Olympic Prospectus 2012

Olympic Prospectus2012JA Hingston

J A Hingston [email protected] 10th July 2012

This prospectus seeks to plug some of these gaps. For every event at the Olympics - 302 in total - I have set out, in the simplest way possible, a brief form-guide: a summary of what's going on in the sport together with tables setting out the world rankings and results from recent Olympic Games and World Championships. For everything that has been included there is inevitably far more left out, but I am hoping this will provide an idea of who is expected to do well and a snapshot of the stories behind each event.

The Olympics is built around stories - from the favourite chasing a new record, to the plucky underdog surpassing all expectation. Broadcasters do a fantastic job keeping you up to date as they unfold but, for me, there is no substitute for being able to spot and follow a story yourself. As interactive coverage expands, and especially if you are watching a sport live, too often at the Olympics you are left feeling bewildered by the unfamiliar characters in front of you, in a sport you don’t see outside two weeks every four years.

I encourage anybody who finds use in what I have put together to distribute this to others who may similarly benefit. It has been put together in my spare-time, not for profit or gain, but for my own interest and the enjoyment of others around me.

All opinions and mistakes and mistaken opinions herein are my own. For every sportsman and woman there, the London Games will represent a pinnacle in theirsporting career and the culmination of years of dedication and hard work. I have the utmost respect for every one of them - success is only ever relative.

This prospectus is not designed to be read from start to finish, but rather to be dipped into to obtain that vital bit of extra information before the action unfolds. Whether printed out and taken to a session or looked at on-screen in front of the TV, I hope it will prove useful. At the front end, I have also included my top 100 British medal hopes at these Olympics and my pick of three must-see events each day.

Contents

Top 100 Team GB Medal Contenders 4Day-by-Day Viewing Guide 5-7

Archery 8-10Men's Athletics 11-21

Women's Athletics 22-32Badminton 33-37Basketball 38-40

Beach Volleyball 41-42Bocing 43-54

Canoe/Kayak Slalom 55-56Canoe/Kayak Sprint 57-62

Cycling - BMX 63-64Cycling - Mountain Bike 65-66

Cycling - Road 67-69Cycling - Track 70-77

Diving 78-82Equestrian 83-87

Fencing 88-91Football 92-94

Gymnastics - Artistic 95-100Gymnastics - Rhythmic 101

Gymnastics - Trampolining 102Handball 103-104

Hockey 106-106Judo 107-114

Moder Pentathlon 115-116Rowing 117-127Sailing 128-131

Shooting 132-136Men's Swimming 137-145

Women's Swimming 146-154Synchronised Swimming 155

Table Tennis 156-157Taekwondo 158-162

Tennis 163-166Triathlon 167-168

Volleyball 169-170Water Polo 171-172

Weightlifting 173-178Wrestling 179-183

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Top 100 Team GB medal contenders

Rank Sport Name - Event Rank Sport Name - Event1 Rowing Women's Coxless Pair 51 Swimming Fran Halsall - 50m Free2 Cycling - Track Women's Team Pursuit 52 Sailing Alison Young - Laser Radial3 Rowing Women's Double Sculls 53 Modern Pentathlon Mhairi Spence4 Triathlon Alistair Brownlee 54 Boxing Fred Evans - Welterweight5 Swimming Becky Adlington - 800m Free 55 Canoe Slalom Florence & Hounslow - C-26 Sailing Ben Ainslee - Finn 56 Athletics Robbie Grabarz - High Jump7 Athletics Jessica Ennis - Heptathlon 57 Shooting Peter Wilson - Double Trap8 Cycling - Track Men's Team Pursuit 58 Tennis Andy Murray - Singles9 Equestrian Team 3-day 59 Cycling - Road Bradley Wiggins - Time Trial

10 Cycling - BMX Shanaze Reade - BMX 60 Swimming Liam Tancock -100m Back11 Athletics Mo Farah - 5,000m 61 Swimming Hannah Miley - 400m IM12 Rowing Men's Coxless Four 62 Sprint Kayak Tim Brabants - K-1 1000m13 Boxing Savannah Marshall - Middleweight 63 Cycling - Road Lizzie Armistead - Road Race14 Cycling - Road Mark Cavendish - Road Race 64 Swimming Fran Halsall - 100m Free15 Sprint Kayak Ed McKeever - K-1 200m 65 Sailing Bryony Shaw - RS:X16 Boxing Anthony Joshua - Super Heavyweight 66 Diving Tom Daley - 10m Platform17 Swimming Keri-Anne Payne - 10km 67 Athletics Lawrence Okoye - Discus18 Cycling - Track Laura Trott - Omnium 68 Swimming Women's 4x100m Medley19 Sailing Women's 470 69 Cycling - Track Men's Team Sprint20 Rowing Men's Lgtwgt Four 70 Swimming Ellen Gandy - 100m Fly21 Cycling - Track Chris Hoy - Keirin 71 Hockey Men's Team22 Boxing Nicola Adams - Flyweight 72 Boxing Anthony Ogogo - Middleweight23 Athletics Phillips Idowu - Triple Jump 73 Sailing Paul Goodison - Laser24 Athletics Mo Farah - 10,000m 74 Athletics Tiffany Porter - 100h25 Swimming Becky Adlington - 400m Free 75 Equestrian Mary King - 3-day26 Cycling - Road Emma Pooley - Time Trial 76 Football Women's Team27 Rowing Men's Lwt Double Sculls 77 Taekwondo Martin Stamper -68kg28 Boxing Tom Stalker - Lgt Welterweight 78 Gymnastics Mens Team All Around29 Triathlon Helen Jenkins 79 Boxing Josh Taylor - Lightweight30 Athletics Greg Rutherford - Long Jump 80 Swimming Lizzie Simmonds - 200m back31 Sailing Women's Elliot 6m 81 Football Men's Team32 Triathlon Jonathon Brownlee 82 Sailing Men's 47033 Hockey Women's Team 83 Gymnastics Dan Purvis - Men's All-Around34 Cycling - Track Jason Kenny/Chris Hoy - sprint 84 Rowing Alan Campbell - Single Sculls35 Boxing Luke Campbell - Bantamweight 85 Athletics Shara Proctor - Long Jump36 Sailing Nick Dempsey - RS:X 86 Archery Women's Team37 Rowing Men's Eight 87 Taekwondo Jade Jones -57kg38 Cycling - Track Women's Team Sprint 88 Diving Daley & Waterfield - 10m Syncro39 Taekwondo Sarah Stevenson -67kg 89 Badminton Adcock & Bankier - Mixed Doubles40 Equestrian William Fox-Pitt - 3-day 90 Athletics Women's 4x400m41 Boxing Natasha Jonas - Lightweight 91 Trampolining Bryony Page42 Athletics Dai Green - 400m hurdles 92 Gymnastics Beth Tweddle - Asymmetric Bars43 Cycling - Track Ed Clancy - Omnium 93 Athletics Hannah England - 1500m44 Gymnastics Louis Smith - Pommel Horse 94 Cycling - Road Nicole Cooke - Road Race45 Swimming Ellen Gandy - 200m Fly 95 Taekwondo Lutalo Muhammed -80kg46 Sailing Men's Star 96 Athletics Christine Ohoruogu - 400m47 Cycling - Track Victoria Pendleton - Sprint 97 Tennis Andy Murray & Jamie Murray48 Equestrian Team Dressage 98 Modern Pentathlon Sam Murray49 Boxing Andrew Selby - Flyweight 99 Judo Euan Barton - 81kg50 Sprint Kayak Scofield & Heath - K-2 200m 100 Equestrian Laura Bechtolsheimer - Dressage

Key:

Absolute dead certainty - would take a serious calamity to stop them claiming gold

Gold medal favourite - but in an unpredictable sport, or with opposition snapping at their heels

Probably 50/50 for gold - anything less than a medal would be a disappointment

Gold is a possability - but must treat any medal as a real success

Outside the favourites - should still go into the Games intent on challenging for a medal

Team GB prediction: 23 golds, 23 silver, 23 bronze

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Day-by-Day Guide

Friday 27th July Opening Ceremony - 9pm onwards

The highlight of any Olympics for any non-sports fan. Early signs were that the organisers were so intimidated by the Beijing opening ceremony that they were going to bottle it and stage something deliberately understated on the cheap. Fortunately they drafted in film director Danny Boyle who has persuaded LOCOG otherwise. The budget was doubled and a five act extravaganza entitled the ‘Isles of Wonder’ will, hopefully, kick the Olympics off with a bang.

Saturday 28th July Cycling - Men's Road Race - 10am to 4pm

The Manx Missile, Mark Cavendish, will be looking to kick off the home nation medal tally on the first day. The 2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year will have his work cut out staying in the peloton as the race flies over Box Hill 9 times. If he’s still in contention near the finish on the Mall, then they can start engraving the gold medal.

Fencing - Women's Individual Foil - 6pm to 8pm

Ever heard of Valentina Vezzali? No? You’re probably not alone but she is Italy’s answer to Steve Redgrave and Ben Ainslee. If she can retain the individual foil title she will become only the fourth athlete and first woman ever to win four consecutive gold medals in an individual event.

Swimming - inc. Men's 400m IM - 7.30pm to 9.20pm

The first of two showdowns between Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. Both are chasing multiple medals at these Olympics and this will be the big first decider en-route to the title of greatest swimmer in the world. Hannah Miley goes in the women’s 400IM and is expected to start GB’s medal count in the Aquatics Centre.

Sunday 29th July Basketball - USA vs France - 2.30pm to 4.15pmA huge early test for an injury-ravaged USA team. France will post an all-NBA starting line-up and if they can rattle the Americans they will set the tone for what promises to be a fascinating Olympic tournament.

Archery - Women's Team - 3pm to 6.30pmArchery is a surprisingly riveting sport to watch. Tension always runs high and the British archers will be hoping not to buckle on the hallowed turf at Lord’s cricket ground.

Swimming - inc. Women's 400m Free - 7.30pm to 9.30pm

Rebecca Adlington mounts her defence of the 400 and 800m double, form suggests it is just outside her reach so this will be a really big test of how much the home-crowd atmosphere can help. This session should also see Michael Phelps lose his second final in a row as the men's 4x100m free reaches it's climax. This event has produced some of the most memorable moments of the past 3 Olympics and this year shouldn't disappoint with the Australians, French and Americans all talking up their chances.

Monday 30th July Equestrian - 3-Day Eventing X-Country - 11.30am to 4.30pm

Attention turns to Greenwich Park as the cross-country phase of the 3-day eventing takes place. GB have put together a very impressive looking team including the almost unbeatable William Fox-Pitt and the Queen's grand-daughter Zara Phillips.

Diving - Men's 10m Synchronised - 3pm to 4pmTom Daley has struggled since a growth spurt added six inches to his height two years ago. His form seems to be returning and this is his first opportunity to try to take a gold medal away from the Chinese.

Gymnastics - Men's Team - 4.30pm to 7pm

GB has, over the past five years, transformed itself into a powerhouse in men's gymnastics. The reigning European champions will have their work cut out against a Japanese team featuring triple world champion Kohei Uchimura, but stand a great chance of snatching a first ever medal in the event.

Tuesday 31st July Gymnastics - Women's Team - 4.30pm to 6.20pmAlways an Olympic highlight, the USA once again go in hot favourites to take gold. In Athens and Beijing they threw it away… surely that can't happen a third time?

Swimming - inc. Women's 200m IM - 7.30pm to 9pmAustralia's darling, Stephanie Rice, goes in the 200m individual medley in an evening that will also see Phelps chase a third gold in the 200m butterfly and 17 year-old sensation Missy Franklin swim in the 200m freestyle

Volleyball - Men's GB vs Australia - 8pm to 9.30pmGreat Britian may never again be represented in an Olympic volleyball tournament, so what better way to celebrate their cameo than with one of the greatest rivalries in sport. GB might even win it.

Wednesday 1st August Rowing - inc. Women's Coxless Pair - 9.30am to 12.40pm

My number one ranked British gold medal prospect competes in the first day of the rowing finals at Eton-Dorney lake. The women's coxless pair have dominated competition this year and should, barring illness or injury, take home Britain's first ever women's rowing gold medal. Also look out for the wide open men's coxed eight.

Cycling - Men's and Women's Road Time Trial - 12.30pm to 4pm

Starting and finishing at Hampton Court Palace, the time trials should provide top racing. If Bradley Wiggins has any legs left after the Tour de France he will be in the mix for the men's gold; and the bronze medallist four years ago, Emma Pooley, will be targeting gold in the women's.

Football - Men's GB vs Uruguay - 7.45pm to 9.40pm

Stuart Pearce's Great Britain side will face their first real test of the Games. Against a tough Uruguan side, GB will need to pull out a stong performance, even without David Beckham the talent on the team is such that anything less than a semi-final will be a disappointment.

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Day-by-Day Guide

Thursday 2nd August Canoe/Kayak Slalom - Men's C2 and Women's K1 - 1.30pm to 4.30pm

Always an exciting competition to watch, the men's C2 (two men in a canoe with a single bladed paddle each) boasts the best chance for GB to make good the considerable advantage of having trained on the Olympic course for the past two year.

Gymnastics - Women's All-Around - 4.30pm to 6.15pm

An old fashioned USA vs Russia battle in the women's gymnastics. Jordan Weiber, the classic all-American sweetheart, and Viktoria Komova, a waif-like daughter of two Soviet-era international gymnasts. It should be a good one.

Swimming - inc. Men's 200m IM - 7.30pm to 9pm

The second showdown between Phelps and Lochte beckons in the 200m individual medley. We should by now know who has the upper hand but there is little to call between the form of the two in this event. This session also brings Ellen Gandy and Jemma Lowe going in the 200m butterfly, Fran Halsall in the 100m freestyle and Lochte again in the 200m backstroke.

Friday 3rd August Rowing - inc. Women's Double Scull - 9.30am to 12.40pm

The GB medals should start to flow over the next few days. The women's double scull, men's coxless four and men's lightweight double scull all boast British favourites, though the men's boats will need to improve on their form earlier this year.

Athletics - inc. Heptathlon - 10am to 1.40pm and 7pm to 10pm

The athletics finally gets under way with the heptathlon featuring on the first day. Jessica Ennis has an awful lot of pressure, and an awful lot of sponsor's money riding on her being successful. Going in with a new British record earlier this year, and as the British champion in 100m hurdles and high jump, it is hopeful she'll have the form to become one of the stars of the Games.

Swimming - inc. Women's 800m Freestyle - 7.30pm to 8.30pm

Rebecca Adllington goes again: she's the fastest women in the world this year but will have to fight hard to retain her Olympic title, her strongest challenge coming from 15 year-old American Katie Ledecky. Phelps goes again in the 100m fly, a medal here may be enough for him to equal the only record left - the most medals in an individual event, currently held by gymnast Larissa Latynina.

Saturday 4th August Cycling - inc. Women's Team Pursuit - 4pm to 6.40pm

In the first evening session at the velodrome, we start with the British women's pursuit squad who have set a world record in their past two outings. The omnium also makes it's debut; watch out for the fantastic devil-takes-the-hindmost where Ed Clancy will ride about in an almost permanent state of panic.

Athletics - inc. Heptathlon & Men's 10,000m - 7pm to 10pm

As the middle weekend continues we see the two British superstars of athletics shoot for gold. Jessica Ennis will have to fight to make up or keep her position, and Mo Farah runs in the 10,000m. Both are narrow favourites but were beaten into second at last year's World Champonships.

Swimming - inc. Men's 4x100m Medley - 7.30pm to 8.30pm

The final evening of swimming in the Aquatics Centre bring the two traditional curtain closers, the medley relays. The British women will be targeting a medal and we will see the final episode in Phelps' Olympic saga as he takes his bow with a near certain gold in the medley relay. GB has two more medal shots with our women's medley team and Fran Halsall in the spash-and-dash 50m free.

Sunday 5th August Sailing - inc. Men's Finn - 12pm to 5.50pm

In sailing everybody starts with the same equipment and the same wind. For most people this means that luck pays a big part in deciding who wins the medals. Ben Ainslee, on the other hand, has picked up a silver and then three golds in successive Olympics. He's still unparallelled and hopefully come the medal race he'll still be in contention for gold.

Cycling - inc. Men's Sprint - 4pm to 7pm

Big thighs galore inside the velodrome as the men's speed merchants go head-to-head. With only one rider per country, either four times Olympic champion Chris Hoy or 2011 World Champion Jason Kenny will have to sit and watch from the sidelines as their compatriot take on the might of Frenchman Gregory Bauge.

Ahtletics - inc. Men's 100m - 7pm to 10pmBolt vs. Blake anyone? Throw in Gay, Gatlin and Powell and we've got a race.

Monday 6th August Cycling - inc. Women's Sprint - 4pm to 7pmIt's the turn of the women and Victoria Pendleton will go up against her Australian adversary Anna Mears. It was Pendleton who came out on top in the World Championships earlier this year but this could go either way.

Football - Women's Semifinals - 5pm & 7.30pmIf the British women have got this far they'll be coming up against the best in the world. A rare opportunity for the women to show their skills and build some excitement about women's football.

Athletics - inc. Men's 400m Hurdles - 7pm to 9.40pmDai Green shouldn't have been fast enough to win the World Championships 400m hurdles last year. He was. This year he doesn't look fast enough either…

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Day-by-Day Guide

Tuesday 7th August Triathlon - Men's - 11.30am to 1.45pm

As much credit as Alistair Brownlee gets, he deserves more; he's completely dominated world triathlon for the past few years. Earlier this year he tore his achilles and for a while it looked as though his Olympics were in doubt but, in his comeback race in June, he was a man posessed and tore the field to pieces. He should do the same in Hyde Park.

Sailing - inc. Men's & Women's RS:X - 12pm to 5.50pmThe sailing finals continue down in Weymouth. Today is the last chance to see windsurfing at the Olympics as it makes way for kite surfing in Rio. GB's Nick Dempsey and Bryony Shaw should be in the hunt for medals.

Cycling - inc. Men's Keirin - 4pm to 6.25pmThree minutes of watching six men roll around behind a motorbike and then a minute of holding your breath as they sprint full out within touching distance of each other. Sir Chris Hoy is reigning world and Olympic champion but the final should be wide open. Laura Trott will also be hoping to take gold in the omnium.

Wednesday 8th August Athletics - inc. Men's 110m Hurdles - 6pm to 10pmPick of the day's events is the men's 110m hurdles final as a returning Liu Zhang will once again have the hopes of a billion people behind him - fortunately he's injury free this time, and back in the form that saw him win gold eight years ago.

Beach Volleyball - Women's Final - 7pm to 10pm

Horse Guard's Parade, bikinis, cheerleaders, oh, and some sport. What's not to like.

Hockey - Women's Semi-Finals & Basketball - Men's quarter-finalsAs the knock-out phases of the team sports get under way the women's hockey team will hope to live up to their excellent form earlier this year. If the GB men have made it as far as the basketball quarter finals they will probably be reaching the end of the line.

Thursday 9th August Swimming -Women's Open Water 10k - 12pm to 2.30pm

Kerri-Anne Payne will hit the waters of the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park in the open water swimming. Two hours in which the swimmers are almost unidentifiable may not seem like the best form of entertainment but, if world champion Kerri-Anne can match her previous performances, then a gold medal should be just rewards.

Boxing - Women's Middle- and Lightweight Finals - 1.30pm to 3pmBritish female boxers are the best in the world, pefect timing for the debut of women's boxing at the Olympics. This session sees Natasha Jonas and world champion Savannah Marshall go for gold.

Athletics - inc. Men's 200m Final - 6.30pm to 10.10pmBolt vs. Blake round 2 as they face up over the 200m. Blake ran the second fastest 200m in history last season and Bolt will have to be on fire to live up to expectations. Add in Phillips Idowu in the triple jump and David Rudisha in the 800m and we have my pick for the best night of athletics at the Games.

Friday 10th August Cycling - BMX Men's and Women's Finals - 3pm to 5pm

Super cool, super fast, super big falls, and a British favourite. BMX was a welcome and fun addition to the Olympic schedule in 2008. Favourite there was Britian's Shanaze Reade until a bad corner in the final saw her take a lunge and a fall. She looked imperious at the test event on the Olympic course last summer and will be hoping to round off a successful two weeks for the British cycling squad.

Hockey - Women's Final - 8pm to 10pmThis match should feature two out of Australia, Argentina and Great Britian. All have contrasting styles and bring the best out in each other. Victory may come down to who has the legs left after two weeks of hard competition.

Taekwondo - Women's -67kg - 8pm to 10.10pm

Sarah Stevenson won bronze four years ago having gone through the turmoil of having a head-shot missed causing her to lose the bout, and then the descision overturned just five minutes before her semi-final. Last year she won World Championship gold just a couple of months after her father passed away, and then had to deal with the death of her mother later that summer.

Saturday 11th August Football - Men's Final - 3pm to 4.45pm

For the first time in 52 years, GB is putting up a united team - of English and Welshmen. My guess is that we'll discover our Olympic experience is just like any other major tournament; cynicism right up to the point we all start to believe we might win it... and then crushing defeat at the hands of a superior nation. At what stage it will happen in the Olympics I'm not sure but Spain and Brazil come bristling with talent.

Athletics - inc. Men's 5,000m - 7pm to 9.20pmDepending on the result of the 10,000m Mo Farah will either have the chance to redeem himself or to join the ranks of elite long-distance runners who have won the 5k & 10k double at an Olympics. Add in the ever popular relays and the atmosphere will be electric.

Diving - Men's 10m - 8.30pm to 9.45pmTen days after he went in the synchro Tom Daley is back to take the battle to the Chinese. Anything less than a bronze will be a failure, but there's a Chinese wall between him and gold.

Sunday 12th August Boxing - Men's Finals - 1.30pm to 3.45pmAs the boxing competition draws to close, British expectations will be at fever pitch. The pressure is on for the young talented British squad, but a noisy home-crowd may help sway the judges in their favour.

Modern Pentathlon - Women's - 2.35pm to 6.20pm

The last medal to be won before the closing ceremony will be in the strangest of Olympic sports, the modern pentathlon. With running and shooting newly combined into a single race the final will be tense and unpredictable. Team GB includes the current world gold and bronze medallists, so chances are good for a final flourish.

Basketball - Men's Final - 3pm to 5pmFour years ago USA dominated their opposition right up until the Olympic final, where a resurgent Spain took them down to the wire. For the second most popular sport in the world, this final will be a fitting climax to what has, hopefully, been a fantastic Olympic Games.

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Archery

Men's Individual

1 UKR 1 KOR2 KOR 2 KOR3 RUS 3 UKR4 MEX 4 KOR

5= CUB 5= IND5= JAP 5= FRA5= USA 5= UKR5= MAS 5= CHN

Points1 KOR 1 USA 3132 KOR 2 KOR 2613 USA 3 KOR 2464 KOR 4 UKR 234

5= CAN 5 MAS 2065= LUX 6 KOR 1925= NOR 7 USA 1875= GBR 8 UKR 181

9 GBR 17910 FRA 171

1 USA 11 FRA 1462 CHN 12 MEX 1383 UKR 13 MAS 1364 FRA 14 MEX 133

5= USA 15 IND 1315= MEX 16 VEN 1315= KOR 17 IND 1285= TUR 18 IRI 127

19 CHN 12720 UKR 126

Sometimes it's hard to know why a sport catches on somewhere. South Korea has, for no obvious historical or cultural reason, taken Archery on as a national pastime. For the past twenty years the only question before any major Archery championships has been "Will any of the gold medals not be won by South Korea?" An impressive tally of 34/44 World Championship and 12/20 Olympic gold medals have gone their way since 1990, but there is some reason to suspect that the Koreans will not have it all their own way this summer. Although the men still seem dominant (despite the best efforts of reigning Olympic Champion Victor Ruban (UKR) and the American Brady Ellison), their women have slipped from previous superiority. With no Korean women getting through to the individual semi-finals in either last year's World Championships or World Cup Final, they can at best be said to be on an even keel with archers from countries such as India, China and Italy as well as individuals such as reigning World Champion Denisse van Lamoen from Chile. Anyone who sees themselves drawn against the Koreans will still feel a pang of dread, particularly if that Korean is the world record holder and legally-blind Im Dong-Hyun (who likes to shoot without corrective eyewear despite having 20/200 vision); but under the pressure of the crowd at Lord's, and with only 15 arrows per match, the medals are firmly up for grabs by anyone who has the bottle to take them.

Archery has long been one of Britain's 'nearly' sports; a bronze for Simon Terry and the men's team in Barcelona, a bronze for Allison Williamson in Athens, and a bronze for the women's team in the 2007 World

Championships. With a relatively small worldwide participation base, it was hoped that an input of funding in the run up to 2012 would see the team progress to a level where they could challenge for gold medals. Focusing on

veteran archers with Olympic experience, Terry, Larry Godfrey, Alan Wills, and Williamson, Naomi Folkard and Amy Oliver were seen as a talented team with real medal potential. Sadly, since 2007 Britain's archers have

repeatedly failed to deliver any medals in major championships. Most disappointingly, a full strength squad picked up only 2 silvers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Despite this, UK Sport have significantly increased their funding in the run up to the Olympic Games, which may well pay off. The women's team are probably our

best chance, but if any of the archers can channel the home crowd into points rather than nerves then it won't be a surprise to see a British tracksuit climbing onto the podium.

Oh Jin HyekYaglz Yilmaz

2011 World Cup Final

Dai XiaoxiangDmytro HrachovGael PrevostJoe FanchinPedro Vivas Alcala

Viktor Ruban

2009 World Championships

Kim Woo-JinOh Jin Hyek

Mangal Singh ChampiaOh Jin HyekVictor RubanIm Dong-HyunLee Chang-Hwan

World Ranking

Victor RubanPark Kyung-MoBair BadenovJuan Rene SerranoJuan Carlos StevensRyuichi MoriyaVictor Wunderle

Dmytro HrachovKhairul Anuar Mohamad

Laurence Godfrey


Brady Ellison

Brady EllisonIm Dong-HyunJason LyonJeff HenckelsBaard Nesteng

Chu Sian Cheng

2008 Olympics

Dmytro HrachovWenyuan Chen

Romaine Girouille

Elias MalaveTarundeep RaiM. V. TeymoorlooeiXing Yu

Romain GirouillePedro Vivas AlcacaCheng Chu SianLuis AlvarezJayanta Talukdar

Oh Jin-HyekJoe FanchinMarkiyan IvashkoLaurence GodfreyGael Prevost

Brady EllisonIm Dong-HyjnKim Woojin

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Archery

Men's Team

1 Im D-H, Lee C-H, Park K-M2 Di Buo' I, Galiazzo M, Nespoli M3 Jiang L, Li W, Xue H F4 Ivashko M, Ruban V, Serdyuk O

5= Dobrowolski R, Piatek P, Proc J5= Cheng C S, Khalmizam W, Marbawi M5= Chen S Y, Kuo C W, Wang C P5= Abramov A, Badenov B, Tsyrempilov B Points

1 4282 360

1 Im D-H, Lee C-H, Oh J H 3 3462 Aubert T, Girouille R, Valladont J-C 4 3263 Kikuchi H, Yamamoto H, Yoshinaga H 5 2994 Chen W, Xing Y, Xue H F 6 298

5= Ellison B, Johnson R, Wunderle V 7 2775= Kuo C W, Sung C C, Wang C P 8 2755= Banerjee R, Champia M S, Talukdar J 9 2595= Badenov B, Borodin A, Tsyrempilov B 10 248

11 24114 201

1 Im D-H, Kim W-J, Oh J-H2 Girouille R, Valladont J-C, Prevost G3 Frangilli M, Nespoli M, Galiazzo M4 Serrano, Vivas Alcala, Velez Sanchez

5= Ruban V, Hrachov D, Ivashko M5= Terry S, Wills, A, Godfrey L5= Chen W, Xing Y, Dai X5= Ellison B, Fanchin J, Wukie J

Women's Individual

1 CHN 1 KOR2 KOR 2 KOR3 KOR 3 COL4 PRK 4 POL

5= USA 5= BLR5= JPN 5= KOR5= KOR 5= DEN5= MEX 5= JPN

Points1 CHI 1 IND 2542 GEO 2 KOR 2403 CHN 3 CHN 2194 FRA 4 KOR 210

5= KOR 5 MEX 1995= KOR 6 CHN 1945= BLR 7 FRA 1785= GEO 8 USA 172

9 CHI 16910 RUS 158

1 CHN 11 KOR 1542 IND 12 RUS 1493 FRA 13 GBR 1434 JPN 14 USA 143

5= MEX 15 JPN 1435= RUS 16 MEX 1405= KOR 17 GEO 1335= TUR 18 CHN 131

19 POL 12920 DEN 121Maja Buskbjerg Jager

Han Gyeong-Hee Kristine EsebueNatalia Nasaridze Xu Jing

Justyna Mospinek

Jung Dasomi Jennifer NicholsAlejandra Valencia Ren HayakawaInna Stepanova Aida Roman

Cheng Ming Han GyeongheeDeepka Kumari Inna StepanovaBerengere Schuh Naomi Folkard

Khatuna Narimanidze Miranda LeekDenisse Van Lamoen

2011 World Cup Final Ksenia Perova

Han Gyeong-Hee Alejandra ValenciaJung Dasomi Cheng MingKatsiaryna Timofeyeva Berengere Schuh

Kristine Esebua Ki Bo BaeFang Yuting Fang YutingBerengere Schuh Jung Dasomi

Mariana Avitia Miki Kanie

2011 World Championships World RankingDenisse Van Lamoen Deepka Kumari

Khatuna Lorig Elena KuznetsovaNami Hayakawa Yun Ok-HeeJoo Hyun-Jung Carina Christiansen

Park Sung-Hyun Kwak Ye JiYun Ok-Hee Natalia SanchezKwon Un Sil Karina Lipiarska

World Ranking

2008 Olympics 2009 World ChampionshipsZhang Juan Juan Joo Hyun-Jung

ItalyJapanTaiwan

MalaysiaMexico

United StatesFrance

South KoreaIndia

Great Britain

Great BritainChina

United States

2011 World ChampionshipsSouth Korea

FranceItaly

MexicoUkraine

TaiwanIndia

Russia

2009 World ChampionshipsSouth Korea

FranceJapanChina

United States

PolandMalaysiaTaiwanRussia

2008 OlympicsSouth Korea

ItalyChina

Ukraine

ChinaUkraine

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Archery

Women's Team

1 Joo H-J, Park S-H, Jun O-H

2 Chen L, Guo D, Zhang J J

3 Arnold V, Dodemont S, Schuh B

4 Burgess C, Folkard N, Williamson A5= Lionetti P C, Tonetta E, Valeeva N5= Cwienczek M, Marcinkiewicz I, Mospinek J5= Banerjee D, Devi L B, Vardhineni P5= Hayakawa N, Hayashi Y, Kitabatake S Points

1 4152 375

1 Joo H-J, Kwak Y J, Yun O-H 3 3182 Kanie M, Matsunaga A, Matsushita S 4 3103 Boroday T, Erdyniyeva N, Segina T 5 2904 Kuznetsova E, Marusava H, Timofeyeva K 6 287

5= Lionetti P C, Tonetta E, Valeeva N 7 2855= Cwienczek M, Lipiarska K, Mospinek J 8 2765= Diasamidze A, Esebua K, Narimanidze K 9 2755= Delamare C, Dodemont S, Schuh B 11 225

15 17517 164

1 Tomasi J, Sartori G, Valeeva N2 Devi L B, Swuro C, Kumari D3 Ki B-B, Han G, Jung D4 Zhu S, Fang Y, Xu J

5= Koval V, Mylchenko N, Sichenikova L5= Yuan S C, Le C-Y, Lin C-E5= Erdyniyeva N, Stepanova I, Perova K5= Christiansen C R, Jager M B, Laursen L

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Men's Athletics

Think Athletics, think Olympics, think Jamaica, think Puma - think Usain Bolt. It is hard to recall another example of where one man’s achievements and charisma has done so much to change the fortunes of a sport. At the start of 2008 athletics was in a very unhealthy state: years of drug scandals (encompassing three of the past four men’s 100m champions), declining audiences at international meets and general media apathy meant there was little enthusiasm for what was about to be seen in the Bird’s Nest Stadium. Then, at the end of May, an unheralded 21 year old Jamaican ran 9.72 seconds in the 100m at a small meeting in New York, becoming the fastest man in history. The media started to pay attention; it turned out this kid was not only fast, but also attractive, charismatic and, consensus had it, probably clean. The story of that year’s Olympics was written and Bolt went on to break his own world record in the 100m, break Michael Johnson’s ‘unbeatable’ record in the 200m, and take another gold and world record in the 4x100m - all whilst playing to the crowd, striking a pose and smiling at the cameras. A legend was born and interest in athletics has rocketed ever since.

In the London Olympic stadium the men’s sprints will, as always, be the centre of attention. The prospect in London is not just for a repeat performance from the fastest man in history, but also a real challenge from Bolt’s 22 year old training partner, Yohan Blake.

Although he's not made many headlines (yet), Blake took last year’s World Championships in the 100m, albeit after Bolt had beendisqualified. He finished 2011 by running 19.26 in the 200m, the second fastest time ever and faster than Bolt ran in Beijing. Blakethen spent 2012 quietly training in Jamaica before turning up at the Jamaican Olympic trials and beating Usain Bolt in the 100m and

200m. The timing may be wrong in London but with both sprinters still young, two previously unthinkable barriers beckon - a sub-9.5 second 100m and a sub-19 second 200m. It should also not be forgotten that in London we have the second and third fastest men in history, Tyson Gay (USA) and Asafa Powell (JAM), and the returning 2004 Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin (USA). They all are

capable of running below 9.8 seconds and such a strong line-up should make for one of the greatest Olympic moments of all time.

The men’s hurdles are also gearing up to provide top entertainment. The 2004 110m hurdles champion Liu Xiang, who broke his nation’s heart after pulling out of the 2008 Olympics injured, is right back on form. He has looked electric this season but faces the best crop of hurdlers in years. Americans Aries Merritt and Jason Richardson have both run below 13 seconds this year and don’t count out 21 year old European Champion Sergey Shubenkov from Russia or Dayron Robles, the softly spoken Cuban who has struggled with injury since the last Olympics but has shown flashes of brilliance suggesting he could return to his Olympic gold and world record form. The 400m hurdles involves one of GB’s reigning world champions, Dai Green. Form says that Dai will be way off pace, with the likes of Javier Culson (PUR) and Bershawn Jackson (USA) posting times well under Green’s best this year, but that was also true at last year’s World Championships. The 400m hurdles punishes anyone running too hard and if Green shows the right race-craft then a medal is within his reach.

The traditional climax to major athletics championships are the relays. The 4x100m will come down to a shoot out between Jamaica and USA and, with both countries putting up four sub 9.9 second runners, a world record may well be needed to win it. In the 4x400m USA should have the class to take gold but they have been challenged in recent championships. The Bahamas and Jamaica are in

with a shot but you can expect all attention to be on South Africa, who came within half a second of the American’s at last year’s World Championships and where Oscar Pistorius, if selected, is set to become the first amputee runner to race in the Olympics.

Great Britain, despite lacking any standout male sprinters, should have the consistency to chase bronze.

The men’s middle-distance races look ripe for two fantastic head-to-heads. In the 800m David Rudisha (KEN), who in 2010 broke Wilson Kipketer’s 13 year old world record (Lord Seb Coe is still the third fastest man in history over 800m), will go up against the raw talent of Sudan’s Abubaker Kaki. In the 1500m the battle is between two Kenyans, Silas Kiplagat and Asbel Kiprop, who have spent the past two years exchanging victories.

In the long-distance races all eyes will be on Britain’s Mo Farah. The Somali-born runner from south-west London took a jump-step in his development when he moved to Portland, Oregon and started training under Cuban Alberto Salazar with his friend Galen Rupp

(USA). At the World Championships last year he narrowly lost the 10,000m, finishing second, but bounced back with victory in the 5,000m. He will probably be attempting the double again in London. He will start favourite in both races, though he hasn’t run a 10k

this year. Mo’s strength is his kick in the last 600m but he will need to get his tactics right; American’s Galen Rupp and Bernhard Lagat both sport ferocious last laps but the big unknown comes from the Ethiopian and Kenyan runners. Foremost amongst these is

double world record holder and Olympic champion Keninesa Bekele. Bekele is moving towards the twilight of his career and, as of the start of July, he is out of form and struggling with injuries. But - as we saw last year when he dropped out of the 10,000m final at the World Championships and then set the fastest time of the year two weeks later – he has the potential to spoil Mo Farah’s party.

The men’s jumps are going through a weak patch at the moment with nobody close to world record standards. On the bright side, this means that Great Britain have medal potential in each discipline. Philips Idowu has been a stalwart of the British team and is a former eorld and European champion and Olympic medallist; however, he's been thwarted before by competitiors pulling off the jump of a lifetime and so the triple jump is likely to come down to who can produce that one big jump when it counts. In the long jump GB’s Greg Rutherford has posted the longest jump in the world this year. Unfortunately for him there are ten men who have jumped within 10cm and another ten men capable of it. In the high jump it is Robbie Grabarz, this year’s break-through athlete for GB, who will be targeting a medal and should have the goods to be involved at the final shake up.

The throws continue to rebuild themselves in a newer cleaner era. Paramount to this is the young German shot putter, David Storl, who turns 22 on the day of the opening ceremony. The former decathlete became the youngest ever shot put world champion last

year and is helping to bring Germany back to athletics after years of self-recrimination over the abuses conducted by the East German regime. The imposing Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR) will be going for a third successive gold in the javelin, but he has had no form

since being upset in last year's World Championship final and it is Vitezslav Vesely (CZE) that leads an open and international field. Meanwhile, British throwing may have found a future star in the 6'5" frame of Lawrence Okoye. Despite only switching from rugby to discus last year, Okoye has set a new British record and is ranked fourth in the world. Although inexperience may count against him,

international success is surely on the horizon if he can balance training with the Oxford law degree he starts in October .

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Men's Athletics

Men's 100mWorld Record: 9.58s JAM 16 August 2009

Olympic Record: 9.69s JAM 16 August 2008

1 Usain Bolt JAM 9.69 1 Usain Bolt JAM 9.762 Richard Thompson TRI 9.89 2 Asafa Powell JAM 9.783 Walter Dix USA 9.91 3 Tyson Gay USA 9.794 Churandy Martina AHO 9.93 4 Steve Mullings JAM 9.805 Asafa Powell JAM 9.95 5 Yohan Blake JAM 9.826 Michael Frater JAM 9.97 6 Mike Rodgers USA 9.857 Marc Burns TRI 10.01 7 Richard Thompson TRI 9.858 Darvis Patton USA 10.03 8 Michael Frater JAM 9.88

1 Yohan Blake JAM 9.92 1 Yohan Blake JAM 9.752 Walter Dix USA 10.08 2 Usain Bolt JAM 9.763 Kim Collins SKN 10.09 3 Justin Gatlin USA 9.804 Christophe Lemaitre FRA 10.19 4 Asafa Powell JAM 9.855 Daniel Bailey ANT 10.26 5 Keston Bledman TRI 9.866 Jimmy Vicaut FRA 10.27 6 Tyson Gay USA 9.867 Nesta Carter JAM 10.95 7 Nickel Ashmeade JAM 9.938 Usain Bolt JAM DSQ 8 Ryan Bailey USA 9.93

Men's 200mWorld Record: 19.19s JAM 20 August 2009


1 Usain Bolt JAM 19.30 1 Yohan Blake JAM 19.262 Shawn Crawford USA 19.96 2 Usain Bolt JAM 19.403 Walter Dix USA 19.98 3 Walter Dix USA 19.534 Brian Dzingai ZIM 20.22 4 Christophe Lemaitre FRA 19.805 Christian Malcolm GBR 20.40 5 Nickel Ashmeade JAM 19.916 Kim Collins SKN 20.59 6 Jaysuma Saidy Ndure NOR 19.95

DSQ Churandy Martina AHO 19.82 7 Rakieem Salaam USA 20.05DSQ Wallace Spearmon USA 19.95 8 Steve Mullings JAM 20.11

1 Usain Bolt JAM 19.40 1 Yohan Blake JAM 19.802 Walter Dix USA 19.70 2 Usain Bolt JAM 19.833 Christophe Lemaitre FRA 19.80 3 Churandy Martina NED 19.944 Jaysuma Saidy Ndure NOR 19.95 4 Nickel Ashmeade JAM 19.945 Nickel Ashmeade JAM 20.29 5 Wallace Spearmon USA 19.956 Bruno de Barros BRA 20.31 6 Warren Weir JAM 19.997 Rondell Sorrillo TRI 20.34 7 Walter Dix USA 20.028 Alonso Edward PAN DNF 8 Harry Adams USA 20.10

Men's 400mWorld Record: 43.18s USA 26 August 1999

Olympic Record: 43.49s USA 29 July 1996

1 LaShawn Merritt USA 43.75 1 LaShawn Merritt USA 44.352 Jeremy Wariner USA 44.74 2 Kirani James GRN 44.363 David Neville USA 44.80 3 Rondell Bartholomew GRN 44.654 Chris Brown BAH 44.84 4 Tony McQuay USA 44.685 Leslie Djhone FRA 45.11 5 Jermaine Gonzales JAM 44.696 Martyn Rooney GBR 45.12 6 Kevin Borlee BEL 44.747 Renny Quow TRI 45.22 7 Demetrius Pinder BAH 44.788 Johan Wissman SWE 45.39 8 Jonathon Borlee BEL 44.78

1 Kirani James GRN 44.60 1 LaShawn Merritt USA 44.122 LaShawn Merritt USA 44.63 2 Luguelin Santos DOM 44.453 Kevin Borlee BEL 44.90 3 Tony McQuay USA 44,494 Jermaine Gonzales JAM 44.99 4 Kevin Borlee BEL 44,565 Jonathon Borlee BEL 45.07 5 Kirani James GRN 44.726 Rondell Bartholomew GRN 45.45 6 Michael Berry USA 44.757 Tabaire Henry USV 45.55 7 Demetrius Pinder BAH 44.778 Femi Seun Ogunode QAT 45.55 8 Bryshon Nellum USA 44.80

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Men's Athletics

Men's 110m HurdlesWorld Record: 12.87s CUB 12 June 2008

Olympic Record: 12.91s CHN 27 August 2004

1 Dayron Robles CUB 12.93 1 David Oliver USA 12.942 David Payne USA 13.17 2 Liu Xiang CHN 13.003 David Oliver USA 13.18 3 Dayron Robles CUB 13.004 Ladji Doucoure FRA 13.24 4 Jason Richardson USA 13.045 Artur Noga POL 13.36 5 Aries Merritt USA 13.126 Maurice Wignall JAM 13.46 6 Dwight Thomas JAM 13.157 Richard Phillips JAM 13.60 7 Terrence Trammell USA 13.168 Jackson Quinonez ESP 13.69 8 Joel Brown USA 13.20

1 Jason Richardson USA 13.16 1 Aries Merritt USA 12.932 Liu Xiang CHN 13.27 2 Liu Xiang CHN 12.973 Andy Turner GBR 13.44 3 Jason Richardson USA 12.984 David Oliver USA 13.44 4 Jeff Porter USA 13.085 Aries Merritt USA 13.67 5 Orlando Ortega CUB 13.096 William Sharman GBR 13.67 6 Sergey Shubenkov RUS 13.097 Dwight Thomas JAM DNF 7 David Oliver USA 13.138 Dayron Robles CUB DSQ 8 Dexter Faulk USA 13.13

Men's 400m HurdlesWorld Record: 46.78s USA 06 August 1992

Olympic Record: 46.78s USA 06 August 1992

1 Angelo Taylor USA 47.25 1 L.J van Zyl RSA 47.662 Kerron Clement USA 47.98 2 Jeshua Anderson USA 47.933 Bershawn Jackson USA 48.06 3 Bershawn Jackson USA 47.934 Danny McFarlane JAM 48.30 4 Angelo Taylor USA 47.945 L.J van Zyl RSA 48.42 5 Cornel Fredericks RSA 47.946 Marek Plawgo POL 48.52 6 Dai Greene GBR 48.147 Markino Buckley JAM 49.60 7 Javier Culson PUR 48.328 Periklis Iakovakis GRE 49.96 8 Michael Tinsley USA 48.45

1 Dai Greene GBR 48.26 1 Javier Culson PUR 47.782 Javier Culson PUR 48.44 2 Dai Greene GBR 47.843 L.J van Zyl RSA 48.80 3 Bershawn Jackson USA 48.204 Felix Sanchez DOM 48.87 4 Michael Tinsley USA 48.335 Cornel Fredericks RSA 49.12 5 Takayuki Kiskimoto JPN 48.416 Bershawn Jackson USA 49.24 6 Felix Sanchez DOM 48.567 Angelo Taylor USA 49.31 7 Angelo Taylor USA 48.578 Alexsandr Derevyagin RUS 49.32 8 Jehue Gordon TRI 48.78

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Men's Athletics

Men's 4x100m relayWorld Record: 37.04s 26 August 2010

Olympic Record: 37.10s 22 August 2008

Nesta Carter Nesta CarterMichael Frater Michael FraterUsain Bolt Yohan BlakeAsafa Powell Usain BoltKeston Bledman Teddy TinmarMarc Burns Christophe LemaitreEmmanuel Callender Yannick LesourdRichard Thompson Jimmy VicaultNaoki Tsukahara Jason RogersShingo Suetsugu Kim CollinsShinji Takahara Antoine AdamsNobuhara Asahara Brijesh LawrenceVincente Lima Pawel StempelSandro Viana Dariusz KucBrunno de Baros Robert KubaczykJose Carlos Kamil KrynskiTobias Unger Simone CollioTill Helmke Emanuele Di GregorioAlexander Kosenkow Fabio CeruttiMartin Keller Michael TumiHank Palmer Keston BledmanAnson Henry Marc BurnsJared Connaughton Aaron ArmstrongPierre Browne Richard ThompsonMaarten Heisen Trell KimmonsGuus Hoogmoed Justin GatlinPatrik van Luijik Darvis PattonCaimin Douglas Walter DixWen Yongyi Christian MalcolmZhang Peimang Craig PickeringLu Bin Marlon DevonishHu Kai Harry Aikines-Aryeetey

Yohan Blake 9.75

Usain Bolt 9.76

Asafa Powell 9.78

Steve Mullings 9.80

Tyson Gay 9.79

Justin Gatlin 9.80

Mike Rodgers 9.85

Ryan Bailey 9.93

Richard Thompson 9.85

Keston Bledman 9.86

Rondell Sorrillo 10.03

Marc Burns 10.06

Dwain Chambers 10.01

Adam Gemili 10.08

James Dasaolu 10.11

Harry Aikines-Areetey 10.13

Christophe Lemaitre 9.92

Jimmy Vicaut 10.07

Martial Mbandjock 10.13

Emmanuel Biron 10.28

Kim Collins 10.00

Antoine Adams 10.10

Brijesh Lawrence 10.12

Jason Rogers 10.24

Simon Magakwe 10.06

Roscoe Engel 10.19

Thuso Mpuang 10.16

Hannes Dreyer 10.23

Ryota Yamagata 10.08

Masashi Eriguchi 10.14

Yusuke Kotani 10.21

Soto Kawatsura 10.22

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7South Africa

40.64

8 Japan 40.65

United States

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3Trinidad

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5 France 40.40

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Men's Athletics

Men's 4x400m relayWorld Record: 2:54.29 22 September 1993

Olympic Record: 2:55.39 23 August 2008

LaShawn Merritt Greg NixonAngelo Taylor Bershawn JacksonDavid Neville Angelo TaylorJeremy Wariner LaShawn MerrittAndretti Bain Shane VictorMichael Mathieu Ofentse MogawaneAndrae Williams Willem de BeerChris Brown L.J van ZylMaksim Dyldin Allodin FothergillVladislav Frolov Jermaine GonzalesAnton Kokorin Riker HyltonDenis Alexeev Leford GreenAndrew Steele Maksim DyldinRobert Tobin Konstantin SvechkarMichael Bingham Pavel TrenikhinMartyn Rooney Denis AlekseyevKevin Borlee Jonathon BorleeJonathon Borlee Antoine GilletCedric Van Branteghem Nils DuerinckArnaud Ghislain Kevin BorleeSean Wroe Vincent Kiplanget KosgeiJohn Steffensen Vincent Mumo KiiluClinton Hill Anderson Mureta MutgeiJoel Milburn Mark MutaiRafal Wieruszewski Richard StrachanPiotr Klimczak Nigel LevinePiotr Kedzia Christopher ClarkeMarek Plawgo Martyn RooneyMichael Blackwood Jonas PlassSanjay Ayre Kamghe GabaRicardo Chambers Miguel RigauLanceford Spence Thomas Schneider

LaShawn Merritt 44.12

Tony McQuay 44.49

Michael Berry 44.75

Bryshon Nellum 44.80

Demetrius Pinder 44.77

Chris Brown 44.79

Ramon Miller 44.87

Michael Mathieu 45.06

Jermaine Gonzales 44.69

Dane Hyatt 44.83

Rusheen McDonald 45.10

Riker Hylton 45.30

Martyn Rooney 44.92

Conrad Williams 45.08

Nigel Levine 45.11

Luke Lennon-Ford 45.23

Renny Quow 44.94

Deon Lendore 45.13

Lalonde Gordon 45.33

Jarrin Solomon 45.51

L.J. van Zyl 44.86

Oscar Pistorius 45.07

Lebogang Moeng 45.47

Ofentse Mogawane 45.54

Luguelin Santos 44.45

Felix Sanchez 45.34

Gustavo Cuesta 45.79

Arismendy Peguero 45.6

Pako Seribe 45.41

Bafetoleng Mogami 45.46

Isaac Makwala 45.63

Zachira Kamberuka 45.76

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2 Bahamas 2:59.49

3 Jamaica 2:59.92

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Britain3:01.16

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Men's Athletics

Men's 800mWorld Record: 1:41.01 KEN 29 August 2010

Olympic Record: 1:42.58 NOR 31 July 1996

1 Wilfred Bungei KEN 1:44.65 1 David Rudisha KEN 1:41.332 Ismail Ahmed Ismail SUD 1:44.70 2 Abubaker Kaki SUD 1:42.613 Alfred Yego KEN 1:44.82 3 Asbel Kiprop KEN 1:42.914 Gary Reed CAN 1:44.94 4 Adam Kszczot POL 1:43.135 Yusef Saad Kamel BAH 1:44.95 5 Mohammed Aman ETH 1:43.156 Yeimar Lopez CUB 1:45.88 6 Nick Symmonds USA 1:43.307 Nabil Madi ALG 1:45.96 7 Yuriy Borzakovskiy RUS 1:43.378 Nadjim Manseur ALG 1:47.19 8 David Mutua KEN 1:43.83

1 David Rudisha KEN 1:43.91 1 David Rudisha KEN 1:41.542 Abubaker Kaki SUD 1:44.41 2 Nijel Amos BOT 1:43.113 Yuriy Borzakovskiy RUS 1:44.49 3 Mohammed Aman ETH 1:43.514 Marcin Lewandowski POL 1:44.80 4 Leonard Kosencha KEN 1:43.605 Nick Symmonds USA 1:45.12 5 Abubaker Kaki SUD 1:43.716 Adam Kszczot POL 1:45.25 6 Job Kinyor KEN 1:43.767 Alfred Yego KEN 1:45.83 7 Adam Kszczot POL 1:43.838 Mohammed Aman ETH 1:45.93 8 Nick Simmonds USA 1:43.92

Men's 1500mWorld Record: 3:26.00 MOR 14 July 1998

Olympic Record: 3:32.07 KEN 29 September 2000

DSQ Rashid Ramzi BRN DQ for CERA 1 Asbel Kiprop KEN 3:30.461 Asbel Kiprop KEN 3:33.11 2 Silas Kiplagat KEN 3:30.472 Nicholas Willis NZL 3:34.16 3 Nixon Kiplimo Chepseba KEN 3:30.943 Mehdi Baala FRA 3:34.21 4 Augustine Chepseba KEN 3:31.144 Juan Carlos Higuero ESP 3:34.44 5 Ilham Tanui Ozbilen TUR 3:31.375 Abdalaati Iguider MAR 3:44.66 6 Abdelaati Iquider MAR 3:31.606 Juan van Deventer RSA 3:34.77 7 Abubaker Kaki SUD 3:31.767 Belal Mansoor Ali BRN 3:35.23 8 Nicholas Willis NZL 3:31.79

1 Asbel Kiprop KEN 3:35.69 1 Silas Kiplagat KEN 3:29.632 Silas Kiplagat KEN 3:35.92 2 Asbel Kiprop KEN 3:29.783 Matthew Centrowitz USA 3:36.08 3 Nixon Kiplimo Chepseba KEN 3:29.904 Manuel Olmedo ESP 3:36.33 4 Ayanleh Souleiman DJI 3:30.315 Abdalaati Iguider MAR 3:36.56 5 Bethwell Birgen KEN 3:31.176 Mohammed Moustaoui MAR 3:36.80 6 Mekonnen Gebremedhin ETH 3:31.457 Mekonnen Gebremedhin ETH 3:36.81 7 Collins Cheboi KEN 3:32.648 Eduar Villaneuva VEN 3:37.31 8 Taoufik Makhloufi ALG 3:33.26

Men's 3000m SteeplechaseWorld Record: 7:53.63 QAT 03 September 2004

Olympic Record: 8:05.51 KEN 30 September 1988

1 Brimin Kiprop Kipruto KEN 8:10.34 1 Brimin Kiprop Kipruto KEN 7:53.642 M. Mekhissi-Benabbad FRA 8:10.49 2 Ezekiel Kemboi KEN 7:55.763 R. Kipkemboi Mateelong KEN 8:11.01 3 Paul Kipsiele Koech KEN 7:57.324 Yacob Jarso ETH 8:13.47 4 M. Mekhissi-Benabbad FRA 8:02.095 Bouabdellah Tahri FRA 8:14.79 5 Bouabdellah Tahri FRA 8:05.726 Youcef Abdi AUS 8:16.36 6 Bernard Nganga KEN 8:05.887 Ezekiel Kemboi KEN 8:16.38 7 Richard Mateelong KEN 8:07.418 Abubaker Ali Kamal QAT 8:16.59 8 Hillary Kipsang Yego KEN 8:07.41

1 Ezekiel Kemboi KEN 8:14.85 1 Paul Kipsiele Koech KEN 7:54.312 Brimin Kiprop Kipruto KEN 8:16.05 2 Richard K. Mateelong KEN 7:56.813 M. Mekhissi-Benabbad FRA 8:16.09 3 Abel Kiprop Mutai KEN 8:01.674 Bouabdellah Tahri FRA 8:17.56 4 Brimin Kipchoge Birech KRN 8:01.735 Roba Gari ETH 8:18.37 5 Jairus Kipchoge Birech KEN 8:03.436 Jacob Araptany UGA 8:18.67 6 Roba Gari ETH 8:06.167 Richard Mateelong KEN 8:19.31 7 Conseslus Kipruto KEN 8:08.928 Ion Luchianov MDA 8:19.69 8 Brahim Taleb MAR 8:10.20

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Men's 5000mWorld Record: 12:37.35 ETH 31 May 2004

Olympic Record: 12:57.82 ETH 23 August 2008

1 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 12:57.82 1 Mohammed Farah GBR 12:53.112 Eliud Kipchoge KEN 13:02.80 2 Bernard Lagat USA 12:53.603 Edwin Cheruiyot Soi KEN 13:06.22 3 Isiah Kiplangat Keoch KEN 12:54.184 Moses Ndiema Kipsiro UGA 13:10.56 4 Imane Merga ETH 12:54.215 Abreham Cherkos ETH 13:16.46 5 Vincent Kiprop Chepkok KEN 12:55.296 Tariku Bekele ETH 13:19.06 6 Dejen Gebremeskel ETH 12:55.897 Juan Luis Barrios MEX 13:19.79 7 Thomas Longosiwa KEN 12:56.088 James Kwalia C'Kurui QAT 13:23.48 8 Sileshi Sihine ETH 12:57.86

1 Mohammed Farah GBR 13:23.36 1 Dejen Gebremeskel ETH 12:46.812 Bernard Lagat USA 13:23.64 2 Hagos Gebrhiwet ETH 12:47.533 Dejen Gebremeskel ETH 13:23.92 3 Isiah Kiplangat Koech KEN 12:48.644 Isaiah Kiplangat Koech KEN 13:24.95 4 Ynew Alamirew ETH 12:48.775 Abera Kuma ETH 13:25.50 5 Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa KEN 12:49.046 Thomas Longosiwa KEN 13:26.73 6 John Kipkoech KEN 12:49.507 Eliud Kipchoge KEN 13:27.27 7 Tariko Bekele ETH 12:55.798 Bilisuma Shugi BAH 13:27.67 8 Edein Cheruiyot Soi KEN 12:55.99

Men's 10000mWorld Record: 26:17.53 ETH 26 August 2005


1 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 27:01.17 1 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 26:43.162 Sileshi Sihine ETH 27:02.77 2 Lucas Rotich KEN 26:43.983 Micah Kogo KEN 27:04.11 3 Mohammed Farah GBR 26:46.574 Modes Ndiema Masai KEN 27:04.11 4 Galen Rupp USA 26:48.005 Zersenay Tadese ERI 27:05.11 5 Imane Merga ETH 26:48.356 Haile Gebrelassie ETH 27:06.68 6 Josphat Bett Kipkoech KEN 26:48.997 Martin Irungu Mathathi KEN 27:08.25 7 Paul Tanui KEN 26:50.638 Ahmad Hassan Abdullah QAT 27:23.75 8 Zersenay Tadese ERI 26:51.09

1 Ibrahim Jelain ETH 27:13.81 1 Wilson Kiprop KEN 27:01.982 Mohammed Farah GBR 27:14.07 2 Moses Ndiema Masai KEN 27:02.253 Imane Merga ETH 27:19.14 3 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 27:02.254 Zersenay Tadese ERI 27:22.57 4 Tariku Bekele ETH 27:03.245 Martin Irungu Mathathi KEN 27:23.87 5 Gebregziabher Begremariam ETH 27:03.586 Peter Cheruiyot Kirui KEN 27:25.63 6 Seleshi Sihine ETH 27:04.487 Galen Rupp USA 27:26.84 7 Moses Ndiema Kipsiro UGA 27:05.508 Sileshi Sihine ETH 27:34.11 8 Bitan Karoki KEN 27:07.90

Men's MarathonWorld Record: 2:03:59 ETH 28 September 2008

Olympic Record: 2:06:32 KEN 24 August 2008

1 Samuel Kamau Wanjiru KEN 2:06:32 1 Patrick Makau Musyoki KEN 2:03:382 Jaouad Gharib MOR 2:07:16 2 Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich KEN 2:03:423 Tsegay Kebede ETH 2:10:00 3 Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai KEN 2:04:404 Deride Merga ETH 2:10:21 4 Geoffrey Kiprono Mutai KEN 2:05:055 Martin Lel KEN 2:10:24 5 Levy Matebo Omari KEN 2:05:166 Viktor Rothlin SUI 2:10:35 6 Albert Kiplagat Chebet KEN 2:05:257 Gashaw Asfaw ETH 2:10:52 7 Wilson Kwambai Chebet KEN 2:05:278 Yared Asmerom ERI 2:11:11 8 Vincent Kipruto KEN 2:05:33

1 Abel Kirui KEN 2:07.38 1 Ayele Abshero ETH 2:04:232 Vincent Kipruto KEN 2:10.06 2 Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich KEN 2:04:443 Feyissa Lilesa ETH 2:10.32 3 Yemane Tsegay ETH 2:04:484 Abderrahime Bouramdane MOR 2:10.55 4 Dino Sefir ETH 2:04:505 David Barmassi Tumo KEN 2:11.29 5 Getu Feleke ETH 2:04:506 Eliud Kiptanui KEN 2:11.50 6 Markos Geneti ETH 2:04:547 Hiroyuki Horibata JPN 2:11.52 7 Jonathan Kiplimo Maiyo KEN 2:04:568 Ruggero Pertile ITA 2:11.57 8 Moses Cheruiyot Mosop KEN 2:05:03

Kenenisa Bekele

Kenenisa Bekele


2011 World Leading


Haile Gebrselassie

Samuel Wanjiru




2012 World Leading

Kenenisa Bekele

Kenenisa Bekele

2008 Olympics

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Men's Athletics

Men's 20km WalkWorld Record: 1:17.16 RUS 29 September 2007

Olympic Record: 1:18:59 POL 22 September 2000

1 Valeriy Borchin RUS 1:19:01 1 Wang Zhen CHN 1:18:302 Jefferson Perez ECU 1:19:15 2 Chu Yafei CHN 1:18:383 Jared Tallent AUS 1:19:42 3 Chen Ding CHN 1:18:524 Wang Hao CHN 1:19:47 4 Valeriy Borchin RUS 1:18:555 Ivano Brugnetti ITA 1:19:51 5 Vladimir Kanaykin RUS 1:19:146 Luke Adams AUS 1:19:57 6 Sergey Morozov RUS 1:19:187 Francisco Fernandez ESP 1:20:32 7 Hyunsub Kim KOR 1:19:318 Robert Heffernan IRE 1:20:36 8 Stanislav Emelyanov RUS 1:19:36

1 Valeriy Borchin RUS 1:19.56 1 Alex Schwazer ITA 1:17:302 Vladimir Kanaykin RUS 1:20.27 2 Wang Zhen CHN 1:17:363 Luis Fernando Lopez COL 1:20:38 3 Chen Ding CHN 1:17:404 Zhen Wang CHN 1:20:54 4 Yohann Diniz FRA 1:17:435 Stanislav Emelyanov RUS 1:21:11 5 Andrey Ruzavin RUS 1:17:476 Kim Hyun-Sub KOR 1:21:17 6 Sergey Morozov RUS 1:17:527 Ruslan Dmytrenko UKR 1:21:31 7 Andrey Rivov RUS 1:18:258 Yusuke Suzuki JPN 1:21:39 8 Arick Barrondo GUA 1:18:25

Men's 50km WalkWorld Record: 3:34.14 RUS 11 May 2008

Olympic Record: 3:37.09 ITA 22 August 2008

1 Alex Schwazer ITA 3:37:09 1 Sergey Bakulin RUS 3:38:462 Jared Tallent AUS 3:39:27 2 Tianfeng Si CHN 3:38:483 Denis Nizhegorodev RUS 3:40:14 3 Matej Toth SVK 3:39:464 Jesus Angel Garcia ESP 3:44:08 4 Faguang Xu CHN 3:42:205 Erik Tysse NOR 3:45:21 5 Yury Andronov RUS 3:42:256 Horacio Nava MEX 3:45:21 6 Denis Nizhegorodev RUS 3:42:457 Yuki Yamazaki JPN 3:45:47 7 Jared Tallent AUS 3:43:368 Rafal Fedaczynski POL 3:46:51 8 Jianbo Li CHN 3:43:38

1 Sergey Bakulin RUS 3:41.24 1 Sergey Kirdyapkin RUS 3:38:082 Denis Nizhegorodev RUS 3:42.45 2 Igor Erokhin RUS 3:38:103 Jared Tallent AUS 3:34:36 3 Jared Tallent AUS 3:40:324 Si Tianfeng CHN 3:44:40 4 Yury Andronov RUS 3:40:465 Luke Adams AUS 3:45:41 5 Alex Schwazer ITA 3:40:586 Koichiro Morioka JPN 3:46:21 6 Yuki Yamazaki JPN 3:41:477 Park Chil-Sung KOR 3:47:13 7 Si Tianfeng CHN 3:43:058 Xu Faguang CHN 3:47:19 8 Takayuki Tanii JPN 3:43:56

Men's DecathlonWorld Record: 9039pts USA 23 June 2012

Olympic Record: 8893pts CZE 24 August 2004

1 Bryan Clay USA 8791 1 Ashton Eaton USA 87292 Andrei Krauchanka BEL 8551 2 Trey Hardee USA 86893 Leonel Suarez CUB 8527 3 Leonel Suarez CUB 85014 Alexsandr Pogorelev RUS 8328 4 Mikk Pahapill EST 83985 Romain Barras FRA 8253 5 Yordani Garcia CUB 83976 Roman Sebrle CZE 8241 6 Aleksey Drozdov RUS 83347 Oleksiy Kasyanov UKR 8238 7 Edgars Erins LAT 83128 Andre Niklaus GER 8220 8 Eelco Sintnicolaas NED 8304

1 Trey Hardee USA 8607 1 Ashton Eaton USA 90392 Ashton Eaton USA 8505 2 Pascal Behrenbruch GER 85583 Leonel Suarez CUB 8501 3 Hans van Alphen BEL 85194 Aleksey Drozdov RUS 8313 4 Eelco Sintnicolaas NED 85065 Eelco Sintnicolaas NED 8298 5 Trey Hardee USA 83836 Mihail Dudas SRB 8256 6 Sergey Sviridov RUS 83657 Padcal Behrenbruch GER 8211 7 Larbi Bourrada ALG 83328 Jan Felix Knobel GER 8200 8 Rico Freimuth GER 8322

Ashton Eaton

Roman Sebrle


Vladimir Kanaykin

Robert Korzeniowski




Denis Nizhegorodov

Alex Schwazer



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Men's Athletics

Men's Long JumpWorld Record: 8.95m USA 30 August 1991

Olympic Record: 8.90m USA 18 October 1968

1 Irving Saladino PAN 8.34 1 Mitchell Watt AUS 8.542 Khitsi Mokoena RSA 8.24 2 Dwight Phillips USA 8.453 Ibrahim Camejo CUB 8.20 3 Ngonidzashe Mukasha ZIM 8.404 Ngonidzashe Mukasha ZIM 8.19 4 Irving Saladino PAN 8.405 Wilfredo Martinez CUB 8.19 5 Yahya Berrabah MAR 8.376 Ndiss Kaba Badji SEN 8.16 6 Christopher Tomlinson GBR 8.357 Luis Felipe Meliz ESP 8.07 7 Marcos Chuva POR 8.348 Roman Novotny CZE 8.00 8 Will Claye USA 8.29

1 Dwight Phillips USA 8.45 1 Greg Rutherford GBR 8.352 Mitchell Watt AUS 8.33 2 Sergey Morgunov RUS 8.353 Ndonidzashe Makusha ZIM 8.29 3 Sebastian Bayer GER 8.344 Yahya Berrabah MAR 8.23 4 Marquise Goodwin USA 8.335 Luvo Manyonga RSA 8.21 5 Godfrey Khotso Mokoena RSA 8.326 Aleksandr Menkov RUS 8.19 6 Henry Frayne AUS 8.297 Christian Reif GER 8.19 7 Christian Reif GER 8.278 Sebastien Bayer GER 8.17 8 Will Claye USA 8.26

Men's Triple JumpWorld Record: 18.29m GBR 07 August 1995

Olympic Record: 18.09m USA 27 July 1996

1 Nelson Evora POR 17.67 1 Christian Taylor USA 17.962 Phillips Idowu GBR 17.62 2 Teddy Tamgho FRA 17.913 Leevan Sands BAH 17.59 3 Phillips Idowu GBR 17.774 Arnie David Giralt CUB 17.52 4 Sheryf El Sheryf UKR 17.725 Marian Oprea ROU 17.22 5 Alexis Copello CUB 17.686 Jadel Gregorio BRA 17.20 6 Will Claye USA 17.507 Onochie Achike GBR 17.17 7 Ernesto Reve CUB 17.408 Viktor Kuznyetsov UKR 16.87 8 Nelson Evora POR 17.35

1 Christian Taylor USA 17.96 1 Christian Taylor USA 17.632 Phillips Idowu GBR 17.77 2 Will Claye USA 17.553 Will Claye USA 17.50 3 Lyukman Adams RUS 17.534 Alexis Copello CUB 17.47 4 Fabrizio Donato ITA 17.535 Nelson Evora POR 17.35 5 Osviel Hernandez CUB 17.496 Christian Olsson SWE 17.23 6 Daniele Greco ITA 17.477 Leevan Sands BAH 17.21 7 Jonathan Silva BRA 17.398 Benjamin Compaore FRA 17.17 8 Dong Bin CHN 17.38

Men's High JumpWorld Record: 2.45m CUB 27 July 1993

Olympic Record: 2.39m USA 28 July 1996

1 Andrey Silnov RUS 2.36 1 Jesse Williams USA 2.372 Germaine Mason GBR 2.34 2 Alexsey Dmitrik RUS 2.363 Yaroslav Rybakov RUS 2.34 3 Alexsandr Shustov RUS 2.364 Stefan Holm SWE 2.32 4 Andrey Silnov RUS 2.365 Paul Spank GER 2.32 5 Dmytro Dem'yanyuk UKR 2.356 Jaroslav Baba CZE 2.29 6 Mutaz Essa Barshim QAT 2.357 Tomas Janku CZE 2.29 7 Ivan Ukhov RUS 2.348 Tom Parsons GBR 2.25 8 Kyriakos Iaonnu CYP 2.33

1 Jesse Williams USA 2.35 1 Ivan Ukhov RUS 2.372 Alexsey Dmitrik RUS 2.35 2 Jesse Williams USA 2.363 Trevor Barry BAH 2.32 3 Robbie Grabarz GBR 2.364 Jaroslav Baba CZE 2.32 4 Erik Kynard USA 2.345 Dimitrios Chondrokoulis GRE 2.32 5 Ricky Robertson USA 2.326 Ivan Ukhov RUS 2.32 6 Dimitrios Chondrokouis GRE 2.327 Mutaz Essa Barshim QAT 2.32 7 Rozle Prezelj SLO 2.328 Alexsandr Shustov RUS 2.29 8 Mickael Hanany FRA 2.31



Jonathon Edwards

Kenny Harrison


Mike Powell

Bob Beamon



Javier Sotomayor

Charles Austin


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Men's Athletics

Men's Pole VaultWorld Record: 6.14m UKR 31 July 1994

Olympic Record: 5.96m AUS 22 August 2008

1 Steven Hooker AUS 5.96 1 Renaud Lavillenie FRA 5.902 Yevgeny Lukyanenko RUS 5.85 2 Pawel Wojciechowski POL 5.903 Denys Yurchenko UKR 5.70 3 Lazaro Borges CUB 5.904 Derek Miles USA 5.70 4 Lukasz Michalski POL 5.855 Dmitry Starodubtsev RUS 5.70 5 Malte Mohr GER 5.856 Danny Ecker GER 5.70 6 Brad Walker USA 5.847 Jerome Clavier FRA 5.60 7 Fabio Gomes da Silva BRA 5.808 Raphael Holzdeppe GER 5.60 8 Mateusz Didenkow POL 5.75

1 Pawel Wojciechowski POL 5.90 1 Renaud Lavillenie FRA 5.972 Lazaro Borges CUB 5.90 2 Bjorn Otto GER 5.923 Renaud Lavillenie FRA 5.85 3 Malte Mohr GER 5.914 Lukasz Michalski POL 5.85 4 Raphael Holzdeppe GER 5.775 Milte Mohr GER 5.85 5 Jan Kudlicka CZE 5.736 Konstantinos Filippidis GRE 5.75 6 Evgeniy Lulyanenko RUS 5.737 Mateusz Didenkow POL 5.75 7 Brad Walker USA 5.728 Fabio Gomes da Silva BRA 5.65 8 Steven Lewis GBR 5.72

Men's Shot PutWorld Record: 23.12m USA 20 May 1990

Olympic Record: 22.47m GDR 23 September 1988

1 Tomasz Majewski POL 21.51 1 Dylan Armstrong CAN 22.212 Christian Cantwell USA 21.09 2 Andrei Mikhnevich BLR 22.103 Andrei Mikhnevich BEL 21.05 3 Adam Nelson USA 22.094 Dylan Armstrong CAN 21.04 4 Reese Hoffa USA 22.095 Pavel Lyzhyn BEL 20.98 5 Christian Cantwell USA 22.076 Yuriy Bilonog UKR 20.63 6 David Storl GER 21.787 Reese Hoffa USA 20.53 7 Ryan Whiting USA 21.768 Pavek Sof'in RUS 20.42 8 Tomasz Majewski POL 21.60

1 David Storl GER 21.78 1 Reese Hoffa USA 22.002 Dylan Armstrong CAN 21.64 2 Christian Cantwell USA 21.713 Andrei Mikhnevich BLR 21.40 3 Ryan Whiting USA 21.664 Christian Cantwell USA 21.36 4 Tomasz Majewski POL 21.605 Reese Hoffa USA 20.99 5 David Storl GER 21.586 Marco Fortes POR 20.83 6 Adam Nelson USA 21.547 Ryan Whiting USA 20.75 7 Dylan Armstrong CAN 21.508 Adam Nelson USA 20.29 8 Maksim Sidorov RUS 21.22

Men's Discus ThrowWorld Record: 74.08m GDR 06 June 1986

Olympic Record: 69.89m LTU 23 August 2004

1 Gerd Kanter EST 68.82 1 Zoltan Kovago HUN 69.502 Piotr Malachowski POL 67.82 2 Robert Harting GER 68.993 Virgilijus Alekna LTU 67.79 3 Jarred Rome USA 68.764 Robert Harting GER 67.09 4 Piotr Malachowski POL 68.495 Frank Casanas ESP 66.49 5 Gerd Kanter EST 67.996 Bogdon Pishchalnikov RUS 65.88 6 Mario Pestano ESP 67.977 Rutger Smith NED 65.39 7 Virgilijus Alekna LTU 67.908 Robert Fazekas HUN 63.43 8 Rutger Smith NED 67.77

1 Robert Harting GER 68.97 1 Robert Harting GER 70.662 Gerd Kanter EST 66.95 2 Virgilijus Alekna LTU 70.283 Ehsan Haddadi IRI 66.08 3 Piotr Malachowski POL 68.944 Mart Israel EST 65.20 4 Lawrence Okoye GBR 68.245 Benn Harradine AUS 64.77 5 Zoltan Kovago HUN 68.216 Virgilijus Alekna LTU 64.09 6 Ehsan Hadadi IRI 68.207 Vikas Gowda IND 64.05 7 Yennifer Frank Casanas ESP 57.748 Jorge Fernandez CUB 63.54 8 Gerd Kanter EST 67.71

Sergey Bubka

Steven Hooker



Randy Barnes



Ulf Timmermann



Jurgen Schult

Virgilijus Alenka

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Men's Athletics

Men's Javelin ThrowWorld Record: 98.48m CZE 25 May 1996

Olympic Record: 90.57m NOR 23 August 2008

1 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 90.57 1 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 90.612 Ainars Kovals LAT 86.64 2 Matthias de Zordo GER 88.363 Tero Pitkamaki FIN 86.16 3 Vadims Vasilevskis LAT 88.224 Tero Jarvenpaa FIN 83.95 4 Sergey Makarov RUS 87.115 Teemu Wirkkala FIN 83.46 5 Tero Pitkamaki FIN 85.336 Jarrod Bannister AUS 83.45 6 Petr Frydrych CZE 85.327 Ilya Korotkov RUS 83.15 7 Ari Mannio FIN 85.128 Uladzimir Kazlou BEL 82.06 8 Dmitri Tarabin RUS 85.10

1 Matthias de Zordo GER 86.27 1 Vitezslav Vesely CZE 88.112 Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 84.78 2 Vadims Vasilevskid LAT 86.503 Guillermo Martinez CUB 84.30 3 Stuart Farquhar NZL 86.314 Vitezslav Vesely CZE 84.11 4 Oleksandr Pyatnytsya UKR 86.125 Fatih Avan TUR 83.34 5 Fatih Avan TUR 85.606 Roman Avramenko UKR 82.51 6 Ivan Zaytsev UZB 85.037 Jarrod Bannister AUS 82.25 7 Pawel Rakoczy POL 84.998 Mark Frank GER 81.81 8 Antti Ruuskanen FIN 84.95

Men's Hammer ThrowWorld Record: 86.74m URS 30 August 1986

Olympic Record: 84.80m URS 26 September 1988

1 Primoz Kozmus SLO 82.02 1 Krisztian Pars HUN 81.892 Vadim Devyatovskiy BEL 81.61 2 Aleksey Zagornyi RUS 81.733 Ivan Tsikhan BEL 81.51 3 Koji Murofushi JPN 81.244 Krisztian Pars HUN 80.96 4 Pavel Kryvitski BLR 80.675 Koji Murofushi JPN 80.71 5 Kibwe Johnson USA 80.316 Olli-Pekka Karjalainen FIN 79.59 6 Dilshod Nazarov TJK 80.307 Szymon Ziolkowski POL 79.22 7 Nicola Vizzoni ITA 80.298 Libor Charfreitag SLO 78.65 8 Primoz Kozmus SLO 80.28

1 Koji Murofushi JPN 81.24 1 Ivan Tsikhan BLR 82.812 Krisztian Pars HUN 81.18 2 Krisztian Pars HUN 82.283 Primoz Kozmus SLO 79.39 3 Pawel Fajdek POL 81.394 Markus Esser GER 79.12 4 Sergej Litvinov RUS 80.985 Pavel Kryvitski BLR 78.53 5 Pavel Kryvitski BLR 80.256 Kirill Ikonnikov RUS 78.37 6 Andrei Varantsou BLR 80.257 Szymon Ziolkowski POL 77.64 7 Vadim Devyatovskiy BLR 79.608 Nicola Vizzoni ITA 77.04 8 Dzmitry Marshin AZE 79.56

Yuriy Sedykh

Sergey Litvinov



Jan Zelezny

Andreas Thorkildsen



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Women's Athletics

More than any other area of sport, Women's Athletics continues to suffer from the legacy of rampant performance enhancing drug abuse in the 1980s. Any sport lives and dies by its stars, and in athletics stars are made by breaking records. Over half of the world records in women’s athletics were set in the 1980s when East Germany operated a policy of heavy and institutionalised doping and American athletics was rife with abuse. Steroids in particular are much more effective in women than men and, although it can never be proved, many records are so in doubt that there have been serious suggestions that the slate should be wiped clean and records started anew. The 100m and 200m records are held by American Florence Griffiths-Joyner (Flo Jo) who, having never won a major championships, started the 1988 season with dramatically changed physique – increased muscle mass and definition – and proceeded to knock half a second off her personal bests and set two new world records. At the end of the season she retired - a decision which some have argued was linked to the introduction in 1989 of out of competition drug testing. The 1500m and 10,000m records were both set at a national championships in Beijing in 1993 by then unknown runners coached by former East German coaches expelled from their own country for malpractices. I could go on.

