BEIJING 2008
The Games of the XXIX Summer Olympiad. August 8-24, 2008. Beijing, China.
Athletics Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Field Hockey Football Gymnastics Handball Judo Rowing Sailing Shooting Softball Swimming Table Tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Water Polo Weightlifting Wrestling Medal Count
MEN
100 m
1.Usain Bolt (Jamaica)
200 m
1.Usain Bolt
(Jamaica)
1500 m
2.Nicholas Willis (New Zealand)
4 x 100 m
3.Japan (Shingo Suetsugu)
DSQ (initially 1).Jamaica (Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell)
4 x 400 m
2.Bahamas (Avard Moncur (ran in Round 1))
20 km walk
2.Jefferson Perez (Ecuador)
3.Jared Tallent
(Australia)
50 km walk
2.Jared Tallent (Australia)
Pole vault
1.Steven Hooker (Australia)
Long jump
1.Irving Saladino (Panama)
Shot put
1.Tomasz Majewski (Poland)
DSQ (initially 3).Andrei Mikhnevich (Belarus)
Discus throw
1.Gerd Kanter (Estonia)
3.Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania)
Hammer throw
1.Primoz Kozmus (Slovenia)
2.Vadim Devyatovsky (Belarus)
3.Ivan Tsikhan (Belarus)
Javelin throw
1.Andreas Thorkildsen (Norway)
Decathlon
2.Andrei Krauchanka (Belarus)
WOMEN
100 m
1.Shelly-Ann Fraser (Jamaica)
2-3.Sherone Simpson (Jamaica), Kerron Stewart (Jamaica)
200 m
1.Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jamaica)
3.Kerron Stewart (Jamaica)
100 m hurdles
2.Sally Pearson (Australia)
400 m hurdles
1.Melaine Walker (Jamaica)
High jump
2.Blanka Vlasic (Croatia)
Shot put
1.Valerie Vili (New Zealand)
DSQ (initially 2).Natallaa
Mikhnevich (Belarus)
DSQ (initially 3).Nadzeya
Ostapchuk (Belarus)
Hammer throw
DSQ (initially 1).Aksana Miankova (Belarus)
Men
1.USA (Dwight Howard)
2.Spain (Jose Calderon, Rudy Fernandez, Jorge Garbajosa, Marc Gasol, Pau Gasol, Carlos Jimenez, Alex Mumbru, Juan Carlos Navarro, Felipe Reyes, Berni Rodriguez)
3.Argentina (Emanuel Ginobili)
54 kg
3-4.Veaceslav Gojan (Moldova)
69 kg
1.Bakhyt Sarsekbayev (Kazakhstan)
SLALOM
Men’s C-1
1.Michal Martikan (Slovakia)
Men’s C-2
1.Pavol Hochschorner / Peter Hochschorner (Slovakia)
Men’s K-1
3.Benjamin Boukpeti (Togo)
Women’s K-1
1.Elena Kaliska (Slovakia)
SPRINT - MEN
C-2 1000 m
1.Andrei Bahdanovich / Aliaksandr Bahdanovich (Belarus)
K-1 500 m
1.Ken Wallace (Australia)
K-1 1000 m
3.Ken Wallace (Australia)
K-2 500 m
3.Raman Piatrushenka / Vadzim Makhneu (Belarus)
K-4 500 m
1.Belarus (Raman Piatrushenka, Aliaksei Abalmasau, Artur Litvinchuk, Vadzim Makhneu)
2.Slovakia (Richard Riszdorfer, Michal Riszdorfer, Erik Vlcek)
ROAD
Women’s time trial
1.Kristin Armstrong (USA)
TRACK - MEN
Keirin
1.Chris Hoy (Great Britain)
Madison
1.Juan Esteban Curuchet / Walter Fernando Perez (Argentina)
Individual pursuit
1.Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain)
3.Steven Burke (Great Britain)
Team pursuit
1.Great Britian (Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Bradley Wiggins)
Individual sprint
1.Chris Hoy (Great Britain)
2.Jason Kenny (Great Britain)
Team sprint
1.Great Britain (Jason Kenny, Chris Hoy)
TRACK - WOMEN
Sprint
1.Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain)
