Chronological summary of the 2012 Summer Olympics
Day 12: Wed 8 August

Chronological summary of the 2012 Summer Olympics

Section Title: Day 12: Wed 8 August
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Gold medalists

Sport	Event	Competitor(s)	NOC	Rec	Ref

Athletics	Women's long jump	Brittney Reese	United States

Women's 400 metres hurdles	Natalya Antyukh	Russia

Women's 200 metres	Allyson Felix	United States

Men's 110 metres hurdles	Aries Merritt	United States

Canoeing	Men's K-1 1000 metres	Eirik Verås Larsen	Norway

Men's C-1 1000 metres	Sebastian Brendel	Germany

Men's K-2 1000 metres	Rudolf Dombi, Roland Kökény	Hungary

Women's K-4 500 metres	Gabriella Szabó, Danuta Kozák, Katalin Kovács, Krisztina Fazekas Zur	Hungary

Equestrian	Individual jumping	Steve Guerdat	Switzerland

Sailing	49er class	Nathan Outteridge, Iain Jensen	Australia

Table tennis	Men's team	Zhang Jike, Ma Long, Wang Hao	China

Taekwondo	Women's 49 kg	Wu Jingyu	China

Men's 58 kg	Joel González	Spain

Volleyball	Women's beach	Misty May-Treanor, Kerri Walsh	United States

Wrestling	Women's freestyle 48 kg	Hitomi Obara	Japan

Women's freestyle 63 kg	Kaori Icho	Japan

Sentence(s)

Taekwondo Wu Jingyu of China defended her Olympic title in the women's 49 kg event.

final_sentence: Taekwondo Wu Jingyu of China defended her Olympic title in the women's 49 kg event.