Belarus wins gold in men’s C2 1000m

Belarus’s Andrei Bahdanovich and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich have won the gold medal in the men’s C2 1000 meters.
Germany’s Christian Gille and Thomasz Wylenzek won the silver medal.
Gyorgy Kozmann and Tamas Kiss from Hungary won the bronze medal.


Germany wins gold in men’s K2 1000m

Germany’s Martin Hollstein and Andreas Ihle have won the gold medal in the men’s K2 1000 meters.
Kim Wraae Knudsen and Rene Holten Poulsen from Denmark won the silver medal. The bronze medal went to Italy’s Andrea Facchin and Antonio M. Scaduto.

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Germany wins gold medal in women’s 500m K4

Germany has won the gold medal in women’s 500 meter K4.
Hungary won the silver medal and Australia has won the bronze.
Germany
FISCHER Fanny
REINHARDT Nicole
WAGNER-AUGUSTIN Katrin
WASSMUTH Conny
Hungary
KOVACS Katalin
SZABO Gabriella Timea
KOZAK Danuta
JANIC Natasa
Australia
OLDENHOF Lisa
DAVIS Hannah
MEEK Chantal
FOGARTY Lyndsie

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Barbora Spotakova wins the gold in women’s javelin throw

Barbora Spotakova of Czech Republic has won gold in the final of the women’s javelin at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games with a throw of 71.42 meters.
Maria Abakumova from Russia won the silver with a throw of 70.78 and Germany’s Christina Obergfoll won the bronze.


Maarten van der Weijden of the Netherlands wins gold in men’s swimming marathon

Maarten van der Weijden of the Netherlands narrowly won the gold medal in the men’s 10km swimming marathon with a time of 1:51:51.6.
David Davies of Great Britain won the silver medal with a time of 1:51:53.1. Thomas Lurz of Germany won the bronze medal with a time of 1:51:53.6.


Anky van Grunsven wins gold in the dressage individual event

Anky van Grunsven from the Netherlands has won the gold medal in individual dressage.
Isabell Werth from Germany won the silver medal and the bronze was won by Heike Kemmer also from Gemany.


Matthias Steiner wins world strongest man title

Matthias Steiner from Germany has won the gold medal in the men’s 105kg plus weightlifting competition at the Beijing Olympics.
Russia’s Evgeny Chigishev won the silver medal and Viktors Scerbatihs from Latvia won the bronze.


Kai Zou wins gold medal in men’s horizontal bar – gymnastics

Kai Zou from China has won the gold medal in the men’s horizontal bar, gymnastics.
Jonathan Horton from the United States won the silver medal and Fabian Hambuechen from Germany won the bronze.


Germany’s “Frodo” wins men’s triathalon gold

Germany’s Jan Frodeno, who took up triathlon because a girl he fancied did it, won the Olympic gold medal on Tuesday in a dramatic sprint over the last few meters.
Close behind him, Sydney gold medalist Simon Whitfield of Canada won the silver in the baking hot Beijing swim-bike-run event, and New Zealand’s Bevan Docherty [...]

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Jan Frodeno sprints final strectch to win gold in men’s triathlon

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 [...]