Sports in brief: China caps worlds with more golds

Gymnastics: A year after dominating the Beijing Olympics, China put on another show.

The Chinese won three more titles at the world gymnastics championships Sunday, giving them a total of six. Deng Linlin won on balance beam, Wang Guanyin took gold on parallel bars and Zou Kai added a world title to his Olympic gold medal on high bar.

Beth Tweddle gave the home crowd what it wanted to see, winning gold on floor exercise. It’s the second world title for Tweddle, Britain’s best-known — and best-loved — gymnast. Marian Dragulescu of Romania won the vault, his second gold medal in as many days.

The Americans won just one medal Sunday, a bronze on balance beam by Ivana Hong. They leave with five, all by the women.

Tweddle started Britain’s resurgence in gymnastics, so it was only fitting she won her second world title in front of her biggest fans. When she landed her first tumbling run with an emphatic thud, the O2 Arena erupted in cheers.

Davydenko beats Nadal for win

Nikolay Davydenko upset top-seeded Rafael Nadal 7-6 (3), 6-3 to win the Shanghai Masters for his fourth title of the year.

The sixth-seeded Davydenko broke decisively in the sixth game of the second set to collect his 18th career title.

His flat groundstrokes and angled winners denied the Spaniard a sixth title this year and his first since the Rome Masters in May.

•Stosur beats Schiavone for first singles title: Third-seeded Samantha Stosur of Australia earned her first WTA singles title – after 22 WTA doubles and four ITF titles – with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Italy’s Francesca Schiavone at the Japan Women’s Open in Osaka, Japan.

The 15th-ranked Stosur broke Schiavone to go up 3-1 in the second set and dominated the fourth-seeded player the rest of the way to close out the match in 1 hour, 8 minutes for her first victory in six WTA Tour singles finals.

•Wickmayer wins Generali Ladies: Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium has won her second career WTA Tour title, defeating Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic 6-3, 6-4 in the Generali Ladies final in Linz, Austria.

The third-seeded Belgian won five straight games from 3-3 to take the opening set and start the second with a break.

Kvitova broke back immediately, but dropped serve again to trail 3-2.

Button clinches first Formula One title

Miscellany: Jenson Button has clinched his first Formula One title after capitalizing on his rivals’ miscues to finish fifth in a Brazilian Grand Prix won by Mark Webber.

The fifth-place finish was good enough to give Button an insurmountable 15-point lead in the drivers’ standings ahead of the season-ending race in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 1.

His closest competition for the title, Brawn GP teammate Rubens Barrichello, started from pole but finished eighth after a puncture on his home track. Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel was fourth.

Webber took his second F1 win ahead of Robert Kubica of BMW Sauber and defending champion Lewis Hamilton of McLaren at the 2.6-mile Interlagos track.

•Santa Clara center out with heart condition: Santa Clara center Scott Thompson will miss the season because of a heart condition.

The school said the 7-foot, 245-pound Thompson will take a medical leave of absence this season. It’s unclear whether his career might be over altogether. Santa Clara officials didn’t offer further details on Thompson’s condition.

Thompson averaged 0.9 points and 0.8 rebounds in 26 games last season as a freshman.

•Mugo, Bai take Beijing Marathon: Samuel Mugo led a Kenyan sweep at the Beijing Marathon, and world champion Bai Xue did the same for China in the women’s race.

Mugo ran a personal best of 2 hours, 8 minutes, 20 seconds. Nicholas Kamakya finished in 2:08:42 and Benson Barus crossed in 2:08:51.

Bai finished in 2:34:44 to defend her title. Zhang Xin was second in 2:34:49 and Zhu Xiaolin placed third in 2:34:55.

•Three runners die in Detroit Marathon: A half-marathoner and two other runners died during the Detroit marathon, organizers said.

Daniel Langdon, 36, of Laingsburg, collapsed at about 9:02 a.m. between the 11- and 12-mile markers, said Rich Harshbarger, vice president of consumer marketing for the Detroit Media Partnership.

Rick Brown, 65, of Marietta, Ohio, collapsed at 9:17 a.m., near where Langdon went down, and 26-year-old Jon Fenlon of Waterford collapsed at about 9:18 a.m., just after finishing the half-marathon in 1:53:37, Harshbarger said.

Harshbarger told the Detroit Free Press that there were at least six medical stations on the race course and that emergency personnel were on the scene within seconds.

The last death at the Detroit event was in 1994 when a 42-year-old man died of a heart attack after running 20 miles.

Nicholas Stanko, of Haslett, Mich., took first place in the marathon with a time of 2:20:24.

Sarah Plaxton, of Highland, Mich., was the top female finisher in the marathon with a time of 2:57:09.