Chronological summary of the 2008 Summer Olympics

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This article contains a chronological summary of major events from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

Calendar

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All dates are Beijing Time (UTC+8)
OC Opening ceremony Event competitions 1 Gold medal events EG Exhibition gala CC Closing ceremony
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Ceremonies OC CC
Aquatics Diving 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 46
Marathon swimming 1 1
Swimming 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Synchronized swimming 1 1
Water polo 1 1
Archery 1 1 1 1 4
Athletics 2 4 6 6 5 3 6 7 7 1 47
Badminton 1 2 2 5
Baseball/Softball
Baseball 1 2
Softball 1
Basketball 1 1 2
Boxing 4 6 11
Canoeing Slalom 2 2 16
Sprint 6 6
Cycling Road cycling 1 1 2 18
Track cycling 1 3 1 2 3
BMX 2
Mountain biking 2
Equestrian 2 1 1 1 1 6
Fencing 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 10
Field hockey 1 1 2
Football 1 1 2
Gymnastics Artistic 1 1 1 1 4 3 3 EG 18
Rhythmic 1 1
Trampolining 1 1
Handball 1 1 2
Judo 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 14
Modern pentathlon 1 1 2
Rowing 7 7 14
Sailing 3 2 2 2 2 11
Shooting 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 15
Table tennis 1 1 1 1 4
Taekwondo 2 2 2 2 8
Tennis 1 3 4
Triathlon 1 1 2
Volleyball Beach volleyball 1 1 4
Indoor volleyball 1 1
Weightlifting 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 15
Wrestling 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 18
Daily medal events 7 14 13 19 17 15 18 27 37 18 20 11 21 21 32 12 302
Cumulative total 7 21 34 53 70 85 103 130 167 185 205 216 237 258 290 302
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Day-by-day summaries

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August 6

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Football

  • The first competitions of the Games started at 5:00pm CST (UTC+8). The first events were women's football (soccer) matches. The day was devoted to women's football.[1][2]

August 7

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Football

  • The first football (soccer) matches for men began on this day. The day was devoted to men's football matches.[3][4]

August 8

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Fireworks during the opening ceremony
Opening Ceremony
Starting at 8:00 pm CST (UTC+8),[5] the four-hour opening ceremony was attended by 91,000 spectators,[6] including more than 100 world leaders. The spectacle was directed by filmmaker Zhang Yimou, and the Olympic Cauldron was lit by former Chinese gymnast Li Ning.[7]

Equestrian

Day 1: August 9

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Archery

Boxing

Fencing

Judo

Shooting

Swimming

Weightlifting

Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Cycling Men's road race Samuel Sánchez  Spain [17]
Fencing Women's sabre Mariel Zagunis  United States [11]
Judo Men's 60 kg Choi Min-Ho  South Korea [12]
Women's 48 kg Alina Alexandra Dumitru  Romania [12]
Shooting Men's 10 m air pistol Pang Wei  China [18]
Women's 10 m air rifle Kateřina Emmons  Czech Republic OR [13]
Weightlifting Women's 48 kg Chen Xiexia  China OR [16]

Day 2: August 10

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Archery
  • South Korea set a world record for a 24-arrow team match, in their victory over Italy in the quarter finals of the women's team archery event. They went on to win the gold medal, stretching the country's winning streak to 20 years over 6 Olympic games.[19]
Basketball
  • The USA men's basketball team beat hosts China 101–70 in the first game in the basketball event.[20]
Shooting
Swimming
Weightlifting
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Archery Women's team Park Sung-hyun, Yun Ok-Hee, Joo Hyun-Jung  South Korea [30]
Cycling Women's road race Nicole Cooke  Great Britain [31]
Diving Women's synchronised 3 m springboard Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia  China [32]
Fencing Men's épée Matteo Tagliariol  Italy [33]
Judo Men's 66 kg Masato Uchishiba  Japan [34]
Women's 52 kg Xian Dongmei  China [34]
Shooting Men's trap David Kostelecký  Czech Republic OR [35]
Women's 10 m air pistol Guo Wenjun  China OR [21]
Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle Park Tae-Hwan  South Korea [24]
Men's 400 m individual medley Michael Phelps  United States WR [23]
Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay Inge Dekker, Ranomi Kromowidjojo,
Femke Heemskerk, Marleen Veldhuis
Heats: Hinkelien Schreuder, Manon van Rooijen
 Netherlands OR [27]
Women's 400 m individual medley Stephanie Rice  Australia WR [26]
Weightlifting Men's 56 kg Long Qingquan  China [36]
Women's 53 kg Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon  Thailand OR [29]

