London Oympics Day 8: Medal Winners

22 Golds were in open to grab on Aug 3, and USA took a lead of one gold medal against China.

Day 7 Medal Winners
Day 6 Medal Winners
Day 5 medal winners
Day 4 Medal Winners
Day 3 Medal Winners
Day 2 Medal Winners
Olympic History
Indian Athletes in 2012 Olympics
Medal Tally

Facts

First time in Olympics Indonesia (since 1992 when Badminton started) could not get any medal in Badminton.

Archery Men’s Individual

Gold: Oh Jin-hyek (South Korea)
Silver: Takaharu Furukawa (Japan)
Bronze: Dai Xiaoxiang (China)

Athletics Shotput

Gold: Tomasz Majewski (Poland)
Silver: David Storl (Germany)
Bronze: Reese Hoffa (USA)

Athletics Women’s 10000m

Gold: Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia)
Silver: Sally Jepkosgei (Kenya)
Bronze: Vivian Jepkemoi (Kenya)

Badminton Mixed Doubles

Gold: Nan Zhang and Yunlei Zhao (China)
Silver: Chen Xu and Jin Ma (China)
Bronze: Joachim Fischer and Christinna Pedersen (Denmark)

Cycling Track
women’s Keirin Track

Gold: Victoria Pendleton (Britain)
Silver: Guo Shuang (China)
Bronze: Lee Wai Sze (Hong Kong)

Men’s Team Pursuit Track

Gold: Edward Clancy, Steven Burke, Peter Kennaugh and Geraint Thomas (Britain)
Silver: Jack Bobridge, Glenn O’Shea, Rohan Dennis and Michael Hepburn (Australia)
Bronze: Sam Bewley, Marc Ryan, Jesse Sergent and Aaron Gate (New Zealand)

Fencing
Men’s Sabre Team Fencing

Gold: Junghwan Kim, Young Won Woo, Bongil Gu and Eunseok Oh (South Korea)
Silver: Romania
Bronze: Italy

Judo
Men’s +100kg

Gold: Teddy Riner (France)
Silver: Alexander Mikhaylin (Russia)
Bronze: German Andreas Toelzer (Germany) & Rafael Silva (Brazil)

Women’s +78kg

Gold: Ortiz (Cuba)
Silver: Mika Sugimoto (J
Bronze: Wen Tong (China) & Karina Bryant (Britain)

Rowing
Men’s Single Sculls

Gold: M Drysdale (New Zealand)
Silver: O Synek (Czech)
Bronze: Campbell (Britain)

Men’s Pair

Gold: Murray & Bond (New Zealand)
Silver: Chardin & Mortelett (France)
Bronze: Nash & Satch (Britain)

Men’s Quadruple Sculls

Gold: Germany
Silver: Croatia
Bronze: Australia

Women’s Double Sculls

Gold: Anna & Katherine (Britain)
Silver: Kim & Brooke (Australia)
Bronze: Magdalena & Julia (Poland)

Shooting
Men’s 50m Rifle Prone

Gold: Sergei Martynov (Belarus)
Silver: Lionel Cox (Belgium)
Bronze: Rajmond Debevec (Slovenia)

Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol

Gold: Leuris Pupo (Cuba)
Silver: Vijay Kumar (Ind)
Bronze: Feng Ding (China)

Swimming
Men’s 50m Freestyle

Gold: Florent (France)
Silver: Jones (USA)
Bronze: Cielo (Brazil)

Men’s 100m Butterfly

Gold: Phelps (USA)
Silver: le Clos Chad (South Africa)
Bronze: Evgeny (Russia)

Women’s 800m Freestyle

Gold: Katie (USA)
Silver: Belmonte (Spain)
Bronze: Rebecca Boyle (Britain)

Women’s 200m Backstroke

Gold: Missy Franklin (USA)
Silver: Anastasia Zueva (Russia)
Bronze: Elizabeth Beisel (USA)

Weightlifting
Women’s 75kg

Gold: Svetlana Podobedova (Kazakhstan)
Silver: Natalya Zabolotnaya (Russia)
Bronze: Iryna Kulesha (Belarus)

Men’s 85kg

Gold: Adrian Edward Zielinski (Poland)
Silver: Apti Aukhadov (Russia)
Bronze: Kianoush Rostami (Iran)