A feature of athletics, especially pronounced in the women’s events, is the dominance of athletes from two or three countries - whether this is due to sociology or physiology is up for debate. In women’s sprinting it is Jamaica and the United States who dominate and there

are three or four athletes in each event with a shot of taking gold. Shelley-Ann Fraser-Price (JAM), Carmelita Jeter (USA), Allyson Felix (USA) and Veronica Campbell-Brown (JAM) will all have their eyes on the 100m and 200m double with Sanya Richards-Ross (USA) going for the 200m and 400m double. In the 400m you can add to the mix three athletes outside the hegemony: Amantle Montsho became the first Botswanan to win a World Championships in 2011, Antonina Krivoshapka continues Russia’s strong history in the

event and Britain’s Christine Ohuruogo will be looking to defend her Olympic gold. Ohuruogo has never managed to run a fast time - she has only twice broken the 50 second barrier - but she is a proven championships performer (those two fastest times bringing her gold

in the World Championships and the Olympics) and is showing signs of coming back into peak form having spent most of the past four years on the injured lists.

The hurdles boasts the women’s athletics star of 2011, Australian Sally Pearson. Pearson is lightning quick – the 24 year-old world record is tantalisingly within reach – humble, personable and, importantly from a commercial point of view, an English-speaking blonde. Challenging for a medal alongside Pearson will be Tiffany Porter. Porter became, rather ridiculously, the centre of the ‘Plastic Brit’ controversy kicked up by the Daily Mail over the granting of British passports to overseas nationals. The controversy was nonsence given that the athletes involved were granted citizenship through normal immigration channels with no special treatment (i.e. by residency/marriage) – and all the more so in Porter's case given that her mother is British, she has held a British passport since birth and therefore, despite growing up in Michigan, she was always eligable to run for GB. It was another example of breathtaking hypocricy from anewspaper that doesn't blink an eye over white overseas nationals playing for our cricket and rugby teams, and which led the campaign for South African Zola Bud to be granted British citizenship to avoid the Apartheid era sporting boycott.

The women’s relays should be fantastic races. The 4x100m will come down to the slimmest of margins between Jamaica and USA. The 4x400m looks slightly more in USA’s favour but Russia and Jamaica both hold the fire power to run it very close. Great Britain, on paper, should be fighting for fourth, but the relay seems to bring the best out of athletes and they will look to better last year’s World

Championships, where they lost bronze in a photo-finish.

Women’s middle-distance races are always strange affairs at major championships as the lack of pace-makers throws the form book out of the window. Expect 2008 sensation Pamela Jelimo (KEN) to run from the front in the 800m. If the race goes differently and is run slowly then Charles van Commenee, the GB director for athletics, may be proven right to have selected Lynsey Sharp; a contoversial decision given that Sharp has failed to run the 'A' standard time, meaning she will be the sole GB representative rather than sending three of the four women who have met the 'A' standard. Lisa Dobriskey and Hannah England will both hope to recapture the finish that took them to World Championship silver in the 1500m in 2009 and 2011 respectively.

In the long-distance events Kenya and Ethiopia rule the roost. Kenya currently holds the ace in the form of Vivian Cheruiyot, who took a golden double in the 5,000 and 10,000m at last year’s World Championships, but expect strong challenge from 2008 double champion

Tirunesh Dibaba from Ethiopia. Out on the road Kenya and Ethiopia will hope they do not see another surprise victor like 2008 Olympicchampion Constantina Tomescu. British hopes lie with the long-serving pairing of Mara Yamauchi and Paula Radcliffe. Radcliffe, who has run the three fastest female marathons of all time, has had (well documented) horrific luck at the Olympics and, although it looks like

time may finally have got the better of her, let's hope she manages one last hurrah.

In the heptathlon Jessica Ennis (GBR) looks in scintillating form. More than anyone else she is the 'face' of these Olympics in Britain and she has huge pressure to deliver. Heptathlon is an unforgiving sport and Ennis has had particular trouble in the long jump and the javelin in the past, but she should have the class to deliver what may well be the most popular gold of the Games. Russia’s Tatyana Chernova looks the athlete with the most potential to challenge Ennis, but in reality success or failure will come down to how Jess handles the pressure.

As on the men’s side, the women’s jumps are in a poor state at the moment without any stand-out stars. Britain’s hopes will lie with Cuban-raised Yamille Aldama in the triple jump, who has finally been granted British citizenship 10 years after she married her Scottish

drug-dealing husband; Shara Proctor in the long jump, whose home of Anguilla is a British Oversea’s Dominion and thus doesn’t have an independant Olympic team; and Holly Bleasdale, from Preston, in the pole vault. All will be stretched to take a medal but are capable of

challenging.

The headline battle in the throws will be between the imposing 6’5” New Zealander Valerie Adams (neé Vili), who has won the past three World Championships and the 2008 Olympics, and Nadzeya Ostapchuk from Belarus, who has been gaining ground on Adams for the past few years and will be neck-and-neck come the final. Special mention also has to go to Goldie Sayers who has been flying the flag for British throwing alone for the past ten years and has an unerring ability to make international finals but fall just short of a medal.

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Women's Athletics

Women's 100mWorld Record: 10.49s USA 16 July 1988

Olympic Record: 10.62s USA 24 September 1988

1 Shelly-Ann Fraser JAM 10.78 1 Carmelita Jeter USA 10.702 Sherone Simpson JAM 10.98 2 Veronica Campbell-Brown JAM 10.763 Kerron Stewart JAM 10.98 3 Marshevet Myers USA 10.864 Lauryn Williams USA 11.03 4 Kerron Stewart JAM 10.875 Muna Lee USA 11.07 5 Kelly-Ann Baptiste TRI 10.906 Jeanette Kwakye GBR 11.14 6 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce JAM 10.957 Debbie Furguson BAH 11.19 7 Ivet Lalova BUL 10.968 Torri Edwards USA 11.20 8 Oludamola Osayomi NGR 10.99

1 Carmelita Jeter USA 10.90 1 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce JAM 10.702 Veronica Campbell-Brown JAM 10.97 2 Carmelita Jeter USA 10.813 Kelly-Ann Baptiste TRI 10.98 3 Veronica Campbell-Brown JAM 10.824 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce JAM 10.99 4 Kelly-Ann Baptiste TRI 10.865 Blessing Okagbare NGR 11.12 5 Allyson Felix USA 10.926 Kerron Stewart JAM 11.15 6 Kerron Stewart JAM 10.947 Ivet Lalova BUL 11.27 7 Kimberlyn Duncan USA 10.968 Marshevet Myers USA 11.33 8 Tianna Madison USA 10.96

Women's 200mWorld Record: 21.34s USA 29 September 1988

Olympic Record: 21.34s USA 29 September 1988

1 Veronica Campbell-Brown JAM 21.74 1 Shalonda Solomon USA 22.152 Allyson Felix USA 21.93 2 Carmelita Jeter USA 22.203 Kerron Stewart JAM 22.00 3 Veronica Campbell-Brown JAM 22.224 Muna Lee USA 22.01 4 Kimberlyn Duncan USA 22.245 Marshevet Hooker USA 22.34 5 Jeneba Tarmoh USA 22.286 Sherone Simpson JAM 22.36 6 Allyson Felix USA 22.327 Debbie Furguson BAH 22.61 7 Bianca Knight USA 22.358 Cydonie Mothersille CAY 22.68 8 Ana Claudia Silva BRA 22.48

1 Veronica Campbell-Brown JAM 22.22 1 Allyson Felix USA 21.692 Carmelita Jeter USA 22.37 2 Sanya Richards-Ross USA 22.093 Allyson Felix USA 22.42 3 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce JAM 22.14 Shalonda Solomon USA 22.61 4 Carmelita Jeter USA 22.115 Kerron Stewart JAM 22.70 5 Kimberlyn Duncan USA 22.196 Debbie Furguson-McKenzie BAH 22.96 6 Jeneba Tarmoh USA 22.357 Hyrstyna Stuy UKR 23.02 7 Tianna Madison USA 22.378 Sherone Simpson JAM 23.17 8 Sherone Simpson JAM 22.37

Women's 400mWorld Record: 47.60s GDR 06 October 1985

Olympic Record: 48.25s FRA 29 July 1996

1 Christine Ohurougu GBR 49.62 1 Anastasia Kapachinskaya RUS 49.352 Shericka Williams JAM 49.69 2 Amantle Montsho BOT 49.563 Sanya Richards USA 49.93 3 Allyson Felix USA 49.594 Yulina Gushchina RUS 50.01 4 Sanya Richards-Ross USA 49.665 Anastasia Kapachinskaya RUS 50.03 5 Rosemarie Whyte JAM 49.846 Tatiana Firova RUS 50.11 6 Antonina Krivoshapka RUS 49.927 Rosemarie Whyte JAM 50.68 7 Novlene Williams-Mills JAM 50.058 Amantle Montsho BOT 51.18 8 Francena McCorory USA 50.24

1 Amantle Montsho BOT 49.56 1 Sanya Richards-Ross USA 49.282 Allyson Felix USA 49.59 2 Antonina Krivoshapka RUS 49.433 Anastasia Kapachinskaya RUS 50.24 3 Amantle Montsho BOT 49.624 Francena McCorory USA 50.45 4 Novlene Williams-Mills JAM 49.785 Antonina Krivoshapka RUS 50.66 5 Deedee Trotter USA 50.026 Shericka Williams JAM 50.79 6 Francena McCorory USA 50.067 Sanya Richards-Ross USA 51.32 7 Yulia Gushchina RUS 50.268 Novlene Williams-Mills JAM 52.89 8 Kseniya Ustalova RUS 50.48

Flo Griffith Joyner

Flo Griffith Joyner




Marita Koch

Marie-Jose Perec

Flo Griffith Joyner

Flo Griffith Joyner




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Women's Athletics

Women's 100m HurdlesWorld Record: 12.21s BUL 20 August 1988

Olympic Record: 12.37s USA 24 August 2004

1 Dawn Harper USA 12.54 1 Sally Pearson AUS 12.282 Sally Pearson AUS 12.64 2 Danielle Carruthers USA 12.473 Piscilla Lopes-Schliep CAN 12.64 3 Dawn Harper USA 12.474 Damu Cherry USA 12.65 4 Kellie Wells USA 12.505 Delloreen Ennis-London JAM 12.65 5 Tiffany Porter GBR 12.566 Brigitte Foster-Hylton JAM 12.66 6 Lisa Urech SUI 12.627 LoLo Jones USA 12.72 7 LoLo Jones USA 12.678 Sarah Claxton GBR 12.94 8 Ginnie Crawford USA 12.73

1 Sally Pearson AUS 12.28 1 Sally Pearson AUS 12.402 Danielle Carruthers USA 12.47 2 Brigitte Foster-Hylton JAM 12.513 Dawn Harper USA 12.47 3 Kellie Wells USA 12.554 Tiffany Porter GBR 12.63 4 Kristi Castlin USA 12.565 Tetyana Dektyareva RUS 12.82 5 Ginnie Crawford USA 12.596 Nikkita Holder CAN 12.93 6 Priscilla Lopes-Schliep CAN 12.647 Phylicia George CAN 17.97 7 Tiffany Porter GBR 12.658 Kellie Wells USA DNF 8 Dawn Harper USA 12.65

Women's 400m HurdlesWorld Record: 52.34s RUS 08 August 2003


1 Melanie Walker JAM 52.64 1 Lashinda Demus USA 52.472 Sheena Tosta USA 53.70 2 Melanie Walker JAM 52.733 Tasha Danvers GBR 53.84 3 Kaliese Spencer JAM 52.794 Anastasiya Rabchenyuk UKR 53.96 4 Zuzana Hejnova CZE 53.295 Anna Jesien POL 54.29 5 Vania Stambolova BUL 53.686 Ekaterina Bikert RUS 54.96 6 Natalya Antyukh RUS 53.757 Zuzana Hejnova CZE 54.97 7 Anastasiya Rabchenyuk UKR 54.188 Tiffany Ross-Williams USA 57.55 8 Ristananna Tracey JAM 54.58

1 Lashinda Demus USA 52.47 1 Irina Davydova RUS 53.772 Melanie Walker JAM 52.73 2 Lashinda Demus USA 53.983 Natalya Antyukh RUS 53.85 3 Vania Stambolova BUL 54.044 Kaliese Spencer JAM 54.01 4 Denisa Rosolova CZE 54.245 Anastasiya Rabchenyuk UKR 54.18 5 Georgeanne Moline USA 54.336 Vania Stambolova BUL 54.23 6 Hanna Yaroshchuk UKR 54.357 Zuzana Hejnova CZE 54.23 7 Kaliese Spencer JAM 54.398 Elena Churakova RUS 55.17 8 Zuzana Hejnova CZE 54.43

Yulia Pechonkina

Melanie Walker


Yordanka Donkova

Joanna Hayes




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Women's Athletics

Women's 4x100m relayWorld Record: 41.37s 06 October 1985


Evgeniya Polyakova Bianca KnightAlexsandra Fedoriva Allyson FelixYulia Gushchina Marshevet MyersYuliya Chermoshanskaya Carmelita JeterOlivia Borlee Shelly-Anne Fraser-PryceHanna Marien Kerron StewartElodie Ouedraogo Sherone SimpsonKim Gevaert Veronica Campbell-BrownFrance Idoko Olesya PovhGloria Kemasuode Nataliya PohrebnyakHalimat Ismalia Mariya RyemyanOludamola Osayomi Hrystyna StuyRosemar Coelho Neto Kai SelvonLucimar de Moura Kelly-Ann BaptisteThaissa Presti Semoy HackettRosangela Santos Michelle-Lee AhyeAnne Mollinger Myriam SoumareVerena Sailer Celine DistelCathleen Tschirch Lina Jacques-SebastienMarion Wagner Veronique MangJeanette Kwakye Yuliya GushchinaMontell Douglas Natalia RusakovaEmily Freeman Elizabeta SavlinisEmma Ania Alexsandra FedorivaShelly-Anne Fraser Gloria AsumnuSherone Simpson Oludamola OsayumiKerron Stewart Agnes OsazuwaVeronica Campbell-Brown Blessing OkagbareEwelina Klocek Ana Claudia Lemos SilvaDaria Korczynska Vanda GomesDorota Jedrusinska Franciela KrasuckiJoanna Hnedryka Kocielnik Rosangela Santos

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 10.7

Veronica Campbell-Brown 10.76

Kerron Stewart 10.87

Sherone Simpson 11.00

Carmelita Jeter 10.70

Marshevet Myers 10.86

Allyson Felix 10.92

Kimberlyn Duncan 10.96

Kely-Ann Baptiste 10.86

Semoy Hacket 11.10

Michelle-Lee Ahye 11.19

Kai Selvon 11.21

Oludamola Osayomi 10.99

Blessing Okagbare 11.01

Gloria Asumnu 11.21

Endurance Abinuwa 11.32

Jeanette Kwakye 11.15

Jodie Williams 11.18

Anyika Onoura 11.18

Abi Oyepitan 11.21

Sheniqua Ferguson 11.07

Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie 11.09

Anthonique Strachan 11.22

Shaunae Miller 11.41

Olesya Povh 11.08

Nataliya Pohrebnyak 11.17

Mariya Ryemyen 11.21

Daria Pizhankova 11.35

Veronique Mang 11.11

Myriam Soumare 11.17

Christine Arron 11.27

Carima Louami 11.28

7 Ukraine 44.81

8 France 44.83

4 Nigeria 44.53

5Great

Britain44.72

6 Bahamas 44.79

1 Russia 42.31 1United States

41.56


GDR (S Gladisch, S Rieger, I Auerswald, M Gohr)

GDR (R Muller, B Wockel, I Auerswald, M Gohr)

3 Nigeria 43.04 3 Ukraine 42.51

2 Belgium 42.54 2 Jamaica 41.70

5 Germany 43.28 5 France 42.70

4 Brazil 43.14 4Trinidad

& Tobago

42.58

7 Jamaica DNF 7 Nigeria 42.93

6Great

BritainDNF 6 Russia 42.93

8 Poland DSQ 8 Brazil 43.10


1 Jamaica 43.33

2United States

43.44

3Trinidad

& Tobago

44.36

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Women's Athletics

Women's 4x400m relayWorld Record: 3:15.17 01 October 1988

Olympic Record: 3:15.17 01 October 1988

Mary Wineberg Sanya Richards-RossAllyson Felix Allyson FelixMonique Henderson Jessica BeardSanya Richards Francena McCororyYulia Gushchina Rosemarie WhyteLyudmila Litvinova Davita PredergastTatyana Firova Novlene Williams-MillsAnastasiya Kapachinskaya Shericka WilliamsNovolene Williams Antonina KrivoshapkaShereefa Lloyd Natalya AntyukhRosemarie Whyte Lyudmila LitvinovaShericka Williams Anastasiya KapachinskayaAnna Kozak Perri Shakes-DraytonIryna Khliustava Nicola SandersIlona Usovitch Christine OhuruoguSviatlana Usovitch Lee McConnellChristine Ohuruogu Nataliya PyhydaKelly Sotherton Anastasia RabchenyukMarilyn Okoro Anna YaroshchukNicola Sanders Antonina YefremovaRoxanna Diaz Hanna TashpulatavaZulia Calatayud Yulyana YushchankaSusanna Clement Ilona UsovitchIndira Terrero Sviatlana UsovitchJoy Amechi Eze Denisa RusolovaFolashade Abugan Zuzana BergovaOluoma Nwoke Jitka BartonickovaAjoke Odumosu Zuzana HejnovaJonna Valesca Tilgner Omolara OmotoshoSorina Nwachukwu Muizat Ajoke OdumosuFlorence Ekpo-Umoh Margaret EtimClaudia Hoffmann Bukola Abogunloko

Sanya Richards-Ross 49.28

Allyson Felix 49.59

Deedee Trotter 50.02

Francena McCorory 50.06

Anastasiya Kapachinskaya 49.35

Antonina Krivoshapka 49.43

Yulia Gushchina 50.26

Kseniya Ustalova 50.48

Novlene Williams-Mills 49.78

Rosmarie Whyte 49.84

Shericka Williams 50.45

Patricia Hall 50.71

Christine Ohuruogu 50.69

Lee McConnell 51.01

Shana Cox 51.24

Perri Shakes-Drayton 51.26

Antonia Yefremova 50.69

Alina Lohvynenko 51.19

Nataliya Pyhyda 51.42

Iuliia Olishevska 51.68

Sviatlana Usovich 51.00

Hanna Tashpulatava 51.43

Ilona Usovich 51.69

Iryna Khliustava 52.36

Geisa Aparecida Coutinho 51.08

Jailma de Lima 51.66

Joelma Sousa 52.23

Barbara de Olivera 52.39

Omolara Omotosho 51.28

Florence Uwakwe 52.09

Endurance Abinuwa 52.28

Bukola Abogunloko 52.35

URS (T Ledovskaya, O Nazarova, M Pinigina, O

Bryzgina)

6 Belarus 3:26.48

7 Brazil 3:27.36

8 Nigeria 3:28.00


1United States

3:18.95

2008 Olympics

3 Jamaica 3:20.40

5Great

Britain3:22.68

7 Nigeria 3:23.74


1United States


3:18.09

3 Russia 3:19.36

2 Russia 3:18.82 2 Jamaica 3:18.71

5 Ukraine 3:23.86

4 Belarus 3:21.85 4Great

Britain3:19.36

7Czech Rep

3:26.57

6 Cuba 3:23.21 6 Belarus 3:25.64

8 Germany 3:28.45 8 Nigeria 3:29.82

2 Russia 3:19.52

3 Jamaica 3:20.78

4Great

Britian3:24.20

5 Ukraine 3:24.98

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Women's Athletics

Women's 800mWorld Record: 1:53.28 CZE 26 July 1983

Olympic Record: 1:53.43 URS 27 July 1980

1 Pamela Jelimo KEN 1:54.87 1 Mariya Savinova RUS 1:55.872 Janeth Jepkosgei KEN 1:56.07 2 Caster Semenya RSA 1:56.353 Hasna Benhassi MAR 1:56.73 3 Yuliya Rusanova RUS 1:56.994 Svetlana Klyuka RUS 1:56.94 4 Ekaterina Kostetskaya RUS 1:57.195 Maria Mutola MOZ 1:57.68 5 Janeth Jepkosgei KEN 1:57.426 Kenia Sinclair JAM 1:58.24 6 Alysia Johnson Montano USA 1:57.487 Yuliya Krevsun UKR 1:58.73 7 Svetlana Klyuka RUS 1:58.038 Tatyana Andrianova RUS 2:02.63 8 Elena Kofanova RUS 1:58.04

1 Mariya Savinova RUS 1:55.87 1 Pamela Jelimo KEN 1:56.942 Caster Semenya RSA 1:56.35 2 Alysia Johnson Montano USA 1:57.373 Janeth Jepkosgei KEN 1:57.42 3 Fantu Magiso ETH 1:57.484 Alysia Johnson Montano USA 1:57.58 4 Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei KEN 1:57.795 Ekaterina Kostetskaya RUS 1:57.82 5 Irina Maracheva RUS 1:57.826 Maggie Vessey USA 1:58.50 6 Mariya Savinova RUS 1:57.937 Kenia Sinclair JAM 1:58.66 7 Ekaterina Poyistogova RUS 1:57.938 Yuliya Rusanova RUS 1:59.74 8 Elena Arzhakova RUS 1:58.28

Women's 1500mWorld Record: 3:50.46 CHN 11 September 1993

Olympic Record: 3:53.96 ROU 26 September 1988

1 Nancy Legat KEN 4:00.23 1 Morgan Uceny USA 4:00.062 Iryna Lishchynska UKR 4:01.63 2 Maryam Yusef Jamal BRN 4:00.333 Nataliya Tobias UKR 4:01.78 3 Mariem Alaoui Selsouli MAR 4:00.774 Lisa Dobriskey GBR 4:02.10 4 Kalkidan Gezahegne ETH 4:00.975 Maryam Yusef Jamal BAH 4:02.71 5 Ekaterina Gorbunova RUS 4:01.026 Natalia Rodriguez ESP 4:03.19 6 Btissam Lakhouad MAR 4:01.097 Shannon Rowbury USA 4:03.58 7 Silham Hilali MAR 4:01.338 Iris Fuentes-Pila ESP 4:04.86 8 Natalia Rodriguez ESP 4:01.50

1 Jennifer Barringer Simpson USA 4:05.40 1 Mariam Alaoui Selsouli MAR 3:56.152 Hannah England GBR 4:05.68 2 Abedeba Arigawe ETH 3:56.543 Natalia Rodriguez ESP 4:05.87 3 Asli Cakir Alptekin TUR 3:56.624 Btissam Lakhouad MAR 4:06.18 4 Genzebe Bibaba ETH 3:57.775 Kalkidan Gezahegne ETH 4:06.42 5 Viola Jelagat Kibiwot KEN 3:59.256 Ingvill Makestad Bovim NOR 4:06.85 6 Svetlana Podosenova RUS 3:59.617 Mimi Belete BAH 4:07.60 7 Btissam Lakhouad MAR 3:59.658 Tugba Karakaya TUR 4:08.14 8 Hellen Onsando Obiri KEN 3:59.68

Women's 3000m SteeplechaseWorld Record: 8:58.81 RUS 17 August 2008

Olympic Record: 8:58.81 RUS 17 August 2008

1 Gulnara Samitova-Galinka RUS 8:58.81 1 Yuliya Zaripova RUS 9:07.02 Eunice Jepkorir KEN 9:07.41 2 Habiba Ghribi TUN 9:11.973 Yekaterina Volkova RUS 9:07.64 3 Milcah Chemos Cheywa KEN 9:12.894 Tatyana Petrova RUS 9:12.33 4 Sofia Assefa ETH 9:15.045 Christina Casandra ROU 9:16.85 5 Mercy Wanjiku KEN 9:16.946 Ruth Bisibori Nyangau KEN 9:17.35 6 Lydia Rotich KEN 9:19.207 Zemzwm Ahmed ETH 9:17.85 7 Birtukan Adamu ETH 9:20.378 Wioletta Frankiewicz POL 9:21.76 8 Hiwot Ayalew ETH 9:23.88

1 Yuliya Zarudneva Zaripov RUS 9:07.03 1 Milcah Chemos Cheywa KEN 9:07.142 Habiba Ghribi TUN 9:11.97 2 Sofia Assefa ETH 9:09.003 Milcah Chemos Cheywa KEN 9:17.16 3 Hiwot Ayalew ETH 9:09.614 Mercy Wanjiku KEN 9:17.88 4 Gulcan Mingir TUR 9:13.535 Lydia Rotich KEN 9:25.74 5 Eternesh Diro ETH 9:22.666 Sofia Assefa ETH 9:28.24 6 Lydiah Chepkurui KEN 9:24.247 Binnaz Uslu TUR 9:31.06 7 Barbara Parker GBR 9:24.268 Hanane Ouhaddou MAR 9:32.36 8 Marta Dominguez ESP 9:24.60

Qu Yunxia

Paula Ivan

Jarmila Kratochvilova

Nadezhda Olizarenko







G. Samitova-Galinka

G. Samitova-Galinka

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Women's Athletics

Women's 5000mWorld Record: 14:11.15 ETH 06 June 2008

Olympic Record: 14:40.79 ROU 25 September 2000

1 Tirunesh Dibaba ETH 15:41.40 1 Vivian Cheruiyot KEN 14:20.872 Elvan Abeylegesse TUR 15:42.74 2 Meseret Defar ETH 14:29.523 Meseret Defar ETH 15:44.12 3 Sally Kipyego KEN 14:30.104 Sylvia Kibet KEN 15:44.96 4 Sentayehu Ejigu ETH 14:30.425 Vivian Cheruiyot KEN 15:46.32 5 Linet Masai KEN 14:31.666 Liliya Shobukhova RUS 15:48.48 6 Viola Masai KEN 14:32.957 Alemitu Bekele TUR 15:49.03 7 Mercy Cherono KEN 14:34.868 Meselech Melkamu ETH 15:49.39 8 Sylvia Kibet KEN 14:35.13

1 Vivian Cheruiyot KEN 14:55.36 1 Vivian Cheruiyot KEN 14:35.622 Sylvia Kibet KEN 14:56.21 2 Meseret Defar ETH 14:35.653 Meseret Defar ETH 14:56.94 3 Viola Jelegat Kibiwot KEN 14:39.534 Santayehu Ejigu ETH 14:59.99 4 Gelete Burka ETH 14:41.435 Mercy Cherono KEN 15:00.23 5 Sally Kipyego KEN 14:43.116 Linet Masai KEN 15:01.01 6 Veronica Wanjiru KEN 14:44.827 Lauren Fleshman USA 15:09.25 7 Mariem Selouli MAR 14:45.918 Genzebe Dibaba ETH 15:09.35 8 Sylvia Kibet KEN 14:46.73

Women's 10000mWorld Record: 29:31.78 CHN 08 September 1993


1 Tirunesh Dibaba ETH 29:54.66 1 Sally Kipyego KEN 30:38.352 Elvan Abeylegesse TUR 29:56.34 2 Shalane Flanagan USA 30:39.573 Shalane Flanagan USA 30:22.22 3 Vivian Cheruiyot KEN 30:48.984 Linet Chepkwemoi Masai KEN 30:26.50 4 Linet Chepkwemoi Masai KEN 30:53.595 Mariya Konovalova RUS 30:35.84 5 Kayoko Fukushi JPN 30:54.296 Inga Abitova RUS 30:37.33 6 Priscah Jepleting Cherono KEN 30:56.437 Lucy Kabuu Wangui KEN 30:39.96 7 Meselech Melkamu ETH 30:56.558 Lornah Kiplagat NED 30:40.27 8 Meseret Defar ETH 31:05.05

1 Vivian Cheruiyot KEN 30:48.98 1 Tirunesh Dibaba ETH 30:24.392 Sally Kipyego KEN 30:50.04 2 Flroence Kiplagat KEN 30:24.853 Linet Chepkwemoi Masai KEN 30:53.59 3 Beleynesh Oljira ETH 30:26.704 Priscah Jepleting Cherono KEN 30:56.43 4 Werknesh Kidane ETH 30:50.165 Meselech Melkamu ETH 30:56.55 5 Elizaveta Grechishnikova RUS 31:07.886 Shaitaye Eshete BAH 31:21.57 6 Abery Kebede ETH 31:09.287 Shalane Flanagan USA 31:25.57 7 Betsy Saina KEN 31:15.978 Ana Dulce Felix POR 31:37.03 8 Amy Hastings USA 31:19.87




Wang Junxia

Tirunesh Dibaba

Tirunesh Dibaba

Gabriela Szabo


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Women's Athletics

Women's MarathonWorld Record: 2:15:25 GBR 13 April 2003

Olympic Record: 2:23.14 JPN 24 September 2000

1 Constantina Tomescu ROU 2:26:44 1 Liliya Shobukhova RUS 2:18.202 Catherine Ndereba KEN 2:27:06 2 Mary Keitany KEN 2:19.193 Zhou Chunxiu CHN 2:27:07 3 Florence Kiplagat KEN 2:19.444 Zhu Xiaolin CHN 2:27:16 4 Edna Kiplagat KEN 2:20.465 Martha Komu KEN 2:27:23 5 Tiki Gelana ETH 2:22.086 Mara Yamauchi GBR 2:27:29 6 Ejegayehu Dibaba ETH 2:22.097 Irina Timofeyeva RUS 2:27:31 7 Irina Mikitenko GER 2:22.188 Lidia Simon ROU 2:27:51 8 Lydia Cheromei KEN 2:22.34

1 Edna Kiplagat KEN 2:28:43 1 Mary Keitany KEN 2:18:372 Priscah Jeptoo KEN 2:29:00 2 Tiki Gelana ETH 2:18:583 Sharon Cherop KEN 2:29:14 3 Aselefech Mergia ETH 2:19:314 Buzunesh Bekele ETH 2:29:21 4 Lucy Wangui Kabuu KEN 2:19:345 Yukiko Akaba JPN 2:29:35 5 Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat KEN 2:19:506 Zhou Chunxiu CHN 2:29:58 6 Mare Dibaba ETH 2:19:527 Isabellah Andersson SWE 2:30:13 7 Priscah Jeptoo KEN 2:20:148 Wang Jiali CHN 2:30:25 8 Bezunesh Bekele ETH 2:20:30

Women's 20km WalkWorld Record: 1:25.08 RUS 26 February 2011

Olympic Record: 1:26.31 RUS 21 August 2008

1 Olga Kaniskina RUS 1:26:31 1 Vera Sokolova RUS 1:25:082 Kjersti Platzer NOR 1:27:07 2 Anisya Kirdyapkina RUS 0.0591323 Elisa Rigaudo ITA 1:27:12 3 Hong Liu CHN 0.0606134 Liu Hong CHN 1:27:25 4 Elmira Alembekova RUS 0.0608225 Maria Vasco ESP 1:27:44 5 Anna Lukyanova RUS 0.0609846 Beatriz Pascual ESP 1:27:45 6 Shenjie Qieyang CHN 1:28:047 Olive Loughnane IRE 1:27:46 7 Tatiana Mineeva RUS 1:28:098 Ana Cabecinha POR 1:27:46 8 Olga Kaniskina RUS 1:28:35

1 Olga Kaniskina RUS 1:29:42 1 Elmira Alembekova RUS 1:25:272 Liu Hong CHN 1:30:00 2 Hong Liu CHN 1:25:463 Anisya Kirdyapkina RUS 1:30:13 3 Elena Lashmanova RUS 1:26:304 Elisa Rigaudo ITA 1:30:44 4 Irina Yumanova RUS 1:26:475 Qieyang Shenjie CHN 1:31:14 5 Tatiana Sibileva RUS 1:26:596 Susana Feitor POR 1:31:26 6 Xiuzhi Lu CHN 1:27:017 Ana Cabecinha POR 1:31:36 7 Shenjie Qieyang CHN 1:27:048 Kristina Saltanovic LTU 1:31:40 8 Anna Lukyanova RUS 1:27:08





Vera Sokolava

Olga Kaniskina

Paula Radcliffe

Naoko Takahashi

29


Women's Athletics

Women's HeptathlonWorld Record: 7291s USA 24 September 1988

Olympic Record: 7291s USA 24 September 1988

1 Nataliya Dobrynska UKR 6733 1 Tatyana Chernova RUS 6880DSQ Lyudmila Blonska UKR 2 Jessica Ennis GBR 6790

2 Hyleas Fountain USA 6619 3 Jennifer Oeser GER 66633 Tatyana Chernova RUS 6591 4 Karolina Tyminska POL 65444 Kelly Sotherton GBR 6517 5 Nataliya Dobrynska UKR 65395 Jessica Zelinka CAN 6490 6 Aiga Grabuste LAT 65076 Anna Bogdanova RUS 6465 7 Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida FRA 64097 Karolina Tyminska POL 6428 8 Lilli Schwarzkopf GER 6370

1 Tatyana Chernova RUS 6880 1 Jessica Ennis GBR 69062 Jessica Ennis GBR 6751 2 Tatyana Chernova RUS 67743 Jennifer Oeser GER 6572 3 Kristina Savitskaya RUS 66814 Karolina Tyminska POL 6544 4 Jessica Zelinka CAN 65995 Nataliya Dobrynska UKR 6539 5 Antoinette Nana Sjimou FRA 65446 Lilli Schwarzkopf GER 6321 6 Olga Kurban RUS 65287 A. Nana Djimou Ida FRA 6309 7 Lyudmyla Yosypenko UKR 65018 Austra Skujyte LTU 6297 8 Austra Skujyte LTU 6493

Women's Long JumpWorld Record: 7.52m URS 11 June 1988

Olympic Record: 7.40m USA 29 September 1988

1 Maurren Higa Maggi BRA 7.04 1 Brittney Reese USA 7.192 Tatyana Lebedeva RUS 7.03 2 Darya Klishina RUS 7.053 Blessing Okagbare NIG 6.91 3 Olga Zaytseva RUS 7.014 Chelsea Hammond JAM 6.79 4 Janay DeLoach USA 6.975 Brittney Reese USA 6.76 5 Veronika Shotkova BLR 6.956 Oksana Udmurtova RUS 6.70 6 Maurren Higa Maggi BRA 6.947 Jade Johnson GBR 6.64 7 Eloyse Lesueur FRA 6.918 Grace Upshaw USA 6.58 8 Olga Balayeva RUS 6.89

1 Brittney Reese USA 6.82 1 Brittney Reese USA 7.152 Olga Kucherenko RUS 6.77 2 Anna Nazarova RUS 7.113 Ineta Radevica LAT 6.76 3 Chelsea Hayes USA 7.104 Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova BLR 6.74 4 Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova BLR 7.085 Carolina Kluft SWE 6.56 5 Olga Kucherenko RUS 7.036 Janay DeLoach USA 6.56 6 Janay DeLoach USA 7.037 Darya Klishina RUS 6.50 7 Veronika Shutkova BLR 7.018 Karin Mey Melis TUR 6.44 8 Blessing Okagbare NGR 6.97

Women's Triple JumpWorld Record: 15.50m UKR 10 August 1995

Olympic Record: 15.39m CMR 17 August 2008

1 Francoise Mbango Etone CAM 15.39 1 Yargelis Savigne CUB 14.992 Tatyana Lebedeva RUS 15.32 2 Caterine Ibarguen COL 14.993 Hrysopiyi Devetzi GRE 15.23 3 Olha Saladukha UKR 14.984 Olga Rypakova KAZ 15.11 4 Olga Rypakova KAZ 14.965 Yargelis Savigne CUB 15.05 5 Paraskevi Papahristou GRE 14.726 Merija Sestak SLO 15.03 6 Natalya Kutyakova RUS 14.677 Viktoriya Gurova RUS 14.77 7 Mabel Gay CUB 14.678 Anna Pyatykh RUS 14.73 8 Joseidy Ribalta CUB 14.61

1 Olha Saladukha UKR 14.94 1 Olha Saladukha UKR 14.992 Olga Rypakova KAZ 14.89 2 Caterine Ibarguen COL 14.953 Caterine Ibarguen COL 14.84 3 Kseniya Dziatsuk BLR 14.764 Mabel Gay CUB 14.67 4 Olga Rypakova UKR 14.705 Yamile Aldama GBR 14.50 5 Athanasia Perra GRE 14.756 Yargelis Savigne CUB 14.43 6 Yamile Aldama GBR 14.657 Anna Kuropatkina RUS 14.23 7 Dailenys Alcantara CUB 14.588 Baya Rahouli ALG 14.12 8 Paraskei Papahristou GRE 14.58


Jackie Joyner-Kersee




DSQ for anabolic steroids




Inessa Kravets

F. Mbango Etone

Galina Chistyakova


30


Women's Athletics

Women's High JumpWorld Record: 2.09m BUL 30 August 1987

Olympic Record: 2.06m RUS 28 August 2004

1 Tia Hellebaut BEL 2.05 1 Anna Chicherova RUS 2.072 Blanka Vasic CRO 2.05 2 Blanka Vlasic CRO 2.033 Anna Chicherova RUS 2.03 3 Antoinetta Di Martino ITA 2.004 Yelena Slesarenko RUS 2.01 4 Svetlana Shkolina RUS 1.995 Vita Palamar UKR 1.99 5 Venelina Veneva-Mateeva BUL 1.986 Chaunte Howard USA 1.99 6 Esthera Petre ROU 1.987 Ariane Friedrich GER 1.96 7 Elena Slesarenko RUS 1.978 Ruth Beitia ESP 1.96 8 Anna Iljustsenko EST 1.96

1 Anna Chicherova RUS 2.03 1 Anna Chicherova RUS 2.022 Blanka Vlasic CRO 2.03 2 Chaunte Lowe USA 2.013 Antonietta Di Martino ITA 2.00 3 Birgetta Barrett USA 2.014 Yelena Slesarenko RUS 1.97 4 Svetlana Shkolina RUS 2.005 Svetlana Shkolina RUS 1.97 5 Ruth Beita ESP 1.976 Zheng Xingjuan CHN 1.93 6 Tinja Angelsen NOR 1.976 Deirdre Ryan IRL 1.93 7 Tia Tellebaut BEL 1.968 Svetlana Radzivil UZB 1.93 8 Olena Holosha UKR 1.96

Women's Pole VaultWorld Record: 5.06m RUS 28 August 2009

Olympic Record: 5.05m RUS 18 August 2008

1 Yelena Isinbayeva RUS 5.05 1 Jennifer Suhr USA 4.912 Jennifer Stczynski USA 4.80 2 Fabiana Murer BRA 4.853 Svetlana Feofanova RUS 4.75 3 Martina Strutz GER 4.804 Yulia Golubchikova RUS 4.75 4 Elena Isinbaeva RUS 4.765 Monika Pyrek POL 4.70 5 Anna Rogowska POL 4.756 Carolin Hingst GER 4.65 6 Silke Spiegelburg GER 4.757 Silke Spiegelburg GER 4.65 7 Svatlana Feofanova RUS 4.758 April Steiner Bennett USA 4.55 8 Yarisley Silva CUB 4.75

1 Fabiana Murer BRA 4.85 1 Fabiana Murer BRA 4.772 Martina Strutz GER 4.80 2 Alana Boyd AUS 4.763 Svetlana Feofanova RUS 4.75 3 Silke Spiegleburg GER 4.764 Jennifer Suhr USA 4.70 4 Jirina Ptacnikova CZE 4.725 Yarisley Silva CUB 4.70 5 Holly Bleasdale GBR 4.716 Yelana Isinbayeva RUS 4.65 6 Yarisley Silva CUB 4.657 Jirina Ptacnikova CZE 4.65 7 Jennifer Suhr USA 4.658 Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou GRE 4.65 8 Lisa Ryzih GER 4.6

Women's Shot PutWorld Record: 22.63m URS 07 June 1987

Olympic Record: 22.41m GDR 24 July 1980

1 Valerie Vili NZL 20.56 1 Valerie Adams NZL 21.242 Natallia Mikhnevich BEL 20.28 2 Nadzeya Ostapchuk BLR 20.943 Nadzeya Ostapchuk BEL 19.86 3 Jillian Camarena-Williams USA 20.184 Misleydis Gonzalez CUB 19.50 4 Lijiao Gong CHN 20.115 Gong Lijiao CHN 19.20 5 Michelle Carter USA 19.866 Anna Omarova RUS 19.08 6 Yevginya Kolodko RUS 19.787 Nadine Kleinert GER 19.01 7 Ling Li CHN 19.728 Li Meiju CHN 19.00 8 Anna Avdeyeva RUS 19.54

1 Valerie Adams NZL 21.24 1 Nadzeya Ostapchuk BLR 21.132 Nadzeya Ostapchuk BLR 20.05 2 Valerie Adams NZL 21.033 Jillian Camarena-Williams USA 20.02 3 Yevginya Kolodko RUS 20.224 Gong Lijiao CHN 19.97 4 Lijiao Gong CHN 20.215 Yevgeniya Kolodko RUS 19.78 5 Jillian Camarena-Williams USA 19.826 Li Ling CHN 19.71 6 Olesya Sviridova RUS 19.727 Anna Avdeyeva RUS 19.54 7 Natalia Mikhnevich BLR 19.728 Nadine Kleinert GER 19.26 8 Nadine Leinert GER 19.67


Stefka Kostadinova

Yelena Slesarenko






Natalya Lisovskaya

Ilona Slupianek

Yelena Isinbayeva

Yelena Isinbayeva

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Women's Athletics

Women's Discus ThrowWorld Record: 76.80m GDR 09 July 1988

Olympic Record: 72.30m GDR 29 September 1988

1 Stephanie Brown-Trafton USA 64.74 1 Li Yanfeng CHN 67.982 Yarelis Barrios CUB 63.64 2 Sandra Perkovic CRO 67.963 Olena Antonova UKR 62.59 3 Nadine Muller GER 66.054 Song Aimin CHN 62.20 4 Yevgeniya Pecherina RUS 65.775 Vera Pospisilova-Cechlova CZE 61.75 5 Yarelis Barrios CUB 65.736 Ellina Zvereva BEL 60.82 6 Backy Breisch USA 64.307 Yanfeng Li CHN 60.68 7 Stephanie Brown-Trafton USA 64.138 Melina Robert-Michon FRA 60.66 8 Zaneta Glanc POL 63.99

1 Li Yanfeng CHN 66.52 1 Nadine Muller GER 68.892 Nadine Muller GER 65.97 2 Sandra Perkovic CRO 68.243 Yarelis Barrios CUB 65.73 3 Daria Pishchalnikova RUS 68.184 Zaneta Glanc POL 63.91 4 Yarelis Barrios CUB 68.035 Stephanie Brown-Trafton USA 63.85 5 Li Yanfeng CHN 67.846 Tan Jian CHN 62.96 6 Stephanie Brown-Trafton USA 67.747 Dragana Tomasevic SRB 62.48 7 Denia Cabellero CUB 65.608 Nicoleta Grasu ROU 62.08 8 Zenata Glanc POL 65.34

Women's Javelin ThrowWorld Record: 72.28m CZE 13 September 2008

Olympic Record: 71.53m CUB 27 August 2004

1 Barbora Spotakova CZE 71.42 1 Maria Abakumova RUS 71.992 Mariya Abakumova RUS 70.78 2 Barbora Spotakova CZE 71.583 Christina Obergfoll GER 66.13 3 Christina Obergfoll GER 69.574 Goldie Sayers GBR 65.75 4 Sunette Viljoen RSA 68.385 Steffi Nerius GER 65.29 5 Martina Ratej SLO 65.896 Osleidys Menendez CUB 63.35 6 Katherina Molitor GER 64.677 Barbara Madejczyk POL 62.02 7 Goldie Sayers GBR 64.468 Katherina Molitor GER 59.64 8 Kimberley Mickle AUS 63.82

1 Mariya Abakumova RUS 71.99 1 Sunette Viljoen RSA 69.352 Barbora Spotakova CZE 71.58 2 Barbora Spotakova CZE 68.733 Sunette Viljoen RSA 68.38 3 Christina Obergfoll GER 67.044 Christina Obergfoll GER 65.24 4 Maria Abakumova RUS 66.865 Katharina Molitor GER 64.32 5 Vira Rebryk UKR 66.866 Kimberley Mickle AUS 61.96 6 Martina Ratej SLO 66.247 Martina Ratej SLO 61.65 7 Li Lingwei CHN 65.118 Jarmila Klimesova CZE 59.27 8 Lu Huihui CHN 64.95

Women's Hammer ThrowWorld Record: 79.42m GER 21 May 2011

Olympic Record: 76.34m BLR 20 August 2008

1 Aksana Miankova BEL 76.34 1 Betty Heidler GER 79.422 Yipsi Moreno CUB 75.20 2 Tatyana Lysenko RUS 77.133 Zhang Wenxiu CHN 74.32 3 Wenxiu Zhang CHN 75.654 Barya Pchelnik BEL 73.65 4 Yipsi Moreno CUB 75.625 Manuela Montebrun FRA 72.54 5 Kathrin Klaas GER 75.486 Anita Wlodarczyk POL 71.56 6 Anita Wlodarczyk POL 75.337 Clarissa Claretti ITA 71.33 7 Jennifer Dahlgren ARG 73.448 Martina Danisova-Hrasnova SLO 71.00 8 Zalina Marghieva MDA 72.93

1 Tatyana Lysenko RUS 77.13 1 Aksana Miankova BLR 78.192 Betty Heilder GER 76.06 2 Betty Heidler GER 78.073 Zhang Wenxiu CHN 75.03 3 Zhang Wenxiu CHN 76.994 Yipsi Moreno CUB 74.48 4 Alena Matoshka BLR 76.565 Anita Wlodarczyk POL 73.56 5 Tatyana Lysenko RUS 76.146 Bianca Perie ROU 72.04 6 Anita Wlodarczyk POL 75.67 Katharin Klaas GER 71.89 7 Yipsi Moreno CUB 75.278 Zalina Marghieva MDA 70.27 8 Katherin Klaas GER 75.13


Martina Hellmann

Gabriele Reinsch






Barbora Spotakova

Osleidys Menendez

Betty Heidler

Aksana Miankova

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Men's Singles

1 Lin Dan CHN 1 Chen Jin CHN2 Lee Chong Wei MAS 2 Taufik Hidayat INA3 Chen Jin CHN 3 Peter Gade DEN4 Lee Hyun-il KOR 3 Park Sung-hwan KOR

5= Peter Gade DEN 5= Hseuh Hsuan-Yi MAC5= Sony Dwi Kuncoro INA 5= Lee Chong Wei MAS5= Hsieh Yu-Hsing TPE 5= Kazushi Yamada JPN5= Bao Chunlai CHN 5= Lin Dan CHN

1 Lin Dan CHN 1 Lin Dan CHN2 Lee Chong Wei MAS 2 Chen Long CHN3 Peter Gade DEN 3 Lee Chong Wei MAS3 Chen Jin CHN 3 Peter Gade DEN

5= Sho Sasaki JPN 5= Taufik Hidayat INA5= Kevin Cordon GUA 5= Kenichi Tago JPN5= Nguyen Tien Minh VIE 5= Sho Sasaki JPN5= Hans-Kristian Vittinghus DEN 5= Simon Santoso INA

Five countries dominate world Badminton; the Asia-Pacific countries of China, Malaysia, South Korea and Indonesia, and, somewhat surprisingly, Denmark. Since the sport’s induction into the Olympiad in 1992 only three medals have gone elsewhere. Whilst this has undoubtedly restricted the sport's growth internationally, having a home amongst some of the world’s fastest growing economies cannot be a bad thing for the sport.

From these countries there are two men who, for half a decade, have not only dominated the men’s singles but become real sporting super-stars in their home countries. Lin Dan, from China, has won every title going

in the sport including four World Championships and the 2008 Olympic gold medal. There is, however, suggestion that this fame may have started to wear Super Dan out. He has failed to reach the world number 1

spot since 2008 and, whilst his 2011 World Championship victory confirmed him as narrow favourite for the London Olympics, he has lost the invincibility that once surrounded him. Dan’s main competition will come

from world number 1 and Beijing silver medallist Lee Chong Wei. Wei’s medal in Beijing prompted Malaysia’s Prime Minister to pronounce him a national hero, and a vociferous following of supporters trail him all over the

world. Everyone is expecting a Lin Dan vs Lee Chong Wei final on the 5th of August, which would have one of the highest viewing figures of the Games (though you may not realise that from the home media). What no-

one knows is who will take home the gold.

The women’s singles event will probably be a contest between the three Wangs from China, although in Saina Nehwal India has one of their few Olympic medal hopes; should she reach the final, we can expect viewing figures to exceed even those of the men’s final. Cai Yun & Fu Haifeng in the men’s doubles and Wang Xiaoli & Yu Yang in the women’s doubles give China a narrow advantage in those disciplines, but again expect strong challenges from competitive Korean and Danish pairings and exciting competitions.

Great British attention will, once again, be drawn to the mixed doubles events. Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier won silver at the 2011 World Championships and, after beating off a strong challenge for the Olympic spot from Nathan Robertson and Jenny Wallwork, will be hoping to replicate that feat in London. Though they are ranked only 10th in the world, they always perform better on European soil than in the Asian tournaments

which dominate the sport's calendar. Along with the in-form Danish pairings of Nielson & Pederson and Laybourn & Juhl, they will be taking the fight to the higher ranked Chinese pairings in what is always an open

and exciting discipline.


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Badminton

Points

1 Lee Chong Wei MAS 95,198 1 Lee Chong Wei MAS2 Lin Dan CHN 92,646 2 Lin Dan CHN3 Chen Long CHN 84,632 3 Du Pengyu CHN4 Chen Jin CHN 73,978 3 Sho Sasaki JPN5 Peter Gade DEN 71,102 5= Kenichi Tago JPN6 Sho Sasaki JPN 65,880 5= Marc Zwiebler GER7 Lee Hyun Il KOR 58,718 5= Simon Santoso INA8 Kenichi Tago JPN 58,703 5= Jan O Jorgensen DEN9 Simon Santoso INA 55,04411 Tien Minh Nguyen VIE 54,20412 Taufik Hidayat INA 52,95413 Jan O Jorgensen DEN 50,96114 Shon Wan Ho KOR 50,00015 Marc Zweibler GER 48,73619 Rajiv Ouseph GBR 40,10220 Wong Wing Ki HKG 39,97622 Pablo Abian ESP 37,89424 Kashyap Parupalli IND 36,53625 Hsu Jen Hao TPE 36,15528 Boonsak Ponsana THA 35,393

Women's Singles

1 Zhang Ning CHN 1 Wang Lin CHN2 Xie Xingfang CHN 2 Wang Xin CHN3 Maria Kristin Yulianti INA 3 Tine Baun DEN4 Lu Lan CHN 3 Wang Shixian CHN

5= Pi Hongyan FRA 5= Eriko Hirose JPN5= Xu Huaiwen GER 5= Pi Hongyan FRA5= Saina Nehwal IND 5= Cheng Shao-Chieh MAC5= Wong Mew Choo MAS 5= Saina Nehwal IND

1 Wang Yihan CHN 1 Wang Yihan CHN2 Cheng Shao-Chieh TPE 2 Saina Nehwal IND3 Wang Xin CHN 3 Wang Xin CHN3 Juliane Schenk GER 3 Tine Baun DEN

5= Pi Hongyan FRA 5= Ji Hyun-sung KOR5= Wang Shixian CHN 5= Sayaka Sato JPN5= Saina Nehwal IND 5= Juliane Schenk GER5= Tine Baun DEN 5= Youn Joo Bae KOR

Points

1 Wang Yihan CHN 96,220 1 Wang Shixian CHN2 Wang Xin CHN 86,164 2 Jiang Yanjiao CHN3 Wang Shixian CHN 77,026 3 Youn Joo Bae KOR5 Saina Nehwal IND 70,516 3 Wang Yihan CHN7 Tine Baun DEN 65,887 5= Gu Juan SIN8 Juliane Schenk GER 64,518 5= Saina Nehwal IND9 Cheng Shao-Chieh TPR 57,097 5= Li Xuerui CHN10 Sung Ji Hyun KOR 56,511 5= Juliane Schenk GER11 Inthanon Ratchanok THA 56,07412 Tai Tzu Yin TPE 53,82513 Bae Youn Joo KOR 53,58815 Sayaka Sato JPN 49,51916 Juan Gu SIN 56,49018 Yao Jie NED 44,19020 Petya Nedelcheva BUL 42,38421 Pi Hongyan FRA 41,14422 Li Michelle CAN 39,91123 Yip Pui Yin HKG 39,38427 Carolina Marin ESP 35,84633 Agnese Allegrini ITA 29,546



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World Rankings 2012 Korea Open

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Badminton

Men's Doubles

Markis Kido Cai YunHendra Setiawan Fu HaifengFu Haifeng Koo Kien KeatCai Yun Tan Boon HeongLee Jae-jin Markis KidoHwang Ji-man Hendra SetiawanLars Paaske Guo ZhendongJonas Rasmussen Xu ChenKoo Kien Keat Mathias BoeTan Boon Heong Carsten MogensenHowrad Bach Jung Jae-sungBob Malaythong Lee Yong-daeTadashi Ohtsuka Fang Chieh-MinKeita Masuda Lee Sheng-MuMichal Logosz Lars PaaskeRobert Mateusiak Jonas Rasmussen

Cai Yun Mathias BoeFu Haifeng Carsten MogensenKo Sung-hyun Chai BiaoYoo Yeon-seong Guo Zhendong Jung Jae-sung Ko Sung-hyunLee Yong-dae Yoo Yeon-seongMohammed Ahsan Jung Jae-sungBona Septano Lee Yong-daeMads Conrad-Petersen Mohammed AhsanJonas Rasmussen Bona SeptanoKoo Kien Keat Cai Yun Tan Boon Heong Fu HaifengHong Wei Hirokatsu HashimotoShen Ye Noriyasu HirataMathias Boe Kien Keat KooCarsten Mogensen Boon Heong Tan

Points

Cai Yun Cai YunFu Haifeng Fu HaifengJung Jae Sung Jung Jae-sungLee Yong Dae Lee Yong-daeMathias Boe Ko Sung-hyunCarsten Mogensen Yoo Yeon-seongKo Sung Hyun Kim Jung-kimYoo Yeon Seong Kim Sa-rangChai Biao Michael FuchsGuo Zhendong Oliver RothMohammead Ahsan Fang Chieh-MinBona Septano Lee Sheng-MuFang Chieh Min Hiroyuki EndoLee Sheng Mu Kenichi HayakawaKien Keat Koo Hong WeiBoon Heong Tan Shen YeNaoki KawamaeShoji SatoBodin IssaraManeepong JongjitIngo KindervaterJohannes SchoettlerVladimir IvanovIvan SozonovHoward BachTony GunawanAdam CwalinaMichal LogoszRoss SmithGlenn WarfeDorian Lance JamesWillem Viljoen

63,329

59,469

67,549

77,797

78,257

41,360

41,050

43,575

43,529

58,111

55,497

24,231

40,673

30,887

RSA

GER

RUS

USA

POL

3

5= CHN

48

18

20

21

22

33

6

7

8

11

17

AUS

INA

TPE

MAS

JPN

THA

4

5

5= TPE

5= JPN

CHN

KOR

DEN

KOR

CHN

89,561

96,011

3 KOR

3 KOR

5= GER

5= DEN

5=

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1 CHN

2 KOR

5= CHN

5= JPN

5= MAS

1

2

5= DEN

CHN

MAS

3

3

5=

DEN

3

5=

5=

5=

5=

INA

KOR

KOR

CHN


1 DEN

2 CHN

JPN

USA

MAS

DEN

5= INA

3 KOR

3 KOR

1

2

3 KOR

CHN

DEN

KOR

MAC

4

5=

CHN

INA 1

2

3

CHN

MAS

INA

1

2

World Rankings

5=

5=

5= POL


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Badminton

Women's Doubles

Du Jing Du JingYu Yang Yu YangLee Kyung-won Ma JinLee Hyo-jung Wang XiaoliZhang Yawen Cheng Wen-HsingWei Yili Chien Yu-ChinMiyuki Maeda Cheng ShuSatoko Suetsuna Zhao YunleiKumiko Ogura Pan PanReiko Shiota Tian QingJiang Yanmei Ha Jung-eunLi Yujia Kin Min-jungChien Yu Chin Yoo Hyun-youngCheng Wen-Hsing Jung Kyung-eunYang Wei Miyuki MaedaZhang Jiewen Satoko Suetsuna

Wang Xiaoli Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang Yu Yang Tian Qing Jung Eun-haZhao Yunlei Min Jung-kimMiyuki Maeda Tian QingSatoko Suetsuna Zhao YunleiJwala Gutta Christinna PedersenAshwini Ponnappa Kamilla Rytter JuhlShizuka Matsuo Cheng Wen Hsing Mami Naito Chien Yu Chin Mizuki Fujii Mizuki FujiiReika Kakiiwa Reika KakiiwaMeiliana Jauhari Lok Yan PoonGreysia Polii Ying Suet TseVita Marissa Shizuka MatsuoNadya Melati Mami Naito

Points

Wang Xiaoli Tian QingYu Yang Zhao YunleiTian Qing Ha Jung-eunZhao Yunlei Kim Min-jungHa Jung Eun Jung Kyung-eunKim Min Jung Kim Ha-naMizuki Fujii Wang XiaoliReika Kakiiwa Yu FengKamilla Rytter Juhl Miyuki MaedaChristinna Pedersen Satoko SuetsunaMiyuki Maeda Meiliana JauhariSatoko Suetsuna Greysia PoliiJung Kyung Eun Shizuka MatsuoKim Ha Na Mami NaitoCheng Wen Hsing Shinta Mulia SariChien Yu Chin Lei YaoGreysia PoliiMeiliana JauhariShinta Mulia SariLei YaoPoon Lok YanTse Ying SuetJwala GuttaAshwini PonnappaValeri SorokinaNina VislovaAlex BruceMichelle LiLeanne ChooRenuga VeeranMichelle EdwardsAnnari Viljoen

44 RSA 23,424

28 CAN 37,853

35 AUS 31,069

16 IND 46,816

18 RUS 46,426

13 SIN 50,098

15 HKG 49,054

12 INA 52,427

6 JPN 60,824

8 KOR 58,840

5= SIN

World Rankings

1 CHN

4 JPN 68,834

5 DEN 64,279

100,704

2 CHN 91,051

3 KOR 76,540

10 TPE 56,579

5= JPN

5= INA

5= JPN

2 KOR

3 KOR

3 CHN

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1 CHN

5= TPE

5= JPN

5= HKG

5= INA


1 CHN

5= JPN

5= JPN

5= JPN

5= INA

2 CHN

3 JPN

3 IND


1 CHN

3 DEN

5= CHN

5= KOR

5= KOR

2 KOR

3 CHN

2 CHN

3 MAC

3 CHN

5= CHN


1 CHN

5= JPN

5= JPN

5= SIN

5= TPE

2 KOR

3 CHN

4 JPN

2008 Olympics

1 CHN

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Mixed Doubles

Lee Yong-dae Zheng BoLee Hyo-jung Ma JinNova Widianto He HanbinLilyana Natsir Yu YangHe Hanbin Ko Sung-hyunYu Yang Ha Jung-eunFlandy Limpele Lee Sheng-MuVita Marissa Chien Yu-ChinNathan Robertson Nova WidiantoGail Emms Lilyana NatsirSudket Prapakamol Thomas LaybournSaralee Thoungthongkam Kamilla Rytter JuhlRobert Mateusiak Valiyaveetil DijuNadiezda Kostiuczyk Jwala GuttaThomas Laybourn Tao JiamingKamilla Rytter Juhl Zhang Yawen

Zhang Nan Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei Zhao Yunlei Chris Adcock Xu ChenImogen Bankier Ma JinXu Chen Shintaro IkedaMa Jin Reiko ShiotaTantowi Ahmad Joachim Fischer NielsenLilyana Natsir Christinna PedersenChen Hung-Ling Tontowi AhmedCheng Wen-Hsing Lilyana NatsirTao Jiaming Chen Hung-LingTian Qing Cheng Wen-HsingChayut Triyachart Robert BlairLei Yao Gabrielle WhiteJoachim Fischer Nielsen Sudket PrapakamolChristinna Pedersen Saralee Thoungthongkam

Points

Zhang Nan Xu ChenZhao Yunlei Ma JinXu Chen Lee Yong-daeMa Jin Ha Jung-eunTontowi Ahmad Joachim Fischer NielsenLiliyana Natsir Christinna PedersenJoachim Fischer Nielsen Alexandr NikolaenkoChristinna Pedersen Valeri SorokinaChen Hung-Ling Thomas LaybournCheng Wen-Hsing Kamilla Rytter JuhlThomas Laybourn Tontowi AhmedKamilla Rytter Juhl Liliyana NatsirLee Yong Dae Valiyaveetil DijuHa Hung Eun Jwala GuttaSudket Prapakamol He HanbinSaralee Thoungthongkam Yixin BaoPeng Soon ChanLiu Ying GohChris AdcockImogen BankierShintaro IkedaReiko ShiotaAlexandr NikolaenkoValeri SorokinaV. DijuJwala GuttaMichael FuchsBirgit MichelsRobert MateusiakNadiezda ZiebaToby NgGrace Gao

26 CAN 36,610

16 GER 45,123

19 INA 44,206

12 RUS 48,850

14 IND 46,060

10 GBR 51,180

11 JPN 50,790

9 MAS 57,180

6 DEN 64,882

7 KOR 60,290

5= CHN

World Rankings

1 CHN

4 DEN 80,036

5 TPE 69,720

90,940

2 CHN 84,196

3 INA 80,990

8 THA 57,194

5= DEN

5= INA

5= IND

2 KOR

3 DEN

3 RUS

2012 Korea Open

1 CHN

5= INA

5= TPE

5= GBR

5= DEN


1 CHN

5= THA

5= TPE

5= CHN

5= SIN

2 GBR

3 CHN

3 INA


1 CHN

3 DEN

5= POL

5= DEN

5= IND

2 CHN

3 JPN

2 CHN

3 MAC

3 KOR

5= DEN


1 CHN

5= CHN

5= GBR

5= THA

5= POL

2 INA

3 CHN

4 INA

2008 Olympics

1 KOR

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Basketball

Basketball is one of the success stories of recent Olympics. For 52 years following its debut in 1936, the USA would send a team of college students to the Olympics and, with a couple of exceptions (their loss to USSR in 1972 is regularly voted as one of the greatest Olympic moments in history), would win gold. Basketball was an American sport and there was very little interest outside that continent. Then, at the Barcelona Games in 1992, professionals from the NBA were allowed in; enter Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippin, Magic Johnson, Patrick Ewing, Larry Bird. Still regarded as a golden generation, they showed the speed, creativity, athleticism and glamour that top level basketball can produce and the world was hooked. Although their ability meant there was no contest for the gold that year –their lowest winning margin was 38 points – it didn’t matter; a generation of young players across the world were inspired. A decade later and those young players were playing in professional leagues in their own countries and, increasingly, the NBA. They also brought a new level of preparation to international tournaments (the US were still treating it as a fun fortnight away) and, in Athens, this paid off when Argentina subjected the Americans to an embarrassing defeat in the semi-finals and went on to win gold. In Beijing the US had to copy the preparation of their rivals - which paid off – but a close final against Spain proved that basketball is truly a world-wide sport, and the USA should never again be treated as guaranteed winners.

That said, and despite the continuing improvement of teams across the world, it is the USA that retains the most standout players. A full strength American team may well have seemed near invincible, but they have been ravaged by injuries. Derrick Rose, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh have all had to pull out but it is Dwight Howard that will be

missed most of all. Howard is an incredible physical defensive and offensive presence under the basket who can single-handedly win games for Orlando Magic in the NBA; had he been available for the US Olympic team, his low-post presence would have made them near unbeatable. In his place the US will take only one centre to the

Olympics, Tyson Chandler, who is fantastic defensively but does not provide the same offensive option and so will push the US to the perimeter. That is not to say that the USA team will be left without talent. Their middle three (shooting guard, small forward and power forward) will be a frightening proposition to face: Kobe Bryant, five times

NBA champion with the LA Lakers; Kevin Durant, who was this NBA season’s revelation and led Oklahoma City Thunder to the NBA finals; and the incredible LeBron James, the three time NBA MVP who took this year’s playoffs by storm on his way to the NBA Championship with Miami Heat. If these three can play as a unit at anywhere

near their best then the gold medal should return to the States; but, as two of the three having recently gone through the physically and emotionally draining experience of the best-of-7 NBA finals, fatigue is a real and present possibility.

So if not the USA then who? As 2006 World Champions and 2008 silver medallists, Spain have international and NBA experience galore in the squad. Imposing under the basket at over 7’ tall, brothers Pau and Marc Gasol (both NBA All-Stars) know how to rattle the USA. They will, however, miss their young point guard Ricky Rubio who, after starting the year as one of the most exciting players in his rookie season in the NBA, tore his ACL and so leaves a hole in the Spanish play. In fine national tradition, France bristle with talent but underachieve; they have struggled in recent years to get a full strength team to turn out for their nation but with Joakim Noah, Boris Diaw and Tony Parker leading an all-NBA starting line-up they have gold-winning potential. Next up are Argentina and Brazil, again with NBA quality but perhaps not quite the depth needed to challenge the Americans. Great Britain will be led by NBA All-Star Luol Deng and for a while looked a very exciting prospect for the Games, but they have been left very short by the withdrawal of two NBA players in the past month; a couple of wins and a quarter-final appearance would be an excellent achievement.

In women’s basketball the USA team will be under no illusions that anything other than gold is good enough. Winners of every Olympic title ever, the USA's traditional success should be continued by the likes of Diana Taurasi. If they are capable of challenge, it will come from Australia and Russia; as ever, a one match knockout is a hair-raising experience and the Americans can’t afford to allow their concentration to slip. The British women’s basketball team has recorded some respectable victories recently

and they will be hoping both to make it to the quarter-finals in London, and to build on their experience to qualify for the next Olympics for the first time ever.

