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(BEIJING, August 9) -- Katerina Emmons of the Czech Republic won the first gold of the Beijing Olympic Games today when she won the Women's 10m Air Rifle.

Emmons, 24,  breaking Olympic records in both the qualification and final rounds.

In the qualification round, Emmons shot a perfect 400, which equaled the World Record and set a new Olympic Record. The previous Olympic Record was 399.

In the final round, Emmons shot 103.5, giving her a final score of 503.5, which eclipsed the previous record of 502.0 set by China's Du Li at Athens 2004.ref:beijing2008.cn

Pang Wei wins gold in the Men's 10m Air Pistol

(BEIJING, August 9) -- Young Chinese shooter Pang Wei won a gold medal in the Men's 10m Air Pistol in Beijing on August 9. The silver medal was won by the Republic of Korea's Jin Jong-oh and the bronze medal was won by Kim Jong-su of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.ref:beijing2008.cn

(BEIJING, August 9) -- Chen Xiexia of China  champion throughout the Women's 48 kilogram Weightlifting competition on August 9, successfully completing all her attempts for a gold medal finish with 95kg in the Snatch and 117kg in the Clean and Jerk for a total of 212kg, a new Olympic Record.

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Spaniard Samuel Sanchez captures gold in the Men's Road Race on the opening day of the Beijing Olympics. The two-time world champion finished first with at time of 6:23.49, just ahead of Italy's Davide Rebellin. Taking the bronze medal is Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara [ref:beijing2008.cn]

(, August 9) -- Choi Min-ho from the Republic of Korea won gold in Judo Men's -60kg defeating World No.1 Austria's Ludwig Paischer with an ippon in 2:14. Choi needed just four seconds to beat Dutch judoka Ruben Houkes in the semifinal.

August 9) -- Alina Alexandra Dumitru of Romania defeated Yanet Bermoy of Cuba with an ippon in 1:20 to win gold in Judo Women's -48kg. The Romanian judoka has been European Judo Championship in the event for four consecutive years and was the fifth-place finisher in Athens. ref:beijing2008.cn

Mariel Zagunis of the United States has defeated teammate Sada Jacobson 15-8 to win gold in the final of the Women's Individual Sabre at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 9 held at the  Fencing Hall. [ ref:beijing2008.cn ]

US wins 4x100m Freestyle Relay gold with stunning new world record

Kitajima Kosuke of Japan finished the race in first place in a time of 58.91 to set a new world record.

Rebecca Adlington of Great Britain took gold with a time of 4:03.22, beating the "Female Phelps," Katie Hoff (4:03.29) of the United States, who came in second. Joanne Jackson, also from Great Britain, won bronze with a time of 4:03.52.

Lisbeth Trickett of Australia clocked 56.73 seconds to take the Women's 100m Butterfly gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games

Kristy Coventry slices World Record in Women's 100m Backstroke 58.77

India's Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in the Men's 10m Air Rifle in Beijing on August 11 with an incredible performance in the final. Bindra shot a total score of 700.5.

Lin Yue and Huo Liang of china took gold in Men's Synchronized 10m Platform with 468.18 points

Satu Makela-Nummela of Finland won the gold medal in the Women's Trap with a total of 91.

Long Qingquan of China claims the Men's 56kg Weightlifting gold at the Beijing

chen yanging won gold in weightlifting under 58kg category

The two-time defending Olympic champion Republic of Korea out shot Italy for the gold medal in the Archery Men's Team final.

The ROK team of Im Dong-Hyun, Lee Chang-Hwan and Park Kyung-Mo took the Gold medal withscored 227 out of a 240

The Italian team of Ilario di Buo, Marco Galiazzo and Mauro Nespoli took the silver medal with 225 points.

The Chinese team of Jiang Lin, Li Wenquan and Xue Haifeng took Bronze with 222

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Elnur Mammadli needed just 13 seconds to defeat Wang Ki-chun from the Republic of Korea with an ippon and claim gold in Judo Men's -73kg. This is Azerbaijan's first medal in Beijing.

