) Qin Qian (CHN) Elena Ivashchenko (RUS) & Mika Sugimoto (JPN)
- Tong wins her fifth world championship title.
- Men's 100 kg:
Mixed martial arts
- UFC 134 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
- Middleweight Championship: Anderson Silva (BRA) (c) def. Yushin Okami (JPN) via TKO (punches)
- Light Heavyweight bout: Maurício Rua (BRA) def. Forrest Griffin (USA) via KO (punches)
- Heavyweight bout: Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira (BRA) def. Brendan Schaub (USA) via KO (punches)
- Lightweight bout: Edson Barboza (BRA) def. Ross Pearson (ENG) via split decision (29–28, 28–29, 29–28)
- Light Heavyweight bout: Stanislav Nedkov (BUL) def. Luiz Cane (BRA) via TKO (punches)
Rugby league
- Challenge Cup Final in London: Leeds Rhinos 18–28 Wigan Warriors
- Wigan win the Cup for the first time since 2002, and 18th time overall.
Rugby union
- Tri Nations Series:
- Match 6: Australia
25–20 
New Zealand
- Final standings: Australia 13 points, New Zealand 10, South Africa 5.
- Australia win the Tri Nations for the first time since 2001, and third time overall.
- Final standings: Australia 13 points, New Zealand 10,
- Match 6: Australia
- Mid-year Tests, Week 8: Ireland
9–20 England
Tennis
- ATP World Tour:
- Winston-Salem Open in Winston-Salem, United States:
- Final: John Isner (USA) def. Julien Benneteau (FRA) 4–6, 6–3, 6–4
- Isner wins his second title of the year and third of his career.
- Final: John Isner (USA) def. Julien Benneteau (FRA) 4–6, 6–3, 6–4
- Winston-Salem Open in Winston-Salem, United States:
- WTA Tour:
- New Haven Open at Yale in New Haven, United States:
- Final: Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) def. Petra Cetkovská (CZE) 6–4, 6–1
- Wozniacki wins her sixth title of the year and 18th of her career, and her fourth consecutive win at the event, matching the feat Venus Williams had also done at New Haven.
- Final: Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) def. Petra Cetkovská (CZE) 6–4, 6–1
- Texas Tennis Open in Dallas, United States:
- Final: Sabine Lisicki (GER) def. Aravane Rezaï (FRA) 6–2, 6–1
- Lisicki wins her second title of the year and third of her career.
- Final: Sabine Lisicki (GER) def. Aravane Rezaï (FRA) 6–2, 6–1
- New Haven Open at Yale in New Haven, United States:
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix final round in Macau, China:
- Semifinals:
- Brazil 3–0 Russia
- Serbia 0–3 United States
- Brazil
- Semifinals:
August 26, 2011 (Friday)
Auto racing
- Nationwide Series:
- Food City 250 in Bristol, Tennessee: (1) Kyle Busch (Toyota; Joe Gibbs Racing) (2)
Joey Logano (Toyota; Joe Gibbs Racing) (3) 
Clint Bowyer (Chevrolet; Kevin Harvick Incorporated)
- Busch wins his 50th race in the secondary class, surpassing Mark Martin's record of 49 victories.
- Drivers' championship standings (after 25 of 34 races): (1)
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Ford; Roush Fenway Racing) 867 points (2) 
Elliott Sadler (Chevrolet; Kevin Harvick Incorporated) 862 (3) 
Reed Sorenson (Chevrolet; Turner Motorsports) 857
- Food City 250 in Bristol, Tennessee: (1)
Cycling
- Grand Tours:
- Vuelta a España, Stage 7: Marcel Kittel (GER) (Skil–Shimano) 4h 47' 59" Peter Sagan (SVK) (Liquigas–Cannondale) s.t. Óscar Freire (ESP) (Rabobank) s.t.
- General classification (after stage 7): (1) Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) (Quick-Step) 27h 29' 12" (2) Daniel Moreno (ESP) (Team Katusha) + 15" (3) Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) (Liquigas–Cannondale) + 16"
- General classification (after stage 7): (1) Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) (Quick-Step)
- Vuelta a España, Stage 7:
Equestrianism
- 2011 CHIO Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands (CSIO 5*):
- Show jumping – Nations Cup: Germany (Marco Kutscher, Thomas Voß, Carsten-Otto Nagel, Marcus Ehning) Great Britain (Michael Whitaker, Guy Williams, Ben Maher, John Whitaker) France (Pénélope Leprevost, Kevin Staut, Olivier Guillon, Michel Robert)
- FEI Nations Cup standings (final after 8 competitions): (1) Germany 50 point (2) Netherlands 48.5 (3) Great Britain 47, relegated: United States,
Denmark
- FEI Nations Cup standings (final after 8 competitions): (1) Germany 50 point (2)
- Show jumping – Nations Cup:
Field hockey
- Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Mönchengladbach, Germany:
- Semifinals:
- Belgium 2–4 Netherlands
- Germany 3–0 England
- Belgium
- Semifinals:
Football (soccer)
- UEFA Super Cup in Monaco: Barcelona 2–0
Porto
- Barcelona win the title for the fourth time.
- CAF Champions League Group stage Matchday 4:
- Group A: Raja Casablanca 0–0 Enyimba
- Standings: Enyimba 8 points (4 matches), Al-Hilal 7 (3), Raja Casablanca 2 (4), Coton Sport 1 (3).
- Standings: Enyimba 8 points (4 matches),
- Group A: Raja Casablanca
Judo
- World Championships in Paris, France (JPN unless stated):
- Men's 90 kg: Ilias Iliadis (GRE) Daiki Nishiyama Asley González (CUB) & Takashi Ono
- Iliadis wins the title for the second successive time.
- Women's 70 kg: Lucie Décosse (FRA) Edith Bosch (NED) Yoriko Kunihara & Anett Mészáros (HUN)
- Décosse wins the title for the second successive time and third time overall.
- Women's 78 kg: Audrey Tcheuméo (FRA) Akari Ogata Mayra Aguiar (BRA) & Kayla Harrison (USA)
- Men's 90 kg:
Snooker
- Ronnie O'Sullivan compiles the 11th official maximum break of his career during his sixth round match at the Paul Hunter Classic.
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix final round in Macau, China (teams in bold advance to the semifinals):
August 25, 2011 (Thursday)
Basketball
- FIBA Africa Championship in Antananarivo, Madagascar:
- Quarterfinals:
- Nigeria 94–86
Central African Republic - Senegal
59–75 Ivory Coast - Tunisia 86–67 Morocco
- Cameroon 83–84 (OT) Angola
- Nigeria
- Quarterfinals:
- FIBA Asia Championship for Women Level I in Ōmura, Japan (teams in bold advance to semifinals):
- India 52–71
Lebanon - South Korea 69–67 Chinese Taipei
- China 76–53 Japan
- Final standings: Korea 10 points, China 9, Japan 8, Chinese Taipei 7, Lebanon 6, India 5.
- India
Cricket
Cycling
- Grand Tours:
- Vuelta a España, Stage 6: Peter Sagan (SVK) (Liquigas–Cannondale) 4h 38' 22" Pablo Lastras (ESP) (Movistar Team) s.t. Valerio Agnoli (ITA) (Liquigas–Cannondale) s.t.
- General classification (after stage 6): (1) Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) (Quick-Step) 22h 41' 13" (2) Daniel Moreno (ESP) (Team Katusha) + 15" (3) Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) (Liquigas–Cannondale) + 16"
- General classification (after stage 6): (1) Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) (Quick-Step)
- Vuelta a España, Stage 6:
Field hockey
- Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Mönchengladbach, Germany:
- Semifinals: (winners qualify for 2012 Summer Olympics)
- Netherlands 2–0 England
- Spain 1–2 Germany
- Netherlands
- Semifinals: (winners qualify for 2012 Summer Olympics)
Football (soccer)
- UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying Group 5: Belarus
2–1 
Estonia - UEFA Europa League Play-off round second leg (first leg scores in parentheses):
- Dinamo București
2–3 (1–2) 
Vorskla Poltava. Vorskla Poltava win 5–3 on aggregate. - Spartak Moscow 2–3 (2–2)
Legia Warsaw. Legia Warsaw win 5–4 on aggregate. - Rennes 4–0 (2–1) Red Star Belgrade. Rennes win 6–1 on aggregate.
- PSV Eindhoven 5–0 (0–0)
Ried. PSV Eindhoven win 5–0 on aggregate. - AEK Larnaca
2–1 (0–0) 
Rosenborg. AEK Larnaca win 2–1 on aggregate. - Spartak Trnava
1–1 (0–2) Lokomotiv Moscow. Lokomotiv Moscow win 3–1 on aggregate. - Dynamo Kyiv 1–0 (2–1)
Litex Lovech. Dynamo Kyiv win 3–1 on aggregate. - Gaz Metan Mediaș 1–0 (1–3) Austria Wien. Austria Wien win 3–2 on aggregate.
- Dinamo Tbilisi
1–1 (a.e.t.) (0–1) 
AEK Athens. AEK Athens win 2–1 on aggregate. - Hapoel Tel Aviv
4–0 (0–1) 
Ekranas. Hapoel Tel Aviv win 4–1 on aggregate. - CSKA Sofia 1–1 (0–2) Steaua București. Steaua București win 3–1 on aggregate.
- Young Boys
2–2 (0–0) Braga. 2–2 on aggregate; Braga win on away goals. - Rapid București 1–1 (3–1) Śląsk Wrocław. Rapid București win 4–2 on aggregate.
- Sparta Prague
1–0 (0–2) Vaslui. Vaslui win 2–1 on aggregate. - Panathinaikos 2–1 (0–3) Maccabi Tel Aviv. Maccabi Tel Aviv win 4–2 on aggregate.
- Helsingborg
1–3 (0–1) Standard Liège. Standard Liège win 4–1 on aggregate. - Schalke 04 6–1 (0–2)
HJK Helsinki. Schalke 04 win 6–3 on aggregate. - Alania Vladikavkaz 2–0 (0–3)
Beşiktaş. Beşiktaş win 3–2 on aggregate. - Vitória Guimarães 0–4 (0–2) Atlético Madrid. Atlético Madrid win 6–0 on aggregate.
- Partizan 1–2 (a.e.t.) (1–1)
Shamrock Rovers. Shamrock Rovers win 3–2 on aggregate. - Anderlecht 2–2 (2–1) Bursaspor. Anderlecht win 4–3 on aggregate.
- Trabzonspor walkover (0–0) Athletic Bilbao. Athletic Bilbao qualify for the group stage after Trabzonspor replace Fenerbahçe in the Champions League.
- Rangers
1–1 (1–2) 
Maribor. Maribor win 3–2 on aggregate. - Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1–0 (0–3) Fulham. Fulham win 3–1 on aggregate.
- Sion 3–1 (0–0) Celtic. Sion win 3–1 on aggregate.
- Club Brugge 2–0 (3–3) Zestafoni. Club Brugge win 5–3 on aggregate.
- Sochaux 0–4 (0–0) Metalist Kharkiv. Metalist Kharkiv win 4–0 on aggregate.
- Roma
1–1 (0–1) Slovan Bratislava. Slovan Bratislava win 2–1 on aggregate. - Rabotnički
1–3 (0–6) Lazio. Lazio win 9–1 on aggregate. - Birmingham City 3–0 (0–0) Nacional. Birmingham City win 3–0 on aggregate.
- Stoke City 4–1 (1–0) Thun. Stoke City win 5–1 on aggregate.
- AZ 6–0 (1–2) Aalesund. AZ win 7–2 on aggregate.
- Paris Saint-Germain 2–0 (4–0)
Differdange 03. Paris Saint-Germain win 6–0 on aggregate. - Karpaty Lviv 1–1 (0–2) PAOK. PAOK win 3–1 on aggregate.
- Tottenham Hotspur 0–0 (5–0) Heart of Midlothian. Tottenham Hotspur win 5–0 on aggregate.
- Red Bull Salzburg 1–0 (1–2) Omonia. 2–2 on aggregate; Red Bull Salzburg win on away goals.
- Sevilla 1–1 (1–2) Hannover 96. Hannover 96 win 3–2 on aggregate.
- Sporting CP 2–1 (0–0) Nordsjælland. Sporting CP win 2–1 on aggregate.
- Dinamo București
- Copa Sudamericana:
- First stage, second leg (first leg score in parentheses): Juan Aurich
1–2 (0–2) 
La Equidad. La Equidad win 6–0 on points. - Second stage, second leg (first leg score in parentheses): Palmeiras 3–1 (0–2) Vasco da Gama. 3–3 on points, 3–3 on aggregate; Vasco da Gama win on away goals.
- First stage, second leg (first leg score in parentheses): Juan Aurich
- CONCACAF Champions League group stage Matchday 2:
- Group A:
- Los Angeles Galaxy 2–0
Alajuelense - Morelia
4–0 
Motagua
- Standings (after 2 matches): Los Angeles Galaxy 6 points, Morelia, Alajuelense 3, Motagua 0.
- Los Angeles Galaxy
- Group C:
- Toronto FC 0–1 FC Dallas
- Tauro 0–0 UNAM
- Standings (after 2 matches): FC Dallas 6 points, Toronto FC 3, Tauro, UNAM 1.
- Toronto FC
- Group A:
Judo
- World Championships in Paris, France:
- Men's 81 kg: Kim Jae-bum (KOR) Srđan Mrvaljević (MNE) Leandro Guilheiro (BRA) & Sergiu Toma (MDA)
- Kim wins the title for the second successive time.
- Women's 63 kg: Gévrise Émane (FRA) Yoshie Ueno (JPN) Anicka van Emden (NED) & Urška Žolnir (SLO)
- Men's 81 kg:
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix final round in Macau, China (teams in bold advance to the semifinals):
August 24, 2011 (Wednesday)
Basketball
- FIBA Africa Championship in Antananarivo, Madagascar:
- Round of 16:
- Ivory Coast 80–72
Rwanda - Tunisia 94–50 South Africa
- Senegal 92–75
Madagascar - Morocco 80–59
Mali
- Ivory Coast
- Round of 16:
- FIBA Asia Championship for Women Level I in Ōmura, Japan (teams in bold advance to semifinals):
- Lebanon 75–104 South Korea
- Chinese Taipei 63–72 China
- Japan 79–51 India
- Standings (after 4 games): Korea 8 points, Japan, China 7, Chinese Taipei 6, Lebanon, India 4.
- Lebanon
Cycling
- Grand Tours:
- Vuelta a España, Stage 5: Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) (Team Katusha) 4h 42' 54" Wout Poels (NED) (Vacansoleil–DCM) + 4" Daniel Moreno (ESP) (Team Katusha) + 5"
- General classification (after stage 5): (1) Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) (Quick-Step) 18h 02' 34" (2) Moreno + 9" (3) Rodríguez + 23"
- General classification (after stage 5): (1) Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) (Quick-Step)
- Vuelta a España, Stage 5:
Field hockey
- Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Mönchengladbach, Germany (teams in bold advance to semifinals; teams in italics qualify for 2012 Summer Olympics):
Football (soccer)
- UEFA Champions League Play-off round second leg (first leg scores in parentheses):
- Rubin Kazan 1–1 (1–3) Lyon. Lyon win 4–2 on aggregate.
- Viktoria Plzeň 2–1 (3–1) Copenhagen. Viktoria Plzeň win 5–2 on aggregate.
- Sturm Graz 0–2 (1–1) BATE Borisov. BATE Borisov win 3–1 on aggregate.
- Benfica 3–1 (2–2) Twente. Benfica win 5–3 on aggregate.
- Udinese 1–2 (0–1) Arsenal. Arsenal win 3–1 on aggregate.
- Rubin Kazan
- Other UEFA Champions League news:
- On the eve of the group stage draw, Fenerbahçe are removed from the Champions League amid allegations that they fixed matches to win last season's Turkish title. Their place in the group stage will be taken up by second-placed Trabzonspor, who had previously been eliminated from the competition by Benfica. Trabzonspor's opponent in the Europa League play-off round, Athletic Bilbao, will receive a direct entry into the group stage of that competition.[1]
- On the eve of the group stage draw,
- Recopa Sudamericana second leg (first leg score in parentheses): Internacional 3–1 (1–2) Independiente. 3–3 on points; Internacional win 4–3 on aggregate.
- Internacional win the Recopa for the second time.
- Copa Sudamericana Second stage second leg (first leg scores in parentheses):
- São Paulo 3–0 (1–2) Ceará. 3–3 on points; São Paulo win 4–2 on aggregate.
- Atlético Paranaense 0–1 (0–1) Flamengo. Flamengo win 6–0 on points.
- São Paulo
- CONCACAF Champions League group stage Matchday 2:
- Group B: Isidro Metapán
2–0 Santos Laguna
- Standings (after 2 matches): Colorado Rapids 4 points, Isidro Metapán, Santos Laguna 3, Real España 1.
- Standings (after 2 matches):
- Group C: Toronto FC – FC Dallas – abandoned at halftime due to lightning and heavy rain, to be replayed on August 25.
- Group D: Comunicaciones
2–0 Herediano
- Standings (after 2 matches): Seattle Sounders FC 6 points, Monterrey, Comunicaciones 3, Herediano 0.
- Standings (after 2 matches):
- Group B: Isidro Metapán
Judo
- World Championships in Paris, France (JPN unless stated):
- Men's 73 kg: Riki Nakaya Dex Elmont (NED) Navruz Jurakobilov (UZB) & Ugo Legrand (FRA)
- Women's 52 kg: Misato Nakamura Yuka Nishida Ana Carrascosa (ESP) & Andreea Chitu (ROU)
- Nakamura wins her second world title.
- Women's 57 kg: Aiko Sato Rafaela Silva (BRA) Corina Caprioriu (ROU) & Kaori Matsumoto
- Men's 73 kg:
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix final round in Macau, China:
- Women's African Championship in Nairobi, Kenya:
- Bronze medal match: Senegal 2–3 Egypt
- Final: Kenya
3–1 Algeria
- Kenya win the title for the seventh time, and qualify for the FIVB World Cup.
- Bronze medal match: Senegal
August 23, 2011 (Tuesday)
Basketball
- FIBA Africa Championship in Antananarivo, Madagascar:
- Round of 16:
- Nigeria 84–46
Chad - Cameroon 85–52
Togo - Central African Republic 71–66 Egypt
- Angola 82–71
Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Round of 16:
- FIBA Asia Championship for Women Level I in Ōmura, Japan (team in bold advances to semifinals):
- China 87–38 India
- Chinese Taipei 83–55 Lebanon
- South Korea 66–59 Japan
- Standings (after 3 games): Korea 6 points, China, Japan, Chinese Taipei 5, Lebanon, India 3.
- China
Cycling
- Grand Tours:
- Vuelta a España, Stage 4: Daniel Moreno (ESP) (Team Katusha) 4h 51' 53" Chris Anker Sørensen (DEN) (Saxo Bank–SunGard) + 3" Dan Martin (IRL) (Garmin–Cervélo) + 11"
- General classification (after stage 4): (1) Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) (Quick-Step) 13h 19' 09" (2) Moreno + 43" (3) Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) (Leopard Trek) + 49"
- General classification (after stage 4): (1) Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) (Quick-Step)
- Vuelta a España, Stage 4:
Field hockey
- Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Mönchengladbach, Germany (teams in bold advance to semifinals):
- Pool A:
- Azerbaijan
1–2 Spain - Netherlands 5–1 Italy
- Final standings: Spain 9 points, Netherlands 6, Azerbaijan 3, Italy 0.
- Azerbaijan
- Pool B:
- Pool A:
Football (soccer)
- UEFA Champions League Play-off round second leg (first leg scores in parentheses):
- APOEL 3–1 (0–1) Wisła Kraków. APOEL win 3–2 on aggregate.
- Genk 2–1 (1–2) (a.e.t.) Maccabi Haifa. 3–3 on aggregate, Genk win 4–1 on penalties.
- Malmö FF 2–0 (1–4)
Dinamo Zagreb. Dinamo Zagreb win 4–3 on aggregate. - Villarreal 3–0 (0–1) Odense. Villarreal win 3–1 on aggregate.
- Zürich 0–1 (0–2) Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich win 3–0 on aggregate.
- APOEL
- Copa Sudamericana:
- First stage, second leg (first leg score in parentheses): Santa Fe 2–0 (1–1) Universidad César Vallejo. Santa Fe win 4–1 on points.
- Second stage, second leg (first leg score in parentheses): Botafogo 1–0 (2–1) Atlético Mineiro. Botafogo win 6–0 on points.
- First stage, second leg (first leg score in parentheses): Santa Fe
- CONCACAF Champions League group stage Matchday 2:
- Group B: Real España 1–1 Colorado Rapids
- Standings: Colorado Rapids 4 points (2 matches), Santos Laguna 3 (1), Real España 1 (2), Isidro Metapán 0 (1).
- Standings: Colorado Rapids 4 points (2 matches),
- Group D:
- Monterrey 0–1 Seattle Sounders FC
- Comunicaciones – Herediano — postponed due to heavy rain
- Standings: Seattle Sounders 6 points (2 matches), Monterrey 3 (2), Comunicaciones, Herediano 0 (1).
- Monterrey
- Group B: Real España
Judo
- World Championships in Paris, France:
- Men's 60 kg: Rishod Sobirov (UZB) Hiroaki Hiraoka (JPN) Ilgar Mushkiyev (AZE) & Georgii Zantaraia (UKR)
- Sobirov wins the title for the second successive time.
