Olympics News and Info

Maria del Rosario Espinoza wins gold in women’s 67kg plus taekwondo

Maria del Rosario Espinoza from Mexico has won the gold medal in the women’s 67kg plus division of taekwondo.
Nina Solheim from Norway won the silver medal. Sarah Stevenson from Great Britain and Natalia Falavigna from Brazil won bronze medals.

Andreas Thorkildsen wins gold in men’s javelin

Andreas Thorkildsen from Norway has won the gold medal in men’s javelin setting an Olympic record of 90.57.
Ainars Kovals from Latvia won the silver medal and Tero Pitkamaki from Finland won the bronze.

Norway wins gold in women’s handball

Norway has won the gold medal in the women’s handball defeating Russia 34-27.
Korea defeated Hungary 33-28 to win the bronze medal.

Tim Brabants from Great Britain wins gold in men’s K1 1000m

Tim Brabants from Great Britain has won the gold in men’s K1 1000 meters.
Eirik Veraas from Norway has won the silver medal and Ken Wallace from Australia won the bronze.

Olga Kaniskina of Russia wins gold in women’s 20km walk breaking OR

Olga Kaniskina of Russia has won the gold medal in the women’s 20km walk and she broke the Olympic record with a time of 1 hour 26.31 minutes
Kjersti Tysse Platzer from Norway finished second and Italy’s Elisa Rigaudo, won the bronze medal.

United States wins gold in jumping team – equestrian

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
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Vincent Hancock has won the gold medal in the men’s skeet – shooting

Vincent Hancock from the United States has won the gold medal in the men’s skeet at the Beijing Olympic Games with a total of 145 hits. Hancock had to battle off Tore Brovola of Norway in a shoot-off for the gold. Anthony Terras of France took the bronze medal, also after a shoot-off.

Olaf Tufte from Norway wins men’s single scull – rowing

Olaf Tufte from Norway has won the gold medal in men’s single scull.
Ondrej Synek from the Czech Republic has won the silver medal.
Mahe Drysdale the bronze medal and New Zealand’s first medal at the Beijing Olympics.

Rebecca Soni wins women’s 200 meter breaststroke

Rebecca Soni from United States has won the gold medal and set a world record new world record of 2.20.22

Leisel Jones from Australia won the silver medal and Sara Nordenstan from Norway won the bronze.

Gold and new world record to Kitajima in men’s 100 meter breaststroke

Another world record broken as Kitajima takes the gold medal in the men’s 100 meter breaststroke.
Gold – Kosuke Kitajima – Japan – 58.91WR
Silver – Alexander Dale Oen – Norway – 59.20
Bronze – Hugues Duboscq – France – 59.37