Giulia Quintavalle of Italy claimed gold in Judo Women's -57kg in her Olympic debut by defeating Deborah Gravenstijn from the Netherlands with a yuko

Japan's Uchishiba Masato beat Benjamin Darbelet of France by ippon to take the gold medal in the event.

Federica Pellegrini of Italy rewrote the world record in Women's 200m Freestyle prelims with a time of 1:55.45, replacing the former record set by Laure Manaudou of France

1. Natalie Coughlin of the United States took gold in the Women's 100m Backstroke with a time of 58.96,  world record holder Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe ranked 2nd..
2. Aaron Peirsol of the United States takes a gold medal in the Men's 100m Backstroke final, breaking his own World Record.
3. Leisel Jones confirmed her dominance of Women's Breaststroke in the 100m final, with a gold medal

(BEIJING, August 12) -- China dominated Men's Gymnastics today, winning the Team Gold with a total of 286.125 points. Japan won the silver medal with 278.875 points and the United States won the bronze medal with 275.850 points.


Jin Jong-oh of the Republic of Korea scored a total of 660.4 points to win the Men's 50m Pistol gold.
The silver went to Kim Jong-su (660.2) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Tan Zongliang (659.5) of China won bronze.

Slovakia's Michal Martikan won the Men's Slalom Canoe Single gold medal in 176.65 at the Beijing
Britain's David Florence took the silver in 178.61 and Australian Robin Bell got the bronze in 180.59.

German paddler Alexander Grimm captured the gold with a total combined time of 171.70 seconds in the Men's Slalom Kayak Single competition

Japan's Tanimoto Ayumi, the defending Olympic champion in Judo Women's -63kg, needed just 1:26 to beat Lucie Decosse of France with an ippon.

Giulia Quintavalle of Italy claimed gold in Judo Women's -57kg in her Olympic debut by defeating Deborah Gravenstijn from the Netherlands with a yuko.

Alina Alexandra Dumitru of Romania defeated Yanet Bermoy of Cuba with an ippon in 1:20 to win gold in Judo Women's -48kg.

Nazyr Mankiev of Russia defeated Rovshan Bayramov of Azerbaijan 4-3, 2-2 to claim gold in Men's Greco-Roman 55 kilogram Wrestling

Pak Hyon-suk of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea earned a standing ovation after winning the Women's Weightlifting 63 kilogram final

August 13) -- Stephanie Rice of Australia underlined her dominance in the Medley events when she broke her own world record to win the Olympic Women's 200m Individual Medley gold medal in a new mark of 2:08.45.Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry took silver and American Natalie Coughlin the bronze.

August 13) -- Italy's Federica Pellegrini won gold with a world record time of 1:54.82 in the Women's 200m Freestyle final

August 13) -- Three consecutive world champion Kristin Armstrong of the United States claimed gold in the Women's Individual Time Trial

China  first Olympic gold medal in the Team event of Women's Gymnastics. China won the gold medal with a total of 188.900 points.The United States won the silver medal with a total of 186.525 points and Romania won the bronze with a total of 181.525 points.

Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara timed 1:02:11.43 to win the Men's Cycling Time Trial gold medal at the Olympic Games on Wednesday.Gustav Larsson of Sweden clinched silver with a time of 1:02:44.79 and the bronze went to American Levi Leipheimer in 1:03:21.11.

Chinese Wang Feng and Qin Kai won the Men's 3m Springboard Synchronized gold medal
The Chinese duo collected a winning total of 469.08 points in the six-dive final.Russians Dmitry Sautin and Yuriy Kunakov took the silver in 421.98, and Ukrainians Illya Kvasha and Oleksiy Prygorov bagged the bronze in 415.05

Chen Ying of China won the gold medal in the Women's 25m Pistol with a final score of 793.4, which is an Olympic record.Otryad Gundegmaa of Mongolia earned the silver medal with 792.2, and the bronze medal went to Dorjsuren Munkhbayar of Germany with 789.2.

Liu Chunhong broke all the world records in the Women's 69 kilogram Weightlifting category  by lifting 128kg in the Snatch, 158kg in the Clean and Jerk and 286kg in total weight.

