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  • Sunday August 24

    0030 Athletics - Men's marathon
    0630 Boxing - Six finals
    0730 Basketball - Men's final
    1330 Closing ceremony
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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

History Timeline

It all started in Athens in 1896...

Team GB

Competitor List

Take a look at the British athletes heading for Beijing

Athletics

Men's 800m Final:

1 Wilfred Bungei (Ken), 2 Ismail Ahmed Ismail (Sud) 1:44.70, 3 Alfred Kirwa Yego (Ken) 1:44.82, 4 Gary Reed (Can) 1:44.94, 5 Yusuf Saad Kamel (Brn) 1:44.95, 6 Yeimer Lopez (Cub) 1:45.88, 7 Nabil Madi (Alg) 1:45.96, 8 Nadjim Manseur (Alg) 1:47.19

5000m Final: 1 Kenenisa Bekele (Eth), 2 Eliud Kipchoge (Ken), 3 Edwin Cheruiyot Soi (Ken), 4 Moses Ndiema Kipsiro (Uga) 13:10.56, 5 Abreham Cherkos (Eth) 13:16.46, 6 Tariku Bekele (Eth) 13:19.06, 7 Juan Luis Barrios (Mex) 13:19.79, 8 James Kwalia C'Kurui (Qat) 13:23.48, 9 Bernard Lagat (USA) 13:26.89, 10 Kidane Tadesse (Eri) 13:28.40, 11 Aelemayehu Bezabeh (Spa) 13:30.48, 12 Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa (Ken) 13:31.34, 13 Matthew Tegenkamp (USA) 13:33.13, 14 Jesus Espana (Spa) 13:55.94

Alistair Cragg (Irl) DNF

4 x 400m Relay Final: 1 United States, 2 Bahamas, 3 Russian Feder, 4 Gr Britain 2:58.81, 5 Belgium 2:59.37, 6 Australia 3:00.02, 7 Poland 3:00.32, 8 Jamaica 3:01.45

Javelin Throw Final:

1 Andreas Thorkildsen (Nor), 2 Ainars Kovals (Lat), 3 Tero Pitkamaki (Fin), 4 Tero Jarvenpaa (Fin) 83.95m, 5 Teemu Wirkkala (Fin) 83.46m, 6 Jarrod Bannister (Aus) 83.45m, 7 Ilya Korotkov (Rus) 83.15m, 8 Uladzimir Kazlou (Blr) 82.06m, 9 Vadims Vasilevskis (Lat) 81.32m, 10 Scott Russell (Can) 80.90m, 11 Magnus Arvidsson (Swe) 80.16m, 12 Vitezslav Vesely (Cze) 76.76m

Women'sn 1500m Final:

1 Nancy Jebet Langat (Ken), 2 Iryna Lishchynska (Ukr), 3 Nataliya Tobias (Ukr), 4 Lisa Dobriskey (Gbr) 4:02.10, 5 Maryam yusuf Jamal (Brn) 4:02.71, 6 Natalia Rodriguez (Spa) 4:03.19, 7 Shannon Rowbury (USA) 4:03.58, 8 Iris Fuentes-pila (Spa) 4:04.86, 9 Anna Mishchenko (Ukr) 4:05.13, 10 Siham Hilali (Mor) 4:05.57, 11 Anna Alminova (Rus) 4:06.99, 12 Btissam Lakhouad (Mor) 4:07.25

4 x 400m Relay Final:

1 United States, 2 Russian Feder, 3 Jamaica, 4 Belarus 3:21.85, 5 Gr Britain 3:22.68, 6 Cuba 3:23.21, 7 Nigeria 3:23.74, 8 Germany 3:28.45

High Jump Final: 1 Tia Hellebaut (Bel), 2 Blanka Vlasic (Cro), 3 Anna Chicherova (Rus), 4 Elena Slesarenko (Rus) 2.01m, 5 Vita Palamar (Ukr) 1.99m, 6 Chaunte Howard (USA) 1.99m, 7 Ariane Friedrich (Ger) 1.96m, 7 Ruth Beitia (Spa) 1.96m, 9 Emma Green (Swe) 1.96m, 10 Antonietta di Martino (Ita) 1.93m, 10 Marina Aitova (Kaz) 1.93m, 12 Iva Strakova (Cze) 1.93m, 12 Vita Styopina (Ukr) 1.93m, 14 Svetlana Shkolina (Rus) 1.93m, 15 Romana Dubnova (Cze) 1.89m

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