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Country Qualification GroupWorld

RankingAchievements Top Players

United StatesWon 2010 World Championships

A 1st

After some poor performances in the mid-noughties, the Redeem Team dominated the 2008 Olympics and then won the 2010 World Championships

LeBron James (27, Forward, 203cm, 1st overall draft pick 2003, 3x NBA MVP - 2009-10 & 2012, 8x NBA All-Star, 2012 NBA Finals MVP & Champion), Kevin Durant (23, Small Forward, 206cm, 2nd overall in NBA draft 2007, 2008 Rookie of the Year, 2010-2012 NBA Scoring Champion & NBA All-Star, 2010 FIBA World Championships MVP) ,

Kobe Bryant (33, Shooting Guard, 198cm,5x NBA Champion, 2x NBA Finals MVP, 2008 NBA MVP, 14x NBA All-Star)

ArgentinaWon 2011 Americas Championships

A 3rd2004 Olympics champions, won bronze in 2008, knocked out in QF by Lithuania in 2010 World Championships

Manu Ginobili (35, Shooting Guard, 198cm, 10yrs with San Antonio Spurs, 3x NBA champion, 2x NBA all star, Argentina's Olympic flag bearer 2008), Luis Scola (32, Small Forward, 206cm, 5yrs with Houston Rockets, 2010 World Championship All-Tournament Team), Carlos Delfino (29, Shooting Guard, 198cm, 8yr NBA career)

Lithuania Wildcard Qualifier A 5th

Have reached the semi-finals at every Olympics since 1992, third in 2010 World Championships, 5th in 2011 EuroBasket

Jonas Valanciunas (20, Center, 211cm, 5th overall draft by Toronto Raptors in 2011 though yet to start due to contract restriction, European Young Player of the Year 2011), Linas Kleiza (27, Power Forward, 203cm, 2010 World Championsips All-Tournamnet Team, o the books of Toronto Raptors but has has injury issues)

France Runner-Up 2011 Eurobasket A 12th

Last Olympics since 2000 (where they won silver), poor performance at 2010 World Champs, silver at 2011 EuroBasket with a new-look team

Boris Diaw (30, Power Forward, 203cm, 9yr NBA career, currently at San Antonio Spurs), Tony Parker (30, Point Guard, 188cm, 11years with San Antonio Spurs, 3x NBA champion, 3x All Star, ex-husband of Eva Longoria)

Nigeria Wildcard Qualifier A 21stFirst appearance at the Olympics, only two appearances at the World Champs

Al-Farouk Aminu (21, Small Forward, 206cm, 8th overall pick 2010, started 21 games for New Orleans Hornets last season), Ike Diogu (28, 208cm, Centre/Power Forward, 7 years in NBA, now playing in Puerto Rico)

Tunisia Won Afrobasket A 32ndWon Afrobasket for 1st time in 2011, have never qualified for Olympics and finished last in their group at 2010 WC

Salah Mejri (26, Center, 217cm, MVP Afrobasket 2011, Joined Antwerp Diamond Giants in 2010)

Spain Won 2011 Eurobasket B 2nd

Silver in 2008 Olympics (took USA close in final), 2006 World Champions, 2009 & 2011 EuroBasket Champions, lost to Serbia in QF at 2010 World Champs

Pau Gasol (32, Power Forward, 213cm, 11 years in NBA, 2x NBA champion, 4x NBA All Star, 7x European player of year), Marc Gasol (27, Center, 216cm, 4 year starter Memphis Grizzlies, All-Star 2012) , Serge Ibaka (22, Power Forward, 208cm, 3 years NBA, 2-time competitor in NBA Slam Dunk contest)

Australia Won Oceania Qualification B 9th7th at last Olympics, lost to Slovenia in last-16 at 2010 World Championships

Patrick Mills (23, Point Guard, 183cm, playing for San Antonio Spurs where he scored a career high 34 points & 12 assists against Golden State)

China Won Asia Qualification B 10th8th at 2008 Olympics, last-16 at 2010 World Championships

Yi Jianlian (24, Power Forward, 213cm, 6th overall pick 2007, 6 years NBA now with Dallas Mavericks)

Russia Wildcard Qualifier B 11th9th at 2008 Olympics, 9th at 2010 World Championships but 3rd at 2011 EuroBasket and champions in 2007

Andrei Kirilenko (31, Small Forward, 206cm, played for Utah Jazz 2001-11 earning All-Star honours in 2004, Eurobasket MVP in 207, returned to CSKA Moscow last year who he led to Euroleague championships becoming MVP)

BrazilRunner-Up 2011 Americas Championships

B 13thHave not qualified for Olympics since 1996, lost to Argentina in last-16 at 2010 World Championships

Tiago Splitter (27, Center, 211cm, Spanish League MVP 2010, Joined San Antonio Spurs in 2010), Anderson Varejao (29, Power Forward, 211cm, 8 years NBA), Leandro Barbosa (29, Guard, 191cm, 9 years NBA, 2007 NBA Sixth Man of the Year)

Great Britain Host-Country Place B 43rd

Had never qualified for an international tournamnet until 2009, finished 2009 & 2011 EuroBasket with 2-3 record but have not reached knockout stages

Luol Deng (27, Small Forward, 206cm, 7th overall draft pick 2004, 2012 NBA All-Star, 8 year starter for Chicago Bulls - highest minutes per game in 11/12 season), Joel Freeland (25, Power Forward, 208cm, drafted in first round by Portland Trail Blazers in 2006 but has never played for them, starting PF for Malaga in Spanish top division), Pops Mensah-Bonsu (28, Power Forward, 206cm, journey-man career inc 61 NBA appearances, now playing in Turkey)

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Women's Basketball



United StatesWon 2010 World Championships

A 1stGold at every Olympics since 1996; 1st & unbeaten at 2010 World Championships

Diana Taurasi (30, Guard, 183cm, 5x WNBA All-Star, 2x WNBA Champion, 2009 WNBA MVP, 2x Olympic Gold), Tamika Catchings (3, Forward, 185cm, 7x WNBA All-Star, 2011 WNBA MVP, 2x Olympic Gold), Candace Parker (26, Forward, 193cm, 2008 WNBA MVP, 1st player to dunk in college basketball, 1x Olympic gold)

China Won Asia Qualification A 7th4th at 2008 Olympics; 13th at 2010 World Championships; reigning Asian Champions

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France Wildcard Qualifier A 8thDNQ for 2008 Olympics; 6th at 2010 World Championships; 1st in 2009 and 3rd in 2011 at EuroBasket

Sandrine Gruda (25, Centre, 193cm, best rebounder & blocker at 2009 Eurobasket)

Turkey Wildcard Qualifier A 21stNever qualified for Olympics or World Championships; 2nd at 2011 EuroBasket

Quanitra Hollingsworth (23, Centre, 196cm, took Turkish citizenship despite never having lived there, 2nd in Euroleague field goal percentage), Nevriye Yilraz (32, Power Forward, 193cm, EuroBasket All-Star 2011)

Angola Won Afrobasket A 27thNever qualified for Olympics or World Championships; reigning African Champions

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Croatia Wildcard Qualifier A 31stNever qualified for Olympics or World Championships; 5th at 2011 EuroBasket

Sandra Mandir (24, Shooting Guard, 176cm, top-5 in EuroBasket points per game and assists per game 2011, All-Tournament Team at EuroBasket 2011)

Australia Won Oceania Qualification B 2nd=Silver at past three Olympics; 5th at 2010 World Championships, 1st at 2006 World Championships

Lauren Jackson (31, Forward/Centre, 196cm, 3x ('03, '07, '10) WNBA MVP, 7x WNBA All-Star, 2x WNBA Champion, 3x Olympic Silver), Penny Taylor (31, Guard, 185cm, 3x WNBA All-Star, 2006 World Championships MVP)

Russia Won 2011 Eurobasket B 2nd=

Bronze at past two Olympics; 7th at 2010 World Championships; 1st in 2011 and 2nd in 2009 at EuroBasket

Becky Hammon (35, Guard, 168cm, 6x WNBA All-Star, US born and raised, Hammon took Russian nationality after not being selected for USA team in 2008), Elena Danilochkina (26, Shooting Guard, 182cm, 2011 EuroBasket MVP) , Maria Stepanova (33, Center, 201cm, All-Tournament Team at 2011 EuroBasket)

Czech Republic

Wildcard Qualifier B 4th7th at 2008 Olympics; 2nd at 2010 World Championships; 4th at 2011 EuroBasket

Hana Horakova (33, Guard, 181cm, 2010 World Championship MVP), Eva Viteckova (30, Forward, 190cm, All-Tournament Team at 2011 EuroBasket and 2010 World Champioships, averages 16.4 PPG for Czech)

BrazilWon 2011 Americas Qualification

B 6th11th at 2008 Olympics; 9th at 2010 World Championships; 3rd in 2011 Pan-American Games

Erika de Sousa (30, Center, 196cm, 2009 WNBA All-Star)

Canada Wildcard Qualifier B 11thDNQ for past three Olympics, best result 4th in 1984; 12th at 2010 World Championships

Courtnay Pilypaitis (24, Guard, 185cm, Canada's top scorer at Olympic qualification tournament)

Great Britain Host-Country Place B 49th=9th place at 2011 EuroBasket was first ever appearance at major championships

Jo Leedham (24, Small Forward, 180cm)

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Beach Volleyball

Men's Beach VolleyballCountry Players Age Height Ranking

Emanuel Rego 39 190cm

Alison Cerutti 27 203cm

Todd Rogers 38 187cm

Philip Dalhausser 31 206cm

Julius Brink 30 186cmJonas Reckermann 33 200cmJacob Gibb 36 201cmSean Rosenthal 32 191cmReinder Nummerdor 35 194cmRichard Schuil 39 202cmPedro Henrique Cunha 29 189cmRicardo Costa Santos 37 200cmGrzegorz Fijalek 25 186cmMariusz Prudel 26 191cmJonathan Erdmann 23 194cmKay Matysik 32 191cmPatrick Heuscher 35 194cmJefferson Bellaguarda 35 193cmPablo Herrera 30 193cmAdrian Gavira 24 193cmXu Linyin 26 200cmWu Penggen 30 198cmPetr Benes 37 197cmPremysl Kubala 38 202cmAleksandrs Samoilovs 27 195cmRuslans Sorokins 30 196cmMartins Plavins 27 190cmJanis Smedins 24 191cmPaolo Nicolai 23 203cmDaniele Lupo 21 195cm

Sascha Heyer 40 203cm

Sebastien Chevalier 25 193cm

Tarjei Skarlund 33 191cmMartin Spinnangr 25 197cmKonstantin Semenov 23 208cmYaroslav Koshkarev 27 194cmClemens Doppler 31 200cmAlexander Horst 29 186cmJohn Garcia-Thompson 33 ??Steven Grotowski 30 198cm

Katsuhiro Shiratori 35 190cm

Kentaro Asahi 36 199cm

Josh Binstock 31 ??Martin Reader 28 199cmIgor Hernandez 35 190cmJesus Fane 25 188cmFreedom Chiva 32 ??Grant Goldschmit 29 194cm

Poland

Germany

Switzerland

Spain

12

13

14

15

2011 World Championship quarter-finalists, 2nd place in two World Grand Slam events in 2011, Prudel was 2011 FIVB 'Most Impoved Player'

Silver in 2011 European Championships, quarter-finalists in past 3 World Grand Slam events

Paired up in 2011 when Bellaguarda got Swiss nationality, have had three podiums since

Third in European Championships 2012, final-16 twice in Grand Slam tournaments in 2012, best performance 2nd in 2010 Norway Grand Slam, last in group at 2008 OlympicsFinished third in the 2012 Dutch Open, fifth at the 2012 European Championships and qualified at the final qualification tournamentNew pairing this year, won the Austrian satellite tournament and qualified at the final qualification tournament

Have never passed through the qualifying stages at any 1st or 2nd tier international event

Finished third in their group at the 2008 Olympic Games, finished 5th in the Asian Championships this year and make it through the qualifiers at Grand Slam tournamnets about 1 time in 5

New pairing this year, reached the last-16 of the Polish Open and won the North American Continental CupHave made it through the qualifying rounds just twice in a Grand Slam event in the past 3 years - Won the South American Continental Cup

Have only once attempted to qualify for a world event, won the African Continental Cup

Austria

23

Czech Republic

Latvia

Latvia

Brazil

Sun, sand, bikinis, cheerleaders, dance music, beautiful people, Horse Guards Parade… what’s not to like about Olympic Beach Volleyball? No other sport has so unashamedly, and so successfully, sold itself on a cocktail of sex and cool. Although the rule has now been discontinued, women were subject to a bikini only dress-code which actually restricted the size of those bikinis. The problem is that, in the list of reasons to watch a beach volleyball session, exciting sporting action will appear a long way down. Speaking from personal experience in Beijing, the crowd would sit quietly, faintly bored, whilst the volleyball was underway, but would then spring to life, excitedly cheering and rushing about to take photographs, as soon as the cheerleaders came on. Admittedly there were problems with the atmosphere at many sessions in Beijing, but my feeling is that for beach volleyball to take the next step there needs to be more focus on the sport rather than the sex.

Having said that, one thing that beach volleyball can't but be credited for doing well is creating great images. A boisterous youthful crowd watching thebeach volleyball on Bondai Beach was one of the defining memories of the incredibly successful Sydney Olympics. Although the London crowd will be

somewhat more corporate, the choice of location, on Horse Guards Parade, was inspired. One man that could give you real insight into the history of beach volleyball is Brazilian Emanuel Rego, one half of the number 1 ranked team coming into this men’s tournament. A legend of world sport, Emanuel was

there at the birth of the professional sport, having taking part in the first ever Olympic beach volleyball tournament in 1996 (and every one since) and everyseason of the professional tour. Not satisfied with the gold medal he picked up in 2004, or the bronze in 2008, he teamed up with a new partner in 2010,

Alison Cerutti, and has climbed to the top of the world rankings, picking up a host of awards on the way.Emanuel and Alison’s Olympic journey will, unless there is a real upset, result in a final against Californians, the Beast and the Professor. The Beast, 6’9”, bald and intimidating Phil Dalhauser, and the Professor, goatee sporting Todd Rogers, were unstoppable four years ago in Beijing on their way to the gold medal. Since then they have gone off the boil slightly, but are still the most consistent winners on the World Tour and, all being well, the final should be a show stopper.

Amongst the women, Misty May Treanor and Kerri Walsh (USA) have dominated for a decade, winning two Olympic golds and three World Championships. They will be very strong contenders again but coming off an ACL tear for May Treanor whilst paricipating in 'Dancing With the Stars' in2009 and two children for Walsh, the number 1 ranked pair, Brazil’s Larissa Franca and Juliana Da Silva, will be hoping their reign is over. Number 2

ranked are Zhang Xi and Xue Chen, a young, tall Chinese duo who have great consistency and potential but need to step up if they have aspirantions ofwinning regularly on the international circuit.

AchievementsEmanuel and Alison, since becoming partners in 2010, have won the 2011 World Championships, almost every prize given out by FIVB, and 5 Grand Slam events. Previously Emanuel has won Olympic gold in Athens, bronze in Beijing and 2 other World Championship golds

Nick-named the Beast and the Professor (for obvious reasons), they have been the most successful beach volleybal partnership in history - Olympic gold medallists in 2008, 15 international titles in past 3 years, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011 AVP Tour champions

Only got together in late 2011 after Ricardo won 2011 World Championship silver, have started strong racking up 4 tournament victories from 12

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2

3

4

5

Italy

Switzerland 19

Brazil

United States

Germany

United States

Netherlands

China

Great Britian

Russia

6

7

9

10

11

2009 World Champions, 2011 European Champions, have not won a world event since 2009

Quarter-finalists in 2008 Olympics, won the last World Tour event, in Rome, before the London OlympicsQuarter-finalists in 2008 Olympics, failed to progress past 1st round in last 3 World Championships, won 2012 Beijing Grand Slam event

Young team only got together last year, have struggled for consistancy since but achieved an impressive 2nd at this years Beijing Grand Slam

Have reached the quarter-finals at just one Grand Slam event per year for the past three yearsLost in first round at 2011 and 2009 World Championships but have been quarter-finalists at past three Grand Slam events4th in the 2011 World Championships but have not been close to that in any major competition before or since

18

Heyer has been on the World Tour since 1996, reaching a career high of World Championship silver in 2005, this partnership has only once reached into the quarter-finals of a tournament but Chevalier was 2011 FIVB 'Rookie of the Year'

2011 World Championship quarter-finalists, fallen in the first round at past 5 events

Lost in first round at 2008 Olympics, 2nd at 2011 Asian Championships, 1st in 2010 Moscow Grand Slam

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115

293

Venezuala

South Africa

Canada 77

Japan 95

Norway 21

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Women's Beach Volleyball

Country Players Age HeightWorld

Ranking

Larissa Franca 30 174cm

Juliana Da Silva 29 177cm

Zhang Xi 27 183cm

Xue Chen 23 189cm

Misty May Treanor 34 182cm

Kerri Walsh 33 188cm

Jennifer Kessy 34 180cmApril Ross 30 185cmTalita De Rocha Antunes 29 181cmMaria Antonelli 28 176cmGreta Cicolari 29 180cmMarta Menegati 21 180cmMarlene Van Iersel 24 178cmSanne Keizer 27 182cmSara Goller 28 180cmLaura Ludwig 26 181cmSimone Kuhn 31 184cmNadine Zumkehr 27 172cmKatrin Holtwick 28 176cmIlka Semmler 26 183cmMarketa Slukova 24 182cmKristyna Kolocova 24 170cmLiliana Fernandez Steiner 25 178cmElsa Baquerizo 25 181cmDoris Schwaiger 27 171cmStefanie Schwaiger 25 182cmBecchara Palmer 24 183cmLouise Bawden 30 184cmHana Klapalova 30 182cmLenka Hajeckova 34 173cmVasiliko Arvaniti 27 178cmMaria Tsartsiani 31 180cmHeather Bansley 24 170cmElizabeth Maloney 27 183cmNat Cook 37 181cmTamsin Hinchley 32 193cmMadelein Meppelink 22 183cmSophie van Gestel 21 ??Anastasia Vasina 24 187cmAnna Vozakova 23 175cmEvgenia Ukolova 23 181cmEkaterina Khomyakova 23 180cmShauna Mullin 27 178cmZara Dampney 25 178cmElodie Yi Luk Yo 29 173cmNatacha Rigobert 31 180cmAna Gallay 26 173cmVirginia Zonta 22 170cm

2009 World Champions, have only won 2 international events since but consistant podium finishers3rd in 2009 World Championships, quarter-finalists in 2011, Talita finished 4th in 2008 Olympics2011 European Champions, reached their first Grand Slam final in Beijing this year, Menegatti was 2011 FIVB 'Most Improved Player'

2012 European Champions, 4th place in 2012 Shanghai Grand Slam event

Lost in final 16 at last Olynmpics and World Championships, finished 2nd in last Grand Slam event, in Rome, Ludwig was FIVB 2011 'Best Offensive Player'Had never got into the semi finals at a top tier event before they won the last Grand Slam prior to the Olympics

Improved consistancy in the past 2 years, Grand Slam final in Beijing 2011

Under-23 European Champions in 2010, consistantly make it to th last 16 in nternational events3rd in European Championships in 2012 but have struggled to make it into the last 16 internationally

Partners for 7 years, World Champions in 2011, 2nd in 2009 & 2005 and 3rd in 2007 but only quarter-finalists in the 2008 Olympics, FIVB 'Team of the Year' 6 of past 7 years

Partners for 6 years, 2008 Olympic Bronze medallists, best World Championships in 2011 (3rd), have only ever won the Moscow Grand Slam event (which they have won in 2012, 2010 and 2008)

Partners for 11 years, 2008 and 2004 Olympic gold medallists, 3x World Champions, 2nd in 2011 World Championships, no world titles in 2012 but 3 Grand Slam victories in 2011

Achievements

Netherlands

Germany

Switzerland

China

United States

United States

Brazil

11

12

13

Czech Republic

Spain

Austria

Germany

Italy

Brazil

Australia

Czech Republic

Russia 29

Canada 24

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2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

17

18

Netherlands 27

Australia 25

130

227

14

16

37

Greece

Great Britain

Mauritius

Argentina

Russia 33

Usually knocked out in qualification stages for international tournaments but reached first round at 2011 World Championships and 2011 Stavanger Grand Slam

Have never qualified for a significant tournament, won the African Continental Cup

Have only played in three qualification events, won the South American Continental Cup

Quarter-finalists at 2008 Olympics, and frequent quart-finalists on World Tour

Struggle to get through to the final 8 at international events, finished fourth at Asian Championships in 20114th at 2011 World Championships and 2011 & 2012 European Championships, have never made it to the quarter finals at Grand Slam event

Eliminated in the first round at 8 of last 12 tournaments

4th at the 2011 North American Championships, have had a couple of last-16s at Grand Slam events

Have had three last-16 performances in 2012 Grand Slam events

New partnership this year, quarter-finalists at the 2012 Moscow Grand Slam, van Getsel was third in the Junior World Championships last year

Inconsistant but qualified at the last qualification tournamnet

Last-32 at last year's World Championships, best finish was a last-16 at the 2011 Moscow Grand Slam

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Boxing

Women's Flyweight (-51kg)

Name Nationality Age Qualification Achievements

Ren Cancan CHN 24 Won 2012 World Championships World Championships - Gold 2012, 2010

Nicola Adams GBR 29 2nd 2012 World ChampionshipsWorld Championships - Silver 2012, 2010, 2008; European Championships - Gold 2011

Karolina Michalczuk POL 35 Semi-Finalist 2012 WCWorld Championships - Gold 2008, Silver 2006, Bronze 2012, 2010; European Championships - Gold 2009, Silver 2011

Elena Savelyeva RUS 28 Semi-Finalist 2012 WCWorld Championships - Gold 2010, Silver 2008, Bronze 2011 (@ 54kg pre-2011)

Mary Kom IND 292nd Best Placed from Asia at 2012 WC

World Championships - QF 2012, Gold 2010, 2008 (@ 48kg pre-2011)

Stoyka Petrova BUL 26 Tripartate Commission InvitationWorld Championships - QF 2012, Round-3 2010; European Championships - Bronze 2011

Kim Hye Song PRK 27 Tripartate Commission Invitation World Championships - QF 2012, Silver 2010 (@-54kg)

Marlen Esparza USA 22Best Placed from Americas at 2012 WC

World Championships - QF 2012, Round-3 2010, Round-1 2008, Bronze 2006

Karlha Magliocco VEN 252nd Best Placed from Americas at 2012 WC

World Championships - Round-3 2012; Pan-American Games - Bronze 2011

Erica Dos Santos BRA 29 Tripartate Commission InvitationWorld Championships - Round-3 2012, Round-2 2010; South-American Games - Gold 2010

Maroua Rahali TUN 24Best Placed from Africa at 2012 WC

World Championships - Round-2 2012, Round-1 2010

Siona Fernandez NZL 29Best Placed from Oceania at 2012 WC


At times, Boxing seems to slot uneasily into the Olympic programme. As the sole remaining 'amateur' sport in the Olympics, it excludes many of its best athletes and yet the amateur status of some of the competitiors is questionable at best - most of the boxers who will win medals in London are full-time professional sportsmen supported by their national federations, the 'amateur' tag is retained as they do receive direct winnings from their fights. Olympic boxing tournaments have also been repeatedly marred by match fixing, scoring and political controversies, giving it a poor reputation which perhaps goes some way to explaining why boxing tickets have been amongst the slowest to sell for London 2012.

For many years, buoyed by support from Castro's government, Cuba enjoyed unrivalled success in Olympic boxing. Despite declining from their peak as a national outfit since the 1990s, they won 8 medals in 2008 and, with 2 reigning world champions, remain a real force in amateur boxing. Increasingly, however, they are joined by China, Great Britain, and the former Soviet states of Russia, Kazakstan, Azerbajan and the outstanding Ukraine (who won 4 golds at last years World Championships in Baku). All these countries will be showing with large contingents of highly trained specialist amateur boxers with a hefty list recent titles to their names.

The hottest property in men's amateur boxing at the moment is the Ukrainian Vasyl Lomachenko. The winner of the Val Barker Trophy (award for the most stylish boxer) in Beijing comes in with one gold medal and two World Championships to his name. He will expect to add the 2012

Lightweight gold medal to his resumé. Other male boxers worth watching out for are Zou Shiming, who walked to the Light Flyweight gold in Beijing and to the 2011 World Championship; and Julio Cesar la Cruz from Cuba, who impressed on his way to the Light Heavyweight World Championship

last year and is fancied to take this year's Val Barker trophy. On the women's side it is Katie Taylor from Ireland who has taken every world andEuropean title for the past 7 years. In a sport where the first World Championships for women was only held in 2001, she should prove to be

precisely the burgeoning super-star needed to raise the profile of the women's competition.

Great Britain only won their first World Championship medal in 1999 but have used a modest budget well and now count amongst the biggest forces in world boxing. Our women make up the strongest female boxing team in the world. Savannah Marshall (Middleweight), Nicolas Adams (Flyweight) and Natasha Jonas (Lightweight) won gold, silver and bronze respectively at the World Championships in May; they combine to make a charismatic advert that shows off boxing at its best. On the men's side, despite an almost complete departure of the young team from Beijing into the professional ranks, the men showed well in the 2011 World Championships with 4 medallists. Andrew Selby (Flyweight), Luke Campbell (Bantamweight) and Anthony Joshua (Super-Heavyweight) will all be hoping to turn World Championship silver to Olympic gold at their home gamesbut every British boxer who qualifies will have a shot at gold. Josh Taylor (Lightweight), Tom Stalker (Light Welterweight), Fred Evans (Welterweight) and former Big Brother housemate Anthony Ogogo (Middleweight) will all take heart from the fact that British Beijing gold medallist James DeGale lost his opening bout in the 2007 World Championships. The big unknown is the influence of the home crowd on scoring; although the amateur scoring method may be the fairest and most transparent ever seen in boxing, it relies on the judgement of 5 men sitting at the side of the ring who must decide whether a punch is of enough power and direction to be worth scoring, and who may well be swayed by a baying home crowd. If all goes to plan, the GB boxing team will be challenging the GB rowers, cyclists and sailors for the most number of medals won in London despite having half the funding.

However, all this fails to recognise the importance of Olympic boxing as a respected platform for boxers from all nations to prove their ability. It is fasflowing, with short matches and an open scoring method; well removed from the commercial motivated arms of murky promoters (Don King is after all

a convicted murderer). In London, male and, for the first time, female athletes from 79 countries will gain national coverage as respected sportsmenand women. They will include some of the fittest sportsmen of the Games and produce some of the most exciting and compelling action. For manythe Olympics will remain a platform for young boxers to jump into the professional ranks; but for me, the Olympics shows one of the oldest and most

universal sports in the world off at its best.

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Boxing

Women's Lightweight (-60kg)


Katie Taylor IRE 26 Won 2012 World ChampionshipsWorld Championships - Gold 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006; European Championships - Gold 2011, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005

Sofya Ochigava RUS 25 2nd 2012 World ChampionshipsWorld Championships - Silver 2012, Bronze 2008, Gold 2006, 2005; European Championships - Gold 2009 (@-57kg or -54kg pre-2011)

Natasha Jonas GBR 28 Semi-Finalist 2012 WCWorld Championships - Bronze 2012; European Championships - Gold 2011 (@-64kg pre-2012)

Mavzuna Chorieva TJK 19 Semi-Finalist 2012 WC World Championships - Bronze 2012, Round-2 2010

Adriana Araujo BRA 31Best Placed from Americas at 2012 WC

World Championships - QF 2012, Round-2 2010, Round-1 2008; Pan-American Games - Round-1 2011

Dong Cheng CHN 25 Tripartate Commission InvitationWorld Championships - Round-2 2012, Silver 2010, 2008; Asian Games - Gold 2010

Mihaela Lacatus ROU 30 Tripartate Commission Invitation World Championships - QF 2012, Bronze 2010

Quanitta Le Underwood USA 28 Tripartate Commission InvitationWorld Championships - Round-3 2012, Bronze 2010; Pan-American Games - QF 2011

Rim Jouini TUN 31Best Placed from Africa at 2012 WC

World Championships - Round-2 2012, Bronze 2010

Saida Khassenova KAZ 232nd Best Placed from Asia at 2012 WC


Alexis Pritchard NZL 28Best Placed from Oceania at 2012 WC


Mahjouba Oubtil MAR 29 Tripartate Commission Invitation World Championships - Round-1 2012, Round-2 2010

Women's Middleweight (-75kg)


Savannah Marshall GBR 21 Won 2012 World Championships World Championships - Gold 2012, Silver 2010

Elena Vystropova AZE 23 2nd 2012 World Championships World Championships - Silver 2012

Nadezda Torlopova RUS 33 Semi-Finalist 2012 WC World Championships - Gold 2010, Bronze 2012

Mary Spencer CAN 27 Tripartate Commission InvitationWorld Championships - Round-1 2012, Gold 2010, Gold 2008 (@ -66kg)

Li Jinzi CHN 22 Best Placed from Asia at 2012 WC World Championships - Gold 2008, Silver 2010, QF 2012

Marina Volnova KAZ 23 Tripartate Commission Invitation World Championships - QF 2012, Silver 2010 (@ -81kg)

Roseli Feitosa BRA 232nd Best Placed from Americas at 2012 WC

World Championships - Round-1 2012, Gold 2010; Pan-American Games - Bronze 2011 (@ -81kg pre-2011)

Anna Laurell SWE 32 Tripartate Commission Invitation World Championships - Round-2 2010, Silver 2008

Naomi Fischer-Rasmussen AUS 28Best Placed from Oceania at 2012 WC

World Championships - Round-2 2012, 2010, Round-1 2008

Claressa Shields USA 17Best Placed from Americas at 2012 WC

World Championships - Round-2 2012

Edith Agu-Ogoke NGR 21Best Placed from Africa at 2012 WC

World Championships - Round-2 2012

Elizabeth Andiego KEN 25 Tripartate Commission Invitation World Championships - Round-1 2012, 2010

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Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (-49kg)Name Nationality Age Qualification Achievements

Zou Shiming CHN 31 Won 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - Gold 2008, Bronze 2004; World Championships - Gold 2011, 2007, 2005, Silver 2003; Asian Games - Gold 2010, 2006

Shin Jong-Hun KOR 23 2nd 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Silver 2011, Bronze 2009; Asian Championships - Gold 2011

Purevdorjiin Serdamba MGL 27 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - Silver 2008; World Championships - Gold 2009, Bronze 2011; Asian Championships - Gold 2007

Patrick Barnes IRE 25 Semi-Finalist European QTOlympics - Bronze 2008; World Championships - QF 2007, Round-1 2011, 2009; European Championships - Gold 2010, Silver 2008; Commonwealth Games - Gold 2010

David Arytapetyan RUS 28 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - Silver 2009, Bronze 2011; European Championships - Gold 2006

Jose de la Nieve ESP 25 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - QF 2011, 2009; European Championships - Silver 2008, Bronze 2010

Yosvany Veitia CUB 20 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011; World Youth Championships - Bronze 2010

Birzhan Zhakypov KAZ 28Won Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - QF 2008; World Championships - Bronze 2005; Asian Games - Silver 2010

Ferhat Pehlivan TUR 23Won European Qualification Tournamant

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011, 2009; European Championships - Bronze 2008, QF 2011, 2009

Carlos Quipo ECU 222nd American Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011, 2009; Americas Championships - Gold 2010; Pan-American Games - Round-1 2011

Devendro Singh IND 20 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WC Olympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011

Jeremy Beccu FRA 21Lost to Silver Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011; European Championships - QF 2011

Thomas Essomba CMR 24 Semi-Finalist African QTOlympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - Round-2 2011, Round-1 2009; All-Africa Games - Gold 2011, Bronze 2007; African Championships - Gold 2011, 2009

Jantony Ortiz PUR 18Won American Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Pan-American Games - Bronze 2011

Kaew Pongprayoon THA 32 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WC Olympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011, Round-2 2009

Aleksandar Aleksandrov BUL 272nd European Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2009; European Championships - Round-2 2010

Mark Barriga PHI 19Lost to Gold Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011; World Youth Championships - QF 2010

Mohamed Flissi ALG 22Won African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; All-Africa Games - Silver 2011; Arab Games - Silver 2011

Abdelali Daraa MAR 222nd African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011; Arab Games -QF 2011; African Championships - Silver 2011

Ramy Helmy EGY 22Lost to Silver Medalist in QF African QT

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011; Arab Games -QF 2011; African Championships - QF 2011

Manual Cappai ITA 19 Semi-Finalist European QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; World Youth Championships - Round-2 2010

Billy Ward AUS 19Won Oceanian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a

Juliano Maquina MOZ 18 Semi-Finalist African QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a

Carlos Suarez TRI 19Lost to Gold Medalist in Semi-Final American QT


Sulemanu Tetteh GHA 19Lost to Gold Medalist in QF African QT

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; World Youth Championships - Round-2 2010

Bayron Molina Figueroa HON 19 Tripartate Commission Invitation Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a

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Boxing

Men's Flyweight (-52kg)Name Nationality Age Qualification Achievements

Misha Aloyan RUS 23 Won 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Gold 2011, Silver 2009; European Championships - Gold 2010

Andrew Selby GBR 23 2nd 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Silver 2011; European Championships - Gold 2011

Rau'shee Warren USA 25 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - Round-1 2008, 2004; World Championships - Gold 2007, Bronze 2011, 2005

Elvin Mamishzade AZE 20 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011; European Championships - Gold 2010 (@ Light Flyweight)

Robeisy Ramirez CUB 18Lost to Gold Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011; World Youth Championships - Gold 2010

Jasurbek Latipov UZB 20 Semi-Finalist 2011 WC Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Bronze 2011

Ilyas Suleimenov KAZ 28Won Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Asian Boxing Championships - Gold 2011

Vincenzo Picardi ITA 28 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - Bronze 2008; World Championships - Bronze 2007; European Championships Bronze 2011, 2010, 2007

Nyambayaryn Togstsogt MGL 202nd Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Silver 2009

Nordine Oubaali FRA 25Won European Qualification Tournament

Olympics - Round-2 2008; World Championships - Bronze 2007, Round-1 2011, 2009; European Championships - Bronze 2007, Round2 2010

Michael Conlan IRL 20 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011; European Championships - QF 2011;

Oteng Oteng BOT 22Won African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011; Commonwealth Games - Bronze 2010; All-Africa Games - Gold 2011

Juliao Henriques BRA 302nd American Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships -n/a; Americas Championships Gold 2010; Pan-American Games - Bronze 2011

Katsuaki Susa JPN 27 Semi-Finalist Asian QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2; Asian Games - Bronze 2010

Jeyvier Cintron PUR 17Won American Qualification Tournament


Salomo Ntuve SWE 23Lost to Gold Medlaist in Semi-Final European QT

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011, Round-1 2009; European Championships - Round-2 2010, Round-1 2011

Chatchai Butdee THA 27Lost to Silver Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2009

Selcuk Eker TUR 202nd European Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; European Championships - QF 2010, Round-2 2011

Hesham Yehia EGY 18Lost to Gold Medalist in QF African QT

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; Youth World Championships - Bronze 2010

Samir Brahimi ALG 22 Semi-Finalist African QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; All-African Games - Silver 2011

Duke Micah GHA 20 Semi-Finalist African QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; Commonwealth Games - QF 2010

Oliver Lavigilante MRI 20Lost to Silver Medalist in QF African QT

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; Commonwealth Games - QF 2010

Pak Jong-Chol PRK 24 Semi-Finalist Asian QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a

Ajmal Faisal AFG 21 Tripartate Commission Invitation Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011

Benson Gicharu KEN 272nd African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2009

Jackson Woods AUS 19Won Oceanian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; World Youth Championships - QF 2010

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Boxing

Men's Bantamweight (-56kg)Name Nationality Age Qualification Achievements

Lazaro Alvarez CUB 21 Won 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Gold 2011; Pan-American Games - Gold 2011

Detelin Dalakliev BUL 29 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - Round-2 2004; World Championships - Gold 2009, Bronze 2003; European Championships - Gold 2009, 2007, 2005, 2004

Luke Campbell GBR 24 2nd 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Silver 2011; European Championships - Gold 2008, QF 2011

Sergey Vodopiyanov RUS 24 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - Round-2 2008; World Championships - Gold 2007, Silver 2009; European Championships - QF 2010

Anvar Yunusov TJK 25 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - QF 2008; World Championships - Bronze 2011; Asian Championships - Gold 2011

John Joe Nevin IRL 23 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - Round-2 2008; World Championships - Bronze 2011, 2009; European Championships - QF 2011, 2010

Oscar Valdez MEX 21Won American Qualification Tournament

Olympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - Bronze 2009, Round-2 2011; Americas Championships - Silver 2010; Youth World Championships - Gold 2009; Pan-American Championships - Silver 2011

Shiva Thapa IND 18Won Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011; Asian Championships - Round-1 2011; World Youth Championships - Silver 2010

Orzubek Shayimov UZB 24 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011; Asian Games - QF 2010

Kanat Abutalipov KAZ 29 Won the World Series of Boxing Olympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - QF 2009

Joseph Diaz USA 19 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WC Olympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011

Vittorio Parrinello ITA 28Lost to Gold Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC

Olympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - Round-3 2011, Round-1 2009, 2007; European Championships - QF 2011

Wissam Salamana SYR 262nd Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2009; Asian Games - Bronze 2010

Pavlo Ishchenko UKR 20Won European Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; European Championships - Round-1 2011; World Youth Championships - Round1 2010

Satoshi Shimizu JPN 26Lost to Gold Medlaist in Semi-Final Asian QT

Olympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - Round-2 2011, Round-1 2009, 2007; Asian Games - QF 2010

Mohamed Amine Ouadahi ALG 25Lost to Silver Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC


Aboubakr Lbida MAR 32Won African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011; Arab Games -Gold 2011

Magomed Abdulhamidov AZE 252nd European Qualification Tournament


Alberto Melian ARG 222nd American Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011, 2009; Americas Championships - QF 2010; Pan-American Games - QF2011

Robenilson Viera BRA 24 Semi-Finalist American QTOlympics - Round-2 2008; World Championships - n/a; Pan-American Games - QF2011, Round-1 2007

Dennis Ceylan DEN 23 Semi-Finalist European QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; European Championships - Round-2 2011

Ayabonga Sonjica RSA 21 Semi-Finalist African QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; All-African Games - Bronze 2011

Romeo Lemboumba GAB 32 Semi-Finalist African QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2009Merab Turkadze GEO 23 Semi-Finalist European QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2009

Ibrahim Balla AUS 22Won Oceanian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Commonwealth Games - Round-2 2010

William Encarnacion DOM 24 Semi-Finalist American QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Americas Championships - QF 2010

Isaac Dogboe GHA 172nd African Qualification Tournament


Jonas Matheus NAM 26Lost to Gold Medalist in QF African QT


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Boxing

Men's Lightweight (-60kg)Name Nationality Age Qualification Achievements

Vasyl Lomachenko UKR 24 Won 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - Gold 2008 + (Val Barker Trophy); World Championships - Gold 2011, 2009, Silver 2007; European Championships - Gold 2008 (@ Featherweight pre-2011)

Yasniel Toledo Lopez CUB 26 2nd 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Silver 2011, QF 2009; Americas Championships - Gold 2010

Domenico Valentino ITA 28 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - QF 2004, Round-2 2008; World Championships - Gold 2009, Silver 2007. Bronze 2011, 2005; European Championships - Silver 2011, Bronze 2004

Fatih Keles TUR 23 Semi-Finalist European QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; European Championships - Gold 2011

Evaldas Petrauskas LTU 20Won European Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; Youth Olympics - Gold 2010; Youth World Championships - Silver 2010

Gani Zhailauov KAZ 26 Semi-Finalist 2011 WC Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Bronze 2011, Round-1 2009

Han Soon-Chul KOR 27 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - QF 2011, Round-2 2009; Asian Games - Silver 2006, Bronze 2010

Liu Qiuang CHN 29Won Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011; Asian Championships - Silver 2011

Jai Bhagwan IND 27 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011, Round-3 2009, 2007; Commonwealth Games - Bronze 2010; Asian Championships - QF 2011

Josh Taylor GBR 21 Semi-Finalist European QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011; European Championships - Round-2 2011; Commonwealth Games - Silver 2010

Miklos Varga HUN 24 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - QF 2011, Round-1 2009; European Championships - Round-1 2011

Fazliddin Gaibnazarov UZB 21 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WC Olympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011

Abdelkader Chadi ALG 252nd African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - QF 2008; World Championships - Round-2 2011; All-African Games - Gold 2007

Sailom Adi THA 26Lost to Silver Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC

Olympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - Round-3 2011; South East Asia Games - Gold 2009, 2007, Bronze 2011

Robson Conceicao BRA 21Lost to Gold Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC

Olympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - Round-3 2011, Round-1 2009

Vazgen Safaryants BLR 272nd European Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2007, Round-2 2009; European Championships - Bronze 2008, 2006, QF 2010

Luke Jackson AUS 27Won Oceanian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011; Commonwealth Games - QF 2010

Ahmed Mejri TUN 22Won African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; All-African Games - Gold 2011

Felix Verdejo PUR 19Won American Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Youth World Championships - Round-2 2010

Abdon Mewoli CMR 26 Semi-Finalist African QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; All-Africa Games - Bronze 2011

Jose Ramirez USA 19 Semi-Finalist American QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011

Shafiq Chitou BEN 26Lost to Silver Medalist in QF African QT


Wellington Arias DOM 212nd American Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011; Americas Championships - Round-2 2010; Pan-American Games - Round-1 2011

Rachid Azzedine FRA 293rd World Series of Boxing (1st & 2nd withdrawn by NOC)

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; European Championships - Round-2 2010

Andrique Alissop SEY 19 Semi-Finalist African QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; Commonwealth Games - Round-1 2010

Mohamed Ramadan EGY 25Lost to Gold Medalist in QF African QT

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011, Round-1 2009, 2007

Eduar Marriaga COL 19 Semi-Finalist American QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Youth World Championships - Round-2 2010

Juan Huertas PAN 20 Tripartate Commission Invitation Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a

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Boxing

Men's Light Welterweight (-64kg)Name Nationality Age Qualification Achievements

Everton Lopes BRA 22 Won 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - Gold 2011, QF 2009; Americas Championships - Silver 2010, 2006; Pan American Games - Silver 2007, Bronze 2011 (@ Lightweight pre-2011)

Rosniel Iglesias CUB 23Won American Qualification Tournament

Olympics - Bronze 2008; World Championships - Gold 2009, Round-1 2011; Pan-American Games - Gold 2011; South American Championships - Gold 2010

Tom Stalker GBR 28 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Bronze 2011, Round-3 2009; European Championships - Silver 2011, 2010; Commonwealth Games - Gold 2010 (@Lightweight pre-2011)

Denys Berinchyk UKR 24 2nd 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Silver 2011; World University Championships - Gold 2010

Uranchimegiin Monkh-Erdene MGL 30 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - QF 2008, Round-1 2004; World Championships - Bronze 2009; Asian Championship - Gold 2011; Asian Games - Silver 2006

Vincenzo Mangiacapre ITA 23 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Bronze 2011; European Championships - Bronze 2011, QF 2010

Heybatulla Hajialiyev AZE 21 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011; European Championships - Bronze 2011, Round-1 2010

Gyla Kate HUN 30 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WC

Olympics - Round-1 2008, 2004; World Championships - Bronze 2009, 2003; European Championships - Gold 2006, 2005, Silver 2010, 2009, 2008, Bronze, 2007, 2006, 2004; World University Championships - Gold 2004

Daniyar Yeleussinov KAZ 21Won Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011; Asian Championships - QF 2011, 2010; Asian Games - Gold 2010

Manoj Kumar IND 25 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011, Round-1 2009; Commonwealth Games - Silver 2010; Asian Games - Bronze 2006

Anthony Yigit SWE 20Lost to Gold Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011; European Championships - QF 2011, 2010

Serdar Hudayberdiyev TKM 252nd Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2009, Round-2 2011; Asian Championships - QF 2011; Asian Games - Round-2 2010

Uktamjon Rahmonov UZB 21 Semi-Finalist Asian QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Asian Games - Silver 2010

Richarno Colin MRI 25Lost to Gold Medalist in QF African QT

Olympics - Round-2 2008; World Championships - Round-1 2009, 2007; Commonwealth Games - Bronze 2010; All-African Games - Gold 2011

Jonathan Alonso ESP 21Lost to Silver Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC


Mehdi Tolouti IRI 27 Semi-Finalist Asian QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011

Yakup Sener TUR 21Won European Qualification Tournament


Zdenek Chladek CZE 22 Tripartate Commission InvitationOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011, Round-2 2009, Round-1 2007; European Championships - Round-2 2011, Round-1 2010; Youth Worls Championships - Bronze 2008

Jeffre Horn AUS 24Won Oceanian Qualification Tournament


Abdelhak Aakani MAR 24Won African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Arab Games - Gold 2011

Abderrazak Houya TUN 252nd African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; All-African Games - Silver 2011

Romaric Bassole BUR 22 Semi-Finalist African QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011, Round-1 2009

Francisco Vargas PUR 182nd American Qualification Tournament


Anderson Rojas ECU 19Lost to Gold Medalist in QF American QT

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011; Americas Championships - Round-1 2010; Youth World Championships - Round2 2010

Cesar Villarraga COL 26 Semi-Finalist American QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011Jamel Herring USA 26 Semi-Finalist American QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011Eslam El-Gendy EGY 22 Semi-Finalist African QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011

Gilbert Choombe ZAM 20Lost to Silver Medalist in QF African QT

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Youth World Championships - Round-1 2010

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Boxing

Men's Welterweight (-69kg)Name Nationality Age Qualification Achievements

Serik Sapiyev KAZ 28 2nd 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - QF 2008; World Championships - Gold 2007, 2005, Silver 2011, Bronze 2009; Asian Championships - Gold 2007; Asian Games - Bronze 2006

Vikas Krishan IND 20 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Bronze 2011; Asian Games - Gold 2010; Youth World Boxing Championships - Gold 2010

Taras Shelestyuk UKR 26 Won 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Gold 2011, Round-3 2009; European Championships - Bronze 2010

Fred Evans GBR 21 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011; European Championships - Gold 2011; Commonwealth Games - Round-1 2010

Andrey Zamkovoy RUS 25 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Gold 2009, QF 2011; European Championships - Round-1 2010

Maimaitituersun Qiong CHN 24Won Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; Asian Championships - Gold 2011; Asian Games - Bronze 2010

Egidijus Kavaliauskas LTU 24 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - Bronze 2011, QF 2009; European Championships - Round-2 2010

Alexis Vastine FRA 25Lost to Gold Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC

Olympics - Bronze 2008; World Championships - QF 2007, Round-3 2011, 2009; European Championships - Silver 2010

Byambyn Tuvshinbat MGL 252nd Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Champioships - Round-2 2011, 2007; Asian Championships - Bronze 2011; Asian Games - QF 2010

Errol Spence USA 22 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WC Olympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011, Round-1 2009

Vasili Belous MDA 23 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011, Round-1 2009; European Championships - Round-1 2011, 2010

Myke Carvalho BRA 28Won American Qualification Tournament

Olympics - Round-1 2008, 2004; World Championships - Round-1 2011, Round-3 2009, Round-2 2008; Americas Championships - Gold 2010, 2006; Pan-American Games - Bronze 2007, 2011

Patrick Wojcicki GER 202nd European Qualification Tournament


Oscar Molina MEX 222nd American Qualification Tournament

Olympics -n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011, Round-3 2009; Americas Championships - Bronze 2010; Pan-American Games - Silver 2011

Adam Nolan IRE 25Won European Qualification Tournament


Yasuhiro Suzuki JPN 24Lost to Silver Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC


Mehdi Khalsi MAR 26Won African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - Round-2 2011, Round-1 2009

Gabriel Maestre VEN 25 Semi-Finalist American QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2; Americas Championships - Round-1 2010; Pan-American Games - Round-1 2011

Custio Clayton CAN 24Lost to Gold Medalist in QF American QT

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011; Americas Championships - QF 2010; Commonwealth Games - Round-2 2010

Mohamed Diaby MLI 282nd African Qualification Tournament


Cameron Hammond AUS 22Won Oceanian Qualification Tournament


Ilyas Abbadi ALG 19 Semi-Finalist African QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; Youth World Championships - Round-3 2010

Siphiwe Lusizi RSA 23 Semi-Finalist African QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2009; Commonwealth Games - Round-1 2010; All-African Games - Bronze 2011

Carlos Sanchez ECU 23 Semi-Finalist American QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; Pan-American Games - Round-1 2011

Amin Ghasemipour IRI 26Lost to Gold Medlaist in Semi-Final Asian QT


Seleman Kidunda TAN 28Lost to Gold Medalist in QF African QT


Yannick Mitoumba GAB 23Lost to Silver Medalist in QF African QT


Ahmas Abdulkareem Ahmed IRQ 20 Tripartate Commission Invitation Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a

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Boxing

Men's Middleweight (-75kg)Name Nationality Age Qualification Achievements

Abbos Atoev UZB 26Won Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - Gold 2009, 2007. Round-1 2011; Asian Games - Silver 2010

Evhen Khytrov UKR 23 Won 2011 World Championships Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Gold 2011

Ryota Murata JPN 26 2nd 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Silver 2011; Asian Championships - QF 2011

Vijender Singh IND 26 Semi-Finalist Asian QTOlympics - Bronze 2008, Round-1 2004; World Championships - Bronze 2009, Round-1 2011; Asian Games - Gold 2010, Bronze 2006; Commonwealth Games - Silver 2006, Bronze 2010

Esquiva Florentino BRA 22 Semi-Finalist 2011 WC Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Bronze 2011

Bogdan Juratoni ROU 22 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Bronze 2011; European Championships - Round-2 2011

Darren O'Neill IRL 26 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011, Round-3 2009; European Championships - Silver 2010, QF 2011

Adam Kilicci TUR 26Won European Qualification Tournament

Olympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - Bronze 2007, Round-3 2009, Round-1 2011; European Championships - Silver 2011, QF 2010

Andranik Hakobyan ARM 30 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - Round-2 2008; World Championships - Silver 2009. QF 2011; European Championships - QF 2010

Zoltan Harcsa HUN 19Lost to Gold Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011; European Championships - Round-2 2011; Youth World Championships - Bronze 2010

Anthony Ogogo GBR 232nd European Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011; European Championships - Round-1 2011, Round-2 2010; Commonwealth Games - Silver 2010

Danabek Suzhanov KAZ 27 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011; Asian Games - Bronze 2010

Nursahat Pazziyev TKM 192nd Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; Asian Championships - Bronze 2011; Youth World Championships - Round-2 2010

Aleksandar Drenovak SRB 28 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011; European Championships - Round-1 2011, 2010

Stefan Hartel GER 24Lost to Silver Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC


Sobirjon Nazarov TJK 21 Semi-Finalist Asian QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011

Mujandjae Kasuto NAM 262nd African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - n/a; Commonwealth Games - QF 2010; All-African Games - Bronze 2011

Mohamed Hikal EGY 33Lost to Gold Medalist in QF African QT

Olympics - Round-2 2004, Round-1 2008; World Championships - Bronze 2005, Round-2 2011; All-African Games - Gold 1999, 2003; Mediterranean Games - Gold 2005

Junior Castillo DOM 262nd American Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; Americas Championships - Round-1 2010; Pan-American Games - Round-2 2011

Terrell Gausha USA 24Won American Qualification Tournament


Badreddine Haddioui MAR 23Won African Qualification Tournament


Abdelmalek Rahou ALG 26 Semi-Finalist African QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011

Jesse Ross AUS 22Won Oceanian Qualification Tournament


Soltan Migitinov AZE 232nd at World Series of Boxing (1st withdrawn by NOC)


Marlo Delgado ECU 19 Semi-Finalist American QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/aJose Espinoza VEN 24 Semi-Finalist American QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a

Muideen Akanji NGR 20 Semi-Finalist African QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Youth World Championships - Round-1 2010

Enrique Collazo PUR 23Lost to Gold Medalist in QF American QT


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Boxing

Men's Light Heavyweight (-81kg)Name Nationality Age Qualification Achievements

Julio Cesar la Cruz CUB 21 Won 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Gold 2011; Americas Championships - Silver 2010

Egor Mekhontsev RUS 27 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Gold 2009, Bronze 2011; European Championships - Gold 2010, 2008 (@ Heavyweight pre-2011)

Elshod Rasulov UZB 26 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - QF 2008; World Championships - Silver 2009, Bronze 2011; Asian Games - Gold 2010, 2006; Asian Championships - Gold 2007

Abdilbek Niyazymbetov KAZ 23 2nd 2011 World Championships Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Silver 2011

Damien Hooper AUS 20 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011, Round-3 2009; Youth World Championships - Silver 2010; Youth Olympics - Gold 2010

Meng Fanlong CHN 23 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011; Asian Championships - Silver 2011; Asian Games - Bronze 2010

Bahram Muzaffer TUR 25Won European Qualification Tournament

Olympics - Round-2 2008; World Championships - QF 2009, Round-1 2011, 2007; European Championships - Gold 2006, Bronze 2011, 2007

Oleksandr Gvozdyk UKR 25 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WC Olympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011, Round-3 2009

Ehsan Rouzbahani IRI 24 Quarter-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011; Asian Games - QF 2010

Abdelhafid Benchabla ALG 25 Won the World Series of Boxing Olympics - QF 2008; World Championships - Round-3 2009

Sumit Sangwan IND 19Won Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011; Youth World Championships - QF 2010

Marcus Browne USA 21Won American Qualification Tournament


Yamaguchi Falcao BRA 242nd American Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011, 2009; Pan-American Games - Silver 2011; Americas Championships - Silver 2010

Jeysson Monroy COL 26Lost to Silver Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011, 2009

Ihab Al-Matbouli JOR 26Lost to Gold Medlaist in Semi-Final Asian QT

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-3 2011, 2009, 2007

Carlos Gongora ECU 23 Semi-Finalist American QTOlympics - QF 2008; World Championships - QF 2009, Round-3 2007, Round-2 2011; Pan-American Games - Bronze 2011, 2007

Enrico Koelling GER 22Lost to Gold Medalist in 3rd Round - 2011 WC


Yahia El-Mekachari TUN 22Won African Qualification Tournament


Jahon Qurbonov TJK 262nd Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Asian Games - Bronze 2010; Asian Championships - Round-2 2011

Christian Donfack CMR 28 Semi-Finalist African QTOlympics - DNS 2008; World Championships - n/a; All-African Games - Bronze 2011

Bosko Draskovic MNE 25 Tripartate Commission InvitationOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011, Round-1 2009; European Championships - Round-1 2011, Round-2 2010

Lukman Lawal NGR 23 Semi-Finalist African QTOlympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; All-African Games - Silver 2011

Vatan Huseynli AZE 202nd European Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Youth World Chmapionships - QF 2010

Mikhail Dauhaliavets BLR 22Lost to Gold Medlaist in Semi-Final European QT


Ahmed Bakri MAR 322nd African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; African Championships - Gold 2009

Osmar Bravo NCA 22 Semi-Finalist American QT Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011

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Boxing

Men's Heavyweight (-91kg)Name Nationality Age Qualification Achievements

Clemente Russo ITA 30 Won the World Series of BoxingOlympics - Silver 2008, Round-2 2004; World Championships - Gold 2007, Round-3 2009; European Championships - Gold 2005, Silver 2007

Oleksandr Usyk UKR 25 Won 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - QF 2008; World Championships - Gold 2011, Bronze 2009; European Championships - Gold 2008, Bronze 2006

Teymur Mammadov AZE 19 2nd 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Silver 2011; European Championships - Gold 2011

Artur Beterbiyev RUS 27Lost to Gold medallist in 1/4-Final 2011 WC

Olympics - Round-2 2008; World Championships - Gold 2009, Silver 2007; European Championships - Gold 2010, 2006

Wang Xuanxuan CHN 22 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Bronze 2011; Asian Championships - Silver 2011

Siarhei Karneyeu BLR 23 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Bronze 2011, Round-1 2009; European Championships - QF 2011, Round-2 2010

Tervel Pulev BUL 29Won European Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011, 2009; European Championships - Silver 2011, 2010

Ali Mazaheri IRI 30Won Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - Round-1 2008; World Championships - Round-1 2007; Asian Championships - Gold 2007, Bronze 2009, 2004; Asian Games Gold 2006, Bronze 2010

Chouaib Bouloudinats ALG 25Won African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011; All-African Games -Gold 2011

Jose Larduet CUB 22Lost to Silver medallist in 1/4-Final 2011 WC

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011, 2009

Jai Tapu Opetaia AUS 17Won Oceanian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Junior World Championships - Gold 2011

Julio Castillo ECU 23Lost to Gold Medalist in Semi-Final American QT

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2009, Round-2 2009; Americas Championships - Gold 2010; Pan-American Games - Silver 2011

Micahel Hunter USA 23Won American Qualification Tournament


Maxwell Amponsah GHA 252nd African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2009, Round-1 2011

Yamil Peralta ARG 202nd American Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-1 2011; Americas Championships - Round-1 2010; Pan-American Games - Bronze 2011

Tumba Silva ANG 26 Tripartate Commission Invitation Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a

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Boxing

Men's Super Heavyweight (+91kg)Name Nationality Age Qualification Achievements

Roberto Cammarelle ITA 32Lost to Silver medallist in 1/4-Final 2011 WC

Olympics - Gold 2008, Bronze 2004; World Championships - Gold 2009, 2007, Bronze 2005; European Championships - Silver 2011, 2004, 2002

Magomedrasul Majidov AZE 25 Won 2011 World Championships Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Gold 2011

Anthony Joshua GBR 22 2nd 2011 World ChampionshipsOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Silver 2011; European Championships - QF 2011

Magomed Omarov RUS 20Won European Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; European Championships - Gold 2011

Ivan Dychko KAZ 21 Semi-Finalist 2011 WCOlympics - n/a; World Championships - Bronze 2011, Round-2 2009; Asian Games - Silver 2010

Erik Pfeifer GER 25 Semi-Finalist 2011 WC Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Bronze 2011, Round-2 2009

Zhang Zhilei CHN 29Won Asian Qualification Tournament

Olympics - Silver 2008; World Championships - Bronze 2009, 2007, Round-2 2011; Asian Championships - Silver 2007, Bronze 2011, 2004; Asian Games - Gold 2010

Italo Perea ECU 19Won American Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a; Americas Championsips - Gold 2010; Pan-American Championships - Gold 2011

Erislandu Savon CUB 22Lost to Gold medallist in 1/4-Final 2011 WC

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - QF 2011, 2009; Americas Champioships - Silver 2010

Mohamed Arjaoui MAR 25Won African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - QF 2008; World Championships - QF 2009, Round-2 2011

Tony Yoka FRA 202nd European Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011; European Championships - Round-2 2011; Youth World Championships - Silver 2010

Blaise Yepmou CMR 272nd African Qualification Tournament

Olympics - n/a; World Championships - Round-2 2011; Commonwealth Games - Bronze 2010

Johan Linde AUS 29Won Oceanian Qualification Tournament


Dominic Breazeale USA 262nd American Qualification Tournament


Simon Kean CAN 23Lost to Gold Medalist in Semi-Final American QT


Meji Mwanba COD 30 Tripartate Commission Invitation Olympics - n/a; World Championships - n/a

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Canoe/Kayak Slalom

Men's K-1

1 Alexander Grimm GER 171.70 1 Daniele Molmenti ITA 91.002 Fabien Lefevre FRA 173.30 2 Vavrinec Hradilek CZE 93.583 Benjamin Boukpeti TOG 173.45 3 Jure Meglic SLO 93.744 Eoin Rheinisch IRL 176.91 4 Joan Crespo ESP 96.645 Warwick Draper AUS 177.85 5 Pierre Bourilaud FRA 97.106 David Ford CAN 178.35 6 Boris Neveu FRA 99.907 Helmut Oblinger AUT 178.83 7 Atanas Nikolovski MKD 101.998 Darisz Popiela POL 179.68 8 Stefano Cipressi ITA 102.91

Points1 Peter Kauzer SLO 96.01 1 Etienne Daille FRA 1752 Mateusz Polaczyk POL 97.22 2 Fabian Doerfler GER 1173 Fabien Lefevre FRA 98.89 3 Vavrinec Hradilek CZE 1124 Daniele Molmenti ITA 99.63 4 Sebastien Schubert GER 1035 Alexander Grimm GER 100.42 5 Lucien Delfour AUS 1026 Sebastien Schubert GER 103.10 6 Hannes Aigner GER 997 Simon Brus SLO 106.06 7 Jan Vondra CZE 988 Vavrinec Hradilek CZE 146.77 8 Paul Boeckelmann GER 95

Men's C-1

1 Michal Martikan SVK 176.65 1 Tony Estanguet FRA 95.702 David Florence GBR 178.61 2 Michal Martikan SVK 98.613 Robin Bell AUS 180.59 3 Jordi Domenjo ESP 99.414 Ander Elosegi ESP 182.12 4 Matej Benus SVK 99.895 Stanislav Jezek CZE 182.29 5 Alexander Slafkovsky SVK 101.116 Benn Fraker USA 183.14 6 Nicolas Pescher FRA 101.527 Christos Tsamakis GRE 186.67 7 Benjamin Savsek SLO 101.698 Krzystof Bieryt POL 200.21 8 Jan Benzien GER 102.31

Points1 Denis Gargaud Chanut FRA 101.14 1 Alexander Slafkovsky SVK 1462 Nico Bettge GER 103.83 2 David Florence GBR 1303 Matej Benus SVK 103.91 3 Ander Elosegi ESP 1224 Stanislav Jezek CZE 104.47 4 Jan Benzien GER 1225 Ander Elosegi ESP 104.86 5 Thibaut Vielliard FRA 1116 Teng Zhiglang CHN 106.30 6 Tony Estanguet FRA 1107 Michal Martikan SVK 106.64 7 Metej Benus SVK 1058 Jan Benzien GER 107.08 8 Nico Bettge GER 103

2008 Olympic Games 2010 World Championships

2011 World Championships 2012 World Cup Standings



Responsible for some of the largest Olympic white elephants, Canoe/Kayak Slalom requires construction of a specialist venue with high running costs for a sport that is only seriously practised in half a dozen countries. It does, however, produce exciting images and has a clean drugs record, which should be enough to keep it in the Games programme for the time being. Slovakia is the unlikely home to the most successful slalom paddlers of all time; brothers Pavol and Peter Hochschorner have gone nearly unbeaten in major championships for over 10 years and will become the first unchanged pair to win 4 gold medals in any sport if, or perhaps when, they take the C-2 category. The past four Olympic golds in the C-1 have been shared between two men, Michal Martikan (SVK) and Tony Estanguet (FRA); since 1996, when Martikan won his first gold at 17 years old, their record stands at two golds apiece. Though both have been outperformed by younger compatriots in recent championships, their respective Olympic commitees have kept faith in them and so set up one last almighty showdown. The Austrian Corinne Kuhnle has won with room to spare at the past two World Championships in the woman's K-1 but will face stern competition from Jana Dukatova (SVK), who has a more consistent record on the World Cup Series. The men's K-1 competition may well turn into the craps shoot that occured in Beijing, which resulted in the Togalese Benjamin Boukpeti winning his country's first ever medal (albeit a country he had only visited once); but should the competition go to form then the medals will be shared between Peter Kauzer (SLO), Vavrinec Hradilek (CZE) and Daniele Molmenti (ITA).

In Great Britain, despite a combined funding for slalom and flatwater canoeing of £16 million - the 6th highest of any sport - and a pedigree of medals at the past 3 Olympics, it is far from certain that any medals will be won in 2012. Best hope comes from David

Florence (who won a deserved if lucky silver in the C-1 in 2008) and Richard Hounslow in the C-2 category. Despite having never won a major race, they have performed excellently in the past two World Championships and took a good win in this year's World

Cup event in Cardiff, so will hope to challenge the more experienced Slovakian and French boats. We may have to rely for further success on the significant advantage of having the Olympic course as the team's training base; if this pays off, then the likes of

Florence in the C-1 and Lizzie Neave in the K-1 may be able to pay back some of the commitment UK Sport has shown to them.

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Pavol Hochschorner Pavol HochschornerPeter Hochschorner Peter HochschornerJaroslav Volf Denis Gargaud ChanutOndrej Stepanek Fabien LefevreMikhail Kuznetsov David FlorenceDimitry Larionov Richard HouslowCedric Forgit Tomas KoplikMartin Braud Jakub VrzanAndrea Benetti Gauthier KlaussErik Masoero Matthieu PecheFelix Michel Piotr SzczepanskiDsebastien Piersig Marcin PochwalaMark Bellofoere Mikhail KuznetsovLachie Milne Dimitry LarionovPawet Sarna Andrea BenettiMarcin Pochwala Erik Masoero

PointsPavol Hochschorner Pierre LabarellePeter Hochschorner Nicolas PeschierFabien Lefevre Ladislav SkantarDenis Gargaud Chanut Peter SkantarLadislav Skantar Timothy BaillePeter Skantar Etienne StottDavid Florence Robert BehlingRichard Houslow Thomas BeckerLuka Bozic Franz AntonSaso Taljat Jan BenzienTimothy Baillie David FlorenceEtienne Stott Richard HouslowMikhail Kuznetsov Luka BozicDmitry Larionov Saso TaljatPiotr Szczepanski Tomas KuceraMarcin Pochwala Jan Batik

Women's K-1

1 Elena Kaliska SVK 192.64 1 Corinna Kuhnle AUT 102.642 Jacqueline Lawrence AUS 206.94 2 Jana Dukatova SVK 107.733 Violetta Oblinger-Peters AUT 214.77 3 Violetta Oblinger-Peters AUT 110.084 Yuriko Takeshita JPN 219.30 4 Jennifer Bongardt GER 111.265 Agneszka Stanuch POL 221.08 5 Jessica Fox AUS 113.746 Ariane Herde NED 231.99 6 Sarah Grant AUS 116.777 Emile Fer FRA 251.96 7 Marie Rihoskova CZE 159.628 Heather Corrie USA 270.88 8 Fiona Pennie GBR 181.06

Points1 Corinna Kuhnle AUT 110.06 1 MaIalen Chourraut ESP 1502 Jana Dukatova SVK 113.33 2 Ursa Kragalj SLO 1343 MaIalen Chourraut ESP 113.68 3 Melanie Pfeifer GER 1244 Emile Fer FRA 113.86 4 Cindy Poeschel GER 1225 Fiona Pennie GBR 114.10 5 Jessica Fox AUS 1206 Violetta Oblinger-Peters AUT 114.11 6 Katerina Kudejova CZE 1127 Elena Kaliska SVK 114.17 7 Violetta Oblinger-Peters AUT 1128 Dana Mann SVK 118.17 8 Elizabeth Neave GBR 111


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1 Ken Wallace AUS 1:37.252 1 Tim Brabants GBR 3:26.3232 Adam van Koeverden CAN 1:37.630 2 Eirik Veras Larsen NOR 3:27.3423 Tim Brabants GBR 1:37.671 3 Ken Wallace AUS 3:27.4954 Eirik Veras Larsen NOR 1:37.949 4 Ben Fouhy NZL 3:29.1935 Anton Ryakhov RUS 1:38.187 5 Max Hoff GER 3:29.3916 Akos Vereckei HUN 1:38.318 6 Markus Oscarsson SWE 3:30.1987 Anders Gustafsson SWE 1:38.447 7 Stjepan Janic CRO 3:30.4958 Steven Ferguson NZL 1:38.512 8 Adam van Koeverden CAN 3:31.793

1 Edward McKeever GBR 34.807 1 Max Hoff GER 3:29.5442 Ronald Rauhe GER 35.155 2 Tim Brabants GBR 3:30.0403 Poitr Siemionowski POL 35.195 3 Aleh Yurenia BLR 3:30.1284 Dziamyan Turchyn BLR 35.299 4 Rene Holten Poulsen DEN 3:31.8805 Victor Zavolskiy RUS 35.507 5 Marko Tomicevic SRB 3:32.9126 Filip Svab CZE 35.603 6 Ken Wallace AUS 3:33.6567 Pablo Andres ESP 35.659 7 Anders Gustafsson SWE 3:35.2368 Egidjus Balciunas LTU 35.699 8 Maxime Beaumont FRA 3:35.696

1 Piotr Semionowski POL 34.770 1 Adam van Koeverden CAN 3:36.1942 Edward McKeever GBR 34.986 2 Anders Gustafsson SWE 3:39.4883 Ronald Rauhe GER 35.118 3 Eirik Veras Larsen NOR 3:39.8184 Maxime Beaumont FRA 35.250 4 Max Hoff GER 3:40.4725 Alexander Dyachenko RUS 35.496 5 Aleh Yurenia BLR 3:42.3146 Mark De Jonge CAN 35.514 6 Marko Tomicevic SRB 3:43.0527 Cesar De Cesare ECU 35.634 7 Miroslav Kirchev BUL 3:44.4388 Peter Molnar HUN 36.210 8 Fernando Pimenta POR 3:45.056

Born out of the lake holiday culture in Central and Eastern Europe, Sprint Canoe/Kayaking has never had a particularly large footprint anywhere else in the world. In a bid to make the sport seem more exciting (read more television friendly) the International Canoe Federation have reduced the shorter race distances from 500m to 200m, thus reducing average race times from 1 1/2 minutes to 30 seconds. What effect this has on excitement I will defer to you to decide, but it certainly has not changed the leading figures at these Games. Reigning 1000m canoe Olympic and world champion Attila Vajda (HUN) is probably the firmest bet in C/K sprint at these Olympics. The best race should be the individual 1000m Kayak; last year Canadian Adam van Koeverden took the field apart in the World Championship final but he will expect tough competition from Max Hoff (GER), who won back-to-back World Championships in 2009 and 2010, as well as GB's Tim Brabants who will be fighting hard to defend his Olympic title. The shorter and team events are much harder to predict, with a lot coming down to team selection and form running into the Games. With competitors separated by less than a second, anyone in a final will fancy their chances. All we can be certain of is that most medals will be returning between the Rhine and the Volga.

Great Britain will be contesting medals in at least 4 events. Tim Brabants (1000m K-1 gold medallist in 2008 and bronze medallist in 2000; 500m K-1 bronze medalist in 2008) has been struggling for form this season, but will look to

bounce back by fighting off competition including his friend van Koeverden in the K-1 1000m. Competition will be toughand Brabants was unlucky to lose the 2011 season to injury, but with his career in emergency medicine back on hold, he will want to deliver a medal. Ed McKeever has had a great few years since missing out on selection for 2008; the

shorter 200m distance for K-1 suits him and, following on from his gold in the 2010 World Championships and silver in 2011, he is probably Great Britain's best hope in canoeing for 2012. Scofield and Heath have medalled in the last two

World Championships in the K-2 200m event; whilst beating the French pairing of Hybois and Jouve has thus far eluded them, they have the 31 second time needed to win gold in their arsenal. The Women's 500m K-4 boat will hope to steal some of the limelight from the men if they can continue their recent improvements and challenge for a medal in

their highly competitive class.