- Men's 66 kg: Masashi Ebinuma (JPN) Leandro Cunha (BRA) Musa Mogushkov (RUS) & Cho Jun-ho (KOR)
- Women's 48 kg: Haruna Asami (JPN) Tomoko Fukumi (JPN) Sarah Menezes (BRA) & Éva Csernoviczki (HUN)
- Asami wins the title for the second successive time.
- Men's 60 kg:
Multi-sport events
- Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China:
- Taekwondo:
- Men's −63 kg: Umut Bildik (TUR) Steven Barclais (FRA) Chu Yuan-chih (TPE) & Alfonso Victoria (MEX)
- Men's −87 kg: Park Yong-hyun (KOR) Guilherme Felix (BRA) Bruak Eski (TUR) & Rouhollah Talebi (IRI)
- Women's −53 kg: Hatice Kübra Yangın (TUR) Laura Urriola (ESP) Aziza Chambers (USA) & Ivett Gonda (CAN)
- Women's −73 kg: Chuang Chia-chia (TPE) Park Mi-yeon (KOR) Elena Gómez (ESP) & Anne-Caroline Graffe (FRA)
- Men's −63 kg:
- Water polo:
- Taekwondo:
August 22, 2011 (Monday)
Basketball
- FIBA Africa Championship in Antananarivo, Madagascar:
- FIBA Asia Championship for Women Level I in Ōmura, Japan:
- India 47–83 South Korea
- Lebanon 58–79 China
- Japan 81–54 Chinese Taipei
- Standings (after 2 games): Japan, Korea 4 points, China, Chinese Taipei 3, Lebanon, India 2.
- India
Cricket
- India in England:
- Australia in Sri Lanka:
- 5th ODI in Hambantota: Australia 211 (46.1 overs);
Sri Lanka 213/6 (47 overs). Sri Lanka win by 4 wickets; Australia win 5-match series 3–2.
- 5th ODI in Hambantota:
Cycling
- Grand Tours:
- Vuelta a España, Stage 3: Pablo Lastras (ESP) (Movistar Team) 3h 58' 00" Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) (Quick-Step) + 15" Markel Irizar (ESP) (Team RadioShack) + 15"
- General classification (after stage 3): (1) Lastras 8h 25' 59" (2) Chavanel + 20" (3) Irizar + 1' 08"
- General classification (after stage 3): (1) Lastras
- Vuelta a España, Stage 3:
Field hockey
- Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Mönchengladbach, Germany (team in bold advances to semifinals):
Multi-sport events
- Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China:
- Badminton (TPE unless stated):
- Men's singles: Suppanyu Avihingsanon (THA) Wen Kai (CHN) Takuma Ueda (JPN) & Hsueh Hsuanyi
- Men's doubles: Maneepong Jongjit/Bodin Isara (THA) Lee Sheng-mu/Fang Chieh-min Afiat Yuris Wirawan/Rendy Sugiarto (INA) & Wu Chunwei/Liao Menchun
- Women's singles: Cheng Shao-chieh Pai Hsiao-ma Liu Fang Hua (CHN) & Shi Xiao Qian (CHN)
- Women's doubles: Jang Ye-na/Eom Hye-won (KOR) Cheng/Pai Wang Peirong/Hsieh Peichen & Savitree Amitrapai/Nessara Somsri (THA)
- Mixed doubles: Eom Hye-won/Shin Baek-cheol (KOR) Lee/Hsieh Ricky Widianto/Shendy Puspa Irawati (INA) & Jongjit/Amitrapai
- Men's singles:
- Basketball:
- Diving:
- Men's synchro 10m platform: Huo Liang/Lin Yue (CHN) 474.69 points Victor Minibaev/Ilya Zakharov (RUS) 453.42 Rommel Pacheco/Jonathan Ruvalcaba (MEX) 421.50
- Men's team: China 3718.46 points Ukraine 3239.83 Russia 3239.69
- Women's synchro 3m springboard: He Zi/Wang Han (CHN) 334.20 points Olena Fedorova/Hanna Pysmenska (UKR) 301.50 Bianca Alvarez/Carrie Dragland (USA) 292.50
- Women's team: China 2674.18 points United States 2373.03
Malaysia 2336.23
- Men's synchro 10m platform:
- Football:
- Men's tournament: Japan Great Britain Brazil
- Men's tournament:
- Gymnastics:
- Group aerobics: China (Che Lei, Li Liangfa, Liu Chao, Liu Tianbo, Tao Le, Wang Zizhuo) 21.750 Russia (Danil Chayun, Garsevan Dzhanazyan, Valerii Gusev, Alexander Kondratichev, Kirill Lobaznyuk, Igor Trushkov) 21.650 Romania (Andreea Bogati, Laura Andreea Cristache, Petru Porime Tolan, Anca Claudia Surdu, Mircea Zamfir) 21.265
- Aerobic teams: China & Romania Russia
- Hoop: Yevgeniya Kanayeva (RUS) 29.150 Alina Maksimenko (UKR) 28.100 Deng Senyue (CHN) 27.050
- Ball: Kanayeva 29.200 Daria Dmitrieva (RUS) 28.400 Liubov Charkashyna (BLR) 28.200
- Clubs: Kanayeva 29.200 Aliya Garayeva (AZE) 27.725 Maksimenko 27.375
- Ribbon: Dmitrieva 28.600 Kanayeva 28.575 Charkashyna 28.200
- 3 ribbons + 2 hoops: China (Liu Shu, Ma Qianhui, Wang Xue, Wang Yuting, Wu Mengran, Zou Lie) 27.100 Russia (Alexandra Elyutina, Margarita Goncharova, Yulia Guryanova, Daria Kuvshinova, Anna Loman, Alexandra Makarova) 26.900 Japan (Yurie Akashi, Saori Inagaki, Motoi Kasahara, Yurika Kurimoto, Kaho Okamoto, Kasumi Sakihama) 24.600
- 5 balls: China (Liu Shu, Ma, Wang Xue, Wang Yuting, Wu, Zou) 26.950 Russia (Elyutina, Goncharova, Guryanova, Kuvshinova, Loman, Makarova) 26.925 Japan (Akashi, Inagaki, Kasahara, Kurimoto, Okamoto, Sakihama) 25.875
- Group aerobics:
- Shooting:
- Men's 50m rifle 3 positions: Niccolò Campriani (ITA) Kang Hongwei (CHN) Sergey Kamenskiy (RUS)
- Men's 25m standard pistol: Ding Feng (CHN) Zhou Zhiguo (CHN) Dmitry Brayko (RUS)
- Men's team 25m standard pistol: China (Ding, Li Yuehong, Zhou) Russia (Brayko, Sergei Cherviakovski, Ivan Stukachev)
Thailand (Pongpol Kulchairattana, Pruet Sriyaphan, Bhawin Tantinvachai) - Men's double trap: Alexander Furasyev (RUS) 193 Pan Qiang (CHN) 192 Hwang Sun-jin (KOR) 191
- Men's team double trap: China (Pan, Yang Yiyang, Li Jun) 427 Russia (Furasyev, Artur Mingazov, Roman Zagumennov) 423 Italy Antonino Barillà, Alessandro Chianese, Ferdinando Rossi) 420
- Women's 50m rifle 3 positions: Adéla Sýkorová (CZE) Narantuya Chuluunbadrakh (MGL) Kata Veres (HUN)
- Women's double trap: Yang Xiaohui (CHN) 101 Mariya Dmitriyenko (UKR) 98+3 Hsu Jie-yu (TPE) 98+2
- Men's 50m rifle 3 positions:
- Taekwondo:
- Men's −74 kg: Kim Seon-uk (KOR) Farzad Zolghadri (IRI) Christos Pilavakis (CYP) & Fernando Ortega (MEX)
- Men's +87 kg: Arsen Tcinaridze (RUS) Ali Sari (TUR) Balázs Tóth (HUN) & Rosbelis Despaigne (CUB)
- Women's −62 kg: Noh Eun-sil (KOR) Eva Calvo Gómez (ESP) Carmen Marton (AUS) & Edina Kotsis (HUN)
- Women's +73 kg: Zhang Yongtong (CHN) Wiam Dislam (MAR) Olga Ivanova (RUS) & Tuba Abus (TUR)
- Men's −74 kg:
- Volleyball:
- Men's tournament: Russia Ukraine Brazil
- Men's tournament:
- Water polo:
- Women's tournament: China United States Russia
- Women's tournament:
- Badminton (TPE unless stated):
Volleyball
August 21, 2011 (Sunday)
Auto racing
- Sprint Cup Series:
- Pure Michigan 400 in Brooklyn, Michigan: (1) Kyle Busch (Toyota; Joe Gibbs Racing) (2) Jimmie Johnson (Chevrolet; Hendrick Motorsports) (3) Brad Keselowski (Dodge; Penske Racing)
- Busch becomes the first driver to clinch a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.[2]
- Drivers' championship standings (after 23 of 36 races): (1) Busch 799 points (2) Johnson 789 (3) Kevin Harvick (Chevrolet; Richard Childress Racing) 760 (3 wins)
- Pure Michigan 400 in Brooklyn, Michigan: (1)
- V8 Supercars:
- Ipswich 300 in Ipswich, Queensland:
- Race 18: (1) Craig Lowndes (AUS) (Triple Eight Race Engineering; Holden VE Commodore) (2) Tim Slade (AUS) (James Rosenberg Racing; Ford FG Falcon) (3) Shane van Gisbergen (NZL) (Stone Brothers Racing; Ford FG Falcon)
- Drivers' championship standings (after 18 of 28 races): (1) Jamie Whincup (AUS) (Triple Eight Race Engineering; Holden VE Commodore) 1895 points (2) Lowndes 1797 (3) Van Gisbergen 1502
- Race 18: (1) Craig Lowndes (AUS) (Triple Eight Race Engineering; Holden VE Commodore) (2) Tim Slade (AUS) (James Rosenberg Racing; Ford FG Falcon) (3) Shane van Gisbergen (NZL) (Stone Brothers Racing; Ford FG Falcon)
- Ipswich 300 in Ipswich, Queensland:
- World Rally Championship:
- Rallye Deutschland in Trier, Germany: (1) Sébastien Ogier (FRA)/Julien Ingrassia (FRA) (Citroën DS3 WRC) (2) Sébastien Loeb (FRA)/Daniel Elena (MON) (Citroën DS3 WRC) (3) Dani Sordo (ESP)/Carlos Del Barrio (ESP) (Mini John Cooper Works WRC)
- Drivers' championship standings (after 9 of 13 rallies): (1) Loeb 192 points (2) Ogier 167 (3) Mikko Hirvonen (FIN) (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) 156
- Rallye Deutschland in Trier, Germany: (1) Sébastien Ogier (FRA)/Julien Ingrassia (FRA) (Citroën DS3 WRC) (2) Sébastien Loeb (FRA)/Daniel Elena (MON) (Citroën DS3 WRC) (3) Dani Sordo (ESP)/Carlos Del Barrio (ESP) (Mini John Cooper Works WRC)
Basketball
- FIBA Africa Championship in Antananarivo, Madagascar:
- Group A:
- Mali 72–69 (OT) Mozambique
- Nigeria 112–81 Madagascar
- Final standings: Nigeria 6 points, Mali 5, Mozambique 4, Madagascar 3.
- Mali
- Group C:
- Egypt 68–71 South Africa
- Cameroon 76–70 Ivory Coast
- Final standings: Cameroon 6 points, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, South Africa 4.
- Egypt
- Group A:
- FIBA Asia Championship for Women Level I in Ōmura, Japan:
- Chinese Taipei 81–53 India
- South Korea 99–93 (2OT) China
- Lebanon 49–77 Japan
- Chinese Taipei
- FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women in Cagliari, Italy:
- PBA Governors Cup Finals in Quezon City, Philippines:
- Game 6: Petron Blaze Boosters 85, Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 73. Boosters win series 4–3.
- Petron win their 19th league title and prevent Talk 'N Text from winning the Grand Slam.
- Game 6: Petron Blaze Boosters 85, Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 73. Boosters win series 4–3.
Canoeing
- Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary:
- Men's Canoe:
- C–1 200 m: Valentin Demyanenko (AZE) 39.339 Ivan Shtyl (RUS) 39.573 Alfonso Benavides (ESP) 39.687
- Demyanenko wins the event for the third time.
- C–1 5000 m: Mykhaylo Koshman (UKR) 23:23.823 Lukáš Koranda (CZE) 23:24.987 José Luis Bouza (ESP) 23:55.173
- C–2 200 m: Raimundas Labuckas/Tomas Gadeikis (LTU) 37.101 Viktor Melantyev/Nikolay Lipkin (RUS) 37.413 Dzmitry Rabchanka/Aleksandr Vauchetskiy (BLR) 37.599
- Labuckas and Gadeikis win the event for the third successive time.
- C–1 4 × 200 m Relay: Russia (Shtyl, Evgeny Ignatov, Alexey Korovashkov, Melantiev) 2:46.955 Azerbaijan (Sergiy Bezugliy, Maksym Prokopenko, Demyanenko, Andriy Kraytor) 2:48.341 Germany (Stefan Holtz, Björn Waeschke, Stefan Kiraj, Sebastian Brendel) 2:48.473
- Shtyl and Ignatov both win the event for the third successive time and their sixth world title overall.
- C–1 200 m:
- Men's Kayak:
- K–1 200 m: Piotr Siemionowski (POL) 34.770 Ed McKeever (GBR) 34.986 Ronald Rauhe (GER) 35.118
- K–1 5000 m: Max Hoff (GER) 19:51.200 Aleh Yurenia (BLR) 20:07.952 Maximilian Benassi (ITA) 20:11.936
- Hoff wins his second title of the championships and fourth world title overall.
- K–2 200 m: Arnaud Hybois/Sébastien Jouve (FRA) 31.940 Jon Schofield/Liam Heath (GBR) 32.156 Raman Piatrushenka/Vadzim Makhneu (BLR) 32.390
- Hybois and Jouve both win the event for the second time and their third world title overall.
- K–1 4 × 200 m Relay: Spain (Saúl Craviotto Rivero, Ekaitz Saies Sistiaga, Carlos Pérez Rial, Pablo Andrés) 2:24.891 Russia (Viktor Zavolskiy, Alexander Dyachenko, Mikhail Tamonov, Yevgeny Salakhov) 2:25.701 Denmark (Casper Nielsen, Jimmy Bøjesen, Kasper Bleibach, Lasse Nielsen) 2:25.821
- Pérez wins the event for the third successive time and his fourth world title overall.
- Andres wins the event for the second time.
- K–1 200 m:
- Women's canoe:
- C–1 200 m: Laurence Vincent-Lapointe (CAN) 39.339 Maria Kazakova (RUS) 39.339 Staniliya Stamenova (BUL) 39.339
- Vincent-Lapointe wins her second title of the championships, her second title in this event and third world title overall.
- C–1 200 m:
- Women's Kayak:
- K–1 200 m: Lisa Carrington (NZL) 39.998 Marta Walczykiewicz (POL) 40.472 Inna Osypenko-Radomska (UKR) 40.670
- K–1 5000 m: Tamara Csipes (HUN) 22:19.816 Lani Belcher (GBR) 22:26.572 Maryna Paltaran (BLR) 22:37.294
- Csipes wins her second title of the championships and fourth world title overall.
- K–2 200 m: Katalin Kovács/Danuta Kozák (HUN) 37.667 Karolina Naja/Magdalena Krukowska (POL) 38.165 Joanne Brigden-Jones/Hannah Davis (AUS) 38.369
- Kovács wins her second title of the championships, her fifth title in this event and extends her record to 31 titles and 40 medals overall.
- Kozák wins her second title of the championships and fifth world title overall.
- K–1 4 × 200 m Relay: Germany (Nicole Reinhardt, Conny Waßmuth, Tina Dietze, Carolin Leonhardt) 2:49.541 Russia (Natalia Lobova, Anastasiya Sergeeva, Natalia Proskurina, Svetlana Kudinova) 2:50.207 Poland (Walczykiewicz, Naja, Aneta Konieczna, Ewelina Wojnarowska) 2:50.951
- Reinhardt wins her second title of the championships, her third title in this event and eighth world title overall.
- Waßmuth wins her third title in this event and seventh world title overall.
- Dietze wins her second title in this event and third world title overall.
- Leonhardt wins her sixth world title.
- K–1 200 m:
- Men's Canoe:
Cricket
- India in England:
- Bangladesh in Zimbabwe:
- 5th ODI in Bulawayo:
Bangladesh 253/6 (50 overs); 
Zimbabwe 160 (38.2 overs). Bangladesh win by 93 runs; Zimbabwe win 5-match series 3–2.
- 5th ODI in Bulawayo:
Cycling
- Grand Tours:
- Vuelta a España, Stage 2: Christopher Sutton (AUS) (Team Sky) 4h 11' 41" Vicente Reynés (ESP) (Omega Pharma–Lotto) s.t. Marcel Kittel (GER) (Skil–Shimano) s.t.
- General classification (after stage 2): (1) Daniele Bennati (ITA) (Leopard Trek) 4h 28' 11" (2) Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) (Leopard Trek) + 0" (3) Maxime Monfort (BEL) (Leopard Trek) + 0"
- General classification (after stage 2): (1) Daniele Bennati (ITA) (Leopard Trek)
- Vuelta a España, Stage 2:
- UCI World Tour:
- Vattenfall Cyclassics: Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) (Team Sky) 4h 49' 40" Gerald Ciolek (GER) (Quick-Step) s.t. Borut Božič (SLO) (Vacansoleil–DCM) s.t.
- UCI World Tour standings (after 21 of 27 races): (1) Cadel Evans (AUS) (BMC Racing Team) 574 points (2) Philippe Gilbert (BEL) (Omega Pharma–Lotto) 568 (3) Alberto Contador (ESP) (Saxo Bank–SunGard) 471
- Vattenfall Cyclassics:
- UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Final in Val di Sole, Italy:
- Men's cross-country: Jaroslav Kulhavý (CZE) Nino Schurter (SUI) Florian Vogel (SUI)
- Final Standings: (1) Kulhavy (2) Schurter (3) Julien Absalon (FRA)
- Women's cross-country: Catharine Pendrel (CAN) Maja Włoszczowska (POL) Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå (NOR)
- Final Standings: (1) Julie Bresset (FRA) (2) Pendrel (3) Irina Kalentieva (RUS)
- Men's downhill: Aaron Gwin (USA) 3:10.356 Danny Hart (GBR) 3:11.588 Gee Atherton (GBR) 3:14.470
- Final standings: (1) Gwin 1558 points (2) Greg Minnaar (RSA) 1093 (3) Atherton 1009
- Women's downhill: Myriam Nicole (FRA) 3:52.231 Floriane Pugin (FRA) 3:53.040 Rachel Atherton (GBR) 3:54.405
- Final standings: (1) Tracy Moseley (GBR) 1465 points (2) Pugin 1390 (3) Atherton 1115
- Men's four-cross: Tomáš Slavík (CZE) Johannes Fischbach (GER) Kamil Tatarkovič (SRB)
- Final standings: (1) Jared Graves (AUS) 1620 points (2) Slavík 1174 (3) Michal Prokop (CZE) 1030
- Women's four-cross: Anneke Beerten (NED) Lucia Oetjen (SUI) Melissa Buhl (USA)
- Final standings: (1) Beerten 1400 points (2) Oetjen 1010 (3) Fionn Griffiths (GBR) 780
- Men's cross-country:
Equestrianism
- European Dressage Championship in Rotterdam, Netherlands:
- Grand Prix Freestyle: Adelinde Cornelissen (NED) on Parzival Carl Hester (GBR) on Uthopia Patrik Kittel (SWE) on Scandic
- Grand Prix Freestyle:
Field hockey
- Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Mönchengladbach, Germany:
- Pool B:
- England 4–2
Ireland - Netherlands 8–1 France
- England
- Pool B:
- Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Mönchengladbach, Germany:
- Pool A:
- Azerbaijan 5–3 Italy
- Spain 1–0 Netherlands
- Standings (after 2 matches): Spain 6 points, Netherlands, Azerbaijan 3, Italy 0.
- Azerbaijan
- Pool B: (team in bold advances to the semifinals)
- Pool A:
Golf
- Senior majors:
- Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship in Harrison, New York:
- Leaderboard after final round: (T1) Fred Couples (USA) & John Cook (USA) 273 (−11) (3) Peter Senior (AUS) 274 (−10)
- Couples defeats Cook on the third playoff hole to win his first senior major and fifth career Champions Tour title.
- Leaderboard after final round: (T1) Fred Couples (USA) & John Cook (USA) 273 (−11) (3) Peter Senior (AUS) 274 (−10)
- Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship in Harrison, New York:
- PGA Tour:
- Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina:
- Winner: Webb Simpson (USA) 262 (−18)
- Simpson wins his first PGA Tour title.
- Winner: Webb Simpson (USA) 262 (−18)
- Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina:
- European Tour:
- Czech Open in Čeladná, Czech Republic:
- Winner: Oliver Fisher (ENG) 275 (−13)
- Fisher wins his first European Tour title.
- Winner: Oliver Fisher (ENG) 275 (−13)
- Czech Open in Čeladná, Czech Republic:
- LPGA Tour:
- Safeway Classic in North Plains, Oregon:
- Winner: Suzann Pettersen (NOR) 207 (−6)PO
- Pettersen defeats Choi Na-yeon (KOR) on the first playoff hole to win her eighth LPGA Tour title.
