Chronological summary of the 2008 Summer Olympics
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This page contains notable highlights from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
Calendar
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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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- Starting at 8:00 PM CST (UTC+8),[3] the four-hour opening ceremony was attended by 91,000 spectators,[4] including more than 100 world leaders. The spectacle was directed by filmmaker Zhang Yimou, and the Olympic Cauldron was lit by former Chinese 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 | |||||
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| 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
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[9] | ||
| Shooting | Men's 10 m air pistol | Pang Wei |  China
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[15] | |
| Women's 10 m air rifle | Kateřina Emmons |  Czech Republic
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OR | [10] | |
| Weightlifting | Women's 48 kg | Chen Xiexia | China
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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. They went on to win the Gold Medal, stretching the country's winning streak to 20 years over 6 Olympic games. [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 career Olympic gold medal.[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 minutes 33.76 seconds. Dara Torres of the United States, at 41 years of age, becomes the oldest swimmer to win an Olympic medal after the US team takes silver.[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 the finals of the men's 10 m air rifle in fourth place, Abhinav Bindra wins the first ever individual Olympic gold medal for India,[38] and India's first gold medal in any 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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- Steeve Guenot wins France its first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics in the men's 66 kg Greco-Roman wrestling, after 9 other medals including 7 silver medals.
- 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]
- 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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- Alain Bernard becomes the first French swimmer to win the men's 100 m freestyle, and only the third to win a gold medal in an Olympic swimming event (the two others being Jean Boiteux in 1952 and Laure Manaudou in 2004, both in the 400 m freestyle).
- The Australian team of Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer and Linda Mackenzie wins the women's 4 x 200 m freestyle relay, setting a new world record time of 7 minutes 44.31 seconds and giving Rice her third gold medal at her first Olympics.[86]
- 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.[87]
- Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar wins Mongolia's first ever Olympic gold medal in the Men's 100 kg.[88]
- 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 (the referee changed his mind after the round was over) and started shouting at referees and officials after the match.[89] The IOC later decided to officially strip him of his medal.[90]
Day 7: August 15
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- Tirunesh Dibaba wins the women's 10000 m in 29:54.66, the best time in almost 15 years and an African and Olympic record. Silver medallist Elvan Abeylegesse and bronze medallist Shalane Flanagan also ran European and North American records, respectively.[102]
- Nastia Liukin wins the gold medal in the Women's artistic individual all-around. Her father and coach, Valeri Liukin, won several gymnastics medals for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. 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.[103]
- 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.
- Simon Aspelin and Thomas Johansson battle their way to the men's doubles final by beating frenchmen Arnaud Clément and Michael Llodra in a breathtaking and dramatic match, which ended 19-17 in the third set after more than four hours of high quality play from both teams.
Day 8: August 16
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- With a harvest of nine medals (four gold and bronze medals, one silver medal), the Great Britain Olympic team has its most successful day since the 1908 London Olympics.
- New Zealand also experienced their most successful day at an Olympics (with two gold, one silver, and two bronze medals), beating their previous best of four bronze medals in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
- Russia's Valeriy Borchin wins gold in the men's 20 km walk with a time of 1:19:01 edging out Jefferson Pérez, the world champion since 2003, by only 14 seconds.[121]
- Jamaica's Usain Bolt wins gold medal in the men's 100m with a world record of 9.69 seconds in a race dubbed by Michael Johnson as "the greatest 100m performance in the history of the event".[122] Asafa Powell finished 5th while Tyson Gay was eliminated in the semifinal.[122]
- Zhang Ning successfully defends her women's singles Olympic title against top seed Xie Xingfang.[123]
- The Great Britain team of Tom James, Steve Williams, Peter Reed and Andrew Triggs-Hodge win the men's coxless fours, making it the third time in a row that Great Britain has won gold in this event.[124]
- New Zealand's Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell successfully defend their 2004 title in the women's double sculls by beating Germany by 0.01 seconds. New Zealand had a time of 7:07.32, Germany had a time of 7:07.33.[125]
- Georgeta Andrunache of Romania wins gold in the final women's coxless pair race, making it her fifth career gold, as well as her third consecutive Olympic gold in that event.[126]
- The New Zealand Men's 4x100 metre medley relay team became the first ever New Zealand swimming relay team to qualify for an Olympic final, qualifying sixth fastest.
