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Australia finish with 46 medals including 14 golds
Well done to the whole Aussie Olympic Team !
Read about them all below
Aussie Gold
Gold (14)
Swimming Women's
Women's 400m Individual Medley: RICE Stephanie
Women's 100m Breaststroke: JONES Leisel
Women's 100m Butterfly: TRICKETT Lisbeth
Women's 200m Individual Medley: RICE Stephanie
Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final
Rowing
Men's Pair: GINN Drew, FREE Duncan
Men's Double Sculls: CRAWSHAY David, BRENNAN Scott
Sailing
470 Men: WILMOT Nathan, PAGE Malcolm
470 Women: RECHICHI Elise, PARKINSON Tessa
Triathalon
Women: SNOWSILL Emma
Athletics
Men's Pole Vault: HOOKER Steve . . . read Steve's biography here.
Canoe/Kayak
Kayak Single(K1)500m Men: WALLACE Ken
Diving
10m Platform Men: Matthew Mitcham
Read more about each of these amazing wins below!
Aussie Silver
Silver (15)
Diving
Women's Synchronised 10m Platform: COLE Briony, WU Melissa
Equestrian
Eventing Team Jumping
Swimming Men's
Men's 100m Freestyle: SULLIVAN Eamon
Men's 200m Breaststroke: RICKARD Brenton
Men's 1500m Freestyle: HACKETT Grant
Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final
Swimming Women's
Women's 100m Freestyle: TRICKETT Lisbeth
Women's 200m Breaststroke: JONES Leisel
Canoe/Kayak - Slalom
Kayak (K1) Women: LAWRENCE Jacqueline
Rowing
Men's Four: RYAN Matt, MARBURG James, McKENZIE-McHARG Cameron, HEGERTY Francis
Cycling - Track
Women's Sprint: MEARES Anna
Athletics
Women's 100m Hurdles: McLELLAN Sally
Men's 50km Walk: TALLENT Jared
Sailing
Tornado: BUNDOCK Darren, ASHBY Glenn
Basketball
Women's Team
Aussie Bronze
Bronze (17)
Swimming Men's
Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay
Men's 100m Backstroke: STOECKEL Hayden
Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
Men's 100m Butterfly: LAUTERSTEIN Andrew
Swimming Women's
Women's 100m Butterfly: SCHIPPER Jessicah
Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay
Women's 200m Butterfly: SCHIPPER Jessicah
Women's 50m Freestyle: CAMPBELL Cate
Canoe/Kayak
Slalom Canoe Single (C1) Men: BELL Robin
Kayak Single (K1) 1000m Men: WALLACE Ken
Kayak Four (K4) 500m Women
Shooting
Men's 50m Rifle Prone: POTENT Warren
Athletics
Men's 20km Walk: TALLENT Jared
Triathalon
Women: MOFFATT Emma
Softball
Softball: Women's Team
Water Polo
Women's Team
Hockey
Men's Team
Click on the links above to read more!
Click here for the full Medal Standings.
Swimming Summary:
At the completion of the swimming programe, Australia has ended with 6 golds, 6 silver and 8 bronze in the pool.
Well done to all, especially to our Golden Girls who won all our Golds !!
Contents
- Congrats to Stephanie Rice
- Trickett wins GOLD !
- Leisel beats the world !
- Rice claims a second Gold
- Australia takes a surprise gold !
- Drew Ginn and Duncan Free win our sixth gold medal
- Crawshay and Brennan win Gold !
- The Golden Girls win the 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final
- Emma Snowsill wins Australia's 1st triathlon gold
- Double gold for Australia in 470 sailing
- Hooker vaults to Olympic gold
- Wallace takes gold in K1 500m
- Matthew Mitcham steals diving gold
- Grant Hackett wins Silver
- Watch the aussies at the opening ceremony
- Overall Medal Standings
- support our athletes . . .
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Congrats to Stephanie Rice
for our first Olympic Gold Medal at Beijing in a World Record Time !
