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Olympics-Medals awarded on August 16

Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:07pm EDT

Aug 16 (Reuters) - The following medals were awarded at the Olympic Games in Beijing on Saturday. SWIMMING

WOMEN'S 200M BACKSTROKE

Gold - Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe)

Silver - Margaret Hoelzer (United States)

Bronze - Reiko Nakamura (Japan)

MEN'S 100M BUTTERFLY

Gold - Michael Phelps (United States)

Silver - Milorad Cavic (Serbia)

Bronze - Andrew Lauterstein (Australia)

WOMEN'S 800M FREESTYLE

Gold - Rebecca Adlington (Britain)

Silver - Alessia Filippi (Italy)

Bronze - Lotte Friis (Denmark)

MEN'S 50M FREESTYLE

Gold - Cesar Cielo Filho (Brazil)

Silver - Amaury Leveaux (France)

Bronze - Alain Bernard (France)

ATHLETICS

MEN'S 20KM WALK

Gold - Valeriy Borchin (Russia)

Silver - Jefferson Perez (Ecuador)

Bronze - Jared Tallent (Australia)

WOMEN'S SHOT PUT

Gold - Valerie Vili (New Zealand)

Silver - Natallia Mikhnevich (Belarus)

Bronze - Nadzeya Ostapchuk (Belarus)

HEPTATHLON

Gold - Nataliia Dobrynska (Ukraine)

Silver - Lyudmila Blonska (Ukraine)

Bronze - Hyleas Fountain (United States)

MEN'S 100M

Gold - Usain Bolt (Jamaica)

Silver - Richard Thompson (Trinidad/Tobago)

Bronze - Walter Dix (United States)

SHOOTING

MEN'S 25M RAPID FIRE PISTOL

Gold - Oleksandr Petriv (Ukraine)

Silver - Ralf Schumann (Germany)

Bronze - Christian Reitz (Germany)

MEN'S SKEET

Gold - Vincent Hancock (United States)

Silver - Tore Brovold (Norway)

Bronze - Anthony Terras (France)

BADMINTON

WOMEN'S SINGLES

Gold - Zhang Ning (China)

Silver - Xie Xingfang (China)

Bronze - Maria Kristin Yulianti (Indonesia)

MEN'S DOUBLES

Gold - Markis Kido, Hendra Setiawan (Indonesia)

Silver - Cai Yun, Fu Haifeng (China)

Bronze - Hwang Jiman, Lee Jaejin (South Korea)

ROWING

WOMEN'S SINGLE SCULLS

Gold - Rumyana Neykova (Bulgaria)

Silver - Michelle Guerette (United States)

Bronze - Ekaterina Karsten (Belarus)

MEN'S SINGLE SCULLS

Gold - Olaf Tufte (Norway)

Silver - Ondrej Synek (Czech Republic)

Bronze - Mahe Drysdale (New Zealand)

WOMEN'S PAIR

Gold - Romania

Silver - China

Bronze - Belarus

MEN'S PAIR

Gold - Australia

Silver - Canada

Bronze - New Zealand

WOMEN'S DOUBLE SCULLS

Gold - New Zealand

Silver - Germany

Bronze - Britain

MEN'S DOUBLE SCULLS

Gold - Australia

Silver - Estonia

Bronze - Britain

MEN'S FOUR

Gold - Britain

Silver - Australia

Bronze - France

TENNIS

MEN'S DOUBLES

Gold - Switzerland

Silver - Sweden

Bronze - United States

WRESTLING

WOMEN'S 48KG FREESTYLE

Gold - Carol Huynh (Canada)

Silver - Chiharu Icho (Japan)

Bronze - Irini Merleni (Ukraine)

Mariya Stadnik (Azerbaijan)

WOMEN'S 55KG FREESTYLE

Gold - Saori Yoshida (Japan)

Silver - Xu Li (China)

Bronze - Tonya Verbeek (Canada)

Jackeline Renteria (Colombia)

TRACK CYCLING

MEN'S POINT RACE

Gold - Joan Llaneras (Spain)

Silver - Roger Kluge (Germany)

Bronze - Chris Newton (Britain)

INDIVIDUAL PURSUIT

Gold - Bradley Wiggins (Britain)

Silver - Hayden Roulston (New Zealand)

Bronze - Steven Burke (Britain)

KEIRIN

Gold - Chris Hoy (Britain)

Silver - Ross Edgar (Britain)

Bronze - Kiyofumi Nagai (Japan)

WEIGHTLIFTING

WOMEN'S 75KG PLUS

Gold - Jang Mi-ran (South Korea)

Silver - Olha Korobka (Ukraine)

Bronze - Mariya Grabovetskaya (Kazakhstan)

FENCING

WOMEN'S TEAM FOIL

Gold - Russia

Silver - United States

Bronze - Italy (Compiled by Nigel Hunt; Editing by Padraic Halpin) (For more stories visit our multimedia Beijing website here; and see our blog at blogs.reuters.com/china)



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