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Olympic Games 2008
Golds for Jamaica and a world record for Bolt
Article published on the 2008-08-20 Latest update 2008-08-20 17:58 TU
Usain Bolt celebrates
(Photo: Reuters)
The two track finals that wrapped up Wednesday's competition both went to Jamaica. Usain Bolt destroyed the field to win the men's 200m in a world record time of 19.30. Silver went to Churandy Martina of the Dutch Antilles while Shawn Crawford of the US took third place.
Another Jamaican, Melaine Walker won gold in the women's 400m hurdles ahead of the US's Sheena Tosta and Tasha Danvers of the UK.
This brings Jamaica's gold medal haul to four, after Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser took one each in the men's and women's 100m respectively.
The last athlete to take the 100m and 200m double was Carl Lewis, in the 1984 Games.
Bolt will celebrate his 22nd birthday on Thursday.
RESULTS
Athletics
Men 200m
Gold: Usain Bolt (JAM)
Silver: Churandy Martina (AHO)
Bronze: Shawn Crawford (USA)
Women 400m hurdles
Gold: Melaine Walker (JAM)
Silver: Sheena Tosta (USA)
Bronze: Tasha Danvers (GBR)
Women Hammer
Gold: Aksana Miankova (BLR)
Silver: Yipsi Moreno (CUB)
Bronze: Wenxiu Zhang (CHN)
Synchronised swimming
Gold: Russia (Anastasia Davydova, Anastasia Ermakova)
Silver: Spain (Andrea Fuentes, Gemma Mengual)
Bronze: Japan (Saho Harada, Emiko Suzuki)
Swimming
Women Marathon 10 km
Gold: Larisa Ilchenko (RUS)
Silver: Keri-Anne Payne (GBR)
Bronze: Cassandra Patten
Taekwondo
Men 58kg
Gold: Guillermo Perez (MEX)
Silver: Yulis Gabriel Mercedes (DOM)
Bronze: Rohullah Nikpai (AFG)
Bronze: Chu Mu-Yen (TPE)
Women 49kg
Gold: Wu Jingyu (CHN)
Silver: Buttree Puedpong (THA)
Bronze: Daynellis Monteo (CUB)
Bronze: Dalia Contreras Rivero (VEN)
Wrestling
Men 74kg
Gold: Buvaysa Saytiev (RUS)
Silver: Soslan Tigiev (UZB)
Bronze: Murad Gaidarov (BLR)
Bronze: Kiril Terziev (BUL)
Men 66kg
Gold: Ramazan Sahin (TUR)
Silver: Andriy Stadnik (UKR)
Bronze: Otar Tushishvili (GEO)
Bronze: Sushil Kumar (IND)
Windsurfing
Women
Gold: Yin Jian (CHN)
Silver: Alessandra Sensini (ITA)
Bronze: Bryony Shaw (GBR)
Yachting
Men RSX
Gold: Tom Ashley (NZL)
Silver: Julien Bontemps (FRA)
Bronze: Shahar Zubari (ISR)
