Stephanie Rice of Australia emphasized her supremacy in the Medley events after she broke her own world record to win the gold medal in Olympic Women's 200m Individual Medley in a brand-new mark of 2:08.45. Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe grabbed the silver medal, while Natalie ...

After setting a world-record in the prelims, Italy’s Federica Pellegrini swam her best to come up with the gold medal in a world record time of 1:54.82 in the Women’s 200m Freestyle final at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing. Her time was 0.63 seconds under the old world record ...

Kristin Armstrong of the United States has won the gold medal in the Women’s Individual Time Trial at the Beijing Olympics. Emma Pooley of Great Britain set an early fast time, though was reduced to the silver medal by the exceptional performance of Armstrong in the second half of the ...

As Mangal Singh Champia failed to maintain his rank, India’s archery challenge came to an end in the Beijing Olympics. Wednesday seems to be a bad day for India, as after Saina, Champia bowed out the pre-quarterfinals in men’s individual section. Champia, who sputtered in the ranking ...

Saina Nehwal, the 18-year-old champion, got out of the Olympics' badminton competition when she lose the quarterfinal game to Maria Kristin Yulianti of Indonesia in Beijing. On her debut Olympic trip, she went down 28-26 14-21 15-21 in the rousing contest against Yulianti. In a nerve-racking ...

China made a record by winning its first-ever Olympic gold medal in the Team event of Women’s Gymnastics. China succeeded in winning the gold medal with a total of 188.900 points. The United States grabbed the silver medal with a total of 186.525 points, while Romania got hold of the ...

The determined Michael Phelps is geared up to take eight golds from the Beijing Olympics. On the way to realize his dream, the unconquerable Phelps grabbed the gold medal in the Men’s 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay. With this medal, Phelps has got his 11th gold at the Olympics to date. The US team ...

It seems that the world champion Michael Phelps is determined to get all the gold medals from the Beijing Olympics. He has won gold in the Men’s 200m Butterfly with a new world record time of 1:52.03. It is the fourth gold medal won by the defending lad at the Beijing Olympics 2008. He ...

Alexander Grimm of Germany has won the gold medal with a total time of 171.70 seconds in the Men’s Slalom Kayak Single competition at the Beijing Olympics 2008. The German paddler ranked fourth in the semifinal race with 87.31 seconds, exactly 1.23 seconds behind the first place Benjamin ...

Pak Hyon-suk of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea appeared immensely happy when she received a standing ovation after winning the Women's Weightlifting 63 kilogram final at the Beijing Olympics 2008. Her country must be really proud of her, as Pak brought the first gold medal to the ...

All the pains and sweats of Walton Eller proved fruitful when he won the gold medal in the Men’s Double Trap at Beijing Olympics. His hard work was already seen in the qualification rounds, when he hot 145 targets out of 150; with this, he also set a new Olympic qualification record. ...

Jitender Kumar, who was making his Olympic debut, punched his competitor Ulas Furkan Memis from Turkey in less than three rounds to gain entry in the fly weight pre-quarterfinals of the boxing competition at the Beijing Olympics. He led 12-3 before Memis flung in the towel just a few seconds into ...

Chen Ruolin and Wang Xin of China won gold in Synchronized Women's 10m Platform with 363.54 points. With this triumph, China has got third gold in three days, and is now closer to its dream of diving sweep. Briony Cole and Melissa Wu of Australia managed to get silver medal with 335.16 points, ...

India's medal hope Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore could not qualify for the finals of the Double Trap event. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore managed a score of 131 and was 15th overall in the 19-man field. Top six shooters made it to the final event. Rathore had won silver in the Athens Olympics.

Jin Jong-oh of the Republic of Korea has won the gold medal in Men’s 50m Pistol with a final score of 660.4. Kim Jong-su of Democratic People's Republic of Korea won the silver medal with a final score of 660.2 . However, China’s Tan Zongliang who was leading the semifinals ...

