France
France wins gold in men’s handball
France has won the gold medal in men’s handball, defeating Iceland in the final.
Spain beat Croatia for the bronze medal.
Defending champions Katalin Kovacs and Natasa Janic of Hungary have won the gold medal in the women’s K2 500 meters at the Beijing Olympics.
Beata Mikolajczyk and Aneta Konieczna from Poland won the silver medal and Marie Delattre and Anne-Laure Viard of France won the bronze.
Anne-Caroline Chausson of France has won the gold medal in women’s BMX racing.
Laetitia le Corguille also from France won the silver medal and Jill Kintner from the United States won the bronze medal.
Brimin Kiprop Kipruto from Kenya has won the gold medal in the men’s 3000 steeple chase with a time of 8:10.34.
Mahiedine Mekhissi-B from France won the silver medal and Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong from Kenya won the bronze.
Leszek Blanik from Poland wins gold in men’s vault
Leszek Blanik from Poland has won the gold medal in the men’s vault.
Thomas Bouhail from France has won the silver medal and Anton Golotsutskov from Russia won the bronze medal.
Australia wins gold medal in men’s 470 sailing
Australia has won the gold medal in men’s 470 two person dingy sailing. Great Britain won the silver and France won the bronze medal.
Australia:
WILMOT Nathan
PAGE Malcolm
Great Britain:
ROGERS Nick
GLANFIELD Joe
France:
CHARBONNIER Nicolas
BAUSSET Olivier
France has defeated the United States to win the gold medal in men’s team sabre, fencing.
Italy beat Russia 45-44 to win the bronze medal.
France:
LOPEZ Nicolas
PILLET Julien
SANSON Boris
United States
MOREHOUSE Tim
ROGERS Jason
SMART Keeth
WILLIAMS James
Italy
MONTANO Aldo
OCCHIUZZI Diego
PASTORE Giampiero
TARANTINO Luigi
- Great Britain wins men’s four rowing
- France wins gold at the men’s team epee - fencing
- Great Britain wins gold in men’s team sprint - cycling
- Yang Wei wins men’s individual all round - gymnastics
- Georgia wins first gold medal in the men’s 74kg greco-roman wrestling
- Steeve Guénot becomes first French wrestling champion in 84 years
- China wins Men’s Individual Sabre
- Japan’s Ayumi Tanimoto
