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2008 Summer Olympics highlights, Day 14, August 22

August 23, 2008 Written by nicolae

Athletes compete

Athletics
  • Continuing the chaos of the previous night's semifinals, favourites Jamaica and Great Britain stumble in the final of the women's 4 x 100 m relay. Russia wins the gold medal ahead of Belgium and Nigeria.
  • The Jamaican men's team wins the men's 4 x 100 m relay for the first time, setting a new world record time of 37.10 seconds. Usain Bolt, running the third leg, gains his third gold medal and third world record of the Beijing games, and becomes the first sprinter since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win the three sprint events in a single Olympiad: 100 m, 200 m and 4 x 100 m relay.
  • Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia wins her second gold medal of the Beijing games, claiming the women's 5000 m to go with her earlier victory in the 10000 m.
Gold Medalists
Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec
Athletics Men's 50 km walk Alex Schwazer  Italy OR
Men's 4 x 100 m relay Nesta Carter, Michael Frater,
Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell		  Jamaica WR
Men's decathlon Bryan Clay  United States  
Men's pole vault Steven Hooker  Australia OR
Women's 5000 m Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia  
Women's 4 x 100 m relay Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva,
Yulia Gushchina, Yuliya Chermoshanskaya		  Russia  
Women's long jump Maurren Higa Maggi  Brazil  
Canoeing Men's C-1 1000 m Attila Vajda  Hungary  
Men's K-1 1000 m Tim Brabants  Great Britain  
Men's C-2 1000 m Andrei Bahdanovich and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich  Belarus  
Men's K-2 1000 m Martin Hollstein and Andreas Ihle  Germany  
Men's K-4 1000 m Raman Piatrushenka, Aliaksei Abalmasau,
Artur Litvinchuk, Vadzim Makhneu		  Belarus  
Women's K-4 500 m Fanny Fischer, Nicole Reinhardt,
Katrin Wagner-Augustin, Conny Wassmuth		 Germany  
Cycling Men's BMX Māris Štrombergs  Latvia  
Women's BMX Anne-Caroline Chausson  France  
Field hockey Women's field hockey Lisanne de Roever, Eefke Mulder, Fatima Moreira de Melo,
Miek van Geenhuizen, Wieke Dijkstra, Maartje Goderie,
Lidewij Welten, Minke Smabers, Minke Booij,
Janneke Schopman, Maartje Paumen, Naomi van As,
Ellen Hoog, Sophie Polkamp, Eva de Goede,
Marilyn Agliotti		  Netherlands  
Modern pentathlon Women's modern pentathlon Lena Schöneborn Germany  
Table tennis Women's singles Zhang Yining  China  
Taekwondo Men's 80 kg Hadi Saei  Iran  
Women's 67 kg Hwang Kyung-Seon  South Korea  
Volleyball Men's beach volleyball Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers United States  

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