2008
18
Aug
Jan Frodeno from Germany has won the gold medal in the men’s triathlon at the Beijing Olympics, with a time of 1:48:53.
It was a close finish between Jan Frodeno and Canadian Simon Whitfield who won the silver medal. Frodeno must have saved a bit of energy to enable him to break away at [...]
2008
18
Aug
The United States has won the gold in jumping team, equestrian. Silver went to Canada and bronze to Norway.
United States
KRAUT Laura – CEDRIC
MADDEN Beezie – AUTHENTIC
SIMPSON Will CARLSSON – VOM DACH
WARD Mclain – SAPPHIRE
Canada
CONE Mac – OLE
HENSELWOOD Jill – SPECIAL ED
LAMAZE Eric – HICKSTEAD
MILLAR Ian – IN STYLE
Norway
DJUPVIK [...]
2008
18
Aug
Wenna He from China has won the gold medal in women’s trampoline.
Karen Cockburn from Canada has won the silver medal and Ekaterina Khilko from Uzbekistan won the bronze medal.
2008
17
Aug
Canada has won the gold medal in the men’s eight rowing. Great Britain won the silver and the United States has won the bronze.
Canada team:
LIGHT Kevin
RUTLEDGE Ben
BYRNES Andrew
WETZEL Jake
HOWARD Malcolm
SEITERLE Dominic
KREEK Adam
HAMILTON Kyle
PRICE Brian
Great Britain:
PARTRIDGE Alex
STALLARD Tom
LUCY Tom
EGINGTON Richard
WEST Josh
HEATHCOTE Alastair
LANGRIDGE Matt
SMITH Colin
NETHERCOTT Acer
United States:
HOOPMAN Beau
SCHNOBRICH Matt
BOYD Micah
ALLEN Wyatt
WALSH Daniel
COPPOLA Steven
INMAN Josh
VOLPENHEIN Bryan
Mc ELHENNEY [...]
2008
17
Aug
Denmark has won the men’s lightweight final four.
Poland has won the silver medal and Canada has won the bronze.
Denmark:
Thomas Ebert
JOERGENSEN Morten
ANDERSEN Mads Christian Kruse
EBBESEN Eskild Balschmidt
Poland:
PAWLOWSKI Lukasz
PAWELCZAK Bartlomiej
BERNATAJTYS Milosz
RANDA Pawel
Canada:
BRAMBELL Iain
BEARE Jon
LEWIS Mike
PARSONS Liam
2008
17
Aug
Kirsten van der Kolk and Marit van Eupen from Netherlands have won the gold medal in the women’s lightweight double sculls.
Finland’s team of Sanna Sten and Minna Nieminen won the silver medal.
Melanie Kok and Tracy Cameron from Canada won the bronze.
2008
16
Aug
Oussama Mellouli from Tunisia has won the gold medal in the men’s 1500m freestyle, a race which Grant Hackett from Australia was favorite to win and had won at the previous two Olympics. Mellouli won the race in 14:40.84.
Hackett still managed to win the silver medal and Ryan Cochrane from Canada won the bronze.
2008
16
Aug
Yoshida Saori from Japan beat China’s Xu Li to win the gold medal in the women’s 55kg freestyle wrestling.
Canada’s Tonya Verbeek and Colombia’s Jackeline Renteria both won bronze medals.
2008
16
Aug
Canada’s medal drought in Beijing is over – and it came to an end with a gold and silver one-two punch Saturday.
Freestyle wrestler Carol Huynh won the women’s 48-kilogram final about 20 minutes after rowers Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen finished second in the men’s pair for the country’s first trip to the podium at [...]
2008
16
Aug
Carol Huynh of Canada has won the gold medal in women’s freestyle 48 kg wrestling.
Chiharu Icho from Japan won the silver medal and Mariya Stadnik from Azerbaijan won the bronze medal.