Aussie Gold: 400m individual medley
gold !
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Stephanie Rice
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Find out all about Australia's favourite golden girl at the Beijing Olympics who won 3 gold medals in world record time.
Read more about Stephanie
Stephanie Louise Rice OAM (born 17 June 1988 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian swimmer. She currently holds the world record in the 400 m individual medley, and won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Rice is trained by Michael Bohl from the St Peters Western Swimming Club in Brisbane. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2009.
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Trickett wins GOLD !
Aussie Gold: 100m Butterfly
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gold !
Read more about Libby
Lisbeth "Libby" Constance Trickett (née Lenton) OAM (born 28 January 1985, in Townsville, Queensland, Australia) is a world record holding and Olympic gold medalist swimmer from Australia. She won gold as part of the 2008 Australian Olympic team, and was also a gold medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She is the world record holder in the short-course(25m) 100 metres freestyle.
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Leisel beats the world !
Aussie Gold: 100m Breaststroke
gold !
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Leisel Marie Jones OAM (born 30 August 1985 in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia) is an Australian Olympic gold medalist swimmer. A participant in the 2000 Summer Olympics - at just 15 years old - and 2004 Summer Olympics, she was part of gold medal winning Australian team in the Women's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Athens Games in 2004 and a gold medalist for 100 meter breaststroke in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
She is noted for employing a classical breaststroke technique, typified by a slow but deeper stroke cycle and also by her slow starts. Along with South African champion Penny Heyns, Jones is highly regarded as...
Rice claims a second Gold
Aussie Gold: 200m Individual Medley. Read more here.
gold !
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Stephanie Rice
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Australia takes a surprise gold !
Aussie Gold: Women's 200m freestyle relay
gold !
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Drew Ginn and Duncan Free win our sixth gold medal
Aussie Gold: Men's Pair
gold !
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Read more about Drew
Drew Cameron Ginn, OAM, (born 20 November 1974, educated at Scotch College Melbourne) is an Australian rower and triple Olympic gold medallist.
Ginn won the men's coxless fours at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics as part of Australia's Oarsome Foursome, along with Mike McKay, James Tomkins, and Nicholas Green; Ginn replaced the retired Andrew Cooper. Ginn and James Tomkins had planned to race the straight pair at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, but Ginn suffered a severe back injury, forcing him to withdraw from the boat.
In 2002, he returned to the water, teaming up with fellow Oarsome Foursome rower James Tomkins in the coxless pairs; they fi...
Read more about Duncan
Duncan Free, (born 25 May 1973) is an Australian rower and Olympic medallist. Free was born in Hobart, Tasmania but currently lives on Queensland's Gold Coast.
Free was a member of Australia's quad sculls team at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games winning a bronze medal at Atlanta in 1996. After the Athens Games, he took a year off before switching to sweep rowing and establishing a partnership with gold medallist Drew Ginn in the coxless pair. They won the world championships in 2006 and 2007 and the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Free also won the Henley Diamond Sculls in '01.
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Crawshay and Brennan win Gold !
Aussie Gold: double sculls
gold !
Read more about David
David Crawshay (born 11 August 1979 in Carlton, Victoria) is an Australian rower. Crawshay is a member of Mercantile Rowing Club based on the Yarra River in Victoria.
Saturday, March 7, he won gold in the President's Cup race at the National Rowing Championships at Lake Barrington, Tasmania. Jeremy Stevenson came a close second place to Crawshay.
With his teammate Scott Brennan, Crawshay won the gold medal in the men's double sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.Aussies Crawshay and Brennan win double sculls gold, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 16 August 2008.
Read more about Scott
Scott Brennan (born 9 January 1983 in Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian rower.
Brennan took up rowing in 1995 whilst at St Virgil's College in Hobart, where he eventually became captain of the school in 1998. He studied medicine at the University of Tasmania and graduated in 2007 with honours.McGuire, Yvette: Work pays off for Scott Brennan, Mercury, 28 June 2008.
