飞鸽 - 2008-8-20 9:26:00
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Li Xiaopeng (Photo credit: Getty)
China leapt for gymnastics gold and Great Britain rode to more cycling success on another action-packed day which saw 20 gold medals decided at Beijing 2008.
First to the National Stadium and a race that is always an eagerly anticipated event on any Olympic Athletics program -- the Men's 1500m final -- won by Rashid Ramzi, who out-sprinted the pack to win Bahrain's first Olympic medal in a time of 3:32.94.Ramzi kicked with 200m to go and held off the challenge, Asbel Kipruto Kiprop of Kenya, who took silver, while Nicholas Willis won New Zealand's second Athletics medal of Beijing 2008 by outpacing the chasing pack to take the bronze medal.
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Anna Tunnicliffe (Photo credit: Getty)
There was no broader smile inside the Birds Nest than on the face of Christine Ohuruogu, who captured Great Britain's first Athletics gold medal of Beijing 2008 by winning the Women's 400m in a season's best time of 49.62 seconds, to add an Olympic gold medal to the World Championships title she won in Osaka in 2007. Silver medalist Shericka Williams of Jamaica ran 49.69s to take silver, and Sanya Richards of the United States settled for bronze with a time of 49.93s.American Dawn Harper caused an upset by claiming the gold medal in the final of the Women's 100m Hurdles, running a personal best 12.54s, just ahead of Australian national Sally McLellan, who claimed silver in a photo finish with Canada's Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, whose bronze was Canada's first Olympic track and field medal since 1996. World indoor champion and pre-race favorite Lolo Jones of the United States led until she clipped the eighth -- and second last – hurdle and lost her momentum.
Andey Silnov of Russia won gold in the Men's High Jump with a final clearance of 2.36 meters. Great Britain's Germaine Mason jumped a personal best of 2.34m to take silver, while Silnov's compatriot and World Championship silver medalist Yaroslav Rybakov jumped a season's best 2.34m, to claim bronze.
No surprises in the Men's Discus Throw as world champion Gerd Kanter of Estonia took the title with a winning throw of 68.82, a meter ahead of Piotr Malachowski of Poland, who claimed the silver medal, with defending champion Virgilijus Alekna of Lithuania taking bronze.
In the heats and qualifying rounds, Men's 100m champion and world record holder Usain Bolt of Jamaica underlined his credentials by clocking the fastest time in the Men's 200m semifinals to maintain his momentum of a sprint double on course.
Another strong favorite, world and Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner of the United States, cruised into the Men's 400m final, while Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia, the Women's 10000m gold medalist in Beijing, cruised into the Women's 5000m final by finishing first in heat one. Women's 100m silver medalist Sherone Simpson of Jamaica qualified fastest for the Women's 200m semifinals with a time of 22.60 seconds.
Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic led the qualifying round of the Women's Javelin Throw and US athlete Brittney Reese leapt farthest in the Women's Long Jump qualifying round with 6.87m.
Away from the National Stadium there once again was lots for China to cheer – in particular three golden gymnastic performances at the National Indoor Stadium.
Li Xiaopeng took the Men's Parallel Bars and is now one of China's most decorated gymnasts, with two gold medals from Beijing 2008 in addition to the two gold medals he earned at Sydney 2000. Yoo Won-chul of the Republic of Korea won the silver medal and Anton Fokin of Uzbekistan took bronze.
Zou Kai took inspiration, and then the gold medal, in the Horizontal Bar, with a score of 16.200. Zou has also won two gold medals at Beijing 2008. Jonathan Horton of the United States claimed the silver medal with 16.175, and the bronze medal went to Fabian Hambuechen of Germany with 15.875.
Next up – literally – was Lu Chunlong in the Men's Trampoline to complete China's trio of wins. Lu scored a winning 41.00 points, while Canada's Jason Burnett took silver with a score of 40.70, and Dong Dong of China took bronze with 40.60 points.
However, the gymnastics gold didn't go completely China's way. Shawn Johnson of the United States won the Women's Beam and finally collected a gold medal at Beijing 2008. Sixteen-year-old Johnson has won four silver medals, and finished ahead of teammate Nastia Liukin, who took the silver medal, with China's Cheng Fei claiming bronze.
China leapt to success in Diving once more – and kept on course to take all eight Diving medals at stake in Beijing 2008. Today it was the turn of He Chong to clock up the host country's sixth gold with victory in the Men's 3m Springboard.
It rained gold for Great Britain too – surprise packets sitting a very comfortable third in the medal table tonight.
We've told you about Christine Ohuruogu's track success – well, two more gold medals came on the final day of Track Cycling at the Laoshan Velodrome, where Team GB has underlined its authority as the world's undisputed No. 1 nation.