- Winner: Suzann Pettersen (NOR) 207 (−6)PO
- Safeway Classic in North Plains, Oregon:
Multi-sport events
- Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China:
- Athletics:
- Men's 800m: Lachlan Renshaw (AUS) 1:46.36 Teng Haining (CHN) 1:46.62 Fred Samoei (KEN) 1:46.72
- Men's 5000m: Andy Vernon (GBR) 14:00.06 Evgeny Rybakov (RUS) 14:00.60 Stefano La Rosa (ITA) 14:02.95
- Men's 4 × 100 m relay: South Africa (Johannes Dreyer, Simon Magakwe, Rapula Sefanyetso, Thuso Mpuang) 39.25 China (Yang Yang, Huang Minhua, Chang Pengben, Zheng Dongsheng) 39.39
Hong Kong (Yip Siukeung, Lai Chun Ho, Leung Kiho, Ho Manloklawrence) 39.44 - Men's 4 × 400 m relay: Russia (Aleksandr Sigalovskiy, Dmitry Buryak, Artem Vazhov, Valentin Kruglyakov) 3:04.51 Japan (Hiroyuki Nakano, Shintaro Horie, Hideyuki Hirose, Takatoshi Abe) 3:05.16 South Africa (Shane Victor, André Olivier, Pieter Beneke, Willem de Beer) 3:05.61
- Men's long jump: Su Xiongfeng (CHN) 8.17m Marquise Goodwin (USA) 8.03m Julian Reid (GBR) 7.96m
- Men's discus throw: Märt Israel (EST) 64.07m Przemyslaw Czajkowski (POL) 63.62m Ronald Julião (BRA) 63.30m
- Men's half marathon: Ahmed Tamri (MAR) 1:06:20 Fatih Bilgic (TUR) 1:06:20 Tsubasa Hayakawa (JPN) 1:06:25
- Men's team half marathon: Japan (Hayakawa, Hiromitsu Kakuage, Takehiro Deki) 3:20:37 China (Bian Qi, Zheng Guojun, Yan Jun) 3:37:25
- Women's 1500m: Aslı Çakır Alptekin (TUR) 4:05.56 Anna Mishchenko (UKR) 4:05.91 Ekaterina Gorbunova (RUS) 4:06.16
- Women's 4 × 100 m relay: Ukraine (Hanna Titimets, Nataliya Pohrebnyak, Khrystyna Stuy, Yelizaveta Bryzhina) 43.33 United States (Lakya Brookins, Shayla Mahan, Christina Manning, Tiffany Townsend) 43.48
Jamaica (Shermaine Williams, Carrie Russell, Anneisha McLaughlin, Anastasia Le-Roy) 43.57 - Women's 4 × 400 m relay: Russia (Marina Karnaushchenko, Yelena Migunova, Kseniya Ustalova, Olga Topilskaya) 3:27.16 (Nagihan Karadere, Merve Aydın, Meliz Redif, Pınar Saka) 3:30.14 Great Britain (Kelly Massey, Charlotte Best, Meghan Beesley, Emily Diamond) 3:33.09
- Women's high jump: Brigetta Barrett (USA) 1.96m Airinė Palšytė (LTU) 1.96m Anna Iljuštšenko (EST) 1.94m
- Women's half marathon: Ro Un-Ok (PRK) 1:16:38 Jin Lingling (CHN) 1:16:42 Sayo Nomura (JPN) 1:16:48
- Women's team half marathon: Japan (Nomura, Machiko Iwakawa, Aki Otagiri) 3:50:43 China (Jin, Jiang Xiaoli, Li Zhenzhu) 3:53:09
- Men's 800m:
- Basketball:
- Women's tournament: United States Chinese Taipei Australia
- Women's tournament:
- Chess (CHN unless stated):
- Men's individual: Li Chao Wang Hao Wang Yue
- Women's individual: Tan Zhongyi Batkhuyagiin Möngöntuul (MGL) Huang Qian
- Mixed team: China Ukraine Georgia
- Men's individual:
- Diving:
- Men's 10m platform: Wu Jun (CHN) 537.00 points Victor Minibaev (RUS) 528.75 Rommel Pacheco (MEX) 492.05
- Men's 10m platform:
- Football:
- Gymnastics:
- Aerobic step: China (Huang Jinxuan, Lin Junxian, Qiao Dayan, Shou Minchao, Wang Yang, Xu Fan, Zhao Sitong, Zheng Ziya, Zou Qin) 17.750 Russia (Polina Amosenok, Danil Chayun, Maxim Grinin, Olga Kislukhina, Veronika Korneva, Anzhella Korotkova, Evgeniya Kudymova, Kirill Lobaznyuk, Dmitrii Safonov, Denis Shurupov) 17.600 South Korea (Choe Ha-neul, Jo Ye-ran, Kim Ji-un, Lee Sa-lang, Shim Mi-hyun, Shin Hyun-kyung) 17.520
- Trios: South Korea (Kim Guon-taeck, Lee Kyung-ho, Ryu Ju-sun) 21.400 Russia (Alexander Kondratichev, Lobaznyuk, Igor Trushkov) 21.100 Romania (Valentin Mavrodineanu, Tolan Petru Porime, Mircea Zamfir) 20.950
- All-around individual: Yevgeniya Kanayeva (RUS) 115.350 Daria Dmitrieva (RUS) 111.875 Liubov Charkashyna (BLR) 109.700
- All-around team: China (Liu Shu, Ma Qianhui, Wang Xue, Wang Yuting, Wu Mengran, Zou Lie) 52.750 Russia (Alexandra Elyutina, Margarita Goncharova, Yulia Guryanova, Daria Kuvshinova, Anna Loman, Alexandra Makarova) 51.525 Japan (Yurie Akashi, Saori Inagaki, Motoi Kasahara, Yurika Kurimoto, Kaho Okamoto, Kasumi Sakihama) 49.750
- Aerobic step:
- Sailing:
- Men's laser standard: Daniel Mihelic (CRO) Malte Kamrath (GER) Sergey Komissarov (RUS)
- Men's RS:X: Fang Zhennan (CHN) Lukasz Grodzicki (POL) Lee Tae-hoon (KOR)
- 470 Open: Vladimir Chaus/Denis Gribanov (RUS) Fábio Silva/Gustavo Thiesen (BRA) Erika Tokushige/Jumpei Hokazono (JPN)
- Women's laser radial: Zhang Dongshuang (CHN) Victoria Jing Hua Chan (SIN) Yevgeniya Kuznetsova (RUS)
- Women's RS:X: Chen Peina (CHN) Megumi Komine (JPN) Malgorzata Bialecka (POL)
- Country classification: China (Chen Zhiwei, Fang, Xie Lidiao, Zhang) Russia (Chaus, Liudmila Dmitrieva, Gribanov, Alisa Kirilyuk, Kuznetsova) Japan (Hokazono, Megumi Iseda, Megumi Komine, Jun Ogawa, Tokushige)
- Men's laser standard:
- Shooting:
- Men's skeet: Giancarlo Tazza (ITA) 147+2 Ralf Buchheim (GER) 147+1 Gorden Gosch (GER) 143
- Men's team skeet: Czech Republic (Daniel Herberger, Petr Málek, Jakub Novota) 353 Russia (Alexander Bondar, Nikolay Pilshchikov, Nikolay Teplyy) 350 Cyprus (Anastasios Chapesiis, Andreas Chasikos, Dimitris Konstantinou) 344
- Men's team 50m rifle 3 positions: China (Cao Yifei, Kang Hongwei, Gong Jiawei) 3503+166 France (Jeremy Monnier, Etienne Germond, Remi Moreno Flores) 3490+151 Russia (Sergey Kamenskiy, Vladimir Tugushev, Nazar Luginets) 3481+155
- Women's 25m pistol: Tanyaporn Prucksakorn (THA) Zorana Arunović (SRB) Olena Kostevych (UKR)
- Women's team 25m pistol: Ukraine (Kostevych, Inna Kryachko, Kateryna Domkina) 1728+47 South Korea (Lee Ho-lim, Jo Soo-young, Kim Ji-hye) 1721+44 China (Lu Miaoyi, Zhang Shasha, Zhao Xu) 1717+48
- Men's skeet:
- Taekwondo:
- Men's −58 kg: Safwan Khalil (AUS) Hadi Mostean (IRI) Serkan Tok (TUR) & Andrei Rotaru (MDA)
- Men's −80 kg: Mehran Askari (IRI) Yunus Sarı (TUR) Avet Osmanov (RUS) & Issam Chernoubi (MAR)
- Women's −49 kg: Alexandra Lychagina (RUS) Kim Jae-ah (KOR) Hung Shih-han (TPE) & Maeva Coutant (FRA)
- Women's −67 kg: Guo Yunfei (CHN) Furkan Asena Aydın (TUR) Woo Seu-mi (KOR) Seham Sawalhy (EGY)
- Men's −58 kg:
- Tennis:
- Men's singles: Lim Yong-kyu (KOR) Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS) Siarhei Betau (BLR) & Aliaksander Bury (BLR)
- Men's team: South Korea (Lim, Oh Dae-soung, Seol Jae-min) Belarus (Betau, Bury) Chinese Taipei (Hsieh Cheng-peng, Huang Liang-chi, Lee Hsin-han)
- Women's singles: Nudnida Luangnam (THA) Nungnadda Wannasuk (THA) Ksenia Lykina (RUS) & Yoo Mi (KOR)
- Women's team: Thailand (Luangnam, Wannasuk, Varatchaya Wongteanchai) Japan (Shuko Aoyama, Sachie Ishizu, Hiroko Kuwata, Kotomi Takahata) Russia (Lykina, Marta Sirotkina)
- Mixed doubles: Chan Chin-wei/Lee (TPE) Bury/Sviatlana Pirazhenka (BLR) Aoyama/Takuto Niki (JPN) & Weerapat Doakmaiklee/Wongteanchai (THA)
- Men's singles:
- Volleyball:
- Women's tournament: Brazil China Russia
- Women's tournament:
- Athletics:
Rugby union
Snooker
- Players Tour Championship – Event 3 in Sheffield, England:
- Final: Ben Woollaston (ENG) 4–2 Graeme Dott (SCO)
- Woollaston wins his first professional title.
- Order of Merit (after 3 of 12 events): (1) Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) 11,700 (2) Judd Trump 10,600 (3) Woollaston 10,200
- Final: Ben Woollaston (ENG) 4–2 Graeme Dott (SCO)
Tennis
- ATP World Tour:
- Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, United States:
- Final: Andy Murray (GBR) def. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 6–4, 3–0 retired
- Murray wins his second title of the year, and his seventh Masters 1000 title and 18th title of his career.
- Djokovic suffers only his second defeat of the year.
- Final: Andy Murray (GBR) def. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 6–4, 3–0 retired
- Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, United States:
- WTA Tour:
- Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, United States:
- Final: Maria Sharapova (RUS) def. Jelena Janković (SRB) 4–6, 7–6(3), 6–3
- Sharapova wins her second title of the year and 24th of her career.
- Final: Maria Sharapova (RUS) def. Jelena Janković (SRB) 4–6, 7–6(3), 6–3
- Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, United States:
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix Third round: (teams in bold advance to the final round)
- Pool I in Hong Kong:
- Dominican Republic 3–2
Kazakhstan - China 3–0 Poland
- Dominican Republic
- Pool J in Hong Kong:
- United States 3–0 Peru
- Germany 0–3 Italy
- United States
- Pool K in Bangkok, Thailand:
- Pool L in Tokyo, Japan:
- Serbia 3–0 South Korea
- Japan 3–0 Russia
- Final standings: Brazil 27 points, United States 23, Russia 21, Serbia 20, Italy 19, Japan 18, China 17, Thailand 15, South Korea, Poland 13, Cuba 9, Dominican Republic 8, Germany 7, Argentina 4, Kazakhstan 2, Peru 0.
- Serbia
- Pool I in Hong Kong:
- Women's African Championship in Nairobi, Kenya: (teams in bold advance to the semifinals)
- FIVB Girls Youth World Championship in Ankara, Turkey:
August 20, 2011 (Saturday)
Auto racing
- Nationwide Series:
- NAPA Auto Parts 200 in Montreal: (1) Marcos Ambrose (Ford; Richard Petty Motorsports) (2) Alex Tagliani (Dodge; Penske Racing) (3)
Michael McDowell (Toyota; Joe Gibbs Racing)
- Drivers' championship standings (after 24 of 34 races): (1) Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Ford; Roush Fenway Racing) 834 points (2) Elliott Sadler (Chevrolet; Kevin Harvick Incorporated) 826 (3) Reed Sorenson (Chevrolet; Turner Motorsports) 825
- Drivers' championship standings (after 24 of 34 races): (1)
- NAPA Auto Parts 200 in Montreal: (1)
- V8 Supercars:
- Ipswich 300 in Ipswich, Queensland:
- Race 16: (1) Craig Lowndes (AUS) (Triple Eight Race Engineering; Holden VE Commodore) (2) Tim Slade (AUS) (James Rosenberg Racing; Ford FG Falcon) (3) Jamie Whincup (AUS) (Triple Eight Race Engineering; Holden VE Commodore)
- Race 17: (1) Lowndes (2) Whincup (3) Slade
- Drivers' championship standings (after 17 of 28 races): (1) Whincup 1817 points (2) Lowndes 1647 (3) Shane van Gisbergen (NZL) (Stone Brothers Racing; Ford FG Falcon) 1398
- Ipswich 300 in Ipswich, Queensland:
Basketball
Canoeing
- Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary:
- Men's Canoe:
- C–1 500 m: Vladimir Fedosenko (RUS) 1:46.647 Dzianis Harazha (BLR) 1:46.827 Oleksandr Maksymchuk (UKR) 1:47.679
- C–2 1000 m: Germany (Stefan Holtz, Tomasz Wylenzek) 2:42.643 Azerbaijan (Sergiy Bezugliy, Maksym Prokopenko) 2:43.525 Romania (Alexandru Dumitrescu, Victor Mihalachi) 2:43.83
- Wylenzek wins the event for the fourth time and his fifth world title overall.
- C–1 500 m:
- Men's Kayak:
- K–1 500 m: Marek Twardowski (POL) 1:36.688 Pavel Miadzvedzeu (BLR) 1:37.174 Yury Postrigay (RUS) 1:38.404
- Twardowski wins the event for the second time and his third world title overall.
- K–2 500 m:
Hungary (Dávid Tóth, Tamás Kulifai) 1:28.134 Lithuania (Ricardas Nekriosius, Andrej Olijnik) 1:28.524 Poland (Denis Ambroziak, Dawid Putto) 1:28.848 - K–4 1000 m: Germany (Norman Bröckl, Robert Gleinert, Max Hoff, Paul Mittelstedt) 2:47.734 Australia (Jacob Clear, Murray Stewart, David Smith, Tate Smith) 2:48.724 Russia (Ilya Medvedev, Anton Vasilev, Anton Ryakhov, Oleg Zhestkov) 2:49.516
- Bröckl wins the event for the third time.
- Hoff wins his third world title.
- K–1 500 m:
- Women's canoe:
- C–2 500 m: Canada (Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, Mallorie Nicholson) 2:01.028 Russia (Anastasia Ganina, Natalia Marasanova) 2:03.440 Hungary (Kincső Takács, Gyöngyvér Baravics) 2:08.534
- Vincent-Lapointe wins her second world title.
- C–2 500 m:
- Women's Kayak:
- K–1 500 m: Nicole Reinhardt (GER) 1:47.066 Danuta Kozák (HUN) 1:47.396 Inna Osypenko-Radomska (UKR) 1:48.668
- Reinhardt wins the event for the second time and her seventh world title overall.
- K–2 500 m: Austria (Yvonne Schuring, Viktoria Schwarz) 1:37.071 Germany (Franziska Weber, Tina Dietze) 1:37.275 Poland (Beata Mikołajczyk, Aneta Konieczna) 1:37.803
- K–1 500 m:
- Men's Canoe:
Cricket
- India in England:
- Australia in Sri Lanka:
- 4th ODI in Hambantota: Sri Lanka 132 (38.4 overs); Australia 133/5 (28 overs). Australia win by 5 wickets; lead 5-match series 3–1.
- 4th ODI in Hambantota:
Cycling
- Grand Tours:
- Vuelta a España, Stage 1: Leopard Trek 16' 30" Liquigas–Cannondale + 4" HTC–Highroad + 9"
- General classification (after stage 1): (1) Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) (Leopard Trek) 16' 30" (2) Fabian Cancellara (SUI) (Leopard Trek) + 0" (3) Maxime Monfort (BEL) (Leopard Trek) + 0"
- General classification (after stage 1): (1) Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) (Leopard Trek)
- Vuelta a España, Stage 1:
Equestrianism
- European Dressage Championship in Rotterdam, Netherlands:
- Grand Prix Spécial: Adelinde Cornelissen (NED) on Parzival Carl Hester (GBR) on Uthopia Laura Bechtolsheimer (GBR) on Mistral Hojris
- Grand Prix Spécial:
Field hockey
- Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Mönchengladbach, Germany:
- Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Mönchengladbach, Germany:
- Pool A:
- Spain 4–0 Italy
- Netherlands 8–0 Azerbaijan
- Spain
- Pool B:
- Pool A:
Football (soccer)
Golf
- Senior majors:
- Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship in Harrison, New York:
- Leaderboard after third round: (1) Fred Couples (USA) 202 (−11) (T2) John Cook (USA) & Peter Senior (AUS) 203 (−10)
- Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship in Harrison, New York:
Multi-sport events
- Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China:
- Athletics:
- Men's pole vault: Łukasz Michalski (POL) 5.75m Mateusz Didenkow (POL) & Aleksandr Gripich (RUS) 5.75m
- Men's 3000m steeplechase: Alberto Paulo (POR) 8:32.26 Halil Akkaş (TUR) 8:34.57 Ildar Minshin (RUS) 8:34.86
- Men's 110m hurdles: Hansle Parchment (JAM) 13.24 Jiang Fan (CHN) 13.55 Ronald Brookins (USA) 13.56
- Women's triple jump: Yekaterina Koneva (RUS) 14.25m Patrícia Mamona (POR) 14.23m Cristina Ioana Bujin (ROM) 14.21m
- Women's shot put: Irina Tarasova (RUS) 18.02m Sophie Kleeberg (GER) 17.48m Meng Qianqian (CHN) 17.21m
- Women's 5000m: Binnaz Uslu (TUR) 15:41.15 Sara Moreira (POR) 15:45.83 Natalya Popkova (RUS) 15:52.55
- Women's heptathlon: Olga Kurban (RUS) 6151 points Viktorija Žemaitytė (LTU) 5958 Kateřina Cachová (CZE) 5873
- Men's pole vault:
- Cycling:
- Men's team time trial: Russia (Sergey Shilov, Valery Kaykov, Artur Ershov, Maksim Kozyrev) 55:10.92 Germany (Christoph Pfingsten, Grischa Janorschke, Mathias Belka, Daniel Westmattelmann) 57:55.77 South Korea (Jang Chan-jae, Jang Sun-jae, Park Sung-baek, Im Jae-yeon) 58:34.19
- Women's team time trial: Lithuania (Egle Zablockyte, Aušrinė Trebaitė, Aleksandra Sošenko) 39:40.79 South Korea (Son Hee-jung, Yu Seon-ha, Lee Ae-jung) 40:26.37 Germany (Lina-Kristin Schink, Romy Kasper, Jana Schemmer) 41:04.07
- Men's team time trial:
- Diving:
- Golf:
- Men's individual tournament: Hideki Matsuyama (JPN) Yoshinori Fujimoto (JPN) Andrea Bolognesi (ITA)
- Men's team tournament: Japan (Fujimoto, Hideto Kobukuro, Matsuyama, Shinji Tomimura) Italy (Bolognesi, Leonardo Motta, Niccolo Quintarelli, Lorenzo Scotto) Mexico (Mauricio Azcué, Rodolfo Cazaubón, Carlos Ortiz, Gerardo Ruiz de la Concha)
- Women's individual tournament: Lin Tzu-chi (TPE) Katerina Ruzickova (CZE) Ko Min-jeong (KOR)
- Women's team tournament: Chinese Taipei (Lin, Liu Yi-chen, Yao Hsuan-yu) China (Li Jiayun, Xu Yue, Zhang Yuyang) United States (Brooke Beeler, Catherine O'Donnell, Caroline Powers)
- Men's individual tournament:
- Gymnastics:
- Aerobic dance: China (Che Lei, Huang Jinxuan, Lin Junxian, Liu Chao, Shou Minchao, Tao Le, Wang Yang, Zhao Sitong, Zheng Ziya, Zou Qin) 19.163 Romania (Andreea Bogati, Laura Andreea Cristache, Valentin Mavrodineanu, Porime-Tolan Petru, Anca Claudia Surdu, Mircea Zamfir) 19.063 South Korea (Hwang In Chan, Kim Eung-soo, Kim Sung-ho, Lee Jon-gu, Lee Kyung-ho, Ryu Ju-sun, Song Sung-kyu, Yoon Chang-il, Yoon Kwang-seok, Yun Tae-hee) 18.950
- Mixed pair: Huang/Tao 21.000 Maxim Grinin/Evgeniya Kudymova (RUS) 21.000 Giulia Bianchi/Emanuele Pagliuca (ITA) 20.250
- Aerobic dance:
- Sailing:
- Team 470: Russia (Vladimir Chaus, Denis Gribanov, Alisa Kirilyuk, Liudmila Dmitrieva) United States (Perry Emsiek, Scott Furnary, Zeke Horowitz, Alyssa Aitken) Brazil (Gustavo Thiesen, Fábio Silva, Isabel Swan, Martine Grael)
- Team laser radial: United States (Colin Smith, Frederick Strammer, Elizabeth Barry) Australia (Alexandra South, Tristan Brown, James Burman) France (Mathilde de Kerangat, Jules Ferrer, Antony Munos)
- Team T-293: China (Xie Lidiao, Chen Zhiwei)
- Team 470:
- Shooting:
- Men's 50m rifle prone: Yury Shcherbatsevich (BLR) Cao Yifei (CHN) Alexandr Yermakov (KAZ)
- Men's 10m air pistol: Lee Dae-myung (KOR) Pang Wei (CHN) Kim Geun-bok (KOR)
- Men's team 10m air pistol: South Korea China Russia
- Women's 10m air pistol: Harveen Srao (IND) Tanyaporn Prucksakorn (THA) Olena Kostevych (UKR)
- Women's team 10m air pistol: India (Srao, Juhi Talwar, Ruby Tomar) 1140+30 Russia (Liubov Yaskevich, Alina Suslonova, Elena Kovalevskaya) 1136+32 Ukraine (Kostevych, Yuliya Korostylova, Inna Kryachko) 1134+31
- Women's team 50m rifle 3 positions: China France Czech Republic
- Women's skeet: Monika Zemkova (SVK) 96+5 Danka Barteková (SVK) 96+4 Yu Xiumin (CHN) 94
- Women's team skeet: China (Yu, Yang Jing, Lu Min) 204 Kazakhstan (Elvira Akchurina, Zhaniya Aidarkhanova, Angelina Michshuk) 200 Russia (Landysh Garaeva, Albina Shakirova, Anastasia Kitaeva) 197
- Men's 50m rifle prone:
- Table tennis (CHN unless stated):
- Men's singles: Xu Xin Yan An Fang Bo & Kenji Matsudaira (JPN)
- Women's singles: Rao Jingwen Fan Ying Ma Yuefei & Xiong Xinyun
- Men's singles:
- Taekwondo:
- Men's −54 kg: Jerranat Nakaviroj (THA) Hsu Chia-lin (TPE) Erdal Aldemir (TUR) & Park Yong-han (KOR)
- Men's −68 kg: Kim Hun (KOR) Samuel Morrison (PHI) Idulio Islas (MEX) & Cesar Mari (ESP)
- Women's −46 kg: Anastasia Valueva (RUS) Rukiye Yıldırım (TUR) Liao Wei-chun (TPE) & Itzel Adilene Manjarrez Bastidas (MEX)
- Women's −57 kg: Marlène Harnois (FRA) Hou Yuzhuo (CHN) Ekaterina Musikhina (RUS) & Kim So-hee (KOR)
- Men's −54 kg:
- Tennis:
- Men's doubles: Hsieh Cheng-peng/Lee Hsin-han (TPE) Siarhei Betau/Aliaksander Bury (BLR) Lim Yong-kyu/Seol Jae-min (KOR) & David Estruch/Pablo-Manuel Montoro-Gimenez (ESP)
- Women's doubles: Shuko Aoyama/Kotomi Takahata (JPN) Guo Lu/Li Ting (CHN) Valeria Pulido/Leticia Nazari (MEX) & Kesnia Lykina/Marta Sirotkina (RUS)
- Men's doubles:
- Athletics:
Rugby union
- Tri Nations Series:
- Match 5: South Africa 18–5 New Zealand
- Standings: New Zealand, Australia 9 points (3 matches), South Africa 5 (4).