Day 3: August 11

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Swimming
Shooting
Judo
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Archery Men's team Im Dong-Hyun, Lee Chang-Hwan, Park Kyung-Mo  South Korea OR [44]
Diving Men's synchronised 10 m platform Lin Yue and Huo Liang  China [45]
Fencing Women's foil Valentina Vezzali  Italy [46]
Judo Men's 73 kg Elnur Mammadli  Azerbaijan [47]
Women's 57 kg Giulia Quintavalle  Italy [47]
Shooting Men's 10 m air rifle Abhinav Bindra  India [41]
Women's trap Satu Mäkelä-Nummela  Finland [48]
Swimming Men's 100 m breaststroke Kosuke Kitajima  Japan WR [38]
Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale,
Cullen Jones, Jason Lezak
Heats: Nathan Adrian,
Ben Wildman-Tobriner, Matt Grevers
 United States WR [49]
Women's 100 m butterfly Libby Trickett  Australia [50]
Women's 400 m freestyle Rebecca Adlington  Great Britain [51]
Weightlifting Men's 62 kg Zhang Xiangxiang  China [52]
Women's 58 kg Chen Yanqing  China OR [53]

Day 4: August 12

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Swimming
Shooting
Canoeing
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Canoeing Men's slalom C-1 Michal Martikán  Slovakia [55]
Men's slalom K-1 Alexander Grimm  Germany [56]
Diving Women's synchronized 10 m platform Wang Xin and Chen Ruolin  China [57]
Equestrian Individual eventing Hinrich Romeike  Germany [58]
Team eventing Peter Thomsen, Frank Ostholt, Hinrich Romeike,
Ingrid Klimke, Andreas Dibowski
 Germany [58]
Fencing Men's sabre Zhong Man  China [59]
Gymnastics Men's artistic team all-around Huang Xu, Chen Yibing, Li Xiaopeng,
Xiao Qin, Yang Wei, Zou Kai
 China [60]
Judo Men's 81 kg Ole Bischof  Germany [61]
Women's 63kg Ayumi Tanimoto  Japan [61]
Shooting Men's 50 m pistol Jin Jong-oh  South Korea [62]
Men's double trap Walton Eller  United States OR[broken anchor] [63]
Swimming Men's 100 m backstroke Aaron Peirsol  United States WR [64]
Men's 200 m freestyle Michael Phelps  United States WR [65]
Women's 100 m backstroke Natalie Coughlin  United States [66]
Women's 100 m breaststroke Leisel Jones  Australia OR [67]
Weightlifting Men's 69 kg Liao Hui  China [68]
Women's 63 kg Pak Hyon Suk  North Korea [69]
Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 55 kg Nazyr Mankiev  Russia [70]
Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg Islam-Beka Albiev  Russia [70]

Day 5: August 13

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Wrestling
Swimming
Gymnastics
  • The Chinese women's gymnastic team won its first ever team gold medal.[72]
Weightlifting
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Cycling Men's road time trial Fabian Cancellara  Switzerland [74]
Women's road time trial Kristin Armstrong  United States [75]
Diving Men's synchronized 3 m springboard Wang Feng and Qin Kai  China [76]
Fencing Men's foil Benjamin Kleibrink  Germany [77]
Women's épée Britta Heidemann  Germany [78]
Gymnastics Women's artistic team all-around Yang Yilin, Cheng Fei, Jiang Yuyan,
Deng Linlin, He Kexin, Li Shanshan
 China [72]
Judo Men's 90 kg Irakli Tsirekidze  Georgia [79]
Women's 70 kg Masae Ueno  Japan [79]
Shooting Women's 25 m pistol Chen Ying  China [80]
Swimming Men's 200 m butterfly Michael Phelps  United States WR [81]
Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte,
Ricky Berens, Peter Vanderkaay
Heats: Klete Keller, Erik Vendt,
David Walters
 United States WR [82]
Women's 200 m freestyle Federica Pellegrini  Italy WR [83]
Women's 200 m individual medley Stephanie Rice  Australia WR [84]
Weightlifting Men's 77 kg Sa Jae-Hyouk  South Korea [85]
Women's 69 kg Liu Chunhong  China WR [86]
Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg Steeve Guenot  France [87]
Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg Manuchar Kvirkelia  Georgia [88]

