Date:23/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/23/stories/2008082361502200.htm

Sport - Olympic Games

goldies

•Steve Hooker (Aus): Athletics: Men’s Pole Vault.

•Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell (Jam): Athletics: Men’s 4x100m Relay.

•Bryan Clay (USA): Athletics: Men’s Decathlon.

•Alex Schwazer (Ita): Athletics: Men’s 50km Walk.

•Tirunesh Dibaba (Eth): Athletics: Women’s 5000m.

•Maurren Higa Maggi (Bra): Athletics: Women’s Lonng Jump.

•Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, Yulia Chermoshanskaya (Rus): Athletics: Women’s 4x100m Relay.

•Philip Dalhausser, Todd Rogers (USA): Men’s Beach Volleyball.

•Tim Brabants (GBR): Canoe / Kayak – Flatwater: Kayak Single 1000m Men.

•Martin Hollstein, Andreas Ihle (Ger): Canoe/Kayak – Flatwater: Kayak Double 1000m Men.

•Raman Piatrushenka, Aliaksei Abalmasau, Artur Litvinchuk, Vadzim Makhneu (Blr): Canoe/Kayak – Flatwater: Kayak Four 1000m Men.

•Attila Sandor Vajda (Hun): Canoe/Kayak – Flatwater: Canoe Single 1000m Men.

•Andrei Bahdanovich, Aliaksandr Bahdanovich (Blr): Canoe/Kayak – Flatwater: Canoe Double 1000m Men.

•Fanny Fischer, Nicole Reinhardt, Katrin Wagner-Augustin, Conny Wassmuth (Ger): Canoe/Kayak – Flatwater: Kayak Four 500m Women.

•Maris Strombergs (Lat): Cycling – BMX: Men.

•Anne-Caroline Chausson (Fra): Cycling – BMX: Women.

•The Netherlands: Women’s Hockey

•Lena Schoneborn (Ger): Modern Pentathlon: Women.

•Zhang Yining (Chn): Table Tennis: Women.

•Kyungseon Hwang (Kor): Taekwondo: Women’s-67kg.

•Hadi Saei (Irn): Taekwondo: Men’s-80kg.