- Standings: New Zealand,
- Match 5: South Africa
- Mid-year Tests, Week 7:
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix Third round: (teams in bold advance to the final round)
- Pool I in Hong Kong:
- Dominican Republic 3–1 Poland
- China 3–1 Kazakhstan
- Dominican Republic
- Pool J in Hong Kong:
- Germany 3–1 Peru
- United States 3–0 Italy
- Germany
- Pool K in Bangkok, Thailand:
- Pool L in Tokyo, Japan:
- Russia 3–2 Serbia
- Japan 3–0 South Korea
- Standings (after 8 matches): Brazil 24 points, Russia 21, United States 20, Serbia 17, Italy 16, Thailand, Japan 15, China 14, South Korea, Poland 13, Germany 7, Dominican Republic, Cuba 6, Argentina 4, Kazakhstan 1, Peru 0.
- Russia
- Pool I in Hong Kong:
- Women's African Championship in Nairobi, Kenya: (teams in bold advance to the semifinals)
August 19, 2011 (Friday)
Basketball
- FIBA Africa Championship in Antananarivo, Madagascar:
- Group A:
- Mozambique 63–78 Nigeria
- Madagascar 63–74 Mali
- Standings (after 2 games): Nigeria 4 points, Mozambique, Mali 3, Madagascar 2.
- Mozambique
- Group C:
- South Africa 65–87 Cameroon
- Ivory Coast 75–82 Egypt
- Standings (after 2 games): Cameroon 4 points, Egypt, Côte d'Ivoire 3, South Africa 2.
- South Africa
- Group A:
Canoeing
- Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary:
- Men's Canoe:
- C–1 1000 m: Attila Vajda (HUN) 4:04.749 David Cal (ESP) 4:06.045 Vadim Menkov (UZB) 4:08.151
- Vajda wins the event for the second time.
- C–2 500 m: Romania (Alexandru Dumitrescu, Victor Mihalachi) 1:45.524 Azerbaijan (Sergiy Bezugliy, Maksym Prokopenko) 1:46.178 Germany (Peter Kretschmer, Kurt Kuschela) 1:46.802
- Dumitrescu and Mihalachi win the event for the second time and their third world title overall.
- C–4 1000 m: Belarus (Dzmitry Rabchanka, Dzmitry Vaitsishkin, Dzianis Harazha, Aleksandr Vauchetskiy) 3:26.703 Romania (Gabriel Gheoca, Cătălin Costache, Florian Comanici, Mihail Simon) 3:28.071 Hungary (Mátyás Sáfrán, Mihály Sáfrán, Henrik Vasbányai, Szabolcs Németh) 3:28.113
- The Belarusian quartet win the event for the third successive time, and all of them win their fifth world title overall.
- C–1 1000 m:
- Men's Kayak:
- K–1 1000 m: Adam van Koeverden (CAN) 3:36.194 Anders Gustafsson (SWE) 3:39.488 Eirik Verås Larsen (NOR) 3:39.818
- van Koeverden wins his second world title.
- K–2 1000 m: Slovakia (Peter Gelle, Erik Vlček) 3:20.626 Sweden (Markus Oscarsson, Henrik Nilsson) 3:21.478 Russia (Vitaly Yurchenko, Vasily Pogrebn) 3:21.544
- Vlček wins his seventh world title.
- K–1 1000 m:
- Women's Kayak:
- K–1 1000 m: Tamara Csipes (HUN) 4:11.388 Krisztina Fazekas Zur (USA) 4:13.470 Naomi Flood (AUS) 4:14.124
- Csipes wins her third world title.
- K–2 1000 m: Germany (Anne Knorr, Debora Niche) 3:50.614 Bulgaria (Berenike Faldum, Daniela Nedeva) 3:50.950 Hungary (Alíz Sarudi, Erika Medveczky) 3:53.416
- K–4 500 m: Hungary (Gabriella Szabó, Danuta Kozák, Katalin Kovács, Dalma Benedek) 1:36.339 Germany (Carolin Leonhardt, Silke Hörmann, Franziska Weber, Tina Dietze) 1:37.521 Belarus (Iryna Pamialova, Nadzeya Papok, Volha Khudzenka, Maryna Paltaran) 1:37.887
- Kovács wins the event for the eighth time, and her 30th world title overall. She also becomes the most decorated paddler with 39 world championships medals.
- Benedek wins the event for the third successive time and her seventh world title overall.
- Kozák wins the event for the second time and her fourth world title overall.
- Szabó wins her fourth world title.
- K–1 1000 m:
- Men's Canoe:
Cricket
- India in England:
- Bangladesh in Zimbabwe:
- 4th ODI in Bulawayo: Zimbabwe 199 (48.2 overs; Brendan Taylor 106); Bangladesh 203/4 (36.4 overs). Bangladesh win by 6 wickets; Zimbabwe lead 5-match series 3–1.
- 4th ODI in Bulawayo:
Golf
- Senior majors:
- Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship in Harrison, New York:
- Leaderboard after second round: (1) Fred Couples (USA) 134 (−8) (2) Peter Senior (AUS) 135 (−7) (3) Corey Pavin (USA) 136 (−6)
- Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship in Harrison, New York:
Multi-sport events
- Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China:
- Athletics:
- Men's 400m hurdles: Jeshua Anderson (USA) 49.03 Takayuki Kishimoto (JPN) 49.52 Kurt Couto (MOZ) 49.61
- Men's javelin throw: Fatih Avan (TUR) 83.79m Roman Avramenko (UKR) 81.42m Igor Janik (POL) 79.65m
- Men's 200m: Rasheed Dwyer (JAM) 20.20 Thuso Mpuang (RSA) & Jason Young (JAM) 20.59
- Women's 20 km walk: Júlia Takács (ESP) 1:33:51 Tatyana Shemyakina (RUS) 1:34:23 Nina Okhotnikova (RUS) 1:35:10
- Women's team 20 km walk: China (Shi Yang, Yang Yawei, Wang Shanshan) 4:58:57
- Women's hammer throw: Zalina Marghieva (MDA) 72.93m Éva Orbán (HUN) 71.33m Bianca Perie (ROM) 71.18m
- Women's pole vault: Aleksandra Kiryashova (RUS) 4.65m Tina Šutej (SLO) 4.55m Katerina Stefanidi (GRE) 4.45m
- Women's 200m: Anneisha McLaughlin (JAM) 22.54 Tiffany Townsend (USA) 22.96 Anna Kaygorodova (RUS) 23.16
- Women's 100m hurdles: Nia-Sifaatihii Ali (USA) 12.85 Natalya Ivoninskaya (KAZ) 13.16 Christina Manning (USA) 13.17
- Women's 3000m steeplechase: Binnaz Uslu (TUR) 9:33.50 Ludmina Kuzmina (RUS) 9:44.77 Jin Yuan (CHN) 9:45.21
- Men's 400m hurdles:
- Beach volleyball:
- Women's tournament: Karla Borger–Britta Büthe (GER) Heather Hughes–Emily Day (USA) Elize Secomana–Agatha Bednarczur (BRA)
- Women's tournament:
- Cycling:
- Men's keirin: Zhang Miao (CHN) Pavel Yakushevskiy (RUS) Florian Vernay (FRA)
- Women's points race: Lesya Kalytovska (UKR) 40 points Anastasia Chulkova (RUS) 37 Minami Uwano (JPN) 32
- Men's keirin:
- Diving:
- Men's 1m springboard: Lin Jin (CHN) 487.00 points Sun Zhiyi (CHN) 460.20 Illya Kvasha (UKR) 454.55
- Women's synchro 10m platform: Wang Xin/Chen Ruolin (CHN) 349.98 points Paola Espinosa/Tatiana Ortiz (MEX) 330.48 Pandelela Rinong/Leong Mun Yee (MAS) 316.98
- Men's 1m springboard:
- Shooting (CHN unless stated):
- Men's 25m rapid fire pistol: Ding Feng Zhou Zhiguo Li Yuehong
- Men's 25m team rapid fire pistol: China (Ding, Li, Zhou) France (Boris Artaud, Fabrice Daumal, Thibaut Sauvage) Russia (Rinat Ayupov, Dmitry Brayko, Ivan Stukachev)
- Men's trap: Marco Panizza (ITA) 146 Jakub Trzebiński (POL) 144+1 Simone Prosperi (ITA) 144
- Men's team trap: Italy (Prosperi, Andrea Miotto, Panizza) 363 China (Li Yang, Liu Jie, Du Yu) 357 Poland (Trzebiński, Łukasz Szum, Piotr Kowalczyk) 349
- Men's 50m team rifle prone: Belarus (Yury Shcherbatsevich, Tsimafei Vyshynski, Illia Charheika) 1773+104
Mongolia (Bishrel Boldbaatar, Ganzorig Dondov, Nyantain Bayaraa) 1773+90 Sweden (Philip Järpenby, Sam Andersson, Viktor Webeklint) 1769+92 - Women's 50m rifle prone: Li Peijing Wang Chengyi Marli Vlok (RSA)
- Women's 50m team rifle prone: China (Wang, Lan Yuwen, Li) 1780+116 Russia (Daria Vdovina, Anna Sushko, Valentina Protasova) 1770+92 Thailand (Ratchadaporn Plengsaengthong, Sununta Majchacheep, Vitchuda Pichitkanjanakul) 1768+90
- Men's 25m rapid fire pistol:
- Swimming:
- Men's 50m freestyle: Lucio Spadaro (ITA) 22.30 Adam Small (USA) 22.31 Shinri Shioura (JPN) 22.37
- Men's 1500m freestyle: Rocco Potenza (ITA) 15:00.57 Yohsuke Miyamoto (JPN) 15:04.86 Sergii Frolov (UKR) 15:06.17
- Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay: Japan (Ryosuke Irie, Ryo Tateishi, Masayuki Kishida, Shioura) 3:35.02 United States (Rexford Tullius, Adam Klein, Tim Phillips, Jimmy Feigen) 3:37.92 New Zealand (Gareth Kean, Glenn Snyders, Kurt Bassett, Matthew Stanley) 3:38.75
- Women's 50m freestyle: Aleksandra Gerasimenya (BLR) 24.66 Darya Stepanyuk (UKR) 25.12 Cate Campbell (AUS) 25.17
- Women's 200m backstroke: Shiho Sakai (JPN) 2:09.75 Hilary Caldwell (CAN) 2:11.12 Duane Da Rocha Marcé (ESP) 2:11.24
- Women's 100m breaststroke: Sun Ye (CHN) 1:07.53 Tera van Beilen (CAN) 1:08.24 Satomi Suzuki (JPN) 1:08.45
- Men's 50m freestyle:
- Table tennis (CHN unless stated):
- Men's doubles: Xu Xin/Yan An Wang Yi-tse/Chen Chien-an (TPE) Shang Kun/Fang Bo & Jin Ueda/Kenji Matsudaira (JPN)
- Women's doubles: Ma Yuefei/Rao Jingwen Xiong Xinyun/Tang Liying Iveta Vacenovská/Dana Hadačová (CZE) & Jee Min-hyung/Moon Mi-ra (KOR)
- Men's doubles:
- Taekwondo:
- Men's team poomsae: South Korea (An Jae-seong, Jang Jun-hee, Lee Sang-mok) China (Guo Fan, Zhu Yuxiang, Zhan Wenpeng)
Iran (Hossein Beheshti, Hamid Nazarigharehchomagh, Armin Akbari) & 
Vietnam (Le Trung Anh, Le Hieu Nghia, Dinh Toan Nguyen) - Women's team poomsae: South Korea (Cho Sung-yae, Jung Seu-min, Kang Yu-jin) Iran (Nastaran Maleki Aderani, Mahsa Mardani, Golsoum Mollamadadkhani) China (Zhan Qi, Zhang Jingjing, Zhu Mengxue) & Vietnam (Thi Le Kim Nguyen, Thi Thu Ngan Nguyen, Van Chau Tuyet)
- Mixed team poomsae: South Korea (Lee Jin-ho, Kang Su-ji) Vietnam (Thi Thu Ngan Nguyen, Le Hieu Nghia) Germany (Claudia Beaujean, Thomas Sommer) & Mexico (Gerardo García, Ollin Medina)
- Men's team poomsae:
- Athletics:
Rugby union
- Mid-year Tests, Week 7: Fiji
20–32 
Tonga
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix Third round: (teams in bold advance to the final round)
- Pool I in Hong Kong:
- Kazakhstan 0–3 Poland
- China 3–0 Dominican Republic
- Kazakhstan
- Pool J in Hong Kong:
- Italy 3–0 Peru
- United States 3–0 Germany
- Italy
- Pool K in Bangkok, Thailand:
- Pool L in Tokyo, Japan:
- Russia 2–3 South Korea
- Japan 0–3 Serbia
- Standings (after 7 matches): Brazil 21 points, Russia 19, United States 17, Italy, Serbia 16, South Korea, Poland 13, Thailand, Japan 12, China 11, Cuba 6, Argentina, Germany 4, Dominican Republic 3, Kazakhstan 1, Peru 0.
- Russia
- Pool I in Hong Kong:
- Women's African Championship in Nairobi, Kenya:
August 18, 2011 (Thursday)
Basketball
Cricket
Equestrianism
- European Dressage Championship in Rotterdam, Netherlands:
- Team competition: Great Britain (Emile Faurie, Charlotte Dujardin, Carl Hester, Laura Bechtolsheimer) Germany (Helen Langehanenberg, Christoph Koschel, Isabell Werth, Matthias Alexander Rath) Netherlands (Sander Marijnissen, Hans Peter Minderhoud, Edward Gal, Adelinde Cornelissen)
- Team competition:
Football (soccer)
- UEFA Europa League Play-off round first leg:
- Legia Warsaw 2–2 Spartak Moscow
- Ekranas 1–0 Hapoel Tel Aviv
- Lokomotiv Moscow 2–0 Spartak Trnava
- Vaslui 2–0 Sparta Prague
- Zestafoni 3–3 Club Brugge
- HJK Helsinki 2–0 Schalke 04
- Litex Lovech 1–2 Dynamo Kyiv
- Vorskla Poltava 2–1 Dinamo București
- Aalesund 2–1 AZ
- Omonia 2–1 Red Bull Salzburg
- Austria Wien 3–1 Gaz Metan Mediaș
- Maccabi Tel Aviv 3–0 Panathinaikos
- Steaua București 2–0 CSKA Sofia
- Thun 0–1 Stoke City
- Beşiktaş 3–0 Alania Vladikavkaz
- Bursaspor 1–2 Anderlecht
- PAOK 2–0 Karpaty Lviv
- Nordsjælland 0–0 Sporting CP
- Śląsk Wrocław 1–3 Rapid București
- Standard Liège 1–0 Helsingborg
- Metalist Kharkiv 0–0 Sochaux
- Fulham 3–0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
- Hannover 96 2–1 Sevilla
- Red Star Belgrade 1–2 Rennes
- Shamrock Rovers 1–1 Partizan
- Rosenborg 0–0 AEK Larnaca
- Slovan Bratislava 1–0 Roma
- Differdange 03 0–4 Paris Saint-Germain
- Heart of Midlothian 0–5 Tottenham Hotspur
- Maribor 2–1 Rangers
- Nacional 0–0 Birmingham City
- AEK Athens 1–0 Dinamo Tbilisi
- Athletic Bilbao 0–0 Trabzonspor
- Lazio 6–0 Rabotnički
- Celtic 0–0 Sion
- Ried 0–0 PSV Eindhoven
- Atlético Madrid 2–0 Vitória Guimarães
- Braga 0–0 Young Boys
- Legia Warsaw
- Copa Sudamericana First stage:
- First leg: La Equidad 2–0 Juan Aurich
- Second leg (first leg score in parentheses): Fénix 0–0 (0–1)
Universidad de Chile. Universidad de Chile win 4–1 on points.