- Michael Phelps' victory by 0.01 seconds in the men's 100 m butterfly over Serbian swimmer Milorad Čavić ties him with Mark Spitz for the most Olympic gold medals in one games.[127]
- César Cielo Filho wins the men's 50 m freestyle, Brazil's first ever swimming Olympic gold medal.[128]
- 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.[129]
- Roger Federer wins his first Olympic medal by teaming up with Stanislas Wawrinka to win Men's doubles for Switzerland.[130]
- Jang Mi-Ran of South Korea wins the unlimited (+75kg) Division of women's weightlifting by breaking five world records: once in snatch, twice in clean-and-jerk, and twice in total.[131]
- Carol Huynh of Canada wins the first medal of the games for Canada and becomes the first gold medalist in women's wrestling for Canada.
Day 9: August 17
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- China wins its 33rd gold medal of the Beijing games by beating Singapore in the table tennis women's team event, surpassing its 32 golds of the Athens games and making this the most successful Olympiad ever for China.[148]
- Jamaica sweeps the field in the women's 100 m, with Shelly-Ann Fraser taking gold, and Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart tying for silver.[149]
- Russia's Gulnara Galkina-Samitova breaks her own world record in winning the women's 3000 m steeplechase in a time of 8 minutes 58.81 seconds.[150]
- Britain's Rebecca Romero wins a cycling gold to become one of the few athletes with medals in two distinct disciplines, the 2008 medal being added to her 2004 rowing silver.[151]
- China's Guo Jingjing becomes the most decorated diver in Olympic history after winning her sixth career medal in the women's 3 m springboard.[152][153]
- China wins its first ever Olympic rowing gold medal in the women's quadruple sculls.[154][155]
- Ben Ainslie of Great Britain successfully defends his title winning gold in the Finn class. This is his third successive gold and fourth successive Olympic medal after previously winning the Finn class in 2004, the Laser class in 2000 and a silver in the Laser class in 1996, an achievement compared by IOC President Jacques Rogge to those of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt.[156][157]
- Matthew Emmons, who had held the lead in the men's 50 m rifle three positions at the Athens Olympics but finished eighth after cross-firing his last shot, once again holds the lead with one shot remaining but pulls the trigger prematurely, finishing fourth. China's Qiu Jian, who had entered the final in fourth position, shoots the highest score in the final round to win the gold medal.[158]
- The United States defeats Australia in the men's 4 x 100 m medley relay, setting a new world record of 3 minutes 29.34 seconds. Michael Phelps, swimming the third leg, wins his eighth Olympic gold medal of the Beijing Games, surpassing Mark Spitz to become the athlete to win the most gold medals in a single Olympiad.[159]
- Germany's Britta Steffen wins the women's 50 m freestyle setting a new Olympic record of 24.06 seconds and out-touching American Dara Torres by just 0.01 seconds.[160]
- Australia wins the women's 4 x 100 m medley relay and sets a new world record of 3 minutes 52.69 seconds, bettering the previous world record by 3.05 seconds. The United States wins silver, also going under the previous world record and setting a new American record. China wins bronze with a new Asian record.[161]
- China wins the inaugural women's team event by winning all ten of its singles and all five of its doubles matches in the tournament.
- Rafael Nadal of Spain defeats Chile's Fernando Gonzalez 6-3, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3 to win the men's singles, Spain's first ever Olympic gold medal in tennis. Gonzalez's medal is his third, making him Chile's most successful athlete at the Olympics.[162]
- Japan's Kaori Icho successfully defends her Olympic title in Women's freestyle 63 kg.[163]
Day 10: August 18
- Liu Xiang, China's defending Olympic champion in the men's 110 m hurdles, withdraws from the competition due to an injury.[189][190]
- Irving Saladino wins Panama's first Olympic medal in 40 years, and their first gold medal ever in an Olympic athletics event.[191]
- The United States sweeps the medals in the men's 400 m hurdles, with Angelo Taylor winning gold, Kerron Clement silver and Bershawn Jackson bronze. This is the US team's first clean sweep of the event since the 1960 Rome Olympics.[192]
- Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva sets a new world record in winning the women's pole vault, the third time she has done so in 2008.[193]
- Like the women, the Chinese men win the team competition without losing a match, winning all ten singles and all five doubles matches.
