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Olympic Games 2008
Tirunesh Dibaba takes women's 10,000
Article published on the 2008-08-15 Latest update 2008-08-15 18:36 TU
Tirunesh Dibaba
(Reuters)
The track and field got down to business with the men's shot putt and the women's 10,000m final. Tomasz Majewski took the shot putt gold and Tirush Dibaba broke the Olympic record to win the 10,0000.
Ethiopia's 22-year-old Tirunesh Dibaba followed the leaders until the last lap. She then outkicked Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse and never looked like losing. She clocked the second-fastest time of all time and an Olympic record at 29' 54.66. The American Shalane Flanagan took bronze almost thirty seconds behind the winner.
The other half a dozen African athletes were run out of it and the Kenyan-born Lornah Kiplagat, despite leading much of the race from the front, was out of contention when the pace picked up.
Dibaba will be tackling the 5000m in a few days time - in an attempt to pull off the women's distance double.
RESULTS
Archery
Gold: Viktor Ruban (UKR)
Silver: Kyung-Mo Park (KOR)
Bronze: Bair Badenov (RUS)
Athletics
shot putt
Gold: Tomasz Majewski (POL)
Silver: Christian Cantwell (USA)
Bronze: Andrey Mikhnevich (BLR)
Women 10,000m
Gold: Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH)
Silver: Elvan Abeylegesse (TUR)
Bronze: Shalane Flanagan (USA)
Badminton
Gold: Du Jing and Yu Yang (CHN)
Silver: Lee Hyo-Jung and Lee Kyung-Won (KOR)
Bronze: Wei Yili and Zhang Yawen (CHN)
Cycling
Men team sprint
Gold: Great Britain (Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny, Jamie Staff)
Silver: France (Gregory Bauge, Kevin Sireau, Arnaud Tournant)
Bronze: Germany (Rene Enders, Maximilian Levy, Stefan Nimke)
Fencing
Men team epee
Gold: France
Silver: Poland
Bronze: Italy
Gymnastics
Women artistic individual
Gold: Nastia Liukin (USA)
Silver: Shawn Johnson (USA)
Bronze: Yang Yilin (CHN)
Judo
Men 100kg
Gold: Satoshi Ishii (JPN)
Silver: Abdullo Tangriev (UZB)
Bronze: Teddy Riner (FRA)
Bronze: Oscar Brayson (CUB)
Women 78kg
Gold: Tong Wen (CHN)
Silver: Maki Tsukada (JPN)
Bronze: Idalys Ortiz (CUB)
Bronze: Lucija Polavder (SLO)
Kayaking
Men Slalom C2
Gold: Slovakia (Pavol Hochschorner, Peter Hochschorner)
Silver: Czech Republic (Jaroslav Volf, Ondrej Stepanek)
Bronze: Russia (Mikhail Kuznetsov, Dmitry Larionov)
Women Kayak Slalom K-1
Gold: Elena Kaliska (SVK)
Silver: Jacqueline Lawrence (AUS)
Bronze: Violetta Oblinger Peters (AUT)
Shooting
Men 50m Rifle prone
Gold: Artur Ayvazyan (UKR)
Silver: Matt Emmons (USA)
Bronze: Warren Potent (AUS)
Swimming
Men 200m Individual medley
Gold: Michael Phelps (USA)
Silver: Laszlo Cseh (HUN)
Bronze: Ryan Lochte (USA)
Men 200m backstroke
Gold: Ryan Lochte (USA)
Silver: Aaron Peirsol (USA)
Bronze: Arkady Vyatchanin (RUS)
Women 100m freestyle
Gold: Britta Steffen (GER)
Silver: Libby Trickett (AUS)
Bronze: Natalie Coughlin (USA)
Women 200m breaststroke
Gold: Rebecca Soni (USA)
Silver: Leisel Jones (AUS)
Bronze: Sara Nordenstam (NOR)
Weightlifting
Men 85kg
Gold: Lu Yong (CHN)
Silver: Andrei Rybakou (BLR)
Bronze: Tigran Martirosyan (ARM)
Women 75kg
Gold: Cao Lei (CHN)
Silver: Alla Vazhenina (KAZ)
Bronze: Nadezda Evstyukhina (RUS)
