Kimi puts Ferrari on pole for Italian GP

MONZA, ITALY: Kimi Raikkonen put Ferrari on pole position for their home Italian Grand Prix with Formula One’s fastest lap ever on Saturday. Team mate Sebastian Vettel was second fastest to complete the front-row sweep for Sunday’s race, with championship leader Lewis Hamilton third for Mercedes.

Raikkonen’s stunning lap of one minute 19.119 seconds, at an average speed of 263.587 kph, smashed the track record of 1:19.525 set by Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya for Williams at Monza in 2004.

It was the Finn’s first pole since Monaco last year, the 18th of his career and Ferrari’s first

at Monza since 2010. The 38-year-old, who last won a race with Lotus in 2013, also became the oldest pole-sitter since Britain’s Nigel Mansell in 1994.

COLEMAN SCORCHES TO SEVENTH FASTEST 100M

BRUSSELS: American Christian Coleman used an injury and media snubbing as motivation to scorch to the seventh-fastest 100m time of all time as he snatched the Diamond League trophy for the blue riband event in scintillating style in Brussels.

Coleman, the world record holder over 60m indoors and world 100m silver medallist in London last year, clocked a personal best of 9.79 seconds, the fastest 100m run since the now-retired Usain Bolt won the 2015 world title in Beijing.

N KOREA PARTICIPATES IN ISSF EVENT IN SOUTH

SEOUL: North Korean shooters were competing for the first time Saturday in a World Championships held in the South, in the latest round of cross-border sports diplomacy. The competitors were among 1,800 athletes from 90 nations taking part in the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) event in South Korea.

WESTWOOD LEADS, OLESEN MOVES CLOSER

SILKEBORG, DENMARK: Ryder Cup vice-captain Lee Westwood moved to the top of the Made in Denmark leaderboard after overnight leader Christiaan Bezuidenhout struggled third round. Home favourite Thorbjorn Olesen remained in prime position to secure the last automatic qualification for the Ryder Cup with a solid 67.