Cuba
Number of Athletes: 149
Sports: Athletics, Archery, Baseball, Boxing, Canoeing and kayaking, Shooting, Taekwondo and Wrestling
Medal Prospects: Dayron Robles in the 110 hurdles should challenge Liu Xiang. Cuba is also traditionally strong in boxing and baseball.
Athens Medals: Gold 9, Silver 7, Bronze 11, Total 27
Bakhyt Sarsekbayev from Kazakhstan wins gold medal in boxing
Kazakhstan’s Bakhyt Sarsekbayev has defeated Carlos Banteaux Suarez from Cuba to win the gold medal in boxing welter-weight division.
Jungjoo Kim from South Korea and Silamu Hanati from China have won bronze medals.
Alexey Tishchenko of Russia wins gold in boxing
Alexey Tishchenko of Russia has beat Daouda Sow of France 11-9, to win the gold medal in the boxing lightweight division (60kg).
Yordenis Ugas from Cuba and Hrachik Javakhyan of Armenia won bronze medals.
Mongolia wins gold in bantam-weight boxing
Mongolian Badar-Uugan Enkhbat beat Cuban Yankiel Leon Alarcon 16-5 to win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in the bantam-weight division.
Bruno Julie from Mauritius and Veaceslav Gojan from Moldova won bronze medals.
Zou Shiming wins China’s first boxing gold medal
China’s Zou Shiming won China’s first boxing gold today by defeating Mongolia’s Serdamba Purevdorj in the final of the light-flyweight class.
The fight ended early as Purevdorj withdrew with a should injury.
Paddy Barnes from Ireland and G Yampier Hernandez from Cuba won bronze medals.
South Korea beats Cuba to win gold in baseball
South Korea has defeated Cuba 3-2 to win the gold in baseball at the Beijing Olympics.
The United States beat Japan in an earlier game to win the bronze medal.
Bryan Clay wins gold in men’s decathlon
Bryan Clay has won the gold medal in the men’s decathlon. Andrei Krauchanka from Belarus won the silver medal and Leonel Suarez of Cuba won the bronze.
Dayron Robles from Cuba wins 110 meter hurdles
Dayron Robles has won the men’s 110 meter hurdles at the Beijing Olympics in 12.93 seconds.
David Payne and David Oliver both from the United States won the silver and bronze medals respectively.
- Aksana Miankova from Belarus wins gold in the women’s hammer throw
- Jingyu Wu from China wins gold in the women’s 49kg taekwondo
- Irving Jahir Saladino Aranda wins gold medal in men’s long jump
- Stephanie Trafton Brown wins gold in the women’s discuss.
- Marianne Vos of the Netherlands wins gold in the women’s points race - cycling
- Wen Tong from China wins gold medal in women’s 78kg plus judo
- Yang Xiuli of China wins gold medal in judo women’s 78kg - judo
- Mijain Lopez from Cuba wins men’s greco-roman 120kg