Day 6: August 14

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Swimming
Archery
  • Zhang Juanjuan of China won the women's individual archery competition by beating the top three ranked archers in the event.[90]
Judo
Wrestling
  • Ara Abrahamian won a bronze medal in the 84-kilogram Greco-Roman wrestling, but during the medal ceremony stepped off of the podium and laid his medal down on the mat. Abrahamian had lost a 3-1 decision to Andrea Minguzzi in the semi-finals in a disputed decision and started shouting at referees and officials after the match.[92] The IOC later decided to officially strip him of his medal.[93]
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Archery Women's individual Zhang Juanjuan  China [90]
Equestrian Team dressage Isabell Werth, Nadine Capellmann, Heike Kemmer  Germany [94]
Fencing Women's team sabre Olga Kharlan, Olena Khomrova
Halyna Pundyk, Olha Zhovnir
 Ukraine [95]
Gymnastics Men's artistic individual all-around Yang Wei  China [96]
Judo Men's 100 kg Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar  Mongolia [91]
Women's 78 kg Yang Xiuli  China [91]
Shooting Women's 50 m rifle three positions Du Li  China [97]
Women's skeet Chiara Cainero  Italy OR [98]
Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle Alain Bernard  France [99]
Men's 200 m breaststroke Kosuke Kitajima  Japan OR [100]
Women's 200 m butterfly Liu Zige  China WR [101]
Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt,
Kylie Palmer, Linda Mackenzie
Heats: Felicity Galvez, Angie Bainbridge,
Melanie Schlanger, Lara Davenport
 Australia WR [89]
Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg Andrea Minguzzi  Italy [102]
Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg Aslanbek Khushtov  Russia [103]
Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg Mijail López  Cuba [104]

Day 7: August 15

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Athletics
Gymnastics
Table tennis
  • Singapore qualified for the final in the women's team event, thus ensuring that the country would win its first Olympic medal, in any event, since 1960.[106]
Judo
  • Down a yuko and with only 16 seconds left, world champion China's Tong Wen managed to throw defending Olympic champion Japan's Maki Tsukada for the gold in women's +78 kg.
Tennis
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Archery Men's individual Viktor Ruban  Ukraine [107]
Athletics Men's shot put Tomasz Majewski  Poland [108]
Women's 10000 m Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia OR [109]
Badminton Women's doubles Du Jing and Yu Yang  China [110]
Canoeing Men's slalom C-2 Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner  Slovakia [111]
Women's slalom K-1 Elena Kaliská  Slovakia [112]
Cycling Men's team sprint Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny, Jamie Staff  Great Britain [113]
Fencing Men's team épée Jérôme Jeannet, Fabrice Jeannet, Ulrich Robeiri  France [114]
Gymnastics Women's artistic individual all-around Nastia Liukin  United States [115]
Judo Men's +100 kg Satoshi Ishii  Japan [116]
Women's +78 kg Tong Wen  China [116]
Shooting Men's 50 m rifle prone Artur Ayvazyan  Ukraine [117]
Swimming Men's 200 m backstroke Ryan Lochte  United States WR [118]
Men's 200 m individual medley Michael Phelps  United States WR [119]
Women's 100 m freestyle Britta Steffen  Germany OR [120]
Women's 200 m breaststroke Rebecca Soni  United States WR [121]
Weightlifting Men's 85 kg Lu Yong  China [122]
Women's 75 kg Cao Lei  China OR [123]

Day 8: August 16

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General
  • New Zealand experienced their most successful day at an Olympics (with two gold, one silver, and two bronze medals), beating their previous best of four bronze medals in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Athletics
Badminton
Rowing
Swimming
Tennis
Weightlifting
  • Jang Mi-Ran of South Korea won the unlimited (+75 kg) division of women's weightlifting by breaking world records five times: once in snatch, twice in clean-and-jerk, and twice in total.[133]
Wrestling
  • Carol Huynh of Canada won the first medal of the games for Canada and became the first gold medalist in women's wrestling for Canada.
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Athletics Men's 100 m Usain Bolt  Jamaica WR [125]
Men's 20 km walk Valeriy Borchin  Russia [124]
Women's heptathlon Natalya Dobrynska  Ukraine [134]
Women's shot put Valerie Vili  New Zealand [135]
Badminton Men's doubles Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan  Indonesia [136]
Women's singles Zhang Ning  China [126]
Cycling Men's individual pursuit Bradley Wiggins  Great Britain [137]
Men's keirin Chris Hoy  Great Britain [138]
Men's points race Joan Llaneras  Spain [139]
Fencing Women's team foil Svetlana Boyko, Aida Chanaeva,
Victoria Nikichina, Evgenia Lamonova
 Russia [140]
Rowing Men's single sculls Olaf Tufte  Norway [141]
Men's double sculls David Crawshay and Scott Brennan  Australia [142]
Men's coxless pair Drew Ginn and Duncan Free  Australia [143]
Men's coxless four Tom James, Steve Williams,
Pete Reed, Andrew Triggs Hodge
 Great Britain [127]
Women's single sculls Rumyana Neykova  Bulgaria [144]
Women's double sculls Georgina Evers-Swindell and Caroline Evers-Swindell  New Zealand [128]
Women's coxless pair Georgeta Andrunache and Viorica Susanu  Romania [129]
Shooting Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol Oleksandr Petriv  Ukraine OR [145]
Men's skeet Vincent Hancock  United States OR [146]
Swimming Men's 50 m freestyle César Cielo Filho  Brazil OR [131]
Men's 100 m butterfly Michael Phelps  United States OR [130]
Women's 200 m backstroke Kirsty Coventry  Zimbabwe WR [147]
Women's 800 m freestyle Rebecca Adlington  Great Britain WR [148]
Tennis Men's doubles Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka  Switzerland [132]
Weightlifting Women's +75 kg Jang Mi-Ran  South Korea WR [133]
Wrestling Women's freestyle 48 kg Carol Huynh  Canada [149]
Women's freestyle 55 kg Saori Yoshida  Japan [150]

