China ranked first in gold medal tally
Chen Xiexia of China competes in the women's 48kg Group A
snatch weightlifting competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 9, 2008. [Agencies]
Up to four in the afternoon, August 11, 2008, China's delegation is ranked first in the gold medal tally, with seven gold medals in their XXIX Olympiad performance. In the first day of the Olympics, Chen Xiexia, the 48kg woman weightlifter, won the first gold medal for Group A snatch weightlifting competition. The second of the day was won by Pang Wei in the men's 10-meter air pistol final.
Pang Wei competes in the men's 10m air pistol competition at the
Beijing Olympic Games, August 9, 2008.
Pang won the seond gold medal for the Chinese delegation in this event. [Sohu.com]
Guo Wenjun of China takes aim during the women's 10m air pistol
shooting competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 10, 2008.
Guo won the gold medal on Sunday, followed by silver medalist
Russia's Natalia Paderina and bonze winner Nino Salukvadze from Georgia. [Agencies]
On Sunday August 10, the second day of the event, China has won four Gold Medals. Chinese markswoman Guo Wenjun smashed Olympic record in women's 10-meter air pistol with 492.3 points, winning China the second shooting gold medal at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. Guo, went into the finals ranked second among eight finalists with 390 points. In front of her was Russian shooter Natalia Paderina, who bettered the Olympic record in preliminary of the event with 391 points.
Zhang Lin of China competes in his 400m freestyle swimming heat
at the National Aquatics Center during the Beijing
2008 Olympic Games, August 9, 2008.
Zhang won the silver medal in the final. [Agencies]
South Korean swimming prodigy Park Taehwan realized his dream to win the men's 400m freestyle gold medal at the Olympics here on Sunday. Park clocked in 3:41.86 to top the podium and China's Zhang Lin got the silver in 3:42.44, China's first medal in this event. American Larsen Jensen finished third in 3:42.78.
Xian Dongmei of China celebrates after defeating
An Kum Ae of North Korea during their women's -52 kg
final judo match at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games,
August 10, 2008. [Agencies]
Chinese Xian Dongmei defeated DPR Korean An Kum Ae to win the women's 52kg judo gold medal.
Guo Jingjing (R) and Wu Minxia perform in the women's
synchronised 3m spring boarddiving competition final
at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing on
August 10, 2008. Guo and Wu won the
first diving gold for Chinese delegation. [Agencies]
Chinese world and Olympic champion Guo Jingjing took the limelight of the Water Cube together with her partner Wu Minxia as they retained their women's three-meter springboard synchronized gold at Beijing Olympic Games.
Guo and Wu, took the lead after the second round in the final to collect 343.50 points, beating their closest rivals Julia Pakhalina and Anastasia Pozdnyakova of Russia, who posted 323.61, by almost 20 points.
"I just considered the final as a normal competition, in order to reduce the pressure," said Guo, also gold medalist of the women's 3m springboard in Athens. "I did not do anything special to prepare for it."
Heike Fischer and Ditte Kotzian of Germany, silver medalists of the event in the 2007 Melbourne world championships, finished third with 318.90.
The German pair had trailed the American tandem Kelci Bryant and Ariel Rittenhouse in the first three rounds, but they tied the points after the fourth dive, and finally managed to surpass them in the last round.
Long Qingquan of China celebrates after a lift in the men's 56 kg
weightlifting event during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gymnasium in
Beijing on August 10, 2008. Long Qingquan set
a new junior world record by heaving 132kg
in the snatch for the men's 56kg weightlifting class. [Agencies]
Chinese Long Qingquan totaled 292kg to win the men's 56kg division weightlifting gold medal. Vietnam's Hoang Anh Tuan took the silver with 290kg and Indonesian Eko Yuli Irawan got the bronze with 288.
Lin Yue and Huo Liang of China compete in the men's 10m
platform synchronized diving final at the National Aquatics Center
during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
August 11, 2008. The teenager pair won the gold.
Chinese Lin Yue and Huo Liang scored 468.18 points to win the men's 10m synchronized diving gold medal at the Olympic Games here on Monday.