Chris Hoy completed a hat-trick of gold medals by beating teammate Jason Kenny in the final of the Men's Individual Sprint. The 32-year-old Scot is the first Briton since swimmer Henry Taylor in 1908 to win three gold medals at the same Games after his success in the Team Sprint and Keirin. Frenchman Mickael Bourgain, who lost to Hoy in the semifinals, earned the bronze medal.
Four-time world champion Victoria Pendleton won Britain's sixth Track Cycling gold of the Games with victory over Australia's Anna Meares in the Women's Sprint final. China's Guo Shuang beat the Netherlands's Willy Kanis to take bronze.
The day didn't all go GB's way though. Argentinean duo, Juan Esteban Curuchet (the oldest track cyclist at Beijing 2008 at 43 years old) and Walter Fernando Perez took gold in the Men's Madison, with Spain's Joan Llaneras and Antonio Tauler claiming the silver medal, and bronze going to Russians Mikhail Ignatyev and Alexei Markov.
Like his teammate Hoy, Bradley Wiggins rode for his third gold of the Games but looked heavy-legged and, with partner Mark Cavendish, was never in medal contention. The unfortunate Cavendish was the only member of the GB Track Cycling team to not collect a medal.
There was more British medal success in Sailing with Paul Goodison winning the Laser (Men's One Person Dinghy) ahead of Vasilij Zbogar of Slovenia, who claimed silver. Diego Romero of Italy grabbed bronze.
World No. 1 Anna Tunnicliffe of the United States won gold in the Laser Radial (Women's One Person Dinghy) ahead of Gintare Volungeviciute of Lithuania, who won the silver medal. World No.2 Xu Lijia, of China, finished in third place to take bronze.
Jan Frodeno of Germany caused a surprise in the Men's Triathlon when, with only 50 meters to go to the finish line, he out-sprinted 2008 world champion Javier Francisco Gomez of Spain, Athens 2004 silver medalist Bevan Docherty of New Zealand and Canada's Sydney 2000 gold medallist Simon Whitfield to claim gold in the Men's Triathlon on Tuesday.
Gomez tried, but failed, to break away from the leading group 700m from home, caught by Whitfield and Frodeno, who clocked one hour, 48 minutes and 53.28 seconds to win. Whitfield came in second at one hour, 48 minutes and Docherty, bronze.
The giants of Weightlifting in the Men's +105 kilogram category rounded off the Beijing 2008 competition at the Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics Gymnasium with a thrilling final. Matthias Steiner of Germany triumphed – winning with his final lift of the competition, ahead of Russia's Evgeny Chigishev. Steiner lifted a total of 461kg, 203kg in the Snatch and 258kg in the Clean and Jerk, to beat Chigishev by one kilogram for the gold medal. Viktors Scerbatihs of Latvia finished with a total of 448kg for the bronze medal.
Another day, another two medals in the Beijing 2008 Wrestling tournament. Henry Cejudo of the United States claimed gold in the Men's Freestyle 55 kilogram class by beating 2008 Asian champion Matsunaga Tomohiro of Japan 2-2, 3-0.
Favorite Mavlet Batirov of Russia claimed his second Olympic gold by defeating Vasyl Fedoryshyn of Ukraine in the Men's Freestyle 60 kilogram class.
Anky van Grunsven of the Netherlands retained her Dressage Individual gold medal for a record third time – a win which confirms her reputation as Queen of the Freestyle and makes her the most successful Dutch Olympic athlete.
Highlighting the day's team sports were emphatic wins in both Men's Football semifinals, most notably Argentina's thrashing of Brazil 3-0, with two goals for Sergio Aguero as an ill-disciplined Brazilian team were reduced to nine men after two dismissals. The result has set up a repeat of the Atlanta 1996 final, won on that occasion by Nigeria, who have reached this year's final by thumping surprise semifinalists Belgium, 4-1, with two goals from Chinedum Ogbuke Obasi.
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Henry Cejudo (Photo credit: Getty)
China will meet the United States in the final of the Women's Beach Volleyball tournament. Defending US Olympic champions Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh defeated sixth-seeds Renata Ribeiro and Talita Rocha of Brazil and now face top-seeded duo Tian Jia and Wang Jie of China, who came from a set down to outpoint their compatriots, Xue Chen and Zhang Xi, in the other semifinal match.In the Women's Basketball quarterfinals China advanced into the final four by beating Belarus 77-62, and will play world champion Australia, which comfortably defeated the Czech Republic 79-46 but lost its star guard Penny Taylor with a badly twisted right ankle. Another ton-up score for Team USA saw them brush aside the Republic of Korea 104-60; they now play Russia, which beat Spain 84-65.
In Women's Water Polo, the United States beat Australia and will now play the Netherlands, which beat Hungary, in the final, while in the Women's Handball quarterfinals there were wins for Norway, Hungary, the Republic of Korea and Russia, and the Women's Volleyball quarterfinals saw Brazil rout Japan, Cuba easily beat Serbia, China defeat Russia and the United States advance past Italy.
That is your lot from another fantastic day at Beijing 2008.