With his teammate David Crawshay, Brennan won the gold medal in the men's double sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. He leads an active community life outside of medicine and rowing and is a volunteer with Camp Quality. Aussies Crawshay and Brennan win double sculls gold, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 16 August 2008.
The Golden Girls win the 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final
Congrats to Emily Seebohm, Leisel Jones, Jessicah Schipper and Libby Trickett !!
gold !
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Emma Snowsill wins Australia's 1st triathlon gold
gold !
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Double gold for Australia in 470 sailing
Sailors Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page have won Australia's 10th gold medal of the Beijing Games with victory in the men's 470 class.
Women's pair Tessa Parkinson and Elise Rechichi have delivered Australia its second sailing gold medal of the day with victory in the 470 class at Qingdao.
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gold !
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Hooker vaults to Olympic gold
gold !
Read more about Steve
Steven "Steve" Hooker (born July 16, 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian pole vaulter and Olympic gold medalist. His personal best is 6.06 m, making him the second highest pole-vaulter in historyHooker's rise continues - 6.06m in Boston behind only Sergey Bubka.
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Wallace takes gold in K1 500m
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Ken (Kenneth) Wallace, born 26 July 1983 in Gosford, New South Wales, is an Australian sprint canoer who has competed since the mid 2000s.
Wallace originally competed in Ironman events and only switched to sprint racing at the age of sixteen. Two years later he was K-1 1000 m junior world champion in Curitiba, Brazil.
In 2006, with Australian number one Nathan Baggaley serving a drugs ban, Wallace was selected to represent Australia at the world championships in Szeged, Hungary. He took full advantage of the opportunity and achieved his best-ever result as a senior to date, placing fifth in the K-1 1000 m final.
Wallace won two medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with gold in the K-1 500 m and bronze in the K-1 1000 m events. He also won a bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth.
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Matthew Mitcham steals diving gold
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Check out Australia's Matthew Mitcham - gold medal winning dive legend from the Beijing Olympic Games.
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Matthew Mitcham, OAMborn 2 March 1988 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian diver. He is the 2008 Olympic champion in the 10m platform, having received the highest single-dive score in Olympic history. He is the first Australian male to win an Olympic gold medal in diving since Dick Eve at the 1924 Summer Olympics, and was one of eleven openly gay athletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics.Olympic diver is openly gay - Outsports
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Grant Hackett wins Silver
in the 1500m freestyle
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Read more about Grant Hackett
Grant George Hackett OAM (born 9 May 1980) is an Australian former swimmer most famous for winning the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This achievement has led him to be regarded as one of the greatest distance swimmers in history. He also collected a gold medal in Sydney for swimming in the heats of the 4×200 m freestyle relay. He is well regarded for his versatility, being the world record holder in the 1500 m and formerly in the 800 m freestyle, and 2nd and 4th in the 400 m and 200 m freestyle respectively. He has dominated the 1500 m event in the past decade, being undefeated in the event in finals from 1996 until the 2007 World Aquatics Championships. His four World Championship gold medals in the event make him the only swimmer to have won a world title in one event four times, and in total, he has won 10 World Championship gold medals.
Hackett was the captain of the Australian swimming team since the role was reintroduced in 2005, until his retirement in 2008.
Hackett works for the Nine Network, often hosting Wide World of Sports. He is now working for Westpac as a banker and has expressed interest in a political career in the future.
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- Gardian77 Gardian77 Aug 12, 2008 @ 4:55 am
- Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!
Great informative lens, love the voting polls
and the Aussie Anthem vid - great idea!
The swimmers are doing fabulous, as are the sculls and the boys on the watercourse!
BTW
Welcome to the Aussies in Beijing Olympics 2008 Group! :)
Congratulations - we have made this a featured lens in the group!
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- Kanga Kanga Aug 10, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
- Go Australia!!! Hopefully the eventing team will keep their lead and bring home some gold! :-)
Great lens, welcome to the Beijing Olympics 2008 Group! :-)
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