Day 9: August 17

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General
  • China won its 33rd gold medal of the Beijing games by beating Singapore in the table tennis women's team event, surpassing its 32 golds of the Athens games and making this the most successful Olympiad ever for China.[151]
Athletics
Cycling
  • Britain's Rebecca Romero won a cycling gold to become one of the few athletes with medals in two distinct disciplines, the 2008 medal being added to her 2004 rowing silver.[154]
Diving
Gymnastics
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
  • Matthew Emmons finished fourth in the men's 50 m rifle three positions event having held the lead with one shot remaining: four years earlier he had fallen from first to eighth in the last shot of the event. China's Qiu Jian, who had entered the final in fourth position, shot the highest score in the final round to win the gold medal.[160]
Swimming
Table Tennis
  • China won the inaugural women's team event by winning all ten of its singles and all five of its doubles matches in the tournament.
Tennis
Wrestling
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Athletics Men's 10000 m Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia OR [166]
Men's hammer throw Primož Kozmus  Slovenia [167]
Women's 100 m Shelly-Ann Fraser  Jamaica [152]
Women's 3000 m steeplechase Gulnara Galkina-Samitova  Russia WR [153]
Women's marathon Constantina Diṭă-Tomescu  Romania [168]
Women's triple jump Françoise Mbango Etone  Cameroon OR [169]
Badminton Men's singles Lin Dan  China [170]
Mixed doubles Lee Yong-dae and Lee Hyo-jung  South Korea [171]
Cycling Women's individual pursuit Rebecca Romero  Great Britain [154]
Diving Women's 3 m springboard Guo Jingjing  China [155]
Fencing Men's team sabre Nicolas Lopez, Julien Pillet, Boris Sanson  France [172]
Gymnastics Men's floor Zou Kai  China [173]
Men's pommel horse Xiao Qin  China [174]
Women's floor Sandra Izbaşa  Romania [175]
Women's vault Hong Un Jong  North Korea [176]
Rowing Men's lightweight double sculls Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter  Great Britain [177]
Men's lightweight coxless four Thomas Ebert, Morten Jørgensen,
Mads Andersen, Eskild Ebbesen
 Denmark [178]
Men's quadruple sculls Konrad Wasielewski, Marek Kolbowicz,
Michał Jeliński, Adam Korol
 Poland [179]
Men's eight Kevin Light, Ben Rutledge, Andrew Byrnes,
Jake Wetzel, Malcolm Howard, Dominic Sieterle,
Adam Kreek, Kyle Hamilton, Brian Price
 Canada [180]
Women's lightweight double sculls Kirsten van der Kolk and Marit van Eupen  Netherlands [181]
Women's quadruple sculls Tang Bin, Xi Aihua,
Jin Ziwei, Zhang Yangyang
 China [159]
Women's eight Erin Cafaro, Lindsay Shoop, Anna Goodale,
Elle Logan, Anna Cummins, Susan Francia,
Caroline Lind, Caryn Davies, Mary Whipple
 United States [182]
Sailing Finn class Ben Ainslie  Great Britain [183]
Yngling class Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb, Pippa Wilson  Great Britain [184]
49er class Jonas Warrer and Martin Kirketerp Ibsen  Denmark [185]
Shooting Men's 50 m rifle three positions Qiu Jian  China [160]
Swimming Men's 1500 m freestyle Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia [186]
Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen
Michael Phelps, Jason Lezak
Heats: Matt Grevers, Mark Gangloff,
Ian Crocker, Garrett Weber-Gale
 United States WR [161]
Women's 50 m freestyle Britta Steffen  Germany OR [162]
Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay Emily Seebohm, Leisel Jones,
Jessicah Schipper, Lisbeth Trickett
Heats: Tarnee White, Felicity Galvez,
Shayne Reese
 Australia WR [163]
Table tennis Women's team Guo Yue, Zhang Yining, Wang Nan  China [187]
Tennis Men's singles Rafael Nadal  Spain [164]
Women's singles Elena Dementieva  Russia [188]
Women's doubles Venus Williams and Serena Williams  United States [189]
Weightlifting Men's 94 kg Ilya Ilyin  Kazakhstan [190]
Wrestling Women's freestyle 63 kg Kaori Icho  Japan [165]
Women's freestyle 72 kg Wang Jiao  China [191]

