Chronological summary of the 2008 Summer Olympics
Day 9: August 17

Chronological summary of the 2008 Summer Olympics

Section Title: Day 9: August 17
Table Section Text: None

Gold medalists

Sport	Event	Competitor(s)	NOC	Rec	Ref

Athletics	Men's 10000 m	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	OR

Men's hammer throw	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia

Women's 100 m	Shelly-Ann Fraser	Jamaica

Women's 3000 m steeplechase	Gulnara Galkina-Samitova	Russia	WR

Women's marathon	Constantina Diṭă-Tomescu	Romania

Women's triple jump	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon	OR

Badminton	Men's singles	Lin Dan	China

Mixed doubles	Lee Yong-dae and Lee Hyo-jung	South Korea

Cycling	Women's individual pursuit	Rebecca Romero	Great Britain

Diving	Women's 3 m springboard	Guo Jingjing	China

Fencing	Men's team sabre	Nicolas Lopez, Julien Pillet, Boris Sanson	France

Gymnastics	Men's floor	Zou Kai	China

Men's pommel horse	Xiao Qin	China

Women's floor	Sandra Izbaşa	Romania

Women's vault	Hong Un Jong	North Korea

Rowing	Men's lightweight double sculls	Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter	Great Britain

Men's lightweight coxless four	Thomas Ebert, Morten Jørgensen, Mads Andersen, Eskild Ebbesen	Denmark

Men's quadruple sculls	Konrad Wasielewski, Marek Kolbowicz, Michał Jeliński, Adam Korol	Poland

Men's eight	Kevin Light, Ben Rutledge, Andrew Byrnes, Jake Wetzel, Malcolm Howard, Dominic Sieterle, Adam Kreek, Kyle Hamilton, Brian Price	Canada

Women's lightweight double sculls	Kirsten van der Kolk and Marit van Eupen	Netherlands

Women's quadruple sculls	Tang Bin, Xi Aihua, Jin Ziwei, Zhang Yangyang	China

Women's eight	Erin Cafaro, Lindsay Shoop, Anna Goodale, Elle Logan, Anna Cummins, Susan Francia, Caroline Lind, Caryn Davies, Mary Whipple	United States

Sailing	Finn class	Ben Ainslie	Great Britain

Yngling class	Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb, Pippa Wilson	Great Britain

49er class	Jonas Warrer and Martin Kirketerp Ibsen	Denmark

Shooting	Men's 50 m rifle three positions	Qiu Jian	China

Swimming	Men's 1500 m freestyle	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia

Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen Michael Phelps, Jason Lezak Heats: Matt Grevers, Mark Gangloff, Ian Crocker, Garrett Weber-Gale	United States	WR

Women's 50 m freestyle	Britta Steffen	Germany	OR

Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay	Emily Seebohm, Leisel Jones, Jessicah Schipper, Lisbeth Trickett Heats: Tarnee White, Felicity Galvez, Shayne Reese	Australia	WR

Table tennis	Women's team	Guo Yue, Zhang Yining, Wang Nan	China

Tennis	Men's singles	Rafael Nadal	Spain

Women's singles	Elena Dementieva	Russia

Women's doubles	Venus Williams and Serena Williams	United States

Weightlifting	Men's 94 kg	Ilya Ilyin	Kazakhstan

Wrestling	Women's freestyle 63 kg	Kaori Icho	Japan

Women's freestyle 72 kg	Wang Jiao	China

Sentence(s)

Ben Ainslie of Britain won gold in the Finn class in Sailing.

final_sentence: Ben Ainslie of Britain won gold in the Finn class in Sailing.