Bernard won Men's 100m Freestyle Swimming in 47.21 seconds, beating Sullivan who clocked 47.32. American Jason Lezak got the bronze in 47.67.

The Australian Women's won gold in 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Swimming in a time of 7:44.31, a new world record.

Liu Zige of China won the gold Women's 200m Butterfly swimming medal with a new world record of 2 minutes 04.18 seconds. Fellow Chinese Jiao Liuyang took silver in 2:04.72 and Australia's Jessicah Schipper grabbed the bronze in 2:06.26.

Kitajima Kosuke of Japan led all the way to take gold in the Men's 200m Breaststroke Swimming at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in an Olympic record 2:07.64.

Glad to celebrate olympics at Beijing on the world's luckiest day 08-08-08.Olympics were started in Bird's nest stadium which consists of nearly 91,000 seats.Fireworks dazzled and nearly 2008 performers drumming on traditional instruments rolled throughout the stadium.High tech special effects gave the subject matter a startling edge. American swimmer Michael Phelps rewrites the olympic history book by winning two more gold medals.

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Swimming (20 results /34):
US lead with 7 Golds,5 silver and 8 bronze
Aus second with 5 Gold,2 silver and 6 bronze
Japan third with 2 gold,1 bronze
China,France,Korea,Italy nad Great Britain have 1 Gold Each

Weightlifting (9 results/15):
China lead with 6 Gold
Korea ,south korea and Thailand have 1 Gold each

Shooting (11 results /15)
China lead with 4 Gold
Czech second with 2 Gold
Italy,US,Finland,India,Korea have 1 Gold each

US shooter Vincent Hancock won the gold medal in the Men's Skeet

Petriv won the gold medal in Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol with a total score of 780.2 (including 200.2 from the final), a new Olympic record for the final score

Wrestler Carol Huynh took Canada's first Beijing gold,  in the Women's Freestyle Wrestling 48 kilogram weight class final

Twin sisters Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell of New Zealand successfully defended their Athens Olympic gold by winning the Women's Double Sculls with a time of 7:07.32

Georgeta Andrunache and Viorica Susanu of Romania grabbed gold in Rowing Women's Pair with a time of 7:20.60

Olaf Tufte of Norway successfully defended his Olympic title in the Men's Single Sculls with a time of 6:59.83

Rumyana Neykova of Bulgaria won gold in the Women's Single Sculls

Athens champion Yoshida Saori of Japan defended her title, defeating Xu Li of China 2-0, 5-0 in the Women's Freestyle Wrestling 55 kilogram category

Valeriy Borchin has clocked the fastest time to win gold in the Men's 20km Walk at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Rebecca Adlington of Great Britain set world record of 8:14.10 in the final of the Women's 800m Freestyle in swiming .

Brazilian Cesar Cielo Filho won the Men's 50m Freestyle in swiming gold at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Saturday

Romanian Constantina Tomescu got gold in Women's Marathon in 2 hours 26.44 minutes

Usain Bolt of Jamaica put in the Athletics performance of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games thus far, with a world-record-breaking 9.69-seccond win in the Men's 100m.

Nataliia Dorbynska of Ukraine won the Olympic Heptathlon gold medal . Lyudmila Blonska of Ukraine claimed silver and Hyleas Fountain of the United States took bronze.

American Michael Phelps achieved the impossible landing his eighth gold medal in the Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay.The win brought Phelps' 14th career Olympic gold, five more than any other athlete in Olympic history. he also surpassed the record set by Mark Spitz (USA) in Munich 1972 for the most gold medals won at a single Olympic Games.

The Australian Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay team to take the gold medal in a world record time of 3: 52.69

Mellouli's time for the gold medal of 14:40.84 in the Men's 1500m Freestyle.

Ben Ainslie of Britain won the Finn gold medal at the Olympic Sailing

Chinese Qiu Jian won the Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions gold medal

The second-seeded Williams sisters captured the Women's Doubles gold medal with a 6-2, 6-0 victory over fourth seeds Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virgina Ruano Pascual of Spain

Elena Dementieva of Russia fought back to overcome teammate Dinara Safina 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 and win the Women's Singles lawn tennis gold medal at the Olympic

The United States,claimed gold with a time of 6:05.34 the Women's Eight Rowing, . The Netherlands earned silver with a time of 6:07.22, just 0.03 seconds ahead of third-place Romania

Canada is now Olympic champion after winning the Men's Eight rowing with a time of 5:23.89,  The British finished with a time of 5:25.11, just ahead of third-place United States, which finished in 5:25.34.

