2008 Summer Olympics highlights, Day 10, August 18

Liu Xiang, China's defending Olympic champion in the men's 110 m hurdles, withdraws from the competition through injury.
Irving Saladino wins Panama's first olympic medal in 40 years, and their first gold medal ever in an Olympic Athletics event.
The United States sweeps the medals in the men's 400 m hurdles, with Angelo Taylor winning gold, Kerron Clement silver and Bershawn Jackson bronze. This is the US team's first clean sweep of the event since the 1960 Rome Olympics.

Andrei Aramnau of Belarus breaks three world records, for the snatch, clean and jerk, and total, on the way to winning the men's 105 kg event.

Gold Medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)	NOC	Rec
Athletics	Men's 400 m hurdles	Angelo Taylor	United States
	Men's 3000 m steeplechase	Brimin Kiprop Kipruto	Kenya
	Men's long jump	Irving Saladino	Panama
	Women's 800 m	Pamela Jelimo	Kenya
	Women's discus throw	Stephanie Brown Trafton	United States
	Women's pole vault	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	WR
Cycling	Men's team pursuit	Ed Clancy, Paul Manning, Geraint Thomas, Bradley Wiggins	Great Britain	WR
Cycling	Women's points race	Marianne Vos	Netherlands
Equestrian	Team jumping	Laura Kraut, Beezie Madden, Will Simpson, McLain Ward	United States
Gymnastics	Men's rings	Chen Yibing	China
	Men's vault	Leszek Blanik	Poland
	Women's trampoline	He Wenna	China
	Women's uneven bars	He Kexin	China
Sailing	Men's 470 class	Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page	Australia
Sailing	Women's 470 class	Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson	Australia
Table tennis	Men's team	Wang Hao, Ma Lin, Wang Liqin, Chen Qi (reserve)	China
Triathlon	Women's triathlon	Emma Snowsill	Australia
Weightlifting	Men's 105 kg	Andrei Aramnau	Belarus	WR

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