World Record: 33.980s Olivier Lasak FRA 1992

Olympic Record: N/A

World Record: 3:24.495 Ben Fouhy NZL 2006

Olympic Record: 3:25.785 Knut Holmann NOR 1996

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Arnaud Hybois Martin HollsteinSebastien Jouve Andreas IhleSaul Craviotto Zoltan KammererCarlos Perez Akos VereckeiLiam Heath Ilya MedvedevJonathon Schofield Anton RyakhovYury Postrigay Dusko StanojevicMaxim Molochkov Dejan PajicKrists Straume Mariusz KujawskiAleksejs Rumjancevs Rafal RosolskiRyan Cochrane Vincent LecroubierHugues Fournel Cyrille CarreOgnjen Filipovic Fernando PimentaDragan Zoric Joao Ribeiro

Reinier Torres Riveaux Siarhei Findziukevich

Carlos C Mantalvo Garcia Vitaliy Bialko

Arnaud Hybois Gelle PeterSebastien Jouve Vlcek ErikJonathon Schofield Oscarsson MarkusLiam Heath Nilsson HenrikRaman Piatrushenka Yurchenko VitalyVadzim Makhneu Pogreban VasilyIonut Mitrea Cauwenburgh OlivierBogdan Mada Pannecoucke LaurensRonald Rauhe Hollstein MartinJonasEms Ihle AndreasKrists Straume Dombi RudolfAleksejs Rumjancevs Kokeny RolandMarton Sik Hernanz JavierIstvan Bee Cosgaya DiegoLasse Nielsen Horsky OndrejCasper Nielsen Sterba Jan

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Raman PiatrushenkaAliaksei AbalmasauArtur LitvinchukVadzim MakhneuRichard RiszdorferMichal RiszdorferErik VlcekJuraj TarrLutz AltepostNorman BrocklTorsten EckbrettBjorn GoldschmittFranco BenediniAntonio RossiAlberto RicchettiLuca PiedmonteMartin SikIstvan BeeAkos Vereckei Norman BrocklGabor Bozsik Robert CleinertMarek Twardowski Max HoffTomasz Mandelski Paul MittelstedtPawel Paumann Jacob ClearAdam Wysocki Murray StewartLi Zhen David SmithLiu Haitao Tate SmithZhou Peng Ilya MedvedevLin Miao Anton VasilyevIlya Medvedev Anton RyakhovEvgeny Salakhov Oleg ZhestkovAnton Basilev Richard RiszdorferKonstantin Vishnyakov Michal Riszdorfer

Erik VlcekJuraj Tarr

Arnaud Hybois Traian NeaguEtienne Hubert Stefan VasileSebastien Jouve Toni IoneticuColin Phillippe Ionel GavrilaRaman Piatrushenka Jan SterbaAliaksei Abalmasav Lukas TrefilArtur Litvinchuk Jan SoucekVadzim Makhnev Pavel DavidekOndrej Horsky Akos VereckeiJan Soucek Gabor KucseraDaniel Havel Zoltan KammererJan Sterba Gergely BorosMarcus Gross Milenko ZoricNorman Brockl Ervin HolpertTim Wieskotter Alexsandar AleksicHendrik Bertz Dejan TerzicTate SmithMatthew UrquhartMurray StewartJacob ClearKirill LyapunovRoman AnoshkinAnton VasilyevKonstantin VishnyakovKrzysztof LuczakTomasz OlszewskiMarcin NickowskiDawid WardowiczTraian NeaguIustin PorcarasuVasile StefanToni Ioneticu

World Record: 2:49.875 R Riszdorfer, M Riszdorfer, E Vlcek, C Phelan SVK 2005 Olympic Record: 2:51.528 T Reineck, M Zabel, D Hofmann, O Winter GER 1996

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Men's C-1 200m Men's C-1 1000m

1 Maxim Opalev RUS 1:47.140 1 Attila Vajda HUN 3:50.4672 David Cal ESP 1:48.397 2 David Cal ESP 3:52.7513 Yuriy Cheban UKR 1:48.766 3 Thomal Cal CAN 3:53.6534 Mathieu Goubel FRA 1:49.056 4 Vadim Menkov UZB 3:54.2375 Aliaksandr Zhukouski BLR 1:49.092 5 Aliaksandr Zhukouski BLR 3:55.6456 Li Qiang CHN 1:49.287 6 Florin Mironcic ROU 3:57.8767 Florin Mironcic ROU 1:49.861 7 Mathieu GouBLR FRA 3:57.8898 Pawel Baraszkiewicz POL 1:50.048 8 Andreas Dittmer GER 3:57.894

1 Ivan Shtyl RUS 39.161 1 Vadim Menkov UZB 3:51.7212 Thomas Simart FRA 39.729 2 Attila Vajda HUN 3:51.9213 Richard Dalton CAN 39.953 3 Sebastien Brendel GER 3:53.8373 Iuri Cheban UKR 39.953 4 David Cal ESP 3:54.0695 Jesus Nivalter Santos BRA 39.997 5 Silviu Simioncencu ROU 3:58.2456 Jevgenij Shuklin LTU 40.101 6 Maxim Opalev RUS 3:59.4497 Gergely Kovacs HUN 40.429 7 Tomasz Kaczor POL 4:00.3018 Stefan Holtz GER 40.657 8 Mark Oldershaw CAN 4:01.009

1 Valentin Demyanenko AZE 39.339 1 Attila Vajda HUN 4:04.7492 Ivan Shtyl RUS 39.573 2 David Cal ESP 4:06.0453 Alfonso Benavides ESP 38.687 3 Vadim Menkov UZB 4:08.1514 Iuri Cheban UKR 39.879 4 Aliaksandr Zhukouski BLR 4:08.7395 Jevgenji Shuklin LTU 39.927 5 Mark Oldershaw CAN 4:10.7076 Dzmitry Vaitsishkin BLR 40.275 6 Ilya Shtokalov RUS 4:12.3457 Pawel Baraszkiewicz POL 40.743 7 Mathieu Goubel FRA 4:12.3998 Nivalter Santos De Jesus BRA 40.911 8 Deyan Georgiev BUL 4:14.727

Men's C-2 1000m

Andrei Bahdanovich 3:36.365Aliaksandr BahdanovichChristian Gille 3:36.588Tomasz WylenzekGyorgy Kozmann 3:40.258Tamas KissConstantin Popa 3:40.342 Stefan HoltzNiculae Flocea Tomasz WylenzekChen Zhongyun 3:40.593 Segiy BezugliyZhang Zhiwu Maksim ProkopenkoAndrew Russell 3:41.165 L-A Dumitrescu-LazarG. Beauchesne-Sevigny Victor MihalachiWojciech Tysznski 3:42.845 Jaroslav RadonPawel Baraszkiewicz Filip DvorakSergey Ulegin 3:44.669 Alexey KorovashkovAleksandr Kostoglod Ilya Pervukhin

Andrei BahdanovichAliaksandr Bahdanovich

Alexandru Dumitrescu Karel Aguilar Chacon 3:36.974Victor Mihalachi Serguey Torres MadrigalAndrei Bahdanovich Sergey YemelyanovAliaksandr Bahdanovich Timofey YemelyanovMarton TothRobert MikeAlexey KorovashkovIlya PervukhinSergey BezuhliyMaksim ProkopenkoPawel SkowronskiMarcin GrzybowskiAndrew RussellGabriel Beauchesne-Sevigny

Reydel Ramos Abila

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World Record: 3:46.201 David Cal ESP 2004

Olympic Record: 3:46.201 David Cal ESP 2004

World Record: 3:28.531 I Rojas, L Pereira CUB 2001Olympic Record: 3:31.870 A Dittner, G Kirchbach GER 1996

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Women's K-1 200m Women's K-1 500m

1 Inna Osypenko-Radomska UKR 1:50.6731 Natasa Janics HUN 40.181 2 Josefa Idem ITA 1:50.6772 Inna Osypenko-Radomska UKR 40.797 3 Katrin Wagner-Augustin GER 1:51.0223 Shinobu Kitamoto JPN 40.917 4 Katalin Kavacs HUN 1:51.1394 Nicole Reinhardt GER 41.013 5 Zhong Hongyan CHN 1:52.2205 Teresa Portela ESP 41.273 6 Spela Ponomarenko SLO 1:52.3636 Teresa Portela POR 41.281 7 Lucy Wainwright GBR 1:53.1027 Marta Walczykieiwcz POL 41.409 8 Jennifer Hodson RSA 1:53.3538 Spela Ponomarenko SLO 41.617

1 Inna Osypenko-Radomska UKR 1:50.461

1 Lisa Carrington NZL 39.998 2 Natasa Janics HUN 1:50.6252 Marta Walczykieiwcz POL 40.472 3 Rachel Cawthorn GBR 1:50.9293 Inna Osypenko-Radomska UKR 40.670 4 Teresa Portela POR 1:51.1134 Shinobu Kitamoto JPN 40.730 5 Sofia Paldanius SWE 1:51.8495 Alana Nicholls AUS 40.730 6 Beata Mikolajczyk POL 1:53.1576 Teresa Portela POR 40.772 7 Katrin Wagner-Augustin GER 1:53.3697 Jess Walker GBR 40.910 8 Henriette Engel Hansen DEN 1:55.2178 Natalia Lobova RUS 41.282

1 Nicole Reinhardt GER 1:47.0662 Danuta Kozak HUN 1:47.3963 Inna Osypenko-Radomska UKR 1:48.6684 Natalya Sergeyeva KAZ 1:48.704

Women's K-2 500m 5 Alana Nicholls AUS 1:49.136

6 Teresa Portela POR 1:49.9107 Josefa Idem ITA 1:50.0548 Henriette Engel Hansen DEN 1:50.570

Katalin KavacsNatasa JanicsBeata MikolajczykAneta Konieczna

Marie Delattre

Anne-Laure ViardFanny FischerNicole ReinhardtShinobu Kitamoto Yvonne SchuringMikiko Takeya Viktoria SchwarzHannah Davis Franziska WeberLyndsie Fogarty Tina DietzeAnne Rikala Beata MikolajczykJenni Mikkonen Aneta KoniecznaMichala Mruzkova Tamara CsipesJana Blahova Katalin Kovacs

Yanan WuWenjun Ren

Gabriella Szabo Iuliana PaleuDanuta Kozak Irina LauricJuliana Salakhova Juliana SalakhovaAnastasia Sergeeva Anastasia SergeevaYvonne Schuring Ivana KmetovaViktoria Schwarz Martina KohlovaCarolin LeonhardtSilke HoermannMarta WalczykieiwczEwelina WojnarowskaNikolina MoldovanOlivera MoldovanIvana KmetovaMartina KohlovaWu YananZhang Hong

1:41.628

1:42.684

HUN 1:41.308

POL 1:42.092

FRA 1:42.128

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AUS 1:43.969

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1 AUT 1:37.071

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World Record: 38.970s Birgit Fische r GER 1994

Olympic Record: N/A

World Record: 1:47.343 Katalin Kovacs HUN 2002

Olympic Record: 1:47.655 Rita Koban HUN 1996

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Women's K-4 500m

Fanny FischerNicole ReinhardtKatrin Wagner-AugustinConny WassmuthKatalin KavacsGabriella SzaboDanuta KozakNatasa JanicsLiso OldenhofHannah DavisChantal MeekLyndsie FogartyBeata MikolajczykAneta KoniecznaEdyata DzienszewskaDorota KuczkowskaBeatriz ManchonJana SmidakovaSonia MolanesMaria PortelaShinobu Kitamoto Gabriella SzaboAyaka Kuno Danuta KozakMikiko Takeya Katalin KovacsYuniko Suzuki Dalma BenedekMichele Eray Carolin LeonhardtCarol Joyce Silke HoermannNicola Mocke Franziska WeberJennifer Hodson Tina DietzeStefania Cicali Iryna PamialovaAlessandra Galiotto Nadzeya PapokFabiana Sgori Volha KhudzenkaAlice Fagioli Maryna Paltaran

Abigail EdmondsLouisa Sawers

Natasa Janics Jess WalkerTamara Csipes Rachel CawthornKatalin Kovacs Lyndsie FogartyDalma Benedek Joanne Brigden-JonesFanny Fischer Hannah DavisNicole Reinhardt Rachel LovellKatrin Wagner-Augustin Juliana SalakhovaTina Dietze Svetlana KudinovaKarolina Naja Anastasia SergeevaAneta Konieczna Natalia LobovaSandra Pawelczak Helena RodriguesMagdelena Krukowska Teresa PortelaBeatriz Manchon Joana VasconcelosJana Smidakova Beatriz GomesSonia Molanes Marie Delattre-DemoryTeresa Portela Adeline MorelAbigal Edmonds Sarah TroelRachel Cawthorn Sarah GuyotHayleigh MasonLouisa SawersHelena RodriguesTeresa PortelaJoana VasconcelosBeatriz GomesWang FengLi ZhangliZhou YuYu LameiAntonia NadjAntonia PandaRenata Major-KubikMarta Tibor



7 POR 1:40.041

8 FRA 1:41.217

5 AUS 1:39.303

6 RUS 1:39.807

4 GBR 1:37.959

3 BLR 1:37.887

2 GER 1:37.521

1 HUN 1:36.339

7 RSA 1:36.724

8 ITA 1:36.770

5 ESP 1:35.366

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8 SRB 1:36.255

5 GBR 1:33.979

6 POR 1:34.043

7 CHN 1:34.259

3 POL 1:33.815

4 ESP 1:33.851

1 HUN 1:31.607

2 GER 1:32.795

JPN 1:36.465

3 AUS 1:34.704

4 POL 1:34.752

1 GER 1:32.231

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World Record: 1:30.765 K Kovacs, S Szabo, E Viski, K Bota HUN 2002Olympic Record: 1:38.101 R Portwich, B Fischer, A Schuck, M Mucke GER 1996

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Women's BMX

1 Anne-Caroline Chausson FRA 1 Sarah Walker NZL2 Laetitia Le Corguille FRA 2 Eva Ailloud FRA3 Jill Kintner USA 3 Ariell Martin USA4 Sarah Walker NZL 4 Jana Horakova CZE5 Gabriela Diaz ARG 5 Samantha Cools CAN6 Nicole Callisto AUS 6 Manon Vallentino FRA

DNF Sammy Cools CAN 7 Nicole Callisto AUSREL Shanaze Reade GBR 8 Maria Gabriela Diaz ARG

1 Shanaze Reade GBR 1 Mariana Pajon COL2 Sarah Walker NZL 2 Sarah Walker NZL3 Alise Post USA 3 Magalie Pottier FRA4 Amelie Despeaux FRA 4 Lieke Klaus NED5 Aneta Hladikova CZE 5 Ariell Martin USA6 Rachel Bracken AUS 6 Vilma Rimsaite LTU7 Laetitia Le Corguille FRA 7 Amanda Geving USA

DNF Ariell Martin USA 8 Jana Horakova CZE

1 Shanaze Reade GBR 1 Magalie Pottier FRA2 Sarah Walker NZL 2 Eva Ailloud FRA3 Lauren Reynolds AUS 3 Romana Labounkova CZE4 Magalie Pottier FRA 4 Arielle Martin USA5 Amanda Carr USA 5 Mariana Pajon COL6 Melinda McLeod AUS 6 Squel Stein BRA7 Laetitia Le Corguille FRA 7 Manon Valentino FRA

DNF Mariana Pajon COL 8 Alise Post USA

Points

1 Magalie Pottier FRA 1,2332 Caroline Buchanan AUS 1,1943 Brooke Crain USA 1,0174 Arielle Martin USA 8875 Lauren Reynolds AUS 8477 Gabriela Diaz ARG 84310 Laetitia le Corguille FRA 76711 Mariana Pajon COL 75913 Vilma Rimsaite LTU 70914 Aneta Hladikova CZE 68415 Laura Smulders NED 67816 Jana Horakova CZE 66321 Sarah Walker NZL 55324 Priscila Stevaux Carnaval BRA 50230 Shanaze Reade GBR 39538 Sandra Aleksejeva LAT 202

Fast and furious are two words you will be guaranteed to hear in the build up to the BMX racing at these Olympics. Having made its debut as an Olympic sport in 2008, BMX racing continues to tread the line between so-called extreme and elite sports. Brought in to the Games in an unashamed attempt to appeal to a younger audience (an Australian BMX rider in Beijing raced soley under the name of 'Kamakaze'), BMX has, under the stewardship of the UCI, gained a reputation not only for exciting action but also exceptional athletes. Ever increasing rider standards have forced course designers to keep upping the ante. In London we will see the most technical course ever used for a major championship, with a breath-taking clockwise corkscrew leading up to a box jump for the men, and a steep often damp tunnel for the women. Crashes will be a inevitable - though for the reputation of the sport, organisers will be hoping not only that serious injury is avoided (no-one wants a repeat of the final of the test event last year, when 2011 World Champion Mariana Pajon (COL) was knocked unconcious and left prone on the track for over a minute whilst the medics celebrated Shanaze Reade's gold) but also that the favourites are able to negotiate the qualifying rounds to ensure a 'fair' and competitive final.

In men's BMX racing is wide open. Defending Olympic champion Maris Strombergs, from Latvia, is the most consistent performer on the world stage but there are at least 10 other competitors - Joris Daudet (FRA), Mike Day (USA), Sam

Willougby (AUS), Marc Williers (NZL), Moana Moo Caille (FRA), Nick Long (USA) etc - who have as good a chance on any given race day. Unlike the women's event, racing is often not decided until the final berm (corner) and the men's final will be

one of the most watchable events of the Games.

There is much greater variability in power in the women's event - simply put, this means Great Britain's Shanaze Reade, who in training can post a higher max power output than any of the British track sprinting team, can open up a commanding lead in the opening straight, put herself into a lead by the first berm and keep herself out of trouble for the rest of the race. If she manages to finish without crashing, a feat she has failed to do at about half of major championships including the 2008 Olympics, she will be near impossible to beat in the race to Olympic gold. The charismatic Sarah Walker (NZL) or consistant Magalie Pottier (FRA) will be favourites to capitalise on any mistake Shanaze might make.

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Men's BMX

1 Maris Strombergs LAT 1 Donny Robinson USA2 Mike Day USA 2 Mike Day USA3 Donny Robinson USA 3 Ramiro Marino ARG4 Andres Jiminez COL 4 Maris Strombergs LAT5 Rob van den Wildenberg NED 5 Nicholas Long USA6 Jared Graves AUS 6 Luke Madill AUS

DNF Sifiso Nhlapo RSA 7 Andres Jiminez COLDNF Damien Godet FRA 8 Khalen Young AUS

1 Maris Strombergs LAT 1 Joris Daudet FRA2 Sifiso Nhlapo RSA 2 Maris Strombergs LAT3 Joris Daudet FRA 3 Marc Williers NZL4 Thomas Hamon FRA 4 Sam Willoughby AUS5 Raymon Van Der Biezen NED 5 Brian Kirkham AUS6 Marc Williers NZL 6 Carlos Mario Oquendo Zabala COL7 Sam Willoughby AUS 7 Connor Fields USA8 Khalen Young AUS 8 Moana Moo Caille FRA

1 Marc Williers NZL 1 Sam Willoughby AUS2 Joris Daudet FRA 2 Joris Daudet FRA3 Nicholas Long USA 3 Maona Moo Caille FRA4 Sylvain Andre FRA 4 Anthony Dean AUS5 David Herman USA 5 David Herman USA6 Sam Willoughby AUS 6 Donny Robinson USA7 David Graf SUI 7 Marc Willers NZL8 Maris Strombergs LAT DSQ Maris Strombergs LAT

Points

1 Sam Willoughby AUS 1,4412 Connor Fields USA 1,3753 Joris Daudet FRA 9684 Marc Willers NZL 9435 David Herman USA 9236 Maris Strombergs LAT 9027 Brian Kirkham AUS 8648 Raymon van der Biezen NED 8169 Carlos Oquendo Zabala COL 83010 Edzus Treimans LAT 69511 Nicholas Long USA 69513 Andres Jiminez Caicedo COL 62814 Tory Nyhaug CAN 61115 Renato Rezende BRA 60716 Maona Moo Caille FRA 58717 Khalen Young AUS 56418 Rihards Veide LAT 55719 Luis Brethauer GER 53120 Twan van Gendt NED 53025 Ernesto Pizarro ARG 46926 Jelle van Gorkom NED 46827 Quentin Caleyron FRA 45134 Morten Therkildsen DEN 37341 Manuel de Vecchi ITA 33545 David Graf SUI 30548 Liam Phillips GBR 28653 Emilio Andres Falla Buchely ECU 27956 Arnaud Dubois BEL 27357 Maik Baier GER 26559 Kurt Pickard NZL 25972 Sifiso Nhlapo RSA 20285 Daniel Caluag PHI 145

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Cycling - Mountain Biking

Men's Mountain BikingPoints

1 Jaroslav Kulhavy CZE 2,660

1 Julien Absalon FRA 1:52:26 2 Nino Schurter SUI 2,4042 Jean-Christophe Peraud FRA 1:52:55 3 Julien Absalon FRA 1,8203 Nino Schurter SUI 1:53:36 4 Jose Antonio Hermida Ramos ESP 1,7134 Christoph Sauser SUI 1:54:29 5 Florian Vogel SUI 1,6005 Marco Fontana ITA 1:54:49 6 Fabian Giger SUI 1,5256 Christoph Soukup AUT 1:55:09 7 Lukas Fluckiger SUI 1,4477 Liam Killeen GBR 1:55:17 8 Burry Stander RSA 1,4368 Inaki Errasti ESP 1:56:24 9 Moritz Milatz GER 1,401

10 Manuel Fumic GER 1,39511 Christoph Sauser SUI 1,351

1 J. Antonio Hermida Ramos ESP 1:52:26 12 Marco Fontana ITA 1,2872 Jaroslav Kulhavy CZE 1:52:55 13 Maxime Marotte FRA 1,2563 Burry Stander RSA 1:53:36 14 Rudi van Houts NED 1,1294 Nino Schurter SUI 1:54:29 15 Thomas Litscher SUI 1,0925 Julien Absalon FRA 1:54:49 16 Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez ESP 1,0766 Carlos Coloma Nicolas ESP 1:55:09 17 Staphane Tempier FRA 1,0737 Liam Killeen GBR 1:55:17 18 Martin Gujan SUI 1,0108 Geoff Kabush CAN 1:56:24 19 Mathias Fluckiger SUI 1,006

20 Emil Lindgren SWE 97521 Carlos Coloma Nicolas ESP 945

1 Jaroslav Kulhavy CZE 1:52:26 22 Marek Konwa POL 9302 Nino Schurter SUI 1:52:55 23 Gerhard Kerschbaumer ITA 9093 Julien Absalon FRA 1:53:36 24 Jan Skarnitzl CZE 8804 J. Antonio Hermida Ramos ESP 1:54:29 25 Todd Wells USA 8765 Lukas Fluckiger SUI 1:54:49 26 Kevin van Hoovels BEL 8536 Florian Vogel SUI 1:55:09 27 Ralph Naef SUI 8517 Todd Wells USA 1:55:17 28 Geoff Kabush CAN 8288 Christoph Sauser SUI 1:56:24 29 Karl Markt AUT 811

30 Henk Jaap Moorlag NED 786

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Mountain Biking caused one of the biggest headaches for the organisers of the London Olympic Games. The distinct lack of a mountain, or even significant hill, in the proximity of London meant that they were hard pressed to come up with a site that would provide a real test of the competitors' skills. This issue was compounded by an early commitment to hold the event in Essex, overlooking the fact that Essex is the flattest county in Britain in favour of the fact that it extended Olympic links up the Lea Valley. The initial site, in the Weald Country Park, was deemed too flat by the sporting governing body (the UCI) in 2008, which prompted a move to the National Trust property Hadleigh Farm. Even here repeated visits have raised concerns, prompting successive alterations. What we have ended up with is repeated small climbs on each lap, rather than the usual large climb, with rather artificial looking but technically demanding descents into the next climb. The end result of this is a course where upper body strength (to deal with the descents) and an ability to deal with short recovery times will be at a premium. As these attributes are not replicated anywhere else on the regular Mountain Biking tour, we could be in for a surprise winner and disgruntled favourites come this summer.

Women’s mountain biking also saw a repeat gold medallist in Beijing - Sabine Spitz (GER). Although still racing, at 41 the Black Forest based rider is past her best. In her stead Maja Wloszczowska (POL) and Catherine Pendrel (CAN) looked set to fight out for dominance until the emergence of Julie Bresset (FRA). In 2011 Bresset was only selected for the under-23 World Championships but she has emerged on the World Cup scene in force and will go in favourite in the women’s event. On the British side Annie Last has proved the strongest British performer on the World Tour. The 21 year old, who has deferred her medical degree to concentrate on cycling, won the U-23 World Championships in 2010 and should be competing for a top 10 finish at Hadleigh Farm.

Julian Absalon from France was one of the strongest favourites to win gold across all sports coming into 2008. He had won the past 4 World Championships on top of his Athens gold medal and he proceeded to cycle away with ease

on a very tough Beijing course. Although the chance of a third Olympic gold is not entirely out of his grasp, he hasbeen overtaken in the past few years by the younger Jaroslav Kulhavy (CZE) and Nino Schurter (SUI). Both have been neck and neck in recent competitions and it could come down to who deals best with the pressure on the day.

Britain’s hopes will rest with Liam Killeen. He surpassed expectations to finish 7th in Beijing and maintained that level across the next couple of years; sadly injury and a loss in form has seen him plummet down the rankings so a

top 15 finish will prove a reasonable goal this summer.



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Women's Mountain BikingPoints

1 Catherine Pendrel CAN 2,360

1 Sabine Spitz GER 1:45:11 2 Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjaa NOR 2,0732 Maja Wloszczowska POL 1:45:52 3 Julie Bresset FRA 2,0323 Irina Kalentieva RUS 1:46:28 4 Maja Wloszczowska POL 1,9604 Catherine Pendrel CAN 1:46:37 5 Irina Kalentieva RUS 1,6655 Chengyuan Ren CHN 1:47:40 6 Annie Last GBR 1,4896 Petra Henzi SUI 1:48:41 7 Esther Suss SUI 1,4377 Mary McConneloug USA 1:50:34 8 Blaza Klemencic SLO 1,4178 Georgia Gould USA 1:50:51 9 Eva Lechner ITA 1,415

10 Elisabeth Osl AUT 1,36511 Katrin Leumann SUI 1,348

1 Maja Wloszczowska POL 1:48:21 12 Sabine Spitz GER 1,3272 Irina Kalentieva RUS 1:49:09 13 Emily Batty CAN 1,3063 Willow Koerber USA 1:49:13 14 Katerina Nash CZE 1,2684 Catherine Pendrel CAN 1:49:15 15 Tanja Zakelj SLO 1,2585 Elisabeth Osl AUT 1:50:21 16 Yana Belomoyna UKR 1,2456 Heather Irmiger USA 1:50:24 17 Marie-Helene Premont CAN 1,1667 Anna Szafraniec POL 1:50:37 18 Georgie Gould USA 1,1498 Sabine Spitz GER 1:50:53 19 Alexandra Engen SWE 1,122

20 Annika Langvad DEN 1,11521 Nathalie Scneitter SUI 1,105

1 Catherine Pendrel CAN 1:46:14 22 Lea Davison USA 1,0812 Maja Wloszczowska POL 1:46:42 23 Karen Hanlen NZL 9693 Eva Lechner ITA 1:47:50 24 Tereza Hurikova CZE 9124 Irina Kalentieva RUS 1:48:19 25 Adelheid Morath GER 9045 Nathalie Scneitter SUI 1:49:41 26 Marielle Saner-Guinchard SUI 8846 Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjaa NOR 1:50:04 27 Anne Terpstra NED 8627 Rosara Joseph NZL 1:50:38 28 Pauling Ferrand Prevot FRA 8298 Emily Batty CAN 1:50:49 29 Janka Stevkova SVK 818

30 Heather Irmiger USA 806


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Cycling - Road

Men's Road Race

Time Time1 Samuel Sanchez ESP 6:23:49 1 Thor Hushovd NOR 6:21:49

DSQ* David Rebllin ITA s.t. 2 Matti Breschel DEN s.t.2 Fabian Cancellara SUI s.t. 3 Allan Davis AUS s.t.3 Alexandr Kolobnev RUS s.t. 4 Filippo Pozzato ITA s.t.4 Andy Schleck LUX s.t. 5 Greg Van Avermaet BEL s.t.5 Michael Rogers AUS s.t. 6 Oscar Freire ESP s.t.6 Santiago Botero COL +0:12 7 Alexandr Kolobnev RUS s.t.7 Mario Aerts BEL s.t. 8 Assan Bazayev KAZ s.t.

* David Rebellin disqualified due to +ve test for CERA at Olympic GamesPoints Points

1 Mark Cavendish GBR 334 1 Baulke Mollema NED 1222 Jose Joaquin Rojas ESP 272 2 Joaquim Rodriguez ESP 1153 Philippe Gilbert BEL 236 3 Daniele Bennati ITA 101

Time Time1 Mark Cavendish GBR 5:40:27 1 Oliver Zaugg SUI 6:20:022 Matthew Goss AUS s.t. 2 Dan Martin IRL +0:083 Andre Greipel GER s.t. 3 Joaquim Rodriguez ESP s.t.4 Fabian Cancellara SUI s.t. 4 Ivan Basso ITA s.t.5 Jurgen Roelandts BEL s.t. 5 Przemyslaw Niemiec POL s.t.6 Romain Feillu FRA s.t. 6 Domenico Pozzovivo ITA s.t.7 Borut Bozic SLO s.t. 7 Giovanni Visconti ITA +0:168 Edvald Boassen Hagen NOR s.t. 8 Philippe Gilbert BEL s.t.

Road cycling sits alongside boxing, football, tennis, basketball and (from 2016) rugby and golf as well established professional sports for whom Olympic gold is not the grand prize. For cyclists the Tour de France reigns supreme, and even amongst one-day cycling races it is taditionally out-ranked by the monuments (e.g. the Paris-Roubaix or Milan-San Remo) . There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, Olympic road cycling only opened itself to professionals in 1996, which means there have only been 4 Olympic road race/time trial gold medals compared to 99 Tours de France. Secondly, the biggest names in the sport (the Tour de France winners) are not going to suit an Olympic race; a grand-tour rider is a completely different specialist to a one-day rider – Lance Armstrong would never have been a contender in an Olympic road race - and the problem is further exacerbated this year by the timing of the road cycling event just a week after the Tour ends. Perhaps most significantly of all, riders are paid by trade teams (teams named after a sponsor) who have little incentive to pay their riders to get in form and win a race in which they will not be wearing the sponsor’s name across their chest. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Olympics have not been top of many riders priority list.

But Olympic cycling also provides an example for how, over time, this view can change and Olympic gold can become a title that is important and valued within the sport. In 2008 Samuel Sanchez (ESP) took a well-deserved and hard fought gold medal, much to the

delight of his home country. His team, the Basque outfit Euskadi Euskatel, have made much out of this achievement in the four years that followed, allowing Sanchez to wear a gold helmet and, crucially, using Sanchez’s victory to bring in money from people who do not

normally follow cycling. Herein lies the importance of the Olympics for professional sports; there are people watching who would not normally follow the sport. It is an unparalleled shop window (think how much McDonalds pays to associate itself with the Olympics) that

can be used to open up new fans and sponsors. In London it is Sky who have decided to take advantage of this commercial opportunity. At the end of 2011 they signed Mark Cavendish (GBR), the world’s best road race sprinter and BBC Sports Personality of the Year, onto their team. His main priority of the year, rather than going for stage victories and the green jersey in the Tour – the traditional best option

for publicity – has been to win Olympic gold. This is a tough ask - he has had to lose 4kg and exchange some top-end speed for climbing ability to deal with Box Hill - but he will start as favourite and Sky are gambling that the double header of Bradley Wiggins’ Tour de France

performance and an Olympic gold for Cav will offer the best return on their investment. If the hottest property in cycling is making the Olympics his biggest priority, then who is to say that Nike would not make Tiger Woods prioritise the Rio de Janeiro Olympic golf gold in

2016.

Sky, and GB, might also have a strong shout for gold in the men’s time trial if Bradley Wiggins or former Kenyan Chris Froome can keep their legs after the Tour. It is likely, however, that the time-trial specialists Fabian Cancellara (SUI), the winner in 2008 or Tony Martin, (GER) the current time trial World Champion, will dominate. The course, based around Hampton Court Palace, will suit a real rouler (a power specialist) rather than the lightweight frames of Wiggins and Froome but will be a very tight affair.

The professional side of the sport is much less developed in women's cycling and so the Olmypics takes a more traditional role as the most important race on the calendar. The course in London is expected to come down to a straight sprint out. This is likely to count

against the British contenders Lizzie Armistead and reigning Olympic champion Nicole Cooke. The two had a very public falling out last year following the World Championships where Cooke, who was supposed to be riding in a supporting role for Armistead, didn’t wait to

help her leader after Armistead fell and instead raced for glory – finishing agonisingly in fourth. In London both could get in the mix but will face tough opposition from Giorgia Bronzani (ITA), Judith Arndt (GER), Emma Johansson (SWE) and pre-race favourite Marianne Vos

(NED). Britian’s Emma Pooley, who won a surprise silver in Beijing in the time trial, has made the Olympics her priority. Her very slight frame doesn’t make her a natural time trialler, especially for a flat course as in London, but her notorious determination might just be

enough to get her to gold.


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Time Time1 Simon Gerrans AUS 6:59:24 1 Tom Boonen BEL 6:04:282 Fabian Cancellara SUI s.t. 2 Filippo Pozzato ITA s.t.3 Vincenzo Nibali ITA s.t. 3 Alessandro Ballan ITA +0:014 Peter Sagan SVK +0:02 4 Greg Van Avermaet BEL +0:385 John Dedenkolb GER s.t. 5 Peter Sagan SVK s.t.6 Filippo Pozzato ITA s.t. 6 Niki Terpstra NED s.t.7 Oscar Freire SPA s.t. 7 Luca Paolini ITA s.t.8 Alessandro Ballan ITA s.t. 8 Thomas Voeckler FRA s.t.

Time Time1 Tom Boonen BEL 5:55:22 1 Maxim Iglinsky KAZ 6:43:522 Sebastien Turgot FRA +1:39 2 Vincenzo Nibali ITA +0:213 Alessandro Ballan ITA s.t. 3 Enrico Gasperotto ITA +0:364 Juan Antionia Flecha ESP s.t. 4 Thomas Voekler FRA s.t.5 Niki Terpstra NED s.t. 5 Daniel Martin IRE s.t.6 Lars Boom NED +1:43 6 Bauke Mollema NED s.t.7 Mateo Tosatto ITA +3:31 7 Samuel Sanchez ESP s.t.8 Mathew Hayman AUS s.t. 8 Michele Scarponi ITA s.t.

Points1 Joaquim Rodriquez ESP 1392 Mark Cavendish GBR 1383 Ryder Hesjedal CAN 113

Men's Time Trial

Time Time1 Fabian Cancellara SUI 1:02:11 1 Fabian Cancellara SUI 0:58:092 Gustav Larsson SWE 1:02:44 2 David Millar GBR 0:59:123 Levi Leipheimer USA 1:03:21 3 Tony Martin GER 0:59:224 Alberto Contador ESP 1:03:29 4 Richie Porte AUS 0:59:285 Cadel Evans AUS 1:03:34 5 Michael Rogers AUS 1:00:346 Samuel Sanchez ESP 1:04:37 6 Koos Moorenhout NED 1:00:507 Svein Tuft CAN 1:04:39 7 Luis Leon Sanchez ESP 1:00:548 Michael Rogers AUS 1:04:46 8 David Zabriskie USA 1:01:01

Time Time1 David Millar GBR 30:13 1 Tony Martin GER 55:332 Alex Rasmussen DEN 30:20 2 Cadel Evans AUS 55:403 Alberto Contador ESP 30:49 3 Alberto Contador ESP 56:394 Richie Porte AUS 30:56 4 Thomas De Gendt BEL 57:025 Yaroslav Popovych UKR 31:08 5 Richie Porte AUS 57:036 Jos van Emden NED 31:15 6 Jean-Christophe Peraud FRA 57:067 Cameron Meyer AUS 31:17 7 Samuel Sanchez ESP 57:108 Patrick Gretsch GER 31:21 8 Fabian Cancellara SUI 58:15

Time Time1 Tony Martin GER 55:54 1 Tony Martin GER 53.442 Chris Froome GBR 56:53 2 Bradley Wiggins GBR 55:003 Bradley Wiggins GBR 57:16 3 Fabian Cancellara SUI 55:054 Fabian Cancellara SUI 57:21 4 Bert Grabsch GER 55:165 Taylor Phinney USA 57:27 5 Jack Bobridge AUS 55:596 Jakob Fuglsang DEN 57:31 6 Richie Porte AUS 56:157 Tiago Machedo POR 57:48 7 David Millar GBR 56:318 Janez Brajkovic SLO 57:50 8 Lieuwe Westra NED 57:06

Time Time1 Marco Pinotti ITA 33:06 1 Bradley Wiggins GBR 51:242 Geraint Thomas GBR 33:45 2 Chris Froome GBR 51:593 Jesse Sergent NZL 33:59 3 Fabian Cancellara SUI 52:214 Alex Rasmussen DEN 34:06 4 Tejay van Garderen USA 52:305 Thomas De Gendt BEL 34:07 5 Sylvain Chavanel FRA 52:486 Ryder Hesjedal CAN 34:15 6 Cadel Evans AUS 53:077 Gustav Larsson SWE 34:20 7 Peters Vilits SVK 53:238 Maclej Bodnar POL 34:21 8 Vincenzo Nibali ITA 53:31

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Women's Road Race

Time Time1 Nicole Cooke GBR 3:32:24 1 Giorgia Bronzani ITA 3:32:012 Emma Johansson SWE s.t. 2 Marianne Vos NED s.t.3 Tatiana Guderzo ITA s.t. 3 Emma Johansson SWE s.t.4 Christiane Soeder AUT +0:04 4 Nicole Cooke GBR s.t.5 Linda Villumsen DEN +0:08 5 Judith Arndt GER s.t.6 Marianne Vos NED +0:21 6 Grace Berbeke BEL s.t.7 Priska Doppmann SUI s.t. 7 Trixi Worrack GER s.t.8 Paulina Brzezna POL s.t. 8 Rasa Leleivyte LTU s.t.

Points Time1 Annemiek van Vleuten NED 362 1 Giorgia Bronzani ITA 3:21:282 Marianne Vos NED 315 2 Marianne Vos NED s.t.3 Emma Johansson SWE 223 3 Ina Teutenburg GER s.t.4 Judith Arndt GER 184 4 Nicole Cooke GBR s.t.5 Ina Teutenburg GER 143 5 Julia Martisova RUS s.t.6 Emma Pooley GBR 135 6 Chloe Hosking AUS s.t.7 Elizabeth Armitstead GBR 117 7 Elizabeth Armitstead GBR s.t.8 Kirsten Wild NED 108 8 Ludivine Henrion BEL s.t.9 Martine Bras NED 10310 Tatiana Antoshina RUS 87

Points1 Marianne Vos NED 1,3802 Judith Arndt GER 9253 Emma Johansson SWE 8384 Ina Teutenburg GER 7095 Annemiek van Vleuten NED 6836 Amber Neben USA 5647 Evelyn Stevens USA 4818 Emma Pooley GBR 4819 Giorgia Bronzini ITA 44210 Kirsten Wild NED 395

Women's Time Trial

Time Time1 Kristin Armstrong USA 34:52 1 Emma Pooley GBR 32:482 Emma Pooley GBR 35:16 2 Judith Arndt GER 33:043 Karin Thurig SUI 35:51 3 Linda Villumsen NZL 33:044 Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli FRA 35:53 4 Amber Neben USA 33:265 Christine Thorburn USA 35:54 5 Jeannie Longo FRA 33:326 Judith Arndt GER 35:59 6 Evelyn Stevens USA 33:497 Christiane Soeder AUT 36:21 7 Tara Whitten CAN 33:548 Priska Doppmann SUI 36:28 8 Shara Gillow AUS 34:01

Time1 Judith Arndt GER 37:072 Linda Villumsen NZL 37:273 Emma Pooley GBR 37:304 Tara Whitten CAN 37:325 Clara Hughes CAN 37:426 Ellen van Dijk NED 37:447 Rhae-Christie Shaw CAN 37:458 Amber Neben USA 37:46



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Cycling - Track

Only half of the events contested in Beijing will return to the Track Cycling schedule at this summer's Olympics. All the distance events have been dropped along with the former blue-riband event - the individual pursuit. These have been removed to make room for equality between men's and women's events (introducing for the first time the women's team sprint, team pursuit and keirin) and a new innovation in track cycling, the omnium. The omnium is a multi-discipline event that tests riders over a range of long distance bunch events and shorter distance time trials. Although it has attracted some criticism for rewarding 'averageness' across a range of events, it shows off those events recently dropped and sorely missed from the programme, such as the scratch and points races and the individual pursuits, as well as the old favourite of six-day racing, the devil-takes-the-hindmost (now known as the elimination race). An additional change is the restriction to one rider per country in individual events. This this means not only that will we not see a repeat of Britain's 1-2 in the men's keirin and sprint from Beijing, but also that, in the men's events especially, the field of possible winners has been halved.

The Frenchman Gregory Bauge is the man of the moment in the men's sprint. He had his 2011 world title removed following a retrospective ban for missing 3 out-of-competition drug tests but came back in dominant form at the World Championship in April. The

field of likely challengers has been diminished by the restriction to one rider per country, but, depending on selection, either twice beaten world-finalist Jason Kenny (GBR) or four-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy (GBR), as well as the 2010 losing finalist

Shane Perkins (AUS), the biggest thighs in cycling of Robert Forstemann (GER) and possibly even the young talented Trinidadian Djisane Philip will have spent the past 6 months reviewing possible tactics that could take them past the flying Frenchman. France vs Gemany looks the likely final of the men's Team Sprint but both teams will have to be on their toes - Australia made the most of home support to take this year's World Championships and, if Great Britain have finally found a lead-out man in Philip Hindes capable of a

low 19 second first lap, then they could replicate their Beijing gold. The last of the sprint events, the keirin, is Chris Hoy's moment to shine. Although no longer as dominant as in 2008, when he could ride from the front without anyone else strong enough to keep up, he has developed excellent race-craft and will take some beating. Alongside the other likely nations, such as France's Mickael Bourgain, watch out for Kazunari Watanabe from the Keirin's homeland Japan and the outstanding Aziz Awang from Malaysia who is famous for

using even the smallest gap to make a big jump coming out of the last corner - a tactic that may prove very effective given the placing of the finish line in London further away from the corners than is usual.

Only two teams bear notice in the men's team pursuit. A year ago Australia looked firm favourites going into these Games. With individual pursuit world record holder Jack Bobridge and a large squad of exciting youngsters, they won the 2011 World Championships by over 5 seconds. A year on and, with the crucial addition of Geraint Thomas who has re-dedicated himself to the track after a successful few years out on the road, Great Britain set a world record at the 2012 World Championships and will go into London as favourites. However, with Australia nipping at their heels, they will have to target taking at least another half second off the world record if they want to win gold in London. The other star of the British pursuit squad, Ed Clancy, will also be turning his attention to the omnium. This event boasts a rich variety of talent with everyone having a speciality, and overall victory will come down to tenths of a second in the time trials and wheel widths in the bunch races. Alongside Ed Clancy, there are at least 9 men capable of challenging for a medal: Glenn O'Shea (AUS - 2012 World Champion), Elia Viviani (ITA - watch for aggressive moves in the bunch races), Shane Archibold (NZL - amazing mullet), Juan Arango (COL), Zach Bell (CAN), Lasse Hansen (DEN), Cho Ho-Sung (KOR), Martyn Irvine (IRE) and Bryan Coquard (FRA).

Anna Meares (AUS) has her eyes on repeating Chris Hoy's achievements in Beijing - golds in the sprint, team sprint and keirin. She will go in favourite in all three events, though not by much. In the individual sprint Victoria Pendleton will be Anna's biggest threat; they

have been close (and not friendly) rivals for nearly 10 years now with the latest episode being a controversial win for Pendleton at the World Championships in Melbourne. Guo Shang (CHN), Simona Krupeckaite (LTU) and Lyubov Shulika (UKR) are all waiting on the wings and there has been a recent trend in major championships for fatigue, both mental and physical, from beating a tough opponent in an earlier round to cause a favourite to lose in the final. As in the men's team pursuit, the women's team sprint looked wrapped up for Australia a year ago. The partnership of Meares and Kaarle McCulloch for Australia has first been overtaken by Pendleton and Jess Varnish for Great Britain, who set a world record in February, and then Miriam Welte and Kristina Vogel for Germany, who

lowered the world record again at the World Championships. Anna Meares should let her power take her to gold in the keirin as she has in the past two World Championships, but will be targeted by all the same women as in the sprint.

Finally in the women's team pursuit we have what looks like a sure-fire gold for Great Britain. Daniele King, Laura Trott, and Joanna Rowsell have taken 5 seconds off the world record in a year and, despite challenge again from the Australians, should lower their record again to take gold. The 20 year old Laura Trott has, like Ed Clancy, expanded her horizons from the pursuit to the omnium. Despite a limited racing background Laura has proved an adapt convert, winning the 2012 World Championships. She will face fewer realistic competitors than seen in the men's event; alongside Laura, Annette Edmondson (AUS - twice World Silver medallist), Sarah Hammer (USA - former 2x individual pursuit world champion) and Tara Whitten (CAN - 2011 world omnium champion) will share the medals.

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Men's Sprint9.572s FRA 20 May 2009

9.815s GBR 17 August 2008

Prelim Time

Prelim Time

1 Chris Hoy GBR 9.815 1 Gregory Bauge FRA 9.8962 Jason Kenny GBR 9.957 2 Shane Perkins AUS 9.9483 Mickael Bourgain FRA 10.123 3 Kevin Sireau FRA 9.9534 Maximilian Levy GER 10.199 4 Robert Forstemann GER 10.1425 Kevin Sireau FRA 10.098 5 Matthew Crampton GBR 10.0376 Teun Mulder NED 10.373 6 Chris Hoy GBR 9.9137 Theo Bos NED 10.318 7 Francois Pervis FRA 10.0238 Azizul Awang MAS 10.272 8 Jason Kenny GBR 10.073

Prelim Time

Prelim Time

DSQ* Gregory Bauge FRA 10.142 1 Chris Hoy GBR 9.9321 Jason Kenny GBR 10.120 2 Maximilian Levy GER 10.0962 Chris Hoy GBR 10.111 3 Robert Forstemann GER 10.1443 Michael Bourgain FRA 10.043 4 Kevin Sireau FRA 10.0264 Michael D'Almeida FRA 10.148 5 Jason Kenny GBR 10.1535 Shane Perkins AUS 10.172 6 Matthew Crampton GBR 10.2346 Scott Sunderland AUS 10.262 7 Kazunari Watanabe JPN 10.2577 Robert Forstemann GER 10.267 8 Gregory Bauge FRA 10.217

* DSQ due to receiving a ban for 3 missed out of competition tests

Prelim Time

1 Gregory Bauge FRA 9.8542 Jason Kenny GBR 9.9533 Chris Hoy GBR 9.9024 Shane Perkins AUS 9.9655 Robert Forstemann GER 9.8736 Stefan Boetticher GER 9.9837 Kevin Sireau FRA 9.8938 Mickael Bourgain FRA 9.966

Men's Keirin

1 Chris Hoy GBR 1 Chris Hoy GBR2 Ross Edgar GBR 2 Aziz Awang MAS3 Kiyofumi Nagai JPN 3 Maximillian Levy GER4 Shane Kelly AUS 4 Teun Mulder NED5 Carsten Bergemann GER 5 Francois Pervis FRA6 Arnaud Tournant FRA 6 Sam Webster NZL

1 Shane Perkins AUS 1 Chris Hoy GBR2 Chris Hoy GBR 2 Rene Enders GER3 Teun Mulder NED 3 Mickael Bourgain FRA4 Matthew Crampton GBR 4 Teun Mulder NED5 Rene Enders GER 5 Kazunari Watanabe JPN6 Edward Dawkins NZL 6 Simon Van Veltooven NZL

1 Chris Hoy GBR2 Maximilian Levy GER3 Jason Kenny GBR4 Mickael Bourgain FRA5 Kazunari Watanabe JPN6 Simon Van Velthooven NZL

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World Record (For prelim Flying 200m):

Olympic Record (Prelim Flying 200m):

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Men's Team SprintWorld Record: 42.950s 15 August 2008


Chris Hoy Robert ForstemannJason Kenny Maximilian LevyJamie Staff Stefan NimkeGregory Bauge Gregory BaugeKevin Sireau Michael D'AlmeidaArnaud Tournant Kevin SireauRene Enders Ross EdgarMaximilian Levy Chris HoyStefan Nimke Jason KennyDaniel Ellis Cheng ChangsongMark French Zhang LeiShane Kelly Zhang MiaoTheo Bos Edward DawkinsTeun Mulder Adam StewartTim Veldt Sam WebsterKiyofumi Nagai Sergey BorisovTomohiro Nagatsuka Denis DmitrievKazunari Watanabe Sergey KucherovAziz Awang Dan EllisJosiah Ng Jason NiblettMohd Tisin Scott SunderlandMichael Blatchford Teun MulderAdam Duvendeck Yondi SchmidtGiddeon Massie Roy van den Berg

* DSQ due to Gregory Bauge being banned for missing 3 out of competition tes

Michael D'Almeida Rene EndersGregory Bauge Robert ForstemannKevin Sireau Maximiliam LevyRene Enders Gregory BaugeMaximilian Levy Mickael D'AlmeidaStefan Nimke Kevin SireauMatthew Crampton Ross EdgarChris Hoy Jason KennyJason Kenny Chris HoyJason Niblett Mathew GlaetzerScott Sunderland Shane PerkinsDan Ellis Scott SunderlandSergey Kucherov Ethan MitchellDenis Dmitriev Sam WebsterPavel Yakushevskiy Edward DawkinsSam Webster Changsong ChengEdward Dawkins Miao ZhangEthan Mitchell Lei ZhangHugo Haak Segei KucherovRoy van den Berg Denis DmitrievTeun Mulder Sergi BorisovZhang Miao Kazuki AmagaiZhang Lei Kazunari WatanabeCheng Changsong Seiichiro Nakagawa

Shane PerkinsScott SunderlandMatthew GlaetzerGregory BaugeKevin SireauMichael D'AlmeidaEthan MitchellSam WebsterEdward DawkinsKazuki AmageiKazunari WatanabeSeiichiro NakagawaRene Enders * DSQ for missing the change over zone in their qualifying runMaximilian LevyStefan NimkePhilip HindesChris HoyJason KennyCheng ChangsongZhang LeiZhang MiaoDenis DmitrievSergei BorisovSergei Kucherov

7 Russia

DSQ from 2nd in

Qualifying

43.896Japan

Germany

Great Britain

China

Russia

4

REL*

REL*

5

6

4 Australia 43.954

5 New Zealand 44.002

6 China 44.424

8 Japan 44.791

GBR (C Hoy, J Kenny, J Staff)GBR (C Hoy, J Kenny, J Staff)


1 Germany 43.562

2 France 43.631

3 Great Britain 43.781

44.597

4

5

6

7

8

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Great Britain1

2

3 Germany

France

43.128

43.651

44.014

44.022

44.212

44.437

Australia


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DSQ*

2

3 China

Great Britain

France

Germany 43.433

43.453

43.59

44.002

1 France 43.867

2 Germany 44.483

44.45

44.498

44.63

44.63

4

5

6

7 Holland

Australia

Russia

New Zealand

44.822

45.423USA

Malaysia

Japan

Holland

5 Russia 44.805



4 Australia 45.241

New Zealand 43.812

43.267

43.266

7 Holland 45.047

8 China 45.112

44.215

44.049

DSQ from 4th in

Qualifying



1

2

3

Australia

France

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Men's Team PursuitWorld Record: 3:53.295 04 April 2012

Olympic Record: 3:53.314 18 August 2008

Ed Clancy Jack BobridgePaul Manning Rohan DennisGeraint Thomas Luke DurbridgeBradley Wiggins Michael HepburnCaspar Jorgensen Alexei MarkovJens-Erik Madsen Evgeny KovalevAlex Rasmussen Ivan KovalevMichael Morkov Alexander SerovSam Bewley Steven BurkeMarc Ryan Sam HarrisonJesse Sargent Peter KennaughHayden Roulston Andy TennantJack Bobridge Sam BewleyMark Jamieson Peter LathamBradley McGee Marc RyanGraeme Brown Jesse SargentDamien Gaudin Eloy TeruelMatthieu Ladagnou Pablo BernalChristophe Riblon Asier MaeztuNicolas Rousseau David MuntanerLevi Heimans Tim VeldtRobert Slippens Levi HeimansWim Stroetinga Jenning HuizengaJens Mouris Arno Van Der ZwetSergei Escobar Nikias ArndtAsier Maeztu Henning BommelDavid Muntaner Stefan SchaeferAntonio Miguel Parra Jakob SteigmillerAlexei Markov Gijs van HoeckeAlexander Serov Dominique CornuAlexander Petrovski Ingmar De PoortereEvgeny Kovalev Jonathan Dufranse

Jack Bobridge Ed ClancyRohan Dennis Steven BurkeAlexander Edmondson Peter KennaughMichael Hepburn Geraint ThomasSteven Burke Glenn O'SheaEd Clancy Jack BobridgePeter Kennaugh Rohan DennisGeraint Thomas Michael HepburnSam Bewley Aaron GateAaron Gate Sam BewleyWestley Gough Westley GoughMarc Ryan Marc RyanIngmar De Poortere Artur ErshovDominique Cornu Avgeny KovalevKenny De Ketele Alexei MarkovJonathan Dufrasne Alexander SerovArtur Ershov Pablo Aitor BernalValery Kaykov Asier Maeztu BillelabeitiaEvgeny Kovalev Sebastien Mora VedriIvan Savitsky Albert TorresMichael Vingerling Gijs van HoeckeLevi Heimans Kenny De KeteleJenning Huizenga Dominique CornuArno Van Der Zwet Jonathan DufrasneJuan Esteban Arango Lasse Norman HansenEdwin Avila Vanegas Casper FolsachA. A. Castro Laverde Rasmus QuaadeWeimar Roldan Ortiz Christian RanneriesKirill Sveshnikov Peter SchepRoman Ivlev Levi HeimansRavel Karpenkov Aron van der ZwetDswergey Shilov Tim Veldt

Columbia 4:08.287

8 Russia 4:08.999

1

2


1 Australia 3:54.615

Belgium 4:07.198

5 Spain 4:06.187

6 Netherlands 4:06.552

3 Great Britain 4:02.781

5 Russia

3 New Zealand 3:57.776


5 France 4:03.679

2 Great Britian 3:56.330


4 Belgium 4:04.956

Great Britain 3:53.314

Denmark 4:00.040

GBR (E Clancy, P Kennaugh, G Thomas, S Burke)

GBR (E Clancy, P Manning, G Thomas, B Wiggins)

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Spain 4:06.509

8

4:06.823

6 Netherlands

7

4:07.825

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2 Russia 4:02.229

Russia 4:06.518


7 Denmark 4:03.327

7 Germany 4:06.977

8


Russia 3:59.237




5 Spain 4:01.717

6 Belgium 4:02.317


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Men's Omnium

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Cycling - Track

Women's Sprint10.782s AUS 05 April 2012

10.963s GBR 17 August 2008

Prelim Time

Prelim Time

1 Victoria Pendleton GBR 10.963 1 Victoria Pendleton GBR 11.1352 Anna Meares AUS 11.140 2 Guo Shang CHN 10.9183 Guo Shang CHN 11.106 3 Simona Krupeckaite LTU 11.0784 Willy Kanis NED 11.167 4 Anna Meares AUS 11.035 Clara Sanchez FRA 11.365 5 Kristina Vogel GER 11.3566 Natallia Tsylinskaya BLR 11.372 6 Kaarle McCulloch AUS 11.2027 Jennie Reed USA 11.400 7 Olga Panarina BLR 11.0778 Simona Krupeckaite LTU 11.222 8 Victoria Baranova RUS 11.426

Prelim Time

Prelim Time

1 Anna Meares AUS 11.120 1 Guo Shang CHN 11.0792 Simona Krupeckaite LTU 11.291 2 Anna Meares AUS 10.9393 Victoria Pendleton GBR 11.299 3 Lee Wai Sze HKG 11.0034 Olga Panarina BLR 11.120 4 Victoria Pendleton GBR 11.1195 Lyubov Shulika UKR 11.152 5 Jess Varnish GBR 11.1476 Sandie Clair FRA 11.398 6 Lisandra Guerra Rodriquez CUB 11.3027 Kristina Vogel GER 11.387 7 Kristina Vogel GER 11.1698 Guo Shang CHN 11.188 8 Kaarle McCulloch AUS 11.318

Prelim Time

1 Victoria Pendleton GBR 10.0762 Simona Krupeckaite LTU 11.0793 Anna Meares AUS 10.7824 Lyubov Shulika UKR 11.1315 Guo Shang CHN 11.0046 Miriam Welte GER 11.0337 Virginie Cueff FRA 11.3868 Lisandra Guerra CUB 11.150

Women's Team SprintWorld Record: 32.630s 04 April 2012

Olympic Record: N/A

Kaarle McCulloch Anna MearesAnna Meares Kaarle McCullochGong Jinjie Victoria PendletonLin Junhong Jessica VarnishGintare Gaivenyte Guo Shang 33.586Simona Krupeckaite Gong JinjieVictoria Pendleton Clara SanchezJessica Varnish Sandie ClairSandie Clair Miriam WelteClara Sanchez Kristina VogelKristina Vogel Gintare GaivenyteMiriam Welte Simona KrupeckaiteYvonne Hijgenaar Yvonne HijgenaarWilly Kanis Willy KanisVictoria Baranova Iryna PapezhukOlga Streltsova Lyubov Shulika

Jess Varnish Kristina VogelVictoria Pendleton Miriam WelteAnna Meares Kaarle McCullochKaarle McCulloch Anna MearesGong Jinjie Gong JinjieGuo Shang Guo ShangSandie Clair Victoria PendletonClara Sanchez Jessica VarnishMiriam Weite Sandie ClairKristina Vogel Clara SanchezAnastasiya Voynova Viktoria BaranovaViktoria Baranova Anastasya VoynovaGintare Gaivenyte Yvonne HijgenaarSimona Krupeckaite Willy KanisKatie Schofield Lyubov ShulikaNatasha Hansen Olena Tsos

7 Lithuania 33.716




2 Australia 32.945

3 China 33.060

Great Britain

China

Australia 33.237

World Record (For prelim Flying 200m):

Olympic Record (Prelim Flying 200m):

4 France 33.433

5 Germany 33.554

6 Russia 33.650


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33.525


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2

3

7

8


1

2

3

Australia

China

Lithuania 33.109

33.192

32.923

4

5 France

Germany

Netherlands

Russia

4 France 33.731

7

8

Germany

34.151

8 Ukraine 34.373

5 Germany 33.618

6 Lithuania 33.788


33.160

32.870

32.597

32.549

7 Netherlands

1

2

3

4


GER (K Vogel, M Welte)

Anna Meares

34.369

33.672

33.604

33.490

33.593Great Britain

Victoria Pendleton

6

Australia

China

Great Britain

France

Ukraine 33.639

Russia

Netherlands 33.571

33.440

33.3555

6

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Women's Keirin

1 Simone Krupeckaite LTU 1 Anna Meares AUS2 Victoria Pendleton GBR 2 Olga Panarina BEL3 Olga Panarina BLR 3 Clara Sanchez FRA4 Kaarle McCulloch AUS 4 Guo Shang CHN5 Miriam Welte GER 5 Fatehah Mustapa MAS6 Clara Sanchez FRA 6 Lisandra Guerra CUB

1 Simona Krupeckaite LTU 1 Anna Meares AUS2 Lee Wai Sze HKG 2 Ekaterina Gnidenko RUS3 Guo Shang CHN 3 Kristina Vogel GER4 Lyubov Shulika UKR 4 Guo Shuang CHN5 Victoria Pendleton GBR 5 Clara Sanchez FRA6 Anna Meares AUS 6 Di Mu CHN

Women's Team PursuitWorld Record: 3:15.720 04 April 2012

Olympic Record: N/A

Ashlee Ankudinoff Laura TrottSarah Kent Wendy HouvenaghelJosephine Tomic Danielle KingLizzie Armitstead Sarah HammerWendy Houvenaghel Dotsie BauschJoanna Rowsell Jennie ReedRushlee Buchanan Kaytee BoydLauren Ellis Jaime NielsenAlison Shanks Alison ShanksDotsie Bausch Amy CureSarah Hammer Katherine BatesLauren Tamayo Josephine TomicVera Koedooder Kirsten WildAmy Pieters Vera KoedooderEllen van Dijk Ellen van DijkLaura Brown Tara WhittenStephanie Roorda Laura BrownTara Whitten Clara HughesCharlotte Becker Lisa BrennauerLisa Brennauer Charlotte BeckerVerena Joos Madeleine SandigYelizaveta Bochkarova Svitlana GaylukSvitlana Gayluk Lesya KalitovskaLesya Kalitovska Anna Solovey

Laura Trott Daniele KingDanielle King Laura TrottJoanna Rowsell Joanna RowsellTara Whitten Annette EdmondsonGillian Carleton Melissa HoskinsJasmin Glaesser Josephine TomicAnnette Edmondson Tara WhittenAmy Cure Jasmin GlaesserJosephine Tomic Gillian CarletonKirsten Wild Lauren EllisVera Koedooder Jaime NielsenEllen Van Dijk Alison ShanksSarah Hammer Sarah HammerJennie Reed Dotsie BauschLauren Tamayo Lauren TamayoLauren Ellis Alena DylkoJaime Nielsen Aksana PapkoAlison Shanks Tatsiana SharakovaAusrine Trebaite Jiang FanVaida Pikauskaite Jiang WenwenVilja Serekaite Liang JingLisa Brennauer Charlotte BeckerCharlotte Becker Lisa BrennauerMadeleine Sandig Meadeleine Sandig

3:24.145



7 Lithuania 3:28.156

8 Germany 3:28.633 8 Germany

3:23.208




2 Canada 3:18.982

3:21.552

Netherlands

2

4

6

USA 3:24.571



3 New Zealand

8



Great Britain (D King, L Trott, J Rowsell)

1

3:19.529

3:27.623

3:27.255

3:26.092

Ukraine 3:27.662

Canada 3:26.132

USA

New Zealand

Australia 3:24.422

3:24.065

3:25.3082

3

4

5

6

7

Ukraine 3:27.756

Germany 3:27.236

New Zealand 3:19.847

5

Canada

Germany



5 United States United States 3:21.765




3 Canada

8



7



6 Belarus 3:22.509

7 China 3:23.083

4

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Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

1 He Chong CHN 572.90 1 He Chong CHN 546.552 Alexandre Despatie CAN 536.65 2 Qin Kai CHN 522.353 Qin Kai CHN 530.10 3 Evgeny Kuznetsov RUS 501.854 Dmitry Sautin RUS 512.65 4 Yahel Castillo MEX 490.005 Pavlo Rozenberg GER 485.60 5 Patrick Hausding GER 481.756 Troy Dumais USA 472.50 6 Kristian Ipsen USA 480.307 Yahel Castillo MEX 462.10 7 Alex Despatie CAN 476.858 Patrick Hausding GER 462.05 8 Javier Illana ESP 475.10

avg.1 Qin Kai CHN 528.59 1 He Chong CHN 554.302 He Chong CHN 518.15 2 Ilya Kvasha UKR 508.953 Evgeny Kuznetsov RUS 498.30 3 Evgeny Kuznetsov RUS 493.554 Troy Dumais USA 481.42 4 Qin Kai CHN 481.905 Yahel Castillo MEX 464.80 5 Troy Dumais USA 479.456 Ilya Kvasha UKR 463.23 6 Yahel Castillo MEX 464.107 Javier Illana ESP 437.03 7 Matthieu Rosset FRA 455.458 Patrick Hausding GER 433.69 8 Jack Laugher GBR 453.50

avg.1 Qin Kai CHN 522.87 1 He Chong CHN 535.352 He Chong CHN 507.05 2 Qin Kai CHN 524.003 Yahel Castillo MEX 480.60 3 Alexandre Despatie CAN 511.954 Troy Dumais USA 468.55 4 Ethan Warren AUS 511.705 Patrick Hausding GER 467.45 5 Illya Kvasha UKR 500.506 Javier Illana ESP 449.69 6 Illya Zakharov RUS 493.057 Evgeny Kuznetsov RUS 448.14 7 Sho Sakai JPN 491.058 Ilya Kvasha UKR 433.78 8 Jack Laugher GBR 463.70


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2012 World Series

At times it can feel as though there is a gulf between China and the rest of the World in Diving competitions. For over 20 years they have produced diver after diver capable of incredibly challenging tucks and twists followed by breathtakingly clean entries into the water. At the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai they won all 8 available gold medals, all but one of which was over 20 points clear of the best non-Chinese diver. On the men's side He Chong on the springboard and Qiu Bo on the platform, and on the women's He Zi and Wu Minxia on the springboard and Hu Yadan and Chen Ruolin on the platform, are all superstars at home and will be taking this pressure into the Games where nothing less than gold will be acceptable in either the synchro or individual events. It is perhaps this pressure that has prevented China from completing a much anticipated clean-sweep of diving gold medals at an Olympics. In Beijing, the Australian Matthew Mitcham, possibly the most successful openly gay competing sportman on the planet, snatched the last available gold to spoil the Chinese party at their home Games. It is hard to see who could replicate this feat in London but the Russian pairing of Zakharov and Kuznetsova in the men's 3m synchro have come the closest in recent major competitions and could be well placed to capitalise on a dropped dive from their opponents.

GB diving boasts one of the "faces" of the London 2012 Olympics - Tom Daley. The 18 year old was the youngest competitor from any country at the 2008 Olympics and the youngest ever diving World Champion in 2009. He then hit a growth spurt that saw him

gain him over 6 inches in height and 2 stone in weight in less than a year, which, understandably, forced him to adjust his diving style - relying less on clean entries and more on power-based difficult dives - and rebuild his competitive edge. He is still struggling for consistency with his new dives but has performed well this year, averaging significantly above his non-Chinese opponents. He

should be aiming for medals both in the individual and, with his partner Pete Waterfield, in the synchronised 10m events. GB's only other likely source of a medal will come from the personable and photogenic synchro team of Sarah Barrow and Tonia

Crouch, who surprised many by winning bronze in the World Cup event held in the Olympic Aquatics Centre earlier this year. Although they're generally 10-20 points behind the medals, their youth means they may be less fazed by the pressure of having

thousands of eyes focused on them perched 10m above the pool.

