2008
23
Aug
The United States have won the gold medal in the women’s 4×400 meter relay at the Beijing Olympics. Russia won the silver medal and Jamaica won the bronze.
United States
WINEBERG Mary
FELIX Allyson
HENDERSON Monique
RICHARDS Sanya
Russia
GUSHCHINA Yulia
LITVINOVA Liudmila
FIROVA Tatiana
KAPACHINSKAYA Anastasia
Jamaica
WILLIAMS Shericka
LLOYD Shereefa
WHYTE Rosemarie
WILLIAMS Novelene
2008
23
Aug
Tia Hallebaut of Belgium has won the gold medal in the women’s high jump, clearing 2.05 meters in her first attempt.
Blanka Vlasic of Croatia won the silver medal and Russia’s Anna Chicherova won the bronze medal.
2008
23
Aug
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.
2008
23
Aug
China’s Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun have won the gold medal in the men’s C2 (canoe).
Russia’s Sergey Ulegin and Alexander Kostoglod won the silver medal and Germany’s Christian Gille and Thomasz Wylenzek won the bronze medal.
2008
23
Aug
Russia has won the gold medal in the synchronized swimming team event with a perfect score of 100.00 in the team free routine.
Spain won the silver medal and China won the bronze.
Russia:
DAVYDOVA Anastasia
ERMAKOVA Anastasia
GROMOVA Maria
ISHCHENKO Natalia
KHASYANOVA Elvira
KUZHELA Olga
ROMASHINA Svetlana
SHORINA Anna
OVCHINNIKOVA Elena
Spain
CABELLO Alba Maria
CORRAL Raquel
FUENTES Andrea
HENRIQUEZ Thais
LOPEZ Laura
MENGUAL Gemma
RODRIGUEZ Irina
TIRADOS Paola
MORON Gisela
China
GU Beibei
JIANG Tingting
JIANG Wenwen
LIU Ou
LUO [...]
2008
23
Aug
– Russia won the Synchronized Swimming Team Event gold medal after they finished a perfect 100.000 performance in the Team Free Routine on August 23, scoring a cumulative total of 99.500 points. Spain won the silver medal with a total score of 98.251. Host China earned the bronze medal with 97.334 points. Placing fourth [...]
2008
23
Aug
Inna Osypenko-Radomska from Ukraine has won the gold medal in the women’s 500m K1.
Josefa Idem from Italy won the silver medal and Germany’s Katrin Wagner-Augustin won the bronze.
2008
23
Aug
Russia’s Maxim Opalez has won the gold medal in the men’s C1 500 meters. David Cal from Spain won the silver medal and the bronze medal went to Ukranie’s Iurii Cheban.
2008
23
Aug
Sabine Spitz from Germany has won the gold medal in the women’s cross country mountain bike. Spitz won the world championships in 2003 and won a bronze medal at the Athens games.
Maja Wloszczowska of Poland won the silver medal and Irina Kalentyeva of Russia won bronze.
2008
22
Aug
Steve Hooker of Australia has won the gold medal in the men’s pole vault setting a new Olympic record of 5.96.
Evgeny Lukyanenko of Russia won the silver medal and Denys Yurchenko of the Ukraine won the bronze medal.