August 7, 2016

Taipei's Hsu Shu-ching won gold women's 53 kg weightlifting, also China's Li Yajun set a new Olympic record in Snatch after lifting 101 Kg



Gold : Hsu Shu-ching (Chinese Taipei), 212 kg. 
Silver : Hidilyn Diaz (Philippines)  200 kg,
Bronze : Yoon Jin-hee (South Korea) 199 kg



China's Li Yajun set a new Olympic record in Snatch after lifting 101 Kgbut she was unable to lift her three Clean&Jerk attempts.

China's Long Qingquan won the Gold, setting an Olympic record of lifting 170 kg in the Clean&Jerk, and a world record of a total score of 307 kg in men's 56 kg weightlifting.



Gold : Long Qingquan (China) 307 kg [WC]
Silver : Om Yun-chol (North Korea) 303 kg
Bronze : Sinphet Kruaithong (Thailand) 289 kg

Sweden's Sarah Sjöström finished with 55.48 to record a gold medal, a world record, and an Olympic record


Gold : Sarah Sjöström (Sweden)  55.48 
Silver : Penny Oleksiak (Canada) 56.46
Bronze : Dana Vollmer (USA) 56.63.

USA's Katie Ledecky break a world record with a time of 3:56.46 to win the gold women's 400 m freestyle



Gold : Katie Ledecky (USA) 3:56.46 [WC]
Silver : Jazmin Carlin (Great Britain) 4:01.23
Bronze : Leah Smith (USA) 4:01.92

Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay: In the final race, Team USA finished with a time of 3:09.92 to win the gold and for Michael Phelps this was a record 19th Olympic gold medal




Gold : USA  3:09.92
(Caeleb Dressel, Michael Phelps, Ryan Held, Nathan Adrian, Jimmy Feigen*, Blake Pieroni*, Anthony Ervin*) 
Silver : France 3:10.53
(Mehdy Metella, Fabien Gilot, Florent Manaudou, Jérémy Stravius, William Meynard*, Clément Mignon*) 
Bronze : Australia 3:11.37.
(James Roberts, Kyle Chalmers, James Magnussen, Cameron McEvoy, Matthew Abood*) 

*Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats

In men's 100 m breaststroke Adam Peaty (Great Britain) recorded a world record of 57.13 to win the gold



Gold : Adam Peaty (Great Britain) 57.13
Silver : Cameron van der Burgh (South Africa) 58.69
Bronze : Cody Miller (USA) 58.87

Australian Catherine Skinner finished with a score of 12 to win the gold women's trap shooting


Gold : Catherine Skinner (Australia) 12
Silver : Natalie Rooney (New Zealand) 11
Bronze : Corey Cogdell (United States) 10

China's Zhang Mengxue recorded an Olympic record of 199.4 to win the gold in women's 10 metre air pistol shooting.


Gold : Zhang Mengxue (China) 199.4 [OC]
Silver : Vitalina Batsarashkina (Russia) 197.1
Bronze : Anna Korakaki (Greece) 177.7.

Majlinda Kelmendi opened first ever medal in olympics for Kosovo with gold in judo women's 52 kg



Gold : Majlinda Kelmendi (KOS) 
Silver : Odette Giuffrida (ITA)
Bronze : Misato Nakamura (JPN)
Bronze : Natalia Kuziutina (RUS)

Fabio Basile won judo mens 66Kg

Gold : Fabio Basile (ITA) 
Silver : An Ba-ul (KOR)
Bronze : Masashi Ebinuma (JPN)
Bronze : Rishod Sobirov (UZB)

Italian Daniele Garozzo won fencing men's foil

Gold : Daniele Garozzo (ITA) 
Bronze : Alexander Massialas (USA)
Silver : Timur Safin (RUS)

China won gold in diving women's synchronized 3 m springboard


Gold : China (Shi Tingmao and Wu Minxia) [score 345.60]
Silver : Italy (Tania Cagnotto and Francesca Dallapé) [313.83]
Bronze : Australia (Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith) [299.19]

Anna van der Breggen of Netherlands won the gold medal in the women's cycling individual road race

                   Gold : Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands) 3h 51' 27". 
Silver: Emma Johansson (Sweden)
Bronze : Elisa Longo Borghini (Italy)

South Korean women team won gold at Team Archery



                       Gold : South Korea          (Chang Hye-jin, Choi Mi-sun, Ki Bo-bae)
                       Silver : Russia                 (Tuyana Dashidorzhieva, Ksenia Perova and Inna Stepanova)
                       Bronze :Chinese Taipei  (Le Chien-ying, Lin Shih-chia and Tan Ya-ting)

Belgiums's Greg Van Avermaet in the men's individual road race cycling


                                                               Gold : Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium) finished at 6h 10' 05"
Silver : Jakob Fuglsang (Denmark)
Bronze : Rafał Majka (Poland)