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Read all about the amazing efforts and results of the Aussie Olympic team at the Beijing Summer Olympics who secured 46 medals to finish 6th in the overall medal tally.
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 !
Read about the win
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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 Rice (born June 17, 1988 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian swimmer. She currently holds the world record in the 200 m and 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.
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Trickett wins GOLD !
Aussie Gold: 100m Butterfly
Read about the win
- Jones picks Trickett for swim captaincy
- Breaststroke queen Leisel Jones has nominated Libby Trickett to take over as captain of the Australian swim team. The position has come up for grabs ...
- Daniel’s on song
- Daniel even got to meet guest speaker Libby Trickett and see some of her Olympic gold medals. Daniel hopes to continue with the Young Conservatorium next ...
- My Sportsman: Dara Torres
- Her time of 24.07 was an American record -- it was just a tenth of a second off the world record held by Australia's Libby Trickett -- and it was Torres' ...
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 holds 5 World Records, two in long course (50m).
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Leisel beats the world !
Aussie Gold: 100m Breaststroke
gold !
Read about the win
- Swim star Jones has no room for new man
- There is definitely no room for a new man in the life of breaststroke queen Leisel Jones at the moment. The Olympic champion split with her fiance and ...
- Jones picks Trickett for swim captaincy
- Breaststroke queen Leisel Jones has nominated Libby Trickett to take over as captain of the Australian swim team. The position has come up for grabs ...
- Jones to miss world titles, query on Games
- LEISEL Jones is confident skipping next year's world swimming championships in Rome will prolong her international career, but the champion breaststroker is ...
Read more about Leisel
Leisel Marie Jones OAM (born August 30, 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...
Rice claims a second Gold
Aussie Gold: 200m Individual Medley. Read more here.
gold !
Find out more about Stephanie here
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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.
Stephanie Rice Beijing Olympics 2008
Stephanie Rice Beijing Olympics 2008
Stephanie Rice on Beijing olympics 2008. See more on http://olympic-screencasts.blogspot.com/
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Australia - the movie
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Australia is the new Baz Luhrmann film starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. Check out the latest news, trailers and more.
Australia takes a surprise gold !
Aussie Gold: Women's 200m freestyle relay
gold !
read more about the win
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- Big payday for Cameron
- World record-breaking swim star Cameron van der Burgh will be joined by 2004 Olympic 4 x 100m freestyle relay gold medalists Darion Townsend and Lyndon ...
Australian Olympic Swim Team Song
Australian Olympic Swim Team Song
Their anthem. Written, composed, voiced and everything else by the Aussies. For other amazing Storyhead work, check out our website storyhead.com.au
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Drew Ginn and Duncan Free win our sixth gold medal
Aussie Gold: Men's Pair
gold !
Read more about the win
- Bad back has Drew Ginn career on the rocks
- The complaint almost cost him a spot in the men's pairs, which he won with Duncan Free in Beijing. "The sciatic pain has been pretty strong, but it's pretty ...
- After the gold rush
- I REMEMBER watching Drew Ginn intently the day after he and Duncan Free won the men's rowing pair in Beijing. He was in agony, perched awkwardly on the edge ...
- Spoilt for choice in Queensland Sports Star of the Year Award
- The quiet man from the Gold Coast was a tower of support for his mate in the men's pair, Drew Ginn, when Ginn suffered serious pain from his back in the ...
Read more about Drew
Drew Cameron Ginn, OAM, (born 20 November 1974) 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 finished fourth in the 2002 World Champi...
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.
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Crawshay and Brennan win Gold !
Aussie Gold: double sculls
gold !
Read about the win
- Crawshay crashes out of dream team
- "It's a big shame that we've been split up but the show must go on and hopefully Dave will be back," Brennan said after teaming up with Launceston's Glen ...
- Crawshay's challenge
- Crawshay, who will be reunited with Brennan for the event, said he was not too daunted by the schedule but was wary of the 19km triple top run over Mount ...
