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Ramzi's moment of triumph
Men's 1,500m
Gold: R Ramzi (Brn)
Silver: A Kipruto Kiprop (Ken)
Bronze: N Willis (NZ)
Men's discus
Gold: G Kanter (Est)
Silver: P Malachowski (Pol)
Bronze: V Alekna (Lit)
Women's 100m hurdles
Gold: D Harper (US)
Silver: S Mclellan (Aus)
Bronze: P Lopes-Schliep (Can)
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Rashid Ramzi earned Bahrain's first athletics gold medal with victory in the 1,500 metres at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday.
The Moroccan-born athlete produced a blazing last lap of 51 seconds on his way to crossing the finish line in three minutes 32.94 seconds.
Kenya's Asbel Kiprop managed to stay in touch with Ramzi but did not have enough speed to overhaul him in the home straight and had to settle for silver.
New Zealander Nick Willis took bronze - his country's first medal in the event since John Walker won in Montreal 32 years ago - while Britain's Andy Baddeley trailed home ninth.
There was drama in the closing stages of the women's 100m hurdles final as favourite Lolo Jones clattered the penultimate barrier.
Jones, who was leading at the time, lost all momentum to allow American compatriot Dawn Harper to storm through for gold in 12.54s. Jones finished seventh.
The next four across the line after Harper were covered by just two hundredths of a second - Australia's Sally McLellan was awarded silver and Canadian Priscilla Lopes-Schliep bronze in the same time of 12.64s.
Gerd Kanter of Estonia won the men's discus with a best throw of 68.82 metres.
Poland's Piotr Malachowski (67.82) took the silver medal and Lithuania's Virgilijus Alekna (67.79), the two-time defending champion, settling for bronze.
Rooney on target
Britain's Martyn Rooney made the final of the men's 400m, but team-mate Andrew Steele missed out.
Rooney clocked 44.60s to finish second behind American LaShawn Merritt (44.12s) in the third semi-final and progress as the fourth quickest overall.
Defending champion Jeremy Wariner won the first semi-final in 44.15s, while Steele (45.59s) finished last in the second semi-final, won by France's Leslie Djhone in a time of 44.79s.
It was a similar tale for the Britons in the men's 200m semi-finals.
Christian Malcolm (20.25s) qualified for his second Olympic final eight years after his first after coming fourth in the first semi-final, won by Churandy Martina of the Dutch Antilles in 20.11s.
Malcolm's team-mate Marlon Devonish missed out after finishing last in the second semi-final won with typical ease by 100m champion Usain Bolt in 20.09s.
Nottingham's Andy Turner and Scot Allan Scott failed to advance to the semi-finals of the 110m hurdles, finishing fifth and sixth in their heats respectively, while Jo Pavey withdrew before the heats of the women's 5,000m after failing to recover from a punishing 10,000m final on Friday.
