Norwegian Olaf Tufte grabbed the gold in the Men’s Single Sculls in a time of 6:59.83min, holding off the Ondrej Synek of the Czech Republic by 0.8 seconds. Thus, Tufte successfully defended his Olympian title. While Synek won the silver, Mahe Drysdale of New Zealand finished third and ...

Georgeta Andrunache and Viorica Susanu of Romania caught hold of gold medal in Rowing Women's Pair with a finishing time of 7:20.60min. While Wu You and Gao Yulan of China won silver in a time of 7:22.28min, Yuliya Bichyk and Natallia Helakh of Belarus fell short by just .63 seconds and were left ...

Bulgarian Rumyana Neykova won the gold in the Women’s Single Sculls after finishing in a time of 7:22.34min. To seal the gold, she had to fend off Michella Guerette of the United States, who grabbed the silver medal after taking 0.44 seconds over the winning time. Ekaterina Karsten of Belarus ...

Vincent Hancock of the United States won the gold medal in the Men’s Skeet at the Beijing Olympics 2008 Games. After the final, Hancock and Tore Brovold of Norway were tied on 145 targets. However, the American shooter managed to grab the gold after winning the shoot-off. The winner of the ...

After being fourth in the qualification round, Oleksandr Petriv of Ukraine astonished everyone as he came up with the glistening gold in the Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol at the Beijing Olympics. After scoring 200.2 in the final, Petriv won the gold medal with a total score of ...

Perhaps sky is the limit for the American champion, Michael Phelps, who is resolute to win eight gold medals from the Beijing Olympic Games 2008.  Phelps has won his seventh gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, after winning the Men’s 100m Butterfly at the National Aquatics Center. To get ...

Cesar Cielo Filho, surprisingly, emerged from a wall of white water to grab the gold medal in the Men's 50m Freestyle final at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing. Filho finished in an Olympic record time of 21.30 seconds. A day before he won the bronze in the Men’s 100 Freestyle. Amaury ...

Kirsty Coventry was determined to win the gold from the Beijing Olympics and finally she succeeded in her desire after securing the gold medal in the Women's 200m Backstroke at the National Aquatics Center. Coventry has already won three silver medals at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. But with ...

Valeriy Borchin of Russia claimed the gold medal after finishing in the fastest time in the Men’s 20km Walk at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. He completed the walk in a time of 1 hour 19:01 minutes, 0.14 second ahead of Ecuador’s Jefferson Perez. At the beginning, the Russian ...

Rebecca Adlington of Great Britain won the gold medal in the Women’s 800m Freestyle at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing and broke the oldest world record left in the swimming pool. Janet Evans of US set a world record of 8:16.22min in 1989. Since then, it was there on the wall to be ...

Akhil Kumar has given hope for another medal for India in Beijing Olympics. In a boxing match played at the Workers' Gymnasium; he defeated world champion Sergey Vodopyanov and reached into quarter-final of the 54kg category. He is just one win away from bronze medal; he however is full of ...

Rebecca Soni of the United States grabbed the gold medal in the Women’s 200-meter Breaststroke at the Beijing Olympics, after displaying her incredible skills. Soni touched the wall in 2:20.22min and created a new world record. With that time-taken, she smashed world-record holder Leisel ...

Ryan Lochte of US has won gold after beating Aaron Peirsol in the 200-Meter Backstroke at the Beijing Olympics Games 2008. Just half an hour earlier, Lochte also won the bronze in the 200-Meter Individual Medley. So, it’s time for double celebrations for the American boy.
 
Lochte took ...

After Saina, Sunitha, Anjali and Avneet, Divya too, made an exit from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. With this, Indian judokas’ challenge came to a gloomy end. Divya Tewar, the young champion, is knocked out the game when she bent down her knees before Yalennis Castillo of Cuba in the 78kg ...

Michael Phelps, the defending champion, is on the precise path to win all the golds in the Olympics. Again the American lad proved himself when he grabbed the gold medal in the 200-Meter Individual Medley after touching the wall in 1:54.23 min. With that time-taken, he has broken his own record of ...