- Andrei Aramnau of Belarus breaks three world records, for the snatch, clean and jerk, and total, on the way to winning the men's 105 kg event.[194]
Day 11: August 19
- Great Britain wins the women's 400 m for the first time as Christine Ohuruogu wins the gold medal, with Jamaica's Shericka Williams taking silver and Sanya Richards of the United States taking bronze.[209]
- Red-hot favourite Lolo Jones of the United States clips the second-last hurdle in the women's 100 m hurdles, finishing seventh; however, the US still succeeds in taking gold through Dawn Harper. Australia's Sally McLellan takes the silver medal and Canada's Priscilla Lopes-Schliep takes bronze.[210]
- Rashid Ramzi wins the men's 1500 m, giving Bahrain its first ever Olympic gold medal.[211]
- Chris Hoy wins his third gold medal of the Beijing games in the men's sprint event, becoming the first British athlete in 100 years to win three gold medals in a single Olympiad.[212][213]
- Victoria Pendelton adds gold to the Great British track cycling medal total giving Great Britian victory in seven out of the ten track cycling titles. The team won 12 medals including 7 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze to dominate the track events.[214]
- Argentina defeats tournament favourite and longtime rival Brazil 3-0 in the semifinal of the men's football.[215]
Day 12: August 20
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- Usain Bolt wins the men's 200 m in a new world record time of 19.30 seconds, beating the old mark set by Michael Johnson at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. With this victory, Bolt also becomes the first sprinter since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win both the 100 m and 200 m events in a single Olympiad, the first sprinter since Don Quarrie in 1976 to hold the world records for both events simultaneously, and the first since the introduction of electronic timing.[232]
- In the men's 200 m, United States' Wallace Spearmon, who finished third in 19.85s was disqualified for stepping out of his lane. Later, Netherlands Antilles' Churandy Martina, who finished second in 19.82s, was also disqualified for stepping out of his lane.
- After a race lasting nearly two hours, Russia's Larisa Ilchenko beats Keri-Anne Payne of Great Britain by just 1.5 seconds to win the women's 10 km marathon. Payne and fellow British swimmer Cassandra Patten, who took bronze, had shared the lead for almost the entire race before being overtaken by Ilchenko with 50 metres remaining.[233]
- Natalie du Toit of South Africa becomes the first amputee to compete in the Olympic Games, finishing 16th in the women's 10 km marathon.[233]
- Yin Jian wins China's first ever Olympic sailing gold medal in the women's sailboard.[234]
- Rohullah Nikpai wins Afghanistan's first Olympic medal ever by taking bronze in the men's 58 kg contest.[235]
- Wu Jingyu from China defeated Thai athlete Buttree Puedpong in Taekwondo women's 49 kg contest receiving a gold medal. Buttree became the first Thai athlete ever to win a silver medal for Taekwondo and got the first silver medal for Thailand in 2008 Games.
