LATEST TOP 5 MEDAL TALLY AS AT AUGUST 19, 2008 AT 10.30PM
He Chong took first place in the Men's 3m Springboard semifinal with 547.25 points, 28.50 points higher than second-place Alexandre Despatie of Canada. China's Qin Kai finished third with 508.50.(Thank you and credits to Jeff Gross/Getty Images)
Russian high jumper Andrey Silnov, who keeps the season's best of 2.38 meters, won the Olympic title/gold. Germaine Mason from Britain took the silver with 2.34 meters, and Yaroslav Rybakov from Russia settled for bronze.(Thank you and credits to Xinhua Images)
China's Lu Chunlong wins Men's Trampoline Olympic gold - Lu Chunlong (C), Dong Dong (R) and Jason Burnett (Thank you and credits to Xinhua Images)
China's Lu Chunlong won the Men's Trampoline gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Tuesday. Lu scored the winning 41.00 points, while Canada's Jason Burnett took the silver with a score of 40.70 and Dong Dong of China took the bronze with 40.60 points.
Victoria Pendleton of Great Britain won her first career Olympic Games gold medal in the Women's Sprint on the final night of competition at the Laoshan Velodrome on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - (Thank you and credits to Wu Wei/Xinhua)
Chris Hoy wins third Cycling gold - Chris Hoy of Great Britain shot his fist in the air as he crossed the line to claim his third gold medal of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games with victory in the Men's Sprint at the Laoshan Velodrome on Tuesday, August 19, 2008.(Thank you and credits to Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
(L-R): Vasyl Fedoryshyn, Mavlet Batirov, Yumoto Kenichi and Seyedmorad Mohammadi (Thank you and credits to Xinhua Images)
The 60kg final was a head to head clash between Athens 55kg champion Mavlet Batirov of Russia and reigning European champion Vasyl Fedoryshyn of Ukraine. Batirov converted to 60kg after Athens Triumph and found instant success in this new category. Twenty-seven-year-old Fedoryshyn is in his prime. He has won three European Championships in 2005, 2007 and 2008.
Henry Cejudo on the podium (Thank you and credits to Getty Images)- The 55 kilogram competitor Cejudo, 20, has won three Pan American Championships in a row (2006, 2007 and 2008). However, he hadn't had much success in the more important international events, until Tuesday. After defeating Japan's Matsunaga Tomohiro in the 55 kilogram final, Henry could not contain his joy. Radoslav Velikov of Bulgaria and Besik Kudukhov of Russia both took bronze in the 55kg class.
Matthias Steiner during the final (Thank you and credits to Yang Lei/Xinhua)On his final lift, Matthias Steiner of Germany pulled ahead of Russia's Evgeny Chigishev to win the Men's Over 105 kilogram Weightlifting final on Tuesday, August 19. Steiner lifted a total of 461kg, 203kg in the Snatch and 258kg in the Clean and Jerk, to beat Chigishev by one kilogram for the gold.
Zou Kai of China wins Horizontal gold medal - Zou Kai of China won the Horizontal gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Tuesday. Zou Kai scored 16.200 points for the gold, the ninth for the Chinese gymnastics team at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The silver medal was taken by Jonathan Horton of the United States at 16.175, followed by Fabian Hambuechen of Germany in third place at 15.875.(Thank you and credits to Xinhua Images)
Shawn Johnson (C), Nastia Liukin (L), and Cheng Fei (Thank you and credits to Xinhua Images)
Shawn Johnson wins the Beam title - Shawn Johnson of the United States won the gold medal in the Beam event at the Olympic Gymnastics tournament here on Tuesday. Shawn Johnson collected 16.225 points for the title, edging her fellow American Nastia Liukin to the second place at 16.025. Cheng Fei of China settled for the bronze medal at 15.950.(Thank you and credits to Xinhua Images)
China's Li Xiaopeng wins gold in the Men's Parallel Bars - Li Xiaopeng of China won the gold medal in the Parallel Bars with a score of 16.450 points at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Tuesday. The silver medal was taken by Yoo Won-chul of the Republic of Korea at 16.250, followed by Anton Fokin of Uzbekistan in third place at 16.200.(Thank you and credits to Xinhua Images)
Leszek Blanik of Poland wins Men's Vault gold - Polish gymnast Leszek Blanik claimed the Men's Vault title with 16.537 points at the Beijing Olympic Games on Monday. French gymnast Thomas Bouhail, who also collected 16.537 points, took the silver due to a tiebreak rule. Anton Golotsutskov from Russia got the bronze with 16.475 points.(Thank you and credits to Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)
United States wins Sailing Laser Radial gold - Anna Tunnicliffe from theUnited States won Laser Radial gold at Olympic Sailing Regatta here on August 19, 2008,Tuesday. (Thank you and credits to Xinhua Images)
Britain wins Sailing Laser gold - Paul Goodison won Laser (Men's One Person Dinghy) gold at the Olympic Sailing Regatta on Tuesday. Slovenia took the silver and Italy, bronze.(Thank you and credits to Paul Gilham/Getty Images)
Frodeno wins gold in Men's Triathlon - Jan Frodeno (C), Simon Whitfield (L) and Bevan Docherty (Thank you and credits to Adam Pretty/Getty Images)
Jan Frodeno of Germany won the gold medal in the Men's Triathlon in one hour, 48 minutes and 53.28 seconds.
Simon Whitfield of Canada came second at one hour, 48 minutes and 58.47 seconds, and the bronze winner was Bevan Docherty of New Zealand, who finished in one hour, 49 minutes and 5.59 seconds.
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