2008 Summer Olympics highlights, Day 10, August 18

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Table tennis, Chinese team

Athletics
  • 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.
Weightlifting
  • 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
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  
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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