BERLIN, July 10: Germany striker Miroslav Klose finished top scorer at the World Cup with five goals. Klose scored twice in the 4-2 win over Costa Rica, twice in the 3-0 win against Ecuador and once in the quarter-final against Argentina.

Eight players each scored three goals.

Klose's total was the lowest by a top scorer since six players shared the accolade with four goals each at the 1962 finals.

Scorers:

5 – Miroslav Klose (Germany).

3 – Thierry Henry (France), Zinedine Zidane (France), Fernando Torres (Spain), Lukas Podolski (Germany), Maxi Rodriguez (Argentina), Ronaldo (Brazil), *Hernan Crespo (Argentina), David Villa (Spain).

2 – Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany), Luca Toni (Italy), Marco Materazzi (Italy), Patrick Vieira (France), Tomas Rosicky (Czech Republic), Tim Cahill (Australia), Paulo Wanchope (Costa Rica), Omar Bravo (Mexico), Agustin Delgado (Ecuador), Carlos Tenorio (Ecuador) Bartosz Bosacki (Poland), Steven Gerrard (England), Aruna Dindane (Ivory Coast), Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine), Alex Frei (Switzerland), Adriano (Brazil), Maniche (Portugal)

1 – Jan Koller (Czech Republic), Zinha (Mexico), Jose Fonseca (Mexico), Rafael Marquez (Mexico), Shunsuke Nakamura (Japan), Ahn Jung-hwan (South Korea), Lee Chun-soo (South Korea), Park Ji-sung (South Korea), Torsten Frings (Germany), Oliver Neuville (Germany), Philipp Lahm (Germany), Yahya Golmohammadi (Iran), Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh (Iran), Flavio (Angola), Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast), Bakary Kone (Ivory Coast), Bonaventure Kalou (Ivory Coast), Nikola Zigic (Serbia & Montenegro), Sasa Ilic (Serbia & Montenegro), Abdelkader Coubadja (Togo), John Aloisi (Australia), Craig Moore (Australia), Harry Kewell (Australia), Kaka (Brazil)

Fred (Brazil), Gilberto (Brazil), Juninho Pernambucano (Brazil), Ze Roberto (Brazil), Arjen Robben (Netherlands), Robin van Persie (Netherlands), Ruud van Nistelrooy (Netherlands), Xabi Alonso (Spain), Raul (Spain), Juanito (Spain), Franck Ribery (France), Andrea Pirlo (Italy), Vincenzo Iaquinta (Italy), Alberto Gilardino (Italy), Filippo Inzaghi (Italy), Francesco Totti (Italy), Gianluca Zambrotta (Italy), Fabio Grosso (Italy), Alessandro Del Piero (Italy), Clint Dempsey (United States), Pauleta (Portugal), Deco (Portugal), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Simao Sabrosa (Portugal), Nuno Gomes (Portugal), Ziad Jaziri (Tunisia), Radhi Jaidi (Tunisia), Joahar Mnari (Tunisia), Yassir Al Qahtani (Saudi Arabia), Sami Al Jaber (Saudi Arabia), Ivan Kaviedes (Ecuador), Peter Crouch (England), Joe Cole (England), David Beckham (England), Freddie Ljungberg (Sweden), Henrik Larsson (Sweden), Marcus Allback (Sweden), Esteban Cambiasso (Argentina), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Carlos Tevez (Argentina), Javier Saviola (Argentina), Roberto Ayala (Argentina), Asamoah Gyan (Ghana), Sulley Muntari (Ghana), Stephen Appiah (Ghana), Haminu Dramani (Ghana), Andriy Rusol (Ukraine), Serhiy Rebrov (Ukraine), Maxim Kalinichenko (Ukraine), Tranquillo Barnetta (Switzerland), Philippe Senderos (Switzerland), Ronald Gomez (Costa Rica), Nelson Cuevas (Paraguay), Darijo Srna (Croatia), Niko Kovac (Croatia), Keiji Tamada (Japan).

Note: *Argentina striker Hernan Crespo was credited by FIFA's Technical Study Group as the scorer of their first goal in the second round match against Mexico even though he appeared not to have made contact with the ball.—Agencies