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This page contains notable highlights from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
August 6
- The first competitions of the Games started at 5:00pm CST (UTC+8). The first events were women's football (soccer) matches. The day was devoted to women's football.Cite error: The
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August 7
- The first football (soccer) matches for men began on this day. The day was devoted to men's football matches.Cite error: The
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August 8
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- Opening Ceremony
- Starting at 8:00 PM CST (UTC+8),[3] the four-hour opening ceremony was attended by 91,000 spectators,[4] including U.S. President George W. Bush; Princess Anne, Princess Royal; Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin; French President Nicolas Sarkozy; Constantine II of Greece; Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd; UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi; Serbian president Boris Tadic ; Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo; and Gordon Campbell, premier of British Columbia, the Canadian province hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics. The spectacle was directed by filmmaker Zhang Yimou, and the Olympic Cauldron was lit by gymnast Li Ning.[5]
- The first events start in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, with eventing in equestrian sports.Cite error: The
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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.[6]
- Samoa's Farani Tavui is taken to hospital after being knocked unconscious in the men's light heavyweight event.[7]
- The United States sweeps 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.[8]
- Choi Min-ho of South Korea wins the Men's 60 kg ending all his matches with ippon.[9]
- Ryoko Tani of Japan who had never lost in a major international competition since 1996 was defeated in the Women's 48 kg semifinals by eventual gold medalist Alina Alexandra Dumitru with a controversial penalty point.
- 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.[10]
- Swimmer Michael Phelps of the United States sets an Olympic record in the first round of the men's 400 m individual medley.[11]
- Swimmer Alexander Dale Oen of Norway sets an Olympic record in the first round of the men's 100 m breaststroke.[12]
- 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.[13]
| Gold Medalists | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
| Cycling | Men's road race | Samuel Sánchez |  Spain
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[14] | |
| Fencing | Women's sabre | Mariel Zagunis |  United States
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[8] | |
| Judo | Men's 60 kg | Choi Min-Ho |  South Korea
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[9] | |
| Women's 48 kg | Alina Alexandra Dumitru |  Romania
|
[9] | ||
| Shooting | Men's 10 m air pistol | Pang Wei |  China
|
[15] | |
| Women's 10 m air rifle | Kateřina Emmons |  Czech Republic
|
OR | [10] | |
| Weightlifting | Women's 48 kg | Chen Xiexia | China
|
OR | [13] |
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.[16]
- 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.[17]
- 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.[18] During the medal ceremony, Pederina and bronze medalist Nino Salukvadze of Georgia shared a symbolic embrace as their two countries continued to war; the two had been friends since they both competed for the Soviet Union.[19]
- Michael Phelps wins the men's 400 m individual medley final, with a new world record, winning his seventh Olympic title.[20]
- Park Tae-Hwan wins the men's 400 m freestyle final. He is the first South Korean swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal for swimming.[21]
- Swimmer Alexander Dale Oen of Norway set an Olympic record in the semifinals of the men's 100 m breaststroke, his second in the event.[22]
- Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice sets a new world record in women's 400 m individual medley, winning Australia's 400th Summer Olympics medal. Second place Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe also finished below the previous world record.[23]
- The Netherlands team wins women's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay final with a new Olympic record of 3:33.76.[24]
- American men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay breaks the World Record with a time of 3:12.23 in the preliminaries.[25]
- 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.[26]
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.[34]
- Kosuke Kitajima of Japan wins the Olympic gold medal in the men's 100 m breaststroke, and sets a world record of 58.91.[35]
- 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.[36]
- 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 100 m freestyle relay with a time of 3:08:24, beating France by 0.08 seconds. At the start of the last leg, France's Alain Bernard, who had seen his world record in the 100 m freestyle broken less than two minutes earlier, was ahead by nearly a body length. However, 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. Australia's Eamon Sullivan also broke the individual 100 m freestyle world record by swimming the leadoff leg in 47.24.[37]
- Entering into the finals in fourth place, Abhinav Bindra became the first Olympian from India to win an individual Olympic gold medal.[38] This was India's first gold medal in an Olympic event since 1980.[39]
- Tajikistan wins its first ever Olympic medal after Rasul Boqiev secures bronze in the Men's 73 kg.[40]
Day 4: August 12
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- Michael Phelps of the U.S. sets the world record while winning the 200 m Men's freestyle, tying the record for most gold medals for an athlete.
- Natalie Coughlin of the U.S. becomes the first athlete to successfully defend a gold medal in the Women's 100 m backstroke event.
- Walton Eller of the U.S. sets two Olympic records in the men's double trap event, with a qualifying score of 145 and a final score of 190.
- Benjamin Boukpeti becomes the first ever competitor from Togo to win an Olympic medal, taking bronze in the Men's slalom K-1.[51]
Day 5: August 13
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- Michael Phelps of the U.S. takes the record for most gold medals for an athlete with 11 for wins in the 200 m butterfly and the 4 x 200 m relay.[68]
- The Chinese Women's Gymnastic Team wins their first ever team gold medal.[69]
- Hungary's Janos Baranyai is taken to hospital after a severe injury during the men's 77kg event in weightlifting.[70]
Day 6: August 14
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- Zhang Juanjuan of China wins the women's individual archery competition by taking down the top three ranked players (all from South Korea and including the 2004 Games' defending champion Park Sung-Hyun) in the event.[86]
- Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar wins Mongolia's first ever Olympic gold medal in the Men's 100 kg.[87]
- Ara Abrahamian wins a bronze medal in the 84-kilogram Greco-Roman, but during the medal ceremony steps off of the podium and lay down his medal on the mat. Abrahamian had lost a 3-1 decision to Andrea Minguzzi in the semi-finals in a disputed decision and started shouting at referees and officials after the match.[88] The IOC later decided to officially strip his of his medal.[89]
Day 7: August 15
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- Nastia Liukin wins the gold medal in the Women's artistic individual all-around. Her father and coach, Valeri Liukin, won a Gymnastics gold medal for the Soviet Union at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Together, with Shawn Johnson taking the silver, was the fourth time in Olympic history where a country took the top two spots in the Individual All Around events.
- Singapore qualifies for the final in the women's team event, thus ensuring that the country will win its first Olympic medal, in any event, since 1960.[102]
- Great Britain break the world record in the qualification round of the Men's cycling team sprint
- Down a yuko and with only 16 seconds left, world champion China's Tong Wen manages to find an opening and throw defending Olympic champion Japan's Maki Tsukada for the gold in Women's +78 kg.
Day 8: August 16
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- Michael Phelps' victory by 0.01 seconds in the Men's 100 m butterfly over Serbian swimmer Milorad Čavić ties him for with Mark Spitz for the most Olympic gold medals in one games.[120]
- César Cielo wins the men's 50 m freestyle, Brazil's first ever swimming Olympic gold medal.[121]
- Rebecca Adlington breaks the world record in the women's 800 m freestyle. Previously set by Janet Evans in 1989, it had been the longest-standing world record in swimming. Adlington's two gold medals in these games make her the most successful British swimmer at the Olympics in the last 100 years.[122]
- Zhang Ning successfully defends her Women's singles Olympic title against top seed Xie Xingfang.[123]
- Russia's Valeriy Borchin wins gold in the Men's 20 km walk with a time of 1:19:01 edging out Jefferson Perez, the world champion since 2003, by only 14 seconds.[124]
See also
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