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Men's 3m Springboard Synchronised

1 Wang Feng, Qin Kai CHN 469.08 1 Qin Kai, Luo Yutong CHN 460.622 Dmitri Sautin, Yuriy Kunakov RUS 421.98 2 Troy Dumais, Kristian Ipsen USA 440.013 Illya Kvasha, Oleksiy Prygorov UKR 415.05 3 Illya Kvasha, Oleksiy Prygorov UKR 432.304 Chris Colwill, Jevon Tarantino USA 410.73 4 Reuben Ross, Alex Despatie CAN 424.925 Alexandre Despatie, Arturo Miranda CAN 409.29 5 Patrick Hausding, Stephan Feck GER 421.086 Pavlo Rozenberg, Sascha Klein GER 402.84 6 Dmitry Sautin, Yury Kunakov RUS 419.467 Nick Robinson-Baker, Ben Swain GBR 402.36 7 Jorge Betancourt, Jose Guerra CUB 416.468 Scott Robertson, Robert Newbery AUS 393.80 8 Damien Cely, Matthieu Rosset FRA 411.48

avg.1 Qin Kai, Luo Yutong CHN 463.09 1 Qin Kai, Luo Yutong CHN 463.982 Yahel Castillo, Daniel Islas MEX 435.86 2 Ilya Zakharov, Evgeny Kuznetsova RUS 451.893 Troy Dumais, Kristian Ipsen USA 428.51 3 Julian Sanchez, Yahel Castillo MEX 437.614 Illya Kvasha, Oleksiy Prygorov UKR 425.08 4 Kristian Ipsen, Troy Dumais USA 429.065 Patrick Hausding, Stephan Feck GER 424.01 5 Patrick Hausding, Stephan Feck GER 412.396 Dmitry Sautin, Yury Kunakov RUS 419.60 6 O. Pryhorov, O. Gorshkovozov UKR 412.207 N. Robinson-Baker, Chris Mears GBR 406.41 7 N. Robinson-Baker, Chris Mears GBR 403.688 N. Robinson-Baker, Ben Swain GBR 392.12 8 Matthieu Rosset, Damaien Clay FRA 402.36

avg.1 Qin Kai, Luo Yutong CHN 457.28 1 Qin Kai, Luo Yutong CHN 445.712 Illya Kvasha, Oleksiy Prygorov UKR 429.37 2 Evgeny Kuznetsov, Illya Zakharov RUS 439.833 Ilya Zakharov, Evgeny Kuznetsov RUS 428.97 3 Lomas Bryan Nickson, Huang Qiang MAS 432.094 Yahel Castillo, Julian Sanchez MEX 422.96 4 Illya Kvasha, Oleksyi Prygorov UKR 424.835 Troy Dumais, Kristian Ipsen USA 420.11 5 Alexandre Despatie, Reuben Ross CAN 417.426 Patrick Hausding, Stephan Feck GER 415.18 6 Troy Dumas, Kristian Ipsen USA 414.307 O. Gorshkovozov, Oleg Kolodniy UKR 412.50 7 Yahel Castillo, Alejandro Islas MEX 413.738 N. Robinson-Baker, Chris Mears GBR 409.85 8 Patrick Hausding, Stephan Feck USA 402.27

Men's 10m Platform

1 Matthew Mitcham AUS 537.95 1 Matthew Mitcham AUS 562.802 Zhou Luxin CHN 533.15 2 Huo Liang CHN 555.403 Gleb Galperin RUS 525.80 3 Qiu Bo CHN 554.704 Huo Liang CHN 508.40 4 Victor Minibaev RUS 525.005 Jose Guerra CUB 507.15 5 Jose Guerra CUB 511.006 Mathew Helm AUS 467.70 6 Pete Waterfield GBR 500.457 Thomas Daley GBR 463.55 7 Rommel Pacheco MEX 496.058 Rommel Pacheco MEX 460.20 8 Nick McCrory USA 482.20

avg.1 Cao Yuan CHN 602.75 1 Qiu Bo CHN 585.452 Qiu Bo CHN 596.45 2 David Boudia USA 544.253 Liang Huo CHN 544.30 3 Sascha Klein GER 534.504 Pete Waterfield GBR 529.48 4 Victor Minibaev RUS 527.505 David Boudia USA 507.95 5 Thomas Daley GBR 505.106 Sascha Klein GER 506.80 6 Nick McCrory USA 501.657 Victor Minibaev RUS 498.80 7 Ivan Garcia MEX 493.158 Thomas Daley GBR 496.48 8 Oleksandr Bondar UKR 457.35

avg.1 Qiu Bo CHN 567.88 1 Qiu Bo CHN 574.902 Yue Lin CHN 546.25 2 Victor Minibaev RUS 523.603 Thomas Daley GBR 541.09 3 Peter Waterfield GBR 510.354 David Boudia USA 517.89 4 David Boudia USA 501.105 Victor Minibaev RUS 505.48 5 Oleksandr Bondar UKR 499.956 Sascha Klein GER 501.75 6 Yue Lin CHN 493.007 Nick McCrory USA 498.53 7 Patrick Hausding GER 482.358 German Sanchez MEX 481.10 8 Lomas Bryan Nickson MAS 461.60


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Men's 10m Platform Synchronised

1 Lin Yue, Huo Liang CHN 468.18 1 Cao Yuan, Zhang Yanquan CHN 500.462 Patrick Hausding, Sascha Klein GER 450.42 2 Victor Minibaev, Ilia Zakharov RUS 492.903 Gleb Galperin, Dmitriy Dobroskok RUS 445.26 3 Jose Guerra, Jenkler Aguirre CUB 462.604 Mathew Helm, Robert Newbery AUS 444.84 4 David Boudia, Nick McCrory USA 448.895 David Boudia, Thomas Finchum USA 440.64 5 Sascha Klein, Patrick Hausding GER 435.936 Victor Ortega, Juan Uran COL 423.66 6 Max Brick, Pete Waterfield GBR 427.387 Jose Guerra, Erick Fornaris CUB 409.38 7 German Sanchez, Ivan Garcia MEX 421.808 Blake Aldridge, Tom Daley GBR 408.48 8 Kaptur Vadim, Hordkhik BLR 418.14

avg.1 Cao Yuan, Zhang Yanquan CHN 473.24 1 Qiu Bo, Huo Lang CHN 480.032 Thomas Daley, Peter Waterfield GBR 437.35 2 Patrick Hausding, Sascha Klein GER 443.013 David Boudia, Thomas Finchum USA 437.10 3 O. Gorshkovozov, O. Bondar UKR 435.364 Sascha Klein, Patrick Hausding GER 434.90 4 Ilya Zakharov, Victor Minibaev RUS 427.985 Victor Minibaev, Ilia Zakharov RUS 432.60 5 David Boudia, Nick McCrory USA 420.696 Ivan Garcia, German Sanchez MEX 432.60 6 Peter Waterfield, Tom Daley GBR 407.467 Jose Guerra, Jenkler Aguirre CUB 432.08 7 German Sanchez, Ivan Garcia MEX 393.098 Rommel Pacheco, J. Ruvalcaba MEX 426.90 8 Eric Sehn, Kevin Geyson CAN 386.70

avg.1 Cao Yuan, Zhang Yanquan CHN 477.27 1 Cao Yuan, Zhang Yanquan CHN 481.292 Lin Yue, Huo Liang CHN 433.59 2 Ivan Alejandro Garcia, German MEX 460.173 David Boudia, Nick McCrory USA 432.05 3 Patrick Hausding, Sascha Klein GER 457.414 Thomas Daley, Peter Waterfield GBR 431.21 4 David Boudia, Nick McCrory USA 444.935 O. Gorshkovozov, O. Bondar UKR 428.88 5 Jose Guerra, Jeinkler Aguirre CUB 432.306 Victor Minibaev, Ilia Zakharov RUS 428.18 6 Ilya Zakharov, Victor Minibaev RUS 432.277 Sascha Klein, Patrick Hausding GER 427.14 7 Thomas Daley, Peter Waterfield GBR 419.978 Ivan Garcia, German Sanchez MEX 423.97 8 Kevin Geyson, Erci Sehn CAN 402.12




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Women's 3m Springboard

1 Guo Jingjing CHN 415.35 1 He Zi CHN 395.552 Julia Pakhalina RUS 398.60 2 Wu Minxia CHN 371.053 Wu Minxia CHN 389.85 3 Paola Espinosa MEX 367.804 Blythe Hartley CAN 374.60 4 Jennifer Abel CAN 353.555 Tania Cagnotto ITA 349.20 5 Sharleen Stratton AUS 339.906 Anna Lindberg SWE 342.15 6 Tania Cagnotto ITA 323.157 Sharleen Stratton AUS 331.00 7 Anabelle Smith AUS 322.408 Nancilea Foster USA 316.70 8 Abby Johnston USA 321.75

avg.1 He Zi CHN 388.40 1 Wu Minxia CHN 380.852 Wu Minxia CHN 386.33 2 He Zi CHN 379.103 Jennifer Abel CAN 350.41 3 Jennifer Abel CAN 365.104 Tania Cagnotto ITA 350.20 4 Christina Loukas USA 350.105 Sharleen Stratton AUS 340.60 5 Sharleen Stratton AUS 330.756 Abby Johnston USA 315.48 6 Laura Sanchez MEX 329.707 Anabelle Smith AUS 305.75 7 Kelci Bryant USA 322.958 Emilie Heymans CAN 305.55 8 Anna Pysmenska UKR 317.25

avg.1 He Zi CHN 376.71 1 Wu Minxia CHN 368.952 Wu Minxia CHN 373.07 2 He Zi CHN 365.403 Tania Cagnotto ITA 346.81 3 Tania Cagnotto ITA 345.754 Christina Loukas USA 338.18 4 Pamela Ware CAN 341.305 Laura Sanchez MEX 332.70 5 Anna Lindberg SWE 341.256 Kelci Bryant USA 324.52 6 Laura Sanchez MEX 329.107 Jennifer Abel CAN 316.24 7 Christina Loukas USA 327.658 Uschi Freitag GER 313.90 8 Cassidy Krug USA 326.10

Women's 3m Springboard Synchronised

1 Guo Jingjing, Wu Minxia CHN 343.50 1 Zi He, Minxia Wu CHN 354.902 Julia Pakhalina, Anastasia RUS 323.61 2 Svetlana Filippova, A'tasia RUS 323.523 Ditte Kotzian, Heike Fischer GER 318.90 3 Jennifer Abel, Emilie Heymans CAN 322.504 Kelci Bryant, Ariel Rittenhouse USA 314.40 4 Briony Cole, Sharleen Stratton AUS 320.615 Briony Cole, Sharleen Stratton AUS 311.34 5 Kassidy Cook, Cassidy Krug USA 318.306 Noemi Batki, Francesca Dallape ITA 296.70 6 Francy Dellape, Tania Cagnotto ITA 317.407 M. Voloshchenko, A, Pysmenska UKR 293.10 7 Arantxo Chavez, Laura Sanchez MEX 303.398 Tandi Gerrard, Hayley Sage GBR 278.25 8 Rebecca Gallantree, Alicia Blagg GBR 297.24

avg.1 Zi He, Minxia Wu CHN 338.63 1 Wu Minxia, He Zi CHN 356.402 Jennifer Abel, Emilie Heymans CAN 309.30 2 Emilie Haymnas, Jennifer Abel CAN 313.503 Svetlana Filippova, N. Bazhina RUS 309.01 3 Anabelle Smith, Sharleen Stratton AUS 306.904 Francesca Dallape, Tania Cagnotto ITA 303.83 4 H. Pysmenska, Olena Fedorova UKR 302.405 Kassidy Cook, Cassidy Krug USA 293.21 5 Katja Dieckow, Uschi Freitag GER 299.406 Anabelle Smith, Sharleen Stratton AUS 280.65 6 Francesca Dallape, Tania Cagnotto ITA 297.607 Daniela Ramirez, Laura Sanchez MEX 279.32 7 Christina Loukas, Kassidy Cook USA 288.008 Rebecca Gallantree, Alicia Blagg GBR 270.90 8 S. Filippova, A'tasia Pozdniakova RUS 282.72

avg.1 Zi He, Minxia Wu CHN 334.35 1 He Zi, Wu Minxia CHN 345.302 Aranxa Chavez, Laura Sanchez MEX 307.20 2 Jennifer Abel, Emilie Heymans CAN 321.903 Kassidy Cook, Christina Loukas USA 305.52 3 Tania Cagnotto, Francesca Dallape ITA 317.404 Kelci Bryant, Abby Johnston CAN 304.80 4 Kelci Bryant, Abby Johnston USA 315.005 Francesca Dallape, Tania Cagnotto ITA 299.18 5 Olena Feborova, Anna Pysmenska UKR 314.706 Anna Pysmenska, Olena Fedorova UKR 295.20 6 Jun H. C., P. Rinong Pamg MAS 300.907 Katja Dieckow, Uschi Freitag GER 294.98 7 Paola Espinosa, Laura Sanchez MEX 300.608 Maria Polyakova, Nadezda Bazhina RUS 294.87 8 Anabelle Smith, Sharleen Stratton AUS 298.20




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Diving

Women's 10m Platform

1 Chen Ruolin CHN 447.70 1 Hu Yadan CHN 452.802 Emilie Heymans CAN 437.05 2 Chen Ruolin CHN 437.203 Wang Xin CHN 429.90 3 Melissa Wu AUS 374.304 Paola Espinosa MEX 380.95 4 Meaghan Benfeito CAN 359.655 Tatiana Ortiz MEX 343.60 5 Yulia Koltunova RUS 354.556 Melissa Wu AUS 338.15 6 Roseline Filion CAN 353.707 Marie-Eve Marleau CAN 332.10 7 Pandelela Rinong Pamg MAS 351.408 Tonia Couch GBR 328.70 8 Paola Espinosa MEX 338.15

avg.1 Hu Yadan CHN 421.60 1 Chen Ruolin CHN 405.302 Chen Ruolin CHN 414.85 2 Hu Yadan CHN 394.003 Wang Hao CHN 392.80 3 Paola Espinosa MEX 377.154 Alexandra Croak AUS 356.80 4 Meaghan Benfeito CAN 375.505 Paola Espinosa MEX 350.69 5 Pandelela Rinong USA 355.856 Pandelela Rinong Pamg MAS 347.99 6 Iuliia Prokopchuk UKR 340.157 Roseline Filion CAN 342.83 7 Alexandra Croak AUS 337.758 Melissa Wu GER 339.30 8 Roseline Filion CAN 333.00

avg.1 Chen Ruolin CHN 403.08 1 Chen Ruolin CHN 405.252 Hu Yadan CHN 361.05 2 Hu Yadan CHN 397.103 Paola Espinosa MEX 368.55 3 Yulia Koltunova RUS 350.254 Alexandra Croak AUS 325.13 4 Roseline Filon CAN 348.905 Pandelela Rinong Pamg MAS 349.78 5 Carolina Mendoza MEX 346.856 Roseline Filion CAN 303.30 6 Christin Steuer GER 346.807 Meaghan Benfeito CAN 342.09 7 Mai Nakagawa JPN 339.858 Yulia Koltunova RUS 345.20 8 Neomi Batki ITA 332.10

Women's 10m Platform Synchronised

1 Wang Xin, Chen Ruolin CHN 363.54 1 Chen Ruolin, Hao Wang CHN 349.562 Briony Cole, Melissa Wu AUS 335.16 2 Melissa Wu, Alexandra Croak AUS 331.563 Paola Espinosa, Tatiana Ortiz MEX 330.06 3 Meaghan Benfeito, Roseline Filion CAN 322.894 Stefanie Anthes, Nora Subschinski GER 310.29 4 Rebecca Gallantree, Stacie Powell GBR 322.025 Mary Beth Dunnichay, Haley USA 309.12 5 Pandelela Rinong Pamg, Mun Yee MAS 321.966 Choe Kum Hui, Kim Un Hyang PRK 308.10 6 Yulia Koltunova, Natalia Gonch RUS 314.347 Meaghan Benfeito, Roseline Filion CAN 305.91 7 Nora Subschinski, Christin Steuer GER 311.828 Tonia Couch, Stacie Powell GBR 303.48 8 Haley Ishimatsu, Mary Dunnichay USA 308.40

avg.1 Chen Ruolin, Hao Wang CHN 358.03 1 Wang Hao, Chen Ruolin CHN 362.582 Meaghan Benfeito,Roseline Filion CAN 325.40 2 Alexandra Croak, Melissa Wu AUS 325.923 Melissa Wu, Alexandra Croak AUS 321.96 3 Christin Steuer, Nora Subschinski GER 316.294 Leong M. Y., P. Rinong Pamg MAS 317.22 4 Tonia Crouch, Sarah Barrow GBR 314.525 Yulia Koltunova, Daria Govor RUS 304.98 5 V. Potyekhina, Iuliia Prokopchuk UKR 311.646 R. Gallantree, Megan Sylvester GBR 291.03 6 Leong M. Y., P. Rinong Pamg MAS 305.347 Rebecca Gallantree, Tonia Couch GBR 288.15 7 Meaghan Benfeito, Roseline Filion CAN 303.878 Mariana Mendiola, Marisa Diaz MEX 276.84 8 Paola Espinosa,Tatiana Ortiz MEX 298.80

avg.1 Chen Ruolin, Hao Wang CHN 349.76 1 Chen Ruolin, Wang Hao CHN 359.582 Paola Espinosa, Alejandra Orozco MEX 326.98 2 Meaghan Benfeito, Roseline Filion CAN 331.653 Meaghan Benfeito, Roseline Filion CAN 321.45 3 Sarah Barrow, Tonia Couch GBR 314.404 Mun Yee Leong, Pandelela Rinong MAS 318.60 4 Alexandra Croak, Melissa Wu AUS 311.045 Sarah Barrow, Tonia Couch GBR 305.67 5 Nora Subschinski, Christin Steuer GER 309.336 Christin Steuer, Nora Subschinski GER 305.04 6 V. Potyekhina, Iulia Prokopchuk UKR 308.527 I. Prokopchuk, Viktoriya Potyekhina UKR 298.28 7 Mun Yee Leong, P. Rinong Pamg MAS 307.868 E. Petukhova, Yulia Timoshinina RUS 277.71 8 Paola Espinosa, Alejandra Orozco MEX 305.34

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Equestrian

Individual Jumping

1 Eric Lamaze CAN 1 Philippe Le Jeune BEL2 Rolf-Goran Bengtsson SWE 2 Abdullah Al Sharbatly KSA3 Beezie Madden USA 3 Eric Lamaze CAN4 M. Michaels-Beerbaum GER 4 Rodrigo Pessoa BRA5 McLain Ward USA 5 Carsten-Otto Nagel GER6 Ludger Beerbaum GER 6 Rolf-Goran Bengtsson SWE7 Marc Houtzager NED 7 McLain Ward USA8 Angelique Hoorn NED 8 John Pearce CAN

1 Christian Ahlmann GER 1 Rich Fellers USA2 Eric Lamaze CAN 2 Steve Guerdat SUI3 Jeroen Dubbeldam NED 3 Pius Schwizer SUI4 Marco Kutscher GER 4 Philipp Weishaupt GER4 Beezie Madden USA 5 Kevin Staut FRA6 Gerco Schroder NED 6 Rolf-Goran Bengtsson SWE7 Katie McVean NZL 7 Maikel van der Vleuten NED8 Kevin Staut FRA 8 Marcus Ehning GER

Points1 Rolf-Goran Bengtsson SWE 27022 Pius Schwizer SUI 23503 Nick Skeltobn GBR 23404 Ludger Beerbaum GER 22925 Marco Kutscher GER 22126 Eric Lamaze CAN 21857 Steve Guerdat SUI 21508 Edwina Tops-Alexander AUS 21329 Marcus Ehning GER 212710 Kevin Staut FRA 2125

Equestrian does not fit comfortably into the Olympics. The fundamental issue of whether it is right to award a gold medal to a rider when the crucial skill and strength comes from their horse is enough for many to feel uncomfortable, and the list of additional concerns is seemingly endless: horses can be bought and sold between nations (witness the money spent by Saudi Arabia equipping their show jumping stables); riders and trainers quite happily and openly use drugs which are on the banned list, such as the painkiller capsicum (4 horses/riders were banned following the 2008 Olympics); some of the extreme training methods used to control the horses raise ethical concerns; riders are paid by the owners of the horses who are motivated by a desire to show the horse off and thereby increase its value; the equestrian portion of the Olympics has twice (in 1956 and 2008) had to be held thousands of miles from the host city due to quarantine concerns… I could go on. Crucially, however, equestrianism is big business. Viewing figures in some rich markets remain high and it is popular with sponsors (or at least their wives and children) and so will keep its uneasy place in the Olympic Games for the foreseeable future.

In equestrianism top riders often have several world-class horses to choose from (and often ride more than one at a competition), which makes it hard to judge form. In dressage, the skill of the rider-trainer and the bond required is significant enough that a rider can come to

dominate. Anky Van Grunsven (NED) enjoyed this position between 2000 and 2008, winning all three gold medals with two different horses. She's back again with her 14 year old gelding Salinero, but will have to share the favourite tag with her country-woman Adelinde

Cornelisson on Parzival who have won the past two World Cup Dressage Finals. Home crowd support (not always the best thing in the controlled world of dressage) will fall on Laura Bechtolsheimer riding Mistral Hojrij who, along with the Dutch team and the very strong

Germans will be hot on the trail of individual gold. Team Dressage will be between those three countries as well. Germany have won every Olympic gold since 1984 but have been pipped twice by the Dutch and once by the British to major team titles since 2008.

With a wafer thin margin of error, show jumping could be won be any of ten or twenty riders. As reigning Olympic champions, Germany will be narrow favourites in the team competition but again this is too close to call. Great Britain do not have a strong record in show jumping, and unlike in dressage or 3-day eventing, are not expected to challenge for medals.

Set within Greenwich park, the 3-day eventing will be the equestrian showpiece of the Games. Here Great Britain excels and, unlike in previous Olympic cycles, our riders will be taking their best horses and will be favourites to take gold in both the individual and team events.

William Fox-Pitt on Lionheart, Tina Cook on Minors Frolic, Nicola Wilson on Opposition Buzz, Mary King on Imperial Cavalier and Zara Phillips on High Kingdom make up a strong team who go in clear favourites to take team gold. Fox-Pitt has been the most successful eventer in the world in recent years; though he is taking a chance on the relatively inexperienced 9 year-old Lionheart, he will be favourite for individual gold, albeit amongst a field of 10-20 potential winners. Should the Queen’s grand-daughter, Zara Phillips (herself the daughter of

two Olympic eventers) medal in the Jubilee year equestrian will doubtless spend a news cycle at the top of the world's headlines.

2008 Olympics 2010 World Equestrian Games

2011 World Cup Jumping Final 2012 World Cup Jumping Final

World Ranking

SapphireChianto

Taloubet FlexibleNino Des Buissonnets

Copin van de Broy

HicksteadNinja

AuthenticShutterfly

Vigo D'Arsouilles

Corradina

Seldana Di CampaltoHicksteadRebozo

SapphireAll Inclusive

OpiumO'Brien

HicksteadSimonCash

Danny BoyNew Orleans

Ninja

CarlinaMonte Bellini

SilvanaCasail La SillaGroep VerdiDelphi

Silvana

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Equestrian

Team Jumping

Country

Germany

France

Belgium

Brazil

Canada

Sweden

Australia

Saudi Arabia

Great Britain

United States

Switzerland

Netherlands

Ukraine

Mexico

Chile

=4th at 2008 Olympics, 1st at 2010 World Equestrian Games, 3rd at 2009 European

Jumping Championships, 1st at 2011 European Jumping Championships

2nd at 2010 World Equestrian Games, 2nd at 2011 European Jumping Championships

3rd at 2010 World Equestrian Games

16th at 2008 Olympics, 4th at 2010 World Equestrian Games, 2nd at 2011 Pan-American

Games

2nd at 2008 Olympics, 5th at 2010 World Equestrian Games

7th 2008 Olympics, 6th at 2010 World Equestrian Games

8th at 2008 Olympics, 7th at 2010 World Equestrian Games

12th at 2008 Olympics, 8th at 2010 World Equestrian Games

6th at 2008 Olympics, 9th at 2010 World Equestrian Games, 3rd at 2011 European

Jumping Championships

1st 2008 Olympics (+ 1st in 2004 Olympics), 10th at 2010 World Equestrian Games, 1st at 2011

Pan-American Games

3rd 2008 Olympics, 1st at 2009 European Jumping Championships

=4th at 2008 Olympics

11th at 2008 Olympics

9th 2008 Olympics, 3rd at 2011 Pan-American Games

Qualification

Qualifed by being the best African or Middle Eastern Team

Qualified at Olympic Qualifying Tournament

Qualified as hosts

Qualified by coming fourth at the 2011 European Jumping Championships

Qualified by coming fifth at the 2011 European Jumping Championships

Qualified by coming sixth at the 2011 European Jumping Championships

Qualified by winning the 2011 Pan-American Games

Qualified by coming third at the 2011 Pan-American Games

Top Results

Qualified by coming fifth at the 2011 Pan-American Games

Qualified at 2010 World Equestrian Games by being the highest placed

finishers (7th) from 'Central & Eastern Europe, Central Asia, S-E Asia and

Oceania'

Qualified by winning the 2010 World Equestrian Games

Qualified by coming second in the 2010 World Equestrian Games

Qualified by coming third in the 2010 World Equestrian Games

Qualified by coming fourth in the 2010 World Equestrian Games

Qualified by coming fifth in the 2010 World Equestrian Games

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Equestrian

Individual Dressage

1 Anky van Grunsven NED 1 Edward Gal NED2 Isalbell Werth GER 2 Laura Bechtolsheimer GBR3 Heike Kemmer GER 3 Steffen Peters USA4 Steffen Peters USA 4 Imke Schellekens-Bartels NED5 Hans Peter Minderhoud NED 5 Juan Manuel Munoz Diaz ESP6 Alexandra Korelova RUS 6 Isalbell Werth GER7 Emma Hindle GBR 7 Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein DEN8 Kyra Kyrklund FIN 8 Ashley Holzer CAN

1 Adelinde Cornelissen NED 1 Adelinde Cornelissen NED2 Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein DEN 2 Helen Langehanenberg GER3 Ulla Salzgeber GER 3 Valentina Truppa ITA4 Isabell Werth GER 4 Isabell Werth GER5 Helen Langehanenberg GER 5 Richard Davison GBR6 Hans Peter Minderhoud NED 6 Hans Peter Minderhoud NED7 Patrik Kittel SWE 7 Nadine Capellmann GER8 Edward Gal NED 8 Patrik Kittel SWE

1 Adelinde Cornelissen NED2 Matthias Rath GER3 Laura Bechtolsheimer GBR4 Charlotte Dujardin GBR5 Carl Hetser GBR6 Ulla Salzgeber GER7 Isabell Werth GER8 Helen Langehanenberg GER9 Patrik Kittel SWE10 Valentina Truppa ITA

Team DressageCountry

Netherlands

Great Britain

Germany

United States

Denmark

Spain

Canada

Australia

Sweden

Poland

2nd 2008 Olympics, 1st at 2010 World Equestrian Games, 1st at 2009 European

Dressage Championships, 3rd at 2011 European Dressage Championships

5th at 2008 Olympics, 2nd at 2010 World Equestrian Games, 2nd at 2009 European

Dressage Championships, 1st at 2011 European Dressage Championships

1st at 2008 Olympics (+1st at every Olympics since 1984), 3rd at 2010 World Equestrian Games, 3rd at 2009 European Dressage Championships, 2nd at 2011 European

Dressage Championships


2011 World Cup Dressage Final

RavelNadineBalagurLancetMax

SalineroSatchmo

Bonaparte

DSQ due to doping at 2008 Olympics, 4th at 2010 World Equestrian Games, 1st at 2011 Pan-

American Games

3rd 2008 Olympics, 5th at 2010 World Equestrian Games,

6th at 2010 World Equestrian Games,

8th 2008 Olympics, 7th at 2010 World Equestrian Games, 2ndt at 2011 Pan-American Games

7th 2008 Olympics, 8th at 2010 World Equestrian Games,

4th 2008 Olympics, 10th at 2010 World Equestrian Games,


Qualified by coming fourth at the 2011 European Dressage Championships

2012 World Cup Dressage Final

Fuego XII

Moorlands TotilasMistral Hojris

RavelHunter Douglas Sunrise

Exquis Nadine

Jerich ParzivalJerich ParzivalDigby

Herzruf's ErbeSatchmo

Damon Hill

GirasolToy Story

Warum NichtDigby

Pop Art

Damon HillEremo del Costegno

El SantoHiscox ArtemisGlock's Tango

World Ranking

Qualification Top Results

Qualified as hosts

Watermill ScandicSister de Jeu

Qualified by coming fifth at the 2011 European Dressage Championships

Qualified by coming sixth at the 2011 European Dressage Championships

Qualified by winning the 2011 Pan-American Games

Qualified by winning Asia-Pacific tournament

Qualified requisite number of individual riders to make up a team

Qualified by winning the 2010 World Equestrian Games


Jerich ParzivalTotalis

Mistral HojrisValegroUthopia

Herzruf's ErbeEl Santo

Damon HillWatermill Scandic

Eremo del Costegno

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Individual Eventing

1 Hinrich Romeike GER 1 Michael Jung GER2 Gina Miles USA 2 William Fox-Pitt GBR3 Kristina Cook GBR 3 Andrew Nicholson NZL4 Megan Jones AUS 4 Karin Donckers BEL5 Ingrid Klimke GER 5 Pippa Funnell GBR6 Didier Dhennin FRA 6 Mary King GBR7 Clayton Fredericks AUS 7 Jonathan Paget NZL8 Andreas Dibowski GER 8 Stuart Tinney AUS

1 Mark Todd NZL 1 Mary King GBR2 Piggy French GBR 2 Mary King GBR3 Mary King GBR 3 Sinead Halpin USA4 Sam Griffiths AUS 4 William Fox-Pitt GBR5 Niklas Lindbach SWE 5 Clayton Fredericks AUS6 Caroline Powell NZL 6 Oliver Townend GBR7 Nicola Wilson GBR 7 Jessica Pheonix CAN8 Laura Collett GBR 8 Hannah Sue Burnett USA

1 Andreas Ostholt GER 1 William Fox-Pitt GBR2 Kai Ruder GER 2 Andrew Nicholson NZL3 Sara Algotsson Ostholt SWE 3 Mary King GBR4 Julia Mestern GER 4 Caroline Powell NZL5 Donatien Schauly FRA 5 Jonathan Paget NZL6 Dirk Schrade GER 6 Clea Phillipps GBR7 Niklas Lindbach SWE 7 Boyd Martin USA8 Marina Kohncke GER 8 Andrew Nicholson NZL

1 William Fox-Pitt GBR 1 William Fox-Pitt GBR2 Andrew Nicholson NZL 2 Allison Springer USA3 William Fox-Pitt GBR 3 Boyd Martin USA4 Mary King GBR 4 Karen O'Conner USA5 Nicolas Touzaint FRA 5 William Coleman USA6 Clayton Fredericks AUS 6 Jonathan Paget NZL7 Lucy Wiegersma GBR 7 Andrew Nicholson NZL8 Christopher Burton AUS 8 Boyd Martin USA

2012 Badminton Horse Trials - Cancelled 2012 Burleigh Horse Trials - Cancelled


2011 Kentucky Three Day

2011 Burleigh Horse Trials

2012 Kentucky Three Day

2008 OlympicsMarius

2011 Badminton Horse TrialsNZB Land Vision

JakataImperial Cavalier

Happy Times

Gazelle de la Brasserie

Imperial CavalierRedesigned

Clifton PromiseVettori

Kings TemptressFernhill Urco

Manoir de CarnevilleNeuf Des Coeurs

Butts Leon

La Biosthetique-SamCool Mountain

NereoMiners FrolicIrish HesterAbraxxas

Ismene du TempleBen Along Time

McKinlaigh

Sonas RovatioExponentialSt. Barths

Franco Jess

Kings TemptressLenamore

Clifton LushLead the Way

Be My GuestMister PoohLenamore

Opposition BuzzRayef

Leprince des BoisWega

SchorschOcarina Du Chanois

2011 Luhmuhlen Horse Trials

Neville BardosMister PoohCalma Schelly

Parklane HawkNereo

Imperial Cavelier

BendigoHildago de L'Ile

Simon Porloe

ArthurOtis Barbotiere

Mr. MedicottTwizzel

King Artus

2011 Etoiles de Pau

Holstein Park Leilani

Avebury

OsloMr Cruise Control

Lionheart

Clifton PromiseQwanza

Remington XXV

Parklane Hawk

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Equestrian

Team Eventing

Country

Great Britain

Canada

New Zealand

United States

Germany

Belgium

Ireland

France

Japan

Sweden

Brazil

Australia

Netherlands

3rd at 2008 Olympics, 1st at 2010 World Eventing Championships, 1st at 2009 European Eventing Championships, 3rd at 2011 European

Eventing Championships

9th at 2008 Olympics, 2nd at 2010 World Eventing Championships, 2nd at 2011 Pan-

American Games


2nd at 2008 Olympics

9th at 2010 World Eventing Championships

4th at 2008 Olympics, 10th at 2010 World Eventing Championships

10th at 2008 Olympics, 3rd at 2011 Pan-American Games

Qualified by coming fifth in the 2010 World Equestrian Games

Qualified by coming sixth in the 2010 World Championships

Qualified by coming second the 2011 European Eventing Championships

Qualified by coming fourth at the 2011 European Eventing Championships

Qualified by coming 4th at the 2011 Pan-American Games


Qualification

5th at 2008 Olympics, 3rd at 2010 World Eventing Championships

7th at 2008 Olympics, 4th at 2010 World Eventing Championships, 1st at 2011 Pan-

American Games1st at 2008 Olympics, 5th at 2010 World

Eventing Championships, 1st at 2011 European Eventing Championships

6th at 2010 World Eventing Championships, 3rd at 2009 European Eventing Championships

8th at 2008 Olympics, 7th at 2010 World Eventing Championships

11th at 2008 Olympics, 8th at 2010 World Eventing Championships, 2nd at 2011 European

Eventing Championships

Top Results


Qualified at Asia-Pacific tournament

Qualified as hosts


Qualified by coming second in the 2010 World Equestrian Games


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Fencing

Men's Individual FoilPoints

1 Andrea Cassara ITA 2841 Benjamin Kleibrink GER 2 Andrea Baldini ITA 1762 Yuki Ota JAP 3 Erwan Le Pechoux FRA 1593 Salvatore Sanzo ITA 4 Giorgio Avola ITA 1384 Jun Zhu CHN 5 Alaa El Sayed EGY 1295 Peter Joppich GER 6 Race Imboden USA 1266 Andrea Cassara ITA 7 Valerio Aspromonte ITA 1267 Erwan Le Pechoux FRA 8 Victor Sintes FRA 1228 Sheng Lei CHN 9 Peter Joppich GER 119

10 Alexander Massialas USA 11911 Choi Byung-Chul KOR 109

1 Andrea Cassara ITA 12 Alexey Cheremisinov RUS 1072 Valerio Aspromonte ITA 13 Lei Sheng CHN 863 Victor Sintes FRA 14 Ma Jianfei CHN 863 Giorgio Avola ITA 15 Sebastian Bachmann GER 855 Choi Byung-Chul KOR 16 Roland Schlosser AUT 825 Alexey Cheremisinov RUS 17 Yuki Ota JPN 805 Race Imboden USA 18 Kenta Chida JPN 795 Alaa El Sayed EGY 19 Kwon Young-Ho KOR 74

20 Huang Liangcai CHN 73

Men's Individual EpeePoints

1 Paolo Pizzo ITA 1841 Matteo Tagliariol ITA 2 Fabian Kauter SUI 1642 Fanrice Jeannet FRA 3 Bas Verwijlen NED 1563 Jose Luis Abajo ESP 4 Park Kyoung-Doo KOR 1514 Gabor Boczko HUN 5 Nikolai Novosjolov EST 1455 Jung Jin-Sun KOR 6 Mex Heinzer SUI 1396 Radoslaw Zawrotniak POL 7 Gauthier Grumier FRA 1327 Diego Confalonieri ITA 8 Soren Thompson USA 1248 Bas Verwijlen NED 9 Geza Imre HUN 117

10 Elmir Alimzhanov KAZ 11511 Silvio Fernandez VEN 111

1 Paolo Pizzo ITA 12 Jung Jin-Sun KOR 1072 Bas Verwijlen NED 13 Ruben Limardo VEN 1053 Fabian Kauter SUI 14 Yannick Borel FRA 993 Park Kyoung-Doo KOR 15 Jeorg Fiedler GER 965 Gexa Imre HUN 16 Matteo Tagliariol ITA 925 Ruben Limardo VEN 17 Dmitry Karuchenko UKR 915 Elmir Alimzhanov KAZ 18 Ronan Gustin FRA 915 Nikolai Novosjolov EST 19 Alfredo Rota ITA 90

20 Gabor Baczko HUN 90

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Fencing offers fast, furious and riveting competition to a small but affluent global audience. Italy are currently the true power houses of the sport, with 3 current world number ones and 4 reigning world champions. If all goes to form their fencers could well end up accounting for half the nation’s gold medals in London. Their haul should be kicked off by reigning world and Olympic champion Valentina Vezzali, who will only be challenged by her higher ranked team mate Elise Di Francisca on her way to the women's individual Foil title; if achieved this would make her the fourth athlete, and first woman, to win four consecutive gold medals in an individual event. Andrea Cassara could lead an Italian 1-2-3 in the men's individual Foil, which would presumably be followed - if celebrations are kept under control, by gold in the team event. Paolo Pizzo, another Italian, leads a tight field in the men's Epee, whilst in the Sabre Nicolas Limbach (GER) and Alexey Yakimenko (RUS) will hope that they can keep last year's world champion Aldo Montano from making it an Italian clean sweep of men's individual gold medals.

Great Britain’s hopes of a medal at the 2012 Olympics will live and probably die with Richard Kruse. Undoubtedly Britain’s best fencer for 40 years, the former Olympic quarter-finalist and two-time European Championship medallist will hope to upset the favourites in the individual foil. His best chance, however, may come in the team event where the British men will take up their automatic qualification spot. With only 8 other teams, a good crowd reaction could

see GB pull off an upset and take their first fencing medal since 1964.

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Men's Individual SabrePoints

1 Nicolas Limbach GER 2701 Zhong Man CHN 2 Alexey Yakimenko RUS 2402 Nicolas Lopez FRA 3 Aldo Montano ITA 1913 Mihali Covaliu ROM 4 Won Woo-Young KOR 1884 Julien Pillet FRA 5 Gu Bon-Gil KOR 1885 Luigi Tarantino ITA 6 Aron Szilagyi HUN 1776 Keeth Smart USA 7 Bolade Apithy FRA 1197 Jorge Pina ESP 8 Luigi Tarantino ITA 1198 Aliaksandr Buikevich BLR 9 Nikolay Kovalev RUS 115

10 Juilien Pillet FRA 11011 Giampiero Pastore ITA 110

1 Aldo Montano ITA 12 Veniamin Reshetnikov RUS 1072 Nicolas Limbach GER 13 Rares Dumitrescu ROU 1053 Gu Bon-Gil KOR 14 Daryl Homer USA 1013 Luigi Tarantino ITA 15 Diego Occhiuzzi ITA 905 Won Woo-Young KOR 16 Dmitri Lapkes BLR 835 Aron Szilagyi HUN 17 Nicolas Lopez FRA 785 Veniamin Reshetnikov RUS 18 Liu Xiao CHN 765 Dmitri Lapkes BLR 19 Renzo Agresta BRA 75

20 Philippe Beaudry CAN 68

Men's Team FoilPoints

Zhang Liangliang 1 Italy 364Lei Sheng 2 China 336Zhu Jun 3 Germany 326Ma Jianfei 4 France 296Marcel Marcilloux 5 Japan 276Victor Sintes 6 Russia 264Erwan Le Pechoux 7 United States 236Brice Guyart 10 Egypt 191Sebastien Bachmann 11 Great Britain 184Peter JoppichBenjamin KleibrinkAndre Wessels

4 Poland5 Japan6 Russia7 Italy

8South Korea

Men's Team Sabre

1 Julien Pillet Nikolay KovalevBoris Sanson Veniamin ReshetnikovNicolas Lopez Alexey Yakimenko

Pavel Bykov2 Tim Morehouse Valery Pryiemka

Jason Rogers Aliaksandr BuikevichKeeth Smart Dmitri LapkesJames Williams Aliaksei LikhacheuskiAldo Montano Diego OccuizziLuigi Tarantino Also MontanoGiampiero Pastore Gianpiero PastoreDiego Occhiuzzi Luigi Tarantino

4 Russia 4 Germany5 Belarus 5 Romania6 China 6 Hungary7 Hungary 7 Ukraine8 Egypt 8 USA

Points1 Russia 3642 Germany 3223 Italy 3144 Belarus 3045 Romania 2606 China 2327 United States 2298 South Korea 226

1 China

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3 Germany

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3 Italy 3 Italy

1 Russia

2 Belarus

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Women's Individual FoilPoints

1 Elisa Di Francisca ITA 2631 Valentina Vezzali ITA 2 Valentina Vezzali ITA 2442 Hyun-Hee Nam KOR 3 Nam Hyun-Hee KOR 1473 Margherita Granbassi ITA 4 Corinne Maitrejean FRA 1364 Giovanna Trillini ITA 5 Arianna Errigo ITA 1315 Edina Knapek HUN 6 Ilaria Salvatori ITA 1266 Evgenia Lamonova RUS 7 Lee Kiefer USA 1187 Chieko Sugawara JPN 8 Evgeniya Lamonova RUS 1058 Katja Wachter GER 9 Aida Mohamed HUN 95

10 Aida Shanaeva RUS 9111 Ines Boubakri TUN 82

1 Valentina Vezzali ITA 12 Carolin Golubytskyi GER 822 Elisa Di Francisca ITA 13 Chen Jinyan CHN 823 Lee Kiefer USA 14 Inna Deriglazova RUS 753 Nam Hyun-Hee KOR 15 Jeon Hee-Sook KOR 745 Corinne Maitrejean FRA 16 Nzingha Prescod USA 695 Yevgeniya Lamoneva RUS 17 Doris Willette USA 675 Martyna Synoradzka POL 18 Liu Yongshi CHN 665 Ilaria Salvatori ITA 19 Astrid Guyart FRA 64

20 Sylwia Gruchala POL 64

Women's Individual EpeePoints

1 Ana Branza ROU 1671 Britta Heidemann GER 2 Bianca Del Carretto ITA 1592 Ana Maria Branza ROM 3 Sun Yujie CHN 1583 Ildiko Mincza-Nebald HUN 4 Simona Gherman ROU 1494 Li Na CHN 5 Mara Navarria ITA 1465 Inke Duplitzer GER 6 Tiffany Geroudet SUI 1306 Lubov Shutova RUS 7 Yana Shemyakina UKR 1267 Laura Flessel-Colovic FRA 8 Magdalena Piekarska POL 1258 Emma Samuelson SWE 9 Choi In Jeong KOR 118

10 Lyubov Shutova RUS 11111 Luo Xiaojuan CHN 110

1 Li Na CHN 12 Monika Sozanska GER 1102 Sun Yujie CHN 13 Li Na CHN 1093 Ana Maria Branza ROU 14 Emesa Szasz HUN 1073 Anca Maroiu ROU 15 Laura Flessel-Colovic FRA 1045 Magdelana Piekarska POL 16 Courtney Hurley USA 935 Simona Alexandru ROU 17 Anca Maroiu ROU 895 Monika Sozanska GER 18 Rossella Fiamingo ITA 865 Shin A-Lam KOR 19 Anna Sivkova RUS 82

20 Shin A Lam KOR 82

Women's Individual SabrePoints

1 Sofya Velikaya RUS 2581 Mariel Zagunis USA 2 Mariel Zagunis USA 2582 Sada Jacobson USA 3 Olga Kharlan UKR 2303 Rebecca Ward USA 4 Yuliya Gavrilova RUS 1704 Sofiya Velikaya RUS 5 Zhu Min CHN 1535 Xue Tan CHN 6 Kim Yi-Yeon KOR 1436 Yingying Bao CHN 7 Ekaterina Dyachenko RUS 1377 Azza Besbes TUN 8 Azza Besbes TUN 1368 Olena Khomrova UKR 9 Chen Xiaodong CHN 132

10 Vassiliki Vougiouka GRE 12811 Irene Vecchi ITA 127

1 Sofia Velikaya RUS 12 Gioia Marzocca ITA 1182 Mariel Zagunis USA 13 Dagmara Wozniak USA 1003 Julia Gavrilova RUS 14 Aleksandra Socha POL 993 Olha Kharlan UKR 15 Leonore Perrus FRA 865 Sabina Mikina AZE 16 Olga Zhovnir UKR 815 Irene Vecchi ITA 17 Sabina Schneider USA 785 Ekaterina Diatchenko RUS 18 Sabina Mikina AZE 785 Zhu Min CHN 19 Bogna Jozwiak POL 72

20 Ibithaj Muhammad USA 71

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1 Svetlana Boiko Inna DeriglazovaAida Chanaeva Aida ShanyevaVictoria Nikichina Larissa KorobeynikovaEvgenia Lamonova Yevgeniya Lamanova

2 Emily Cross Arianna ErrigoHanna Thompson Valentina VezzaliErinn Smart Elisa Di Francisca

Ilaria SalvatoriValentina Vezzali Lee Hye-SunGiovanna Trillini Nam Hyun-HeeMargherita Granbassi Jeo Hee-SookIlaria Salvatori Jung Gil-Ok

4 Hungary 4 Poland5 Germany 5 Hungary6 China 6 France7 Poland 7 USA8 Egypt 8 Canada

Points1 Italy 4242 Russia 3763 South Korea 3284 Poland 2505 United States 2306 France 2229 Japan 20413 Great Britain 15714 Egypt 126

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PointsAnca Maroiu 1 Romania 388Loredana Dinu 2 China 348Simona Alexandru 3 Russia 296Ana Maria Branza 4 Italy 274Luo Xiaojuan 5 South Korea 243Li Na 6 United States 233Sun Yujie 7 Ukraine 214Xu Anqi 8 Germany 210Rossella FiamingoMara NavarriaNathalie MoellhausenBianca Del Carretto

4 Germany5 Poland6 Estonia

7South Korea

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Men's Football



UruguaySecond in South American U-20 Qualification Tournament

A 3rd

Undergoing a rennaisance , the 1924 & 1928 Olympic champions have built a senior team that reached the 2010 World Cup semi-final and have finished third and then second at the past two U-20 South American Championships

Luiz Suarez (FW, 25, 28 goals in 54 games for senior team, 81 goals in 110 games for Ajax but been less impressive recently for Liverpool, dropped from first team towards end of last season), Abel Hernandez (FW, 21, currently at Palermo)

Great Britain Host-Country Place A 7th

The first united Great Britain team since 1960 and the first everunited professional team - the core of the team is the English U-21 team that finished 3rd in their group below Czech and Spain in the 201 U-21 Euro Championships

Ryan Giggs (MF, 38, voted best ever player in Premiership, 638 games, 112 goals for Manchester Unt, 2 Champions Leagues), Aaron Ramsey（MF, 21, 68 appearances for Arsenal, 21 senior caps for Wales, Welsh Young Player of the Year 2009, 2010), Craig Bellamy (FW, 32, 69 senior caps for Wales, played for 10 clubs in career)

SenegalWon Asian-African play-off spot

A 77thLucky qualifiers to the Olympics - their spot comes despite finishing fourth in the African U-23 Championships and is courtesy of a rotating continental allocation to the Olympics

Dame N'Doye (FW, 27, 12 senior caps, top scorer in Danish Superliga 2011/12, has won the Danish Superliga 3x with FC Copenhagen), Mohamed Diame (DM, 25, 96 games for Wigan, has joined West Ham on a free transfer this summer)

United Arab Emirates

Won Group at Asian Qualification Tournament

A 121stSenior squad has never tasted success but U-20 won the 2008Asian Youth Championships and U-23 team were unbeaten in qualification

Hamdan Al Kamali (DF, 23, 26 senior caps for UAE, joined Lyon on loan this summer)

Olympic Football is largely viewed as a waste of time in Britain, especially by professional football journalists and pundits,. The well-established argument runs that the Olympic title is not the pinnacle of the sport and, as such, the players and fans simply don’t care about winning. Whilst there may be valid concerns about Olympic football, this view is peculiarly British and can largely be explained by the fact that Great Britain, as a combination of the home nations, has never put together a professional team and has not competed in Olympic football since 1960 (when it was still an amateur-only event). To counter the notion that Olympic football is an irrelevance you only need to look at the five Games since the tournament started admitting professional players: when the Spanish football team took gold in Barcelona, the Spanish public voted it their favourite moment of the Games; African football regards Nigeria’s gold in Atlanta and Cameroon’s gold in Sydney as its arrival on the world scene; and Argentina’s golds in Athens and Beijing, with teams featuring such stars as Carlos Tevez and Lionel Messi, are considered proof of a golden generation. Perhaps those that disparage the Olympic tournament so much might start to change their tune if a British football team finally managed to win something.

Whilst the inculsion of several very weak sides in the men's tournament means the group stages may turn out a little predictable, by the time of the knockout rounds we will be able to see some of the current and future stars in world football going toe-to-toe. Uruguay, Switzerland, Mexico, South Korea and Japan all boast experienced players and bristling talent but look short of having the strength to pick up gold. The two standout teams in the Olympics are Brazil and Spain. Brazil’s senior team has gone through an overhaul in terms of philosophy and personnel

since the 2010 World Cup. What we will see in London is the core of the team they are hoping will bring World Cup victory on home soil in 2014. With a front line of Neymar, Hulk and Alexandre Pato, and the experience of Thiago Silva at centre back, this will be a big test for Brazil and the home press will expect a finals appearance at the very least. Spain, off the back of

two European Championships and one World Cup, bring a team with strength across the pitch and expectation of gold. Such is their strength that it is hard to pick their starting line-up, but with Manchester United’s David de Gea, Athletic Bilbao’s Javi Martinez and Iker Munain and Chelsea’s Juan Mata, Spain will be formidable opponents. The big question mark in the men’s

tournament falls on Great Britain. It is hard to compare GB’s team-sheet with those of Brazil and Spain without seeing a gulf in quality. Veteran Welsh players Ryan Giggs and Craig Bellamy have never had a chance to perform in an international tournament and home-field advantage is a big help – but the semi-finals will probably prove the absolute limit of their abilities.

For women’s football, the Olympics remains the marquee event on the calendar despite the growing popularity of the women’s World Cup. Despite the recent collapse of their professional league, it is the USA that will come in as favourites to pick up a third consecutive gold. They have never failed to make it to an Olympic final, but as women’s football continues to grow world-wide they have been coming under increasing pressure. Japan won the 2011 World Cup and will come in with confidence after their victory over the full strength USA side in that final. Silver medallists four years ago, Brazil boasts three-times World Player of the Year – Marta – for whom this may be a last shot at the Olympics. There is also optimism around the Great British team; although the England team, around which it is based, are yet to lift an international trophy, there is a definite upward trend in their performances and they have an opportunity to raise the profile of their sport on the biggest stage of all.

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SwitzerlandSecond in European U-21 Qualification Tournament

B 18th

Senior squad have been a very average European side but thisis an exciting group of young players that grown up together, largely at Basel, and have won the 2009 U-17 World Cup and came second in the 2010 U-21 European Championships

Admir Mehmedi (FW, 21, Swiss/Albanian currently playing for Dynamo Kiev, All-Star at EURO U-21s + 2nd top scorer), Granit Xhaka (MF, 19, Swiss/Albanian joined Borussia Monchengladbach for €8.5m this summer after 43 appearances for Basel), Valon Behrami (MF, 27, 32 senior caps, career has spanned Lazio, West Ham and now Fiorentina)

MexicoWon North American Qualification Tournament

B 20th

Suffer as a team from most players spending their careers in Mexico and not gaining experience from European football. Won the U-17 World Cup in 2007, third in 2011 U-20 World Cup, won the 2011 Pan-American Games

Giovanni Dos Santos (MF/FW, 23, product of the Barcelona youth academ, now playing on Tottenham's books but has spnet most of past three years on loan), Oribe Peralta (FW, 28, 50 goals in 177 games for Santos Laguna in Mexico, top scorer at 2011 Pan-American Games)

South KoreaWon Group at Asian Qualification Tournament

B 31st

Historic performance at 2002 World Cup where their senior team reached the semi-finals, have qualified for the past sevenOlympics but failed to make in-roads, took Spain to penalties inthe 2011 U-20 World Cup

Ki Sung-Yueng (MF, 23, 45 senior caps, currently playing for Celtic though there has been interst from several top clubs, 2009 Asian Young Footballer of the Year, 2011 Korean Player of the Year), Park Chu-Young (FW, 26, 59 senior caps, 25 senior goals, spent 2008-11 at Monaco scoring 25 goals, transferred to Arsenal in 2011 off-season but injured after one start)

GabonWon African U-23 Qualification Tournament

B 42ndAlmost no international history, best result at African Cup fo nations was a quarter final in 2012, but U-23 team won the African qualification tournament

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (FW, 23, 25 senior caps, scored 16 times in 46 matches in French Ligue 1 for Saint-Etienne)

BrazilWon South American U-20 Qualification Tournament

C 6th

Simply the most successful team ever, five senior world cups, won the 2011 U-20 World Cup and second in 2009, have neverwon Olympic gold, hotly tipped team including Ronaldinho beaten 3-0 by Argentina in 2008 semi-finals

Thiago Silva (DF, 27, AC Milan captain and talisman, 2011 Seria A Defender of the Year, Samba d'Or (best Brazilian player in Europe) in 2011), Neymar (FW, 20, 9 goals in 18 games for senior Brazilan team, 41 goals in 86 games for Santos, possibly the most gifted player of his generation is getting his first tournament experience in Europe), Hulk (FW, 25, 52 goals in 96 games for Porto, two time Primeira Liga Player of the Year)

EgyptThird in African U-23 Qualification Tournament

C 55thThe most successful African team when playing in Africa (7 African Cup of Nations) but have not performed well outside Africa - 11th Olmpic appearance but have never medalled

Ahmed El-Shenawy (GK, 21, 6 senior caps, best goalkeeper at 2011 African Youth Championships)

BelarusThird in European U-21 Qualification Tournament

C 68thSenior side has never made an appearance at an international tournament, surprising third at Euro U-21 qualified them for Olympics

Alyaksandr Hutar (GK, 23, Belarussian Footballer of the Year 2011)

New ZealandWon Oceania Qualification Tournament

C 130thLowest ranked team in the tournament, drew against Cameroon and Uruguay at 2011 U-20 World Cup,

Ryan Nelson (DF, 34, 172 appearances for Blackburn Rovers, now signed for QPR), Shane Smeltz (FW, 30, former AFC Wimbledon player, 2007 and 2008 Oceania Player of the Year)

SpainWon European U-21 Qualification Tournament

D 1stSenior side have won the past two European Championships and on World Cup, U-21 side won Euro 2011, U-20 side lost at 2011 World Cup against Brizil on penalties in QFs

David de Gea (GK, 21, Manchester United's starting goalkeeper, best saves-to-shots ratio in Premier League 2011/12), Javi Martinez (MF/DC, 23, has won the World Cup, European Championships, Euro U-21s, Euro U-19s, Athletic Bilbao's captain & La Liga Breakthrough Player of the Year 2010), Juan Mata (MF, 24, 129 appearances for Valencia before joining Chelsea in 2011, won the Champions League, was FA Cup Final Man of the Match and Chelsea Player of the Year)

JapanWon Group at Asian Qualification Tournament

D 30thHave failed to improve on the world scene despite continued growth of soccer in Japan, have six European based players atthe Olympics

Hiroki Sakai (DF, 22, 2011 J-League Rookie of the Year, transferred to Hannover 96 in off season), Kenyu Sugimoto (FW, 19, 9 goals from 11 games for Japan U-17)

HondurasSecond in North American Qualification Tournament

D 61st

Senior team have only qualified for two World Cups, in 1982 and 2010, where they finished last in their group, qualified for 2000 and 2008 Olympics but failed to progress past group stage

Maynor Figuroa (DF, 29, 85 senior caps for Honduras, 126 appearances for Wigan Athletic

MoroccoSecond in African U-23 Qualification Tournament

D 62ndSenior team have not qualified for a World Cup, second in African Youth Tournament

Abdelaziz Barrada (MF, 22, plays for Gatafe, top scorer in African Youth Tournament)

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Country Qualification GroupWorld Ranking

Achievements Top Players

BrazilWon South American Qualification Tournament

A 4thSilver medals in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, runner-up at the 2007 World Cup and 1/4-Finalist at the 2011 World Cup.

Marta (FW, 70+ caps, 80+ goals, 5x FIFA World Player of the Year (+ 2x 2nd + 1x 3rd), Joint highest World Cup scorer), Erika (DF, All-Star team in 2011 World Cup), Christiane (FW, 2x 3rd in FIFA World Player of the Year, 2x Hat-trick in Olympic Tournament)

Great Britain Host-Country Place A 9thFirst appearance as combined GB team; as England they havebeen Quarter Finalistists in 2011 World Cup and second at 2009 European Championships

Kelly Smith (FW, 100+ caps, 3rd 2009 FIFA World Player of the Year, MBE), Alex Scott (DF, All-Star team in 2011 World Cup), Jill Scott (MF, All-Star team in 2011 World Cup)

New ZealandWon Oceania Qualification Tournament

A 24thHave qualifed for the past two World Cups and the last Olympics, but have only picked up two points in total once there

Ali Riley (DF, Played in US Pro Soccer League after captaining Stamford to two NCAA Semi-Finals and one Final)

CameroonJoint-Winner at African Qualification Tournament

A 52ndNever qualified for an Olympic Games or World Cup their best performance to date has been runner-up in the 2004 African Women's Championships

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JapanWon Asian Qualification Tournament

B 3rd

Having never progressed beyond the group stages at the World Cup or even won the Asian Championships, Japan underwent a rejuvination under Eiji Ueda in the mid-naughties; they have since been 4th at the Beijing Olympics and won the 2011 World Cup

Homare Sawa (MF, top scorer at 2011 World Cup, 175+ national caps, 2011 FIFA player of the year), Ayumi Kaihori (GK, All-Star team in 2011 World Cup, saved two penalties in final to give her team the title), Aya Miyama (MF, 100+ national caps, All-Star team in 2011 World Cup, Asian player of the year 2011)

SwedenWon European Qualification Tournament

B 5thThird in 2011 World Cup, Quarter Finals in 2008 Olympics, Quarter Finals in 2009 Europeans Championships

Lotta Schelin (FW, All-Star team in 2011 World Cup, 2x Swedish Footballer of the Year), Caroline Seger (MF, All-Star team in 2011 World Cup, 2009 Swedish Footballer of the Year), Therese Sjogran (MF, 170+ Caps, 2x Swedish Footballer of the Year)

CanadaSecond in North American Qualification Tournament

B 7th

Despite failing to advance beyond the group stages at the most recent World Cup and Olympics they have beaten USA twice in the past two years en-route to winning the Pan-American Games and the Olympic Qualifying tournament

Christine Sinclair (FW, 170+ Caps, 130+ goals, 7x Canadian Footballer of the year)

South AfricaJoint-Winner at African Qualification Tournament

B 65th

The Banyana Banyana only held their first international matchin 1993. Since then they have failed to qualify for a tournamenoutside Africa but have notched up top three places in the past three African Championships

Noko Matlou (FW, African Player of the year 2008, 2011 South African Sportswoman of the year)

United StatesWon North American Qualification Tournament

C 1st

The dominant force in Women's Soccer for the past 20 years they have never finished outside the top three at a major international tournament (though they have not won the World Cup since 1999 they were second in the 2011 World Cup) and have won Olympic Gold in 1996, 2004 and 2008

Abby Wamlach (FW, 175+ caps, 130+ goals, 3rd in 2011 FIFA player of the year), Hope Solo (GK, 100+ caps, 2011 World Cup best-goalkeeper award, semi-finalist 'Dancing with the Stars', posed nude for ESPN), Shannon Boxx (MF, 150+ caps, All-Star team in 2011 World Cup, 3rd in 2005 FIFA World Player of the Year)

FranceSecond in European Qualification Tournament

C 6thFirst Olympic Appearnace, Fourth in 2011 World Cup, Quarter Finalist in 2009 European Championships

Sonia Bompastor (DF, 140+ caps, 2x French Player of the Year, All-Star team in 2011 World Cup), Laura Georges (DF, 100+ caps, All-Star team in 2011 World Cup), Louisa Necib (MF, All-Star team in 2011 World Cup, 2009 French Player of the Year)

North KoreaSecond in Asian Qualification Tournament

C 8th

ColumbiaSecond in South American Qualification Tournament

C 28thQulified for their first World Cup in 2011 and were second at the 2010 South American Championships

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The North Korean team has been banned from FIFA competition until 2015 following five of their players testing positive during drugs tests at the 2011 World Cup. This ban does not, however, cover Olympic competition and in September 2011 the new batch of players were good enough to qualify through the Asian Qualification Tournament

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Men's Team All-Around

1 China 374.675 1 China 274.9972 Japan 369.550 2 Japan 273.2523 Russia 366.225 3 Germany 271.2524 South Korea 365.675 4 USA 268.0125 Germany 365.675 5 France 263.4686 USA 365.200 6 Russia 263.1707 France 361.200 7 Great Britain 261.1038 Romania 359.350 8 Korea 259.952

1 China 275.1612 Japan 273.0933 USA 273.0834 Russia 269.0455 Ukraine 264.1026 Germnay 263.9267 South Korea 260.3938 Romania 245.175


One man has come to dominate Men's Gymnastics - Kohei Uchimura. This 23 year old Japanese sensation dominated the men's all-around competition at the last three World Championships and the expectation is that he will take the individual title at this Olympics. He should take at least one apparatus title as well and, if they can avoid the mistakes made at last year's World Championships, then Japan will be strong favourites to take the team gold - some commentators have predicted as many as six gold medals (through three or four is more likely) for Kohei and he will rightly be one of the stars of the Games. China should be capable of picking up golds in the apparatus finals, as well as capitilising on any mistakes Japan make. Germany will be hoping that double world individual all-around silver medallist Philipp Boy can repeat that feat or better on the Olympic stage. USA bring a very young but promising team to London, but these Games will likely come just too soon withDanell Leyva on parallel and high bars being their only realistic chance of gold. Korea's Yang Hak-Seon is currently producing the most difficult vaulting in history and should take that dicipline with room to spare.

The headline battle in the women's events should still be between Jordyn Weiber from the USA and Viktoria Komova from Russia. Weiber took the upper hand at last years World Championships with individual and team gold but the waif-like

Komova, physically a throw-back to gymnasts of 30 years ago (she weighs just 76lbs) and the daughter of two Soviet-erainternational gymnasts, looked like she had done enough to win the individual title until a harshly marked floor routine handedthe title to the American. USA have easily enough strength in depth to take the team gold, though that was also true in 2004 and 2008 when mistakes slipped them into silver. China have gone off the boil since their home Olympics 4 years ago, and

may have to rely on Sui Lu on the balance beam for a chance of gold. McKayla Moroney (USA) should take vaulting gold, but special notice should be given to Oksana Chusovitina, currently competing for Germany, who won silver in the vault at last year's World Championships. At 37 she may well be competing in a final where none of the other competitors were born in

time to watch her first gold for the Soviet team in 1992.

The British team on both the men's and women's side comes into these Games stronger than ever before. The men's team are now the strongest in Europe having won 2 out of the last 3 European junior titles and their first ever senior team gold medal in May. Although Japan and China are still out ahead, a bronze is a realistic target in the team event and the squad genuinely believes they could be the best in the world within the next 4 or 8 years. Louis Smith has the most difficult routine on the pommel horse in the world. If he can put together a routine with a difficulty score at 7.1, and avoid the big mistake he made on dismount at last year's World's, then he should be favourite to take gold. He has medalled in three consecutive major championships and he now has the experience and strength to deliver in front of his home crowd. Daniel Purvis, despite lacking any one piece of apparatus where he is in the top 8 in the world, will be targetting a medal in the individual all-around. He held bronze medal position until the final round at last year's World Championships, when a superb high-bar performance by Philipp Boy knocked him into fourth. If he could up the difficulty level on his high bar and pommel horse routines then he stands an excellent chance of matching his World Championship silver from 2009.

British women's gymnastics will continue to rely on Beth Tweddle for a chance of a medal. She should reach the final in both the floor and asymmetric bars (she has been world champion in both) but may find herself out-classed by her younger

opponents. Although mistakes in qualification prevented her reaching the final in last year's World Championships, she will beperforming the most technically difficult routine at these Games and, if she can execute highly enough, gold is not out of herreach. Winner of the British Olympic trials, 15 year old Rebecca Tunney, and more experienced Becky Downing will be in

contention for a top 8 in the individual all-around, which would be an excellent achievement. The team have performed well inrecent championships and will be disappointed if they don't make the final.


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Men's Individual All-Around

1 Yang Wei CHN 94.575 1 Kohei Uchimura JPN 92.3312 Kohei Uchimura JPN 91.975 2 Philipp Boy GER 90.0483 Benoit Caranobe FRA 91.925 3 Jonathon Horton USA 89.8644 Hiroyuki Tomita JPN 91.750 4 Mykola Kuksenkov UKR 89.8315 Sergey Khorokhordin RUS 91.700 5 Daniel Purvis GBR 88.9656 Maxim Devyatovskiy RUS 91.700 6 Lu Bo CHN 88.9647 Fabian Hambuechen GER 91.675 7 Sergey Khorokhordin RUS 88.6648 Yang Tae Young KOR 91.600 8 Koji Uematsu JPN 88.398

1 Kohei Uchimura JPN 93.631 1 Kohei Uchimura JPN 92.6502 Philipp Boy GER 90.530 2 Kenya Kobayashi JPN 90.8003 Koji Yamamuro JPN 90.255 3 Danell Leyva USA 90.6644 Daniel Purvis GBR 89.932 4 Mykola Kuksenkov UKR 90.4985 John Orozco USA 89.664 5 Shogo Nonomura JPN 90.0506 David Belyavskiy RUS 89.274 6 Marcel Nguyen GER 89.9257 Mykola Kuksenkov UKR 89.132 7 Ryohei Kato JPN 89.8008 Macel Nguyen GER 88.831 8 Daniel Purvis GBR 89.766

Men's Vault

1 Leszek Blanik POL 16.537 1 Thoams Bouhail FRA 16.4492 Thomas Bouhail FRA 16.537 2 Anton Golotsutskov RUS 16.3663 Anton Golotsutskov RUS 16.475 3 Dzimitry Kaspiarovich BLR 16.3164 Marian Dragulescu ROU 16.225 4 Yang Hak Seon KOR 16.2665 Benoit Caranobe FRA 16.062 5 Flavius Koczi ROU 16.2086 Dmitry Kasperovitch BLR 16.050 6 Andriy Isayev UKR 16.0497 Flavius Koczi ROU 15.925 7 Luis Rivera PUR 15.9458 Isaac Botella ESP 15.737 8 Jeffrey Wammes NED 15.750

1 Yang Hak Seon KOR 16.666 1 Cheng Ran CHN 16.2622 Anton Golotsutskov RUS 16.366 2 Igor Radivilov UKR 16.2503 Makoto Okiguchi JPN 16.291 3 Enrique Gonzales CHI 16.1254 Thomas Bouhail FRA 16.187 4 Flavius Koczi ROU 16.1165 Denis Ablyazin RUS 16.174 5 Dzmitry Kaspiarovich BLR 16.1126 Dzmitry Kaspiarovitch BLR 16.083 6 Nguyen Ha Thanh VIE 16.0757 Shek Wai Hung HKG 15.950 7 Denis Abilyazin RUS 16.0628 Jeffrey Wammes NED 15.683 8 Du Wei CHN 16.012

Men's Floor

1 Zou Kai CHN 16.050 1 Elaftherios Kosmidis GRE 15.7002 Gervasio Deferr ESP 15.775 2 Kohei Uchimura JPN 15.5333 Anton Golotsutskov RUS 15.725 3 Daniel Purvis GBR 15.3664 Fabian Hambuechen GER 15.650 4 Alexander Shatilov ISR 15.3335 Kohei Uchimura JPN 15.575 5 Thomas Bouhail FRA 15.2006 Diego Hypolito BRA 15.200 6 Eddie Penev BUL 15.0667 Marian Dragulescu ROU 14.850 7 Flavius Koczi ROU 15.0668 Alexandr Shatilov ISR 14.125 8 Steven Legendre USA 13.600

1 Kohei Uchimura JPN 15.633 1 Kohei Uchimura JPN 15.8002 Zou Kai CHN 15.500 2 Eleftherios Kosmidis GRE 15.7663 Diego Hypolito BRA 15.466 3 Jake Dalton USA 15.6003 Alexsander Shatilov ISR 15.466 4 Daniel Purvis GBR 15.5505 Steven Legendre USA 15.400 5 Zou Kai CHN 15.5006 Flavius Koczi ROU 15.333 6 Enrique Gonzales CHI 15.4756 Tomas Gonzalez CHN 15.333 7 Flavius Koczi ROU 15.4508 Jacob Dalton USA 15.133 8 Steven Legendre USA 15.450

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Men's Pommel Horse

1 Xiao Qin CHN 15.875 1 Krisztian Berki HUN 15.8332 Filip Ude CRO 15.725 2 Louis Smith GBR 15.7333 Louis Smith GBR 15.725 3 P Sellathurai AUS 15.5664 Yang Wei CHN 15.450 4 Cyril Tommasone FRA 15.4335 Hiroyuki Tomita JPN 15.375 5 Filip Ude CRO 15.3166 Kim Ji-Hoon HOR 15.175 6 Harutyum Merdinyan ARM 15.1667 Alexander Artemev USA 14.975 7 Donny Truyens BEL 14.1338 Jose Bustamante VEN 14.650 8 Saso Bertoncelj SLO 13.933

1 Krisztian Berki HUN 15.833 1 Krisztian Berki HUN 15.9582 Cyril Tommasone FRA 15.266 2 Xiao Qin CHN 15.9253 Louis Smith GBR 15.066 3 Louis Smith GBR 15.8334 Vid Hidvegi HUN 15.000 4 Zhang Hongtao CHN 15.8255 Kohei Uchimura JPN 14.533 5 Daniel Keatings GBR 15.7506 Prashnath Sellathurai AUS 14.333 6 Prashanth Sellathurai AUS 15.7257 Saso Bertoncelj SLO 14.266 7 Max Whitlock GBR 15.5257 Teng Haibin CHN 14.266 8 Saso Bertoncelj SLO 15.475

Men's Rings

1 Chen Yibing CHN 16.600 1 Chen Yibing CHN 15.9002 Yang Wei CHN 16.425 2 Yan Mingyong CHN 15.7003 Olexsandr Vorobiov UKR 16.345 3 Matteo Morandi ITA 15.6664 Andrea Coppolino ITA 16.225 4 Koji Yamamuro JPN 15.5005 Danny Pinhero Rodrigues FRA 16.225 5 Yoo Won Chul KOR 15.4336 Matteo Morandi ITA 16.200 6 Ivan San Miguel ESP 15.3337 Robert Stanescu ROU 15.825 7 Kenya Kobayashi JPN 15.3008 Jordan Jovtchev BUL 15.525 8 Chen Chih Yu TPE 15.266

1 Chen Yibing CHN 15.800 1 Arthur Nabarrete Zaneti BRA 15.9252 Arthur Nabarrate Zanetti BRA 15.600 2 Chen Yibing CHN 15.9253 Koji Yamamuro JPN 15.500 3 Eleftherios Petrounias GRE 15.7254 Matteo Morandi ITA 15.200 4 Samir Ait Said FRA 15.6755 Youri van Gelder NED 14.666 5 Koji Yamamuro JPN 15.6006 Kohei Uchimura JPN 14.633 6 Liao Qiuhua CHN 15.5757 Jonathan Horton USA 14.300 7 Federico Molinari ARG 15.5758 Regulo Cormona VEN 14.266 8 Davtyan Vahagn ARM 15.550

Men's Parallel Bars

1 Li Xiaopeng CHN 16.450 1 Feng Zhe CHN 15.9662 Yoo Won-Chul KOR 16.250 2 Teng Haibin CHN 15.6163 Anton Fokin UZB 16.200 3 Kohei Uchimura JPN 15.5004 Fabian Hambuchen GER 15.975 4 Fabian Hambuchen GER 15.3665 Mitja Petkovsek SLO 15.725 5 Koji Uematsu JPN 15.2336 Huang Xu CHN 15.700 6 Adam Kierzkowski POL 15.2007 Yang Tae-Young KOR 15.650 7 Ildar Valeiev KAZ 15.1838 Nikolay Kryukov RUS 15.150 8 Samuel Piasecky SVK 15.166

1 Danell Leyva USA 15.633 1 Pham Phuoc Hung VIE 15.9252 Vaileios Tsolakidis GRE 15.533 2 Kazuhito Tanaka JPN 15.9002 Zhang Chenglong CHN 15.533 3 Epke Zonderland NED 15.8004 Kohei Uchimura JPN 15.500 4 Marcel Nguyen GER 15.7665 Yann Cucharet FRA 15.333 5 Feng Zhe CHN 15.7006 Marius Berbecar ROU 15.266 6 Oleg Verniaiev UKR 15.6667 Feng Zhe CHN 15.200 7 Mitja Petkovsek SLO 15.6508 Kahuhito Tanaka JPN 15.166 8 Zhang Chenglong CHN 15.625




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Men's Horizontal Bar

1 Zou Kai CHN 16.200 1 Zhang Chenglong CHN 16.1662 Jonathon Horton USA 16.175 2 Epke Zonderland NED 16.0333 Fabian Hambuchen GER 15.875 3 Fabian Hambuchen GER 15.9664 Igor Cassina ITA 15.675 4 Philipp Boy GER 15.8335 Takuya Nakase JPN 15.450 5 Danell Leyva USA 15.6666 Hiroyuki Tomita JPN 15.225 6 Christopher Brooks USA 15.3837 Epke Zonderland NED 15.000 7 Feng Zhe CHN 15.1668 Yann Cucherat FRA 14.825 8 Koji Uematsu JPN 14.000

1 Zou Kai CHN 16.441 1 Epke Zonderland NED 16.4002 Zhang Chenglong CHN 16.366 2 Zhang Chenglong CHN 16.2753 Kohei Uchimura JPN 16.333 3 Koji Uematsu JPN 16.1004 Fabian Hambuchen GER 16.233 4 Zou Kai CHN 16.0755 Epke Zonderland NED 14.833 5 Danell Leyva USA 15.9336 Yusuke Tanaka JPN 14.700 6 Emin Garibov RUS 15.8337 Philipp Boy GER 14.300 7 Chris Brooks USA 15.6508 John Orozco USA 14.133 8 Kazuhito Tanaka JPN 15.600

Women's Team All-Around

1 China 248.275 1 Russia 175.3972 USA 246.800 2 USA 175.1963 Russia 244.400 3 China 174.7814 Romania 238.425 4 Romania 173.0965 Australia 235.450 5 Japan 169.8976 France 233.875 6 Australia 168.6297 Brazil 233.800 7 Great Britain 166.8288 Japan 233.175 8 Italy 163.429

1 USA 179.4112 Russia 175.3293 China 172.824 Romania 172.4125 Great Britain 169.676 Germany 168.4797 Japan 167.1228 Australia 166.739

Women's Individual All-Around

1 Nastasia Liukin USA 63.325 1 Aliya Mustafina RUS 61.0322 Shawn Johnson USA 62.725 2 Jiang Yuyuan CHN 59.9983 Yang Yilin CHN 62.650 3 Rebecca Bross USA 58.9664 Ksenia Semenova RUS 61.925 4 Huang Qiushuang CHN 58.3665 Steliana Nistor ROU 61.050 5 Ana Borgras ROU 58.1656 Jiang Yuyuan CHN 60.900 6 Lauren Mitchell AUS 58.1337 Anna Pavlova RUS 60.825 7 Tatiana Nabieva RUS 57.2988 Sandra Izbasa ROU 60.750 8 Ariella Kaeslin SUI 56.900

1 Jordyn Weiber USA 59.382 1 Jordyn Weiber USA 61.0502 Viktoria Komova RUS 59.349 2 Alexandra Raisman USA 60.9323 Yao Jinnan CHN 58.598 3 Kyla Ross USA 59.8004 Alexandra Raisman USA 57.588 4 Larisa Iordache ROU 59.3325 Hunag Qiushuang CHN 57.432 5 Christine Lee CAN 57.8756 Ana Porgas ROU 57.299 6 Kennedy Baker USA 56.8007 Ksenia Afanasyeva RUS 56.732 7 Rie Tanaka JPN 56.4508 Lauren Mitchell AUS 56.669 8 Victoria Moors CAN 56.365

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Artistic Gymnastics

Women's Vault

1 Hong Un Jong PRK 15.650 1 Alicia Sacramone USA 15.2002 Oksana Chusovitina GER 15.575 2 Aliya Mustafina RUS 15.0663 Cheng Fei CHN 15.562 3 J. Fernandes Barbosa BRA 14.7994 Alicia Sacramone USA 15.537 4 Ariella Kaeslin SUI 14.7835 Ariella Kaeslin SUI 15.050 5 Tatiana Nabieva RUS 14.5996 Carlotta Giovannini ITA 14.550 6 Jo Hyunjoo KOR 14.4837 Jade Barbosa BRA 14.487 7 Diana Chelaru ROU 14.0668 Anna Pavlova RUS 7.812 8 Imogen Cairns GBR 13.999

1 McKayla Maroney USA 15.300 1 Sandra Izbasa ROU 14.8832 Oksana Chusovitina GER 14.733 2 Jade Fernandes Barbosa BRA 14.7993 Phan Thi Ha Thanh VIE 14.666 3 Oksana Chusovitina GER 14.6834 Jade Barbosa BRA 14.566 4 Giulia Steingruber SUI 14.6625 Giulia Steingruber SUI 14.450 5 Valeriia Maksiuta ISR 14.6006 Tatiana Nabieva RUS 14.349 6 Elisabeth Black CAN 14.5757 Alexa Moreno Medina MEX 14.216 7 Cheng Fei CHN 14.5128 Yamilet Pena Abreu DOM 6.950 8 Alexa Moreno MEX 14.512

Women's Floor

1 Sandra Izbasa ROU 15.650 1 Lauren Mitchell AUS 14.8332 Shawn Johnson USA 15.500 2 Aliya Mustafina RUS 14.7663 Nastia Liukin USA 14.425 3 Diana Chelaru ROU 14.7664 Jiang Yuyuan CHN 15.350 4 Alexandra Raisman USA 14.7165 Ekaterina Kramarenko RUS 15.025 5 Sui Lu CHN 14.6666 Daiane Santos BRA 14.975 6 Vanessa Ferrari ITA 14.6007 Cheng Fei CHN 14.550 7 Sandra Izbasa ROU 13.9838 Anna Pavlova RUS 14.125 8 Ksenia Afanasyeva RUS 12.700

1 Ksenia Afanasyeva RUS 15.133 1 Alexandra Raisman USA 15.4332 Sui Lu CHN 15.066 2 Catalina Ponor ROU 15.2753 Alexandra Raisman USA 15.000 3 Larisa Iordache ROU 15.2334 Yao Jinnan CHN 14.866 4 Jordyn Weiber USA 15.1335 Lauren Mitchell AUS 14.733 5 Victoria Moors CAN 14.7666 Jordyn Weiber USA 14.700 6 Diana Laura Bulimar ROU 14.7257 Beth Tweddle GBR 14.500 7 Mai Murakami JPN 14.7008 Diana Chelaru ROU 14.200 8 Christine Lee CAN 14.575

Women's Uneven Bars

1 He Kexin CHN 16.725 1 Beth Tweddle GBR 15.7332 Nastia Liukin USA 16.725 2 Aliya Mustafina RUS 15.6003 Yang Yilin CHN 16.650 3 Rebecca Bross USA 15.0664 Beth Tweddle GBR 16.625 4 Bridget Sloan USA 14.6665 Anastasia Koval UKR 16.375 5 Ana Porgras ROU 14.6006 Ksenia Semenova RUS 16.325 6 Huang Qiushuang CHN 14.4007 Steliana Nistor ROU 15.575 7 He Kexin CHN 13.9668 Dariya Zgoba UKR 14.875 8 Elisabeth Seitz GER 10.466

1 Viktoria Komeva RUS 15.500 1 Aliya Mustafina RUS 15.8332 Tatiana Nabieva RUS 15.000 2 Victoria Komova RUS 15.7663 Huang Qiushuang CHN 14.833 3 Yao Jinnan CHN 15.6754 Jordyn Weiber USA 14.500 4 Anastasia Grishina RUS 15.3335 Gabrielle Douglas USA 14.200 5 Kyla Ross USA 15.2505 Asuka Teramoto JPN 14.200 6 Huang Qiushuang CHN 15.2007 Koko Tsurumi JPN 14.066 7 Beth Tweddle GBR 15.1758 Youna Dufournet FRA 12.641 8 Gabrielle Douglas USA 15.150







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Women's Balance Beam

1 Shawn Johnson USA 16.225 1 Ana Porgras ROU 15.3662 Nastia Liukin USA 16.025 2 Rebecca Bross USA 15.2333 Cheng Fei CHN 15.950 3 Deng Linlin CHN 15.2334 Anna Pavlova RUS 15.900 4 Lauren Mitchell AUS 15.2005 Gabriella Dragoi ROU 15.625 5 Alicia Sacramone USA 15.0666 Li Shanshan CHN 15.300 6 Anna Dementyeva RUS 13.9667 Ksenia Afanasyeva RUS 14.825 7 Aliya Mustafina RUS 13.7668 Koko Tsurumi JPN 14.450 8 Yana Demyanchuk UKR 13.733

1 Sui Lu CHN 15.866 1 Jordyn Weiber USA 15.7002 Yao Jinnan CHN 15.233 2 Catalina Ponor ROU 15.4333 Jordyn Weiber USA 15.133 3 Larisa Iordache ROU 15.4004 Alexandra Raisman USA 15.066 4 Kyla Ross USA 15.3755 Amelia Racea ROU 14.533 5 Christine Lee CAN 15.3006 Yulia Inshina RUS 14.525 6 Chunsong Shang CHN 15.2507 Catania Ponor ROU 14.241 7 Yao Jinnan CHN 15.1758 Viktoria Komova RUS 13.766 8 Sixin Tan CHN 15.050



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Rhythmic Gymnastics

Women's Individual Women's Group

Rope Hoop Clubs Ribbon Points BallRibbon &

HoopPoints

1 Yevgeniya Kanayeva RUS 1st 1st 1st 1st 75.500 1 Russia 1st 1st 35.5502 Inna Zhukova BLR 3rd 3rd 3rd 4th 71.925 2 China 3rd 2nd 35.2253 Anna Bessonova UKR 4th 5th 2nd 2nd 71.875 3 Belarus 2nd 4th 34.9004 Olga Kaoranova RUS 2nd 2nd 8th 3rd 71.700 4 Italy 4th 3rd 34.4255 Aliya Yussupova KAZ 5th 6th 4th 7th 69.800 5 Bulgaria 5th 5th 33.5506 Aliya Garayeva AZE 6th 4th 6th 8th 69.675 6 Israel 7th 6th 32.1007 Natalia Godunko UKR 8th 7th 5th 5th 68.850 7 Azerbaijan 6th 7th 31.5758 Almudena Cid ESP 7th 9th 7th 6th 68.100 8 Ukraine 8th 8th 31.100

Rope Hoop Ball Ribbon Points BallRibbon &

HoopPoints

1 Yevgeniya Kanayeva RUS 1st 1st 1st 1st 116.250 1 Italy 1st 1st 55.5252 Daria Kondakova RUS 2nd 2nd 2nd 2nd 113.825 2 Belarus 2nd 2nd 54.8003 Melitina Staniouta BLR 4th 3rd 4th 4th 110.350 3 Russia 7th 3rd 52.4254 Aliya Garayeva AZE 3rd 5th 3rd 3rd 110.300 4 Israel 4th 4th 51.9505 Alina Maksymenko UKR 5th 4th 6th 5th 108.950 5 Bulgaria 3rd 10th 51.4006 Silviya Miteva BUL 6th 9th 5th 8th 108.350 6 Japan 5th 7th 51.0257 Anna Alyabyeva KAZ 7th 7th 12th 7th 107.525 7 Azerbaijan 6th 6th 50.9758 Joanna Mitrosz POL 8th 10th 9th 10th 106.800 8 Germany 8th 5th 50.850

Hoop Ball Clubs Ribbon Points BallRibbon &

HoopPoints

1 Yevgeniya Kanayeva RUS 2nd 1st 1st 1st 116.650 1 Italy 2nd 1st 55.1502 Daria Kondakova RUS 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd 116.600 2 Russia 3rd 2nd 54.8503 Aliya Garayeva AZE 4th 6th 4th 3rd 112.450 3 Bulgaria 4th 3rd 54.1254 Liubov Charkashyna BLR 5th 4th 6th 4th 112.200 4 Belarus 1st 12th 52.8505 Alina Maksymenko UKR 3rd 9th 5th 6th 111.575 5 Japan 6th 6th 52.7256 Melitina Staniouta BLR 9th 5th 8th 7th 110.250 6 Germany 7th 5th 52.6757 Silviya Miteva BUL 20th 3rd 3rd 5th 110.225 7 Ukraine 9th 9th 51.8508 Joanna Mitrosz POL 7th 11th 9th 11th 109.000 8 Switzerland 11th 7th 51.825

Rhythmic Gymnastics is a staunch old-Soviet sport; the only time gold medals have been won west of the Iron Curtain was in the Los Angles Games, which the Communuist-bloc boycotted. Russia will certainly expect to win the individual dicipline, either curtesy of the reigning champion Yevgeniya Kanayeva, who would become the first woman to retain the title, or her talented understudy Daria Kondakova. The team event could see a break from traditition if the Italians can continue their success at recent World Championships. However Russia's greatest threat in this event may well come from the Belarussians who could triumph if they can avoid the mistakes they made in the final routine at last year's World Championships.

