The eighth day of the XXXI summer Olympic Games brought Russia only one medal. The award of the higher test was won women’s team on fencing on swords. Ian egorian, Sophia Velikaya, Yekaterina Dyachenko Yulia Gavrilova defeated in the finals of rivals from Ukraine. They seemed to themselves indisputable favorites are still at the early stages, and when the time came for the final battles, sped ahead from the start. In the end, 45:30 – Russia’s victory.
But after that the tide has turned against our athletes, they never managed to win any medal. At the end of the eighth day in Russia, 23 awards – 6 gold, 9 silver and 8 bronze and sixth place in the medal standings. Currently we bypass USA, China, UK, Germany and Japan.
Leaders
The Americans go further into the lead. Currently they have 59 medals – 23 gold, 18 silver and 17 bronze. 33 of them, including 16 of the highest standard, they have won in swimming.
Michael Phelps once again the Olympics confirmed his status as the most titled Olympian in history. After a combined relay 4 by 100 meters, he was the 23-fold Olympic champion. Speakers at the third stage, Phelps had to save the team after a bad race his teammate Cody Miller.
Said before and women team USA swimming, who took the gold medal in the combined relay race 4 on 100 m. highest medals the Americans won in rowing (women’s eight) and long jump (Jeffrey Henderson). The silver they got in run on 100 m (tori Bowie), swimming in the 1500 m freestyle (Connor Jaeger, swimming an 50 m freestyle (Simone Manuel), the team pursuit on the track (women) rowing (women, personal competitions). “Bronze” – sabre (women).
Their main rivals at these Games – the Chinese. So far, they have only 41 medals – 13 gold, 11 silver and 17 bronze. The eighth day of the Olympics were the most successful – a total of four awards. The representatives of China took second and third place jumps on a trampoline (Dong Dong), won bronze medals in the rapid fire pistol 25 m (Lee Yue-Hong) and rowing (women, personal competitions).
Records
The achievements can now boast of women of great Britain national team on track. In the pursuit of the qualification they set a new world record – 4 minutes 13,260 S. In the final race, Katie Archibald, Laura Trott, Elinor Barker and Joanna Rowsell-Shand won the gold.
