Slovenia got its first ever Olympic track and field gold medal through Primoz Kozmus. A silver medalist at the world championships last August, Kozmus has taken his first gold medal in the Men’s Hammer Throw at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games with a season best of 82.02 ...

Tennis champion Rafael Nadal gave Spain its first Olympic gold medal in tennis by ousting Fernando Gonzalez of Chile in the final of men's singles on Sunday, August 17 at the ongoing Beijing Olympics. The Spaniard overcame two set points in the second set, held every service game and won 6-3, ...

Gulnara Galkina-Samitova won the Women’s 3000m Steeplechase at the Beijing Olympics, breaking her own record with a time of 8:58.01.
 
World champion Eunice Jepkorir of Kenya took silver in a time of 9:07.41, while another Russian Ekaterina Volkova won bronze in a season best timing of ...

Setting an Olympic record in Beijing, Athens 2004 Triple Jump gold medalist Francoise Mbango Etone of Cameroon won the gold medal in Women’s triple jump with a record jumping of 15.39m.
 
Mbanga Etone was Cameroon’s first individual Olympic gold medalist in Athens 2004. This year ...

Jamaican ace sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser won the gold medal in Women’s 100m with her own personal record of 10.78 seconds at the Beijing Olympic Games.
 
Fraser led from the start to finish while her compatriots Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart, who won silver together in identical ...

World record holder Keneisa Bekele of Ethiopia established his supremacy in long running  by successfully defending his Olympic gold medal in the Men’s 10000m at the national Stadium on Sunday August 17.
 
Bekele who finished his race in 27:01.17, almost sliced four ...

Emma Snowsill of Australia won gold medal in the women’s Triathlon with a time of 1 hour, 58 minutes and 27.66 seconds.
 
Portugal’s Vanessa Fernandes who finished in a time of 1 hour, 59 minutes and 34.63 seconds won the silver medal. And the bronze went to another Australian ...

Zou Kai of China secured gold in the gymnastics artistic men's floor exercise at Beijing Olympics on Sunday, August 17. His score in the final of the men’s floor exercise was 16.050. The silver medal went to Gervasio Deferr of Spain who scored 15.775, whereas the bronze went to Anton ...

Wrestler Wang Jiao of China defeated the much favored Stanka Zlateva of Bulgaria to clinch gold medal in the Women's Freestyle Wrestling 72 kilogram weight category at Beijing Olympics on Sunday, August 17. The 20 year-old Chinese winner superbly maneuvered a fall to close up the bout in 1:59 ...

Poland, the ruling world champion, secured gold in the Men's Quadruple Sculls event of the Beijing Olympics with a time of 5:41.33. The Italian team had to settle for silver as they were just two seconds behind Poland, touching the finishing line in 5:43.57.  France, with a time of 5:44.34, ...

The Women's Individual Pursuit event of the Beijing Olympics on Sunday, August 17 saw both the gold as well as the silver medals going to Great Britain. British Rebecca Romero (3:28.321) beat compatriot Wendy Houvenaghel (3:30.395) in the event. It was after few minutes that Lesya Kalitovska ...

The William sisters – Serena and Venus– of the United States ousted French Open champions Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain on Sunday, August 17, to win gold in the Women's Doubles Tennis at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The score was 6-2, 6-0. Serena and ...

Elena Dementieva of Russia ousted compatriot Dinara Safina to bag the gold in Women's Single Tennis event at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on Sunday, August 17. The score was 3-6, 7-5, 6-3. The silver medal went to Dinara Safina. Dementieva happens to be a silver medalist of the 2000 Sydney ...

China, the host of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, bagged the gold medal in the Women's Quadruple Sculls event with a time of 6:16.06 on Sunday, August 17. The Chinese team consisted of Tang Bin, Jin Ziwei, Xi Aihua and Zhang Yangyang. They aggressively surged ahead of Great Britain in the final sprint. ...

Denmark won the finals of the Lightweight Men's Four rowing event in the Beijing Olympics on Sunday, August 17. Their team consisted of Thomas Ebert, Morten Joergensen, Mads Christian Kruse Andersen and Eskild Balschmidt Ebbesen. Though they posted the fastest times during the heats and semifinals ...

Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter of Great Britain lived upto the expectations of their fans and supporters by clinching gold in the Lightweight Men's Double Sculls event. They touched the finishing line in a time of 6:10.99. The silver medal went to Dimitrios Mougios and Vasileios Polymeros of Greece ...

Netherlands went on to win gold in the Lightweight Women's Double Sculls event of Beijing Olympics on Sunday, August 17 with a time of 6:54.74. Their team consisted of Kirsten van der Kolk and Marit van Eupen and it was just a difference of 1.29 seconds that kept them ahead of the team from ...

Carrying the hopes and good wishes from a billion population of India, Vijender Kumar has become third boxer from India to reach into quarter-finals of boxing competitions. He defeated Angkhan Chomphuphuang of Thailand in the 75kg middle-weight category of boxing. Earlier, Akhil, and Jitender have ...

Indian shooters Gagan Narang and Sanjeev Rajput failed to qualify for the final round of the men's 50 metres 3-position event at the Olympics in Beijing on Sunday, August 17, thus crashing all expectations for a medal.
 
A score of 1167 points (394 prone, 389 standing, 384 kneeling) ranked ...

The convention of women's marathon competition in the Beijing Olympics on Sunday, August 17, witnessed Romanian Constantina Tomescu emerge as the winner. It took her 2 hours 26.44 minutes to cross the finishing line and bag the gold medal. ‘It was a great performance. I'm very happy to win a ...

The substandard performance being put up by Australians at the National Aquatics Center got compensated on Sunday, August 17 during the Beijing Olympics’ Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay event. The Australian team not only took Gold, but also broke the world record on the final day of the ...

Tunisian Ous Mellouli brought home the very first Olympic swimming gold on Sunday, August 17, crashing all hopes of Australia’s Grant Hackett of securing the third consecutive title in the 1,500-meter freestyle. It was a challenging race in which Ous Mellouli had to strive hard to keep off ...

Swimming sensation Michael Phelps of United States won his 8th gold medal in Beijing Olympics when he won Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay final on Sunday, August 17. This time, however, he attained the feat with some assistance from fellow swimmers.  
 
Apart from Phelps, the ...

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt has clinched Gold in Men’s 100 m event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and that too in a world record time of 9.69 seconds. The silver medal went to Trinidad and Tobago’s Richard Thompson who ran a time of 9.89 seconds, whereas USA’s Walter Dix took bronze ...

New Zealand duo Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell won the gold medal in the Women's Double Sculls by finishing in a time of 7:07.32min. The twin sisters were able to defend their Athens Olympic gold. Thiele Annekatrin and Huth Christiane of Germany grabbed the silver with a narrow pass to gold, ...

Carol Huynh of Canada won the gold in the Women's Freestyle Wrestling 48 kilogram weight class final. To get this glistening gold medal, Huynh had to defeat the defending wrestler Icho Chiharu of Japan. Huynh won the first period 4-0 with a three-point record. However, Icho tried her best in the ...

Great Britain (Tom James, Steve Williams, Pete Reed and Andrew Triggs Hodge) won the gold medal in the Rowing Men’s Four after finishing in a time of 6:06.57min. Australia (Matt Ryan, James Marburg, Cameron McKenzie-McHarg and Francis Hegerty) got the second place to receive the silver in a ...

Drew Ginn and Duncan Free of Australia won gold medal in the Rowing Men's Pair by finishing in a time of 6:37.44min. Canadian Scott Frandsen and David Calder grabbed silver with a time of 6:39.55min, while Nathan Twaddle and George Bridgewater of New Zealand won bronze medal after finishing in ...

Zhang Ning of China has won the gold medal in the Badminton Women’s Singles at the 29th Olympic Games. She defended her title after conquering teammate Xie Xingfang in the final. As compared to Zhang, Xie Xingfang’s journey to the final was much easier. She came as the favorite in the ...

Jitender Kumar, admitting himself a close friend of Akhil Kumar has defeated Uzbek rival Tulashboy Doniyorov by 13-6 in pre-quarterfinal of flyweight boxing (51kg)  at the Workers Gymnasium. This youngster, who has just completed his teenage, did well in the match and, at no point of the ...