- First leg: La Equidad
- CONCACAF Champions League group stage Matchday 1:
- Group C: Tauro 1–2 Toronto FC
- Group C: Tauro
Golf
- Senior majors:
- Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship in Harrison, New York:
- Leaderboard after first round: (1) Jeff Sluman (USA) 65 (−6) (T2) Gary Hallberg (USA) & Peter Senior (AUS) 66 (−5)
- Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship in Harrison, New York:
Multi-sport events
- Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China:
- Archery:
- Men's team compound: France (Sébastien Brasseur, Joanna Chesse, Pascale Lebecque) Mexico (Gerardo Alvarado, Angel Ramírez, Cuauhtémoc Rodríguez) United States (Adam Gallant, Zachary Plannick, Adam Wruck)
- Men's team recurve: China (Chang Liang, Liu Zhaowu, Ren Jinke) Japan (Shohei Ota, Hiroki Suetake, Hiroyuki Yoshinaga) France (Thomas Aubert, Geoffrey Barthelot, Thomas Faucheron)
- Women's team compound: South Korea (Kim Hyo-sun, Seo Jung-hee, Seok Ji-hyun) Russia (Natalia Avdeeva, Viktoria Balzhanova, Polina Nikitina) India (Gagandeep Kaur, Anjali Kumari, Sunita Rani)
- Women's team recurve: South Korea (Han Gyeong-hee, Jung Dasomi, Ki Bo-bae) Ukraine (Tetyana Dorokhova, Olena Kushniruk, Nina Mylchenko) Chinese Taipei (Cho Pei-chin, Le Chieh-Ying, Yuan Shu-chi)
- Mixed team compound: South Korea (Min Li-hong, Seo) United States (Kendal Nicely, Plannick) Italy (Anastasia Anastasio, Jacopo Polidori)
- Mixed team recurve: South Korea (Ki, Kim Bub-min) Chinese Taipei (Tien Kang, Yuan) Ukraine (Dmytro Hrachov, Mylchenko)
- Men's team compound:
- Athletics (RUS unless stated):
- Men's 20 km walk: Andrey Krivov 1:24:15 Mikhail Ryzhov 1:24:26 Andrés Chocho (ECU) 1:24:44
- Men's team 20 km walk: Russia (Krivov, Ryzhov, Andrey Ruzavin) 4:19:19 China (Cai Zelin, Yu Wei, Niu Wenbin) 4:24:56
- Men's 1500m: Imad Touil (ALG) 3:48.13 Abdelmadjed Touil (ALG) 3:48.24 Valentin Smirnov 3:48.45
- Men's high jump: Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR) 2.28m Wojciech Theiner (POL) 2.26m Sergey Mudrov 2.24m
- Men's 400m: Marcell Deák-Nagy (HUN) 45.50 Peter Matthews (JAM) 45.62 Sean Wroe (AUS) 45.93
- Men's triple jump: Nelson Évora (POR) 17.31m Viktor Kuznietsov (UKR) 16.89m Yevgeniy Ektov (KAZ) 16.83m
- Men's decathlon: Vasiliy Kharlamov 8166 points Gaël Quérin (FRA) 7857 Mikhail Logvinenko 7835
- Women's 400m hurdles: Hanna Yaroshchuk (UKR) 55.15 Irina Davydova 55.50 Nagihan Karadere (TUR) 55.81
- Women's 800m: Olha Zavhorodnya (UKR) 1:59.56 Elena Kofanova 1:59.94 Liliya Lobanova (UKR) 2:00.42
- Women's 400m: Olga Topilskaya 51.63 Yelena Migunova 51.77 Olga Tereshkova (KAZ) 52.36
- Women's javelin throw: Sunette Viljoen (RSA) 66.47m Marina Maximova 59.87m Justine Robbeson (RSA) 59.78m
- Men's 20 km walk:
- Badminton:
- Mixed team:
Indonesia (Ricky Widianto, Shendy Puspa Irawati, Senatria Agus Setia Putra, Bellaetrix Manuputty, Rian Agung Saputro, Angga Pratama, Komala Dewi, Jenna Gozali, Hera Desi Ana Rachmawati, Rendy Sugiarto, Afiat Yuris Wirawan) China (Li Tian, Chen Ni, Wen Kai, Shi Xiao Qian, Tao Xun, Chen Yulu, Hu Wenqing, Lin Qing, Liu Fang Hua, Ye Ao Ting) Thailand (Savitree Amitrapai, Suppanyu Avihingsanon, Bodin Isara, Nitchaon Jindapol, Maneepong Jongjit, Chanida Julrattanamanee, Nessara Somsri, Prinyawat Thongnuam) & Chinese Taipei (Chang Hsin-yun, Cheng Shao-chieh, Chou Tien-chen, Fang Chieh-min, Hsieh Pei-chen, Hsueh Hsuan-yi, Lai Chia-wen, Lee Sheng-mu, Liao Min-chun, Pai Hsia-oma, Wang Pei-rong, Wu Chun-wei)
- Mixed team:
- Beach volleyball:
- Men's tournament: Michal Kadziola–Jakub Szalankiewicz (POL) Sergey Prokopyev–Yury Bogatov (RUS) Sergiy Popov–Valeriy Samoday (UKR)
- Men's tournament:
- Cycling:
- Men's points race: Artur Ershov (RUS) 47 points Bernhard Oberholzer (SUI) 36 Choi Seung-woo (KOR) 26
- Men's sprint: Denis Dmitriev (RUS) Pavel Yakushevskiy (RUS) Zhang Miao (CHN)
- Women's sprint: Guo Shuang (CHN) Victoria Baranova (RUS) Virginie Cueff (FRA)
- Men's points race:
- Diving:
- Women's 10m platform: Paola Espinosa (MEX) 385.25 points Pandelela Rinong (MAS) 381.75 Wang Xin (CHN) 370.55
- Women's 10m platform:
- Fencing:
- Men's team foil: China (Lei Sheng, Huang Liangcai, Zhu Jun, Chen Min) Italy (Alessio Foconi, Tommaso Lari, Martino Minuto, Luca Simoncelli) Russia (Aleksey Khovanskiy, Igor Zapozdaev, Artur Akhmatkhuzin), Dmitry Komissarov)
- Women's team sabre: China (Chen Xiaodong, Xia Min, Li Fei, Yuan Tingting) Ukraine (Alina Komashchuk, Olena Khomrova, Olha Kharlan, Halyna Pundyk) South Korea (Choi Soo-yeon, Kim Ji-yeon, Lee Ra-jin)
- Men's team foil:
- Shooting:
- Men's 50m pistol individual: Lee Dae-myung (KOR) Damir Mikec (SRB) Mai Jiajie (CHN)
- Men's 50m pistol team: China (Mai, Pang Wei, Wang Zhiwei) 1678+28 points South Korea (Lee, Gil Yang-sup, Jang Ha-lim) 1670+26 Poland (Tomasz Palamarz, Tomasz Wawrzonowski, Witosław Krzak) 1635+23
- Men's 10m air rifle individual: Niccolò Campriani (ITA) Yu Jae Chul (KOR) Gong Jiawei (CHN)
- Men's 10m air rifle team: Italy (Campriani, Tommaso Leonardi, Giovanni Matraxia) 1786+137 China (Gong, Cao Yifei, Zhang Qiang) 1781+135 Russia (Nazar Luginets, Andrey Konkov, Vladimir Tugushev) 1775+128
- Women's 10m air rifle individual: Petra Zublasing (ITA) Lisa Ungerank (AUT) Manuela Christel Felix (GER)
- Women's 10m air rifle team: China (Wang Weiyang, Xie Jieqiong, Lan Yuwen) 1187+85 South Korea (Kim Sun-hwa, Jeong Gyung-suk, Choi Yoon-jung) 1181+90 Russia (Daria Vdovina, Valentina Protasova, Anna Sushko) 1180+86
- Women's trap: Jana Beckmann (GER) 94 Catherine Skinner (AUS) 93 Kang Gee-eun (KOR) 92+2
- Men's 50m pistol individual:
- Swimming:
- Men's 400m individual medley: László Cseh (HUN) 4:12.67 Yuya Horihata (JPN) 4:13.66 Will Harris (USA) 4:15.40
- Men's 50m breaststroke: Glenn Snyders (NZL) 27.37 João Gomes Júnior (BRA) 27.60 Mattia Pesce (ITA) 27.80
- Men's 200m freestyle: Matthew McLean (USA) 1:47.44 Clement Lefert (FRA) 1:47.78 Sho Uchida (JPN) 1:49.06
- Women's 1500m freestyle: Haley Anderson (USA) 16:21.72 Melania Costa-Schmid (ESP) 16:21.79 Lauren Boyle (NZL) 16:26.37
- Women's 50m backstroke: Jennifer Connelly (USA) 27.92 Aleksandra Gerasimenya (BLR) 27.93 Grace Loh (AUS) 28.37
- Women's 200m butterfly: Jessica Dickons (GBR) 2:08.91 Natsumi Hoshi (JPN) 2:08.94 Choi Hye-ra (KOR) 2:09.35
- Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay: China (Gao Chang, Sun Ye, Lu Ying, Tang Yi) 3:59.15 United States (Connolly, Ann Chandler, Lyndsay DePaul, Megan Romano) 4:00.15 Japan (Shiho Sakai, Satomi Suzuki, Tomoyo Fukuda, Yayoi Matsumoto) 4:00.98
- Men's 400m individual medley:
- Table tennis:
- Mixed doubles: Shang Kun/Rao Jingwen (CHN) Kentaro Miuchi/Yuka Ishigaki (JPN) Lee Jae-hun/Kim So-ri (KOR) & Huang Sheng-sheng/Huang Yi-hua (TPE)
- Mixed doubles:
- Taekwondo:
- Men's individual poomsae: Zhu Yuxiang (CHN) Yang Ju-min (KOR) Dinh Toan Nguyen (VIE) & Ali Nadali Najafabadi (IRI)
- Women's individual poomsae: Zhang Jingjing (CHN) Mahsa Mardani (IRI) Park Ji-young (KOR) & Ollin Medina (MEX)
- Men's individual poomsae:
- Weightlifting:
- Men's 105 kg: Gennady Muratov (RUS) 400 kg Mykola Hordiychuk (UKR) 382 kg Aleksey Lovchev (RUS) 375 kg
- Men's +105 kg: Mohamed Masoud (EGY) 412 kg Péter Nagy (HUN) 412 kg Oleg Proshak (UKR) 402 kg
- Women's +75 kg: Anastasia Chernykh (RUS) 250 kg Alexandra Aborneva (KAZ) 247 kg Daryna Goncharova (UKR) 245 kg
- Men's 105 kg:
- Archery:
Volleyball
August 17, 2011 (Wednesday)
Basketball
- FIBA Africa Championship in Antananarivo, Madagascar:
- Group A:
- Nigeria 84–59 Mali
- Madagascar 67–77 Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Group C:
- Ivory Coast 105–53 South Africa
- Cameroon 96–81 Egypt
- Ivory Coast
- Group A:
Football (soccer)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia:
- UEFA Champions League Play-off round first leg:
- Wisła Kraków 1–0 APOEL
- Maccabi Haifa 2–1 Genk
- Dinamo Zagreb 4–1 Malmö FF
- Odense 1–0 Villarreal
- Bayern Munich 2–0 Zürich
- Wisła Kraków
- Copa Sudamericana First stage second leg: (first leg scores in parentheses)
- Nacional 1–0 (0–0) San José. Nacional win 4–1 on points.
- LDU Quito
1–0 (1–1) Yaracuyanos. LDU Quito win 4–1 on points.
- Nacional
- CONCACAF Champions League group stage Matchday 1:
- Group B: Colorado Rapids 3–2 Isidro Metapán
- Group C: UNAM 0–1 FC Dallas
- Group D: Herediano 0–5 Monterrey
- Group B: Colorado Rapids
- Supercopa de España second leg (first leg score in parentheses): Barcelona 3–2 (2–2) Real Madrid. Barcelona win 5–4 on aggregate.
- Barcelona win the Supercopa for the third consecutive year, and tenth time overall.
- Women's Professional Soccer Playoffs:
Multi-sport events
- Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China:
- Archery (KOR unless stated):
- Men's recurve individual: Im Dong-hyun Kim Woo-jin Kim Bub-min
- Women's recurve individual: Ki Bo-bae Jung Dasomi Cho Pei-chin (TPE)
- Men's recurve individual:
- Athletics:
- Men's hammer throw: Paweł Fajdek (POL) 78.14m Marcel Lomnický (SVK) 73.90m Lorenzo Povegliano (ITA) 73.39m
- Men's 100m: Jacques Harvey (JAM) 10.14 Rytis Sakalauskas (LTU) 10.14 Su Bingtian (CHN) 10.27
- Men's 10,000m: Suguru Osako (JPN) 28:42.83 Stephen Mokoka (RSA) 28:53.09 Ahmed Tamri (MAR) 29:06.20
- Women's long jump: Anna Nazarova (RUS) 6.72m Iuliia Pidluzhnaia (RUS) 6.56m Melanie Bauschke (GER) 6.51m
- Women's discus throw: Żaneta Glanc (POL) 63.99m Zinaida Sendriūtė (LTU) 62.49m Svetlana Saykina (RUS) 60.81m
- Women's 100m: Carrie Russell (JAM) 11.05 Khrystyna Stuy (UKR) 11.34 Lina Grinčikaitė (LTU) 11.44
- Men's hammer throw:
- Cycling:
- Men's individual pursuit: Sergei Shilov (RUS) 4:30.927 Artur Ershov (RUS) 4:33.128 Jang Sun-jae (KOR) 4:26.229
- Women's individual pursuit: Vilija Sereikaitė (LTU) 3:36.944 Lesya Kalytovska (UKR) 3:40.068 Svitlana Halyuk (UKR) 3:41.003
- Men's individual pursuit:
- Diving:
- Men's 3m springboard: He Chong (CHN) 539.30 points Julian Sanchez Gallegos (MEX) 515.50 Ilya Zakharov (RUS) 471.95
- Men's 3m springboard:
- Fencing:
- Men's épée team: Russia (Nikita Glazkov, Sergey Khodos, Alexander Velikanov, Vseslav Morgoev) France (Alex Fava, Virgile Marchal, Adrien Penso-Tsai, Alexandre Bardenet) Hungary (Péter Szényi, Dániel Budai, Márk Hanczvikkel)
- Women's foil team: Russia (Viktoria Kozyreva, Yuliya Biryukova, Kamilla Gafurzianova, Yulia Rashidova) Poland (Hanna Lyczbinska, Marta Lyczbinska, Katarzyna Kryczało, Karolina Chlewińska) France (Berangere Genevois, Maëva Roulin, Ysaora Thibus, Clarisse Luminet)
- Men's épée team:
- Judo:
- Men's team: Japan (Ryunosuke Haga, Ryohei Anai, Takeshi Ojitani, Masaru Momose, Yuito Yoshida, Toru Shishime, Tomohiro Kawakami, Yasuhiro Awano) France (Florent Urani, Antoine Jeannin, Thibault Dracius, Alexandre Iddir, Farid Ben Ali, Mathieu Thorel, Clement Delvert) South Korea (Hong Suk-woong, Hwang Bo-bae, Song Soo-keun), Kim Won-jung, Kim Sung-min) & Ukraine (Andriy Burdun, Anatoliy Laskuta, Quedjau Nhabali, Ivan Iefanov, Vitaliy Popovych, Razmik Tonoyan, Oleksandr Sizov)
- Women's team: Japan (Kanae Yamabe, Yuko Imai, Aya Ishiyama, Shori Hamada, Yuki Hashimoto, Kaori Kondo, Miki Tanaka, Megumi Ishikawa) China (Ye Meixin, Guan Chunming, Lin Meiling, Yu Song, Zhang Jie, Chen Rong) France (Emilie Andeol, Hélène Receveaux, Valériane Etienne, Géraldine Mentouopou, Aurore Urani Climence, Elodie Grou, Heloise Lacouchie) & Poland (Joanna Jaworska, Agata Ozdoba, Zuzanna Pawlikowska, Agata Perenc, Katarzyna Furmanek)
- Men's team:
- Swimming:
- Men's 100m butterfly: Tim Phillips (USA) 52.06 Tom Shields (USA) 52.62 Paweł Korzeniowski (POL) 52.96
- Men's 400m freestyle: David McKeon (AUS) 3:48.78 Michael Klueh (USA) 3:48.84 Sho Uchida (JPN) 3:51.93
- Men's 200m individual medley: László Cseh (HUN) 1:57.86 Yuya Horihata (JPN) 1:59.74 Yuma Kosaka (JPN) 1:59.81
- Women's 50m breaststroke: Ann Chandler (USA) 31.13 Tera van Beilen (CAN) 31.45 Valentina Artemyeva (RUS) 31.74
- Women's 100m butterfly: Lu Ying (CHN) 57.86 Tomoyo Fukuda (JPN) 59.08 Alice Mills (AUS) 59.11
- Women's 100m backstroke: Shiho Sakai (JPN) 1:00.28 Jennifer Connelly (USA) 1:00.50 Aleksandra Gerasimenya (BLR) 1:00.91
- Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay: United States (Karlee Bispo, Chelsea Nauta, Kate Dwelley, Megan Romano) 7:55.02 New Zealand (Natasha Hind, Melissa Ingram, Amaka Gessler, Lauren Boyle) 7:59.60 China (Tang Yi, Zhu Qianwei, Liu Jing, Lu) 7:59.62
- Men's 100m butterfly:
- Weightlifting:
- Men's 94 kg: Andrey Demanov (RUS) 390 kg Aurimas Didžbalis (LTU) 387 kg İbrahim Arat (TUR) 373 kg
- Women's 69 kg: Yue Kang (CHN) 240 kg Mun Yu-ra (KOR) 238 kg Marie-Ève Beauchemin-Nadeau (CAN) 235 kg
- Women's 75 kg: Khanittha Petanang (THA) 236 kg Yang Li (CHN) 234 kg Lee Ae-ra (KOR) 226 kg
- Men's 94 kg:
- Archery (KOR unless stated):
Volleyball
August 16, 2011 (Tuesday)
Cricket
- Bangladesh in Zimbabwe:
- 3rd ODI in Harare: Zimbabwe 250/7 (50 overs); Bangladesh 245 (49.2 overs; Mushfiqur Rahim 101). Zimbabwe win by 5 runs; lead 5-match series 3–0.
- 3rd ODI in Harare:
- Australia in Sri Lanka:
- 3rd ODI in Colombo: Sri Lanka 286/9 (50 overs; Upul Tharanga 111); Australia 208 (44.2 overs; Lasith Malinga 5/28). Sri Lanka win by 78 runs; Australia lead 5-match series 2–1.
- 3rd ODI in Colombo:
Football (soccer)
- UEFA Champions League Play-off round first leg:
- Copenhagen 1–3 Viktoria Plzeň
- BATE Borisov 1–1 Sturm Graz
- Twente 2–2 Benfica
- Arsenal 1–0 Udinese
- Lyon 3–1 Rubin Kazan
- Copenhagen
- Copa Sudamericana First stage second leg: (first leg scores in parentheses)
- Universidad Católica 3–0 (1–1) Bella Vista. Universidad Católica win 4–1 on points.
- Deportivo Anzoátegui 2–0 (0–1) Deportivo Quito. 3–3 on points; Deportivo Anzoátegui win 2–1 on aggregate.