Day 10: August 18

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Athletics
Table Tennis
  • Like the women, the Chinese men won the team competition without losing a match, winning all ten singles and all five doubles matches.
Weightlifting
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Athletics Men's 400 m hurdles Angelo Taylor  United States [195]
Men's 3000 m steeplechase Brimin Kiprop Kipruto  Kenya [198]
Men's long jump Irving Saladino  Panama [194]
Women's 800 m Pamela Jelimo  Kenya [199]
Women's discus throw Stephanie Brown Trafton  United States [200]
Women's pole vault Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia WR [196]
Cycling Men's team pursuit Ed Clancy, Paul Manning,
Geraint Thomas, Bradley Wiggins
 Great Britain WR [201]
Women's points race Marianne Vos  Netherlands [202]
Equestrian Team jumping Laura Kraut, Beezie Madden,
Will Simpson, McLain Ward
 United States [203]
Gymnastics Men's rings Chen Yibing  China [204]
Men's vault Leszek Blanik  Poland [205]
Women's trampoline He Wenna  China [206]
Women's uneven bars He Kexin  China [207]
Sailing Men's 470 class Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page  Australia [208]
Women's 470 class Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson  Australia [209]
Table tennis Men's team Wang Hao, Ma Lin, Wang Liqin  China [210]
Triathlon Women's Emma Snowsill  Australia [211]
Weightlifting Men's 105 kg Andrei Aramnau  Belarus WR [197]

Day 11: August 19

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Athletics
Cycling
  • Chris Hoy won his third gold medal of the Beijing games in the men's sprint event, becoming the first British athlete in 100 years to win three gold medals in a single Olympiad.[214][215]
  • Victoria Pendelton added gold to the Great British track cycling medal total giving Great Britain victory in seven out of the ten track cycling titles. The team won 12 medals including 7 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze to dominate the track events.[216]
Football
  • Argentina defeated tournament favourite and longtime rival Brazil 3-0 in the semifinal of the men's football.[217]
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Athletics Men's 1500 m Asbel Kiprop  Kenya [218]
Men's discus throw Gerd Kanter  Estonia [219]
Men's high jump Andrey Silnov  Russia [220]
Women's 100 m hurdles Dawn Harper  United States [213]
Women's 400 m Christine Ohuruogu  Great Britain [212]
Cycling Men's Madison Juan Curuchet and Walter Pérez  Argentina [221]
Men's sprint Chris Hoy  Great Britain [214]
Women's sprint Victoria Pendleton  Great Britain [222]
Diving Men's 3 m springboard He Chong  China [223]
Equestrian Individual dressage Anky van Grunsven  Netherlands [224]
Gymnastics Men's horizontal bar Zou Kai  China [225]
Men's parallel bars Li Xiaopeng  China [226]
Men's trampoline Lu Chunlong  China [227]
Women's balance beam Shawn Johnson  United States [228]
Sailing Men's Laser class Paul Goodison  Great Britain [229]
Women's Laser Radial class Anna Tunnicliffe  United States [230]
Triathlon Men's Jan Frodeno  Germany [231]
Weightlifting Men's +105 kg Matthias Steiner  Germany [232]
Wrestling Men's freestyle 55 kg Henry Cejudo  United States [233]
Men's freestyle 60 kg Mavlet Batirov  Russia [234]

Day 12: August 20

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Athletics
  • Usain Bolt won the men's 200 m in a new world record time of 19.30 seconds to become the first sprinter since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win both the 100 m and 200 m events in a single Olympiad, and the first sprinter since Don Quarrie in 1976 to hold the world records for both events simultaneously.[235]
  • In the men's 200 m, United States' Wallace Spearmon, who finished third in 19.85s, was disqualified for stepping out of his lane. Later, Netherlands Antilles' Churandy Martina, who finished second in 19.82s, was also disqualified for stepping out of his lane.
Swimming
Sailing
Taekwondo
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Athletics Men's 200 m Usain Bolt  Jamaica WR [235]
Women's 400 m hurdles Melaine Walker  Jamaica OR [239]
Women's hammer throw Aksana Miankova  Belarus OR [240]
Sailing Men's sailboard Tom Ashley  New Zealand [241]
Women's sailboard Yin Jian  China [237]
Swimming Women's marathon 10 km Larisa Ilchenko  Russia [236]
Synchronized swimming Women's duet Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova  Russia [242]
Taekwondo Men's 58 kg Guillermo Pérez  Mexico [243]
Women's 49 kg Wu Jingyu  China [244]
Wrestling Men's freestyle 66 kg Ramazan Şahin  Turkey [245]
Men's freestyle 74 kg Buvaysa Saytiev  Russia [246]

