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Olympic Games 2008
Another gold for Bolt, another world record
Article published on the 2008-08-22 Latest update 2008-08-22 17:31 TU
(From L to R) Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates with his teammates Michael Frater, Asafa Powell and Nesta Carter.
(Reuters)
The Jamaican men took gold and records in the 4 x 100m relay while the women did more than enough to win - and then dropped the baton. Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba added the 5,000 women's title to the 10,000 she'd already won. And although the US made it through to the basketball final, they went out to Cuba in the baseball.
The misery of baton-dropping continued in today's finals. After seeing the two US teams exit on Thursday to fumbling fingers, Jamaica's women took the lead before dropping the crucial piece of metalwork.
They follow the US teams, but also Nigeria's men, Great Britain's men and France's women in what has been technically unimpressive relay racing.
Jamaica's men got everything right in contrast. They covered the 400m in 37.1 seconds, taking .3 of a second of a fifteen-year-old record that the US held. Bolt ran the third leg before handing over to Asafa Powell.
Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba accomplished a feat that hadn't been seen for 28 years when she told gold in the women's 5000m, thereby sealing the 5000-10,0000m double.
China remain on top of the medals table, followed by the US, Great Britain and Russia.
RESULTS
Athletics
women long jump
Gold: Maurren Higa Maggi (BRA)
Silver: Tatiana Lebedeva (RUS)
Bronze: Blessing Okhagbare (NGR)
women 5000m
Gold: Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH)
Silver: Elvan Abeylegesse (TUR)
Bronze: Meseret Defar (ETH)
Decathlon
Gold: Bryan Clay (USA)
Silver: Andrei Krauchanka (BLR)
Bronze: Leonel Suarez (CUB)
men pole vault
Gold: Steve Hooker (AUS)
Silver: Evgeny Lukyanenko (RUS)
Bronze: Denys Yurchenko (UKR)
Walk Men 50 km
Gold: Alex Schwazer (ITA)
Silver: Jared Tallent (AUS)
Bronze: Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS)
Relay
men 4x100m
Gold: Jamaica (Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell)
Silver: Trinidad and Tobago (Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender, Richard Thompson)
Bronze: Japan (Naoki Tsukahara, Shingo Suetsugu, Shinji Takahira, Nobuharu Asahara)
women 4x100m
Gold: Russia (Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, Yulia Chermoshanskaya)
Silver: Belgium (Olivia Borlee, Hanna Marien, Elodie Ouedraogo, Kim Gevaert)
Bronze: Nigeria (Franca Idoko, Gloria Kemasuode, Halimat Oyinoza Ismaila, Damola Osayomi)
Beach volleyball
men beach volleyball
Gold: United States (Phil Dalhausser, Todd Rogers)
Silver: Brazil (Marcio Araujo, Fabio Magalhaes)
Bronze: Brazil (Ricardo Santos, Emanuel Rego)
BMX
Men
Gold: Maris Strombergs (LAT)
Silver: Mike Day (USA)
Bronze: Donny Robinson (USA)
Women
Or: Anne-Caroline Chausson (FRA)
Argent: Laetitia Le Corguillé (FRA)
Bronze: Jill Kintner (USA)
Kayaking
K4 1000m Kayak fours
Gold: Belarus (Raman Piatrushenka, Aliaksei Abalmasau, Artur Litvinchuk, Vadzim Makhneu)
Silver: Slovakia (Richard Riszdorfer, Michal Riszdorfer, Erik Vlcek, Juraj Tarr)
Bronze: Germany (Lutz Altepost, Norman Brockl, Torsten Eckbrett, Bjorn Holger Goldschmidt)
men C2 1000m canoe
Gold: Belarus (Andrei Bahdanovich, Aliaksandr Bahdanovich)
Silver: Germany (Christian Gille, Thomasz Wylenzek)
Bronze: Hungary (Gyorgy Kozmann, Tamas Kiss)
men Kayak K-2 1000m
Gold: Germany (Martin Hollstein, Andreas Ihle)
Silver: Denmark (Kim Wraae Knudsen, Rene Holten Poulsen)
Bronze: Italy (Andrea Facchin, Antonio Massimiliano Scaduto)
women Kayak K-4 500m
Gold: Germany (Fanny Fischer, Nicole Reinhardt, Katrin Wagner-Augustin, Conny Wassmuth)
Silver: Hungary (Katalin Kovacs, Gabriella Timea Szabo, Danuta Kozak, Natasa Janic)
Bronze: Australia (Lisa Oldenhof, Hannah Davis, Chantal Meek, Lyndsie Fogarty)
Table tennis
women
Gold: Zhang Yining (CHN)
Silver: Wang Nan (CHN)
Bronze: Guo Yue (CHN)
Modern Pentathlon Individual Women
Gold: Lena Schoneborn (GER)
Silver: Heather Fell (GBR)
Bronze: Viktoriya Tereshchuk (UKR)
Taekwondo
men 80kg
Gold: Hadi Saei (IRI)
Silver: Mauro Sarmiento (ITA)
Bronze: Zhu Guo (CHN)
Bronze: Steve Lopez (USA)
women 67kg
Gold: Hwang Kyung-Seon (KOR)
Silver: Karine Sergerie (CAN)
Bronze: Sandra Saric (CRO)
Bronze: Gwladys Patience Epangue (FRA)