- Universidad Católica
- CONCACAF Champions League group stage Matchday 1:
Multi-sport events
- Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China:
- Archery:
- Men's compound individual: Alexander Dambaev (RUS) Choi Yong-hee (KOR) Sébastien Brasseur (FRA)
- Women's compound individual: Polina Nikitina (RUS) Kendal Nicely (USA) Viktoria Balzhanova (RUS)
- Men's compound individual:
- Athletics:
- Men's shot put: O'Dayne Richards (JAM) 19.93m Soslan Tsyrikhov (RUS) 19.80m Mason Finley (USA) 19.72m
- Women's 10,000m: Fadime Suna (TUR) 33:11.92 Hanae Tanaka (JPN) 33:15.57 Mai Ishibashi (JPN) 33:41.90
- Men's shot put:
- Cycling:
- Women's 500m time trial: Gong Jinjie (CHN) 34.910 Lyubov Shulika (UKR) 34.985 Victoria Baranova (RUS) 34.996
- Women's 500m time trial:
- Diving:
- Men's synchro 3m springboard: China (Qin Kai, Lin Jin) 419.07 points Mexico (Rommel Pacheco, Jonathan Ruvalcaba) 385.32 Japan (Yu Okamoto, Sho Sakai) 374.40
- Women's 1m springboard: Shi Tingmao (CHN) 320.65 points Kelci Bryant (USA) 304.00 Chen Ye (CHN) 283.30
- Men's synchro 3m springboard:
- Fencing:
- Men's team sabre: Ukraine (Dmytro Boyko, Oleh Shturbabin, Andriy Yagodka, Dmytro Pundyk) Italy (Marco Tricarico, Massimiliano Murolo, Luigi Miracco, Stefano Sbragia) South Korea (Heo Young-gu, Gu Bon-gil, Hwang Byung-yul)
- Women's team épée: France (Melissa Goram, Lauren Rembi, Marie-Gabrielle Fayolle, Mathilde Grumier) United States (Courtney Hurley, Kelley Hurley, Susannah Scanlan, Holly Buechel) Russia (Vlada Vlasova, Elena Shasharina, Tatiana Andryushina, Maya Guchmazova)
- Men's team sabre:
- Gymnastics:
- Men's floor: Flavius Koczi (ROM) 15.450 points Ryūzō Sejima (JPN) 15.225 Shoichi Yamamoto (JPN) 15.000
- Men's pommel horse: Prashanth Sellathurai (AUS) 15.700 points Donna-Donny Truyens (BEL) 15.175 Koczi 15.150
- Men's rings: Arthur Zanetti (BRA) 15.600 points Samir Aït Saïd (FRA) 15.500 Chen Chih-yu (TPE) 15.050
- Men's vault: Koczi 16.237 points Nathan Gafuik (CAN) 16.112 Cheng Ran (CHN) 16.075
- Men's parallel bars: Wang Guanyin (CHN) 15.850 points Marius Berbecar (ROM) & Liu Rongbing (CHN) 15.175
- Men's horizontal bar: Chen Xuezhang (CHN) 15.875 points Mykola Kuksenkov (UKR) 15.550 Hiroki Ishikawa (JPN) 15.500
- Women's vault: Jo Hyun-joo (KOR) 14.087 points Anna Myzdrikova (RUS) 13.800 Alena Polyan (RUS) & Wong Hiuyingangel (HKG) 13.650
- Women's uneven bars: Yu Minobe (JPN) 14.475 points Mai Yamagishi (JPN) 14.250 Angelina Kysla (UKR) 13.850
- Women's beam: Minobe 14.475 points Guan Wenii (CHN) 14.000 Yamagishi 13.825
- Women's floor: Polyan 14.325 points Keiko Mukumoto (JPN) 13.725 Xiao Kangjun (CHN) 13.475
- Men's floor:
- Judo:
- Women's −48 kg: Kaori Kondo (JPN) Kristina Rumyantseva (RUS) Violeta Dumitru (ROM) & Aurore Urani Climence (FRA)
- Men's −60 kg: Kim Won-jin (KOR) Chinbat Otgon (MGL) Robert Mshvidobadze (RUS) & Toru Shishime (JPN)
- Women's Open: Kim Ji-youn (KOR) Aya Ishiyama (JPN) Claudirene César (BRA) & Emilie Andeol (FRA)
- Men's Open: Kim Sung-min (KOR) Renat Saidov (RUS) Masaru Momose (JPN) & David Moura (BRA)
- Women's −48 kg:
- Swimming:
- Men's 50m backstroke: Ryosuke Irie (JPN) 25.11 Guy Barnea (ISR) 25.21 Sergey Makov (RUS) 25.42
- Women's 400m individual medley: Madeline Dirado (USA) 4:40.79 Miho Takahashi (JPN) 4:42.28 Jördis Steinegger (AUT) 4:43.30
- Men's 100m freestyle: Jimmy Feigen (USA) 49.26 Norbert Trandafir (ROM) 49.41 Shinri Shioura (JPN) 49.50
- Men's 100m breaststroke: Giedrius Titenis (LTU) 1:00.39 Glenn Snyders (NZL) 1:00.71 João Gomes Júnior (BRA) 1:00.78
- Women's 200m breaststroke: Sun Ye (CHN) 2:24.63 Andrea Kropp (USA) 2:26.18 Satomi Suzuki (JPN) 2:26.67
- Women's 200m freestyle: Melania Costa-Schmid (ESP) 1:57.98 Lauren Boyle (NZL) 1:59.19 Karlee Bispo (USA) 1:59.31
- Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay: United States (Michael Klueh, Daxon Hill, Matthew Bartlett, Matthew McLean) 7:13.54 Japan (Sho Sotodate, Yuya Horihata, Yuma Kosaka, Sho Uchida) 7:14.66 Australia (David McKeon, Mitchell Dixon, Kristopher Taylor, Nic Ffrost) 7:17.58
- Men's 50m backstroke:
- Table tennis:
- Men's team: China (Fang Bo, Hu Bingtao, Shang Kun, Xu Xin, Yan An) Japan (Ryusuke Karube, Hiromitsu Kasahara, Kenji Matsudaira, Kentaro Miuchi, Jin Ueda) Chinese Taipei (Chen Chien-an, Fu En-ti, Huang Shang-sheng, Shen Chi-min, Wang Yi-tse) & France (Thomas Le Breton, Emmanuel Lebesson, Adrien Mattenet, Abdel-Kader Salifou)
- Women's team: China (Fan Ying, Ma Yuefei, Rao Jingwen, Tang Liying, Xiong Xinyun) Japan (Yuko Fujii, Yuka Ishigaki, Marina Matsuzawa, Shiho Ono, Yuri Yamanashi) Romania (Ioana Ghemes, Elisabeta Samara, Anamaria Sebe) & Chinese Taipei (Chen Szu-yu, Cheng I-ching, Huang Yi-hua, Lee I-chen, Liu Hsing-yin)
- Men's team:
- Weightlifting:
- Women's 63 kg: Hsiao Chun-ho (TPE) 211 kg Kim Yun-jong (PRK) 207 kg Seda Ince (TUR) 203 kg
- Men's 85 kg: Rinat Kireev (RUS) 365 kg Zhang Shichong (CHN) 353 kg Ryu Jun-h (KOR) 351 kg
- Women's 63 kg:
- Archery:
August 15, 2011 (Monday)
Auto racing
- Sprint Cup Series:
- Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen in Watkins Glen, New York: (1) Marcos Ambrose (Ford; Richard Petty Motorsports) (2) Brad Keselowski (Dodge; Penske Racing) (3) Kyle Busch (Toyota; Joe Gibbs Racing)
- Ambrose becomes the first Australian to win a Cup Series race.[3]
- Drivers' championship standings (after 22 of 36 races): (1) Busch 752 points (3 wins) (2)
Carl Edwards (Ford; Roush Fenway Racing) 752 (1 win) (3) Jimmie Johnson (Chevrolet; Hendrick Motorsports) 746
- Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen in Watkins Glen, New York: (1)
Baseball
- The Minnesota Twins' Jim Thome becomes the eighth player in Major League Baseball history with 600 career home runs, reaching the mark with a three-run shot off Daniel Schlereth in the Twins' 9–5 win over the Detroit Tigers.[4]
Multi-sport events
- Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China:
- Cycling:
- Men's cross country: Pavel Pryadein (RUS) 1h 30' 36" Silvio Büsser (SUI) + 1' 47" Jiří Hudeček (CZE) + 2' 17"
- Women's cross country: Ksenia Kirillova (RUS) 1h 12' 24" Maaris Meier (EST) + 1' 47" Melanie Gay (SUI) + 7' 21"
- Men's cross country:
- Fencing:
- Men's foil individual: Martino Minuto (ITA) Lei Sheng (CHN) Zhu Jun (CHN) & Heo Jun (KOR)
- Women's sabre individual: Olha Kharlan (UKR) Bianca Alexandra Pascu (ROM) Au Yeung Wai Sum (HKG) & Kim Ji-yeon (KOR)
- Men's foil individual:
- Gymnastics:
- Men's individual all-around: Mykola Kuksenkov (UKR) 89.050 points Shoichi Yamamoto (JPN) 88.900 Nathan Gafuik (CAN) 88.350
- Women's individual all-around: Xiao Kangjun (CHN) 56.700 points Mai Yamagishi (JPN) 56.100 Alena Polyan (RUS) 55.350
- Men's individual all-around:
- Judo:
- Women's −52 kg: Zuzanna Pawlikowska (POL) Seo Ha Na (KOR) Yuki Hashimoto (JPN) & Meriem Moussa (ALG)
- Men's −66 kg: Hwang Bo-bae (KOR) Yuito Yoshida (JPN) Florent Urani (FRA) & Ma Duanbin (CHN)
- Women's −57 kg: Megumi Ishikawa (JPN) Kim Jan-di (KOR) Hélène Receveaux (FRA) & Hannah Luise Brück (GER)
- Men's −73 kg: Denis Yartsev (RUS) Kim Won-jung (KOR) Marcelo Contini (BRA) & Piotr Kurkiewicz (POL)
- Women's −52 kg:
- Swimming:
- Men's 50m butterfly: Tim Phillips (USA) 23.51 Paolo Facchinelli (ITA) 23.85 Masayuki Kishida (JPN) 23.93
- Women's 400m freestyle: Lauren Boyle (NZL) 4:07.78 Melania Costa-Schmid (ESP) 4:07.97 Stephanie Peacock (USA) 4:10.25
- Men's 800m freestyle: Michael Klueh (USA) 7:52.31 Rocco Potenza (ITA) 7:53.45 Yohsuke Miyamoto (AUS) 7:56.29
- Men's 100m backstroke: Gareth Kean (NZL) 54.71 Juan Miguel Rando (ESP) 54.94 Kurt Bassett (NZL) & Sebastiano Ranfagni (ITA) 55.21
- Women's 200m individual medley: Izumi Kato (JPN) 2:13.52 Choi Hye-ra (KOR) 2:14.17 Liu Jing (CHN) 2:14.39
- Women's 100m freestyle: Tang Yi (CHN) 54.24 Darya Stepanyuk (UKR) 55.32 Megan Romano (USA) 55.38
- Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay: United States (Jimmy Feigen, Phillips, Kohlton Norys, Robert Savulich) 3:15.84 Brazil (Marcos Macedo, Marcelo Chierighini, Henrique Martins, Nicolas Oliveira) 3:17.30 France (Clement Lefert, Guillaume Strohmeyer, Joris Hustache, Lorys Bourelly) 3:18.78
- Men's 50m butterfly:
- Weightlifting:
- Men's 69 kg: Deni (INA) 321 kg Won Jeong-sik (KOR) 318 kg Mohamed Sultan (EGY) 312 kg
- Women's 58 kg: O Jong-Ae (PRK) 220 kg Liqin Luo (CHN) 211 kg Lara Monica Dominguez (MEX) 201 kg
- Men's 77 kg: Aghasi Aghasyan (ARM) 337 kg Viacheslav Lastukhin (RUS) 332 kg Victor Kravchenko (RUS) 331 kg
- Men's 69 kg:
- Cycling:
August 14, 2011 (Sunday)
Auto racing
- Sprint Cup Series:
- Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen in Watkins Glen, New York: Postponed to 10:00 am EDT August 15 due to rain.
- IndyCar Series:
- MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225 in Loudon, New Hampshire: (1) Ryan Hunter-Reay (USA) (Andretti Autosport) (2) Oriol Servià (ESP) (Newman/Haas Racing) (3) Scott Dixon (NZL) (Chip Ganassi Racing)
- Drivers' championship standings (after 13 of 18 races): (1) Dario Franchitti (GBR) (Chip Ganassi Racing) 443 points (2) Will Power (AUS) (Team Penske) 396 (3) Dixon 370
- MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225 in Loudon, New Hampshire: (1) Ryan Hunter-Reay (USA) (Andretti Autosport) (2) Oriol Servià (ESP) (Newman/Haas Racing) (3) Scott Dixon (NZL) (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Badminton
- World Championships in London, England:
- Men's singles: Lin Dan (CHN) def. Lee Chong Wei (MYS) 20–22, 21–14, 23–21
- Lin wins his fourth world title in six years.
- Women's singles: Wang Yihan (CHN) def. Cheng Shao-chieh (TPE) 21–15, 21–10
- Wang wins her first world title.
- Men's doubles: Cai Yun (CHN)/Fu Haifeng (CHN) def. Ko Sung-hyun (KOR)/Yoo Yeon-seong (KOR) 24–22, 21–16
- Cai and Fu win their fourth world title in six years.
- Women's doubles: Wang Xiaoli (CHN)/Yu Yang (CHN) def. Tian Qing (CHN)/Zhao Yunlei (CHN) 22–20, 21–11
- Wang and Yu both win their first world title.
- Mixed doubles: Zhang Nan (CHN)/Zhao Yunlei (CHN) def. Chris Adcock (ENG)/Imogen Bankier (SCO) 21–15, 21–7
- Zhang and Zhao both win their first world title.
- Men's singles: Lin Dan (CHN) def. Lee Chong Wei (MYS) 20–22, 21–14, 23–21
Basketball
Cricket
- Australia in Sri Lanka:
- Bangladesh in Zimbabwe:
- 2nd ODI in Harare: Bangladesh 188 (47.3 overs; Brian Vitori 5/20); Zimbabwe 191/3 (44.1 overs). Zimbabwe win by 7 wickets; lead 5-match series 2–0.
- 2nd ODI in Harare:
Cycling
- UCI World Tour:
- Eneco Tour, stage 6: Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) (Team Sky) 4h 53' 06" Manuel Antonio Cardoso (POR) (Team RadioShack) s.t. Lars Boom (NED) (Rabobank) s.t.
- Final general classification: (1) Boasson Hagen 22h 54' 22" (2) Philippe Gilbert (BEL) (Omega Pharma–Lotto) + 22" (3) David Millar (GBR) (Garmin–Cervélo) + 28"
- UCI World Tour standings (after 20 of 27 races): (1) Cadel Evans (AUS) (BMC Racing Team) 574 points (2) Gilbert 568 (3) Alberto Contador (ESP) (Saxo Bank–SunGard) 471
- Final general classification: (1) Boasson Hagen
- Eneco Tour, stage 6:
- UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic:
- Men: Jaroslav Kulhavý (CZE) 1h 41' 52" Nino Schurter (SUI) + 45" Julien Absalon (FRA) + 54"
- Women: Catharine Pendrel (CAN) 1h 45' 23" Julie Bresset (FRA) + 59" Irina Kalentieva (RUS) + 1' 49"
- Men:
Football (soccer)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia:
- CAF Champions League group stage, matchday 3:
- Group A:
- Enyimba 2–0 Raja Casablanca
- Al-Hilal 2–1 Coton Sport
- Standings (after 3 matches): Enyimba, Al-Hilal 7 points, Coton Sport, Raja Casablanca 1.
- Enyimba
- Group B: Wydad Casablanca 2–2 Espérance ST
- Group A:
- CAF Confederation Cup group stage, matchday 3:
- Group A: ASEC Mimosas 2–1 Kaduna United
- Standings (after 3 matches): Club Africain 5 points, Inter Luanda, ASEC Mimosas 4, Kaduna United 2.
- Standings (after 3 matches):
- Group A: ASEC Mimosas
- Supercopa de España first leg: Real Madrid 2–2 Barcelona
Golf
- Men's majors:
- PGA Championship in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States:
- Leaderboard after final round: (T1) Keegan Bradley (USA) & Jason Dufner (USA) 272 (−8) (3) Anders Hansen (DEN) 273 (−7)
- Three-hole playoff: Bradley 10 (−1) [3–3–4] def. Dufner 11 (E) [4–4–3]
- Bradley wins in his first major championship appearance.
- PGA Championship in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States:
- U.S. Women's Amateur in Barrington, Rhode Island:
- Final: Danielle Kang (USA) def. Moriya Jutanugarn (THA) 6 & 5
- Kang becomes the first player since Kelli Kuehne (USA) to win consecutive titles.
- Final: Danielle Kang (USA) def. Moriya Jutanugarn (THA) 6 & 5
Mixed martial arts
- UFC Live: Hardy vs. Lytle in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States:
- Welterweight bout: Chris Lytle (USA) def. Dan Hardy (ENG) via submission (guillotine choke)
- Lightweight bout: Benson Henderson (USA) def. Jim Miller (USA) via unanimous decision (30–27, 29–28, 30–26)
- Lightweight bout: Donald Cerrone (USA) def. Charles Oliveira (BRA) via TKO (punches)
- Welterweight bout: Duane Ludwig (USA) def. Amir Sadollah (USA) via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)
Motorcycle racing
- Moto GP:
- Czech Republic Grand Prix in Brno, Czech Republic:
- MotoGP: (1) Casey Stoner (AUS) (Honda) (2) Andrea Dovizioso (ITA) (Honda) (3) Marco Simoncelli (ITA) (Honda)
- Riders' championship standings (after 11 of 18 races): (1) Stoner 218 points (2) Jorge Lorenzo (ESP) (Yamaha) 186 (3) Dovizioso 163
- Moto2: (1) Andrea Iannone (ITA) (Suter) (2) Marc Márquez (ESP) (Suter) (3) Stefan Bradl (GER) (Kalex)
- Riders' championship standings (after 10 of 17 races): (1) Bradl 183 points (2) Márquez 140 (3) Alex de Angelis (SMR) (Motobi) 95
- 125cc: (1) Sandro Cortese (GER) (Aprilia) (2) Johann Zarco (FRA) (Derbi) (3) Alberto Moncayo (ESP) (Aprilia)
- Riders' championship standings (after 10 of 17 races): (1) Nicolás Terol (ESP) (Aprilia) 166 points (2) Zarco 154 (3) Maverick Viñales (ESP) (Aprilia) 132
- MotoGP: (1) Casey Stoner (AUS) (Honda) (2) Andrea Dovizioso (ITA) (Honda) (3) Marco Simoncelli (ITA) (Honda)
- Czech Republic Grand Prix in Brno, Czech Republic:
Multi-sport events
- Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China:
- Cycling:
- Men's BMX: Evgeniy Kleshchenko (RUS) 31.654 Kirill Yashkin (RUS) 32.587 Tautvydas Biknius (LTU) 32.731
- Women's BMX: Vilma Rimšaitė (LTU) 37.400 Marina Beskhmelnova (RUS) 39.275 Margarita Lomakova (RUS) 39.797
- Men's BMX:
- Fencing:
- Men's épée individual: Péter Szényi (HUN) Virgile Marchal (FRA) Raffaello Marzani (ITA) & Anatoliy Herey (UKR)
- Women's foil individual: Kamilla Gafurzianova (RUS) Jeon Hee-sook (KOR) Katarzyna Kryczało (POL) & Julia Biryukova (RUS)
- Men's épée individual:
- Gymnastics:
- Men's artistic competition: Japan (Yodai Hōjō, Hiroki Ishikawa, Ryūzō Sejima, Masayoshi Yamamoto, Shoichi Yamamoto) 269.200 points China (Chen Xuezhang, Cheng Ran, Liu Rongbing, Wang Guanyin, Yang Shengchao) 265.650 Romania (Cristian Bățagă, Marius Berbecar, Ovidiu Buidoso, Vlad Cotuna, Flavius Koczi) 264.650
- Men's artistic competition:
- Judo:
- Women's −63 kg: Esther Stam (NED) Miki Tanaka (JPN) Chun Gum Hwang (PRK) & Lin Meiling (CHN)
- Men's −81 kg: Tomohiro Kawakami (JPN) Rustam Alimli (AZE) Murat Khabachirov (RUS) & Victor Oliveira (BRA)
- Women's −70 kg: Kim Polling (NED) Laura Vargas-Koch (GER) Yuko Imai (JPN) & Natalia Bordignon (BRA)
- Men's −90 kg: Abdul Omarov (RUS) Sherali Juraev (UZB) Valentin Radu (ROM) & Ryohei Anai (JPN)
- Women's −63 kg:
- Swimming:
- Women's 50m butterfly: Lu Ying (CHN) 25.98 Marieke Guehrer (AUS) 26.24 Alice Mills (AUS) 26.53
- Men's 200m butterfly: László Cseh (HUN) 1:55.87 Robert Bollier (USA) 1:56.06 Hidemasa Sano (JPN) 1:56.81
- Men's 200m breaststroke: Glenn Snyders (NZL) & Giedrius Titenis (LTU) 2:10.85 Kazuki Otsuka (JPN) 2:10.96
- Women's 800m freestyle: Lauren Boyle (NZL) 8:26.30 Haley Anderson (USA) 8:27.11 Melania Costa-Schmid (ESP) 8:33.66
- Men's 200m backstroke: Ryosuke Irie (JPN) 1:56.01 Rexford Tullius (USA) 1:58.66 Gareth Kean (NZL) 1:58.74
- Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay: Australia (Cate Campbell, Mills, Jessica Morrison, Guehrer) 3:40.03 United States (Kate Dwelley, Felicia Lee, Shannon Vreeland, Megan Romano) 3:40.19 China (Zhu Qianwei, Lu, Liu Jing, Tang Yi) 3:40.29
- Women's 50m butterfly:
- Weightlifting:
- Women's 53 kg: Jing Ji (CHN) 222 kg Hsu Shu-ching (TPE) 207 kg Pramsiri Bunphithak (THA) 205 kg
- Men's 62 kg: Eko Yuli Irawan (INA) 310 kg Chen Meilong (CHN) 285 kg Withawat Kritphet (THA) 283 kg
- Women's 53 kg:
- Cycling:
Tennis
- ATP World Tour:
- Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada:
- Final: Novak Djokovic (SRB) def. Mardy Fish (USA) 6–2, 3–6, 6–4
- Djokovic wins the tournament for the second time, for his ninth title of the year and 27th of his career. His victory, a fifth Masters 1000 tournament win of the year, sets a record for most Masters 1000 titles won in a season.
- Final: Novak Djokovic (SRB) def. Mardy Fish (USA) 6–2, 3–6, 6–4
- Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada:
- WTA Tour:
- Rogers Cup in Toronto, Canada:
- Final: Serena Williams (USA) def. Samantha Stosur (AUS) 6–4, 6–2
- Williams wins the tournament for the second time, for her second title of the year and 39th of her career.
- Final: Serena Williams (USA) def. Samantha Stosur (AUS) 6–4, 6–2
- Rogers Cup in Toronto, Canada:
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix Second round:
- Pool E in Zielona Góra, Poland:
- Poland 3–1 Cuba
- South Korea 3–0 Argentina
- Poland
- Pool F in Almaty, Kazakhstan:
- Kazakhstan 0–3 Thailand
- Italy 1–3 Brazil
- Kazakhstan
- Pool G in Quanzhou, China:
- Pool H in Komaki, Japan:
- Japan 3–1 Dominican Republic
- United States 1–3 Serbia
- Standings (after 6 matches): Russia, Brazil 18 points, United States 14, Italy, Serbia 13, Japan 12, South Korea 11, Poland 10, Thailand 9, China 8, Cuba 6, Argentina, Germany 4, Dominican Republic 3, Kazakhstan 1, Peru 0.
- Japan
- Pool E in Zielona Góra, Poland:
August 13, 2011 (Saturday)
Auto racing
- Nationwide Series:
- Zippo 200 at the Glen in Watkins Glen, New York: (1) Kurt Busch (Dodge; Penske Racing) (2) Jimmie Johnson (Chevrolet; JR Motorsports) (3) Joey Logano (Toyota; Joe Gibbs Racing)
- Drivers' championship standings (after 23 of 34 races): (1) Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Ford; Roush Fenway Racing) 816 points (2) Reed Sorenson (Chevrolet; Turner Motorsports) 806 (3) Elliott Sadler (Chevrolet; Kevin Harvick Incorporated) 792
- Drivers' championship standings (after 23 of 34 races): (1)
- Zippo 200 at the Glen in Watkins Glen, New York: (1)
Cricket
- India in England:
- 3rd Test in Birmingham, day 4: India 224 & 244 (55.3 overs); England 710/7d. England win by an innings and 242 runs; lead 4-match series 3–0.