Day 13: August 21
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- In a chaotic night on the track in the Beijing National Stadium, the United States teams drop the baton in both the men's and women's 4x100 m relay semifinals. Four other teams are similarly affected, and the British men's team is disqualified for an invalid baton change.[244][245]
- Cuban sprinter Dayron Robles wins the men's 110 m hurdles gold medal in a race notable for the absence of pre-race favourite and Chinese defending Olympic champion and sporting celebrity Liu Xiang.[246]
- Veronica Campbell-Brown wins the women's 200 m, completing a Jamaican clean sweep of the men's and women's 100 m and 200 m sprint events.[247]
- In one of the biggest upsets in the history of softball, Japan defeats the United States 3-1 in the final of the women's softball tournament. This was the US team's first defeat in Olympic competition since the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and the first time the US has failed to win the gold medal.[248][249]
- American duo Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor win the gold medal in the women's beach volleyball final, completing the tournament without dropping a single set and extending their unbeaten run in world competition to 108 matches.[250][251]
Day 14: August 22
- Continuing the chaos of the previous night's semifinals, favourites Jamaica and Great Britain stumble in the final of the women's 4 x 100 m relay. Russia wins the gold medal ahead of Belgium and Nigeria.[269]
- The Jamaican men's team wins the men's 4 x 100 m relay for the first time, setting a new world record time of 37.10 seconds. Usain Bolt, running the third leg, gains his third gold medal and third world record of the Beijing games, and becomes the first sprinter since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win the three sprint events in a single Olympiad: 100 m, 200 m and 4 x 100 m relay.[270][271]
- Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia wins her second gold medal of the Beijing games, claiming the women's 5000 m to go with her earlier victory in the 10000 m.[272]
- Steven Hooker wins Australia's first gold medal in men's athletics since 1968, in the men's pole vault.[273]
- Maurren Higa Maggi wins Brazil's first ever gold medal in any women's individual event, in the women's long jump.[274]
- Anne-Caroline Chausson of France and Māris Štrombergs of Latvia take the inaugural gold medals in BMX, winning the women's and men's events respectively.[275]
- China sweeps the medals in the women's singles, with Zhang Yining defending her Olympic gold medal, Wang Nan taking silver, and Guo Yue bronze, leaving a competitor from Singapore in fourth place for the third consecutive Olympics.[276]
Day 15: August 23
- General
- The Los Angeles Times reported that the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Slovenia achieved the most 2008 Summer Olympics medals per capita.[294]
- In a major upset, Belgium's Tia Hellebaut wins the women's high jump event, defeating the favourite and world champion Blanka Vlasic of Croatia and ending Vlasic's run of 38 wins in international competition.[295][296]
- Sudan's Ismail Ahmed Ismail becomes his country's first Olympic medalist, taking silver in the men's 800 metres event.[citation needed]
- South Korea stuns the favorite Cuba to win gold. Prior to these Olympics, Cuba had won 3 of the last 4 gold medals.
- Ukrainian Vasyl Lomachenko defeats Frenchman Khedafi Djelkhir in the first round of the gold medal fight in the featherweight category, the referee stopping the fight after less than two minutes after Djelkhir received his third standing count.[297][298]
- In a major upset, Australia's Matthew Mitcham wins the men's 10 m platform gold medal, scoring 112.10 points on his final dive and preventing the Chinese team from achieving a clean sweep of the diving events.[299] This is the highest score for an individual dive in Olympic history.[300]
- The Chinese men follow up the women with a medal sweep of their own, with Ma Lin winning the gold, Wang Hao winning the silver for the second successive Olympics, and Wang Liqin taking the bronze medal in the men's singles. This completes a unique achievement for China, taking all the medals for which they are eligible in table tennis: gold, silver and bronze in the men's and women's singles, and gold in the men's and women's team tournaments.[301]
- Angel Matos of Cuba is banned from taekwondo for life after attacking the referee in the men's +80 kg event. Matos had been disqualified from his bronze medal bout for taking too long to return to the action after being injured.[302]
Day 16: August 24
- Closing Ceremony
- The Closing Ceremonies began at 8:00 pm China Standard Time (UTC+8). The number 8 is associated with prosperity and confidence in Chinese culture. The Closing Ceremony concluded at 9:55PM CST.
- The United States men's basketball team, dubbed the "Redeem Team", defeats world champions Spain 118-107 in the final and regains the gold medal they lost in the 2004 Athens games.[331]
- Zou Shiming wins China's first Olympic boxing gold medal, and its 50th gold medal overall of the Beijing games, in the light flyweight category.[332][333]
- Bakhyt Sarsekbayev of Kazakhstan defeats Cuba's Carlos Banteaux Suarez to win the welterweight category, with the result that traditional boxing power Cuba will finish the Beijing games without any gold medals in boxing.[334]
- France wins the 302nd and last gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, beating Iceland in the final of the men's handball.[335]
August 25
No events were delayed, needing an extra day. The Olympics concluded on time, on August 24.
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