China won the Women's Quadruple Sculls Rowing gold medal

Poland clinched gold in the Men's Quadruple Sculls with a time of 5:41.33, more than two seconds faster than second-place finisher Italy, who reached the finish line in 5:43.57. France took bronze with a time of 5:44.34.

Emma Snowsill and Emma Moffatt of Australia won gold and bronze medals in today's Women's Triathlon race. The silver medal went to Vanessa Fernandes of Portugal.

Australia's Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson won the second 470 (Two Person Dinghy Sailing) gold of the Olympics

Denmark won the gold in Sailing Mixed Skiff race. Spain took the silver and Germany claimed the bronze.

Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page of Australia in the Men's 470 (Two Person Dinghy)won gold

Jonas Warrer and Martin Ibsen of Denmark took gold medal in 49er (Skiff) Sailing

Great Britain sets world mark finishing in 3:53.314. and wins gold in Team Pursuit in cycling

Marianne Vos of the Netherlands won the first of 10 sprints to lock up the gold medal in the 100-lap, 25-kilometre race featuring 10 point sprints.

Leszek Blanik of Poland scored 16.537 to win the gold medal in the Men's Vault

He Kexin won Gold in the Uneven Bars in Gymnastics,

Chen Yibing won China's first gold medal in the Men's Rings

Stephanie Brown Trafton of the United States won the Beijing 2008 Olympics Women's Discus gold medal with a throw of 64.74m

Andrei Aramnau of Belarus won Gold in the Men's Weightlifting 105 kilogram weight category

azakhstan's Ilya Ilin won the gold medal in the Men's 94kg Weightlifting class

India's Sushil Kumar claimed bronze in the Men's Freestyle Wrestling 66 kilogram class on Wednesday

-Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers of the United States defeated Marcio Araujo and Fabio Luiz Magalhaes of Brazil in the men Beach Volleyball final to won gold

-American duo of Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor proved that they are the best team ever in the history of the fledgling Olympic sport. By beating China's Wang Jie and Tian Jia in the final of the Women's Beach Volleyball competition

-Maris Strombergs of Latvia kept a cool head in a heated Men's race to carve a narrow victory in BMX cycling

-Anne-Caroline Chausson of France won the title of the Women's BMX event of the Olympic Cycling

-Alex Schwarzer of Italy won the Men's 50km Walk gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in a time of three hours and 37.09 minutes

23 Aug
- China's Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun successfully won gold again with a time of 1:41.025 minutes in the final of the Men's Flatwater Canoe Double (C2) 500m kayak Flatwater

-- Australia's Ken Wallace pulled ahead at end of the course to win the Canoe/Kayak Flatwater Kayak Single (K1) 500 meter

-Russia's Maxim Opalev finished first in the Men's Flatwater Canoe Single (C1) 500 meter final with 1:47.140 minutes. Spain's David Cal came in second, 1.257 seconds behind Opalev, and third place went to Ukranie's Iurii Cheban.

-Spain's Saul Craviotto and Carlos Perez pulled out a close win over defending champions Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskotter of Germany in the Canoe/Kayak Flatwater Kayak Double (K2) 500 meter final

-Belarus claimed gold in the Men's Kayak Four (K4) 1000m in 2:55.714

-Inna Osypenko-Radomska finished first in the Women's Kayak Single (K1) 500 meter

-Argentina beat Nigeria 1-0 in today's final to win its second consecutive gold medal in Olympic football.

-Iceland could make history at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in the Men's Handball gold medal match

-Sabine Spitz of Germany attacked in the first of six laps to open a winning gap and grab gold in Women's Cross Country Mountain Bike

-Julien Absalon of France cruised to victory in the Men's Cross Country Mountain Bike, clocking 1:55:59 hours