- 3rd Test in Birmingham, day 4:
Cycling
- UCI World Tour:
- Eneco Tour, stage 5: Matteo Bono (ITA) (Lampre–ISD) 4h 12' 14" Sergey Renev (KAZ) (Astana) s.t. Artem Ovechkin (RUS) (Team Katusha) + 3"
- General classification (after stage 5): (1) Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) (Team Sky) 18h 01' 26" (2) Philippe Gilbert (BEL) (Omega Pharma–Lotto) + 12" (3) David Millar (GBR) (Garmin–Cervélo) + 18"
- General classification (after stage 5): (1) Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) (Team Sky)
- Eneco Tour, stage 5:
Equestrianism
- Show jumping – Global Champions Tour:
- 8th Competition in Valkenswaard, Netherlands (CSI 5*): Beezie Madden (USA) on Cortes 'C' Denis Lynch (IRL) on Lantinus Jur Vrieling (NED) on Bubalu
- Standings (after 8 of 10 competitions): (1) Edwina Alexander (AUS) 228 points (2) Luciana Diniz (POR) 192 (3) Ludger Beerbaum (GER) 186.5
- 8th Competition in Valkenswaard, Netherlands (CSI 5*):
Football (soccer)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia:
- CAF Confederation Cup group stage, matchday 3:
- Group A: Club Africain 2–0 Inter Luanda
- Standings: Club Africain 5 points (3 matches), Inter Luanda 4 (3), Kaduna United 2 (2), ASEC Mimosas 1 (2).
- Standings: Club Africain 5 points (3 matches), Inter Luanda 4 (3),
- Group B: Maghreb de Fès 1–0 Sunshine Stars
- Standings (after 3 matches): Maghreb de Fès 7 points, Sunshine Stars 6, Motema Pembe 4, JS Kabylie 0.
- Standings (after 3 matches): Maghreb de Fès 7 points, Sunshine Stars 6,
- Group A: Club Africain
Golf
- Men's majors:
- PGA Championship in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States:
- Leaderboard after third round (all USA): (T1) Jason Dufner & Brendan Steele 203 (−7) (3) Keegan Bradley 204 (−6)
- PGA Championship in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States:
Multi-sport events
- Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China:
- Cycling:
- Men's road race: Bernhard Oberholzer (SUI) 3h 50' 22" Patrick Schelling (SUI) s.t. Genki Yamamoto (JPN) + 24"
- Women's road race: Gu Sun-geun (KOR) 3h 31' 42" Son Hee-jung (KOR) s.t. Anne Arnouts (BEL) s.t.
- Men's road race:
- Fencing:
- Men's sabre individual: Andriy Yagodka (UKR) Gu Bon-gil (KOR) He Wei (CHN) & Massimiliano Murolo (ITA)
- Women's épée individual: Lauren Rembi (FRA) Olena Kryvytska (UKR) Shin A-lam (KOR) & Ayaka Shimookawa (JPN)
- Men's sabre individual:
- Gymnastics:
- Women's artistic competition: Japan (Yuma Imanishi, Yu Minobe, Keiko Mukumoto, Kyoko Oshima, Mai Yamagishi) 165.200 points Ukraine (Yana Demyanchuk, Valentyna Holenkova, Maryna Kostiuchenko, Anastasia Koval, Angelina Kysla) 164.600 Russia (Yulia Lozhechko, Anna Myzdrikova, Alena Polyan, Irina Sazonova, Ekaterina Skorodumova) 162.150
- Women's artistic competition:
- Judo:
- Women's −78 kg: Viktoriia Turks (UKR) Géraldine Mentouopou (FRA) Zhang Jie (CHN) & Jeong Gyeong-mi (KOR)
- Men's −100 kg: Ryunosuke Haga (JPN) Clément Delvert (FRA) Zafar Makhmadov (RUS) & Kim Kyeong-tae (KOR)
- Women's +78 kg: Qin Qian (CHN) Kim Na-young (KOR) Emilie Andeol (FRA) & Belkıs Zehra Kaya (TUR)
- Men's +100 kg: Kim Soo-whan (KOR) Maciej Sarnacki (POL) Mathieu Thorel (FRA) & Takeshi Ojitani (JPN)
- Women's −78 kg:
- Swimming:
- Men's 10 km open water: Simone Ruffini (ITA) 1:58:00.74 Kirill Abrosimov (RUS) 2:00:03.35 Yasunari Hirai (JPN) 2:00:05.54
- Women's 10 km open water: Rachele Bruni (ITA) 2:06:49.31 Nadine Reichert (GER) 2:07:29.21 Alice Franco (ITA) 2:08:42.77
- Men's 10 km open water:
- Weightlifting:
- Men's 56 kg: Lizhi Li (CHN) 273 kg Surahmat Bin Suwoto Wijoyo (INA) 239 kg Tan Chi-chung (TPE) 236 kg
- Women's 48 kg: Xiao Hongyu (CHN) 188 kg Ryang Chun-hwa (PRK) 186 kg Pensiri Laosirikul (THA) 184 kg
- Men's 56 kg:
- Cycling:
Rugby union
- Tri Nations Series:
- Match 4: South Africa 9–14 Australia in Durban
- Standings: New Zealand 9 points (2 matches), Australia 9 (3), South Africa 1 (3).
- Standings:
- Match 4: South Africa
- Mid-year Tests, Week 6:
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix Second round:
- Pool E in Zielona Góra, Poland:
- Poland 0–3 South Korea
- Cuba 2–3 Argentina
- Poland
- Pool F in Almaty, Kazakhstan:
- Brazil 3–0 Kazakhstan
- Italy 3–2 Thailand
- Brazil
- Pool G in Quanzhou, China:
- Pool H in Komaki, Japan:
- Serbia 3–0 Dominican Republic
- Japan 0–3 United States
- Standings (after 5 matches): Russia, Brazil 15 points, United States 14, Italy 13, Serbia 10, Japan 9, China, South Korea 8, Poland 7, Thailand, Cuba 6, Argentina 4, Dominican Republic 3, Germany, Kazakhstan 1, Peru 0.
- Serbia
- Pool E in Zielona Góra, Poland:
August 12, 2011 (Friday)
Cricket
- India in England:
- 3rd Test in Birmingham, day 3: India 224 & 35/1 (12 overs); England 710/7d (188.1 overs; Alastair Cook 294, Eoin Morgan 104). India trail by 451 runs with 9 wickets remaining.
- England achieve their third-highest innings total, and highest since 1938.
- 3rd Test in Birmingham, day 3:
- Bangladesh in Zimbabwe:
- 1st ODI in Harare: Bangladesh 184 (48.4 overs; Brian Vitori 5/30); Zimbabwe 186/6 (41.2 overs). Zimbabwe win by 4 wickets; lead 5-match series 1–0.
- 1st ODI in Harare:
Cycling
- UCI World Tour:
- Eneco Tour, stage 4: Jesse Sergent (NZL) (Team RadioShack) 17' 55" Alex Rasmussen (DEN) (HTC–Highroad) + 14" Jürgen Roelandts (BEL) (Omega Pharma–Lotto) + 20"
- General classification (after stage 4): (1) Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) (Team Sky) 13h 49' 06" (2) Philippe Gilbert (BEL) (Omega Pharma–Lotto) + 12" (3) David Millar (GBR) (Garmin–Cervélo) + 18"
- General classification (after stage 4): (1) Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) (Team Sky)
- Eneco Tour, stage 4:
Football (soccer)
- CAF Champions League group stage, matchday 3:
- Group B: Al-Ahly 2–0 MC Alger
- Standings: Wydad Casablanca 4 points (2 matches), Al-Ahly 4 (3), Espérance ST 4 (2), MC Alger 1 (3).
- Standings:
- Group B: Al-Ahly
- CAF Confederation Cup group stage, matchday 3:
- Group B: JS Kabylie 0–2 Motema Pembe
- Standings: Sunshine Stars 6 points (2 matches), Maghreb de Fès 4 (2), Motema Pembe 4 (3), JS Kabylie 0 (3).
- Standings:
- Group B: JS Kabylie
Golf
- Men's majors:
- PGA Championship in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States:
- Leaderboard after second round (USA unless stated): (T1) Keegan Bradley & Jason Dufner 135 (−5) (T3) Jim Furyk, D. A. Points, John Senden (AUS) & Scott Verplank 136 (−4)
- PGA Championship in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States:
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix Second round:
- Pool E in Zielona Góra, Poland:
- Poland 3–0 Argentina
- Cuba 2–3 South Korea
- Poland
- Pool F in Almaty, Kazakhstan:
- Kazakhstan 2–3 Italy
- Thailand 0–3 Brazil
- Kazakhstan
- Pool G in Quanzhou, China:
- Pool H in Komaki, Japan:
- United States 3–0 Dominican Republic
- Japan 3–1 Serbia
- Standings (after 4 matches): Russia, Brazil 12 points, United States, Italy 11, Japan 9, Poland, Serbia 7, China 6, Thailand, South Korea, Cuba 5, Dominican Republic 3, Argentina 2, Kazakhstan 1, Germany, Peru 0.
- United States
- Pool E in Zielona Góra, Poland:
August 11, 2011 (Thursday)
Cricket
- India in England:
- 3rd Test in Birmingham, day 2: India 224; England 456/3 (115 overs; Alastair Cook 182*). England lead by 232 runs with 7 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
- 3rd Test in Birmingham, day 2:
Cycling
- UCI World Tour:
- Eneco Tour, stage 3: Philippe Gilbert (BEL) (Omega Pharma–Lotto) 4h 54' 53" Grega Bole (SLO) (Lampre–ISD) + 8" Ben Hermans (BEL) (Team RadioShack) + 8"
- General classification (after stage 3): (1) Gilbert 13h 30' 34" (2) Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) (Team Sky) + 5" (3) David Millar (GBR) (Garmin–Cervélo) + 13"
- General classification (after stage 3): (1) Gilbert
- Eneco Tour, stage 3:
Football (soccer)
- Copa Sudamericana:
- First stage, second leg (first leg score in parentheses): The Strongest 2–1 (0–2) Olimpia. 3–3 on points; Olimpia win 3–2 on aggregate.
- Second stage, first leg: Vasco da Gama 2–0 Palmeiras
- First stage, second leg (first leg score in parentheses): The Strongest
Golf
- Men's majors:
- PGA Championship in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States:
- Leaderboard after first round (all USA): (1) Steve Stricker 63 (−7) (2) Jerry Kelly 65 (−5) (3) Shaun Micheel 66 (−4)
- Stricker becomes the 23rd player to shoot 63 at a major championship.
- Leaderboard after first round (all USA): (1) Steve Stricker 63 (−7) (2) Jerry Kelly 65 (−5) (3) Shaun Micheel 66 (−4)
- PGA Championship in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States:
August 10, 2011 (Wednesday)
Cricket
- India in England:
- 3rd Test in Birmingham, day 1: India 224 (62.2 overs); England 84/0 (25 overs). England trail by 140 runs with 10 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
- 3rd Test in Birmingham, day 1:
- Australia in Sri Lanka:
- 1st ODI in Kandy: Sri Lanka 191 (41.1 overs; Mitchell Johnson 6/31); Australia 192/3 (38.1 overs). Australia win by 7 wickets; lead 5-match series 1–0.
- 1st ODI in Kandy:
Cycling
- UCI World Tour:
- Eneco Tour, stage 2: André Greipel (GER) (Omega Pharma–Lotto) 4h 07' 21" Tyler Farrar (USA) (Garmin–Cervélo) s.t. Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) (Team Sky) s.t.
- General classification (after stage 2): (1) Taylor Phinney (USA) (BMC Racing Team) 8h 35' 38" (2) Boasson Hagen + 3" (3) David Millar (GBR) (Garmin–Cervélo) + 8"
- General classification (after stage 2): (1) Taylor Phinney (USA) (BMC Racing Team)
- Eneco Tour, stage 2:
Football (soccer)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia:
- Round of 16:
- Nigeria 1–0 England in Armenia
- Spain 0–0 (7–6 pen.) South Korea in Manizales
- Brazil 3–0
Saudi Arabia in Barranquilla - France 1–0 Ecuador in Cartagena
- Nigeria
- Round of 16:
- UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying, matchday 8:
- Friendly internationals (top 10 in FIFA World Rankings):
- (8) Italy 2–1 (1) Spain
- (6) England – (2) Netherlands — cancelled due to rioting
- (3) Germany 3–2 (4) Brazil
- (7) Portugal 5–0 Luxembourg
- Republic of Ireland 0–0 (9) Croatia
- (8) Italy
- Recopa Sudamericana First leg: Independiente 2–1 Internacional
- Copa Sudamericana Second stage, first leg:
- Atlético Mineiro 1–2 Botafogo
- Ceará 2–1 São Paulo
- Flamengo 1–0 Atlético Paranaense
- Atlético Mineiro
Snooker
- Players Tour Championship – Event 2 in Gloucester, England:
- Final: Ding Junhui (CHN) 0–4 Judd Trump (ENG)
- Trump wins his fifth professional title.
- Order of Merit (after 2 of 12 events): (1) Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) 11,500 (2) Trump 10,000 (3) Joe Perry (ENG) 5,200
- Final: Ding Junhui (CHN) 0–4 Judd Trump (ENG)
Volleyball
- FIVB Men's Junior World Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
- 3rd place match: Serbia 3–1 United States
- Final: Argentina 2–3 Russia
- Russia win the title for the eighth time.
- 3rd place match:
August 9, 2011 (Tuesday)
Cricket
- ICC Intercontinental Cup One-Day:
- 4th ODI in Toronto:
Afghanistan 150 (18.3/20 overs); Canada 133/9 (20 overs). Afghanistan win by 17 runs.
- Standings (after 2 matches):
Ireland, Afghanistan, Scotland 4 points, Kenya, 
United Arab Emirates 2, Netherlands, Canada, 
Namibia 0.
- Standings (after 2 matches):
- 4th ODI in Toronto:
Cycling
- UCI World Tour:
- Eneco Tour, stage 1: André Greipel (GER) (Omega Pharma–Lotto) 4h 21' 20" Denis Galimzyanov (RUS) (Team Katusha) s.t. Tyler Farrar (USA) (Garmin–Cervélo) s.t.
- General classification (after stage 1): (1) Taylor Phinney (USA) (BMC Racing Team) 4h 28' 17" (2) Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) (Team Sky) + 7" (3) David Millar (GBR) (Garmin–Cervélo) + 8"
- General classification (after stage 1): (1) Taylor Phinney (USA) (BMC Racing Team)
- Eneco Tour, stage 1:
Football (soccer)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia:
- Copa Sudamericana First stage first leg: Universidad de Chile 1–0 Fénix
August 8, 2011 (Monday)
Cricket
- Bangladesh in Zimbabwe:
- Only Test in Harare, day 5: Zimbabwe 370 & 291/5d; Bangladesh 287 & 244 (57.3 overs). Zimbabwe win by 130 runs.
- Only Test in Harare, day 5:
- Australia in Sri Lanka:
- 2nd T20I in Kandy: Sri Lanka 157/9 (20 overs); Australia 149/9 (20 overs; Ajantha Mendis 6/16). Sri Lanka win by 8 runs; win 2-match series 2–0.
- Mendis becomes the first bowler to take six wickets in a T20I innings, and the tenth to do so in any Twenty20 game.
- 2nd T20I in Kandy:
Cycling
- UCI World Tour:
- Eneco Tour, Prologue: Taylor Phinney (USA) (BMC Racing Team) 6' 57" Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) (Team Sky) + 7" David Millar (GBR) (Garmin–Cervélo) + 8"
- Eneco Tour, Prologue:
August 7, 2011 (Sunday)
Auto racing
- Sprint Cup Series:
- Good Sam RV Insurance 500 in Long Pond, Pennsylvania: (1) Brad Keselowski (Dodge; Penske Racing) (2) Kyle Busch (Toyota; Joe Gibbs Racing) (3) Kurt Busch (Dodge; Penske Racing)
- Drivers' championship standings (after 21 of 36 races): (1) Carl Edwards (Ford; Roush Fenway Racing) 720 points (2) Jimmie Johnson (Chevrolet; Hendrick Motorsports) 711 (3) Kyle Busch 709
- Drivers' championship standings (after 21 of 36 races): (1)
- Good Sam RV Insurance 500 in Long Pond, Pennsylvania: (1)
- IndyCar Series:
- Honda Indy 200 in Lexington, Ohio: (1) Scott Dixon (NZL) (Chip Ganassi Racing) (2) Dario Franchitti (GBR) (Chip Ganassi Racing) (3) Ryan Hunter-Reay (USA) (Andretti Autosport)
- Drivers' championship standings (after 12 of 18 races): (1) Franchitti 428 points (2) Will Power (AUS) (Team Penske) 366 (3) Dixon 335
- Honda Indy 200 in Lexington, Ohio: (1) Scott Dixon (NZL) (Chip Ganassi Racing) (2) Dario Franchitti (GBR) (Chip Ganassi Racing) (3) Ryan Hunter-Reay (USA) (Andretti Autosport)
Basketball
- FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship in Pardubice, Czech Republic:
- Bronze place game: Spain 61–53 (OT) France
- Final: Croatia 67–57 Czech Republic
- Croatia win the title for the second consecutive year, and third time overall.
- Bronze place game:
Cricket
- Bangladesh in Zimbabwe:
- Only Test in Harare, day 4: Zimbabwe 370 & 291/5d (92 overs; Brendan Taylor 105*); Bangladesh 287 & 112/3 (30 overs). Bangladesh require another 263 runs with 7 wickets remaining.
- Only Test in Harare, day 4:
- ICC Intercontinental Cup One-Day:
- 3rd ODI in King City, Ontario: Canada 230 (44.5 overs); Afghanistan 213/8 (41.1/43 overs). Afghanistan win by 2 wickets (D/L).
- 3rd ODI in King City, Ontario:
Equestrianism
- Dublin Horse Show in Dublin, Ireland:
- Show jumping Grand Prix of Ireland (CSIO 5*): Lauren Hough (USA) on Quick Study Michel Robert (FRA) on Kellemoi de Pepita Pénélope Leprevost (FRA) on Mylord Carthago
- Show jumping Grand Prix of Ireland (CSIO 5*):
Football (soccer)
- FA Community Shield in London: Manchester United 3–2 Manchester City
- Manchester United win the Shield for the fourth time in five years and 19th time overall.
Golf
- World Golf Championships:
- WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, United States:
- Winner: Adam Scott (AUS) 263 (−17)
- Scott wins his first WGC title, and his eighth PGA Tour title.
- Winner: Adam Scott (AUS) 263 (−17)
- WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, United States:
- PGA Tour:
- Reno-Tahoe Open in Reno, Nevada:
- Winner: Scott Piercy (USA) 273 (−15)
- Piercy wins his first PGA Tour title.
- Winner: Scott Piercy (USA) 273 (−15)
- Reno-Tahoe Open in Reno, Nevada:
- Champions Tour:
Horse racing
- Canadian Thoroughbred Triple Crown:
- Breeders' Stakes in Toronto: Pender Harbour (trainer): Mike DePaulo; jockey: Luis Contreras) Crown's Path (trainer: Gregory de Gannes; jockey: Jesse Campbell) Celtic Conviction (trainer: Michael Doyle; jockey: Emile Ramsammy)
- Contreras becomes the first jockey to win the three Triple Crown events in a year on two different horses, having won the Queen's Plate on Inglorious and the Prince of Wales Stakes on Pender Harbour.
- Breeders' Stakes in Toronto:
Tennis
- ATP World Tour:
- Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, United States:
- Final: Radek Štěpánek (CZE) def. Gaël Monfils (FRA) 6–4, 6–4
- Štěpánek wins his fifth ATP Tour title, and first since 2009.
- Final: Radek Štěpánek (CZE) def. Gaël Monfils (FRA) 6–4, 6–4
- Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, United States:
- WTA Tour:
- Mercury Insurance Open in San Diego, United States:
- Final: Agnieszka Radwańska (POL) def. Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 6–3, 6–4
- Radwańska wins her fifth WTA Tour title, and first since 2008.
- Final: Agnieszka Radwańska (POL) def. Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 6–3, 6–4
- Mercury Insurance Open in San Diego, United States:
Triathlon
- ITU World Championships, Leg 5 in London, United Kingdom:
- Men: Alistair Brownlee (GBR) 1:50:09 Alexander Bryukhankov (RUS) 1:50:34 Jonathan Brownlee (GBR) 1:51:04
- Standings (after 5 of 6 events): (1) Javier Gómez (ESP) 2660 points (2) Alistair Brownlee 2490 (3) Bryukhankov 2403
- Men:
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix First round:
- Pool A in Bydgoszcz, Poland:
- Poland 1–3 Italy
- Dominican Republic 2–3 Argentina
- Poland
- Pool B in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand:
- Pool C in Busan, South Korea:
- South Korea 0–3 Brazil
- Japan 3–0 Germany
- South Korea
- Pool D in Luohe, China:
- China 0–3 United States
- Serbia 3–0 Kazakhstan
- Standings (after 3 matches): Russia, Brazil, Italy 9 points, United States 8, Serbia 7, Japan 6, Thailand 5, Cuba, Poland 4, Dominican Republic, China, South Korea 3, Argentina 2, Germany, Kazakhstan, Peru 0.