China has proved its proficiency in gymnastics to the world by winning the Team Gold in Men’s Gymnastics with a total of 286.125 points. Where Japan won the silver medal with 278.875 points, the United States managed to win the bronze medal with 275.850 points. Though China performed modestly ...

After the ‘not-so-interesting’ semifinal swim, Aaron Peirsol of the United States came back in high spirits to grab the gold medal in the Men’s 100m Backstroke final at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing. Peirsol swam ahead to win comfortably in 52.45 to beat his previous ...

After getting two gold medals, Michael Phelps (USA) is incessant on his way to win more and more gold and set his own remarkable record in the Olympics. Phelps won gold medal in the Men's 200m Freestyle final at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing. This is the third gold medal won by Phelps at ...

In a time of 58.96, Natalie Coughlin of the United States managed to secure the first place and won gold medal in the Women’s 100m Backstroke final at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing. On Monday, Coughlin appeared as the second fastest qualifier into the final just behind the world ...

Leisel Jones of Australia brought home a gold medal in the women's 100 metres breaststroke event of the Beijing Olympics. Having swum more than a second faster than her closest competitor during the semi-final round, Jones had entered into the final round as everyone’s favorite. As expected ...

Italy’s Federica Pellegrini wrote a new world record in Women’s 200m Freestyle prelims with a time of 1:55.45, breaking the earlier record set by Laure Manaudou of France. Her fifth position in Women's 400m Freestyle final didn’t make her disheartened; in fact she came back with a ...

Chen Yanqing of China won the gold medal in Women’s Weightlifting 58 kilogram, after lifting a total weight of 244kg. She led the Snatch by lifting 106kg, followed by Alexandra Escobar of Ecuador with 99kg and three other lifters who tied at 98kg. Chen moved on with a 138kg in the ...

Finland seems to be in cheerful spirits after Satu Makela-Nummela won a gold medal, in spite of missing four targets in the final, in the Women’s Trap at Beijing Olympics. Makela-Nummela started sturdily in the final to hit her first 11 targets and concluded with a final score of 91. Zuzana ...

Lisbeth Trickett of Australia found herself lucky when she won gold medal, after entering the final as the fastest qualifier, in the Women’s 100m Butterfly at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing. Trickett began with a quick start and enjoyed the turn at the 50m to pull away from the ...

Saina Nehwal, the juvenile ace shuttler, made her way into quarterfinals of the women's singles badminton event after defeating Chen Wang of Hong Kong, at the Olympics. Nehwal, who is ranked 15, defeated Wang 21-19 11-21 21-11 in a difficult pre-quarterfinal contest at the gymnasium of Beijing ...

Rebecca Adlington of Great Britain won gold in the Women's 400m Freestyle with a time of 4:03.22, beating the United States’ Katie Hoff who took a time of 4:03.29 and thus, secured the second position. Joanne Jackson, another contestant from Great Britain, won bronze with a time of 4:03.52. ...

Japan felt proud when Kitajima Kosuke secured the gold medal in the Men's 100m Breaststroke at Beijing Olympics. Kosuke broke the world record of Brendan Hansen of USA with the winning time of 58.91. Following the fine steps, Alexander Dale Oen of Norway managed to get the silver medal in a time of ...

Michael Phelps, along with Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones, and Jason Lezak, fetched the gold medal in the Men’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay and created a world record for second time in a row. The yesterday’s prelim record of 3:12.23 set by Jones, with the teammates Nathan Adrian, Ben ...

India opened her medal tally in Beijing Olympics when Abhinav Bindra won a gold in men's 10-metre Air Rifle event. Abhinav Bindra shot 104.5 to take his total to 700.5 in the final. In ten rounds, Bindra shot 10.7, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.5, 10.5, 10.6, 10.0, 10.2, 10.8 to clinch the gold. China's ...

The women’s team from the Republic of Korea (ROK) preceded the Chinese to win the Archery Women's Team gold medal match on Sunday, August 10. The Team of the Republic of Korea comprised Park Sung-Hyun, Yun Ok-Hee and Joo Hyun-Jung. The ROK team scored 224 out of a possible 240 points. ...