Day 13

Day 13:
Caster Semenya, the South African runner who was the subject of a very public gender testing three years ago after her fantastic results in competition, makes her Olympic debut in the 800m prelims.

Sarah Attar ran for Saudi Arabia today in the prelims of the 800m.  She is the first woman to compete in track and field for Saudi Arabia.  She came in 43 seconds behind the heat's winner, but she is a winner anyways for representing the typically repressed female population of her country.

Today's Medal Winning Events:

THEY WON THEY WON THEY WON THEY WON THEY WON!!!!
In case you have no idea what I am talking about (but you should because I have mentioned them quite frequently), Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor won the Gold medal match vs. their Team USA competitors Jennifer Kesey and April Ross.  This was their last Olympic match together and it was a great one.  I am so glad that they won their third Gold.  They are such wonderful, genuine people and it makes me happy every time they win.  I wonder who is going to take their place now.
The Brazilians Juliana Silva and Larissa Franca won their Bronze medal match over Chen Xue and Xi Zhang of China.

Men's Kayak Singles: Eirik Veras Larsen of Norway won Gold, Adam van Koeverden of Canada won Silver, and Max Hoff of Germany won the Bronze.

Men's Canoe Singles: Germany's Sebastian Brendel won the Gold medal, David Cal Figueroa of Spain won Silver, and Canada's Mark Oldershaw.

Men's Kayak Doubles 1000M: Hungary's Roland Kokeny and Rudolf Dombi won Gold, Portugal's Emanuel Silva and Fernando Pimenta won Silver, and Germany's Andreas Ihle and Martin Hollstein.

Women's Kayak Fours: Team Hungary won the Gold, Team Germany won the Silver, and Team Belarus won the Bronze.

Individual Jumping: Switzerland's Steve Guerdat won the Gold medal, ending an 88 year drought for Switzerland in Show Jumping. Gerco Schroder of the Netherlands won the Silver and Cian O'Connor of Ireland won the Bronze, picking up the first medal of these Games for Ireland.

Men's 49er - Skiff: Australia's Iain Jensen and Nathan Outteridge won the Gold, Peter Burling and Blair Tuke of New Zealand won the Silver, and Peter Lang and Allan Norregaard of Denmark won the Bronze

Men's Team Final: China picked up the Gold (we didn't see that one coming), South Korea picked up the Silver, and Germany picked up the Bronze.

 (Taekwondo)

Women's Flyweight: Jingyu Wu of China won the Gold over Brigitte Yague of Spain. The Bronze medals went to Chanatip Sonkham of Thailand and Lucija Zaninovic of Croatia.

Men's Flyweight: Joel Gonzalez Bonilla of Spain won the Gold over Daehoon Lee of Korea.  The Bronzes went to Alexey Denisenko of Russia and Oscar Munoz Oviedo of Columbia.

 Lot's of medals for the US today in Track and Field!

Women's Long Jump: USA's Brittany Reese, who just missed the Gold in Bejing, came away with the Gold this time with a jump of 23' 4 1/4".  Elena Sokolova of Russia won the Silver, and Janay Deloach also of the US won the Bronze.

Women's 400m Hurdles: Lashinda Demus just missed the Gold in this event, coming up 7/100ths of a second slower than the winner Natalya Antyukh of Russia.  She has vowed to come back until she wins the Gold.  The Bronze went to Zizana Hejnova of the Czech Republic.

Women's 200m: Lots of amazing American runners in this event and they didn't disappoint.  Allyson Felix finally got the Gold medal she had been working so hard for. The 100m winner, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica came across the line with the Silver.  USA's Carmelita Jeter came across the line, just beating the defending champ Veronica Campbell-Brown from Jamaica.  Sanya Richards-Ross came 5th.

Men's 110m Hurdles: USA went 1-2 in this event with Aries Merritt taking the Gold and Jason Richardson winning the Silver.  Jamaica's Hansle Parchment won the Bronze.

Women's Freestyle 48 kg: Hitomi Obara of Japan won the Gold, Mariya Stadnyk of Azerbaijan won the Silver, and the two Bronze went to Carol Huynh of Canada and Clarissa Kyoko Mei Ling Chun of the USA.

Women's Freestyle 63 kg: Kaori Icho of Japan won the Gold, Ruixue Jing of China won the Silver, and the Bronzes went to Battsetseg Soronzonbold of Mongolia and Lubov Volosova of Russia.


Tomorrow's Medal Winning Events:

Men's Final: Gold medal match Brazil vs. Germany, and Bronze medal match Latvia vs the Netherlands.

The US men were defeated and will not compete for a medal.

Women's Flyweight

Women's Lightweight

Women's Middleweight

Men's Canoe Doubles

Men's Kayak Fours 1000m

Women's Kayak Singles

Women's Kayak Doubles

Women's 10m Platform

Individual Dressage: Jan Ebeling and Adrienne Lyle compete

Men's 470 - Two-person Dinghy

WOMEN'S GOLD MEDAL MATCH!! 

USA VS JAPAN

REMATCH at 1:45 PM CST

Bronze Medal Match Canada vs France at 7:00AM

Women's 10km Marathon: Haley Anderson competes.

Women and Men's Lightweight

Men's Triple Jump: Christian Taylor and Will Claye compete

Men's 800m: Duane Solomon and Nick Symmonds compete

Men's 200m: Wallace Spearmon goes up against Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake for a medal in this event.

Women's Javelin Throw

Women's Gold Medal Match

USA vs Spain

Bronze Medal Match:

Australia vs. Hungary

Women's Freestyle 55 kg

Women's Freestyle 72 kg

Today's Final Medal Count:

USA                               34                                 22                                25           :          81

China                             36                                 22                                19           :          77

Great Britain                 22                                 13                                13           :          48

Russia                           11                                 19                                22           :          52

Germany                        7                                  15                                10           :          32
Japan                             4                                  13                                14           :          31

France                            8                                   9                                 11           :          28

Australia                         5                                 12                                  9           :           26