- Brennan injury just adds to the challenge
- Brennan, 25, will be reunited with his national double scull crewmate Victorian Dave Crawshay, who he said had been training furiously since the Olympics ...
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.
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 !
Read about the win
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Emma Snowsill wins Australia's 1st triathlon gold
gold !
Read about the win
- Triathlon world comes to Coast
- "This is very exciting," said the Gold Coast's reigning Olympic triathlon champion Emma Snowsill. "It certainly would be good to win the world crown on the ...
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- Mitcham was one of eight outstanding athletes who were nominated for the 2008 award, including triathlete Emma Snowsill, swimmer Stephanie Rice and pole ...
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Emma Snowsill (born 15 June 1981) is an Australian professional triathlete and multiple gold medalist in the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games. She won the gold medal in triathlon at the 2008 Olympics.
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.
Read more here.
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Read about the wins
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- The Medal Maker On Beijing, 470s And London 2012
- The Australian 470 success in Qingdao was a return to form for a nation which has historically excelled in the two person dinghy events. No Olympic sailing ...
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- Wilmot, who hails from a famous Sydney sailing family, said after snatching the gold that it was "without doubt the highlight (of my career). ...
gold !
Hooker vaults to Olympic gold
gold !
Read more about Steve
Steven Hooker, known as Steve Hooker (born July 16, 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian pole vaulter and Olympic gold medalist. His personal best is 6 metreshttp://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=2/newsid=43037.html#hooker+joins+exclusive+vault+club Hooker joins exclusive 6.00m vault club, putting him in an elite group of vaulters, and his height of 5.96 metres at the Beijing Olympics is a record for the event.
His mother Erica Hooker was a 1972 Olympian and a 1978 Commonwealth Games long jump silver medalist. She also won nine national titles. His father Bill represented Australia in the 800m and 4 x 400m at the 1974 Commonwealth Games and won four national crowns.
Hooker won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a vault of 5.96 metres, setting a new Olympic record, and making him the first Australian male track and field gold medalist in 60 years.
Hooker attended Balwyn High School in Melbourne, Victoria.
Read about the win
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Wallace takes gold in K1 500m
gold !
read more about Ken
Ken (Kenneth) Wallace, born 26 July 1983 in Gosford, New South Wales, is an Australian flatwater 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.
Wallace is 188cm (6'2") tall and weighs 89kg (196lbs).
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- Matthew Mitcham the 2008 Sports Performer of the Year
- Pole vaulter Steve Hooker, triathlete Emma Snowsill, swimmer Stephanie Rice and kayaker Ken Wallace were the other Australian individual gold medallists to ...
Matthew Mitcham steals diving gold
gold !
Find out more about Matthew Mitcham
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Matthew Mitcham
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Check out Australia's Matthew Mitcham - gold medal winning dive legend from the Beijing Olympic Games.
Read more about Matthew
Matthew Mitcham (born 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 the only openly gay male medal winner at the 2008 Summer Olympics.Olympic diver is openly gay - Outsports
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- The Often Missing Element
- We all have challenges but how we choose to face them is what makes some people gold medalists. Matthew Mitcham's inner joy carried him to a gold medal in ...
Grant Hackett wins Silver
in the 1500m freestyle
Read the latest news about Grant
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- The position has come up for grabs following former captain Grant Hackett's retirement from the sport last month. Jones ruled herself out of contention for ...
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- ... and there might even be a case for Grant Hackett overcoming every medical condition known to mankind to win the 1500m in Athens, but medals are not ...
- Hackett lines up drug cheats
- RETIRED Olympic champion Grant Hackett says he is on a mission to increase the pressure on drug cheats in swimming. He yesterday demanded blood testing be ...
Read more about Grant Hackett
Grant George Hackett OAM (born 9 May 1980) is a former Australian 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 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 also presents sport on Nine News Melbourne on weekends. 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 wrote...
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!
Posted August 12, 2008
Kanga wrote...
Go Australia!!! Hopefully the eventing team will keep their lead and bring home some gold! :-)
Great lens, welcome to the Beijing Olympics 2008 Group! :-)
Posted August 10, 2008