2.Anna Meares (Australia)
BMX
Men
1.Maris Strombergs (Latvia)
MEN
10 m platform
1.Matthew Mitcham (Australia)
Individual dressage
1.Anky van Grunsven (Netherlands)
2.Isabell Werth (Germany)
Team dressage
1.Germany (Isabell Werth)
2.Netherlands (Anky van Grunsven)
Individual jumping
1.Eric Lamaze (Canada)
Team jumping
2.Canada (Eric Lamaze, Ian Millar)
Men
3.Australia (Jamie Dwyer, Liam de Young, Rob Hammond, Mark Knowles, Grant Schubert, Bevan George, Matthew Wells, Travis Brooks)
Women
First Round
Pool B
Argentina - Great Britain 2:2
(Luciana Aymar (Argentina)
2.Argentina (qualified for Semifinals)
3.Great Britain
1.Netherlands
3.Argentina (Luciana Aymar)
6.Great Britain
Men
1.Argentina (Juan Roman Riquelme, Angel Di Maria, Javier Mascherano, Lionel Messi)
3.Brazil (Thiago Silva, Marcelo, Ronaldinho, Alexandre Pato)
Women
1.USA (Hope Solo, Heather Mitts, Christie Rampone, Rachel Buehler, Shannon Boxx, Carli Lloyd, Lauren Cheney, Kate Markgraf)
MEN
Team all-around: 2.Japan (Kohei Uchimura)
Individual all-around: 2.Kohei Uchimura (Japan)
WOMEN
Team all-around
1.China (Deng Linlin, He Kexin)
2.USA (Nastia Liukin)
Individual all-around
1.Nastia Liukin (USA)
Balance beam: 2.Nastia Liukin (USA)
Floor exercise: 3.Nastia Liukin (USA)
Uneven bars
1.He Kexin (China)
2.Nastia Liukin (USA)
Vault
2.Oksana Chusovitina (Germany)
RHYTHMIC
Group all-around
3.Belarus
(Olesya Babushkina, Anastasia Ivankova, Ksenia Sankovich, Zinaida Lunina, Glafira Martinovich, Alina Tumilovich)
Individual all-around
1.Yevgeniya Kanayeva
(Russia)
2.Inna Zhukova (Belarus)
Men
3.Spain (Alberto Entrerrios, Albert Rocas, Victor Tomas)
Women
1.Norway (Gro Hammerseng)
MEN
90 kg
1.Irakli Tsirekidze (Georgia)
100 kg
1.Naidangiin Tuvshinbayar (Mongolia)
100+ kg
3-4.Teddy Riner (France)
WOMEN
48 kg
3-4.Ryoko Tani (Japan)
MEN
Single sculls
3.Mahe Drysdale (New Zealand)
Double sculls
1.Davis Crawshay / Scott Brennan (Australia)
2.Tonu Endrekson / Juri Jaanson (Estonia)
Coxless pairs
1.Drew Ginn / Duncan Free (Australia)
Coxless fours
1.Great Britain (Tom James, Pete Reed, Andrew Triggs Hodge)
Lightweight double sculls
2.Dimitrios Mougios / Vasileios Polymeros (Greece)
WOMEN
Single sculls
1.Rumyana Neykova (Bulgaria)
3.Ekaterina Karsten (Belarus)
Double sculls
3.Elise Laverick / Anna Bebington (Great Britain)
Quadruple sculls
2.Great Britain (Katherine Grainger)
Coxless pairs
3.Yulia Bichyk / Natallia Helakh (Belarus)
WOMEN
470
1.Elise Rechichi / Tessa Parkinson (Australia)
2.Marcelien de Koning / Lobke Berkhout (Netherlands)
Yngling
3.Greece (Sofia Bekatorou)
MEN
470
1.Nathan Wilmot / Malcolm Page (Australia)
OPEN
Finn
1.Ben Ainslie (Great Britain)
Tornado
3.Santiago Lange / Carlos Espinola (Argentina)
MEN
10 m air pistol
1.Pang Wei (China)
50 m rifle three positions
3.Rajmond Debevec (Slovenia)
1.Japan (Eri Yamada)
MEN
200 m freestyle
1.Michael Phelps (USA)
1500 m freestyle
2.Grant Hackett (Australia)
100 m breaststroke
1.Kosuke Kitajima (Japan)
200 m breaststroke
1.Kosuke Kitajima (Japan)
100 m butterfly
1.Michael Phelps (USA)
2.Milorad Cavic (Serbia)
