37 Gold Medalists on Day 9 of Beijing Olympics

Roundup: Phelps wins record 8th Olympic gold, China equals Athens medal haul

Olympic champ Guo golden for China in 3m springboard   

    Triple Olympic champion Guo Jingjing bagged women's 3m springboard gold at Beijing Olympics on Sunday, becoming the first-ever diver to win back-to-back Olympic individual and synchro titles. Full story

Lin Dan of China wins badminton men's singles gold

    Chinese shuttler Lin Dan claimed the men's singles title at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday, beating Lee Chong-wei from Malaysia 21-12, 21-9 in the final. Full story

China beats Singapore for women's table tennis gold       

    China beat Singapore 3-0 to win the women's team gold medal at the Olympic table tennis tournament here on Sunday. Full story

Fraser leads Jamaican sweep in women's 100m

    Sehlly-Ann Fraser became the world's fastest woman as she led Jamaica to a cleansweep of the medals in the 100 meters final at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Sunday. Full story

Russia's Samitova-Galkina takes 3000m steeplechase gold with a new world record        

    Gulnara Samitova-Galkina of Russia led all the way to win the women's steeplechase gold medal with a world record performance at the Beijing Olympic Games on Sunday.  Full story

Cameroon's Mbango Etone wins women's triple jump gold

    Cameroon's Francoise Mbango Etone flew 15.39 meters to win the women's triple jump gold medal at the Olympic Games here on Sunday. Full story

Bekele wins Olympic men's 10,000m gold        

    Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele clocked 27.01.17 to win the Olympic men's 10,000m run here on Sunday.  Full story

South Korea wins badminton mixed doubles gold

    South Korean pair Lee Hyo-jung/Lee Yong-dae claimed the badminton mixed doubles title at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday, beating Nova Widianto/Liliyana from Indonesia 21-11, 21-17 in the final. Full story

Kozmus of Slovenia wins men's hammer throw gold       

    Primoz Kozmus from Slovenia claimed the men's hammer throw title at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday with a result of 82.02 meters.  Full story

Romanian Sandra Izbasa wins women's floor exercise Olympic gold

    Romanian Sandra Izbasa won the women's floor exercise gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Sunday. Full story

Chinese gymnast Zou Kai wins men's floor exercise gold medal      

    The 20-year-old, who was making his Olympic debut, won the sunrise gold medal at 16.050 points, after reigning world champion Diego Hypolito of Brazil and Olympic silver medallist Marian Dragulescu failed their routines.  Full story

 Chinese Xiao Qin wins men's pommel horse Olympic gold

  Xiao scored his winning mark of 15.875 points, Croatian Filip Ude took   the silver in 15.725 and British Louis Smith settled for the bronze in 15.725.  Full story

DPR Korean Hong Un Jong wins women's vault Olympic gold

    Hong Un Jong of DPR Korea scored 15.650 points to take the women's vault gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games on Sunday.  Full story

Nadal claims Olympic gold with devastating win over Gonzalez     

    Unstoppable Spaniard Rafael Nadal beat Chilean 12th seed Fernando Gonzalez in the men's singles final of the Beijing Olympic tennis tournament on Sunday. Full story

Williams sisters win second Olympic doubles gold medal in tennis   

    The Williams sisters claimed their second women's doubles gold medal at the Olympic tennis tournament after beating Spaniards Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual 6-2, 6-0 in the final on Sunday. Full story

Russian Dementieva wins women's singles tennis Olympic gold    

    Fifth seed Elena Dementieva rallied to beat compatriot Dinara Safina 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 in an all-Russian final of the women's singles in the Olympic tennis tournament on Sunday.  Full story

France wins men's sabre team gold  

    France defeated the United States 45-37 on Sunday in the men's sabre team event to retain its Olympic title. Full story

Britain breaks cycling men's team pursuit world record   

    The British cycling team continued their dazzling performance at the Beijing Olympics by breaking the men's team pursuit world record in the first round competition at the Laoshan velodrome on Sunday.  Full story

