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  • Sunday August 24

    0030 Athletics - Men's marathon
    0630 Boxing - Six finals
    0730 Basketball - Men's final
    1330 Closing ceremony
    All times BST
Medals Table
G S B Tot
1 CHN 51 21 28 100
2 USA 36 38 36 110
3 RUS 23 21 28 72
4 GBR 19 13 15 47
5 GER 16 10 15 41
6 AUS 14 15 17 46
Olympic History

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Team GB

Competitor List

Take a look at the British athletes heading for Beijing

Swimming

Men's Marathon 10km:

1 Maarten van der Weijden (Ned) time-1h51:51.6, 2 David Davies (Gbr) time-1h51:53.1, 3 Thomas Lurz (Ger) time-1h51:53.6, 4 Valerio Cleri (Ita) time-1h52:07.5, 5 Evgeny Drattsev (Rus) time-1h52:08.9, 6 Petar Stoychev (Bul) time-1h52:09.1, 7 Brian Ryckeman (Bel) time-1h52:10.7, 8 Mark Warkentin (USA) time-1h52:13.0, 9 Chad Ho (Rsa) time-1h52:13.1, 10 Erwin Leon Maldonado Savera (Ven) time-1h52:13.6, 11 Ky Hurst (Aus) time-1h52:13.7, 12 Igor Chervynskiy (Ukr) time-1h52:14.7, 13 Francisco Jose Hervas (Spa) time-1h52:16.5, 14 Allan Carmo (Bra) time-1h52:16.6, 15 Gilles Rondy (Fra) time-1h52:16.7, 16 Spyridon Gianniotis (Gre) time-1h52:20.4, 17 Rostislav Vitek (Cze) time-1h52:41.8, 18 Luis Escobar (Mex) time-1h53:47.9, 19 Saleh Mohammad (Syr) time-1h54:37.7, 20 Mohamed Monir (Egy) time-1h55:17.0, 21 Damian Blaum (Arg) time-1h55:48.6, 22 Arseniy Lavrentyev (Por) time-2h03:39.6, 23 Xin Tong (Chn) time-2h09:13.4

Csaba Gercsak (Hun) DNF, Vladimir Dyatchin (Rus) DQ

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