Day 13: August 21

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Athletics
Softball
Volleyball
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Athletics Men's 110 m hurdles Dayron Robles  Cuba [249]
Men's 400 m LaShawn Merritt  United States [255]
Men's triple jump Nelson Évora  Portugal [256]
Women's 200 m Veronica Campbell-Brown  Jamaica [250]
Women's 20 km walk Olga Kaniskina  Russia OR [257]
Women's javelin throw Barbora Špotáková  Czech Republic [258]
Diving Women's 10 m platform Chen Ruolin  China [259]
Equestrian Individual jumping Eric Lamaze  Canada [260]
Football Women's football Hope Solo, Nicole Barnhart, Heather Mitts,
Christie Rampone, Rachel Buehler, Stephanie Cox,
Kate Markgraf, Lori Chalupny, Lindsay Tarpley,
Shannon Boxx, Heather O'Reilly, Aly Wagner,
Carli Lloyd, Tobin Heath, Angela Hucles,
Natasha Kai, Amy Rodriguez, Lauren Cheney
 United States [261]
Modern pentathlon Men's modern pentathlon Andrey Moiseev  Russia [262]
Sailing Star class Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson  Great Britain [263]
Tornado class Antón Paz and Fernando Echavarri  Spain [264]
Softball Women's softball Naho Emoto, Motoko Fujimoto, Megu Hirose,
Emi Inui, Sachiko Ito, Ayumi Karino,
Satoko Mabuchi, Yukiyo Mine, Masumi Mishina,
Rei Nishiyama, Hiroko Sakai, Rie Sato
Mika Someya, Yukiko Ueno, Eri Yamada
 Japan [251]
Swimming Men's marathon 10 km Maarten van der Weijden  Netherlands [265]
Taekwondo Men's 68 kg Son Tae-Jin  South Korea [266]
Women's 57 kg Lim Su-Jeong  South Korea [267]
Volleyball Women's beach volleyball Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor  United States [253]
Water polo Women's water polo Ilse van der Meijden, Yasemin Smit, Mieke Cabout,
Biurakn Hakhverdian, Marieke van den Ham, Daniëlle de Bruijn,
Iefke van Belkum, Noeki Klein, Gillian van den Berg,
Alette Sijbring, Rianne Guichelaar, Simone Koot,
Meike de Nooy
 Netherlands [268]
Wrestling Men's freestyle 84 kg Revazi Mindorashvili  Georgia [269]
Men's freestyle 96 kg Shirvani Muradov  Russia [270]
Men's freestyle 120 kg Artur Taymazov  Uzbekistan [271]

Day 14: August 22

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Athletics
Cycling
Table tennis
  • China won all three medals in the women's singles, with Zhang Yining defending her Olympic gold medal, Wang Nan taking silver, and Guo Yue bronze, leaving a competitor from Singapore in fourth place for the third consecutive Olympics.[280]
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Athletics Men's 50 km walk Alex Schwazer  Italy OR [281]
Men's 4 × 100 m relay Nesta Carter, Michael Frater,
Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell
Heats: Dwight Thomas
 Jamaica WR [274]
Men's decathlon Bryan Clay  United States [282]
Men's pole vault Steven Hooker  Australia OR [283]
Women's 5000 m Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia [276]
Women's 4 × 100 m relay Olivia Borlée, Hanna Mariën, Élodie Ouédraogo, Kim Gevaert  Belgium [272]
Women's long jump Maurren Higa Maggi  Brazil [284]
Canoeing Men's C-1 1000 m Attila Vajda  Hungary [285]
Men's K-1 1000 m Tim Brabants  Great Britain [286]
Men's C-2 1000 m Andrei Bahdanovich and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich  Belarus [287]
Men's K-2 1000 m Martin Hollstein and Andreas Ihle  Germany [288]
Men's K-4 1000 m Raman Piatrushenka, Aliaksei Abalmasau,
Artur Litvinchuk, Vadzim Makhneu
 Belarus [289]
Women's K-4 500 m Fanny Fischer, Nicole Reinhardt,
Katrin Wagner-Augustin, Conny Waßmuth
 Germany [290]
Cycling Men's BMX Māris Štrombergs  Latvia [291]
Women's BMX Anne-Caroline Chausson  France [292]
Field hockey Women's field hockey Lisanne de Roever, Eefke Mulder, Fatima Moreira de Melo,
Miek van Geenhuizen, Wieke Dijkstra, Maartje Goderie,
Lidewij Welten, Minke Smabers, Minke Booij,
Janneke Schopman, Maartje Paumen, Naomi van As,
Ellen Hoog, Sophie Polkamp, Eva de Goede,
Marilyn Agliotti
 Netherlands [293]
Modern pentathlon Women's modern pentathlon Lena Schöneborn  Germany [294]
Table tennis Women's singles Zhang Yining  China [280]
Taekwondo Men's 80 kg Hadi Saei  Iran [295]
Women's 67 kg Hwang Kyung-Seon  South Korea [296]
Volleyball Men's beach volleyball Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers  United States [297]