British Romero wins women's individual pursuit Olympic gold 

    Rebecca Romero of Britain won the women's individual pursuit gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games on Sunday.  Full story

Icho retains Olympic title, bagging Japan's second wrestling gold    

    Japanese Kaori Icho retained her Olympic title in the women's freestyle 63kg wrestling here on Sunday and earned the second wrestling gold for Japan at the Beijing Games.  Full story

China's Wang Jiao wins gold medal of women's 72kg freestyle wrestling  

    China's Wang Jiao beat Bulgaria's Stanka Zlateva to win the women's 72kg freestyle wrestling gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games on Sunday.  Full story

Chinese Qiu Jian wins men's 50m rifle 3-positions gold

    Chinese Qiu Jian won the men's 50m rifle 3-positions gold medal of the Beijing Olympic Games on Sunday. Qiu scored a total of 1,272.5 points for the top honor, while Jury Sukhorukov of Ukraine got the silver in 1,272.4 points, and Rajmond Debevec of Slovenia had the bronze in 1,271.7.  Full story

Phelps achieves historic feat of eight golds

    American Michael Phelps became the first ever athlete to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games here on Sunday as his teammates didn't let him down in the men's 4x100-meter medley relay final at the Beijing Olympics. Full story

Australia breaks world record to win women's 4x100m medley relay Olympic gold

    Australia broke the world record to win the women's 4x100m medley relay gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games on Sunday.  Full story

Tunisian Mellouli wins men's 1,500m freestyle Olympic gold

    Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia clocked in 14:40.84 to win the men's 1,500m freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games on Sunday. Full story

German Steffen sets Olympic record to win women's 50m freestyle

    Britta Steffen of Germany won the women's 50m freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Sunday.  Full story

Marathoner Tomescu adds gold for Romania, China creates Olympic best with Zhou's bronze

    Romanian runner Constantina Tomescu added her country Sunday morning a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics while Chinese Zhou Chunxiu created her country's Olympic best by getting a bronze in women's marathon.  Full story


Britain wins Yngling gold at Olympic sailing

    British Yngling trio Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson snatched the first gold medal at Olympic sailing regatta on Sunday. Full story


Britain wins Finn gold at Olympic sailing

    Ben Ainslie of Britain won the Finn gold medal at Olympic sailing regatta here on Sunday. Zach Railey from the United States took the silver medal and the bronze medal went to Guillaume Florent from France.  Full story


Denmark wins 49er gold at Olympic sailing

    Denmark won the 49er gold at the Olympic sailing regatta on Sunday. Spain took the silver and Germany claimed the bronze.  Full story

Britain wins lightweight men's double sculls gold

Britain won the Olympic gold medal in the lightweight men's double sculls on Sunday, adding to two its haul at the Olympic rowing regatta.  Full story

Netherlands wins lightweight women's double sculls gold

The Netherlands claimed the lightweight women's double sculls rowing title at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday, clocking six minutes and 54.74 seconds in the final.   Full story

Poland wins men's quadruple sculls gold

Three-time reigning world champion Poland won comfortably the Olympic rowing gold medal in the men's quadruple sculls on Sunday. Full story

China clinches gold in women's quadruple sculls

China clinched the gold medal in the Olympic event of women's quadruple sculls with a solid win here on Sunday, the first rowing gold medal for China in Olympic history.  Full story

Denmark wins lightweight men's four gold

Denmark was crowned in lightweight men's four in Olympic rowing held in Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park on Sunday with a result of 5 minutes 47.76 seconds.  Full story

Canada wins men's eight rowing gold

The Canadian crew in the Olympic rowing event of men's eight took the lead all the way and crossed the finish line first in five minutes 23.89 seconds on Sunday. Full story

U.S. wins first women's eight Olympic gold

The United States took revenge on arch rival Romania on Sunday to win its first Olympic gold medal in the women's rowing eight since 1984.  Full story

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