- China
- Pool A in Bydgoszcz, Poland:
August 6, 2011 (Saturday)
Athletics
- IAAF Diamond League:
- London Grand Prix in London, United Kingdom:
- Men:
- 200m: Walter Dix (USA) 20.16
- Mile: Leonel Manzano (USA) 3:51.24
- 400m hurdles: Javier Culson (PUR) 48.33
- 4 × 100 m relay: Stars & Stripes (Trell Kimmons, Mike Rodgers, Michael Tinsley, Joel Brown) 38.23
- Discus throw: Virgilijus Alekna (LTU) 66.71m
- High jump: Andrey Silnov (RUS) 2.36m
- Triple jump: Christian Taylor (USA) 17.68m
- Women:
- 100m: Carmelita Jeter (USA) 10.93
- 400m: Sanya Richards-Ross (USA) 49.66
- 1500m: Lisa Dobriskey (GBR) 4:04.97
- 5000m: Lauren Fleshman (USA) 15:00.57
- 100m hurdles: Sally Pearson (AUS) 12.58
- 3000m steeplechase: Milcah Chemos Cheywa (KEN) 9:22.80
- Shot put: Valerie Adams (NZL) 20.07m
- Men:
- London Grand Prix in London, United Kingdom:
Auto racing
- Nationwide Series:
- U.S. Cellular 250 in Newton, Iowa: (1) Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Ford; Roush Fenway Racing) (2) Carl Edwards (Ford; Roush Fenway Racing) (3) Elliott Sadler (Chevrolet; Kevin Harvick Incorporated)
- Drivers' championship standings (after 22 of 34 races): (1) Stenhouse Jr. 787 points (2) Reed Sorenson (Chevrolet; Turner Motorsports) 775 (3) Sadler 758
- Drivers' championship standings (after 22 of 34 races): (1) Stenhouse Jr. 787 points (2)
- U.S. Cellular 250 in Newton, Iowa: (1)
Cricket
- Bangladesh in Zimbabwe:
- Only Test in Harare, day 3: Zimbabwe 370 & 92/4 (34.3 overs); Bangladesh 287 (96.2 overs). Zimbabwe lead by 175 runs with 6 wickets remaining.
- Only Test in Harare, day 3:
- Australia in Sri Lanka:
- 1st T20I in Kandy: Sri Lanka 198/3 (20 overs; Tillakaratne Dilshan 104*); Australia 163/8 (20 overs). Sri Lanka win by 35 runs; lead 2-match series 1–0.
- 1st T20I in Kandy:
Cycling
- UCI World Tour:
- Tour de Pologne, stage 7: Marcel Kittel (GER) (Skil–Shimano) 2h 50' 00" Peter Sagan (SVK) (Liquigas–Cannondale) s.t. Leigh Howard (AUS) (HTC–Highroad) s.t.
- Final general classification: (1) Sagan
26h 40' 01" (2) Dan Martin (IRL) (Garmin–Cervélo) + 5" (3) Marco Marcato (ITA) (Vacansoleil–DCM) + 7" - UCI World Tour standings (after 19 of 27 races): (1) Cadel Evans (AUS) (BMC Racing Team) 574 points (2) Philippe Gilbert (BEL) (Omega Pharma–Lotto) 482 (3) Alberto Contador (ESP) (Saxo Bank–SunGard) 471
- Final general classification: (1) Sagan
- Tour de Pologne, stage 7:
Equestrianism
- Dublin Horse Show in Dublin, Ireland:
Football (soccer)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia: (teams in bold advance to the Round of 16)
- Supercoppa Italiana in Beijing, China: Milan 2–1 Internazionale
- Milan win the Supercoppa for a record sixth time.
Mixed martial arts
- UFC 133 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States:
- Light Heavyweight bout: Rashad Evans (USA) def. Tito Ortiz (USA) via TKO (strikes)
- Middleweight bout: Vitor Belfort (BRA) def. Yoshihiro Akiyama (JPN) via KO (punches)
- Welterweight bout: Brian Ebersole (USA) def. Dennis Hallman (USA) via TKO (strikes)
- Middleweight bout: Costas Philippou (CYP) def. Jorge Rivera (USA) via split decision (28–29, 29–28, 29–28)
- Welterweight bout: Rory MacDonald (CAN) def. Mike Pyle (USA) via TKO (strikes)
Rugby union
- Tri Nations Series:
- Match 3: New Zealand 30–14 Australia in Auckland
- Standings (after 2 matches): New Zealand 9 points, Australia 5, South Africa 0
- Standings (after 2 matches): New Zealand 9 points, Australia 5,
- Match 3: New Zealand
- Mid-year Tests, Week 5:
Surfing
- Women's World Tour:
- U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, United States: (1) Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) (2) Lakey Peterson (USA) (3) Carissa Moore (USA) & Coco Ho (USA)
- Final standings: (1) Moore 55,000 points (2) Fitzgibbons 51,650 (3) Stephanie Gilmore (USA) 40,550
- Moore wins the title for the first time.
- Final standings: (1) Moore 55,000 points (2) Fitzgibbons 51,650 (3) Stephanie Gilmore (USA) 40,550
- U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, United States: (1) Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) (2) Lakey Peterson (USA) (3) Carissa Moore (USA) & Coco Ho (USA)
Tennis
- ATP World Tour:
- Bet-at-home.com Cup in Kitzbühel, Austria:
- Final: Robin Haase (NED) def. Albert Montañés (ESP) 6–4, 4–6, 6–1
- Haase wins his first ATP Tour title.
- Final: Robin Haase (NED) def. Albert Montañés (ESP) 6–4, 4–6, 6–1
- Bet-at-home.com Cup in Kitzbühel, Austria:
Triathlon
- ITU World Championships, Leg 5 in London, United Kingdom:
- Women: Helen Jenkins (GBR) 2:00:34 Gwen Jorgensen (USA) 2:00:41 Anja Dittmer (GER) 2:00:49
- Standings (after 5 of 6 events): (1) Bárbara Riveros Díaz (CHI) 2498 points (2) Andrea Hewitt (NZL) 2493 (3) Paula Findlay (CAN) 2490
- Women:
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix First round:
- Pool A in Bydgoszcz, Poland:
- Poland 2–3 Dominican Republic
- Italy 3–1 Argentina
- Poland
- Pool B in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand:
- Pool C in Busan, South Korea:
- South Korea 0–3 Japan
- Brazil 3–1 Germany
- South Korea
- Pool D in Luohe, China:
- Kazakhstan 0–3 United States
- China 1–3 Serbia
- Standings (after 2 matches): Russia, Brazil, Italy 6 points, United States, Thailand 5, Poland, Serbia 4, China, Japan, South Korea 3, Dominican Republic 2, Cuba 1, Germany, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Peru 0.
- Kazakhstan
- Pool A in Bydgoszcz, Poland:
August 5, 2011 (Friday)
Athletics
- IAAF Diamond League:
- London Grand Prix in London, United Kingdom:
- Men:
- 100m: Yohan Blake (JAM) 9.95
- 400m: Kirani James (GRN) 44.61
- 800m: David Rudisha (KEN) 1:42.91
- 3000m: Mo Farah (GBR) 7:40.15
- 5000m: Craig Mottram (AUS) 13:23.97
- 110m hurdles: Dayron Robles (CUB) 13.04
- 3000m steeplechase: Willy Komen (KEN) 8:21.40
- Long jump: Mitchell Watt (AUS) 8.45m
- Women:
- 200m: Bianca Knight (USA) 22.69
- 800m: Jenny Meadows (GBR) 1:58.60
- 400m hurdles: Kaliese Spencer (JAM) 52.79
- 4 × 100 m relay: Stars & Stripes (Knight, Mikele Barber, Kayla Brookins, [Candyce McGrone) 42.92
- Javelin throw: Christina Obergföll (GER) 66.74m
- Pole vault: Jenn Suhr (USA) 4.79m
- Triple jump: Olha Saladukha (UKR) 14.80m
- Men:
- London Grand Prix in London, United Kingdom:
Cricket
- Bangladesh in Zimbabwe:
- Only Test in Harare, day 2: Zimbabwe 370 (131 overs; Hamilton Masakadza 104); Bangladesh 107/3 (46 overs). Bangladesh trail by 263 runs with 7 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
- Only Test in Harare, day 2:
- ICC Intercontinental Cup:
- In King City, Ontario, day 4: Afghanistan 293 & 69/1 (11.3 overs); Canada 130 & 231 (f/o, 85.5 overs). Afghanistan win by 9 wickets.
- In King City, Ontario, day 4:
Cycling
- UCI World Tour:
- Tour de Pologne, stage 6: Dan Martin (IRL) (Garmin–Cervélo) 5h 41' 05" Wout Poels (NED) (Vacansoleil–DCM) + 1" Marco Marcato (ITA) (Vacansoleil–DCM) + 4"
- General classification (after stage 6): (1) Martin 23h 50' 06" (2) Peter Sagan (SVK) (Liquigas–Cannondale) + 3" (3) Marcato + 3"
- General classification (after stage 6): (1) Martin
- Tour de Pologne, stage 6:
Equestrianism
- Dublin Horse Show in Dublin, Ireland:
- Show jumping – FEI Nations Cup:
- Nations Cup of Ireland (CSIO 5*): Great Britain (Nick Skelton, Michael Whitaker, Scott Brash, Robert Smith) Ireland (Billy Twomey, Shane Sweetnam, Nicola Fitzgibbon, Denis Lynch) Belgium & France
- Standings (after 7 of 8 events): (1) Netherlands 44 points (2) Germany 40 (3) Great Britain 40
- Standings (after 7 of 8 events): (1)
- Nations Cup of Ireland (CSIO 5*):
- Show jumping – FEI Nations Cup:
Football (soccer)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia: (teams in bold advance to the Round of 16)
Faroe Islands Cup Final: ÍF Fuglafjørður 0–3 EB/Streymur
- EB/Streymur win the Faroe Islands Cup for the second successive time and fourth time overall.
Volleyball
- FIVB World Grand Prix First round:
- Pool A in Bydgoszcz, Poland:
- Poland 3–0 Argentina
- Italy 3–1 Dominican Republic
- Poland
- Pool B in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand:
- Pool C in Busan, South Korea:
- Brazil 3–0 Japan
- South Korea 3–1 Germany
- Brazil
- Pool D in Luohe, China:
- Serbia 2–3 United States
- China 3–0 Kazakhstan
- Serbia
- Pool A in Bydgoszcz, Poland:
August 4, 2011 (Thursday)
Cricket
- Bangladesh in Zimbabwe:
- Only Test in Harare, day 1: Zimbabwe 264/2 (90 overs); Bangladesh.
- Only Test in Harare, day 1:
- ICC Intercontinental Cup:
- In King City, Ontario, day 3: Afghanistan 293; Canada 130 (48 overs; Hamid Hassan 7/61) & 176/7 (f/o, 62 overs). Canada lead by 13 runs with 3 wickets remaining.
- In King City, Ontario, day 3:
Cycling
- UCI World Tour:
- Tour de Pologne, stage 5: Peter Sagan (SVK) (Liquigas–Cannondale) 4h 52' 26" Michael Matthews (AUS) (Rabobank) s.t. Heinrich Haussler (AUS) (Garmin–Cervélo) s.t.
- General classification (after stage 5): (1) Sagan 18h 08' 51" (2) Marco Marcato (ITA) (Vacansoleil–DCM) + 15" (3) Romain Feillu (FRA) (Vacansoleil–DCM) + 17"
- General classification (after stage 5): (1) Sagan
- Tour de Pologne, stage 5:
Football (soccer)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia: (teams in bold advance to the Round of 16)
- UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round second leg: (first leg scores in parentheses)
- Mladá Boleslav 2–2 (0–3) AEK Larnaca. AEK Larnaca win 5–2 on aggregate.
- Varaždin 1–2 (2–2) Dinamo București. Dinamo București win 4–3 on aggregate.
- Aktobe 1–1 (1–1) Alania Vladikavkaz. 2–2 on aggregate; Alania Vladikavkaz win 4–2 on penalties.
- Elfsborg 1–1 (0–4) Aalesund. Aalesund win 5–1 on aggregate.
- Qarabağ 1–0 (1–4) Club Brugge. Club Brugge win 4–2 on aggregate.
- Strømsgodset 0–2 (1–2) Atlético Madrid. Atlético Madrid win 4–1 on aggregate.
- Sligo Rovers 0–2 (0–0) Vorskla Poltava. Vorskla Poltava win 2–0 on aggregate.
- Gomel 1–3 (1–2) Bursaspor. Bursaspor win 5–2 on aggregate.
- Legia Warsaw 0–0 (1–0) Gaziantepspor. Legia Warsaw win 1–0 on aggregate.
- Rennes 2–0 (5–2) Metalurgi Rustavi. Rennes win 7–2 on aggregate.
- Spartak Trnava 2–1 (1–2) Levski Sofia. 3–3 on aggregate; Spartak Trnava win 5–4 on penalties.
- Dinamo Tbilisi 2–0 (4–1)
KR Reykjavík. Dinamo Tbilisi win 6–1 on aggregate. - Senica 0–3 (0–1) Red Bull Salzburg. Red Bull Salzburg win 4–0 on aggregate.
- Gaz Metan Mediaș 1–1 (1–1) Mainz 05. 2–2 on aggregate; Gaz Metan Mediaș win 4–3 on penalties.
- Helsingborg 3–0 (0–1) Bnei Yehuda. Helsingborg win 3–1 on aggregate.
- Hajduk Split 0–1 (0–1) Stoke City. Stoke City win 2–0 on aggregate.
- Häcken 2–1 (0–3) Nacional. Nacional win 4–2 on aggregate.
- Brøndby 4–2 (0–2) Ried. 4–4 on aggregate; Ried win on away goals.
- Maccabi Tel Aviv 6–0 (2–0)
Željezničar. Maccabi Tel Aviv win 8–0 on aggregate. - Thun 1–1 (2–2) Palermo. 3–3 on aggregate; Thun win on away goals.
- Lokomotiv Sofia 0–0 (0–0) Śląsk Wrocław. 0–0 on aggregate; Śląsk Wrocław win 4–3 on penalties.
- Westerlo 0–2 (1–3) Young Boys. Young Boys win 5–1 on aggregate.
- Vaduz
2–1 (0–4) Hapoel Tel Aviv. Hapoel Tel Aviv win 5–2 on aggregate. - ADO Den Haag 1–0 (0–3) Omonia. Omonia win 3–1 on aggregate.
- Olympiacos Volos 3–0 (3–0) Differdange 03. Olympiacos Volos win 6–0 on aggregate.
- Rabotnički 1–2 (2–0) Anorthosis. Rabotnički win 3–2 on aggregate.
- PAOK 3–0 (2–0) Vålerenga. PAOK win 5–0 on aggregate.
- Red Star Belgrade 7–0 (2–1)
Ventspils. Red Star Belgrade win 9–1 on aggregate. - Jablonec 1–1 (0–2) AZ. AZ win 3–1 on aggregate.
- Fulham 2–0 (0–0) Split. Fulham win 2–0 on aggregate.
- St Patrick's Athletic 1–3 (0–2) Karpaty Lviv. Karpaty Lviv win 5–1 on aggregate.
- Heart of Midlothian 4–1 (1–1) Paks. Heart of Midlothian win 5–2 on aggregate.
- Sarajevo 0–2 (0–5) Sparta Prague. Sparta Prague win 7–0 on aggregate.
- Austria Wien 3–2 (1–1) Olimpija Ljubljana. Austria Wien win 4–3 on aggregate.
- Vitória Guimarães 2–1 (0–0) Midtjylland. Vitória Guimarães win 2–1 on aggregate.
- Mladá Boleslav
- Copa Sudamericana First stage first leg: Yaracuyanos 1–1 LDU Quito
- CONCACAF Champions League preliminary round second leg: (first leg score in parentheses)
- Alpha United
2–2 (0–8) Herediano. Herediano win 10–2 on aggregate. - Municipal 2–0 (0–4) Motagua. Motagua win 4–2 on aggregate.
- Alpha United
August 3, 2011 (Wednesday)
Cricket
- ICC Intercontinental Cup:
- In King City, Ontario, day 2: Afghanistan 293; Canada 21/4 (12 overs). Canada trail by 272 runs with 6 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
- In King City, Ontario, day 2:
Cycling
- UCI World Tour:
- Tour de Pologne, stage 4: Peter Sagan (SVK) (Liquigas–Cannondale) 4h 21' 15" Dan Martin (IRL) (Garmin–Cervélo) + 3" Marco Marcato (ITA) (Vacansoleil–DCM) + 3"
- General classification (after stage 4): (1) Sagan 13h 16' 35" (2) Marcato + 5" (3) Romain Feillu (FRA) (Vacansoleil–DCM) + 7"
- General classification (after stage 4): (1) Sagan
- Tour de Pologne, stage 4:
Football (soccer)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia (teams in bold advance to knockout stage):
- UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round second leg: (first leg scores in parentheses)
- Rubin Kazan 2–1 (2–0) Dynamo Kyiv. Rubin Kazan win 4–1 on aggregate.
- Malmö FF 1–1 (1–0) Rangers. Malmö win 2–1 on aggregate.
- Vaslui 0–0 (0–2) Twente. Twente win 2–0 on aggregate.
- Slovan Bratislava 0–2 (0–0) APOEL. APOEL win 2–0 on aggregate.
- Viktoria Plzeň 3–2 (1–0) Rosenborg. Viktoria Plzeň win 4–2 on aggregate.
- Zürich 1–0 (1–1) Standard Liège. Zürich win 2–1 on aggregate.
- Wisła Kraków 3–1 (2–1) Litex Lovech. Wisła Kraków win 5–2 on aggregate.
- Sturm Graz 1–0 (1–1) Zestafoni. Sturm Graz win 2–1 on aggregate.
- Maribor 1–1 (1–2) Maccabi Haifa. Maccabi Haifa win 3–2 on aggregate.
- Dinamo Zagreb 1–0 (2–1) HJK Helsinki. Dinamo Zagreb win 3–1 on aggregate.
- Partizan 1–1 (1–2) Genk. Genk win 3–2 on aggregate.
- Trabzonspor 1–1 (0–2) Benfica. Benfica win 3–1 on aggregate.
- Rubin Kazan
- Copa Sudamericana First stage first leg:
- CONCACAF Champions League preliminary round second leg: (first leg score in parentheses)
- FC Dallas 1–0 (1–0) Alianza. Dallas win 2–0 on aggregate.
- Tempête
0–2 (0–5) Morelia. Morelia win 7–0 on aggregate. - Puerto Rico Islanders 3–1 (0–2) Isidro Metapán. 3–3 on aggregate; Isidro Metapán win on away goals.
- Seattle Sounders FC 2–0 (a.e.t.) (0–1) San Francisco. Seattle Sounders win 2–1 on aggregate.
- Olimpia 2–1 (1–3) Santos Laguna. Santos Laguna win 4–3 on aggregate.
- FC Dallas
August 2, 2011 (Tuesday)
Cricket
- ICC Intercontinental Cup:
- In King City, Ontario, day 1: Afghanistan 293 (81.1 overs); Canada 21/4 (12 overs). Canada trail by 272 runs with 6 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
- In King City, Ontario, day 1:
Cycling
- UCI World Tour:
- Tour de Pologne, stage 3: Marcel Kittel (GER) (Skil–Shimano) 3h 09' 29" Romain Feillu (FRA) (Vacansoleil–DCM) s.t. Jonas Aaen Jørgensen (DEN) (Saxo Bank–SunGard) s.t.
- General classification (after stage 3): (1) Kittel 8h 55' 00" (2) Adrian Kurek (POL) (Team Poland BGŻ) + 17" (3) Gianluca Maggiore (ITA) (De Rosa–Ceramica Flaminia) + 22"
- General classification (after stage 3): (1) Kittel
- Tour de Pologne, stage 3:
Football (soccer)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia (team in bold advances to knockout stage):
- UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round second leg: (first leg scores in parentheses)
- BATE Borisov 3–1 (0–0) Ekranas. BATE Borisov win 3–1 on aggregate.
- Shamrock Rovers 0–2 (0–1) Copenhagen. Copenhagen win 3–0 on aggregate.
- Panathinaikos 3–4 (1–1) Odense. Odense win 5–4 on aggregate.
- BATE Borisov
- Copa Sudamericana First stage first leg:
- CONCACAF Champions League preliminary round second leg: (first leg score in parentheses)
- Real Estelí
1–2 (1–2) Toronto FC. Toronto win 4–2 on aggregate.
- Real Estelí
August 1, 2011 (Monday)
Cricket
- India in England:
- 2nd Test in Nottingham, day 4: England 221 & 544 (120.2 overs); India 288 & 158 (47.4 overs; Tim Bresnan 5/48). England win by 319 runs; lead 4-match series 2–0.
- 2nd Test in Nottingham, day 4:
Cycling
- UCI World Tour:
- Tour de Pologne, stage 2: Marcel Kittel (GER) (Skil–Shimano) 3h 38' 35" Heinrich Haussler (AUS) (Garmin–Cervélo) s.t. Graeme Brown (AUS) (Rabobank) s.t.
- General classification (after stage 2): (1) Kittel 5h 45' 41" (2) Adrian Kurek (POL) (Team Poland BGŻ) + 7" (3) Haussler + 14"
- General classification (after stage 2): (1) Kittel
- Tour de Pologne, stage 2:
Football (soccer)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia:
- UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Romania:
- Final in Chiajna: Czech Republic 2–3 (a.e.t.) Spain
- Spain win the title for the fifth time.
- Final in Chiajna:
References
- ↑ "Fenerbahçe out amid fixing probe". ESPN. Associated Press. August 24, 2011. Retrieved August 24, 2011.
- ↑ "Kyle Busch wins Cup race in Michigan". ESPN. Associated Press. August 21, 2011. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ↑ Forsaith, Rob (August 16, 2011). "Marcos Ambrose claims maiden NASCAR win". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australian Associated Press. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
- ↑ "Twins slugger Jim Thome clubs 600th career homer in win vs. Tigers". ESPN. Associated Press. August 15, 2011. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
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