Earlier this year, rythmic gymnastics received unprecedented media attention in Great Britain following the decision of the British Gymnastic Federation to deny the team their automatic qualification spot after they fell fractionally short of a target score. The BGF could and probably shouldhave overlooked the shortfall given the team's dedication and potential - it declined to do so. The team therefore referred the decision to arbitration

and succeeded in overturning the decision on a technicality. Thus we will have British representation in the team event at the London Olympics,giving the home crowd something to cheer for, and they will hopefully stay clear of last place. Francesca Jones was largely ignored in the the

press furore, she met the target set for her and will be the sole British representitive iin the individual event. She too will do well to stick with thepace of the girls coming from countries with an established tradition in the sport.



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Gymnastics - Trampolining

Men's Individual

1 Lu Chunlong CHN 41.0002 Jason Burnett CAN 40.7003 Dong Dong CHN 40.6004 Tetsuya Sotomura JPN 39.8005 Yuriy Nikitin UKR 39.800 1 Lu Chunlong CHN 62.1456 Dmitry Ushakov RUS 38.800 2 Dong Dong CHN 61.4607 Alexander Rusakov RUS 38.500 3 Masaki Ito JPN 60.8848 Mikalai Kazak BLR 38.100 4 Mikita Fedorenko RUS 60.305

5 Yuriy Nikitin UKR 58.4856 Gregoire Pennes FRA 57.405

1 Dong Dong CHN 43.100 7 Dmitry Ushakov RUS 30.9052 Ye Shuai CHN 43.100 8 Yasuhiro Ueyama JPN 18.7953 Yasuhiro Ueyama JPN 42.4004 Nikita Fedorenko RUS 41.4005 Dmitry Ushakov RUS 41.3006 Gregoire Pennes FRA 41.3007 Tetsuya Sotomura JPN 41.3008 Martin Gromowski GER 9.000

Women's Individual

1 He Wenna CHN 37.8002 Karen Cockburn CAN 37.0003 Ejaterina Khilko UZB 36.9004 Olena Movchan UKR 36.6005 Irina Karavaeva RUS 36.200 1 He Wenna CHN 56.2756 Luba Golonvia GEO 36.200 2 Rosannagh MacLennan CAN 55.3607 Rosannagh MacLennan CAN 35.500 3 Li Dan CHN 55.3308 Anna Dogonadze GER 18.900 4 Karen Cockburn CAN 54.940

5 Tatsiana Piatrenia BLR 53.6106 Anna Dogonadze GER 53.275

1 Li Dan CHN 40.300 7 Savannah Vinsant USA 53.0852 Huang Shanshan CHN 39.800 8 Kat Driscoll GBR 11.5053 Rosannagh MacLennan CAN 39.3004 Bryony Page GBR 38.6005 Tatsiana Piatrenia BLR 38.3006 Irina Karavaeva RUS 38.2007 Anna Dogonadze GER 37.3008 Luba Golonvia GEO 4.200




One of the newest sports to enter the Olympic program, Trampolining is easy to follow and has a wide participation base thanks to its suitability for school gyms. China developed a strong programme going into the 2008 Games and this has allowed them to depose the Russians as the dominant force in world trampolining. Lu Chunlong and He Wenna are both coming off strong world championship performances at the end of last year and look good to retain their Olympic titles. Aside from their compatriots, the young Masaki Ito (JPN) and Canada's pairing of Rosannagh MacLennan and Karen Cockburn will be the only other people realistically targeting top spot.

Great Britain's sole representative will be Kat Driscoll. She gained some publicity from being ranked world number one going into last year's World Championships, although this was down mainly to the top competitors skipping most of the ranking events on an overcrowded calendar. She is, however, a strong contender and could challenge for a medal on her best form.

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Handball

Men's HandballCountry Qualification Group Achievements Top Players

FranceWon 2011 World Championships

A

Gold at 2008 Olympics; Gold at 2011 and 2009 World Championships; Gold at 2010 Eurpoean Championships - first ever team to win 4 major tournaments in a row, but won only 2 of 6 games at 2012 European Championships

Nikola Karabatic (28, 196cm, IHF World Handball Player of the Year in 2007, MVP at 2011 World Championships, has won the domestic title in either France or Germany for past 11 years); Thierry Omeyer (GK, 35, 193cm, IHF World Handball Player of the Year in 2008, only third ever goalkeeper to win the award, Goalkeeper of the Tournament in 2008 Olympics, 2009 and 2011 World Championships)

IcelandSecond in Additional Qualification Tournament C

ASilver at 2008 Olympics; 6th at 2011 World Championships; Bronze at 2010 European Championships, 10th in 2012

Olafur Stefansson (39, 196cm, record holder for goals in international handball - over 1500 - including 5 in 2008 Olympic Final)

SwedenWon Additional Qualification Tournament B

A

DNQ for 2008 Olympics; 4th at 2011 World Championships on home soil, 7th in 2009; 12th in 2012 and 15th in 2010 European Championships

Dalibor Doder (33, 182cm, All-Star Team at 2011 World Championships)

ArgentinaWon 2011 Pan-American Championships

A

Never qualified for Olympic Tournament; 12 at 2011 World Championships - best ever performance; 4x winner of Pan-American Championships

Juan Agustin Vidal (24, 191cm, All-Star 2010 Pan-American Championships)

TunisiaWon 2012 African Championships

ALast qualified for the Olympics in 2000; 17th 2011 World Championships; African Champions 2012, 2010

Wissem Hmam (31, 198cm, top scorer in 2005 World Championships)

Great Britain Host-Country Place ANever qualified for an international handball tournament

Bobby White (GK, 27, 192cm, captain and former semi-professional footballer)

DenmarkWon 2012 European Championships

B

7th at 2008 Olympics; Silver at 2011 World Championships, 4th 2009 World Championships; Gold at 2012 European Championships, 5th 2010 European Championships

Mikkel Hansen (24, 192cm, IHF World Handball Player of the Year in 2011, All-Star team at 2011 World Championships and 2012 European Championships)

SpainWon Additional Qualification Tournament A

BBronze at 2008 Olympics; Bronze at 2011 World Championships, 13th in 2009; 4th at 2012 European Championships, 6th in 2010

Viran Morros (28, 199cm, Best Defensive Player at 2012 European Championships)

CroatiaWon Additional Qualification Tournament C

B

4th for 2008 Olympics (pre-event favourites); Silver at 2009 World Championships, 5th in 2011; Bronze in 2012 and Silver in 2010 European Championships

Igor Vori (31, 203cm, MVP at 2009 World Championships, All-Star Team at 2010 European Championships)

SerbiaSecond in Additional Qualification Tournament A

B

DNQ for 2008 Olympics; 8th at 2011 World Championships, 10th in 2009; Silver at home in 2012 European Championships, 13th in 2010

Momir Ilic (30, 200cm, MVP at 2012 European Championships)

HungarySecond in Additional Qualification Tournament B

BDNQ for 2008 Olympics; 7th at 2011 World Championships, 6th in 2009; 8th in 2012 and 14th in 2010 European Championships

Ferenc Ilyes (30, 198cm)

South KoreaWon 2011 Asian Olympic QT

B8th in 2008 Olympics (won Silver in 1988); 13th 2011 World Championships; Asian Champions 2012, 2010

Lee Jae Woo (32, 182cm, MVP 2012 Asian Championships)

Handball is unique amongst Olympic team sports in that its origins are neither American nor British. Based on informal team games from Scandinavia, Germany and Eastern Europe, the rules were laid down by a schoolteacher in Copenhagen. The sport debuted in the 1936 Games in Berlin and was admitted to the Olympic programme permanently 36 years later at the Munich Games. The popularity of the sport has never really expanded beyond its continental European confines (although the Seoul Olympics in 1988 launched the sport with some success there). Successful, though modest, professional leagues have sprung up across many countries in Europe and handball players, such as Jackson Richardson, the French flag bearer at the 2004 Olympics, are capable of reaching moderate fame in their home countries.

Having won an Olympic Games, two World Championships and a European Championship in a row, the French men’s team were coming into London as hot favourites until a disastrous performance at the European Championships in January saw them win just two matches from

six. The team that took advantage of the Franch capitulation was Denmark and they must feel that they are the form team coming into the Olympics. Their star man is Mikkel Hansen who won the 2011 Player of the Year award and whose rock-star looks and personality stand to

make him a national hero if he could lead the Danes to Olympic gold.

The team to watch on the women’s side are the Norwegians. The reigning world, European and Olympic champions will come under pressure in London but should have the experience to hold off their challengers. No other women’s team has managed to maintain any consistency in international competition since the last Olympics, but any of Russia, France or Sweden have the potential to go all the way.

The Great British handball teams, for both men and women, have had to come a long way since being re-founded just six years ago. Largely made up of people recruited through the 'sporting giants' program, which looked for tall athletic people that could be retrained in new

sports, they have gone from struggling to beat teams like Yemen and Luxembourg to being reasonably competitive against all but the top European teams. As both the men and women are in weak groups the teams are optimistic that one or two victories is a realistic goal in

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Women's Handball

Country Qualification Group Achievements Top Players

RussiaWon Additional Qualification Tournament C

ASilver 2008 Olympics; Gold 2009 World Championships, 6th in 2011; 7th 2010 European Championships

Lyudmila Postnova (27, 183cm, MVP 2009 World Championships)

BrazilWon 2011 Pan-American Championships

A9th at 2008 Olympics; 5th 2011 World Championships; Gold in 2011 Pan-American Championships

Alexandra do Nascimento (30, 177cm, top scorer at 2011 World Championships)

CroatiaSecond in Additional Qualification Tournament B

ADNQ 2008 Olympics; 7th 2011 World Championships; 9th 2010 European Championships

Andrea Penezic (26, 186cm, All-Star 2011 World Championships)

MontenegroSecond in Additional Qualification Tournament A

ADNQ 2008 Olympics; 10th 2011 World Championships; 6th 2010 European Championships

Bojana Popovic (32, 185cm, top scorer in 2004, 2005 & 2007 European Champions League)

AngolaWon 2012 African Championships

A12th at 2008 Olympics; 8th 2011 World Championships; Gold at past 8 African Championships

Marcelina Kiala (32, 178cm)

Great Britain Host-Country Place ANever qualified for an international handball tournament

Lynn McCafferty (33, 168cm)

NorwayWon 2011 World Championships

BGold at 2008 Olympics, 2011 World Championships and 2010 European Championships

Heidi Loke (29, 177cm, IHF World Handball Player of the Year in 2011, All-Star Player 2011 World Championships, 2010 European Championships)

FranceWon Additional Qualification Tournament A

B5th at 2008 Olympics; Silver at 2011 and 2009 World Championships; 5th 2010 European Championships

Allison Pineau (22, 181cm, IHF World Handball Player of the Year in 2009, All-Star Player 2011 and 2009 World Championships

SpainWon Additional Qualification Tournament B

B

DNQ 2008 Olympics; Bronze 2011 World Championships, 4th 2011 World Championships; 11th 2010 European Championships

Marta Mangue (29, 170cm, All-Star 2009 World Championships)

SwedenSecond at 2010 European Championships

B8th at 2008 Olympics; 9th in 2011 and 13th in 2009 World Championships; Silver in 2010 European Championships

Linnea Torstenson (29, 186cm, MVP 2010 European Championships)

South KoreaWon 2011 Asian Olympic QT

BBronze at 2008 Olympics; 11th 2011 World Championships; Bronze 2010 Asian Games

Woo Sun-Hee (34, 172cm)

DenmarkSecond in Additional Qualification Tournament C

BDNQ 2008 Olympics; 4th 2011, 5th 2009 World Championships; 4th 2010 European Championships

Line Jorgensen (22, 186cm, All-Star 2011 World Championships)

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Men's Hockey

Country Qualification Group World Ranking Achievements Top Players

Australia Won 2011 Oceania Cup A 1st

Bronze 2008 Olympics ('92 2nd, '96 3rd, '00 3rd, '04 1st); Winners of the World Cup 2010 (2nd '02 & '06); 1st in the Champions' Trophy 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011; 1st 2010 Commonwealth Games

Jamie Dwyer (33, M/F, FIH World Player of the Year in 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011, scorer of winning goal in the 2004 Olympic Final - the world's best marksman will be to crucial to Australia's success), Eddie Ockenden (25, M/F, World All Star team for past 3 years, key part of Australia's fast attacking play), Matthew Swann (23, D, FIH young player of the year 2011 & All-Star Team 2011)

Great Britain Host-Country Place A 4th5th 2008 Olympics; 4th 2010 World Cup; 2nd 2010 Champions Trophy; 3rd EuroHockey 2011

Ashley Jackson (24, M/F, First Bristish player to be voted FIH Young Player of the Year in 2009, World All Star team 2009 & 2010, has had his penalty corner stroke timed at over 100mph), Barry Middleton (28, M/F, Captain of team GB, World All-Star Team in 2010 & shortlisted for FIH player of the year in 2010)

SpainInvitee (due toAfrican qualification tournament being too low quality)

A 5thSilver in 2008 Olympics; 5th 2010 World Cup; 2nd 2011 Champions' Trophy

Santi Freixa (29, M/F, World All-Star Team 2008 & 2011, Player of the Tournamant 2011 Champion's Trophy, 2004 FIH Young Player of the Year), Ramon Alegre (31, D, 2011 World All-Star team)

Pakistan Won 2010 Asian Games A 8th8th 2008 Olympics; 3x Olympic Gold & 4x World Cup Winners - nothing since 1994

Repeated political changes in their national federation have resulted in a constant churn of players and coaches in the past few years including the sacking of their Dutch coach less than 6 months ago

ArgentinaWon 2011 Pan American Games

A 9thNever finished better than 6th in major international competition; top team in South America

Lucas Vila (25, F, World Hockey All-Star 2010 & 2011)

South AfricaWon Additional Qualification Tournament

A 12th

12th 2008 Olympics, 10th 2010 World Cup, 3rd 2011 Champions Challenge (2nd tier competition), 5th 2010 Commonwealth Games

Austin Smith (27, D, Captain & World Hockey All-Star 2009)

Hockey has gone through more changes than most sports in the past 40 years. Introduction of Astroturf in the mid-1970s brought about a quicker ground-based game, and ultimately brought the Indian sub-continent's 50-year dominance of the sport to an end as they struggled to fund the introduction of the expensive new pitches. After an initial burst of excitement over the new pace of the game, negative tactics started to ruin the spectacle - it became too easy to play defensively and look for penalty corners which, due to the increased control offered by the smooth playing surface, gave by far the best scoring opportunities. The 70 minute matches started to hinge on 10 or 15 penalty corners, meaning the team with the best penalty taker would too often win. It wasn't until the mid-noughties that increased fitness started to give teams without leading ball-hitters opportunity to mix up the tactics. Spain came from nowhere on the international scene by using daringly quick-attack breaks and started to threaten the traditional forces. A 3-2 victory for the Spanish over the favourites Australia in the 2008 Olympic semi-final signalled to the world that the tide was turning. Although the Germans took gold with a dour defensive display, the top teams on the men's and women's sides all opened up their tactics and so dawned a new era of exciting hockey.

Perhaps inevitably due to their small hockey-playing base, the Spanish men started to be overhauled by new look teams. It was the Australians, so upset by their loss to the Spanish, that adapted the quickest; by unleashing their talismanic forward Jamie Dwyer on lightning quick attacks they have brought in ever

international trophy since 2009, and Dwyer has picked up three consecutive World Player of the Year awards. Although the Dutch and the Germans have maintained consistency by playing with more conservative tactics, it will take an almighty shock to prevent the Kookaburras from returning home as champions

From the low point of recording only one win (against Egypt) at the 2004 Olympics, British men have risen to new heights and will be shooting for a medal iLondon. However, gold will probably prove a dream too far unless they can somehow turn the tables on an Australian team that cruised to a 4-0 victory over th

Brits at the 2010 Champions Trophy. Those that have been following the sport for some time will continue to look on with interest at the fortunes of Pakistani and Indian hockey. Their 50-year dominance has now long since passed but they have a habit of both producing naturally talented players and turning their hocke

governance into a soap opera. Pakistan sacked their entire team and staff after a poor performance in the 2010 Commonwealth Games whilst India currently hastwo competing governing bodies, one recognised by the government and one by the IOC

On the women's side we have three teams with very different styles of play, who will go into the Olympic tournament as serious contenders to take gold. The reigning Olympic champions, the Netherlands have benefitted from having the most developed semi-pro league in the world and have the best strength in depth of any women's team. The likes of 2011 Player of the Year Maartje Pauman have helped them to the past two European Championships and the 2011 Champion's Trophy and they start the Olympics as narrow favourites with the bookmakers. What Argentina lacks in depth, they make up for this with one player - Luciana Aymar. The seven times World Player of the Year "Maradona of hockey" has brought a new level of skill and control to the women's game and will be hoping that she wins Olympic gold as she moves towards the twilight of her career. The third team is Great Britian; although only ranked 4th in the world, they have perhaps learnt more from the revolution in the men's game than anyone else. UK Sport funding has allowed a level of professionalism never before available and they have used it to develop their strength and conditioning far beyond that of any other team. Although they lack a world-class penalty corner taker, they use their fitness to control the pace of the game. Their performances have been steadily increasing and at the Olympic test event in May - admittedly no more than a series of friendlies - they were outstanding, knocking up four clean sheets in a row including two convincing victories over Argentina. With a buoyant home crowd they are probably Britain's best chance of an Olympic medal in a team sport since 1988.

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Germany Won 2011 EuroHockey B 2ndGold in 2008 Olympics ('04 3rd); 2nd 2010 World Cup ('02 1st, '06 1st); 2nd '09 Champions Trophy

Max Muller (25, D, Capatin and World All-Star for the past 3 years, Defender of the Tournament at 2010 World Cup), Tobias Hauke (24, M, FIH Young Player of the Year 2010, World All-Star 2011 & 2010), Max Weinhold (30, GK, World All-Star 2011)

NetherlandsSecond in 2011 EuroHockey

B 3rd4th 2008 Olympics ('96 1st, '00 1st; '04 2nd); 3rd 2010 World Cup; 3rd 2011 Champions Trophy

Teun de Noojier (36, F, one of the most successful hockey players in history - 3x FIH World Hockey Player of the Year 2003, 2005 & 2006, Olympic champion 1996 & 2000, World All-Star every year since the award was started in 2006), Guus Vogels (37, GK, Player and Goalkeeper of the Tournament awards at the 2010 World Cup, 2x Olympic Champion)

South KoreaWon Additional Qualification Tournament

B 6th

Sixth at 2008 Olympics and 2010 World Cup; 3rd at 2009 Champions Trophy; did not win a game at 2011 Champions Trophy and only narrowly beat Ireland in the qualification tournament

Seo Jong-Ho (32, F, World Hockey All-Star 2008, 2009 & 2010)

New ZealandSecond in 2011 Oceania Cup

B 7th7th 2008 Olympics; No major medals since gold in 1976 Olympics; 4th 2011 Champions Trophy

Nick Wilson (21, F, one of the best young attacking players in world hockey, All-Star in 2011, 2010 and nominated for FIH Young Player of the Year in 2010)

IndiaWon Additional Qualification Tournament

B 10th

Former 8x Olympic Gold medallist, have struggled since the switch to astroturf in the 1980s. 2nd in 2011 Champions Challenge (2nd tier competition), 2nd in 2010 Commonwealth Games

Sandar Singh (26, D, imposing centre-half, has helped bring consistancy to the Indian team for the first time in over 10 years), Sandeep Singh (26, D, one of the best penalty specialists in the world, scored 5 in the match that qualified India to the Olympics)

BelgiumFourth in 2011 EuroHockey

B 11th9th 2008 Olympics; 1st 2011 Champions Challenge (2nd tier competition)

Tom Boon (22, F, Top scorer at the 2011 Champions Challenge)

Women's HockeyCountry Qualification Group World Ranking Achievements Top Players

Netherlands Won 2011 EuroHockey A 1st

Gold in 2008 Olympics ('96 3rd, '00 3rd, '04 2nd); 2nd 2010 World Cup; 3rd '12, 1st '11, 2nd '10 Champions Trophy; 1st 2011, 2009 EuroHockey

Maartje Pauman (26, M, FIH World Player of the Year in 2011 and Young Player of the Year in 2008, topscorer at the 2010 World Cup and 2011 Champions Trophy), Naomi van As (29, M/F, Joint Winner of the World Player of the Year in 2009, World All-Star Team in 2008, 2009 & 2010, scored the first goal in the 2008 Olympic final)

Great Britain Host-Country Place A 4th6th in 2008 Olympics; 3rd in 2010 World Cup; 2nd 2012 Champions Trophy, 3rd 2010 Champions Trophy

Alex Danson (27, F, World All-Star 2011), Beth Storey (34, GK, key in keeping a cleen sheet at the Olympic Test Event in May, World All-Star 2009, 2010, best GK at 2010 World Cup), Crista Cullen (26, D, penalty corner specialist, World All-Star 2010 & 2006, joint top-scorer at 2012 Champions Trophy)

China Won 2010 Asian Games A 5thSilver in 2008 Olympics; 7th 2010 World Cup

Zhao Yudiao (23, F, FIH Young Hockey Player of the Year 2010, award for best goal at 2011 Champions Trophy)

South KoreaSecond in 2010 Asian Games

A 8th 9th 2008 Olympics; 6th 2010 World CupLee Seon-Ok (21, F, World All-Star 2008), Kim Da-Rae (25, M, World All-Star 2011)

JapanWon Additional Qualification Tournament

A 9th10th 2008 Olympics, absent at 2010 World Cup, 5th 2012 Champion's Trophy

Rika Komazawa (30, M/F, joint top scorer at the 2012 Champions Trophy)

BelgiumWon Additional Qualification Tournament

A 15th

5th in 2011 Euro Hockey Tournament; beat two higher seeded teams (Spain and Ireland) to win their Olympic qualification tournament on home turf

Sofie Gierts (33, F, scored a hat-trick in the final of the qualification tournament)

ArgentinaInvitee (due toAfrican qualification tournament being too low quality)

B 2nd

Bronze in 2008 Olympics ('00 2nd, '04 3rd); Winners of 2010 World Cup ('02 1st, '06 3rd); 1st in '08, '09, '10, '12 Champion's Trophy

Luciana Aymar (31, M, "La Maradona del Hockey" - most decorated player in history - FIH World Player of the Year 7 times, Player of the Tournamant at all but 1 of the past 5 international tournaments), Belen Succi (26, GK, goalkeeper of the tournament at the past two Champion's Trophies), Noel Barrionuevo (28, F, World All-Star for past 3 years, top scorer at 2010 World Cup)

GermanySecond in 2011 EuroHockey

B 3rdForth 2008 Olympics; Fourth 2010 World Cup; Fourth 2012 Champions Trophy

Julia Muller (26, D, World All-Star 2011), Natascha Keller (25, F, World All-Star for the past 3 years, has a father and two brothers who have won gold medals)

New Zealand Won 2011 Oceania Cup B 6th12th 2008 Olympics; 2nd 2010 Commonwealth Games; 3rd 2011 Champions Trophy

Stacey Michelsen (21, M, FIH World Young Player of the Year 2011)

AustraliaSecond in 2011 Oceania Cup

B 7th

5th 2008 Olympics; 5th 2010 World Cup; 2nd 2009 Champions Trophy; 1st 2010 Commonwealth Games; Dominant team in 1990s

Casey Eastham (23, M, FIH World Young Player of the Year 2009, World All-Star 2010, 2009))

United StatesWon 2011 Pan American Games

B 10th8th 2008 Olympics; 1st 2011 Pan-American Games (1st ever victory)

Katelyn Falgowski (23, M, World All-Star 2011 - first American to win the award since 2006)

South AfricaWon Additional Qualification Tournament

B 12th11th in 2011 Olympic Games; Unbeaten in African competition; 4th in 2010 Commonwealth Games

Pietie Coetzee (33, M/F, World All-Star 2011, All-time record holder for international goals (230+))

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1 Choi Min-Ho KOR 1 Rishod Sobirov UZB2 Ludwig Paischer AUT 2 Georgii Zantaraia UKR3 Rishod Sobirov UZB 3 Arsen Galstyan RUS3 Ruber Houkes NED 3 Hiroaki Hiraoka JPN5 Dimitri Dragin FRA 5 Elio Verde ITA5 Gal Yekutiel ISR 5 Beslan Mudranov RUS7 Frazer Will CAN 7 David Asumbani GEO7 Craig Fallon GBR 7 Ludwig Paischer AUT

1 Rishod Sobirov UZB 1 Rishod Sobirov UZB2 Hiroaki Hiraoka JPN 2 Kim Won-Jin KOR3 Ilgar Mushkiyev AZE 3 Jang Jin-Min KOR3 Georgii Zantaraia UKR 3 Amiran Papinashvili GEO5 Choi Gwang-Hyeon KOR 5 Robert Mshvidobadze RUS5 Kim Won-Jin KOR 5 Tobias Englmaier GER7 Arsen Galstyan RUS 5 Hovhannes Davtyan ARM7 Hovhannes Davtyan ARM 5 Ilgar Mushkiyev AZE

Points1 Rishod Sobirov UZB 1,9402 Hirofumi Yamamoto JPN 9483 Arsen Galystan RUS 9365 Georgii Zantaraia UKR 8606 Ilgar Mushkiyev AZE 8607 Amiran Papinashvili GEO 8429 Choi Gwang-Hyeon KOR 730

10 Tumurkhuleg Davaadorj MGL 71611 Hovhannes Davytan ARM 52813 Sofiane Milous FRA 50814 Yerkebulan Kossayev KAZ 50415 Felipe Kitadai BRA 494



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Unlike in many other combative sports at this year’s Games, Judo champions traditionally dominate their weight classes for many years, indicating that it is strength and skill rather than luck which will dictate who are crowned champion this summer. Of these long-standing champions, foremost is Teddy Riner, one of France's sporting super stars. Just 23 years old, he is 6'8" and a ripped 22 stone and has won an unprecedented 6 World Titles. He went to Beijing at 19 years old as hot favourite and was devastated to go home with only a bronze; come London all "les Bleus" will be willing him to gold. At the opposite end of the physical spectrum the 5'4" Rishod Sobirov has been dominating the -60kg catagory for a number of years and should bring Uzbekistan a gold medal. The Korean 2008 silver medallist in the -73kg class, Wang Ki-Chun responded to yet another disappointing World Championships in 2011 by going on a 12 month winning streak and will lead a strong all-round Korean team. Finally, on the men's side, one story to look out for is that of Ilias Iliadis of Greece, who won his first Olympic title aged just 17 at his home Games. He has picked up the past two World Championships and, despite suffering from a drop in form since, will start favourite in the -90kg category.

Judo was the first sport to understand that the Olympics offers the opportunity to grow their international base. Byproactively sharing coaching experience and limiting countries' entrants to just one per category, they encouraged

many countries to establish programmes in search of an Olympic medal. Since 1968, 50 have gone on to do soOne of the side-effects of this growth has been the downfall of Japanese men from the position of dominance

once derived as originators of the sport. Fortunately for Japan, they have built up a dominant woman's team. Sogood are they that they have left three world number ones at home. For a country pushing for a top five position

overall in the medal table, pressure will be on the like of Misato Nakamura (-52kg) and Kaori Matsumoto (-57kg) to win gold. Many in Brazil will be hoping that the charismatic double World Championship medallist Sarah

Menezes (-48kg) will cause an upset - she has won worldwide media attention by being vocal in standing up fothe rights of northern rural states such as her native Piaui and will hope to become Brazil's first ever female

individual gold medallist. Most of the heavier weight categories are more open but Lucie Decosse (FRA) has a stranglehold over the -70kg class and, like her compatriot Riner, has won every major title in the sport except for

the Olympics.

Despite consistent funding (on a par with diving and badminton), Great Britain has been on the decline for some time. Having won just one medal in the past four Olympics (compared to 15 in the five before that) we have not got a single judoka in the top 12 in the world. Euan Barton, in the -81kg category, has been our top performer for the past 5 years. He picked up a good bronze in the 2010 World Championships but has slipped from the time when he was consistently ranked in the top 5 and will have to rely on home support to challenge for a medal. Karina Bryant (+78kg) is the only other Brit with experience of success at an international level; the rest of the team will be hoping to win a few bouts in front of their friends and family but are not expected to challenge for a medal.

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Men's 66kg

1 Masato Uchishiba JPN 1 Junpei Morishita JPN2 Benjamin Darbelet FRA 2 Leandro Cunha BRE3 Yordanis Arencibia CUB 3 Tsagaanbaatar Hashbaatar MGL3 Pak Choi-Min PRK 3 Loic Korval FRA5 Alim Gadanov RUS 5 Sugoi Uriarte ESP5 Mirali Sharipov UZB 5 Mirzahid Farmonov UZB7 Giovanni Casale ITA 7 Miklos Ungvari HUN7 Aheen El Hady EGY 7 Alim Gadanov RUS

1 Masashi Ebinura JPN 1 David Larose FRA2 Leandro Cunha BRA 2 Cho Jun-Ho KOR3 Cho Jun-Ho KOR 3 Tsagaanbaatar Hashbaatar MGL3 Musa Mogushkov RUS 3 Sergey Lim KAZ5 Rok Draksic SLO 5 Tomasz Kowalski POL5 Colin Oates GBR 5 Golan Pollack ISR7 Tarlan Karimov AZE 5 Colin Oates GBR7 David Larose FRA 5 Kamal Khan-Magomedov RUS

Points2 Tsagaanbaatar Khashbaatar MGL 1,1643 Musa Mogushkov RUS 1,1104 Masahi Ebinuma JPN 9805 Leandro Cunha BRA 9668 Cho Jun-Ho KOR 8769 David Larose FRA 746

10 Rok Draksic SLO 73212 Mirzahid Farmonov UZB 59613 Sergey Lim KAZ 59415 Tomasz Kowalski POL 54216 Tarlan Karimov AZE 52217 Lasha Shavduatashvili GEO 492

Men's 73kg

1 Elnur Mammadli AZE 1 Hiroyuki Akimoto JPN2 Wang Ki-Chun KOR 2 Dex Elmont NED3 Rasul Boquiev TJK 3 Yasuhiro Awano JPN3 Leandro Guilheiro BRA 3 Wang Ki-Chun KOR5 Dirk van Tichelt BEL 5 Nyam-Ochir Sainjargal MGL5 Ali Malomat IRI 5 Mansur Isaev RUS7 Yusuke Kanamaru JPN 7 Ugo Legrand FRA7 Gennadly Bilodid UKR 7 Azat Kubakaev KGZ

1 Riki Nakaya JPN 1 Nyam-Ochir Sainjargal MGL2 Dex Elmont NED 2 Christopher Voelk GER3 Navruz Jurakobilov UZB 3 Gilles Bonhomme FRA3 Ugo Legrand FRA 3 Zelimkhan Ozdoev RUS5 Hiroyuki Akimoto JPN 5 Odbayar Ganbaatar MGL5 Rinat Ibragimov KAZ 5 Mirali Sharipov UZB7 Dirk van Tichelt BEL 5 Rinat Ibragimov KAZ7 Mansur Isaev RUS 5 Nicholas Delpopolo USA

Points1 Wang Ki-Chun KOR 1,6202 Riki Nakaya JPN 1,2843 Dex Elmont NED 1,1524 Mansur Isaev RUS 9685 Nyam-Ochir Sainjargal MGL 9106 Navruz Jurakobilov UZB 8428 Ugo Legrand FRA 8309 Dirk Van Tichelt BEL 576

12 Bruno Mendonca BRA 51213 Nicholas Delpopolo USA 49815 Tomasz Adamiec POL 45817 Volodymyr Soroka UKR 454


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Men's 81kg

1 Ole Bischof GER 1 Kim Jae-Bum KOR2 Kim Jae-Bum KOR 2 Leandro Guilheiro BRA3 Tiago Camilo BRA 3 Euan Barton GBR3 Roman Gontiuk UKR 3 Masahiro Takamatsu JPN5 Guillaume Elmont NED 5 Flavio Canto BRA5 Nyamkhuu Damdinsuren MGL 5 Elnur Mammadli AZE7 Euan Barton GBR 7 Guillaume Elmont NED7 Robert Krawczyk POL 7 Sirazhudin Magomedov RUS

1 Kim Jae-Bum KOR 1 Ole Bischof GER2 Srdjan Mrvaljevic MNE 2 Antonio Ciano ITA3 Leandro Guilheiro BRA 3 Keita Nagahima JPN3 Sergiu Toma MDA 3 Sergiu Toma MDA5 Elkhan Rajabli AZE 5 Tomislav Marijanovic CRO5 Loic Pietri FRA 5 Artem Vasylenko UKR7 Ivan Nifontov RUS 5 Islam Bozbayev KAZ7 Artem Vasylenko UKR 5 Yuki Haruyama JPM

Points1 Kim Jae-Bum KOR 1,2862 Leandro Guilheiro BRA 1,1303 Elnur Mammadli AZE 9804 Ole Bischof GER 8965 Takahiro Nakai JPN 8807 Alain Schmitt FRA 7608 Travis Stevens USA 7129 Ivan Nifontov RUS 672

10 Segiu Toma MDA 64013 Euan Barton GBR 55115 Antonio Ciano ITA 53016 Srdjan Mrvaljevic MNE 512

Men's 90kg

1 Irakli Tsirekidze GEO 1 Ilias Iliadis GRE2 Amar Benikhlef ALG 2 Daiki Nishiyama JPN3 Hesham Mesbah EGY 3 Kirill Denisov RUS3 Sergei Aschwandlen SUI 3 Elkhan Mammadov AZE5 Yves-Matthieu Dafreville FRA 5 Varlam Liparteliani GEO5 Ivan Pershan RUS 5 Valentyn Grekov UKR7 Andrei Kazusionak BLR 7 Tiago Camilo BRA7 Eduardo Santos BRA 7 Max Schirnhofer GER

1 Ilias Iliadis GRE 1 Dilshod Choriev UZB2 Daiki Nishiyama JPN 2 Roman Gontiuk UKR3 Takashi Ono JPN 3 Kirill Denisov RUS3 Asley Gonzalez CUB 3 Asley Gonzalez CUB5 Lee Kyu-Won KOR 5 Robby Van Laarhoven NED5 Kirill Denisov RUS 5 Elkhan Mammadov AZE7 Hugo Pessanha BRA 5 Song Dae-Nam KOR7 Velentin Grekov UKR 5 Varlam Liparteliani GEO

Points1 Ilias Iliadis GRE 1,6002 Varlam Liparteliani GEO 1,1963 Masashi Nishiyama JPN 1,1505 Asley Gonzalez CUB 9866 Dilshod Choriev UZB 9868 Tiago Camilo BRA 812

10 Elsan Mammadov AZE 68011 Kirill Denisov RUS 66413 Alexandre Emond CAN 58214 Marcus Nyman SWE 57616 Milan Randl SVK 47617 Song Da-Nam KOR 472

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1 Tuvshinbayar Naidan MGL 1 Takmasa Anai JPN2 Askhat Zhitkeyev KAZ 2 Henk Grol NED3 Movlud Miraliyev AZE 3 Thierry Fabre FRA3 Henk Grol NED 3 Oreydi Despaigne CUB5 Przemyslaw Matyaszek POL 5 Tuvshinbayar Naidan MGL5 Levan Zhorzholiani GEO 5 Utkir Kurbanov UZB7 Daniel Hadfi HUN 7 Elmar Gasimov AZE7 Jang Sung-Ho KOR 7 Maxim Rakov KAZ

1 Tagir Khaybulaev RUS 1 Tuvshinbayar Naidan MGL2 Maxim Rakov KAZ 2 Jevgenijs Borodavko LAT3 Irakil Tsirekidze GEO 3 Temuulen Battulga MGL3 Lukas Krpalek CZE 3 Ramziddin Sayidov UZB5 Ramadan Darwish EGY 5 Henk Grol NED5 Elco van der Geest BEL 5 Cyrille Maret FRE7 Sergey Samoylovich RUS 5 Hwang Hee-Tae KOR7 Levan Zhorzholiani GEO 5 Ryonosuke Haga JPN

Points1 Maxim Rakov KAZ 1,3702 Henk Grol NED 1,2504 Ramziddin Sayidov UZB 1,0905 Takamasa Anai JPN 9686 Tagir Khaibulaev RUS 9607 Tuvshinbayar Naidan MGL 8968 Hwang He-Tae KOR 8349 Ramadan Darwish EGY 810

11 Ariel Zeevi ISR 75012 Lukas Krpalek CZE 74013 Irakli Tsirekidze GEO 67215 Jevgenijs Borodavko LAT 584

Men's +100kg

1 Satoshi Ishii JPN 1 Teddy Riner FRA2 Abdullo Tangriev UZB 2 Andreas Toelzer GER3 Vidal Brayson CUB 3 Matthieu Bataille FRA3 Teddy Riner FRA 3 Islma El Shehaby EGY5 Mohammed Roudaki IRI 5 Rafael Silva BRA5 Lasha Gujujiani GEO 5 Kazuhiko Takahashi JPN7 Tamerlan Tmenov RUS 7 Lasha Gujujiani GEO7 Joao Schlitter BRA 7 Grim Buijsters NED

1 Teddy Riner FRA 1 Teddy Riner FRA2 Andreas Toelzer GER 2 Rafael Silva BRA3 Kim Sung-Min KOR 3 Abdullo Tangriev UZB3 Aleksandr Mikhailine RUS 3 Kim Sung-Min KOR5 Oscar Braison CUB 5 Janusz Wojnarowicz POL5 Mohammed Roudaki IRI 5 Jean-Sebastien Bonvoisin FRA7 Barna Bor HUN 5 Matthieu Thorel FRA7 Faical Jaballah TUN 5 Matjaz Ceraj SLO

Points1 Teddy Riner FRA 1,5902 Andreas Toelzer GER 1,3503 Rafael Silva BRA 1,2244 Kim Sung-Min KOR 1,0845 Islam El Shehaby EGY 10586 Alexander Mikhaylin RUS 9287 Abdulo Tangriev UZB 8908 Adam Okruashvili GEO 7629 Oscar Brayson CUB 688

10 Barna Bor HUN 65611 Daiki Kamikawa JPN 56015 Janusz Wojnarowicz POL 462




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Women's 48kg

1 Alina Dumitru ROU 1 Haruna Asami JPN2 Yanet Bermoy CUB 2 Tomoko Fukumi JPN3 Paula Pareto ARG 3 Alina Dumitru ROU3 Ryoko Tani JPN 3 Sarah Menezes BRA5 Pak Ok Song PRK 5 Chung Jung-Yeon KOR5 Liudmila Bogdanova RUS 5 Federique Jossinet FRA7 Eva Csernoviczki HUN 7 Paula Pareto ARG7 Ana Hormigo POR 7 Leandra Freitas POR

1 Haruna Asami JPN 1 Tomoko Fukumi JPN2 Tomoko Fukumi JPN 2 Sarah Menezes BRA3 Sarah Menezes BRA 3 Urantsetseg Munkhbat MGL3 Eva Csernoviczki HUN 3 Alina Dumitru ROU5 Charline van Snick BEL 5 Hjeong Bo Kyeong KOR5 Frederick Jossinet FRA 5 Eva Csernoviczki HUN7 Wu Shugen CHN 5 Chung Jung-Yeon KOR7 Alina Dumitru ROM 5 Laetitia Payet FRA

Points2 Tomoko Fukumi JPN 1,7303 Sarah Menezes BRA 1,3384 Charline Van Snick BEL 1,1605 Alina Dumitru ROU 1,0306 Paula Pareto ARG 8287 Eva Csernoviczki HUN 7068 Urantsetseg Munkhbat MGL 6689 Wu Shugen CHN 658

10 Oiana Blanco ESP 63611 Dayaris Mestre Alvarez CUB 60412 Chung Jung-Yeon KOR 60213 Laetitia Payet FRA 598

Women's 52kg

1 Xian Dongmei CHN 1 Yuka Nishida JPN2 An Kum Ae PRK 2 Misato Nakamura JPN3 Soraya Haddad ALG 3 Natalia Kuzyutina RUS3 Misato Nakamura JPN 3 Bundmaa Munkhbaatar MGL5 Sholpan Kaliyeva KAZ 5 Erika Miranda BRA5 Kim Kyung Ok KOR 5 Romy Tarangul GER7 Ilse Heylen BEL 7 Zhang Lichuan CHN7 Ana Carrascosa ESP 7 Joana Ramos POR

1 Misato Nakamura JPN 1 Yuka Nishida JPN2 Yuka Nishida JPN 2 Bundmaa Munkhbaatar MGL3 Ana Carrascosa ESP 3 Ana Carrascosa ESP3 Andreea Chitu ROU 3 Yanet Bermoy Acosta CUB5 Joana Ramos POR 5 Laura Gomez ESP5 Priscilla Gneto FRA 5 Majlinda Kelmendi KOS*7 Laura Gomez ESP 5 Natalia Kuzyutina RUS7 Natalia Kuzyutina RUS 5 Soroya Haddad ALG

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Points2 Bundmaa Munkbaatar MGL 1,2023 Misato Nakamura JPN 1,1204 Erika Miranda BRA 1,0065 Soraya Haddad ALG 8906 Ilse Heylen BEL 7987 Majlinda Kelmendi ALB* 7508 Natalia Kuziutina RUS 738

10 Yanet Bermoy Acosta CUB 69012 Ana Carrascosa ESP 64013 Priscilla Gneto FRA 63714 Andreea Chitu ROU 62015 Joana Ramos POR 548

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1 Giulia Quintavalle ITA 1 Kaori Matsumoto JPN2 Deborah Gravenstijn NED 2 Telma Monteiro POR3 Katleyn Quadros BRA 3 Sabrina Filzmoser AUT3 Xu Yan CHN 3 Ioulietta Boukouvala GRE5 Maria Pekli AUS 5 Yurileidys Lupetey CUB5 Barbara Harel FRA 5 Corina Caprioriu ROU7 Aiko Sato JPN 7 Hedvig Karakas HUN7 Bernadett Beczko HUN 7 Gemma Howell GBR

1 Aiko Sato JPN 1 Telma Monteiro POR2 Rafaela Silva BRA 2 Aiko Sato JPN3 Corina Caprioriu ROU 3 Automne Pavia FRA3 Kaori Matsumoto JPN 3 Marti Malloy USA5 Marti Malloy USA 5 Irina Zabludina RUS5 Miryam Roper GER 5 Miryam Roper GER7 Isabel Fernandez ESP 5 Sarah Loko FRA7 Irina Zabludina RUS 5 Wang Hui CHN

Points1 Kaori Matsumoto JPN 1,6803 Telma Monteiro POR 1,3284 Rafaela Silva BRA 1,1545 Corina Caprioriu ROU 9346 Automne Pavla FRA 8427 Ioulietta Boukouvala GRE 7768 Kim Jan-Di KOR 7469 Giulia Quintavalle ITA 654

10 Sabrina Filzmoser AUT 62011 Kifayat Gasimova AZE 62012 Marti Malloy USA 59213 Joliane Melancon CAN 526

Women's 63kg

1 Ayumi Tanimoto JPN 1 Yoshie Ueno JPN2 Lucie Decosse FRA 2 Miki Tanaka JPN3 Elisabeth Willeboordse NED 3 Yaritza Abel CUB3 Won Ok Im PRK 3 Ramila Yusubova AZE5 Driulls Gonzalez CUB 5 Alice Schleisinger ISR5 Claudia Heill AUT 5 Anicka van Emden NED7 Urska Zolnir SLO 7 Elisabeth Willeboordse NED7 Ysis Barreto VEN 7 Yarden Gerbi ISR

1 Gevrise Emane FRA 1 Miki Tanaka JPN2 Yoshie Ueno JPN 2 Joung Da-Woon KOR3 Anicka van Emden NED 3 Elisabeth Willeboordse NED3 Urska Zolnir SLO 3 Alice Schleisinger ISR5 Elisabeth Willeboordse NED 5 Marijana Miskovik CRO5 Maricet Espinosa CUB 5 Maelle Di Cintio FRA7 Xu Yuhua CHN 5 Kana Abe JPN7 Hilde Drexler AUT 5 Munkhzaya Tsedevsuren MGL

Points1 Yoshie Ueno JPN 1,5842 Gevrise Emane FRA 1,4604 Alice Schlesinger ISR 9825 Urska Zolnir SLO 9567 Xu Lili CHN 8609 Elisabeth Willeboordse NED 800

10 Munkhzaya Tsedevsuren MGL 79411 Joung Da-Woon KOR 72613 Yaritza Abel Rojas CUB 62014 Claudia Malzahn GER 56415 Marijana Miskovic CRO 52416 Ramila Yusubova AZE 518


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Women's 70kg

1 Masae Ueno JPN 1 Lucie Decosse FRA2 Anaysi Hernandez CUB 2 Anett Meszaros HUN3 Ronda Rousey USA 3 Yoriko Kunihara JPN3 Edith Bosch NED 3 Rasa Sraka SLO5 Annett Boahm GER 5 Cecilia Blanco ESP5 Leire Iglesias ESP 5 Edith Bosch NED7 Anett Meszaros HUN 7 Hwang Ye-Sul KOR7 Yuri Alvear COL 7 Mina Watanabe JPN

1 Lucie Decosse FRA 1 Haruka Tachimoto JPN2 Edith Bosch NED 2 Lucie Decosse FRA3 Yoriko Kunihara JPN 3 Hwang Ye-Sul KOR3 Anett Meszaros HUN 3 Yoriko Kunihara JPN5 Onix Cortes Aldama CUB 5 Houda Miled TUN5 Rase Meszaros SLO 5 Chen Fei CHN7 Sol Kyong PKR 7 Asmaa Niang MAR7 Marie Pasquet FRA 7 Cecilia Blanco ESP

Points1 Lucie Decosse FRA 1,8162 Edith Bosch NED 1,3603 Haruka Tachimoto JPN 1,2744 Rasa Sraka SLO 1,0386 Maria Portea BRA 8947 Hwang Ye-Sul KOR 8408 Chen Fei CHN 7669 Yuri Alvear COL 628

10 Anett Meszaros HUN 61810 Cecilia Blanco ESP 60411 Onix Cortes Aldama CUB 58812 Katarzyna Klys POL 578

Women's 78kg

1 Yang Xiuli CHN 1 Kayla Harrison USA2 Yalennis Castillo CUB 2 Mayra Aguiar BRA3 Jeong Gyeong Mi KOR 3 Akari Ogata JPN3 Stephanie Possamai FRA 3 Yang Xiuli CHN5 Edinanci Silva BRA 5 Heide Wollert GER5 Esther San Miguel ESP 5 Maryna Pryshchepa UKR7 Lkhamdegd Purevjargal MGL 7 Celine Lebrun FRA7 Heide Wollert GER 7 Vera Moskalyuk RUS

1 Audrey Tcheumeo FRA 1 Mayra Aguiar BRA2 Akari Ogata JPN 2 Kayla Harrison USA3 Kayla Harrison USA 3 Akari Ogata JPN3 Mayra Aguiar BRA 3 Audrey Tcheumeo FRA5 Marhinde Verkerk NED 5 Lucie Louette FRA5 Heide Wollert GER 5 Stephanie Possamai FRA7 Abigel Joo HUN 5 Marhinde Verkerk NED7 Hitomi Ikeda JPN 5 Lulse Malzahn GER

Points1 Mayra Aguiar BRA 1,6742 Kayla Harrison USA 1,6603 Audrey Tcheumeo FRA 1,4684 Akari Ogata JPN 1,3705 Yang Xiuli CHN 10906 Lkhamdegd Purevjargal MGL 10307 Abigel Joo HUN 9708 Amy Cotton CAN 7629 Heide Wollert GER 706

10 Marhinde Verkerk NED 65011 Anamari Velensek SLO 60612 Jeong Gyeing-Mi KOR 594


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Women's +78kg

1 Tong Wen CHN 1 Mika Sugimoto JPN2 Maki Tsukada JPN 2 Qin Qian CHN3 Luclja Polavder SLO 3 Maki Tsukada JPN3 Idalys Ortiz CUB 3 Idalys Ortiz CUB5 Kim Na-Young KOR 5 Liu Huanyuan CHN5 Tserenkhand Dorjgotov MGL 5 Kim Na-Young KOR7 Samah Ramadan EGY 7 Urszula Sadkowska POL7 Anne Sophie Mondiere FRA 7 Tserenkhand Dorjgotov MGL

1 Tong Wen CHN 1 Megumi Tachimoto JPN2 Qin Qian CHN 2 Elena Ivashchenko RUS3 Mika Sugimoto JPN 3 Idalys Ortiz CUB3 Elena Ivashchenko RUS 3 Anne Sophie Mondiere FRA5 Megumi Tachimoto JPN 5 Karina Bryant GBR5 Idalys Ortiz CUB 5 Iryna Kindzerska UKR7 Lucija Poalvder SLO 7 Sarah Adlington GBR7 Karina Bryant GBR 7 Urszula Sadkowska POL

Points3 Wen Tong CHN 1,1404 Mika Sugimoto JPN 1,1305 Elena Ivashchenko RUS 1,0406 Idalys Ortiz CUB 9407 Lucija Polavder SLO 8848 Maria Suelen Altheman BRA 8389 Kim Na-Young KOR 816

10 Vanessa Zambotti MEX 68211 Anne-Sophie Mondiere FRA 60412 Melissa Mojica PUR 52413 Gulzhan Issanova KAZ 51814 Karina Bryant GBR 502


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Modern Pentathlon

Men's Modern Pentathlon

Shooting /36 Fencing Swimming Equestrian Running Points1 Andrey Moiseyev RUS 5th 1st 6th 15th 26th 56322 Edvinas Krungolcas LTU 7th 6th 23rd 4th 24th 55483 Andrejus Zadneprovskis LTU 16th 27th 5th 2nd 9th 55244 Qian Zhenhua CHN 2nd 2nd 22nd 19th 33rd 55165 Steffen Gebhardt GER 13th 17th 19th 5th 17th 54806 Michal Michalik CZE 3rd 23rd 24th 1st 25th 54607 Pavlo Tymoshchenko UKR 8th 4th 28th 17th 23rd 54368 Oscar Soto MEX 32nd 7th 30th 3rd 7th 5420

Fencing /36 Swimming Equestrian Combined Points1 Andrei Moiseev RUS 1st 6th 4th 23rd 59642 Alexsander Lesun RUS 2nd 17th 8th 11th 59443 Adam Marosi HUN 15th 7th 1st 4th 59244 Ilia Frolov RUS 3rd= 19th 23rd 3rd 59085 Robert Kasza HUN 3rd= 8th 10th 28th 58206 Bence Demeter HUN 23rd= 9th 2nd 12th 58167 Hwang Woojin KOR 23rd= 4th 3rd 17th 58128 Thomas Daniel AUT 19th 29th 5th 7th 5808

2008 Olympics


The Modern Pentathlon has done a fine job of representing the Olympics in more ways than one. Dreamt up by the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Baron de Coubertin, it was meant to display the skills of the ideal cavalry officer of the time – shooting, swimming, fencing, riding and running. It fitted in perfectly with the model of amateur sport that de Coubertin admired so much in British sporting life and which inspired him to create an international amateur sporting event. The ‘amateur’ status of the Games was meant to restrict the competition to the educated classes, and an event for officers was meant to be a crowning piece of the Games.

When the sport debuted in 1912 the first American competitor was the future General, George S. Patten. In Patten’s Olympic experience we see what was to be a large part of the future Olympic experience – drugs and

cheating. Having attempted to stick to a diet of steak, eggs and salad, Patten unsurprisingly started to fall short on energy in the final event – the run. His solution: a syringe full of opium injected into his legs to dull the pain

and allow him to finish the event in 5th position. As sporting pharmiculture, improved the unique demands a pentathlon spread over 5 days meant athletes could select a different drug for each event. When drug testing

was introduced in 1968 it was a modern pentathlete who had the honour of being the first Olympian to be thrown out for drug use - Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall from Sweden had attempted to dull his heart rate with beer before the

shooting event. Four years later 14 athletes tested positive for taking tranquilisers, although in typical Olympic fashion it was discovered that these had been missed off the banned list and so the athletes were allowed to

compete. Farce continued in 1976 when Olympic champion Boris Onishchenko was discovered to have rigged his fencing sword so he could artificially trigger hits.

The switch to holding all events in one day eventually did away with the use of designer drugs, but by now the writing was on the wall for modern pentathlon. The Olympics had embraced commercialism and the expense and inconvenience to spectators having to move around 4 or 5 separate arenas means that the modern pentathlon is a perennial favourite to be dropped from the programme. Although attempts have been made to make it more spectator friendly – for this Olympics the run and shoot will be combined, as in a biathlon – the pressure from more commercially attractive sports will surely confine the modern pentathlon to history before long.

In London the men’s event looks likely to be a shoot-out, if you’ll excuse the pun, between 2008 Olympicchampion Andrei Moiseev and 2012 world champion Alexander Lesun. Great Britain’s Nick Woodbridge

and James Cook should do well but are unlikely to finish in the top 5. The women competition looks likely to beclose but the home crowd, on the last day of the Olympics, will be praying for a repeat of the World

Championships in May when the Scottish duo of Mhairi Spence and Sam Murray took home a gold and a bronze respectively.

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Fencing /36 Swimming Equestrian Combined Points1 Alexander Lesun RUS 1st= 18th 22nd 8th 59642 Andrei Moiseev RUS 1st= 13th 3rd 18th 59443 Jung Jin-wa KOR 6th 5th 2nd 12th 59284 Stefan Kollner GER 11th 31st 10th 2nd 59165 Nicola Benedetti ITA 4th 35th 8th 3rd 59126 Adam Marosi HUN 20th 7th 7th 5th 58887 Riccardo De Luca ITA 15th 29th 26th 1st 58768 Ilia Frolov RUS 8th 20th 29th 4th 5872

Points1 Alexander Lesun RUS 2302 Andrei Moiseev RUS 2153 Adam Marosi HUN 1904 Robert Kasza HUN 1835 Ilia Frolov RUS 1826 Nicola Benedetti ITA 1817 Jung Jin-wa KOR 1718 Nicholas Woodbridge GBR 1669 Pavlo Tymoshchenko UKR 164

10 Serguei Karyakin RUS 16211 Bence Demeter HUN 16212 Riccardo De Luca ITA 155

Women's Modern Pentathlon

Shooting /36 Fencing Swimming Equestrian Running Points1 Lena Schoeneborn GER 19th 1st 10th 11th 9th 57922 Heather Fell GBR 6th 11th 3rd 22nd 5th 57523 Victoria Tereschuk UKR 15th 7th 5th 18th 2nd 56724 Anastasia Samusevich BLR 2nd 14th 33rd 9th 1st 56405 Chen Qian CHN 20th 13th 15th 13th 8th 56126 Paulina Poenisz POL 9th 9th 27th 30th 6th 55647 Katy Livingston GBR 16th 20th 7th 7th 10th 55488 Aya Medany EGY 7th 5th 8th 24th 11th 5544

Fencing /36 Swimming Equestrian Combined Points1 Victoria Tereschuk UKR 18th 7th 13th 1st 55442 Sarolta Kovacs HUN 5th 2nd 2nd 18th 55123 Laura Asadauskaite LTU 9th 22nd 26th 2nd 55044 Evdokia Gretchichnikova RUS 1st 27th 4th 15th 54525 Lena Schoeneborn GER 5th= 17th 8th 10th 54286 Elodie Clouvel FRA 5th= 1st 18th 33rd 54047 Yane Marques BRA 11th 6th 12th 26th 53648 Mhairi Spence GBR 4th 8th 26th 29th 5344

Fencing /36 Swimming Equestrian Combined Points1 Mhairi Spence GBR 3rd 12th 4th 11th 54842 Chen Qian CHN 14th= 9th 8th 2nd 54603 Sam Murray GBR 14th= 2nd 14th 8th 54524 Amelie Caze FRA 1st 7th 15th 29th 54485 Lena Schoeneborn GER 5th 20th 11th 3rd 54406 Yane Marques BRA 8th= 6th 6th 15th 53967 Anastasiya Prokopenko BLR 8th= 32nd 19th 1st 53848 Chloe Esposito AUS 27th 4th 5th 6th 5368

Points1 Lena Schoeneborn GER 2062 Mhairi Spence GBR 1993 Laura Asadauskaite LTU 1964 Victoria Tereschuk UKR 1955 Elodie Clouvel FRA 1906 Amelie Caze FRA 1747 Saroite Kovacs HUN 1718 Sam Murray GBR 1699 Anastasiya Prokopenko BLR 169

10 Yane Marques BRA 16411 Chen Qian CHN 16112 Eva Trautmann GER 158


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Rowing

Men's Single Sculls

Norway Czech RepublicOlaf Tufte Ondrej SynekCzech Republic New ZealandOndrej Synek Mahe DrysdaleNew Zealand Great BritainMahe Drysdale Alan CampbellBelgium NorwayTim Maeyens Olaf TufteGreat Britain ChinaAlan Campbell Zhang LiangSweden SloveniaLassi Karonen Luka Spik

Sometimes success can become a burden for a national squad. 10 years ago, buoyed by the prodigiously successful Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pincent, UK Sport identified Rowing as a hotbed for British talent and Olympic medals. Two golds, two silvers and two bronzes at the Beijing Olympics prompted UK Sport to make rowing the most heavily funded sport coming into London 2012. This funding initially seemed to work: at the World Championships in 2009, GB brought home 1 gold, 5 silvers and 1 bronze; in 2010 the tally was 4 golds, 4 silvers and 1 bronze; and in 2011, 5 golds, 3 silvers and 4 bronzes. At this point Jurgen Grobler, GB’s head rowing coach, could have been forgiven for giving himself a pat on the back and expectation was that GB would at least match their World Championship tally on home water. Sadly the 2012 season has not proved so easy. Performances have deteriorated as the season has gone on with Australia and New Zealand in particular stepping up with revitalised squads. Against a weak field missing several Olympic favourites, GB picked up just 3 golds, 1 silver and 4 bronzes at the final World Cup regatta before the Olympics in Munich. This is still a very creditable tally, on a par with the performance in Beijing, but after so much investment of time, money and effort the squad doubtless hoped for more. The reality is that, unless the GB boats have been keeping a lot in reserve, there will be an awful lot of British world champions leaving their home Games very disappointed.

The brightest spots in British rowing resides on the women’s side. No British female rower has ever won an Olympic gold medal. In Beijing the quad scull were World Champions and unbeaten in two years, but a young Chinese boat rowed past in the final to agonisingly leave the Brits with

silver. For one of the women in that boat, Katherine Grainger, it was her third successive silver medal. After taking some time off rowing she has come back desperate to claim gold. Now paired up with Anna Watkins in the double scull, she is again unbeaten in two years and this time it

looks like there is no boat fast enough to prevent her winning a well-earned gold. Our women also boast what is probably our strongest bet for gold at these entire Games in the coxless pair. Helen Glover and Heather Stanning have improved dramatically over the past few years; the Cornwall

PE teacher and Royal Artillery captain had to settle for silver at the past two World Championships behind the New Zealanders, but have won with ease at every race this season. Bet your house on them.

Away from Britain the USA’s women’s eight are unbeaten in major championships since 2005. Though the Canadian’s came within 3 hundredths of a second of beating them in Lucerne, USA will anticipate another gold medal. Elsewhere the Ukrainian women's quad scull have been stand-out this season and should win gold. The British lightweight double scull, quad scull and eight will all be targeting a medal but must improve on the season’s form to date. Finally, arguably the two best rowers in the world will go for New Zealand in the men's coxless pair this summer. Eric Murray and Hamish Bond have been a phenomenon for the past 3 years. GB’s best rowers Reed and Triggs-Hodge tried and failed to beat them for two straight seasons prompting them to retire to the four. Murray and Bond’s final should be one of the most comfortable victories of the Games.

Three British men’s boats have epitomised the concern in form coming into these Olympics. The British men’s coxless four boat has been our flagship crew since Redgrave won his 5th gold in Sydney. We have taken both Olympic titles since and the decision to switch Peter Reed and

Andrew Triggs-Hodge from the pair back into the four alongside Tom James and Alex Gregory was made purely to guarantee the Olympic title. All looked well in the first two races of the season, but in Munich an outstanding Australian boat (Lockwood, Chapman, Ginn and Dinkley-Smith)

beat the British twice in succession and will now go into London as favourites.

The second boat of concern is the lightweight double scull featuring 2008 Olympic gold medallists Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter. After the Beijing Olympics they both took some time off rowing but came back strong to win the 2010 and 2011 World Championships despite injury and sickness issues. In the first regatta of the 2012 season they again looked strong but, following a small bout of sickness, were abysmal in Lucerne and Munich, finishing last in both finals. Though they have shown in the past that they are capable of recapturing form in a short time, it will be hard to find the 10 seconds needed to catch the French or Kiwis.

The one British men's boat that has looked to buck the drop in form in 2012 has been the men’s lightweight four featuring brothers Peter and Richard Chambers, Rob Williams and Chris Bartley. They are in a competitive division but, having followed a bronze in last year’s World Championships with a 2nd, 3rd and then strong 1st in 2012, their confidence is rising and they will start as very narrow favourites in London. The enigmatic Northern Irish single sculler Alan Campbell has dedicated the past eight years to winning a medal at these Olympics. Though he will struggle against Ondrej Synek (CZE) and Mahe Drysdale (NZL) he will expect at least a bronze.

The men’s eight also had great things expected of them in 2012. The introduction of Oxford student Constantin Loudiadis as stoke alongside 1988 gold medallist Greg Searle brought personality into an already strong team. Sadly here, again, injury has worked against them. A lower back

injury for Loudiadis has kept him out of racing and prompted numerous personnel changes that have unsettled the boat. If they can post a full strength team this summer then they stand a chance, but Germany are unbeaten since last season and the USA always focus on the eight in the

Olympics and are confident of gold.