Day 15: August 23

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Athletics
Baseball
Boxing
Diving
  • Australia's Matthew Mitcham won the men's 10 m platform gold medal with his final dive, preventing the Chinese team from winning every the diving event,[306] and achieving the highest score for an individual dive in Olympic history.[307]
Rhythmic Gymnastics
  • Almudena Cid of Spain retired after her fourth Olympic games finals, and was the only rhythmic gymnast to compete in more than two.
  • Evgenia Kanaeva of Russia finished first in every apparatus.
Table tennis
  • The Chinese men followed the achievement of the women by taking all three medals, with Ma Lin winning the gold, Wang Hao winning the silver for the second successive Olympics, and Wang Liqin taking the bronze medal in the men's singles. China became the first country to win all the medals for which they are eligible in table tennis: gold, silver and bronze in the men's and women's singles, and gold in the men's and women's team tournaments.[308]
Taekwondo
  • South Korea won the gold medal in the men's 80 kg, with all four Korean athletes sent to Beijing taking gold.
  • Ángel Matos of Cuba received a lifetime ban from taekwondo for assaulting the referee in the men's +80 kg event. Matos had been disqualified from his bronze medal bout for taking too long to return to the action after being injured.[309]
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Athletics Men's 800 m Wilfred Bungei  Kenya [310]
Men's 5000 m Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia OR [311]
Men's 4 × 400 m relay LaShawn Merritt, Angelo Taylor,
David Neville, Jeremy Wariner
Heats: Kerron Clement, Reggie Witherspoon
 United States OR [312]
Men's javelin throw Andreas Thorkildsen  Norway OR [313]
Women's 1500 m Nancy Jebet Lagat  Kenya [314]
Women's 4 × 400 m relay Mary Wineberg, Allyson Felix,
Monique Henderson, Sanya Richards
Heats: Natasha Hastings
 United States [315]
Women's high jump Tia Hellebaut  Belgium [298]
Baseball Men's baseball Ryu Hyun-Jin, Han Ki-Joo, Park Jin-Man,
Kwon Hyuk, Lee Taek-Keun, Lee Dae-Ho,
Oh Seung-Hwan, Bong Jung-Keun, Ko Young-Min,
Lee Jong-Wook, Jeong Keun-Woo, Kim Min-Jae,
Jin Kab-Yong, Lee Jin-Young, Jang Won-Sam,
Song Seung-Jun, Kim Kwang-Hyun, Lee Yong-Kyu,
Kim Dong-Joo, Kang Min-Ho, Kim Hyun-Soo,
Lee Seung-Yeop, Chong Tae-Hyon, Yoon Suk-Min
 South Korea [316]
Basketball Women's basketball Seimone Augustus, Sue Bird, Tamika Catchings,
Sylvia Fowles, Kara Lawson, Lisa Leslie,
DeLisha Milton-Jones, Candace Parker, Cappie Pondexter,
Katie Smith, Diana Taurasi, Tina Thompson
 United States [317]
Boxing Flyweight Somjit Jongjohor  Thailand [318]
Featherweight Vasyl Lomachenko  Ukraine [301]
Light welterweight Manuel Félix Díaz  Dominican Republic [319]
Middleweight James DeGale  Great Britain [320]
Heavyweight Rakhim Chakhkiev  Russia [321]
Canoeing Men's C-1 500 m Maxim Opalev  Russia [322]
Men's K-1 500 m Ken Wallace  Australia [323]
Men's C-2 500 m Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun  China [324]
Men's K-2 500 m Saúl Craviotto and Carlos Pérez  Spain [325]
Women's K-1 500 m Inna Osypenko-Radomska  Ukraine [326]
Women's K-2 500 m Katalin Kovács and Natasa Janics  Hungary [327]
Cycling Men's cross-country Julien Absalon  France [328]
Women's cross-country Sabine Spitz  Germany [329]
Diving Men's 10 m platform Matthew Mitcham  Australia [306]
Field hockey Men's field hockey Philip Witte, Maximillian Mueller, Sebastian Biederlack,
Carlos Nevado, Moritz Fuerste, Tobias Hauke,
Tibor Weißenborn, Benjamin Weß, Niklas Meinert,
Timo Weß, Oliver Korn, Christopher Zeller,
Max Weinhold, Matthias Witthaus, Florian Keller,
Philipp Zeller, Jan-Marco Montag
 Germany [330]
Football Men's football Óscar Ustari, Ezequiel Garay, Luciano Fabián Monzón,
Pablo Zabaleta, Fernando Gago, Federico Fazio,
José Ernesto Sosa, Éver Banega, Ezequiel Lavezzi,
Juan Román Riquelme, Ángel Di María, Nicolás Pareja,
Lautaro Acosta, Javier Mascherano, Lionel Messi,
Sergio Agüero, Diego Buonanotte, Sergio Romero,
Nicolás Navarro
 Argentina [331]
Gymnastics Women's rhythmic
individual all-around
Evgeniya Kanaeva  Russia [332]
Handball Women's handball Kari Aalvik Grimsbø, Katja Nyberg, Ragnhild Aamodt,
Gøril Snorroeggen, Else Marthe Sørlie Lybekk, Tonje Nøstvold,
Karoline Dyhre Breivang, Kristine Lunde, Gro Hammerseng,
Kari Mette Johansen, Marit Malm Frafjord, Tonje Larsen,
Katrine Lunde Haraldsen, Linn Kristin Riegelhuth
 Norway [333]
Synchronized swimming Women's team Anastasia Davydova, Anastasia Ermakova, Maria Gromova,
Natalia Ishchenko, Elvira Khasyanova, Olga Kuzhela,
Yelena Ovchinnikova, Svetlana Romashina
 Russia [334]
Table tennis Men's singles Ma Lin  China [308]
Taekwondo Men's +80 kg Cha Dong-Min  South Korea [335]
Women's +67 kg María del Rosario Espinoza  Mexico [336]
Volleyball Women's volleyball Oliveira Walewska, Carolina Albuquerque, Marianne Steinbrecher,
Paula Pequeno, Thaisa Menezes, Hélia Souza,
Valeska Menezes, Fabiana Claudino, Welissa Gonzaga,
Jacqueline Carvalho, Sheilla Castro, Fabiana de Oliveira
 Brazil [337]