200 m butterfly: 1.Michael Phelps (USA)
200 m individual medley: 1.Michael Phelps (USA)
400 m individual medley: 1.Michael Phelps (USA)
4 x 100 m freestyle
1.USA (Michael Phelps)
3.Australia (Ashley Callus)
4 x 200 m freestyle
1.USA (Michael Phelps)
3.Australia (Grant Hackett)
4 x 100 m medley
1.USA (Michael Phelps)
3.Japan (Kosuke Kitajima)
10 km open water
1.Maarten van der Weijden (Netherlands)
WOMEN
50 m freestyle
3.Cate Campbell (Australia)
100 m freestyle
2.Lisbeth Trickett (Australia)
100 m backstroke: 2.Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe)
200 m backstroke: 1.Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe)
100 m breaststroke
1.Leisel Jones (Australia)
200 m breaststroke
2.Leisel Jones (Australia)
100 m butterfly
1.Lisbeth Trickett (Australia)
3.Jessicah Schipper (Australia)
200 m butterfly
3.Jessicah Schipper (Australia)
200 m individual medley
1.Stephanie Rice (Australia)
2.Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe)
400 m individual medley
1.Stephanie Rice (Australia)
2.Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe)
4 x 100 m freestyle
3.Australia (Cate Campbell, Alice Mills, Melanie Schlanger, Lisbeth Trickett)
4 x 200 m freestyle
1.Australia (Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer, Linda Mackenzie, Melanie Schlanger (swam in Heat))
4 x 100 m medley
1.Australia (Emily Seebohm, Leisel Jones, Jessicah Schipper, Lisbeth Trickett)
2.USA (Megan Jendrick (swam in Heat))
Men’s singles
3.Wang Liqin (China)
Men’s team
1.China (Wang Liqin)
3.South Korea (Ryu Seung-Min)
Women’s singles
2.Wang Nan (China)
3.Guo Yue (China)
Women’s team
MEN
80+ kg
2.Alexandros Nikolaidis (Greece)
Men’s singles
1.Rafael Nadal (Spain)
3.Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
17-32.Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia)
Men’s doubles
1.Roger Federer / Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland)
17-32.Nenad Zimonjic / Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Women’s singles
1.Elena Dementieva (Russia)
5-8.Jelena Jankovic (Serbia)
Women’s doubles
1.Serena Williams / Venus Williams (USA)
Men’s individual
1.Jan Frodeno (Germany)
Women’s individual
1.Emma Snowsill (Australia)
2.Vanessa Fernandes
(Portugal)
Men
3.Serbia (Zivko Gocic, Andrija Prlainovic, Vanja Udovicic, Dusko Pijetlovic, Nikola Raden, Filip Filipovic, Slobodan Soro)
MEN
85 kg
1.Lu Yong (China)
DSQ (initially 2).Andrei Rybakou (Belarus)
105 kg
1.Andrei Aramnau (Belarus)
WOMEN
53 kg
DSQ (initially 3).Nastassia
Novikava (Belarus)
75+ kg
2.Ele Opeloge (Samoa)
MEN - FREESTYLE
74 kg
2.Murad Gaidarov (Belarus)
84 kg
1.Revaz Mindorashvili (Georgia)
MEN – GRECO-ROMAN
60 kg
3-4.Ruslan Tyumenbayev (Kyrgyzstan)
66 kg
1.Steeve Guenot (France)
2.Kanatbek Begaliyev (Kyrgyzstan)
3-4.Mikhail Siamionau (Belarus)
74 kg
1.Manuchar Kvirkelia (Georgia)
WOMEN – FREESTYLE
55 kg
1.Saori Yoshida (Japan)
3-4.Jackeline Renteria (Colombia)
72 kg
2.Stanka Zlateva (Bulgaria)
1.CHINA (48-22-30)
2.USA (36-39-37)
3.RUSSIA (24-13-23)
24.BELARUS (3-4-7)
38.ZIMBABWE (1-3-0)
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