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New Zealand Czech RepublicMahe Drysdale Ondrej SynekCzech Republic Great BritainOndrej Synek Alan CampbellGreat Britain CubaAlan Campbell Angel Fournier RodriguezGermany ChinaMarcel Hacker Zhang LiangSweden AzebaijanLassi Karonen Aleksandar AleksandrovNorway LithuaniaOlaf Tufte Mindaugas Griskonis

Czech Republic GermanyOndrej Synek Marcel HackerNew Zealand SwedenMahe Drysdale Lassi KaronenCuba Great BritainAngel Fournier Rodriguez Alan CampbellGreat Britain Great BritainAlan Campbell Graeme ThomasGermany MexicoMarcel Hacker Patrick Loliger SalasChina NorwayZhang Liang Olaf Tufte

Men's Coxless Pair

Australia New ZealandDrew Gunn, Duncan Free Eric Murray, Hamish BondCanada Great BritainDave Calder, Scott Frandsen Peter Reed, Andrew Triggs-HodgeNew Zealand Greece

Nathan Tweddle, George Bridgewater Georgios Tziallas, Ioannis Christou

Germany ItalyTom Lehmann, Felix Drahotta Lorenzo Carboncini, Niccolo MorinatiSouth Africa GermanyShaun Keeling, Ramon di Clemente Andreas Kuffner, Eric JohannesenUSA FranceTyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss Sebastien Lente, Adrien Hardy

New Zealand GermanyEric Murray, Hamish Bond Anton Braun, Felix DrahottaGreat Britain Great BritainPeter Reed, Andrew Triggs-Hodge George Nash, Willian SatchItaly GreeceNiccolo Morinati, Lorenzo Carboncini N Gkountoulas, A GkountoulasGreece NetherlandsN Gkountoulas, A Gkountoulas Nanne Sluis, Meindert KlemCanada Czech RepublicScott Frandsen, Dave Calder Jan Gruber, Jakub MakovickaGermany SerbiaMax Munski, Felix Drahotta Nenad Bedik, Jovan Popovic

New Zealand New ZealandEric Murray, Hamish Bond Eric Murray, Hamish BondCanada AustraliaScott Frandsen, Dave Calder James Margurg, Brodie BucklandGreece FranceN Gkountoulas, A Gkountoulas Germain Chardin, Dorian MorteletteGermany ItalyAnton Braun, Felix Drahotta Niccolo Mornati, Lorenzo CarbonciniGreat Britain SpainGeorge Nash, Willian Satch P. Vela Maggi, A. Sigurbjonsson BenetItaly SerbiaNiccolo Morinati, Lorenzo Carboncini Nenad Bedik, Nikola Stojic

2011 World Championships 2012 World Cup Belgrade

2012 World Cup Lucerne 2012 World Cup Munich


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Men's Double Sculls

Australia New ZealandDavid Crawshay, Scott Brennan Nathen Cohen, Joseph SullivanEstonia Great BritainTonu Endrekson, Juri Jaanson Matthew Wells, Marcus BatemanGreat Britain FranceMatthew Wells, Stephen Rowbotham Cedric Berrest, Julien BahainNew Zealand NorwayRob Waddell, Nathen Cohen Nils Jacob Hoff, Kjetil BorchFrance AustraliaJean-Baptiste Macquet, Adrien Hardy Nick Hudsen, Jared BidwellSlovenia GermanyLuka Spik, Iztok Cop Eric Knittel, Stephan Krueger

New Zealand GermanyNathan Cohen, Joseph Sullivan Eric Knittel, Stephan KruegerGermany Great BritainHans Gruhne, Stephan Krueger Bill Lucas, Sam TownsendFrance SloveniaCedric Berrest, Julien Bahain Luka Spik, Iztok CopAustralia FranceDavid Crawshay, Scott Brennan Cedric Berrest, Julien BahainSlovenia GermanyIztok Cop, Luka Spik Hans Gruhne, Mathias RocherGreat Britain ItalyMatthew Wells, Marcus Bateman Alessio Sartori, Romano Battisti

Germany NorwayEric Knittel, Stephan Krueger Nils Jakob Hoff, Kjetil BorchAustralia New ZealandDavid Crawshay, Scott Brennan Nathan Cohen, Joseph SullivanFrance GermanyCedric Berrest, Julien Bahain Eric Knittel, Stephan KreugerSlovenia Great BritainLuka Spik, Iztok Cop Bill Lucas, Sam TownsendLithuania FranceSaulius Ritter, Rolandas Mascinskas Cedric Berrest, Julien BahainGreat Britain ArgentinaBill Lucas, Sam Townsend Ariel Suarez, Cristian Rosso

Men's Lwt Double Sculls

Great Britain Great BritainZac Purchase, Mark Hunter Zac Purchase, Mark HunterGreece ItalyDimitrios Mougios, Vasileios Polymeros Lorenzo Bertini, Elia LuiniDenmark New ZealandMads Rasmussen, Rasmus Quist Storm Uru, Peter TaylorItaly CanadaMarcello Miani, Elia Luini Douglas Vandor, Cameron SylvesterChina ChinaZhang Guolin, Sun Jie Zhang Fangbing, Wang TiexinCuba PortugalEyder Batista, Yunior Perez Pedro Fraga, Nuno Mendes

Great Britain Great BritainZac Purchase, Mark Hunter Zac Purchase, Mark HunterNew Zealand GreeceStorm Uru, Peter Taylor P Magdanis, E KonsolasItaly ItalyLorenzo Bertini, Elia Luini Lorenzo Bertini, Elia LuiniGermany DenmarkLinus Lichtschlag, Lars Hartig Mads Rasmussen, Rasmus QuistDenmark HungaryMads Rasmussen, Rasmus Quist Zsolt Hirling, Tamas VargaChina NorwayZhang Fangbing, Wang Tiexin Are Strandli, Kristoffer Brun



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France New ZealandStany Delayre, Jeremie Azou Storm Uru, Peter TaylorNew Zealand FranceStorm Uru, Peter Taylor Stany Delayre, Jeremie AzouDenmark DenmarkMads Rasmussen, Rasmus Quist Mads Rasmussen, Rasmus QuistCanada ItalyDouglas Vandor, Morgan Jarvis Lorenzo Bertini, Elia LuiniGermany HungaryLinus Lichtschlag, Lars Hartig Zsolt Hirling, Tamas VargaGreat Britain Great BritainZac Purchase, Mark Hunter Zac Purchase, Mark Hunter

Men's Coxless Four

Great Britain FranceJames, Williams, Reed, Triggs-Hodge Macquet, Chardin, Despres, MorteletteAustralia GreeceRyan, Marburg, McKenzie, Hegerty Papachristos, Tsilis, G'toulas, G'toulasFrance New ZealandDespres, Rondeau, Chardin, Mortelette Uru, Watson, Burson, EadeSlovenia Great BritainT. Pirih, Rozman, Kolander, M. Pirih Partridge, Egington, Gregory, LangridgeCzech Republic USAGruber, Horvath, Bruncvik, Neffe Lanzone, Rummel, Stitt, StaffordGermnay ItalyUrban, Schmidt, Kaeufer, Hauffe Paonessa, Fossi, Capelli, Palmisano

Great Britain Great BritainLangridge, Egington, James, Gregory Gregory, Reed, James, Triggs-HodgeGreece GreecePapachristos, Tsilis, Tziallas, Christou Papachristos, Tsilis, Tziallas, ChristouAustralia BelarusLoch, Gunn, Purnell, Dunkey-Smith Lialin, Mihal, S'bachenia, KazubouskiUSA Czech RepublicLanzone, Newlin, Gault, Cole Horvath, Podrazil, Bruncvik, KlangGermany NetherlandsKaeufer, Adamski, Seifert, Schmidt Meylink, Hendriks, Knab, VersluisNetherlands FranceKlem, Knab, Hendriks, Klaassen Moinaux, Macquet, Rondeau, Despres

Great Britain AustraliaGregory, Reed, James, Triggs-Hodge Lockwood, Chapman, Ginn, Dunkley-Smith

Australia Great BritainLockwood, Chapman, Ginn, Dunkley-Smith Gregory, Reed, James, Triggs-HodgeGreece BelarusPapachristos, Tsilis, Tziallas, Christou Lialin, Mihal, S'bachenia, KazubouskiBelarus SerbiaLialin, Mihal, S'bachenia, Kazubouski Vasic, Deric, Vukovic, JagarGermany Czech RepublicHauffe, Seifert, Kaeufer, Schmidt Horvath, Podrazil, Bruncvik, KlangNew Zealand RomaniaUru, Williams, Harris, O'Neill Cozmiuc, Palamariu, Pirghie, Curuea



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5 6:18.95

3 5:58.44

5 5:58.30

120


Rowing

Men's Quad Sculls

Poland CroatiaWasielewski, Kolbowicz, Jelinski, Korol Sain, Sinkovic, Martin, SinkovichItaly ItalyAgamennoni, Venier, Galtarossa, Raineri Agamennoni, Venier, Stefanini, RaineriFrance AustraliaCoeffic, Peltier, Bahain, Berrest Forsterling, Crawshay, McRae, NoonanAustralia GermanyMorgan, McRae, Long, Noonan Gruhne, Grohmann, Schoof, RocherUSA Great Britain

Hughes, Stitt, Schroeder, Gault Cousins, Townsend, Lucas, RowbothamGermany RussiaKruger, Bertram, Gruhne, Schreiber Morgachev, Salov, Kosov, Fedorovstev

Australia CroatiaMorgan, McRae, Forsterling, Noonan Sain, Sinkovic, Martin, SinkovichGermany GermanySchulze, Wende, Schoof, Grohmann Schulze, Wende, Schoof, GrohmannCroatia EstoniaSain, Sinkovic, Martin, Sinkovich Jamsa, Raja, Endrekson, TaimsooPoland FranceWasielewski, Kolbowicz, Jelinski, Licznerski Chabanet, Androdias, Stefanini, Galtarossa

Russia ItalyRyabcev, Salov, Morgachev, Fedorovtsev Venier, Fossi, Stefanini, GaltarossaItaly RussiaPerino, Venier, Stefanini, Galtarossa Ryabcev, Salov, Svirin, Morgachev

Croatia CroatiaSain, Sinkovic, Martin, Sinkovich Sain, Sinkovic, Martin, SinkovichGermany GermanySchulze, Wende, Schoof, Grohmann Schulze, Wende, Schoof, GrohmannRussia ItalyRyabcev, Svirin, Morgachev, Fedorovtsev Stefanini, Fossi, Frattini, RaineriEstonia Great BritainJamsa, Raja, Endrekson, Taimsoo Rowbotham, Solesbury, Cousins, WellsNew Zealand AustraliaStorey, Arms, Endrekson, Manson Morgan, McRae, Forsterling, NoonanPoland EstoniaWasielewski, Korol, Jelinski, Kolbowicz Jamsa, Raja, Endrekson, Taimsoo

Men's Lwt Coxless Four

Denmark Great BritainEbert, Joergensen, Ebbesen, Anderson Chambers, Mattick, Williams, BartleyPoland AustraliaPawlowski, Pawelczak, Bernatajtys, Randa Edwards, Beltz, Tunevitsch, SkipworthCanada ChinaBrambell, Beare, Lewis, Parsons Li, Yu, Huang, LiFrance GermanySolforosi, Raineau, Bette, Tilliet Seibt, Schoemann-Finck, Kuenher, Kuenher

Great Britain Netherlands

Chambers, Lindsay-Fynn, Mattick, Clarke Heijbrock, Lievens, Muda, Muda

Netherlands Italyvan der Linden, Godschalk, Snijders, Drewes Vlcek, Danesin, Caianiello, Gorletti

Australia DenmarkEdwards, Beltz, Cureton, Skipworth Winther, Joergensen, Barsoe, EbbesenItaly Great BritainDanesin, Caianiello, Miani, Goretti Chambers, Williams, Chambers, Bartley

Great Britain ChinaChambers, Bartley, Mattick, Williams Yu, Huang, Zhang, WangChina NetherlandsHuang, Yu, Li, Zhang Lievens, Heijbrock, Muda, MudaDenmark FranceBarsoe, Joergensen, Winther, Ebbesen Moreau, Solforosi, Moutton, BaroukhSwitzerland GermanySchuerch, Tramer, Niepmann, Gyr Seibt, Kuehner, Kuehner, Wichert

4 5:45.34

5 5:49.47





5 5:47.64

6 5:50.96

3 5:44.34

1 5:41.33

2 5:57.00

1 6:15.78

2 6:17.04

3 6:18.93

6 6:34.90

4 5:44.68

5 5:58.18

4 5:45.05

1 5:46.73

2 5:47.77

5 5:49.35

6 5:50.98

1 5:56.22

2 5:58.85

3 6:00.28

6 5:54.06

1 5:47.76

2 5:49.39

3 5:50.09

4 5:58.02

1 5:39.31

2 5:39.56

3 5:42.82

4 6:19.53

5 6:26.23

6 6:01.70


3 5:57.33

4 6:11.27

5 6:11.94

6 6:15.02

1 6:10.71

2 6:10.78

3 6:10.79

3 5:50.82

4 5:55.09

5 5:59.04

4 6:01.06

6 5:53.28

2 6:02.23

1 5:55.10

4 5:51.22

5 5:52.12

1 5:42.42

2 5:43.22

3 5:44.61

5 6:01.24

6 6:03.68

1 6:01.17

2 5:56.33

3 6:03.51

4 6:04.69

5 6:05.72

6 6:07.816 6:04.65

121


Rowing

China Great BritainYu, Huang, Zhang, Wang Chambers, Williams, Chambers, Bartley

South Africa AustraliaThompson, Brittain, Smith, Ndlovu Edwards, Beltz, Cureton, SkipworthGreat Britain DenmarkMattick, Williams, Chambers, Bartley Winther, Joergensen, Barsoe, EbbesenDenmark FranceWinther, Joergensen, Barsoe, Ebbesen Moreau, Solforosi, Baroukh, MouttonFrance SwitzerlandMoreau, Solforosi, Baroukh, Moutton Schuerch, Gmelin, Niepmann, GyrSwitzerland Czech RepublicGmelin, Schuerch, Niepmann, Gyr Vetesnik, Vetesnik, Kopac, Vrastil

Men's Eight

Canada Germany

Light, Rutledge, Byrnes, Wetzel, Howard, Seiterle, Kreek, Hamilton, Price

Hauffe, Reinelt, Wilke, Mennigen, Schmidt, Mueller, Seifert, Schmidt, Sauer

Great Britain Great Britain

Partridge, Stallard, Lucy, Egington, West, Heathcote, Langridge, Smith, Nethercott

Broadway, Clarke, Nichol, Foad, Sbihi, Searle, Ransley, Ritchie, Hill

USA Australia

Hoopman, Schnobrich, Boyd, Allen, Walsh, Coppola, Inman, Volpenheim, McElhenny

Lockwood, Ryan, Hegerty, McKenzie-McHarg, Marburg, Loch, Purnell, Dunkell-Smith, Lister

Netherlands Netherlands

Siegelaar, Brink, Klem, Klaassen, Huiper, Steenman, van Andel, Simon, Wiersum

Van der Want, Blink, Hendriks, Klaassen, Hamburger, Klem, Siegelaar, Simon Wiersum

Poland New ZealandKosiorek, Stawowski, P. Brzezinski, Kruszkowski, Hejmej, M. Brzezinski, Gutorski, Burda, Trojanowski

Tripp, Williams, Seymour, Wehr-Candler, Arms, O'Neill, Hammond, Pavich

Australia USADennis, Loch, Chapman, Laurich, Stevenson, Tomkins, Conrad, Stewart, Rabjohns

Banks, Murphey, Walsh, Newlin, Cornelius, Cole, Read, Paszek, Del Guercio

Germany Germany

Hauffe, Kuffner, Johannesen, Reinelt, Schmidt, Mueller, Mennigen, Wilke, Sauer

Adamski, Kuffner, Johannesen, Reinelt, Schmidt, Mueller, Mennigen, Wilke, Sauer


Reilly-O'Donnel, Nichol, Foad, Partridge, Sbihi, Searle, Ransley, Ritchie, Hill

Reilly-O'Donnel, Partridge, Egington, Ransley, Searle, Sbihi, Foad, Langridge, Hill

Canada Netherlands

Bergen, Byrnes, Brown, Csima, Howard, McCabe, Gibson, Crothers, Price

Simon, Blink, Vellenga, Braas, Hamburger, Klaassen, Siegelaar, Steenman, Wiersum

Australia Poland

Linke, Marburg, Booth, Hegerty, Swann, Coudraye, Ryan, Pragnell, Lister

Brzezinski, Juszczak, Zablocki, Hejmej, Radosz, Hojka, Aranowski, Szpakowski, Trojanowski

Poland UkraineBrzezinski, Hejmej, Radosz, Hojka, Burda, Juszczak, Aranowski, Szpakowski, Trojanowski

Kholyaznykov, Grebennykov, Tymko, Moroz, Pryveda, Kletskoy, Lykov, Chykanov, Konovaliuk

Netherlands FranceKuiper, Vellenga, Hamburger, Meylink, Braas, Luecken, Siegelaar, Simon, Wiersum

Demey, Lang, Molina, D'Agata, Mathis, Chopy, Lente, Brunet, Manceau




5

5:35.10

1 5:23.89

2 5:25.11

3 5:25.34

6 5:35.37

5:31.42

6

1 5:28.81

3 5:31.18

4 5:55.40

4 5:34.104 5:31.59

5 5:38.46

6 5:40.55

5 5:59.61

6 6:05.51

1 5:53.10

6 6:23.55

1 6:16.34

2 6:18.81

3 6:19.49

4 6:19.97

5 6:20.42

2 5:53.71

3 5:54.96

1 5:33.84

2 5:34.46

3 5:35.96

4 5:29.26

5 5:36.61

6 5:39.54

1 5:26.78

2 5:29.93

3 5:30.21

5 5:32.16

2 5:30.83

4 5:37.03

122


Rowing

Germany Poland

Adamski, Kuffner, Johannesen, Reinelt, Schmidt, Mueller, Mennigen, Wilke, Sauer

Brzezinski, Juszczak, Burda, Hojka, Schodowski, Szpakowski, Aranowski, Hejmej, Trojanowski

Great Britain Australia

Searle, Partridge, Bateman, Ransley, Sbihi, Egington, Langridge, Foad, Hill

Loch, Hegerty, McKenzie-McHarg, Booth, Swann, Purnell, Ryan, Coudraye, Lister

Canada Great BritainBergen, Csima, Gibson, McCabe, Howard, Byrnes, Brown, Crothers, Price

Searle, Partridge, Bateman, Sbihi, Ransley, Egington, Langridge, Foad, Hill

Netherlands Ukraine

Simon, Blink, Vellenga, Braas, Hamburger, Klaassen, Siegelaar, Steenman, Wiersum

Grebennykov, Kholyaznykov, Moroz, Tymko, Pryveda, Kletskoy, Lykov, Chykanov, Konovaliuk

PolandBrzezinski, Juszczak, Zablocki, Hojka, Schodowski, Szpakowski, Aranowski, Hejmej, TrojanowskiAustralia

Loch, Booth, McKenzie-McHarg, Coudraye, Swann, Purnell, Ryan, Hegerty, Lister

Women's Single Sculls

Bulgaria SwedenRumyana Neykova Frida SvenssonUSA BelarusMichelle Guerette Ekaterina KarstenBelarus New ZealandEkaterina Karsten Emma TwiggChina Czech RepublicZhang Xiuyun Mirka KnapkovaCzech Republic RussiaMiroslava Knapkova Julia LevinaPoland SerbiaJulia Michalska Iva Obradovic

Czech Republic ChinaMirka Knapkova Zhang XiuyunBelarus Czech RepublicEkaterina Karsten Mirka KnapkovaNew Zealand AzebaijanEmma Twigg Nataliya MustafayevaChina SwedenZhang Xiuyun Frida SvenssonSweden IrelandFrida Svensson Sanita PuspureGermany SerbiaAnnekatrin Thiele Iva Obradovic

China BelarusZhang Xiuyun Ekaterina KarstenAustralia New ZealandKim Crow Emma TwiggCzech Republic LithuaniaMirka Knapkova Donata VistartaiteAzebaijan DenmarkNataliya Mustafayeva Fie Udby ErichsenNew Zealand AzebaijanEmma Twigg Nataliya MustafayevaRussia IrelandIlia Levina Sanita Puspure



4 5:31.45

6 5:34.42


2 7:28.68

5 5:31.58

4 7:25.48

5 7:35.52

1 7:22.34

2 7:22.78

3 7:23.98

4 7:33.63

5 7:33.64

6 7:35.44

1 7:26.64

3 5:29.62

2

3

3

6 7:44.88

1 5:40.03

2 5:41.40

1 5:27.47

2 5:28.64

5:42.99

4 5:51.89

1 7:24.15

4 7:56.38

5 8:02.41

6 8:04.60

1 7:47.61

2 7:47.79

3 7:49.64

7:58.60

4 8:02.80

1 7:25.49

2 7:26.42

3 7:26.91

4 7:27.28

3 7:30.68 3 7:29.71


4 7:30.77

5 7:45.97

6 DNS

7:27.55

6 7:43.44

5 7:40.79 5 8:09.03

6 8:14.05

1 7:52.74

2 7:56.22

123


Rowing

Women's Coxless Pair

Romania New ZealandGeorgeta Andrunache, Viorica Susana Juliette Haigh, Rebecca ScownChina Great BritainWu You, Gao Yulan Helen Glover, Heather StanningBelarus USAYuliya Bichyuk, Natallia Helakh Zsuzsanna Francia, Erin CafaroGermany AustraliaLenka Wech, Maren Derlien Sarah Tait, Pheobe StanleyNew Zealand CanadaJuliette Haigh, Nicola Coles Krista Guloeien, Andreanne MorinGreat Britain GermanyLouisa Reeve, Olivia Whitlam Kerstin Hartmann, Marlene Sinnig

New Zealand Great BritainJuliette Haigh, Rebecca Scown Helen Glover, Heather StanningGreat Britain USAHelen Glover, Heather Stanning Erin Cafaro, Eleanor LoganAustralia USASarah Tait, Kate Hornsey Caroline Lind, Taylor RitzelChina NetherlandsWu You, Gao Yulan Claudia Belderbos, Chantal AchterbergRomania GermanyCamelia Lupascu, Nicoleta Albu Kerstin Hartmann, Marlene SinnigSouth Africa RomaniaNaydene Smith, Lee-Ann Persse Adelina Cojocariu, Irina Dorneanu

Great Britain Great BritainHelen Glover, Heather Stanning Helen Glover, Heather StanningUSA New ZealandErin Cafaro, Eleanor Logan Juliette Haigh, Rebecca ScownNew Zealand RomaniaJuliette Haigh, Rebecca Scown Georgeta Andrunache, Viorica SusanuAustralia GermanySarah Tait, Kate Hornsey Kerstin Hartmann, Marlene SinnigArgentina CanadaMaria Laura Abalo, Gabriella Best Carolyn Ganes, Larissa LagzdinsSouth Africa ArgentinaMaria Laura Abalo, Lee-Ann Persse Maria Laura Abalo, Gabriella Best

Women's Double Sculls

New Zealand Great BritainG Evers-Swindell, C Evers-Swindell Anna Watkins, Katherine GraingerGermany AustraliaAnnekatrin Thiele, Christina Huth Kerry Hore, Kim CrowGreat Britain PolandElise Laverick, Anna Bebington Magdelena Fularczyk, Julia MichalskaChina Czech RepublicLi Qin, Tian Liang Jitka Antosova, Lenka AntosovaUSA USAMegan Kalmoe, Ellen Tomek Stesha Carle, Kathleen BertkoCzech Republic GermanyMiroslava Knapkova, Gabriela Varekova Annekatrin Thiele, Stephanie Schiller

Great Britain Great BritainAnna Watkins, Katherine Grainger Anna Watkins, Katherine GraingerAustralia GermanyKerry Hore, Kim Crow Annekatrin Thiele, Britta OppeltNew Zealand Czech RepublicFiona Paterson, Anna Reymer Lenka Antosova, Jitka AntosovaUkraine ChinaAn'sia Kozhenkova, Yana Dementieva Wang Min, Zhu WeiweiPoland ChinaMagdelena Fularczyk, Julia Michalska Jiang Yan, Li RongCzech Republic NetherlandsJitka Antosova, Lenka Antosova Inge Janssen, Elisabeth Hogerwerf






2 7:20.24

3 7:22.46

4 7:25.73

5 7:28.80

6 7:33.61

1 7:04.70

2 7:10.08

1 7:20.60

2 7:22.28

3 7:22.91

1

1 6:50.35

2 6:51.03

3 7:14.40

4 7:15.85

5 7:17.53

6 7:25.09

1 7:07.32

2 7:07.33

3 7:07.55

4 6:49.64

5 6:54.22

3 6:53.90

4 7:01.22

5 7:04.93

6 7:04.06

1 6:44.73

2 6:45.98

3 6:46.74

4 7:15.04

5 7:16.99

6 7:21.60

6 7:07.13

4 7:22.58

5 7:22.97

6 7:28.69

3 7:05.98

1 7:00.61

2 7:01.79

3 7:03.47

4 7:06.43

5 7:08.64

2 7:04.09

7:33.81

2 7:37.62

3 7:42.08

4 7:45.97

5 7:47.95

6 7:11.19

1 6:58.16

2 6:58.24

3 7:03.98

7:17.12

6 7:48.98

4 7:17.88

5 7:19.74

6 7:20.22

4 7:10.72

5 7:15.14

6 7:17.72

1 7:02.14 1

124


Rowing

Great Britain Great BritainAnna Watkins, Katherine Grainger Anna Watkins, Katherine GraingerPoland AustraliaMagdelena Fularczyk, Julia Michalska Kim Crow, Brooke PratleyGermany PolandAnnekatrin Thiele, Britta Oppelt Magdelena Fularczyk, Julia MichalskaCzech Republic New ZealandLenka Antosova, Jitka Antosova Genevieve Armstrong, Zoe StevensonNew Zealand New ZealandFiona Paterson, Anna Reymer Fiona Paterson, Anna ReymerChina UkraineJiang Yan, Li Rong Anna Kravchenko, Olena Buryak

Women's Lwt Double Sculls

Netherlands CanadaKirsten van der Kolk, Marit van Eupen Lindsay Jennerich, Tracy CameronFinland GermanySanna Sten, Minna Mieminen Daniela Reimer, Anja NoskeCanada GreeceMelanie Kolk, Tarcy Cameron Christina Giazitzidou, Alexandra TsiavouGermany AustraliaBerit Carow, Marie-Louise Draeger Alice McNamara, Hannah Every-HallChina Great BritainXu Dongxiang, Chen Haixia Hester Goodsell, Sophie HoskingGreece New ZealandChrysi Biskitzi, Alexandra Tsiavou Lucy Strack, Julia Edward

Greece GreeceChristina Giazitzidou, Alexandra Tsiavou Christina Giazitzidou, Alexandra TsiavouCanada Great BritainLindsay Jennerich, Patricia Obee Sophie Hosking, Katherline CopelandGreat Britain ChinaHester Goodsell, Sophie Hosking Xu Dongxiang, Huang WenyiUSA DenmarkKristin Hedstrom, Julie Nichols A. Lolk Thomsen, Juliane RasmussenAustralia NetherlandsAlice McNamara, Hannah Every-Hall Rianne Sigmond, Maaiki HeadNew Zealand USALucy Strack,Louise Ayling Kristin Hedstrom, Julie Nichols

China New ZealandXu Dongxiang, Huang Wenyi Louise Ayling, Julia EdwardNew Zealand DenmarkLouise Ayling, Julia Edward A. Lolk Thomsen, Juliane RasmussenGreece GermanyChristina Giazitzidou, Alexandra Tsiavou Lena Mueller, Anja NoskeUSA Great BritainKristin Hedstrom, Julie Nichols Sophie Hosking, Katherline CopelandGreat Britain NetherlandsSophie Hosking, Katherline Copeland Rianne Sigmond, Maaiki HeadDenmark Great BritainA. Lolk Thomsen, Juliane Rasmussen Imogen Walsh, Andrea Dennis




6:55.42

4 6:56.92

1 6:54.74

2 6:56.03

3 7:06.72

6

4 7:04.93

5 7:05.70

1 6:52.52

2 6:55.00

3

7:00.76

1 7:04.14

6 7:32.23

6 7:06.77

2 7:04.39

3 7:04.79

4 7:07.45

5 7:07.54

6 7:08.01

3 6:56.01

4 6:57.82

3 7:04.33

5 6:58.99

1

2

3


5 7:00.45

6 7:03.34

1 7:09.90

2 7:11.92

3 7:19.07

5 8:13.90

6 8:15.69

8:06.20

8:07.33

8:09.14

2008 Olympics

4 7:19.60

4 6:56.72

5 7:01.90

6 7:04.61

5 7:25.75

6 7:31.73

1 6:55.04

2 6:55.51

1 6:59.80

2 7:03.46

4 8:11.17

1 7:22.88

2 7:24.31

3 7:24.46

4 7:25.30

5 7:30.89

125


Rowing

Women's Quad Sculls

China Great BritainTang, Xi, Jin, Zhang Flood, Rodford, Houghton, VernonGreat Britain UkraineVernon, Flood, Houghton, Grainger

Tarasenko, Buryak, Kozhenkova, Dementieva

Germany GermanyOppelt, Lutze, Boron, Schiller Oppelt, Baer, Manker, RichterUkraine AustraliaSpiryukhova, Olefirenko, Lyal'chuk, Kolesnikova

Hore, Pratley, Crow, Kehoe

USA USAPernell, Meyer, Kaido, Shumway Shumway, Trowbridge, Kalmow, DellAustralia New ZealandIves, Hore, Uphill, Bradley Gray, Bourke, Armstrong, Matthew

Germany UkraineRichter, Manker, Schiller, Oppelt Koz'kova, Dementieva, Buryak, Tarasenko

USA GermanyCarle, Dell, Martelli, Kalmoe Schmidla, Baer, Manker, SchillerNew Zealand Great BritainGray, Trappitt, Bourke, MacFarlane Rodford, Wilson, Houghton, ThornleyAustralia USAIves, Cook, Pratley, Kehoe Carle, Glessner, Kohler, BertkoChina PolandTang, Zhang, Tian, Jin Socko, Lesczynska, Lew'ska, MadajUkraine ChinaSpir'hova, Huba, Kol'ikova, Tarasenko Tang, Tian, Jin, Zhang

Ukraine UkraineTarasenko, Dovgodko, Koz'kova, Dem'tieva Tarasenko, Dovgodko, Koz'kova, Dem'tieva

Germany GermanyRichter, Baer, Manker, Schiller Richter, Baer, Thiele, OppeltUSA Great BritainCarle, Dell, Martelli, Bertko Wilson, Flood, Houghton, RodfordNew Zealand AustraliaArmstrong, Trappitt, Stevenson, MacFarlane Faletic, Hore, Frasca, ClayGreat Britain New ZealandRodford, Wilson, Houghton, Thornley Armstrong, Trappitt, Gray, MacFarlaneAustraliaClay, Frasca, Faletic, Hore

Women's Eight

USA USACafaro, Shoop, Goodale, Logan, Cummins, Francia, Lind, Davies, Whipple

Goodale, Polk, Redman, Ritzel, Lofgren, Logan, Musnicki, Glessner, Whipple

Netherlands CanadaDekker, Smulders, Kingma, Repelaer van Driel, van Rumpt, Tanger, Siegelaar, de Haan, Workel

Darling, Nurse, Hanson, De Jong, Guloien, Brzozowocz, Marquardt, Morin, Thompson-Willie

Romania Romania

Burcica, Susanu, Serban, Barabas, Musat, Papuc, Andrunache, Ignat, Georgescu

Cogianu, Zaharia, Bursuc, Craciun, Cojocariu, Albu, Lupascu, Mironcic, Stoica

Canada Great BritainMandoli, Morin, Bonikowsky, Brzozowicz, Stefancic, Williams, Marquardt, Rumball, Thompson-Willie

Cook, Reeve, Eddie, Maguire, Page, Thornley, Whitlam, Knowles, O'Connor

Great Britain Netherlands

Ashford, Rodford, Page, Howard, Eddie, Winckless, Knowles, Greves, O'Connor

Wielaard, Belderbos, Repelaer van Driel, De Groot, Achterberg, Kingma, Bouw, Dekker, Schellekens

Australia ChinaFrasca, Pratley, Kehoe, Bale, Kell, Hornsey, Tait, Heard, Patrick

Sun, Zhang, Lin, Li, Wang, Sun, Zhang, Han, Xu




4 6:20.02

5 6:25.86

6 6:30.05

1 6:16.06

2 6:17.37

3 6:19.56


4 6:08.04

5 6:13.74

6 6:14.22

1 6:05.34

2 6:07.22

3 6:07.25

4 6:24.49

5 6:25.58

6 6:27.65

1 6:18.37

2 6:19.90

3 6:23.33

1 6:20.37

2 6:22.90

3 6:25.23

4 6:31.94

4 7:19.81

5 7:20.82

6 7:30.76

1 7:12.78

2 7:14.95

3 7:15.26

5 6:23.73

6 6:25.67

1 6:33.08

2 6:37.15

5 6:32.74

6 6:35.85

1 6:15.37

2 6:19.40

3 6:21.45 3 6:37.57

4 6:38.67

5 6:48.73

4 6:20.84

5 6:20.85

6 6:31.86

1 6:12.42

2 6:16.12

3 6:18.96

4 6:22.71

126


Rowing

USA Netherlands

Lofgren, Francia, Musnicki, Ritzel, Redman, Polk, Lind, Logan, Whipple

Veenhoven, Rooijen, Achterberg, De Groot, van Driel, Belderbos, Bouw, de Haan, Schellekens

Canada RomaniaHanson, Viinberg, Mastracci, Nurse, Guloien, Brzozowicz, Marwuardt, Morin, Thompson-Willie

Cogianu, Boghian, Grigoras, Barascu, Serban, Rotaru, Lupascu, Mironcic, Gidoiu


Knowles, Cook, Eddie, Reeve, Page, Maguire, Solesbury, Thornley, O'Connor

Cook, Carnegie-Brown, Whitlam, Meyer-Laker, Eddie, Taylor, Greves, Maguire, O'Connor

Romania UkraineBursuc, Zaharia, Grigoras, Dorneanu, Cojocariu, Boghian, Cogianu, Mironcic, Gidoiu

Golub, Gutsalenko, Ryzhkova, Kolesnikova, Stashko, Novichenko, Kontseva, Gaidukova

NetherlandsVeenhoven, De Groot, Dekker, Belderbos, Achterberg, Kingma, Bouw, de Haan, SchellekensChinaLi, Han, Xu, Li, Zhang, Liu, Li, Lu

USA Canada

Lofgren, Francia, Redman, Polk, Musnicki, Ritzel, Lind, Davies, Whipple

Hanson, Viinberg, Guloien, Wilkinson, Mastracci, Brzozowicz, Marquardt, Morin, Thompson-Willie

Canada RomaniaMastracci, Nurse, Guloien, Viinberg, Morin, Wilkinson, Brzozowicz, Marquardt, Thompson-Willie

Cogianu, Albu, Grigoras, Dorneanu, Lupascu, Mironcic, Cojocariu, Rotaru, Gidoiu

Netherlands Great BritainVeenhoven, van Rooijen, Achterberg, de Groot, Repelaer van Driel, Belderbos, Bouw, de Haan, Schellekens

Whitlam, Taylor, Eddie, Reeve, Page, Vernon, Greves, Thornley, O'Connor

Australia NetherlandsSelby-Smith, Chaterton, Vermeersch, Cook, Gerrand, Hagan, Kehoe, Stanley, Patrick

Veenhoven, Kingma, Achterberg, de Groot, Repelaer van Driel, Belderbos, Bouw, de Haan, Schellekens

Great Britain Australia

Whitlam, Flood, Taylor, Eddie, Reeve, Page, Greves, Vernon, O'Connor

Selby-Smith, Chaterton, Vermeersch, McCarthy, Gerrand, Hagan, Kehoe, Stanley, Patrick

Germany GermanySchultze, Lepke, Schuette, Thiem, Sennewald, Drygalla, Marchand, Siering, Schwensen

Schultze, Lepke, Schuette, Thiem, Sennewald, Drygalla, Marchand, Siering, Schwensen



6:03.20

4 6:06.79

5 6:06.86

6:08.70

3 6:11.18

4 6:13.38

1 6:06.06

4 6:06.74

5 6:09.94

6 6:16.45

1 6:03.65

2 6:04.39

3 6:06.03

5

2

6:24.48

6 6:34.696 6:16.03

1 6:19.31

2 6:20.72

3 6:22.31

4 6:22.68

1 5:59.26

2 5:59.29

3

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Men's Windsurfing - RS:X

1 Tom Ashley NZL 52 1 Nick Dempsey GBR 282 Julien Bontemps FRA 53 2 JP Tobin NZL 293 Shahar Zubari ISR 58 3 Dorian van Rijsselberge NED 404 Nick Dempsey GBR 60 4 Nimrod Mashiah ISR 505 Ricardo Santos BRA 77 5 Przemek Miarczynski POL 586 King Yin Chan HKG 84 6 Piotr Myszka POL 617 Aichen Wang CHN 95 7 Byron Kokkalanis GRE 658 Nikolaos Kaklamanakis GRE 97 8 Julien Bontemps FRA 67

1 Dorian van Rijsselberge NED 33 1 Julien Bontemps FRA 242 Piotr Myszka POL 40 2 Nick Dempsey GBR 263 Nimrod Mashiah ISR 52 3 JP Tobin NZL 314 Przemek Miarczynski POL 52 4 Dorian van Rijsselberge NED 31.65 Jon Paul Tobin NZL 61 5 Byron Kokkalanis GRE 326 Tom Ashley NZL 64 6 Nimrod Mashiah ISR 527 Byron Kokkalanis GRE 66 7 Przemyslaw Miarczynski POL 538 Julian Bontemps FRA 71 8 Toni Wilhelm GER 55

Sailing is a thrilling battle of man against fellow man and the elements, marred by the inability to place grandstands in a position to watch the action and delays and postponements occasioned by inopportune weather. The location of the regatta hundreds of miles away from the host city has also historically been a problem at the Olympics. Both the Beijing and Atlanta Olympics held their racing in unsuitable bays with light wind and humid conditions that made for poor racing and a bitter taste in the mouth. Athens could have been great, given it is a harbour city, but logistical troubles meant the racing was held away from spectators and light Mediterranean wind in the second week again spoiled the racing. Barcelona and Sydney, by contrast, showed what sailing can be. Held close to the shore with a spectacular backdrop and good wind, sailing became one of the stars of the Games and, in the case of Barcelona’s revitalised marina district, one of the finest legacies of the modern Olympics.

In 2012 the racing will be held in the unglamorous confines of Weymouth. At first sight this may feel like an unpromising spot, setting the sailing upfor the inevitable weak atmosphere that comes from racing far from the heart of the Olympics. It is true that the world’s media will be put off by the

distance and lack of backdrop (the Isle of Portland isn’t bad, it’s just not the Sydney Harbour Bridge), which means that sailing will not be makingmany headlines. The sailors, though, will hopefully not mind too much as Weymouth, besides being a pretty seaside town, is one of the great

world centres for sailing offering near year-round perfect conditions. Racing will be hard and furious, offering challenging conditions which shouldhelp the cream to rise to the top.

Paramount in this cream is Ben Ainslee. His third successive gold in Beijing (fourth medal overall) prompted the IOC president Jacques Rogge (himeself a former Olympic sailor) to pronounce the achievement equal to those of Phelps and Bolt. One can only guess what he will say if Ainslee can take another gold in the Finn class this summer. In a sport where luck of the wind can make the difference between first and last and few people dominate for long, Ainslee has been a force of nature, holding an ability to read the conditions like nobody else. After his disqualification at last year’s World Championships for threatening a photographer that had left a wake in the water ahead of him, he knows that anything can happen; but should he win gold he will continue to work his way up the ranks of the greatest Olympians ever.

In other disciplines it is the Australians who look to have the strongest squad. They have spent time training in the tricky conditions at Weymouth which should leave their standout sailors, 2010 ISAF World Sailor of the Year Tom Slingsby in the Laser and Mathew Belcher & Malcolm Page

in the 49er, well placed to win gold.

Anna Tunnicliffe skippers the USA Elliot boat in the reintroduced match racing (head-to-head) format; they have been near unbeatable in recent seasons but will have to work hard to defeat the local experience of Lucy Macgregor, who has run the Americans close in recent years.

2012 will also see the last appearance of windsurfing, catchily referred to as RS:X racing, at the Olympics; the most physically demandingdiscipline in sailing – windsurfers can propel their craft along by ‘flapping’ the sail manually in light winds - will make way for kite surfing in Rio.Nick Dempsey and Bryony Shaw are both in contention for GB, but racing is wide open and anyone could take the title. The 2011 and 2012

women’s RS:X World Champion, Lee Korzits hopes to become Israel’s first female gold medallist, a feat that will be all the more impressive given that doctors told her she would be unlikely to sail again when, during a photoshoot in Hawaii in 2009, a surfer crashed into her, breaking her leg

and severing two ribs from her vertebrae.

Many other classes will come down to how much home advantage the Brits will gain from having trained in the difficult Weymouth waters for the past few years. Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark in the 470, Alison Young in the Laser Radial, Paul Goodison in the Laser, Stuart Bithell and Luke Patience in the 470, Iain Percy and Luke Patience in the Star, and Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes in the 49er share Olympic and world medals galore between them, but sailing is an intensely unpredictable sport. Four golds, a silver and a bronze in Beijing was a truly extraordinary feat. To repeat it on home waters is not beyond the realms of possibility given the talent assembled in the British squad, but will require the entire team to sail out of their skins, along with more than a little luck.

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Men's One Person Dinghy - Laser

1 Paul Goodison GBR 63 1 Tom Slingsby AUS 412 Vasilij Zbogar SLO 71 2 Andrew Murdoch NZL 573 Diego Romero ITA 75 3 Paul Goodison GBR 644 Gustavo Lima POR 76 4 Simon Groteluschen GER 885 Andrew Murdoch NZL 81 5 Nick Thompson GBR 956 Rasmus Myrgren SWE 83 6 Tom Burton AUS 957 Julio Alsogaray ARG 92 7 Philipp Buhl GER 998 Jean Baptiste Bernaz FRA 104 8 Andy Maloney NZL 100

1 Tom Slingsby AUS 37 1 Tom Slingsby AUS 572 Nick Thompson GBR 56 2 Tonci Stipanovic CRO 853 Andrew Murdoch NZL 59 3 Andrew Maloney NZL 974 Simon Groteluschen GER 63 4 Juan Maegli GUA 1015 Paul Goodison GBR 69 5 Tom Burton AUS 1086 Andreas Geritzer AUT 71 6 Andreas Geritzer AUT 1107 Ashley Brunning AUS 72 7 Rutger Schaardenburg NED 1128 Johan Wigforss SWE 80 8 Simon Groteluschen GER 121

Men's One Person Dinghy Heavy - Finn

1 Ben Ainslie GBR 23 1 Ben Ainslie GBR 422 Zach Railey USA 45 2 Giles Scott GBR 563 Guillaume Florent FRA 58 3 Ivan Kljakovic-Gaspic CRO 574 Daniel Birgmark SWE 58 4 Ed Wright GBR 635 Christopher Cook CAN 67 5 Jonas Hoegh-Christensen DEN 766 Jonas Hoegh-Christensen DEN 70 6 Dan Slater NZL 777 Gasper Vincec SLO 72 7 Jonathan Lobert FRA 788 Ivan Kljakovic-Gaspic CRO 76 8 Andrew Mills GBR 93

1 Giles Scott GBR 30 1 Ben Ainslie GBR 102 Pieter-Jan Postma NED 31 2 Ed Wright GBR 303 Ed Wright GBR 45 3 Jonas Hoegh-Christensen DEN 644 Jonas Hoegh-Christensen DEN 54 4 Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic CRO 725 Rafael Trujillo ESP 65 5 Tapio Nirkko FIN 726 Jonathan Lobert FRA 70 6 Piotr Kula POL 807 Andrew Mills GBR 81 7 Mark Andrews GBR 818 Deniss Karpak EST 84 8 Andrew Mills GBR 82

Men's Two Person Dinghy - 470

1 Nathan Wilmot, Malcolm Page AUS 44 1 Pierre Leboucher, Vincent Garos FRA 382 Nick Rogers, Joe Glanfield GBR 75 2 Mathew Belcher, Malcolm Page AUS 613 Nicolas Charbonnier, Olivier Bausset FRA 78 3 Panagiotis Mantis, Pavlos Kagialis GRE 724 Sven Coster, Kalle Coster NED 78 4 Nick Rogers, Chris Grube GBR 755 Onan Barreiros, Aaron Sarmiento ESP 87 5 Gideon Kliger, Eran Sela ISR 786 Gabrio Zandona, Andrea Trani ITA 91 6 Luke Patience, Stuart Bithell GBR 867 Tetsuya Matsunaga, Taro Ueno JPN 97 7 Onan Barreiros, Aaron Sarmiento ESP 888 Alvaro Marinho, Miguel Nunes POR 103 8 Alvaro Marinho, Miguel Nunes POR 90

1 Mathew Belcher, Malcolm Page AUS 28 1 Mathew Belcher, Malcolm Page AUS 322 Luke Patience, Stuart Bithell GBR 40 2 Pierre Leboucher, Vincent Garos FRA 433 Sime Fantela, Igor Marenic CRO 62 3 Sime Fantela, Igor Marenic CRO 674 Gideon Kliger, Eran Sela ISR 69 4 Joonas Lindgren, Niklas Lindgren FIN 695 Nicolas Charbonnier, Jeremie Mion FRA 80 5 Lucas Calabrese, Juan de la Fuente ARG 746 Pierre Leboucher, Vincent Garos FRA 86 6 Ryunosuke Harada, Yugo Yoshida JPN 837 Panagiotis Mantis, Pavlos Kagialis GRE 92 7 Onan Barreiros, Aaron Sarmiento ESP 898 Paul Snow Hansen, Jason Saunders NZL 100 8 Gideon Kliger, Eran Sela ISR 93

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Men's Two Person Dinghy High Performance - 49er

1 Jonas Warrer, Martin Kirketerp Ibsen DEN 61 1 Nathan Outteridge, Iain Jensen AUS 602 Iker Martinez, Xabier Fernandez ESP 64 2 Stephane Christidis, Peter Hansen FRA 803 Jan Peter Peckolt, Hannes Peckolt GER 66 3 Stevie Morrison, Ben Rhodes GBR 904 Pietro Sibello, Gianfranco Sibello ITA 66 4 Will Phillips, Sam Phillips AUS 975 Nathan Outteridge, Ben Austin AUS 73 5 John Pink, Rick Peacock GBR 1006 Tim Wadlow, Chris Rast USA 89 6 Paul Brotherton, Mark Asquith GBR 1067 Andre Fonseca, Rodrigo Duarte BRA 99 7 Chris Draper, Peter Greenhalgh GBR 1138 Nico Karth, Nikolaus Resch AUT 99 8 Dave Evans, Ed Powys GBR 122

1 Nathan Outteridge, Iain Jensen AUS 91 1 Nathan Outteridge, Iain Jensen AUS 782 Peter Burling, Blair Tuke NZL 112 2 Peter Burling, Blair Tuke NZL 913 Emil Toft Nielsen, Simon Toft Nielsen DEN 112 3 Allan Norregaard, Peter Lang DEN 1064 John Pink, Rick Peacock GBR 123 4 Manu Dyen, Stephane Christidis FRA 1065 Allan Noerregaard, Peter Lang DEN 129 5 Peter Kruger-Andersen, Nicolai Thorsell DEN 1166 David Evans, Edward Powys GBR 134 6 Marcus Hansen, Josh Nowak NZL 1237 Nico Karth, Nikolaus Resch AUT 137 7 Erik Heil, Thomas Ploessel GER 1238 Jonas Warrer, Soeren Hansen DEN 138 8 Julien D'Ortoli, Noel Delpech FRA 127

Men's Keelboat - Star

1 Iain Percy, Andrew Simpson GBR 45 1 Robert Scheidt, Bruno Prada BRA 382 Robert Scheidt, Bruno Prada BRA 53 2 Fredrik Loof, Anders Ekstrom SWE 443 Fredrik Loof, Anders Ekstrom SWE 53 3 Diego Negri, Enrico Voltolini ITA 724 Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Dominik Zycki POL 59 4 Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Dominik Zycki POL 775 Flavio Marazzi, Enrico De Maria SUI 59 5 Iain Percy, Andrew Simpson GBR 806 Xavier Rohart, Pascal Rambeau FRA 69 6 Richard Clarke, Tyler Bjorn CAN 1057 Marc Pickel, Ingo Borkowski GER 70 7 Guillaume Florent, Pascal Rambeau FRA 1078 Afonso Domingos, B. Plantier Santos POR 72 8 Mark Mendelblatt, Brian Fatih USA 117

1 Robert Scheidt, Bruno Prada BRA 45 1 Robert Scheidt, Bruno Prada BRA 302 Robert Stanjek, Frithjof Kleen GER 61 2 Iain Percy, Andrew Simpson GBR 323 Mark Mendelblatt, Brian Fatih USA 73 3 Michael Hestbaek, Olesen Claus DEN 334 Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Dominik Zycki POL 76 4 Peter O'Leary David Burrows IRE 405 Fredrik Loof, Max Salminen SWE 81 5 Fredrik Loof, Max Salminen SWE 436 Eivind Melleby, Petter Morland Pedersen NOR 99 6 Flavio Marazzi, Enrico De Maria SUI 447 Xavier Rohart, Pierre Alexis Ponsot FRA 107 7 Hamish Pepper, Jim Turner NZL 498 Johannes Polgar, Markus Koy GER 110 8 E. Papathanasiou, Antonios Tsotras GRE 50

Women's Windsurfing - RS:X

1 Jian Yin CHN 39 1 Marina Alabau ESP 372 Alessandra Sensini ITA 40 2 Zofia Klepacka POL 453 Bryony Shaw GBR 45 3 Lee Korzits ISR 664 Marina Alabau ESP 54 4 Maja Dziarnowska POL 665 Jessica Crisp AUS 66 5 Picon Charline FRA 696 Barbara Kendall NZL 75 6 Bianca Manchion ESP 697 Zofia Klepacka POL 82 7 Olga Maslivets UKR 738 Olha Maslivets UKR 83 8 Bryony Shaw GBR 75

1 Lee Korzits ISR 31 1 Lee Korzits ISR 172 Zofia Noceti-Klepacka POL 33 2 Zofia Klepacka POL 213 Marina Alabau ESP 45 3 Alessandria Sensani ITA 274 Huang Yue CHN 60 4 Bryony Shaw GBR 485 Charline Picon FRA 64 5 Maja Dziarnowska POL 556 Maayan Davidovich ISR 73 6 Flavia Tartaglini ITA 667 Bryony Shaw GBR 74 7 Charline Picon FRA 678 Li Ling CHN 84 8 Maayan Davidovich ISR 71







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Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial

1 Anna Tunnicliffe USA 37 1 Marit Bouwmeester NED 402 Gintare Volungeviciute LTU 42 2 Evi Van Acker BEL 503 Lijia Xu CHN 50 3 Annalise Murphy IRL 694 Sarah Blanck AUS 62 4 Charlotte Dobson GBR 735 Sarah Steyaert FRA 77 5 Sophie de Turckheim FRA 856 Nathalie Brugger SUI 90 6 Nathalie Brugger SUI 867 Jo Aleh NZL 90 7 Alison Young GBR 948 Evi Van Acker BEL 91 8 Josefin Olsson SWE 98

1 Marit Bouwmeester NED 49 1 Xu Lijia CHN 312 Evi Van Acker BEL 53 2 Gintare Scheidt LTU 373 Paige Railey USA 71 3 Alison Young GBR 384 Veronika Fenclova CZE 72 4 Sari Multala FIN 425 Gintare Scheidt LTU 76 5 Marit Bouwmeester NED 496 Annalise Murphy IRL 77 6 Cecilia Carranza Saroli ARG 587 Alison Young GBR 86 7 Paige Railey USA 618 Tatiana Drozdovskaya BLR 98 8 Sarah Steyaert FRA 69

Women's Two Person Dinghy - 470

1 Elise Rechichi, Tessa Parkinson AUS 43 1 Jo Aleh, Olivia Powrie NZL 522 Marcelien de Koning, Lobke Berkhout NED 53 2 Hannah Mills, Saskia Clark GBR 703 Fernando Oliveira, Isabel Swan BRA 60 3 Camille Lecointre, Mathilde Geron FRA 744 Nike Kornecki, Vered Bouskilla ISR 66 4 Tara Pacheco, Berta Batanzos ESP 885 Giulia Conti, Giovanna Micol ITA 75 5 Gil Cohen, Vered Bouskila ISR 896 Christina Bassadone, Saskia Clark GBR 82 6 Giulia Conti, Giovanna Micol ITA 1037 Lenka Smidova, Lenke Mrzilkova CZE 83 7 Henriette Koch, Lene Sommer DEN 1048 Sylvia Vogl, Carolina Flatscher AUT 84 8 Erin Maxwell, Isabelle K. Farrar USA 113

1 Tara Pacheco, Berta Batanzos ESP 63 1 Hannah Mills, Saskia Clark GBR 652 Hannah Mills, Saskia Clark GBR 68 2 Camille Lecointre, Mathilde Geron FRA 673 Jo Aleh, Olivia Powrie NZL 73 3 Lisa Westerhof, Lobke Berkhout NED 674 Gil Cohen, Vered Bouskila ISR 76 4 Jo Aleh, Olivia Powrie NZL 745 Giulia Conti, Giovanna Micol ITA 88 5 Ingrid Petitjean, Nadege Doroux FRA 886 Ai Kondo, Wakako Tabata JPN 89 6 Ai Kondo, Wakako Tabata JPN 947 Penny Clark, Katrina Hughes GBR 94 7 Henriette Koch, Lene Sommer DEN 1058 Martinei Grael, Isabel Swan BRA 98 8 Martinei Grael, Isabel Swan BRA 109

Women's Keelboat Match Racing - Elliot 6m

1 Tunnicliffe, Vandemoer, Capozzi USA2 MacGregor, Lush, Macgregor GBR3 Barkow, Kratizig-Burnham, O'Reilly USA

1 Tunnicliffe, Vandemoer, Capozzi USA 4 Leroy. Pruvot, Riou FRA2 MacGregor, Lush, Macgregor GBR 5 Lehtinen, Kanerva, Wulff FIN3 Leroy. Bertrand, Riou FRA 6 Le Berre, Ponsar, Ponge FRA4 Skudina, Siuzeva, Oblova RUS 7 Mulder, Bes, Witteveen NED5 Souter, Eastwell, Spithell AUS 8 Souter, Eastwell, Whitty AUS6 Kjellberg, Kallstrom, Harrysson SWE7 Mulder, Witteveen, Bekkering NED8 Price, Curtis, Whitty AUS 1 Lehtinen, Kanerva, Wulff FIN

2 Tunnicliffe, Vandemoer, Capozzi USA3 Barkow, Kranzig, O'Reilly USA4 Leroy. Pruvot, Riou FRA5 MacGregor, Lush, Macgregor GBR6 Price, Curtis, Whitty AUS7 Skudina, Siuzeva, Oblova RUS8 Groeneveld, Bes, Bos-de-Koning NED


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Men's 10m Air Pistol Men's 50m Pistol

1 Pang Wei CHN 688.2 1 Jin Jong-oh KOR 660.42 Jin Jong-oh KOR 684.5 2 Tan Zongliang CHN 659.53 Jason Turner USA 682.0 3 Vladimir Isakov RUS 658.94 Brian Beaman USA 682.0 4 Oleg Omelchuk UKR 658.95 Leonid Yekimov RUS 680.5 5 Pavol Kopp SVK 657.66 Walter Lapeyre FRA 680.3 6 Tanyu Kiryakov BUL 656.87 Jakkrit Panichpatikum THA 679.0 7 Damir Mikec SRB 655.88 Kim Jong-su PRK DSQ* 8 Kim Jong-su PRK DSQ*

* Kim Jong-Su tested positive for propopanol * Kim Jong-Su tested positive for propopanol

1 Tomoyuki Matsuda JPN 689.4 1 Tomoyuki Matsuda JPN 669.72 Andrija Zlatic SRB 689.2 2 Lee Daemyung KOR 665.23 Jin Jong-oh KOR 689.1 3 Vyacheslav Podlesnyy KAZ 662.14 Sergey Chervyakovskiy RUS 685.5 4 Andrija Zlatic SRB 659.65 Yusef Dikec TUR 681.4 5 Vladimir Gontcharov RUS 658.66 Joao Costa POR 681.4 6 Daryl Szarenski RUS 655.07 Ivan Bidnyak UKR 681.3 7 Zhang Tian CHN 652.68 Damir Mikec SRB 678.7 8 Oleg Omelchuk UKR 652.3

1 Tan Zongliang CHN 1969 1 Damir Mikec SRB 16932 Jin Jonh Oh KOR 1173 2 Tomayuki Matsuda JPN 14183 Yusef Dikec TUR 954 3 Jin Jong Oh KOR 13604 Vladimir Isakov RUS 909 4 Zhang Tian CHN 13135 Lee Daemyung KOR 887 5 Vladimir Isakov RUS 11596 Denys Kushnirov UKR 852 6 Leonid Ekimov RUS 8227 Ismail Keles TUR 802 7 Giuseppe Giordano ITA 6258 Zhang Tian CHN 791 8 Narayr Bakhtamyan ARM 5389 Pablo Carrera ESP 603 9 Florian Schmidt GER 479

10 Pang Wei CHN 567 10 Wang Zhiwei CHN 471

Shooting is probably the hardest Olympic sport to watch. It doesn't fit into the Olympic motto Citius. Altius. Fortius. (Higher. Faster. Stronger.) and nor is it in any way television friendly. Though tension can be extremely high as the competition reaches its climax, theparamount skill of a shooter is being able to relax, control their heart rate (there are plenty of illegal ways to help with this) and move as little as possible. This means that not only will you barely see a flicker of emotion during the shooting, but even after the competition has ended the winners and losers will often display a level of disinterest usually only seen in immigration officials. It is therefore perhaps not a surprise that shooting is the only sport at these Olympics that will not be covered as standard by a live video feed.

Perhaps this is a shame. There are stories to be had; in Beijing the first gold medal of the Games was expected to be hung around the neck of local favourite Du Li in the women’s 10m air rifle event, but come the final she crumbled under the pressure, finished in

fifth and was left in floods of tears. There followed a national outpouring of support for her which she duly repaid by taking gold in thethree-position rifle event. Having taken a couple of years off to start a family, Du Li will be back, again challenging for the first gold

medal of the Olympics.

There will be similar stories in the rarefied surrounds of the Royal Artillery Barracks, but the media relies on knowing where the stories are going to be in advance and so chances are they will either be missed entirely or a by-line at the end of a report. The hot favourites are Tan Zhongliang (CHN) in the 10m air pistol, Niccolo Campriani (ITA) who in 2010 became the first person to qualify for the 2012 Olympics and starts favourite in the 10m air rifle and 50m 3-positions events, Sergei Martynov (BLR) in the 50m prone rifle and Fatima Galvez (ESP) in the women’s trap.

Great Britain’s interest will be limited to the more watchable (there is actual movement involved) skeet and trap shooting. The difference, for reference, between trap and skeet shooting is that the clays go away from you in the trap but towards you in the skeet,

single means one clay is in the air at a time, double means two. Here Ed Ling in the men's trap, 2000 Olympic gold medallist Richard Faulds in the double trap and the photogenic 2002 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Charlotte Kerwood in the

women's trap will all have serious medal intentions but it is Peter Wilson that carries GB’s best chance. Wilson is coached and sponsored by 2004 gold medallist Sheik Ahmad Mohammed Hasher Al Maktoum, a member of the Dubai ruling family, this

relationship has clearly paid off as Wilson set a new world record, 198 out of 200, in Arizona earlier this year and will start as jointfavourite with USA's Joshua Richmond in the double trap in London.

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Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men's 10m Air Rifle

1 Oleksandr Petriv UKR 780.2 1 Abhinav Bindra IND 700.52 Ralf Schumann GER 779.5 2 Zhu Qinan CHN 699.73 Christian Reitz GER 779.3 3 Henri Hakkinen FIN 698.84 Leonid Yekimov RUS 778.2 4 Alin Moldoveanu ROU 698.85 Keith Sanderson USA 776.6 5 Konstantin Prikhodtchenko RUS 698.46 Roman Bondaruk UKR 774.7 6 Peter Sidi HUN 698.4

7 Steven Pletikosic SRB 697.78 Sergei Kruglov RUS 697.0

1 Alexei Klimov RUS 787.12 Zhang Jian CHN 785.63 Li Yuehong CHN 782.1 1 Niccolo Campriani ITA 702.54 Leonid Ekimov RUS 780.8 2 Peter Sidi HUN 700.45 Christian Reitz GER 780.6 3 Gagan Narang IND 699.06 Martin Strnad CZE 780.2 4 Zhu Qinan CHN 698.9

5 Marco de Nicolo ITA 698.96 Denis Sokolov RUS 698.9

1 Alexei Klimov RUS 2205 7 Matthew Emmons USA 698.52 Chrisyian Reitz GER 2160 8 Nemanja Mirosavjev SRB 696.63 Zhang Jian CHN 12124 Ding Feng CHN 11965 Teruyoshi Akiyama JPN 976 1 Niccolo Campriani ITA 20466 Ralf Schumann GER 872 2 Illia Charheika BLR 12737 Emil Milev USA 643 3 Wang Tao CHN 12568 Kim Daetoong KOR 617 4 Zhu Qinan CHN 12149 Roman Bondaruk UKR 600 5 Pierre Piasecki FRA 1185

10 Martin Strnad CZE 561 6 Sergy Rikhter ISR 9316 Serhiy Kulish UKR 9318 Vitali Bubnovich BLR 8199 Peter Sidi HUN 667

10 Alexander Schmirl AUT 571

Men's 50m Rifle Prone Men's 50m Rifle Three Positions

1 Artur Ayvazian UKR 702.7 1 Qiu Jian CHN 1272.52 Matthew Emmons USA 701.7 2 Jury Sukhorukov UKR 1272.43 Warren Potent AUS 700.5 3 Rajmond Debevec SLO 1271.74 Vebjorn Berg NOR 699.1 4 Matthew Emmons USA 1270.35 Konstantin Prikhodtchenko RUS 699.0 5 Thomas Farnik AUT 1268.96 Valerian Sauveplane FRA 698.8 6 Mario Knogler AUT 1268.47 Juha Hirvi FIN 698.5 7 Valerian Sauveplane FRA 1267.18 Sergei Mertynov BLR 698.3 8 Vebjorn Berg NOR 1266.5

1 Sergei Mertynov BLR 703.9 1 Peter Sidi HUN 1275.62 Valerian Sauveplane FRA 703.8 2 Han Jinseop KOR 1274.23 Matthew Emmons USA 702.2 3 Nemanja Mirosavjev SRB 1273.34 Peter Sidi HUN 701.6 4 Konstantin Prikhodtchenko RUS 1272.25 Vebjorn Berg NOR 701.4 5 Niccolo Campriani ITA 1271.86 Hariom Singh IND 700.9 6 Kim Jonghyun KOR 1271.77 Eric Uptagrafft USA 700.3 7 Marco de Nicolo ITA 1270.28 Liu Gang CHN 700.0 8 Cyril Graff FRA 1268.0

1 Sergei Martynov BLR 2908 1 Niccolo Campriani ITA 28242 Wang Weiyi CHN 1177 2 Nemanja Mirosavljev SRB 13193 Marco De Nicolo ITA 1090 3 Jason Parker USA 10674 Cyril Graff FRA 954 4 Ole Kristian Bryhn NOR 9925 Michael McPhail USA 819 5 Simon Beyeler SUI 7586 Eric Uptagrafft USA 768 6 Serhiy Kulish UKR 6927 Torben Grimmel DEN 743 7 Matthew Emmons USA 6828 Valerian Sauveplane FRA 523 8 Ole Magnus Bakken NOR 6169 Stian Bogar NOR 522 9 Illia Charheika BLR 500

10 Marcel Buerge SUI 444 10 Peter Sidi HUN 419

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Men's Trap Men's Double Trap

1 David Kostelecky CZE 146 1 Walton Eller USA 1902 Giovanni Pellielo ITA 143 2 Francesco D'Aniello ITA 1873 Aleksei Alipov RUS 142 3 Hu Binyuan CHN 1844 Michael Diamond AUS 142 4 Jeffrey Holguin USA 1825 Josip Glasnovic CRO 140 5 Russell Mark AUS 1816 Ermino Frasca ITA 140 6 Richard Faulds GBR 180

1 Alberto Fernandez ESP 143 1 Joshua Richmond USA 1962 Alexey Alipov RUS 142 2 Vasily Mosin RUS 1933 Jiri Liptak CZE 142 3 Hu Binyuan CHN 1934 Giovanni Pellielo ITA 141 4 Jeffrey Holguin USA 1925 Li Yajun CHN 140 5 Richard Bodnar HUN 1906 Jacob Turner USA 139 6 Shih Wei Tin TPE 188

1 Alexey Alipov RUS 1615 1 Joshua Richmond USA 13802 Massimo Fabbrizi ITA 1494 2 Peter Wilson GBR 13253 Rodolfo Vigano ITA 1358 3 Vitaly Fokeev RUS 12634 Oguzhan Tuzun TUR 997 4 William Chetcuti MLT 12455 Ryan Hadden USA 904 5 Mikhail Leybo RUS 9576 Stephane Clemens FRA 857 6 Francesco D'Aniello ITA 9457 Erminio Frasca ITA 724 7 Walton Eller USA 8928 Edward Ling GBR 712 8 Li Jun CHN 7449 David Kostelecky CZE 626 9 Andreas Loew GER 7419 Giovanni Pellielo ITA 626 10 Ronjan Sodhi IND 733

Men's Skeet Women's 10m Air Pistol

1 Vincent Hancock USA 145 1 Guo Wenjun CHN 492.32 Tore Brovold NOR 145 2 Natalia Paderina RUS 489.13 Anthony Terras FRA 144 3 Nino Salukvadze GEO 487.44 Antonis Nikolaidis CYP 144 4 Viktoria Chaika BLR 482.05 Georgios Achilleos CYP 143 5 M. Sagun-Lewandowska POL 481.36 Qu Ridong CHN 142 6 Jasna Sekaric SRB 480.9

7 Mira Nevansu FIN 480.58 Tsogbadrakhyn Monkhzul MGL 479.6

1 Valeriy Shomin RUS 1492 Ennio Falco ITA 1493 Georgios Achilleos CYP 148 1 Zorana Arunovic SRB 486.84 Antonakis Andreou CYP 148 2 Lalita Yauhleuskaya AUS 485.05 Vincent Hancock USA 147 3 Viktoria Chaika BLR 485.06 Anders Golding DEN 147 4 Lenka Maruskova CZE 483.9

5 Mira Suhonen FIN 482.36 Su Yuling CHN 481.0

1 Tore Brovold NOR 1486 7 Guo Wenjun CHN 480.82 Valeriy Shomin RUS 1441 8 Sandra Uptagrafft USA 477.33 Georgios Achilleos CYP 13214 Mikola Milchev UKR 12795 Efthimios Mitas GRE 1270 1 Olena Kostevych UKR 18976 Stefan Nilsson SWE 938 2 Tien Chia Chen TPE 13597 Juan Jose Aramburu ESP 686 3 Zorana Arunovic SRB 13118 Anthony Terras FRA 527 4 Lenka Maruskova CZE 12209 Jesper Hansen DEN 499 5 Lalita Yauhleuskaya AUS 986

10 Saaed Almaktoum UAE 473 6 Celine Goberville FRA 8117 Tanyaporn Prucksakom THA 7548 Maria Grazdeva BUL 6979 Viktoria Chaika BLR 654

10 Sonia Franquet ESP 635

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Women's 25m Pistol Women's 10m Air Rifle

1 Chen Ying CHN 793.4 1 Katerina Emmons CZE 503.52 Otryadyn Gundegmaa MGL 792.2 2 Lioubov Galkina RUS 502.13 Munkhbayar Dorjsuren GER 789.2 3 Snjezana Pejcic CRO 500.94 Fei Fengji CHN 787.9 4 Jamie Beyerle USA 499.85 Maria Grozdeva BUL 786.6 5 Du Li CHN 499.66 Jo Yong-suk PRK 783.4 6 Olga Dovgun KAZ 498.17 Tanyaporn Prucksakom THA 777.7 7 Marie Laure Gigon FRA 497.38 Luisa Maida ESA 774 8 Sylwia Bogacka POL 495.7

1 Kira Klimova RUS 788.8 1 Yi Shiling CHN 505.62 Zorana Arunovic SRB 788.8 2 Wu Liuxi CHN 501.43 Lenka Marusova CZE 788.6 3 Elania Nardelli ITA 501.04 Yukari Mori JPN 787.0 4 Mahlagha Jambozirg IRI 500.25 Sonia Franquet ESP 786.8 5 Jessica Mager GER 498.86 Yuliya Alipava RUS 784.4 6 Beate Gauss GER 498.87 Yuling Su CHN 783.1 7 Petya Lukanova BUL 498.48 Jo Yong Suk PRK 783.1 8 Meghann Morrill USA 498.1

1 Lenka Maruskova CZE 2019 1 Yi Siling CHN 25682 Celine Goberville FRA 1728 2 Sonja Pfeilschifter GER 22063 Chen Ying CHN 1535 3 Katerina Emmons CZE 10364 Olena Kostevych UKR 1043 4 Andrea Arsovic SRB 9065 Kim Jang Mi KOR 1038 5 Dariya Sharipova UKR 7306 Nino Salukvadze GEO 1025 6 Du Li CHN 5757 Munkhbayer Dorjsuren GER 847 7 Jessica Mager GER 5478 Antoaneta Boneva BUL 811 8 Lisa Ungerank AUT 5279 Jasna Sekaric SRB 768 9 Sarah Scherer USA 494

10 Sonia Franquet ESP 383 10 Snjezana Pejcic CRO 486

Women's 50m Rifle Three Positions Women's Trap

1 Du Li CHN 690.3 1 Satu Makela-Nummela FIN 912 Katerina Emmons CZE 687.7 2 Zuzana Stefecekova SVK 893 Eglis Yaima Cruz CUB 687.6 3 Corey Cogdell USA 864 Lioubov Galinka RUS 687.4 4 Yukie Nakayama JPN 865 Jamie Beyerle USA 686.9 5 Daina Gudzineviciute LTU 866 Olga Dovgun KAZ 686.3 6 Elena Stuchaeva KAZ 867 Ligija Mihajlovic SRB 686.08 Wu Liuxi CHN 685.9

1 Zuzana Stefecekova SVK 912 Liu Yingzi CHN 89

1 Barbara Lechner GER 687.7 3 Jessica Rossi ITA 872 Sonja Pfeilschifter GER 685.4 4 Deborah Gelisio ITA 873 Annik Marguet SUI 681.2 5 Pak Yong Hui PRK 864 Natallia Kalnysh UKR 680.5 6 Yukie Nakayama JPN 855 Jamie Beyerle USA 679.96 Ivana Maksimovic SRB 679.47 Liobov Galkina RUS 679.1 1 Fatima Galvez ESP 20768 Eva Friedel GER 678.7 2 Elena Tkach RUS 1692

3 Zuzana Stefecekova SVK 12084 Abbey Burton GBR 986

1 Barbara Engleder GER 1791 5 Corey Cogdell USA 9532 Sonja Pfeilschifter GER 1490 6 Liu Yingzi CHN 7303 Du Li CHN 1431 7 Alessandra Perilli SMR 5414 Ildiko Karmacsi HUN 979 8 Satu Makela-Nummela FIN 4925 Katerina Emmons CZE 749 9 Jessica Rossi ITA 4816 Yi Siling CHN 745 10 Kayle Browning USA 4657 Stephanie Obermoser AUT 6968 Li Peijing CHN 6599 Eva Friedel GER 600

10 Lioubov Galkina RUS 444

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Shooting

Women's Skeet

1 Chiara Cainero ITA 932 Kim Rhode USA 933 Christine Brinker GER 934 Nathalie Larsson SWE 935 Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit THA 936 Wei Ning CHN 91

1 Kim Rhode USA 972 Wei Ning CHN 963 Danka Bartekova SVK 954 Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit THA 935 Haley Dunn USA 916 Elena Allen GBR 89

1 Kimberley Rhode USA 21712 Danka Bartekova SVK 20643 Wei Ning CHN 16034 Christine Wenzel GER 13995 Francisca Crovetto Chadid CHI 7626 Diana Bacosi ITA 6707 Zhang Donglian CHN 5658 Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit THA 4979 Brandy Drozd USA 486

10 Zhang Shan CHN 457

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Men's Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

1 César Cielo Filho BRA 21.30 1 César Cielo Filho BRA 21.52

2 Amaury Leveaux FRA 21.45 2 Bruno Fratus BRA 21.76

3 Alain Bernard FRA 21.49 3 Fred Bousquet FRA 21.78

4 Ashley Callus AUS 21.62 4 Nathan Adrian USA 21.84

5 Ben Wildman-Tobriner USA 21.64 5 Luca Dotto ITA 21.90

6 Eamon Sullivan AUS 21.65 6 Alain Bernard FRA 21.92

7 Roland Schoeman RSA 21.67 7 Krisztian Takacs HUN 21.97

8 Stefan Nystrand SWE 21.72 8 Sergey Fesikov RUS 21.98

1 César Cielo Filho BRA 21.52 1 César Cielo Filho BRA 21.38

2 Luca Dotto ITA 21.90 2 Cullen Jones USA 21.59

3 Alain Bernard FRA 21.92 3 Anthony Ervin USA 21.60

4 Nathan Adrian USA 21.93 4 Nathan Adrian USA 21.68

5 Bruno Fratus BRA 21.96 5 Bruno Fratus BRA 21.70

6 Krisztian Takacs HUN 21.99 6 James Magnussen AUS 21.74

7 George Bovell TRI 22.04 7 Josh Schneider USA 21.78

8 Gideon Louw RSA 22.11 8 Fred Bousquet FRA 21.79

Sometimes sport reads like a Jerry Bruckheimer screenplay. In 2004 a 19 year-old Michael Phelps (USA) attempted to win medals in eight different events at an Olympic Games, the most of any athlete in history. He did it with six gold and two bronzes. What do you do for the sequel? In 2008 Phelps went for 8 gold medals. Achieved. Roll on 'Phelps III – London 2012' and bring on Phelps’ better looking adversary Ryan Lochte (USA). After 2008, it looked as though Phelps might fade away into obscurity; he stopped training and was photographed partaking in a bong at a college party. He has been motivated to come back by the rise of Lochte, who has taken over the mantle as the world’s dominant swimmer during the past three years. Lochte is the same age as Phelps and has spent many years in his shadow, picking up a silver behind Phelps in the 200m individual medley in 2004 and a pair of golds and a pair of bronzes in 2008. It has only been since Phelps took a step back that Lochte has flourished, picking up five golds and a bronze in last year’s World Championships.

In the Aquatics Centre designed by Zaha Hadid, Lochte and Phelps will each be going for gold in four individual events (two of them head-to-head), as well as swimming for the USA in the relays; Phelps is likely to be selected for all three and Lochte for just one. Currently the

American press seem to be assuming that they will between them win every event they enter, but experience may prove very different. Let’s consider each event in turn. Each man has two events without the other - Phelps continues to dominate in the 100m and 200m butterfly and can be expected to chalk up two golds, but Lochte faces a more competitive field in the 200m backstroke and freestyle.

Although he won both at the World Championships last year, other men have gone faster in both events this year. A fired up Yannick Angel (FRA) will be standing between him and the gold medal in the 200m free, and Ryosuke Irie (JPN) in the 200m back. As backstroke is

Lochte's favourite stroke, my prediction - silver in the 200m free and gold in the 200m back.

Next come their head-to-head meetings in the individual medleys. Phelps had the better of Lochte in the 200m IM at the Olympic trials and, with Lochte having to come straight into this from the 200m back final, I see Phelps taking gold and Lochte fading outside the medals. In the 400m IM it is Lochte that has the form so let’s give that gold to him and the silver to Phelps. Then come the relays. With both men in the team they shouldn’t be touched in the 4x200m freestyle. Phelps will swim the butterfly leg in the 4x100m medley relay, and, although Australia and Japan will be pushing hard, USA again should have enough to take gold. Finally comes the 4x100m freestyle; the Australians and the French have a clear edge, so let’s call that bronze for the USA. Tally up: Phelps takes 5 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze and goes home a hero with an all time gold medal tally of 19; Lochte wins 3 golds and a silver and everyone is wondering what all the fuss was about.

There are some men’s events that Ph-ochte aren't involved in. The Australian James Magnussen is a goliath in the 100m freestyle and close to breaking the world record, which people were saying wouldn’t happen for twenty years in the post-bodysuit era. Sun Yang (CHN) and Park Tae-Hwan (KOR) look to stage a battle in two parts over the 400m and 1500m freestyle. Liam Tancock in the 100m backstroke

is probably the British men’s only chance of a gold; in reality he’ll do very well to finish with a medal.

Finally we turn to the breaststroke. Last year, three days after the Breivik Massacre in Norway, Alexander Dale Oen won an emotional gold medal in the 100m breaststroke at the World Championships. Sadly he was found dead from a heart-attack in April this year, and his big personality and talent will be much missed at the Games. Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) is back on form in the 100m and 200m breaststroke and will be looking to win his third successive gold in both events.