China is all happy to get more and more golds at the Beijing Olympics. But the happiness got doubled when Zhang Juanjuan of China smashed the Republic of Korea’s 24-year strong hold on the Women’s Individual event, by winning the gold medal with the last arrow of an exciting final ...

Chiara Cainero of Italy dared to dream big and finally realized her dream of winning the gold medal in the Women’s Skeet at the Beijing Olympics. After being tied on 93 hits with US’ Kimberly Rhode and Germany’s Christine Brinker in the finals, Cainero came out victorious from the ...

Du Li of China won the gold medal in the Women’s 50m Rifle Three Positions with a new Olympic record for the final score of 690.3. After her fifth place in the Women's 10m Air Rifle, Du did not give her second prospect of winning a gold medal. With her qualification score of 589, she equaled ...

Chicago – the leading competitor is contesting with Tokyo, Madrid, Spain and Rio de Janeiro to launch international promotion efforts to win the bid for the Summer Games of 2016. It has been reported that the International Olympic voters will decide the contest after 19 months from ...

Yang Wei of China established himself as the world’s best all-round gymnast by winning the gold medal in the Men’s All-Around at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. He entered the final rotation with a clear lead over the rest of the field. The lead was a great help for Yang, who knew that he ...

Alain Bernard of France triumphed over Eamon Sullivan of Australia to win the gold medal in the Men's 100m Freestyle at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing. On Wednesday, Sullivan and Bernard swapped world records. The drama underlined when Sullivan lowered the Bernard’s world record of ...

The whole world was astonished to see when Australian girls swam their best and won the gold in the Women’s 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing. The Australians concluded in a time of 7min 44.31sec, and smashed the world record by slicing 5.78 off the earlier ...

Liu Zige of China has won the gold medal in the Women’s 200m Butterfly in a world record time of 2:04.18 at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. She made the host country proud, bringing its first gold medal in swimming. Liu, who qualified fastest for the final in an Asian record of 2:06.25, ...

Anjali Bhagwat and Avneet Kaur Sidhu of India packed up after not being able to make it to the finals of the Women’s 50m Air Rifle Three Position Shooting Competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. After putting up a dull show, Anjali concluded at 32nd while Avneet at 42nd position. ...

Sania Mirza and Sunitha Rao made their exit from the Olympic tennis competition, losing to champions Svetlana Kuznentsova and Dinara Safina of Russia 4-6, 4-6 in the second round match at Beijing. Sania, who withdrew in women’s singles first round due to pain in her right wrist, was ...

Manuchar Kvirkvelia of Georgia grabbed the country’s first gold of these Olympics in the Men’s Greco-Roman 74 kilogram Wrestling final, after defeating Chang Yongxiang of China. Prior to this tournament, Kvirkvelia’s best result was the gold medal the 2007 European Championship. ...

Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland lived up to his pre-race favorite status, as he won the gold medal in the Men’s Individual Time Trial. The Swiss lad displayed his sharp knack to get going on a grueling, two-lap 47.3 km course. Cancellara warded off a strong challenge from Gustav Larsson of ...

Liu Chunhong of China set a new world record in the Women’s 69 kilogram Weightlifting category, after lifting 128kg in the Snatch, 158kg in the Clean and Jerk and 286kg weight in total. Thus, she earned a gold medal and a world record to her name. After this laudable triumph, China has got ...

 
 

It was a great moment for China when its young chaps, Qin Kai and Wang Feng, claimed the gold medal in the Men's Synchronized 3m Springboard with a score of 469.08. The host nation has succeeded in all the four Synchronized Diving events of the Beijing Olympics to date. Dmitry ...

 
 

Chen Ying of China grabbed the gold medal in the Women’s 25m Pistol with her final score of 590 points. Even though Chen was five points behind Gundegmaa Otryad of Mongolia after qualification, she smashed the latter’s record with her amazing skills in the final just ...