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Russia At The 2008 Summer Olympics
The Russian Federation competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, China, represented by the Russian Olympic Committee. Russia competed in all sports except baseball, field hockey, football, softball, and taekwondo. They ranked third in the medal table by golds (24) and overall (60). Russia also had 14 medals stripped for doping violations, the most of any nation at the 2008 Olympics. Medalists , width=78% align=left valign=top , , width="22%" align="left" valign="top" , Competitors , width=78% align=left valign=top , The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games: , width=22% align=left valign=top , Archery Balzhinima Tsyrempilov and Bair Badënov earned men's qualifying places for Russia at the 2007 World Outdoor Target Championships, while Natalia Erdyniyeva and Miroslava Dagbaeva earned two spots for women. Andrey Abramov placed second at the European qualifying tournament, giving Russia a third spot in the men's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Olympic Committee
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC; russian: Олимпийский комитет России (ОКР), Olimpiyskiy komitet Rossii (OKR); Full name: All-Russian united social union "Olympic Committee of Russia", russian: Общероссийский союз общественных объединений «Олимпийский комитет России», Obshcherossiyskiy soyuz obshchestvennykh ob"yedineniy «Olimpiyskiy komitet Rossii») is the National Olympic Committee representing Russia. History Russia's Olympic Committee was founded in 1911 by representatives of Russian Sports Societies at a meeting in Saint Petersburg, in the premises of the Imperial Russian Society for Saving on the Water (Sadovaya Street 50), when the Statute was adopted and members of the committee were elected. The first chairman of the Russian Olympic Committee was Vyacheslav Sreznevsky. By decision of the Constituent Assembly on 1 December 1989, the All-Russian Olympic Committee was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 2008 Summer Olympics
Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics were held during the last ten days of the games, from August 15 to August 24, 2008, at the Beijing National Stadium. The Olympic sport of athletics is split into four distinct sets of events: track and field events, road running events, and racewalking events. Both men and women had very similar schedules of events. Men competed in 24 events and women in 23, as their schedule lacked the 50 km race walk. In addition, both the men's 110 m hurdles and decathlon are reflected in the women's schedule by the 100 m hurdles and heptathlon, respectively. The Olympic record was broken in 17 returning events. In five events, including the inaugural women's 3000 m steeplechase, the world record was broken. The athletics was, alongside the Olympic cycling events, one of the few large sports programmes in which the host nation fared comparatively poorly in terms of medals won. Despite a haul of 100 medals at the games as a whole, Chinese athletes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrestling At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Freestyle 60 Kg
Men's Freestyle 60 kilograms competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, was held on 19 August 2008 at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium. This freestyle wrestling competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals. The two finalists faced off for gold and silver medals. Each wrestler who lost to one of the two finalists moved into the repechage, culminating in a pair of bronze medal matches featuring the semifinal losers each facing the remaining repechage opponent from their half of the bracket. Each bout consisted of up to three rounds, lasting two minutes apiece. The wrestler who scored more points in each round was the winner of that round; the bout finished when one wrestler had won two rounds (and thus the match). On 23 September 2016, reports indicate wrestler Vasyl Fedoryshyn of Ukraine has been stripped of the 2008 Olympic silver medal due to a positive test for doping. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's Pole Vault
The women's pole vault at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place between August 16 and 18 at the Beijing National Stadium. The qualifying standards were 4.45 m (A standard) and 4.30 m (B standard). The final was won by Yelena Isinbayeva, who set a new world record height of 5.05 meters for the discipline. During the finals, one of the poles which Brazilian Fabiana Murer would use disappeared, causing her to spend 10–15 minutes trying to get it back. The lost time and having to use another pole led her to bad results. Murer complained about the organization, and would only return to China 7 years later at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ..., this time winning a silver medal. Records Prior to this competition, the exist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Isinbayeva
Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva ( rus, Елена Гаджиевна Исинбаева, p=jɪˈlʲɛnə gɐˈdʐɨjɪvnə ɪsʲɪnˈbajɪvə; born 3 June 1982) is a Russian former pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008), a three-time World Champion (2005, 2007 and 2013), the current world record holder in the event, and is widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time. Isinbayeva was banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics after revelations of an extensive state-sponsored doping programme in Russia, thus dashing her hopes of a grand retirement winning the Olympic gold medal. She retired from athletics in August 2016 after being elected to serve an 8-year term on the IOC's Athletes' Commission. Isinbayeva has been a major champion on nine occasions (Olympic, World outdoor and indoor champion and European outdoor and indoor champion). She was also the jackpot winner of the IAAF Golden League series in 2007 and 2009. After poor performances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 3000 Metres Steeplechase