Day 16: August 24

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General
Water polo
  • Hungary won a third consecutive gold medal in men's water polo .
Basketball
Boxing
Handball
  • France won the 302nd and last gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, beating Iceland in the final of the men's handball.[343]
Closing ceremony
The Closing Ceremony began at 8:00 pm China Standard Time (UTC+8). The number 8 is associated with prosperity and confidence in Chinese culture. The Closing Ceremony concluded at 9:55 pm CST.
Gold medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref
Athletics Men's marathon Samuel Kamau Wanjiru  Kenya OR [344]
Basketball Men's basketball Carlos Boozer, Jason Kidd, LeBron James,
Deron Williams, Michael Redd, Dwyane Wade,
Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Chris Bosh,
Chris Paul, Tayshaun Prince, Carmelo Anthony
 United States [339]
Boxing Light flyweight Zou Shiming  China [340]
Bantamweight Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan  Mongolia [345]
Lightweight Alexey Tishchenko  Russia [346]
Welterweight Bakhyt Sarsekbayev  Kazakhstan [342]
Light heavyweight Zhang Xiaoping  China [347]
Super heavyweight Roberto Cammarelle  Italy [348]
Gymnastics Women's rhythmic team all-around Margarita Aliychuk, Anna Gavrilenko, Tatiana Gorbunova,
Elena Posevina, Daria Shkurikhina, Natalia Zueva
 Russia [349]
Handball Men's handball Didier Dinart, Cédric Burdet, Guillaume Gille,
Bertrand Gille, Daniel Narcisse, Olivier Girault,
Daouda Karaboué, Nikola Karabatić, Christophe Kempe,
Thierry Omeyer, Joël Abati, Luc Abalo,
Michaël Guigou, Cédric Paty, Jérôme Fernandez
 France [343]
Volleyball Men's volleyball Lloy Ball, Sean Rooney, David Lee,
Richard Lambourne, William Priddy, Ryan Millar,
Riley Salmon, Thomas Hoff, Clayton Stanley,
Kevin Hansen, Gabriel Gardner, Scott Touzinsky
 United States [350]
Water polo Men's water polo Zoltán Szécsi, Tamás Varga, Norbert Madaras,
Dénes Varga, Tamás Kásás, Norbert Hosnyánszky,
Gergely Kiss, Tibor Benedek, Dániel Varga,
Péter Biros, Gábor Kis, Tamás Molnár, István Gergely
 Hungary [351]

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