2008 Summer Olympics highlights, Day 7, August 15
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Submitted by nicolae on Sat, 08/16/2008 - 03:00
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- Gymnastics: Nastia Liukin wins the gold medal in the Women's artistic individual all-around. Her father and coach, Valeri Liukin, won a Gymnastics gold medal for the Soviet Union at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Together, with Shawn Johnson taking the silver, was the fourth time in Olympic history where a country took the top two spots in the Individual All Around events.
- Table tennis: Singapore qualifies for the final in the women's team event, thus ensuring that the country will win its first Olympic medal, in any event, since 1960.
| Gold Medalists | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec |
| Archery | Men's individual | Viktor Ruban | Ukraine | |
| Athletics | Men's shot put | Tomasz Majewski | Poland | |
| Women's 10000 m | Tirunesh Dibaba | Ethiopia | OR | |
| Badminton | Women's doubles | Du Jing and Yu Yang | China | |
| Canoeing | Men's slalom C-2 | Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner | Slovakia | |
| Women's slalom K-1 | Elena Kaliská | Slovakia | ||
| Cycling | Men's team sprint | Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny, Jamie Staff | Great Britain | |
| Fencing | Men's team épée | Jérôme Jeannet, Fabrice Jeannet, Ulrich Robeiri | France | |
| Gymnastics | Women's artistic individual all-around | Nastia Liukin | United States | |
| Judo | Men's +100 kg | Satoshi Ishii | Japan | |
| Women's +78 kg | Tong Wen | China | ||
| Shooting | Men's 50 m rifle prone | Artur Ayvazian | Ukraine | |
| Swimming | Men's 200 m backstroke | Ryan Lochte | United States | WR |
| Men's 200 m individual medley | Michael Phelps | United States | WR | |
| Women's 100 m freestyle | Britta Steffen | Germany | OR | |
| Women's 200 m breaststroke | Rebecca Soni | United States | WR | |
| Weightlifting | Men's 85 kg | Lu Yong | China | |
| Women's 75 kg | Cao Lei | China | OR | |
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