Chronological summary of the 2008 Summer Olympics
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This page contains notable highlights from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
Day -2: August 6
- Women's football
- Norway beat defending champion United States 2–0 in group G.[1] Norwegian striker Leni Larsen Kaurin's second-minute goal was the fastest-ever goal in the women's Olympic football tournament.[2] Meanwhile, reigning World Cup champion Germany drew 0–0 with Brazil in group F.[3] Host China won its opening game by beating Sweden 2–1 in group E.[4]
Day -1: August 7
- Men's football
- Defending olympic and Under-20 World Cup champion Argentina beats Côte d'Ivoire 2–1 in group A,[5] while Italy wins 3–0 over Honduras in group D.[6]
Day 0: August 8
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- Opening Ceremony
- Starting at 8:00 PM CST (UTC+8),[7] the four hour long opening ceremony was attended by 91,000 spectators,[8] including U.S. President George W. Bush, Princess Anne, Princess Royal, Brazilian president Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi,Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Gordon Campbell, premier of British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada. The spectacle was directed by filmmaker Zhang Yimou, and the Olympic Cauldron was lit by gymnast Li Ning.[9]
Campbell's presence had some significance. Canada is the host country for the next Olympics: British Columbia is the host province, as Vancouver hosts the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Day 1: August 9
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- South Korea sets an Olympic record in the ranking round of the women's team archery event.[10]
- The United States sweep the medals in the women's sabre event, the first U.S. podium sweep of a fencing event since 1904, as Mariel Zagunis takes gold.[11]
- Norway qualifies for the quarterfinals of the women's football tournament with a 1–0 win over New Zealand.[12]
- Choi Min-ho of South Korea wins the Men's 60 kg ending all his matches with ippon.
- Kateřina Emmons of the Czech Republic wins the first gold medal of the games, setting an Olympic record for both the qualifying (with a perfect 400) and final scores, in the women's 10 m air rifle.[13]
- Swimmer Michael Phelps of the United States sets an Olympic record in the first round of the men's 400 m individual medley.[14]
- Swimmer Alexander Dale Oen of Norway sets an Olympic record in the first round of the men's 100 m breaststroke.[15]
- Chen Xiexia of China wins the women's 48 kg event in weightlifting, setting Olympic records in both the clean and jerk, and total weight lifted.[16]
| Gold Medalists | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Event | Competitor | NOC | Rec | Ref |
| Cycling | Men's road race | Samuel Sánchez |  Spain
|
[17] | |
| Fencing | Women's sabre | Mariel Zagunis |  United States
|
[11] | |
| Judo | Men's 60 kg | Choi Min-Ho |  South Korea
|
[18] | |
| Judo | Women's 48 kg | Alina Alexandra Dumitru |  Romania
|
[18] | |
| Shooting | Men's 10 m air pistol | Pang Wei |  China
|
[19] | |
| Shooting | Women's 10 m air rifle | Kateřina Emmons |  Czech Republic
|
OR | [13] |
| Weightlifting | Women's 48 kg | Chen Xiexia | China
|
OR | [16] |
Day 2: August 10
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- South Korea set a world record for a 24-arrow team match, in their victory over Italy in the quarter finals of the women's team archery event.[20]
- The USA men's basketball team beat hosts China 101–70 in the first, much-anticipated game in the basketball event. Yao Ming, the Chinese star player, scored the first shot of the tournament, but limped off at the end of the third quarter due to an ankle injury.[21]
- Argentina, Brazil and Italy qualify for the quarterfinals of the men's football tournament.[22]
- Guo Wenjun of China wins gold in women's 10 metre air pistol and sets a new Olympic record for final score with 492.3 points, after Natalia Paderina of Russia had bettered the Olympic qualification record to 391.[23]
- Michael Phelps wins the men's 400 metre individual medley final, with a new world record, winning his seventh Olympic title.[24]
- Park Tae-hwan wins the men's 400 metre freestyle final. He is the first South Korean swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal for swimming.[25]
- Swimmer Alexander Dale Oen of Norway set an Olympic record in the semifinals of the Men's 100 metre breaststroke, his second in the event.[26]
- Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice sets a new world record in women's 400 metre individual medley, winning Australia's 400th Summer Olympics medal. Second place Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe also finished below the previous world record.[27]
- The Netherlands team wins women's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay final with a new Olympic record of 3:33.76.[28]
- American men's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay breaks the World Record with a time of 3:12.23 in the preliminaries.[29]
- Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon of Thailand wins gold in women's 53 kg weightlifting and sets a new Olympic record for clean and jerk. This is Thailand's first medal in the 2008 games.[30]
Day 3: August 11
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- Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe sets a new world record in the women's 100 m backstroke semifinal with a time of 58.77.[38]
- Kosuke Kitajima of Japan wins the Olympic gold medal in the men's 100 m breaststroke, and sets a world record of 58.91.[39]
- Arkady Vyatchanin of Russia sets a new Olympic record in the men's 100 m backstroke semifinal with a time of 53.06, only for the record to be set again in heat 2 of the semifinal by Hayden Stoeckel of Australia, with a time of 52.97.
- The United States team breaks the world record they had set in the semifinals by nearly four seconds, winning the gold medal in the men's 4 x 100m freestyle relay with a time of 3:08:24 beating France by 0.08 seconds. At the start of the last leg, France's former 100m freestyle world record holder Alain Bernard was ahead by nearly a body length. But in the final seconds Jason Lezak was able to chase him down with a time of 46.06 the fastest relay leg in history. Five of the eight teams in the final finished under the previous world record, and a sixth team was only 0.03 seconds over the previous record.
- Bhai Abhinav Bindra becomes the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold medal.[40]
| Gold Medalists | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Event | Competitor | NOC | Rec | Ref |
| Archery | Men's team | ||||
| Diving | Men's synchronised 10 m platform | ||||
| Fencing | Women's foil | ||||
| Judo | Men's 73 kg | ||||
| Judo | Women's 57 kg | ||||
| Shooting | Men's 10 m air rifle | Abhinav Bindra |  India
|
[40] | |
| Shooting | Women's trap | ||||
| Swimming | Men's 100 m breaststroke | Kosuke Kitajima |  Japan
|
WR | [39] |
| Swimming | Men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay | Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones, Jason Lezak |
United States
|
WR | [41] |
| Swimming | Women's 100 m butterfly | Libby Trickett |  Australia
|
[42] | |
| Swimming | Women's 400 m freestyle | Rebecca Adlington |  Great Britain
|
[43] | |
| Weightlifting | Men's 62 kg | ||||
| Weightlifting | Women's 58 kg | ||||
Day 4: August 12
| Gold Medalists | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Event | Competitor | NOC | Rec | Ref |
| Canoeing | Men's slalom C-1 | ||||
| Canoeing | Men's slalom K-1 | ||||
| Diving | Women's synchronized 10 m platform | ||||
| Equestrian | Team eventing | ||||
| Equestrian | Individual eventing | ||||
| Fencing | Men's sabre | ||||
| Gymanstics | Men's artistic team all-around | ||||
| Judo | Women's 63kg | ||||
| Judo | Men's 81 kg | ||||
| Shooting | Men's 50 m pistol | ||||
| Shooting | Men's double trap | ||||
| Swimming | Men's 200 m freestyle | ||||
| Swimming | Women's 100 m backstroke | ||||
| Swimming | Men's 100 m backstroke | ||||
| Swimming | Women's 100 m breaststroke | ||||
| Weightlifting | Women's 63kg | ||||
| Weightlifting | Men's 69kg | ||||
| Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 55 kg | ||||
| Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg | ||||
See also
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