August 22, 2016

Closing Ceremoney


As per traditional Olympic protocol, the ceremony featured cultural presentations from both the current (Brazil) and following (Japan) host countries, as well as closing remarks by International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach and the leader of the Games' organizing committee Carlos Arthur Nuzman, the official handover of the Olympic flag from Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes to Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike, whose city will host the 2020 Summer Olympics, and the extinguishing of the Olympic flame.

Eliud Kipchoge won Men's marathon


Gold : Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya)
Silver : Feyisa Lilesa (Ethiopia)
Bronze : Galen Rupp (United States)

Kyle Snyder won gold in men's freestyle 97 kg wrestling


Gold : Kyle Snyder (United States)
Silver : Khetag Gazyumov (Azerbaijan )
Bronze : Albert Saritov (Romania)   
Bronze : Magomed Ibragimov (Uzbekistan)

Soslan Ramonov won gold in men's freestyle 65 kg wrestling



Gold : Soslan Ramonov (Russia)
Silver : Toghrul Asgarov (Azerbaijan)
Bronze : Frank Chamizo (Italy)   
Bronze : Ikhtiyor Navruzov (Uzbekistan)

Brazil won gold in men's Volleyball


Gold : Brazil
(Bruno Rezende, Éder Carbonera, Wallace de Souza,  William Arjona, Sérgio Santos, Luiz Felipe Fonteles, Maurício Souza, Douglas Souza, Lucas Saatkamp, Evandro Guerra, Ricardo Lucarelli Souza, Maurício Silva)
Silver : Italy
(Pasquale Sottile, Luca Vettori, Osmany Juantorena, Simone Giannelli ,Salvatore Rossini ,Ivan Zaytsev, Filippo Lanza, Simone Buti, Massimo Colaci, Matteo Piano, Emanuele Birarelli, Oleg Antonov)
Bronze : United States
(Matt Anderson, Aaron Russell, Taylor Sander , David Lee (C), Kawika Shoji, William Priddy, Murphy Troy, Thomas Jaeschke, Micah Christenson, Maxwell Holt, David Smith, Erik Shoji)

Denmark won gold in men's Handball



Gold : Denmark
(Niklas Landin Jacobsen, Mads Christiansen, Mads Mensah Larsen, Casper Ulrich Mortensen, Jesper Nøddesbo, Jannick Green, Lasse Svan Hansen, Rene Toft Hansen, Henrik Møllgaard, Kasper Søndergaard, Henrik Toft Hansen, Mikkel Hansen, Morten Olsen, Michael Damgaard )

Silver : France
(Daniel Narcisse, Vincent Gérard, Nikola Karabatić, Kentin Mahé, Mathieu Grébille, Thierry Omeyer, Timothey N'Guessan, Luc Abalo, Cédric Sorhaindo, Michaël Guigou, Luka Karabatić, Ludovic Fabregas, Adrien Dipanda, Valentin Porte)

Bronze : Germany
(Uwe Gensheimer, Finn Lemke, Patrick Wiencek, Tobias Reichmann,  Fabian Wiede, Silvio Heinevetter, Hendrik Pekeler, Steffen Weinhold, Martin Strobel, Patrick Groetzki, Kai Häfner,  Andreas Wolff, Julius Kühn, Christian Dissinger,  Paul Drux)

Women Rhythmic group all-around Gymnastics

Gold : Russia 
(Vera Biriukova, Anastasia Bliznyuk, Anastasia Maksimova, Anastasiia Tatareva, Maria Tolkacheva)

Silver : Spain
 (Sandra Aguilar, Artemi Gavezou, Elena López, Lourdes Mohedano, Alejandra Quereda)

Bronze : Bulgaria 
(Reneta Kamberova, Lyubomira Kazanova, Mihaela Maevska-Velichkova, Tsvetelina Naydenova, Hristiana Todorova)