The women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2008 Summer Olympics occurred on 15–17 August at the Beijing National Stadium, the first time this event had ever been held at the Olympics. The qualifying standards were 9:46.00 (A standard) and 9:55.00 (B standard). In the Final, Gulnara Samitova-Galkina of Russia won, with a new world record of 8:58.81: she was the first woman to break the nine-minute barrier for this event. Yekaterina Volkova of Russia tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and was disqualified. Schedule All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8) Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows: The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition. Results Round 1 Qualification: First 4 in each heat(Q) and the next 3 fastest(q) advance to the Final Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: * Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's Singles
Russia's Elena Dementieva defeated compatriot Dinara Safina in the final, 3–6, 7–5, 6–3 to win the gold medal in Women's Singles tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics. In the bronze medal match, Russia's Vera Zvonareva defeated China's Li Na 6–0, 7–5. This was the first Olympic medal sweep in tennis since 1908, when three British women won medals in the outdoor women's singles tournament. It was the fifth podium sweep in tennis in Olympic history, all previous sweeps were by British athletes. It was Russia's first victory in the women's singles. Dementieva became the third woman to win multiple Olympic singles medals, following Steffi Graf (1988 and 1992) and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (1992 and 1996), and the first to do so in non-consecutive Games. The tournament was held from August 10 to August 17 at the National Tennis Center in Beijing, China. The DecoTurf surface made the event a hardcourt tournament. There were 64 competitors from 33 nations. Justine Henin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis At The 2008 Summer Olympics
Tennis competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 10 to August 17 at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre. The DecoTurf surface rendered the event a hardcourt tournament. The women's singles event proved notable for being one of only two Olympiads — and the first since 1908 — in which all tennis medalists were from the same country, Russia. The men's singles featured the first time an Olympic tennis player had medaled in consecutive Olympiads since the 1920 games, while the men's doubles gave Switzerland its first medal in the event. The doubles also returned Switzerland and the United States to the medals stand for the first time since the 1988 re-introduction of the sport. Qualification The majority of players in the singles competitions (56 of 64 players in the draw) gained entry through their position in either the ATP (men) or WTA (women) rankings. The remaining eight places were given to six players who gained ITF places (wild cards) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fencing At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's Team Foil
The women's team foil fencing competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing took place on August 16 at the Olympic Green Convention Centre. The team foil Foil may refer to: Materials * Foil (metal), a quite thin sheet of metal, usually manufactured with a rolling mill machine * Metal leaf, a very thin sheet of decorative metal * Aluminium foil, a type of wrapping for food * Tin foil, metal foil ... competition consisted of a three-round single-elimination bracket with a bronze medal match between the two semifinal losers and classification semifinals and finals for 5th to 8th places. Teams consist of three members each. Matches consist of nine bouts, with every fencer on one team facing each fencer on the other team. Scoring carried over between bouts with a total of 45 touches being the team goal. Bouts lasted until one team reached the target multiple of 5 touches. For example, if the first bout ended with a score of 5–3, that score would remain into the next bout a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fencing At The 2008 Summer Olympics
Fencing competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from August 9 to August 17 at the Olympic Green Convention Center. Medal summary Medal table Men's events Women's events Events 10 sets of medals were awarded in the following events: *Individual Épée Men *Individual Épée Women *Individual Foil Men *Individual Foil Women *Individual Sabre Men *Individual Sabre Women *Team Épée Men *Team Foil Women *Team Sabre Men *Team Sabre Women Competition format The Fencing competition at the Olympic Games consists of a single elimination tournament. The 2 losers in the semifinal will fence for the bronze medal. Qualification Participating nations See also *Wheelchair fencing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics References Qualifications for the 2008 OG before the NOCs confirmation [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktoria Nikishina
Viktoria Aleksandrovna Nikishina (russian: Виктория Александровна Никишина; born 9 September 1984 in Moscow) is a Russian foil fencer. She won a gold medal in the foil team event at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na .... External links Profile on sports-reference.com Living people Russian female foil fencers Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic fencers for Russia Olympic gold medalists for Russia 1984 births Martial artists from Moscow Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics 21st-century Russian women {{russia-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeniya Lamonova
Yevgeniya Alekseyevna Lamonova (russian: Евгения Алексеевна Ламонова) (born 9 August 1983 in Kurchatov, Russia) is a Russian foil fencer. She won the gold medal in the foil team event at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na .... External links * 1983 births Living people People from Kurchatov, Russia Russian female foil fencers Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic fencers for Russia Olympic gold medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in fencing Universiade bronze medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade Sportspeople from Kursk Oblast 21st-century Russian women {{russia-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
