11.   Murphy was in Japan to ride in the Nakayama Grand Jump, finishing fifth on Cenkos.

12.   Since finishing fifth at the World Shotgun Championships last year, she had won a gold medal and two bronzes in international competition.

13.   She tripped and tumbled to the track, clawing her way to the finish line, finishing fifth in a race she had all but won.

14.   The injections came one day after one of his worst performances, when he flopped all over the rink in finishing fifth in his qualifying group.

15.   Having not won the Order of Merit, finishing fifth and sixth was to be seen almost as a failure.

16.   But also suffered from reliability and retired from eight successive races before finishing fifth in Portugal.

17.   Els was planning a month at home in Johannesburg after finishing fifth last week in a tournament at Singapore.