World Record: 20.91s Cesar Cielho Filho BRA 18 December 2009

Olympic Record: 21.30s Cesar Cielho Filho BRA 16 August 2008

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Men's Swimming

Men's 100m Freestyle

1 Alain Bernard FRA 47.21 1 James Magnussen AUS 47.49

2 Eamon Sullivan AUS 47.32 2 César Cielo Filho BRA 47.84

3 Jason Lezak USA 47.67 3 Brent Hayden CAN 47.95

3 César Cielo Filho BRA 47.67 4 William Meynard FRA 48.00

5 Pieter van den Hoogenband NED 47.75 5 Nathan Adrian USA 48.08

6 Lyndon Ferns RSA 48.04 6 Michael Phelps USA 48.13

7 Matt Targett AUS 48.20 7 Fabien Gilot FRA 48.13

8 Stefan Nystrand SWE 48.33 8 Graeme Moore RSA 48.15

1 James Magnussen AUS 47.63 1 James Magnussen AUS 47.10

2 Brent Hayden CAN 47.95 2 James Roberts AUS 47.63

3 William Meynard FRA 48.00 3 Yannick Agnel FRA 48.02

4 César Cielo Filho BRA 48.01 4 Nathan Adrian USA 48.10

5 Fabien Gilot FRA 48.13 5 Nikita Lobintsev RUS 48.21

6 Nathan Adrian USA 48.23 6 Danila Izotov RUS 48.27

7 Luca Dotto ITA 48.24 7 César Cielo Filho BRA 48.28

8 Sebastiaan Verschuren NED 48.27 8 Andrey Grechin RUS 48.29


1 Michael Phelps USA 1:43.00 1 Ryan Lochte USA 1:44.44

2 Park Tae-Hwan KOR 1:44.90 2 Michael Phelps USA 1:44.79

3 Peter Vanderkaay USA 1:45.10 3 Paul Biedermann GER 1:44.88

4 Jean Basson RSA 1:45.97 4 Park Tae-Hwan KOR 1:44.92

5 Paul Biedermann GER 1:46.00 5 Yannick Angel FRA 1:44.99

6 Dominik Meichtry SUI 1:46.95 5 Sun Yang CHN 1:44.99

7 Yoshihiro Okumura JPN 1:47.10 7 Wang Shun CHN 1:46.14

8 Robbie Renwick GBR 1:47.50 7 Danila Izotov RUS 1:46.14

1 Ryan Lochte USA 1:44.44 1 Yannick Angel FRA 1:44.42

2 Michael Phelps USA 1:44.79 2 Michael Phelps USA 1:45.69

3 Paul Biedermann GER 1:44.88 3 Ryan Lochte USA 1:45.75

4 Park Tae-Hwan KOR 1:44.92 4 Takeshi Matsuda JPN 1:45.96

5 Yannick Angel FRA 1:44.99 5 Sun Yang CHN 1:46.05

6 Nikita Lobintsev RUS 1:46.57 6 Park Tae-Hwan KOR 1:46.09

7 Dominik Meichtry SUI 1:47.02 7 Paul Biedermann GER 1:46.27

8 Danila Izotov RUS 1:47.46 8 Danila Izotov RUS 1:46.56


1 Park Tae-Hwan KOR 3:41.86 1 Sun Yang CHN 3:40.29

2 Zhang Lin CHN 3:42.44 2 Park Tae-Hwan KOR 3:42.04

3 Larsen Jensen USA 3:42.78 3 Yannick Agnel FRA 3:43.85

4 Peter Vanderkaay USA 3:43.11 4 Paul Biedermann GER 3:44.14

5 Oussama Mellouli TUN 3:43.45 5 Peter Vanderkaay USA 3:44.83

6 Grant Hackett AUS 3:43.84 6 Ryan Napoleon AUS 3:45.16

7 Yuriy Prilukov RUS 3:43.97 7 Ryan Cochrane CAN 3:45.17

8 Nikita Lobintsev RUS 3:48.29 8 Oussama Mellouli TUN 3:45.31

1 Park Tae-Hwan KOR 3:42.04 1 Sun Yang CHN 3:42.31

2 Sun Yang CHN 3:43.24 2 Park Tae-Hwan KOR 3:44.96

3 Paul Biedermann GER 3:44.14 3 Li Yunqi CHN 3:45.49

4 Peter Vanderkaay USA 3:44.83 4 Hao Yun CHN 3:45.69

5 Ryan Cochrane CAN 3:45.17 5 Yannick Angel FRA 3:46.14

6 Yannick Agnel FRA 3:45.24 6 David Mckeon AUS 3:46.36

7 Oussama Mellouli TUN 3:45.31 7 Robbie Renwick GBR 3:46.73

8 Sebastien Rouault FRA 3:47.66 8 Pal Joensen FAR (DEN) 3:46.84

World Record: 46.91s Cesar Cielho Filho BRA 30 July 2009

Olympic Record: 47.05s Eamon Sullivan AUS 13 August 2008

World Record: 1:42.00 Paul Biedermann GER 28 July 2009

Olympic Record: 1:42.96 Michael Phelps USA 12 August 2008

World Record: 3:40.07 Paul Biedermann GER 26 July 2009

Olympic Record: 3:40.59 Ian Thorpe AUS 15 September 2000







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1 Oussama Mellouli TUN 14:40.84 1 Sun Yang CHN ######

2 Grant Hackett AUS 14:41.53 2 Ryan Cochrane CAN ######

3 Ryan Cochrane CAN 14:42.69 3 Gergo Kis HUN ######

4 Yuriy Prilukov RUS 14:43.21 4 Pal Joensen FAR (DEN) ######

5 Larsen Jensen USA 14:48.16 5 Chad La Tourette ISA ######

6 David Davies GBR 14:52.11 6 Peter Vanderkaay USA ######

7 Zhang Lin CHN 14:55.2 7 Samuel Pizzetti ITA ######

8 Sun Yang CHN 15:05.12 8 Wang Shun CHN ######

1 Sun Yang CHN 14:34.14 1 Sun Yang CHN ######

2 Ryan Cochrane CAN 14:44.46 2 Park Tae-Hwan KOR ######

3 Gergo Kis HUN 14:45.66 3 Gregorio Pattrinieri ITA ######

4 Pal Joensen FAR (DEN) 14:46.33 4 Andrew Gemmell USA ######

5 Chad La Tourette USA 14:52.36 5 Conner Jaeger USA ######

6 Peter Vanderkaay USA 15:00.47 6 Daniel Fogg GBR ######

7 Samuel Pizzetti ITA 15:15.81 7 Chad La Tourette USA ######

8 Yohsuke Miyamoto JPN 15:20.67 8 Gergo Kis HUN ######

Men's 10km Marathon

1 Maarten van der Weijden NED 1:51:51.6 1 Spyridon Gianniotis GRE1:54:24.

72 David Davies GBR 1:51:53.1 2 Thomas Lurz GER

1:54.27.2

3 Thomas Lurz GER 1:51:53.6 3 Sergey Bolshakov RUS1:54:31.

84 Valerio Cleri ITA 1:52:07.5 4 Alex Mayer USA

1:54:33.1

5 Evgeny Drattsev RUS 1:52:08.9 5 Ky Hurst AUS1:54:33.

96 Petar Stoychev BUL 1:52:09.1 6 Francisco Jodar ESP

1:54:34.3

7 Brian Ryckeman BEL 1:52:10.7 7 Brian Ryckeman BEL1:54:36.

18 Mark Warkentin USA 1:52:13.0 8 Julien Sauvage FRA

1:54:37.2

Men's 100m Backstroke

1 Aaron Peirsol USA 52.54 1 Camille Lacourt FRA 52.44

2 Matt Grevers USA 53.11 2 Jeremy Stravius FRA 52.76

3 Arkady Vyatchanin RUS 53.18 3 Ryosuke Irie JPN 52.83

3 Hayden Stoeckel AUS 53.18 4 Nick Thoman USA 53.01

5 Ashley Delaney AUS 53.31 5 David Plummer USA 53.04

6 Liam Tancock GBR 53.39 6 Matt Grevers USA 53.14

7 Aschwin Wildeboer ESP 53.51 7 Helge Meeuw GER 53.22

8 Junichi Miyashita JPN 53.99 8 Liam Tancock GBR 53.25

1 Camille Lacourt FRA 52.76 1 Matt Grevers USA 52.08

1 Jeremy Stravius FRA 52.76 2 Camille Lacourt FRA 52.75

3 Ryosuke Irie JPN 52.98 3 Nick Thoman USA 52.86

4 Nick Thoman USA 53.01 4 Ryosuke Irie JPN 52.91

5 David Plummer USA 53.04 5 David Plummer USA 52.98

6 Liam Tancock GBR 53.25 6 Dben Hesen USA 53.03

7 Helge Meeuw GER 53.28 7 Liam Tancock GBR 53.58

8 Gareth Kean NZL 53.50 8 Gareth Kean NZL 53.73

World Record: 14:34.14 Sun Yang CHN 31 July 2011

Olympic Record: 14:38.92 Grant Hackett AUS 15 August 2008

World Record: 51.94s Aaron Peirsol USA 8 July 2009

Olympic Record: 52.54s Aaron Peirsol USA 12 August 2008






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Men's 200m Backstroke

1 Ryan Lochte USA 1:53.94 1 Ryan Lochte USA 1:52.96

2 Aaron Peirsol USA 1:54.33 2 Ryosuke Irie JPN 1:54.08

3 Arkady Vyatchanin RUS 1:54.93 3 Tyler Clary USA 1:54.69

4 Markus Rogan AUT 1:55.49 4 Yuuki Shirai JPN 1:56.26

5 Ryosuke Irie JPN 1:55.72 5 Zhang Fenglin CHN 1:56.34

6 Hayden Stoeckel AUS 1:56.39 6 Radoslaw Kawecki POL 1:56.90

7 Razvan Ionut Florea ROM 1:56.52 7 Michael Phelps USA 1:57.05

8 Gregor Tait GBR 1:57.00 8 James Goddard GBR 1:57.08

1 Ryan Lochte USA 1:52.96 1 Ryosuke Irie JPN 1:54.02

2 Ryosuke Irie JPN 1:54.11 2 Ryan Lochte USA 1:54.54

3 Tyler Clary USA 1:54.69 3 Tyler Clary USA 1:54.88

4 Zhang Fenglin CHN 1:56.39 4 Radoslaw Kawecki POL 1:55.28

5 Radoslaw Kawecki POL 1:57.33 5 Jan-Philip Glania GER 1:55.87

6 Stanislav Donets RUS 1:57.36 6 Peter Bemek HUN 1:55.88

7 Sebastiano Ranfagni ITA 1:57.49 7 Benjamin Stastulis FRA 1:56.39

8 Kazuki Watanabe JPN 1:57.82 8 Kazuki Watanabe JPN 1:56.83

Men's 100m Breaststroke

1 Kosuke Kitajima JPN 58.91 1 Alexander Dale Oen NOR 58.71

2 Alexander Dale Oen NOR 59.20 2 Fabio Scozzoli ITA 59.42

3 Hugues Duboscq FRA 59.37 3 Kosuke Kitajima JPN 59.44

4 Brendan Hansen USA 59.57 4 Cameron van der Burgh RSA 59.49

5 Brenton Rickard AUS 59.74 5 Yuta Suanaga JPN 59.93

6 Roman Sloudnov RUD 59.87 6 Glenn Snyders NZL 59.94

7 Igor Borysik UKR 1:00.20 7 Felipe Silva BRA 1:00.01

8 Mark Gangloff USA 1:00.24 8 Brenton Rickard AUS 1:00.04

1 Alexander Dale Oen NOR 58.71 1 Kosuke Kitajima JPN 58.90

2 Fabio Scozzoli ITA 59.42 2 Ryo Tateishi JPN 59.60

3 Cameron van der Burgh RSA 59.49 3 Filipe Silva BRA 59.63

4 Kosuke Kitajima JPN 1:00.03 4 Brendan Hansen USA 59.68

5 Brenton Rickard AUS 1:00.11 5 Cameron van der Burgh RSA 59.90

6 Daniel Gyurta HUN 1:00.25 6 Christian Sprenger AUS 59.91

6 Giedrius Titenis LTU 1:00.25 7 Glenn Snyders NZL 1:00.04

8 Mark Gangloff USA 1:00.52 8 Daniel Silwinski GBR 1:00.09

Men's 200m Breaststroke

1 Kosuke Kitajima JPN 2:07.64 1 Naoya Tomita JPN 2:08.25

2 Brenton Rickard AUS 2:08.88 2 Daniel Gyurta HUN 2:08.41

3 Hugues Duboscq FRA 2:08.94 3 Kosuke Kitajima JPN 2:08.63

4 Mike Brown CAN 2:09.03 4 Christian vom Lehn GER 2:08.97

5 Dániel Gyurta HUN 2:09.22 5 Eric Shanteau USA 2:09.28

6 Scott Spann USA 2:09.76 6 Brendan Hansen USA 2:09.64

7 Loris Facci ITA 2:10.57 7 Kazuki Otsuka JPN 2:09.94

8 Paolo Bossini ITA 2:11.48 8 Kristopher Gilchrist GBR 2:10.16

1 Daniel Gyurta HUN 2:08.40 1 Kosuke Kitajima JPN 2:08.00

2 Kosuke Kitajima JPN 2:08.63 2 Ryo Tateishi JPN 2:08.17

3 Christian vom Lehn GER 2:09.06 3 Daniel Gyurta HUN 2:08.60

4 Eric Shanteau USA 2:09.28 4 Marco Koch GER 2:08.74

5 Michael Jamieson GBR 2:10.67 5 Scott Weltz USA 2:09.01

6 Giedrius Titenis LTU 2:11.07 6 Akhiro Yamaguchi JPN 2:09.22

7 Choi Kyu-Woong KOR 2:11.17 7 Andrew Willis GBR 2:09.33

8 Andrew Willis GBR 2:11.29 8 Panagotis Samilidis GRE 2:09.72





World Record: 2:07.31 Christian Sprenger AUS 30 July 2009

Olympic Record: 2:07.64 Kosuke Kitajima JPN 14 August 2008

World Record: 1:51.92 Aaron Peirsol USA 31 July 2009

Olympic Record: 1:53.94 Ryan Lochte USA 15 August 2008

World Record: 58.58s Brenton Rickard AUS 27 July 2009

Olympic Record: 58.91s Kosuke Kitajima JPN 11 August 2008



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Men's 100m Butterfly

1 Michael Phelps USA 50.58 1 Michael Phelps USA 50.71

2 Milorad Čavić SER 50.59 2 Konrad Czerniak POL 51.15

3 Andrew Lauterstein AUS 51.12 3 Tyler McGil USA 51.26

4 Ian Crocker USA 51.13 4 Jason Dunford KEN 51.59

5 Jason Dunford KEN 51.47 5 Benjamin Starke GER 51.65

6 Takuro Fujii JPN 51.50 6 Takuro Fujii JPN 51.69

7 Andriy Serdinov UKR 51.59 6 Tim Phillips USA 51.69

8 Ryan Pini PNG 51.86 8 Evgeny Korotyshkin RUS 51.77

1 Michael Phelps USA 50.71 1 Michael Phelps USA 51.14

2 Konrad Czerniak POL 51.15 2 Alexander Sukhorukov RUS 51.31

3 Tyler McGil USA 51.26 3 Tyler McGill USA 51.32

4 Jason Dunford KEN 51.59 4 Milorad Cavic SRB 51.45

5 Takuro Fujii JPN 51.75 5 Ryan Lochte USA 51.65

6 Yevgeny Korotyshkin RUS 51.81 6 Chris Wright AUS 51.67

7 Joeri Verlinden NED 52.21 7 Laszlo Cseh HUN 51.77

8 Geoff Huegill AUS 52.36 8 Tom Shields USA 51.86

Men's 200m Butterfly


2 László Cseh HUN 1:52.70 2 Takeshi Matsuda JPN 1:54.01

3 Takeshi Matsuda JPN 1:52.97 3 Wu Peng CHN 1:54.67

4 Moss Burmester NZL 1:54.35 4 Bence Piczo HUN 1:54.79

5 Peng Wu CHN 1:54.35 5 Chen Yin CHN 1:54.80

6 Paweł Korzeniowski POL 1:54.60 6 Dinko Jukic AUT 1:54.94

7 Kaio de Almeida BRA 1:54.71 7 Chad le Clos RSA 1:55.07

8 Nikolay Skvortsov RUS 1:55.14 8 Yuki Kobori JPN 1:55.08


2 Takeshi Matsuda JPN 1:54.01 2 Takeshi Matsuda JPN 1:54.01

3 Wu Peng CHN 1:54.67 3 Nick D'Arcy AUS 1:54.71

4 Chen Yin CHN 1:55.00 4 Laszlo Cseh HUN 1:54.95

5 Chad le Clos RSA 1:55.07 5 Tyler Clary USA 1:55.12

6 Pawel Korzeniowski POL 1:55.39 6 Chad le Clos RSA 1:55.30

7 Dinko Jukic AUT 1:55.48 7 Kazuya Kaneda JPN 1:55.39

8 Bence Biczo HUN 1:55.53 8 Kalo Almeida BRA 1:55.59

2012 World Leading

World Record: 49.82s Michael Phelps USA 1 August 2009

Olympic Record: 50.58s Michael Phelps USA 16 August 2008

World Record: 1:51.51 Michael Phelps USA 19 July 2009






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Men's Swimming

Men's 200m IM


2 László Cseh HUN 1:56.52 2 Michael Phelps USA 1:54.16

3 Ryan Lochte USA 1:56.53 3 Thiago Pereira BRA 1:57.35

4 Thiago Pereira BRA 1:58.14 4 Laszlo Cseh HUN 1:57.66

5 Ken Takakuwa JPN 1:58.22 5 Markus Rogan AUT 1:57.74

6 James Goddard GBR 1:58.24 6 James Goddard GBR 1:57.79

7 Keith Beavers CAN 1:59.43 7 Joe Roebuck GBR 1:58.28

8 Liam Tancock GBR 2:00.76 8 Wang Shun CHN 1:58.56

1 Ryan Lochte USA 1:54.00 1 Michael Phelps USA 1:54.84


3 Laszlo Cseh HUN 1:57.69 3 Laszlo Cseh HUN 1:56.66

4 James Goddard GBR 1:57.79 4 Thiago Pereira BRA 1:57.11

5 Markus Rogan AUT 1:58.14 5 Marcus Deibler GER 1:57.82

6 Thiago Pereira BRA 1:59.00 6 James Goddard GBR 1:57.84

7 Kenneth To AUS 1:59.26 7 Kosuke Hagino JPN 1:58.01

8 Yuya Horihata JPN 1:59.52 8 Joe Roebuck GBR 1:58.16

Men's 400m IM


2 Laszlo Cseh HUN 4:06.16 2 Tyler Clary USA 4:11.17

3 Ryan Lochte USA 4:08.09 3 Laszlo Cseh HUN 4:11.22

4 Alessio Boggiatto ITA 4:12.16 4 Wang Shun CHN 4:11.61

5 Luca Marin ITA 4:12.47 5 David Verraszto HUN 4:11.71

6 Gergo Kis HUN 4:12.84 6 Wang Cheng Xiang CHN 4:11.89

7 Brian Johns CAN 4:13.38 7 Yuya Horihata JPN 4:11.98

8 Thiago Pereira BRA 4:15.40 8 Huang Chaosheng BRA 4:12.52

1 Ryan Lochte USA 4:07.13 1 Ryan Lochte USA 4:07.06

2 Tyler Clary USA 4:11.17 2 Michael Phelps USA 4:07.89

3 Yuya Horihata JPN 4:11.98 3 Tyler Clary USA 4:09.92

4 Huang Chaosheng CHN 4:13.62 4 Kosuke Hagino JPN 4:10.26

5 Ioannis Drymonakos GRE 4:14.62 5 Yuya Horihata JPN 4:10.52

6 David Verraszto HUN 4:15.67 6 Thomas Fraser-Holmes AUS 4:11.81

7 Wang Cheng Xiang CHN 4:15.89 7 Yang Zhixian CHN 4:11.92

8 Roberto Pavoni GBR 4:19.85 8 Wang Chengxlang CHN 4:12.02

2008 Olympics

World Record: 1:54.00 Ryan Lochte USA 28 July 2011


World Record: 4:03.84 Michael Phelps USA 10 August 2008


2011 World Leading Time




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Men's Swimming

Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Michael Phelps James Magnussen

Garrett Weber-Gale Matthew Targett

Cullen Jones Matthew Abood

Jason Lesak Eamon Sullivan

Ameury Leveaux Alain Bernard

Fabien Gilot Jeremy Stravius

Frederick Bousquet William Meynard

Alain Bernard Fabien Gilot

Eamon Sullivan Michael Phelps

Fabien Lausterstein Garrett Weber-Gale

Ashley Callus Jason Lesak

Matt Targett Nathan Adrian

Alessandro Calvi Luca Dotto

Christian Galenda Marco Orsi

Marco Belotti Michele Santucci

Filippo Magnini Filippo Magnini

Petter Stymne Evgeny Lagunov

Lars Frolander Andrey Grechin

Stefan Nystrand Nikita Lobintsev

Jaonas Persson Sergey Fesikov

Brent Hayden Graeme Moore

Joel Greenshields Darian Townsend

Colin Russell Gideon Louw

Rick Say Leith Shankland

Lyndon Ferns Markus Deibler

Darian Townsend Benjamin Starke

Roland Schoeman Christophe Fildebrandt

Ryk Neethling Marco di Carli

Simon Burnett Adam Brown

Adam Brown Liam Tancock

Ben Hockin Grant Turner

Ross Davenport Simon Burnett

James Magnussen 47.10

James Roberts 47.63

Matt Targett 48.32

Eamon Sullivan 48.53

William Meynard 48.00

Yannick Agnel 48.02

Fabian Gilot 48.13

Alain Bernard 48.37

Nathan Adrian 48.05

Michael Phelps 48.08

Cullen Jones 48.46

Jimmy Feigen 48.48

Nikita Lobintsev 48.21

Danila Izotov 48.27

Andrey Grechin 48.29

Vladimir Morozov 48.56

Marco Di Carli 48.24

Paul Biedermann 48.66

Christoph Fildebrandt 48.84

Markus Deibler 48.88

Cesar Cielo Filho 47.84

Bruno Fratus 48.72

Nicholas Santos 49.11

Marcelo Chierighini 49.24

Luca Dotto 48.24

Filippo Magnini 48.36

Michele Santucci 49.14

Marco Orsi 49.30

Kenta Ito 48.78

Shinri Shioura 48.85

Takuro Fujii 48.88

Kenji Kobase 49.31

World Record: 3:08.24 United States 10 August 2008

Australia

France

Russia 3:12.99

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

3:14.91

3:15.04

3:15.82

3:13.07

3:13.33

3:14.62

Italy

Japan

United States

Russia

Germany

Brazil

1

2

6 South Africa 3:13.38

7 Germany 3:15.01

8Great

Britain3:12.87


3:11.58

3:12.52

6 Canada 3:12.26


2 France 3:08.32 France 3:11.14

3United States

3:11.96

8Great

Britain3:15.03

5 Sweden 3:11.92

3 Australia 3:09.91

4 Italy 3:12.394 Italy 3:11.48

5


1 Australia 3:11.00

2008 Olympics

1United States

3:08.24

Olympic Record: 3:08.24 United States 10 August 2008

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Men's Swimming

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Michael Phelps Michael Phelps

Ryan Lochte Peter Vanderkaay

Rickey Berens Ricky Berens

Peter Vanderkaay Ryan Lochte

Nikitya Lobintsev Yannick Agnel

Evgeny Lagunnov Gregory Mallet

Danila Izotov Jeremy Stravius

Alaxander Sukhorukov Fabien Gilot

Patrick Murphy Wang Shun

Grant Hackett Zhang Lin

Grant Brits Li Yunqi

Nic Ffrost Sun Yang

Marco Belotti Paul Biedermann

Emiliano Brembilla Tim Wallburger

Massimiliano Rosolino Christoph Fildebrandt

Filippo Magnini Benjamin Starke

Colin Russell Thomas Fraser-Holmes

Brian Johns Kenrick Monk

Brent Hayden Kjarrod Killey

Andrew Hurd Ryan Napoleon

David Carry Ross Davenport

Andrew Hunter David Carry

Robert Renwick Jak Scott

Ross Davenport Robert Renwick

Yoshihiro Okumura Takeshi Matsuda

Sho Uchida Shogo Hihara

Yasunori Mononobe Yuki Kobori

Hisato Matsumote Yoshihiro Okumura

Jean Basson Gianluca Maglia

Darian Townsend Filippo Magnini

Jan Venter Marco Belotti

Sebastien Rousseau Samuel Pizzetti

Ryan Lochte 1:44.44

Michael Phelps 1:44.79

Peter Vanderkaay 1:46.45

Ricky Berens 1:46.56

Yannick Agnel 1:44.42

Amaury Leveaux 1:46.72

Gregory Mallet 1:46.77

Clement Lefert 1:46.90

Sun Yang 1:44.99

Wang Shun 1:46.14

Li Yunqi 1:47.02

Hao Yun 1:47.48

Danila Izotov 1:46.14

Nikita Lobintsev 1:46.57

Artem Lobuzov 1:47.43

Evgeny Lagunov 1:47.47

Paul Biedermann 1:44.88

Clemens Rapp 1:47.57

Dmitry Colupaev 1:47.58

Tim Wallberger 1:47.61

Thomas Fraser-Holmes 1:46.88

Kenrick Monk 1:47.16

David Mckeon 1:47.55

Ned McKendry 1:47.61

Takeshi Matsuda 1:45.96

Yuki Kobori 1:47.37

Syo Sotodate 1:48.15

Chiaki Ishibashi 1:48.16

Robbie Renwick 1:47.25

Ross Davenport 1:47.31

Ieuan Lloyd 1:47.55

Robert Bale 1:47.85

South Africa 7:12.87 8 Italy 7:12.26

3 China 7:05.63

4 Russia 7:07.61


1United States

7:02.24

2 France 7:04.81

8Great

Britain7:09.96

5 Germany 7:07.64

6 Australia 7:09.20

7 Japan 7:09.64

7 Japan 7:12.66 7 Japan 7:10.92

8

6Great

Britain7:12.26 6

Great Britain

7:10.84

5 Canada 7:11.92 5 Australia 7:08.48

4 Italy 7:11.48 4 Germany 7:08.32

3 Russia 7:09.91 3 China 7:05.67

7:02.67

2 France 7:08.32 2 France 7:04.81


1United States


World Record: 6:58.55 United States 31 July 2009


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Men's Swimming

Men's 4x100m Medley Relay

Aaron Piersol Nick Thoman

Brendan Hansen Mark Gangloff

Michael Phelps Michael Phelps

Jason Lezak Nathan Adrian

Hayden Stoekel Hayden Stoekel

Brenton Rickard Brenton Rickard

Andrew Lauterstein Geoff Huegill

Eamon Sullivan James Magnussen

Junichi Miyashita Helge Meeuw

Kosuke Kitajima Hendrik Feldwehr

Takuro Fujii Benjamin Starke

Hisayoshi Sato Paul Biedermann

Arkady Vyatchanin Ryosuke Irie

Roman Sludnov Kosuke Kitajima

Evgeny Korotyshkin Takuro Fujii

Evgeny Lagunov Shogo Hihara

Daniel Bell Nick Driebergen

Glenn Snyders Lennart Stekelenburg

Corney Swanepoel Joeri Verlinden

Cameron Gibson Sebastiaan Verschuren

Liam Tancock Liam Tancock

Chris Cook Michael Jamieson

Michael Rock Antony James

Simon Burnett Adam Brown

Gerhard Zandburg Charles Francis

Cameron van der Burgh Andrew Dickens

Lyndon Ferns Joseph Bartoch

Darian Townsend Brent Hayden

Mirco di Tora Marcin Tarczynski

Loris Facci Dawid Szulich

Mattia Nalesso Pawel Korzeniowski

Filippo Magnini Konrad Czerniak

Matt Grevers 52.08

Brendan Hansen 59.68

Michael Phelps 50.71

Nathan Adrian 48.05

Ryosuke Irie 52.83

Kosuke Kitajima 58.90

Takuro Fujii 51.69

Kenta Ito 48.78

Hayden Stoeckel 53.70

Christian Spenger 59.91

Chris Wright 51.67

James Magnussen 47.10

Camille Lacourt 52.44

Hugues Duboscq 1:00.38

Clement Lefert 52.48

William Meynard 48.00

Thiago Pereira 53.86

Felipe Silva 59.63

Kaio Almeida 52.11

Cesar Cielo Filho 47.84

Helge Meeuw 53.22

Hendrik Feldwehr 1:00.48

Benjamin Starke 51.65

Marco Di Carlo 48.24

Charl Crous 54.17

Cameron van der Burgh 59.49

Chad Le Clos 52.17

Graeme Moore 48.15

Stanislav Donets 53.85

Roman Sludnov 1:00.69

Alexander Sukhorukov 51.31

Nikita Lobintsev 48.21

World Record: 3:27.28 United States 2 August 2009



8 Russia 3:34.06

5 Brazil 3:33.44

6 Germany 3:33.59

3 Australia 3:32.38

4 France 3:33.30


1United States

3:30.52

2 Japan 3:32.20

8 Italy DNF 8 Poland 3:37.44

7 South Africa 3:33.70 7 Canada 3:36.80

6Great

Britain3:33.69 6

Great Britain

3:36.58

5New

Zealand3:33.39 5 Netherlands 3:34.11

4 Russia 3:31.92 4 Japan 3:32.89

3 Japan 3:31.18 3 Germany 3:32.60

2 Australia 3:30.04 2 Australia 3:32.26


1United States


3:32.06

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Women's Swimming

Women's 50m Freestyle

1 Britta Steffen GER 24.06 1 Therese Alshammer SWE 24.14

2 Dara Torres USA 24.07 2 Ranomi Kromowidjojo NED 24.27

3 Cate Campbell AUS 24.17 3 Marleen Veldhuis NED 24.39

4 Lisbeth Trickett AUS 24.25 4 Allaksandra Hereaslmenia BLR 24.57

5 Marleen Veldhuis NED 24.26 5 Fran Halsall GBR 24.60

6 Kara Lynn Joyce USA 24.63 6 Jeanetta Ottesen DEN 24.61

7 Hinkelien Schreuder NED 24.65 7 Britta Steffen GER 24.67

8 Aleksandra Gerasimenya BEL 24.77 8 Inge Dekker NED 24.69

1 Therese Alshammer SWE 24.14 1 Ranomi Kromowidjojo NED 24.10

2 Ranomi Kromowidjojo NED 24.27 2 Fran Halsall GBR 24.13

3 Marleen Veldhuis NED 24.49 3 Marleen Veldhuis NED 24.32

4 Fran Halsall GBR 24.60 4 Inge Dekker NED 24.42

5 Allaksandra Heraslmenia BLR 24.65 5 Cate Campbell AUS 24.44

6 Jeanetta Ottesen DEN 24.67 6 Therese Alshammer SWE 24.44

7 A. Vanderpool-Wallace BAH 24.79 7 Bronte Campbell AUS 24.61

8 Jess Hardy USA 24.87 8 Sarah Sjoestroem SWE 24.63

What were you doing during your summer holidays when you were 16 years old? Missy Franklin (USA) was at the World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai winning three gold medals, a silver and a bronze. Although women’s swimming is no stranger to teenagers kicking up a storm, Missy Franklin may be set to better them all. At 6’1” and with US size 13 feet, the Californian from Pasadena is better suited than most to take to the water. Sheltered slightly from the media attention by the Ph-ochte battle, Missy's shouldn’t have too much pressure heaped on her but her seven events should provide ample opportunity to start off a medal tally that could, in time, threaten even the great Michael Phelps.

As the fastest women in America over 100m freestyle, three of Missy Franklin’s races will come in the relays. Here the American women shouldn’t be challenged over the 4x200m free or the 4x100m medley. The 4x100m freestyle is much harder to predict. The Dutch have made it their speciality for the past decade and on paper have the fastest team, but the Australians, Americans and possibly even Germans should

push them down to the wire.

Franklin is also in the 100m and 200m freestyle. Here she is unlikely to feature for medals as the competition will likely be just too intense. Holland's Ranomi Kromowidijojo has set some blisteringly fast times in the 50m and 100m freestyle this year, but in these splash-and-dash events the margins are tiny and a number of women, including Britain’s Fran Halsall and 18 year old Swede Sarah Sjoestroem, will be hard on her heels. In the 200m free Sjoestroem will again feature alongside reigning Olympic and world champion Federica Pellegrini (ITA), USA’s Allison Schmitt and France’s Camille Muffat.

In the longer 400m and 800m freestyle we can again watch GB's Rebecca Adlington go for the double. Adlington suffered with the pressure after Beijing but seems to have dealt with her inner demons this year. She looked outstanding at the British trials in February and, as in

Beijing, will be favourite in the 800m and well in contention in the 400m. Also in need of a mention is the open water 10k event which sees aBritish world champion, Keri-Anne Payne, take to the Serpentine Lake. Payne doesn’t do tactics in this marathon event but leads from the

front and tries to hang on. It worked last year and may well work again.

The backstroke – 100m and 200m – should see two individual golds for Missy Franklin but Anastasia Zueva (RUS) will capitalise on any slip ups. Rebecca Soni (USA) leads the world in breaststroke having set two fantastic times in the US Olympic trials; if she can reproduce them, she should be able to repeat the double she achieved at last year’s World Championships.

The butterfly and individual medley events look wide open in London. In the 100m fly the list includes yet another American, Dana Vollmer, Sarah Sjoestroem, Britain’s Fran Halsall and Ellen Gandy and more. In the 200m an East Asian contingent of Japan’s Natsumi Hoshi and

China’s Jiao Liuyang and Gong Jie lead the ranking but Britian’s Ellen Gandy and Jemma Lowe look like they have the times needed to bring home medals. Elizabeth Beisel (USA) took the field apart in last year’s World Championships on the 400m IM but her competitors have

closed into her mark. One of these is Hannah Miley; the charismatic Scot, whose diminuitive figure cuts a stark contrast to her competitors, would be one of the most popular winners on the British team. Australia’s best chance for an individual gold medal comes from Stephanie

Rice in the 200m IM.

World Record: 23.73s Britta Steffen GER 2 August 2009

Olympic Record: 24.06s Britta Steffen GER 17 August 2008


2011 World Championships 2012 World Leading Time

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Women's Swimming


1 Britta Steffen GER 53.12 1 Sarah Sjoestroem SWE 53.05

2 Lisbeth Trickett AUS 53.16 2 Jeanette Ottesen DEN 53.45

3 Natalie Coughlin USA 53.39 2 Allaksandra Heraslmenia BLR 53.45

4 Hanna-Maria Seppälä FIN 53.97 4 Fran Halsall GBR 53.48

5 Jeanette Ottesen DEN 54.06 5 Femke Heemskerk NED 53.60

6 Yingwen Zhu CHN 54.21 5 Ranomi Kromowidjojo NED 53.60

6 Marleen Veldhuis NED 54.21 7 Missy Franklin USA 53.30

8 Francesca Halsall GBR 54.29 8 Alicia Coutts AUS 53.78

1 Jeanette Ottesen DEN 53.45 1 Ranomi Kromowidjojo NED 52.75

1 Allaksandra Heraslmenia BLR 53.45 2 Sarah Sjoestroem SWE 53.29

3 Ranomi Kromowidjojo NED 53.66 3 Fran Halsall GBR 53.57

4 Fran Halsall GBR 53.72 4 Britta Steffen GER 53.68

4 Femke Heemskerk NED 53.72 5 Tang Yi CHN 53.71

6 Alicia Coutts AUS 53.81 6 Melanie Schlanger AUS 53.74

7 Dana Vollmer USA 54.19 7 Cate Campbell AUS 53.84

8 Natalie Coughlin USA 54.22 8 Jeanette Ottesen DEN 53.90


1 Federica Pellegrini ITA 1:54.82 1 Missy Franklin USA 1:55.06

2 Sara Isakovic SLO 1:54.97 2 Femke Heemskerk NED 1:55.54

3 Jiaying Pang CHN 1:55.05 3 Federica Pellegrini ITA 1:55.58

4 Katie Hoff USA 1:55.78 4 Kylie Palmer AUS 1:55.73

5 Camelia Alina Potec ROM 1:56.87 5 Bronte Barratt AUS 1:55.74

6 Caitlin McClatchey GBR 1:57.65 6 Allison Schmitt USA 1:55.82

7 Bronte Barratt AUS 1:57.83 7 Camille Muffat FRA 1:55.95

7 Ophelie-Cyrielle Etienne FRA 1:57.83 8 Sarah Sjoestroem SWE 1:56.41

1 Federica Pellegrini ITA 1:55.58 1 Allison Schmitt USA 1:54.40

2 Kylie Palmer AUS 1:56.04 2 Camille Muffat FRA 1:54.87

3 Camille Muffat FRA 1:56.10 3 Sarah Sjostrom SWE 1:55.23

4 Sarah Sjoestreom SWE 1:56.41 4 Bronte Barratt AUS 1:55.99

5 Bronte Barratt AUS 1:56.60 5 Kylie Palmer AUS 1:56.04

6 Allison Schmitt USA 1:56.98 6 Federica Pellegrini ITA 1:56.32

7 Femke Heemskerk NED 1:57.63 7 Femke Heemskerk NED 1:56.54

8 Silke Lippok GER 1:58.26 8 Melanie Schlanger AUS 1:56.73


1 Rebecca Adlington GBR 4:03.22 1 Federica Pellegrini ITA 4:01.97

2 Katie Hoff USA 4:03.29 2 Rebecca Adlington GBR 4:02.84

3 Joanne Jackson GBR 4:03.52 3 Camille Muffat FRA 4:03.23

4 Coralie Balmy FRA 4:03.60 4 Kylie Palmer AUS 4:04.29

5 Federica Pellegrini ITA 4:04.56 5 Bronte Barratt AUS 4:04.36

6 Camelia Alina Potec ROM 4:04.66 6 Shao Yiwen CHN 4:04.59

7 Bronte Barratt AUS 4:05.05 7 Li Xuanxu CHN 4:04.62

8 Laure Manaudou FRA 4:11.26 8 Lotte Friis DEN 4:04.68

1 Federica Pellegrini ITA 4:01.97 1 Camille Muffat FRA 4:01.13

2 Rebecca Adlington GBR 4:04.01 2 Rebecca Adlington GBR 4:02.35

3 Camille Muffat FRA 4:04.06 3 Allison Schmitt USA 4:02.84

4 Kylie Palmer AUS 4:04.62 4 Kylie Palmer AUS 4:03.40

5 Lotte Friis DEN 4:04.68 5 Chloe Sutton USA 4:04.18

6 Lauren Boyle NZL 4:06.11 6 Katie Ledecky USA 4:05.00

7 Katie Hoff USA 4:08.22 7 Coralie Balmy FRA 4:05.31

8 Melania Costa Schmid ESP 4:09.66 8 Mireia Bemonte Garcia ESP 4:05.45

World Record: 52.07s Britta Steffen GER 31 July 2009

Olympic Record: 53.12s Britta Steffen GER 15 August 2008

World Record: 1:52.98 Federica Pellegrini ITA 29 July 2009

Olympic Record: 1:54.82 Federica Pellegrini ITA 13 August 2008

World Record: 3:59.15 Federica Pellegrini ITA 26 July 2009

Olympic Record: 4:02.19 Federica Pellegrini ITA 10 August 2008







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Women's Swimming



2 Alessia Filippi ITA 8:20.23 2 Lotte Friis DEN 8:18.20

3 Lotte Friis DEN 8:23.03 3 Mirela Belmonte Garcia ESP 8:22.78

4 Camelia Alina Potec ROM 8:23.11 4 Kate Zeigler USA 8:23.36

5 Li Xuanxu CHN 8:26.34 5 Li Xuanxu CHN 8:23.96

6 Kylie Palmer AUS 8:26.39 6 Chloe Sutton USA 8:24.05

7 Elena Sokolova RUS 8:29.79 7 Shao Yiwen CHN 8:24.78

8 Cassandra Patten GBR 8:32.35 8 Boglarka Kapas HUN 8:24.79


2 Lotte Friis DEN 8:18.20 2 Katie Ledecky USA 8:19,78

3 Kate Zeigler USA 8:23.36 3 Kate Ziegler USA 8:21.87

4 Chloe Sutton USA 8:24.05 4 Lotte Friis DEN 8:22.10

5 Boglarka Kapas HUN 8:24.79 5 Xin Xin CHN 8:22.76

6 Katie Goldman AUS 8:29.20 6 Mirela Belmonte Garcia ESP 8:24.23

7 Wendy Trott RSA 8:30.45 7 Wendy Trott RSA 8:25.71

8 Lauren Boyle NZL 8:32.72 8 Boglarka Kapas HUN 8:26.49

Women's 10km Marathon

1 Larisa Ilchenko RUS 1:59:27.7 1 Keri-Anne Payne GBR 2:01:58.1

2 Keri-Anne Payne GBR 1:59.29.2 2 Martina Grimaldi ITA 2:01:59.9

3 Cassandra Patten GBR 1:59.31.0 3 Marianna Lymperta GRE 2:02:01.8

4 Angela Maurer GER 1:59.31.9 4 Melissa Gorman AUS 2:02:12.0

5 Ana Cunha BRA 1:59.36.8 5 Cecilia Biagioli ARG 2:02:12.0

6 Swann Oberson SUI 1:59.36.9 6 Poliana Okimoto BRA 2:02:13.6

7 Poliana Okimoto BRA 1:59.37.4 7 Jana Pechanová CZE 2:02:13.8

8 Jana Pechanová CZE 1:59.39.7 8 Angela Maurer GER 2:02:15.1

Women's 100m Backstroke

1 Natalie Coughlin USA 58.96 1 Zhao Jing CHN 59.05

2 Kirsty Coventry ZIM 59.19 2 Anastasia Zueva RUS 59.06

3 Margaret Hoelzer USA 59.34 3 Natalie Coughlin USA 59.12

4 Gemma Spofforth GBR 59.38 4 Aya Terakawa JPN 59.17

5 Anastasia Zueva RUS 59.40 5 Missy Franklin USA 59.18

6 Reiko Nakamura JPN 59.72 6 Emily Seebohm AUS 59.21

7 Laure Manaudou FRA 1:00.10 7 Belinda Hocking AUS 59.53

8 Ito Hanae JPN 1:00.18 8 Rachel Bootsma USA 59.65

1 Zhao Jing CHN 59.05 1 Missy Franklin USA 58.85

2 Anastasia Zueva RUS 59.06 2 Anastasia Zueva RUS 58.97

3 Natalie Coughlin USA 59.15 3 Aya Terakawa JPN 59.10

4 Emily Seebohm AUS 59.21 4 Rachel Bootsma USA 59.10

5 Aya Terakawa JPN 59.35 5 Emily Seebohm AUS 59.28

6 Belinda Hocking AUS 59.53 6 Belinda Hocking AUS 59.39

7 Elizabeth Simmonds GBR 59.89 7 Mie Nielsen DEN 59.69

8 Sinead Russell CAN 1:00.20 8 Olivia Smoglina USA 59.82

World Record: 8:14.10 Rebecca Adlington GBR 16 August 2008


Olympic Record: 8:14.10 Rebecca Adlington GBR 16 August 2008





World Record: 58.12s Gemma Spofforth GBR 28 July 2009

Olympic Record: 58.77s Kirsty Coventry ZIM 11 August 2008

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Women's Swimming

Women's 200m Backstroke

1 Kirsty Coventry ZIM 2:05.24 1 Missy Franklin USA 2:05.10

2 Margaret Hoelzer USA 2:06.23 2 Belinda Hocking AUS 2:06.06

3 Reiko Nakamura JPN 2:07.13 3 Meagan Nay AUS 2:07.13

4 Anastasia Zuyeva RUS 2:07.88 4 Elizabeth Simmonds GBR 2:07.49

5 Elizabeth Beisel USA 2:08.23 5 Shiho Sakai JPN 2:07.74

6 Elizabeth Simmonds GBR 2:08.51 6 Sharon van Rouwendaal NED 2:07.78

7 Meagen Nay AUS 2:08.84 7 Elizabeth Beisel USA 2:07.82

8 Belinda Hocking AUS 2:10.12 7 Daryna Zevina UKR 2:07.82

1 Missy Franklin USA 2:05.10 1 Missy Franklin USA 2:06.12

2 Belinda Hocking AUS 2:06.06 2 Anastasia Zueva RUS 2:06.59

3 Sharon van Rouwendaal NED 2:07.78 3 Belinda Hocking AUS 2:06.68

4 Daryna Zevina UKR 2:07.82 4 Elizabeth Beisel USA 2:07.58

5 Elizabeth Beisel USA 2:08.16 5 Aya Terekawa JPN 2:07.73

6 Meagan Nay AUS 2:08.69 6 Meagan Nay AUS 2:07.83

7 Elizabeth Simmonds GBR 2:08.76 7 Elizabeth Simmonds GBR 2:07.92

8 Alexianne Castel FRA 2:09.07 8 Sinead Russell CAN 2:07.97

Women's 100m Breaststroke

1 Leisel Jones AUS 1:05.17 1 Rebecca Soni USA 1:04.91

2 Rebecca Soni USA 1:06.73 2 Jessica Hardy USA 1:05.90

3 Mirna Jukić AUT 1:07.34 3 Leisel Jones AUS 1:06.18

4 Yuliya Yefimova RUS 1:07.43 4 Ji Liping CHN 1:06.52

5 Megan Jendrick USA 1:07:62 5 Yulia Efmova RUS 1:06.56

6 Tarnee White AUS 1:07.63 6 Lelston Pickett AUS 0:06.92

7 Sun Ye CHN 1:08.08 7 Sun Ye CHN 1:07.08

8 Asami Kitagawa JPN 1:08.43 8 Kanako Watanabe JPN 1:07.10

1 Rebecca Soni USA 1:05.05 1 Rebecca Soni USA 1:05.85

2 Leisel Jones AUS 1:06.25 2 Breeja Larson USA 1:05.92

3 Ji Liping CHN 1:06.52 3 Jessica Hardy USA 1:06.12

4 Yuliya Yefimova RUS 1:06.56 4 Satomi Suzuki JPN 1:06.80

5 Sun Ye CHN 1:07.08 5 Lelston Pickett AUS 1:06.88

6 Rikke Pedersen DEN 1:07.28 6 Yuliya Efimova RUS 1:06.92

7 Jillian Tyler CAN 1:07.64 7 Jennie Johansson SWE 1:07.10

8 Moniek Nijhuis NED 1:07.97 8 Jillian Tyler CAN 1:07.18

Women's 200m Breaststroke


2 Leisel Jones AUS 2:22.05 2 Yuliya Yefimova RUS 2:22.22

3 Sara Nordenstam NOR 2:23.02 3 Kanako Watanabe JPN 2:23.90

4 Mirna Jukić AUT 2:23.24 4 Annamay Pierse CAN 2:24.10

5 Yuliya Yefimova RUS 2:23.76 5 Sun Ye CHN 2:24.24

6 Annamay Pierse CAN 2:23.77 6 Ji Liping CHN 2:24.29

7 Rie Kaneto JPN 2:25.14 7 Sataomi Suzuki JPN 2:24.36

8 Megumi Taneda JPN 2:25.23 8 Martha McCabe CAN 2:24.43


2 Yuliya Yefimova RUS 2:22.22 2 Satomi Suzuki JPN 2:22.99

3 Martha McCabe CAN 2:24.81 3 Micah Lawrence USA 2:23.03

4 Sun Ye CHN 2:25.09 4 Kanako Watanabe JPN 2:23.56

5 Rie Kaneto JPN 2:25.36 5 Rie Kaneto JPN 2:23.83

6 Nada Higl SRB 2:25.93 6 Fumiko Kawanabe JPN 2:23.83

7 Rikke Pedersen DEN 2:26.56 7 Tara van Beilen CAN 2:24.03

8 Annamay Pierse CAN 2:27.00 8 Anastasia Chaun RUS 2:24.13

World Record: 1:04.81 Jessica Hardy USA 7 August 2009

Olympic Record: 1:05.24 Leisel Jones AUS 12 August 2008

World Record: 2:20.12 Annamay Pierse CAN 30 July 2009

Olympic Record: 2:20.22 Rebecca Soni USA 15 August 2008




World Record: 2:04.81 Kirsty Coventry ZIM 1 August 2009

Olympic Record: 2:05.24 Kirsty Coventry ZIM 16 August 2008




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Women's Swimming

Women's 100m Butterfly

1 Libby Trickett AUS 56.73 1 Dana Vollmer USA 56.47

2 Christine Magnuson USA 57.10 2 Alicia Coutts AUS 56.94

3 Jessicah Schipper AUS 57.25 3 Lu Ying CHN 57.06

4 Zhou Yafei CHN 57.84 4 Sarah Sjostrom SWE 57.29

5 Tao Li SIN 57.99 5 Liu Zige CHN 57.39

6 Jemma Lowe GBR 58.06 6 Jemma Lowe GBR 57.43

7 Gabriella Silva BRA 58.10 7 Fran Halsall GBR 57.44

8 Inge Dekker NED 58.54 8 Ellen Gandy GBR 57.55

1 Dana Vollmer USA 56.87 1 Dana Vollmer USA 56.42

2 Alicia Coutts AUS 56.94 2 Sarah Sjostrom SWE 56.79

3 Lu Ying CHN 57.06 3 Ellen Gandy GBR 57.25

4 Sarah Sjostrom SWE 57.38 4 Lu Ying CHN 57.48

5 Ellen Gandy GBR 57.55 5 Fran Halsall GBR 57.56

6 Liu Zige CHN 57.57 6 Claire Donahue AUS 57.57

7 Jessicah Schipper AUS 57.95 7 Alicia Coutts AUS 57.59

8 Jemma Lowe GBR 57.96 8 Yuka Kato JPN 57.77

Women's 200m Butterfly

1 Liu Zige CHN 2:04.18 1 Liu Zige CHN 2:04.40

2 Jiao Liuyang CHN 2:04.72 2 Jiao Liuyang CHN 2:04.44

3 Jessicah Schipper AUS 2:06.26 3 Jemma Lowe GBR 2:05.36

4 Otylia Jędrzejczak POL 2:07.02 4 Ellen Gandy GBR 2:05.59

5 Yuko Nakanishi JPN 2:07.32 5 Natsumi Hoshi JPN 2:05.91

6 Aurore Mongel FRA 2:07.36 6 Stephanie Rice AUS 2:06.08

7 Elaine Breeden USA 2:07.57 7 Mirlea Belmonte Garcia ESP 2:06.25

8 Kathleen Hersey USA 2:08.23 8 Zsuzsanna Jakobos HUN 2:06.35

1 Jiao Liuyang CHN 2:05.55 1 Natsumi Hoshi JPN 2:04.69

2 Ellen Gandy GBR 2:05.59 2 Jiao Liuyang CHN 2:05.18

3 Liu Zige CHN 2:05.90 3 Gong Jie CHN 2:05.38

4 Natsumi Hoshi JPN 2:05.91 4 Ellen Gandy GBR 2:05.95

5 Stephanie Rice AUS 2:06.08 5 Jemma Lowe GBR 2:06.37

6 Zsuzsanna Jakobos HUN 2:06.35 6 Cammile Adams USA 2:06.76

7 Jemma Lowe GBR 2:06.64 7 Jessicah Schipper AUS 2:06.93

7 Jessicah Schipper AUS 2:06.64 8 Mirlea Belmonte Garcia ESP 2:06.95

World Record: 56.06s Sarah Sjostrom SWE 27 July 2009

Olympic Record: 56.61s Inge De Bruijn NED 17 September 2000

World Record: 2:01.81 Liu Zige CHN 21 October 2009

Olympic Record: 2:04.18 Liu Zige CHN 14 August 2008





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Women's Swimming

Women's 200m Individual Medley

1 Stephanie Rice AUS 2:08.45 1 Ye Shiwen CHN 2:08.90

2 Kirsty Coventry ZIM 2:08.59 2 Alicia Coutts AUS 2:09.00

3 Natalie Coughlin USA 2:10.34 3 Ariana Kukors USA 2:09.12

4 Katie Hoff USA 2:10.68 4 Caitlin Leverenz USA 2:09.39

5 Alicia Coutts AUS 2:11.43 5 Stephanie Rice AUS 2:09.65

6 Asami Kitagawa JPN 2:11.56 6 Elizabeth Petton USA 2:10.02

7 Julia Wilkinson CAN 2:12.43 7 Mirlea Belmonte Garcia ESP 2:10.26

8 Katarzyna Baranowska POL 2:13.36 8 Elizabeth Beisel USA 2:10.75

1 Ye Shiwen CHN 2:08.90 1 Stephanie Rice AUS 2:09.38

2 Alicia Coutts AUS 2:09.00 2 Ye Shiwen CHN 2:09.43

3 Ariana Kukors USA 2:09.12 3 Caitlin Leverenz USA 2:09.71

4 Stephanie Rice AUS 2:09.65 4 Alicia Coutts AUS 2:09.83

5 Caitlin Leverenz USA 2:10.40 5 Mirlea Belmonte Garcia ESP 2:10.53

6 Katinka Hosszu HUN 2:11.24 6 Ariana Kukors USA 2:10.76

7 Hannah Miley GBR 2:11.36 7 Hannah Miley GBR 2:10.77

8 Julia Wilkinson CAN 2:16.18 8 Katinka Hosszu HUN 2:10.84

Women's 400m Individual Medley

1 Stephanie Rice AUS 4:29.45 1 Elizabeth Beisel USA 4:31.78

2 Kirsty Coventry ZIM 4:29.89 2 Ye Shiwen CHN 4:33.66

3 Katie Hoff USA 4:31.71 3 Hannah Miley GBR 4:34.22

4 Elizabeth Beisel USA 4:34.24 4 Stephanie Rice AUS 4:34.23

5 Alessia Filippi ITA 4:34.34 5 Li Xuanxu CHN 4:34.33

6 Hannah Miley GBR 4:39.44 6 Mireia Belmonte Garcia ESP 4:34.91

7 Yana Martinova RUS 4:40.04 7 Kalta Hosszu HUN 4:35.76

8 Li Xuanxu CHN 4:42.13 8 Caitlin Leverenz USA 4:36.78

1 Elizabeth Beisel USA 4:31.78 1 Elizabeth Beisel USA 4:31.74

2 Hannah Miley GBR 4:34.22 2 Zheng Rongrong CHN 4:32.20

3 Stephanie Rice AUS 4:34.23 3 Hannah Miley GBR 4:32.67

4 Mireia Belmonte Garcia ESP 4:34.94 4 Katinka Hosszu HUN 4:32.83

5 Ye Shiwen CHN 4:35.15 5 Stephanie Rice AUS 4:33.45

6 Li Xuanxu CHN 4:35.78 6 Mireia Belmonte Garcia ESP 4:33.91

7 Barbara Zavadova CZE 4:38.04 7 Caitlin Leverenz CHN 4:34.92

8 Caitlin Leverenz USA 4:38.80 8 Li Xuanxu CHN 4:34.92

World Record: 2:06.15 Ariana Kukors USA 27 July 2009

Olympic Record: 2:08.45 Stephanie Rice AUS 13 August 2008

World Record: 4:29.45 Stephanie Rice AUS 10 August 2008





Olympic Record: 4:29.45 Stephanie Rice AUS 10 August 2008

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Women's Swimming

Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Inge Dekker Inge Dekker

Ranomi Kromowidjojo Ranomi Kromowidjojo

Femke Heemskerk Marleen Veldhuis

Marleen Veldhuis Femke Heemskerk

Natalie Coughlin Natalie Coughlin

Lacey Nymeyer Missy Franklin

Kara Lynn Joyce Jessica Hardy

Dara Torres Dana Vollmer

Cate Campbell Britta Steffen

Alcie Mills Silke Lippok

Melanie Schlanger Lisa Vitting

Lisbeth Trickett Daniela Schreiber

Zhu Yingwen Li Zhesi

Tang Yi Wang Shija

Xu Yanwei Pang Jiaying

Pang Jiaying Tang Yi

Britta Steffen Bronte Barratt

Meike Freitag Marieke Guehrer

Daniela Gotz Merindah Dingjan

Antje Buschschulte Alicia Coutts

Celine Couderc Victoria Poon

Alena Popchanka Genevieve Saumur

Ophelie-Cyrielle Etienne Chantal Vanlandeghem

Malia Metalla Julia Wilkinson

Fran Halsall Haruka Ueda

Caitlin McClatchey Yayoi Matsumoto

Jessica Sylvester Hanae Ito

Mel Marshall Natsuki Hasegawa

Julia Wilkinson Pernille Blume

Erica Morningstar Mie Nielsen

Genevieve Saumur Jeanette Ottesen

Audrey Lacroix Lotte Friis

Ranomi Kromowidjojo 52.75

Femke Heemskerk 53.60

Marleen Veldhuis 53.95

Inge Dekker 54.43

Melanie Schlanger 53.74

Alicia Coutts 53.78

Cate Campbell 53.82

Yolane Kukla 54.08

Missy Franklin 53.63

Allison Schmitt 53.94

Jessica Hardy 53.96

Natalie Coughlin 54.05

Sarah Sjoestrom 53.05

Therese Alshammar 54.45

Ida Marko-Varga 54.63

Gabriella Fagundez 54.66

Fran Halsall 53.48

Amy Smith 54.01

Rebecca Turner 54.71

Jessica Lloyd 54.95

Tang Yi 53.71

Li Zhesi 54.35

Wang Shijia 54.61

Pang Jiaying 54.96

Britta Steffen 53.68

Daniela Schreiber 54.41

Silke Lippok 54.81

Lisa Vitting 54.94

Haruka Ueada 54.00

Yayoi Matsumoto 54.37

Miki Uchida 55.08

Hanae Itou 55.10

World Record: 3:31.72 Netherlands 26 July 2009

Olympic Record: 3:33.76 Netherlands 10 August 2008

2United States


3:34.47


1 Netherlands 3:33.76 1 Netherlands 3:33.96

4 China 3:35.64 4 China 3:36.05

3 Australia 3:35.05 3 Germany 3:34.47

6 France 3:37.68 6 Canada 3:38.42

5 Germany 3:36.85 5 Australia 3:36.75

8 Canada 3:38.32 8 Denmark 3:39.74

7 Great Britain 3:38.18 7 Japan 3:39.55

3United States

3:35.58

4 Sweden 3:36.79



2 Australia 3:35.42

7 Germany 3:37.84

8 Japan 3:38.55


6 China 3:37.63

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Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Stephanie Rice Missy Frankiln

Bronte Barratt Dagny Knutsen

Kylie Palmer Katie Hoff

Linda Mackenzie Allison Schmitt

Yang Yu Bronte Barratt

Qianwei Zhu Blair Evans

Miao Tan Angie Bainbridge

Jiaying Ping Kylie Palmer

Allison Schmitt Chen Qian

Natalie Coughlin Pang Jiaying

Caroline Burkle Liu Jing

Katie Hoff Tang Yi

Fabiola Spagnolo Camille Muffat

Alessia Filippi Coralie Balmy

Flavia Zoccari Charlotte Bonnet

Federica Pellegrini Ophelie-Cyrielle Etienne

Coralie Balmy Agnes Mutina

Ophelie-Cyrielle Etienne Evelyn Verraszto

Aurore Mongel Katinska Hosszu

Camille Muffat Zszsanna Jakabos

Agnes Mutina Joanne Jackson

Evelyn Verraszto Rebecca Turner

Eszter Dara Hannah Miley

Zszsanna Jakabos Caitlin McClatchey

Huruka Ueda Barbara Jackson

Misaki Yamaguchi Julia Wilkinson

Maki Mita Samantha Cheverton

Emi Takanabe Brittany MacLean

Josefin Lillhage Lauren Boyle

Gabriella Fagundez Amaka Gessler

Ida Marko-Varga Penelope May Marshall

Petra Granlund Natasha Hind

Allison Schmitt 1:54.40

Missy Franklin 1:55.06

Dana Volmer 1:57.25

Lauren Perdue 1:57.75

Kylie Palmer 1:55.73

Bronte Barratt 1:55.74

Melanie Schlanger 1:56.73

Jade Neilsen 1:57.20

Camille Muffat 1:54.66

Coralie Balmy 1:58.22

Charlotte Bonnet 1:58.28

Ophalie Etienne 1:58.94

Wang Shiija 1:57.26

Chen Qian 1:58.37

Tang Yi 1:57.74

Song Wenyan 1:57.84

Caitlin McClatchey 1:57.45

Rebecca Turner 1:57.65

Joanne Jackson 1:57.92

Eleanor Faulknor 1:58.39

Barbara Jardin 1:57.34

Sam Cheverton 1:57.98

Brittany MacLean 1:58.09

Julia Wilkinson 1:58.49

Agnes Mutina 1:57.40

Zsuzsanna Jakabos 1:57.68

Evelyn Verraszto 1:58.27

Katinka Hosszu 1:58.94

Sarah Sjoestroem 1:55.23

Gabriella Fagunez 1:57.99

Ida Marko-Varga 1:59.74

Michelle Coleman 2:00.21

World Record: 7:42.08 China 30 July 2009

Olympic Record: 7:44.31 Australia 13 August 2008

2 China 7:45.93 2 Australia 7:47.42


1 Australia 7:44.31 1United States

7:46.14

4 Italy 7:49.76 4 France 7:52.22

3United States

7:46.33 3 China 7:47.66

6 Hungary 7:55.53 6 Great Britain 7:53.51

5 France 7:50.66 5 Hungary 7:52.39

8 Sweden 7:59.83 8 New Zealand 7:56.55

7 Japan 7:57.56 7 Canada 7:53.62

3 France 7:50.10

4 China 7:50.21


1United States

7:44.46

2 Australia 7:45.40

7 Hungary 7:52.29

8 Sweden 7:53.17


6 Canada 7:51.90

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Women's Swimming

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay

Emily Seebohm Natalie Coughlin

Liesel Jones Rebecca Soni

Jessicah Schipper Dana Vollmer

Lisbeth Trickett Missy Frankin

Natalie Coughlin Zhao Jing

Rebecca Soni Ji Liping

Christine Magnuson Lu Ying

Dara Torres Tang Yi

Zhao Jing Belinda Hocking

Ye Sun Leisel Jones

Yafei Zhou Alicia Coutts

Jiaying Pang Merindah Dingjan

Gemma Spofforth Anastasia Zuyeva

Kate Hayward Yuliya Yefimova

Jemma Lowe Irina Bespalova

Fran Halsall Veronika Popova

Anastasia Zuyeva Aya Terakawa

Yuliya Yefimova Satomi Suzuki

Natalia Sutyagina Yuka Kato

Anastasia Aksenova Yayoi Matsumoto

Reiko Nakamura Georgina Davis

Asami Kitagawa Stacey Todd

Yuka Kato Ellen Gandy

Haruka Ueda Fran Halsall

Julia Wilkinson Sinead Russell

Annamay Pierse Jillian Tyler

Audrey Lacroix Katerine Savard

Erica Morningstar Julia Wilkinson

Sarah Sjostrom Jenny Mensing

Joine Hostman Sarah Poewe

Anna-Karin Kammerling Sina Sutter

Josefin Lillhage Daniela Schreiber

Rachel Bootsma 59.10

Rebecca Soni 1:04.91

Dana Vollmer 56.42

Missy Franklin 53.63

Emily Seebohm 59.21

Leisel Jones 1:06.18

Alicia Coutts 56.94

Melanie Schlanger 53.74

Zhao Jing 59.05

Ji Liping 1:06.52

Lu Ying 57.06

Tang Yi 53.71

Aya Terakawa 59.08

Satomi Suzuki 1:06.80

Yuka Kato 57.77

Haruka Ueda 54.00

Femke Heemskerk 1:00.03

Moniek Nijhuis 1:07.60

Inge Dekker 57.62

Ranomi Kromowidjojo 52.75

Elizabeth Simmons 59.80

Siobhan-Marie O'Connor 1:08.04

Ellen Gandy 57.25

Fran Halsall 53.48

Anastasia Zueva 58.97

Yulia Efimova 1:06.56

Irina Bespalova 58.89

Veronika Popova 54.22

Mie Nielsen 59.69

Rikke Pedersen 1:07.13

Jeanette Ottesen 58.24

Pemille Blume 54.06

World Record: 3:52.19 China 1 August 2009

Olympic Record: 3:52.69 Australia 17 August 2008

2United States

3:53.30 2 China 3:55.61


1 Australia 3:52.69 1United States

3:52.36

4 Great Britain 3:57.50 4 Russia 3:57.38

3 China 3:56.11 3 Australia 3:57.13

6 Japan 3:59.54 6 Great Britain 4:01.09

5 Russia 3:57.84 5 Japan 3:57.84

8 Sweden DSQ 8 Germany DSQ

7 Canada 4:01.35 7 Canada DSQ

3 China 3:56.34

4 Japan 3:57.35


1United States

3:54.06

2 Australia 3:56.07

7 Russia 3:58.64

8 Denmark 3:59.12



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Synchronised Swimming

1 Davydova & Ermakova Russia 99.251 1 Russia 99.5002 Fuentes & Mengual Spain 98.334 2 Spain 98.2513 Harada & Suzuki Japan 97.167 3 China 97.3344 Jiang & Jiang China 96.334 4 Canada 95.6685 Jones & Nott USA 95.500 5 USA 95.3346 Gagnon & Rampling Canada 95.084 5 Japan 95.3347 Adelizzi & Lapi Italy 93.751 7 Australia 82.1678 Yushko & Sydorenko Ukraine 92.668 8 Egypt 80.833

1 Ishchenko & Romashina Russia 98.833 1 Russia 99.1672 Fuentes & Mengual Spain 98.333 2 Spain 98.1673 Jiang & Jiang China 97.000 3 China 97.1674 Gagnon & Isaac Canada 95.833 4 Canada 96.0005 Adelizzi & Lapi Italy 95.334 5 Italy 95.0006 Inui & Sakai Japan 94.000 6 Japan 94.0007 Yushko & Sydorenko Ukraine 93.000 7 France 93.0008 Dreyfuss & Meessemann-Bakir France 92.000 8 Ukraine 92.667

1 Ishchenko & Romashina Russia 98.410 1 Russia 98.6202 Jiang & Jiang China 96.810 2 China 96.5803 Carbonell & Fuentes Spain 96.500 3 Spain 96.0904 Marcotte & Gagnon Canada 94.950 4 Canada 95.4905 Inui & Kobayashi Japan 92.710 5 Japan 92.8606 Iushko & Sydorenko Ukraine 91.580 6 Ukraine 92.7407 Lapi & Perrupato Italy 89.800 7 Italy 90.8708 Allison & Randall Great Britain 88.460 8 France 87.840

Women's Duet Women's Team

Introduced in 1984 at the same time as rhythmic gymnastics, Synchronised Swimming was part of a move to attract new audiences to the Olympic movement. It was hoped that by introducing both sports simultaneously, the IOC would avoid upsetting the delicate political applecart; synchro was an almost exclusively North American sport and rythmic gymnastics was largely Soviet. This entente lasted until the 2000 Games, since which Russia have won every gold medal in both sports. We will see the same pattern here as Russia bring in a team that have walked every recent major championship, and a duet, in Ishchenko & Romashina, who are challenged more from within their own country than from without. Expect Spain and China to mop up the remaining medals.

Great Britain's synchronised swimming team has gone from non-existent on the international stage at the time of the last Olympics to having a duet (Olivia Allison & Jenna Randall) and a team who are

capable of a strong top eight performance.


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Table Tennis

Men's Singles

1 Ma Lin CHN 1 Wang Hao CHN2 Wang Hao CHN 2 Wang Liqin CHN3 Wang Liqin CHN 3 Ma Long CHN4 Jorgen Persson SWE 3 Ma Lin CHN5 Oh Sang Eun KOR 5 Kaii Yoshida JPN5 Ko Lai Chak HKG 5 Chen Qi CHN5 Tan Ruiwu CRO 5 Michael Maze DEN5 Zoran Primorac CRO 5 Joo Se-Hyuk KOR

Points1 Zhang Jike CHN 1 Zhang Jike CHN 2,9332 Wang Hao CHN 4 Wang Hao CHN 2,7653 Timo Boll GER 6 Timo Boll GER 2,6173 Ma Long CHN 4 Jun Mizutani JPN 2,5845 Wang Liqin CHN 8 Chuang Chih-Yuan TPE 2,5705 Jun Mizutani JPN 10 Joo Saehyuk KOR 2,5415 Chen Qi CHN 11 Dimitrij Ovtcharov GER 2,5265 Ma Lin CHN 8 Oh Sangeun KOR 2,432

Men's Team

1 Wang Hao, Ma Lin, Wang Liqin China 1Ma Long, Wang Hao, Ma Lin, Zhang Jike, Xu Xin

China

2Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Timo Boll, Christian Suss

Germany 2Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Christian Suss, Bastian Steger, Patrick Baum

Germany

3Oh Sang-Eun, Ryu Seung-Min, Joon Jae Young

South Korea 3Jun Mizutani, Kaii Yoshida, Seiya Kishikawa, Kenta Matsudaira, Kazuhiro Chan

Japan

4Werner Schlager, Robert Gardos, Chen Weixing

Austria 4Joo Se-Hyuk, Oh Sang-Eun, Ryu Seung-Min, Cho Eon-Rae, Jung Young-Sik

South Korea

5Cheung Yuk, Li Ching, Jiang Tianyi, Ko Lai Chak

Hong Kong 5Tang Peng, Cheung Yuk, Li Ching, Jiang Tianyi, Ko Lai Chak

Hong Kong

5 Kan Yo, Jun Mizutani, , Seiya Kishikawa Japan 6Alexey Smirnov, Fedor Kuzmin, Kirill Skachkov, Alexander Shibaev, Mikhail Gladyshev

Russia

7Tan Ruiwu, Zoran Primorac, Andrej Gacina

Croatia 7Vladimir Samsonov, Evgueni Chtchetinine, Vitaly Nexhvedovich, Pavel Platonov, Alexsandr Kuchuk

Belarus

7Chuang Chih-Yuan, Chiang Peng-Lung, Chang Yen-Shu

Taiwan 8Janos Jakab, Ferenc Pazsy, Daniel Kosiba, Adam Pattantyus

Hungary

Of all the sports in London, Table Tennis will be most dominated by one country. Despite having one of the highest worldwide participation rates of any sport (120 countries sent a team of 5 to the 2012 Team World Championships in Germany) table tennis is, despite Boris Johnson's protestations, a Chinese sport. Wherever you go in the world you will see Chinese coaches teaching Chinese-developed techniques, often to the children of Chinese ex-pats. As long as Chinese players dominate (they have won over 80% of Olympic gold medals), the sport's worldwide expansion will be stifled but, as the German professional league has shown, table tennis is a television and fan-friendly sport that will eventually profit from its accessibility.

The eternal runner-up, the "thorn-headed" youngster and the foreigner - Wang Hao (CHN), Zhang Jike (CHN) and Timo Boll (GER) will be the main male protagonists in London. Limited to just two competitors for the first time, China have had to leave

real medal hopes at home but in Wang and Zhang they are setting up a fight between two men with strong personalities. Wang Hao burst onto the Chinese scene in the early Noughties with his retro-style pen-hold grip and the revolutionary reverse-penhold-

backhand shot, which enabled him to generate incredible spin from both wings of the table. Twice beaten in the Olympic final Wang Hao will be hoping that 2012 is the year he takes home the gold medal. Zhang Jike, just 24 years old, has already twice been dropped from the Chinese national team for disciplinary reasons but his win at the 2011 World Championships made his selection assured and he will go into London as narrow favourite to take gold. Timo Boll's story is one of perseverance rather than emerging brilliance; a feature of the world top 10 since 2002 he has twice briefly reached number 1 (in 2003 and 2011).

The left-hander is a real threat to the Chinese and a victory would provide a PR boost for table tennis outside East Asia.

In women's tables tennis the strong favourite in London is Ding Ning; she initially missed out on selection when the team was announced last year but having subsequently taken a World Championship, overall World Cup victory and world #1 ranking she obliged the Chinese selectors to renege on their word and nominate Ding Ning in place of Guo Yue. Li Xiaoxia will take the other Chinese Olympic place; her world #1 ranking in April last year was enough to earn her nomination but this was earned through consistency on the World Tour rather than excellence in major tournaments. A silver in 2007 and semi-final in 2010 are her best World Championship performances and her current ranking of 5 indicates that there will be 3 Chinese athletes above her feeling that they have been denied a fair shot at selection.

In Great Britain table tennis is the only sport where the disabled athletes receive more funding than the able-bodied. Unsurprisingly no British athletes are ranked inside the top 100. GB #1s Andrew Baggaley and Joanna Parker will realistically

have to define success as a match won in either the singles or team event.

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Table Tennis

1Ma Long, Zhang Jike, Wang Hao, Xu Lin, Ma Lin

China

2Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Christian Suss, Bastian Steger, Patrick Baum

Germany

3Joo Se-Hyuk, Ryu Seung-Min, Oh sang-Eun, Kim Min-Seok, Jung Young-Sik

South Korea

3Jun Mizutani, Seiya Kishikawa, Koki Niwa, Kenji Matsudaira, Maharu Yoshimura

Japan

5Chen Weizing, Werner Schlarger, Robert Gardos, Daniel Habesohn, Stefan Fegerl

Austria

6Par Gerell, Jorgen Persson, Jens Lundqvist, Robert Svensson, Kristian Karlsson

Sweden

7Chuang Chih-yuan, Chen Chien-an, Wu Chih-chi, Chiang Hung-chieh, Lee Chia-sheng

Taiwan

8Gao Ning, Yang Zi, Pang Xue Jie, Gao Ning, Yang Zi

Singapore

Women's Singles

1 Zhang Yining CHN 1 Zhang Yining CHN2 Wang Nan CHN 2 Gue Yue CHN3 Gue Yue CHN 3 Liu Shiwen CHN4 Li Jiawei SIN 3 Li Xiaoxia CHN5 Feng Tianwei SIN 5 Kasumi Ishikawa JPN5 Tie Yana HKG 5 Feng Tianwei SIN5 Wu Xue DOM 5 Irena Vacenovska CZE5 Wang Chen USA 5 Dang Ye Seo KOR

Points1 Ding Ning CHN 1 Ding Ning CHN 3,0542 Li Xiaoxia CHN 3 Li Xiaoxia CHN 2,9483 Liu Shiwen CHN 5 Kasumi Ishikawa JPN 2,7653 Guo Yue CHN 4 Wang Yuegu SIN 2,7145 Feng Tianwei SIN 5 Ai Fukuhara JPN 2,7065 Wu Yang CHN 6 Tie Yana HKG 2,6995 Guo Yan CHN 7 Feng Tianwei SIN 2,6985 Fan Ying CHN 8 Kim Kyungah KOR 2,696

Women's Team

1 Gue Yue, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining China 1Feng Tianwei, Li Jiawei, Wang Yuegu, Yu Mengyu, Sun Beibei

Singapore

2 Feng Tianwei, Li Jiawei, Wang Yuegu Singapore 2Liu Shiwen, Guo Yan, Guo Yue, Ding Ning, Li Xiaoxia

China

3Dang Ye Seo, Kim Kyung Ah, Park Mi Young

South Korea 3Ai Fukuhara, Syaaka Hirono, Kaumi Ishikawa, Hiroko Fujii, Ai Fujinuma

Japan

4Haruna Fukuoka, Ai Fukuhara, Syaaka Hirono

Japan 4Wu Jiaduo, Kristin Silbereisen, Elke Schalle, Sabine Winter

Germany

5 Tie Yana, Lin Ling, Lau Sui Fei Hong Kong 5Dang Ye Seo, Kim Kyung Ah, Park Mi Young, Seok Ha Jung, Moon Hyun Jung

South Korea

5 Wang Chen, Gao Jun, Huang Crystal Xi USA 6Jiang Huajun. Tie Yana, Lau Sui Fei, Zhang Rui, Yu Kwok See

Hong Kong

7 Liu Jia, Li Qiangbing, Veronika Keine Austria 7Krisztina Toth, Petra Lovas, Georgina Pota, Szandra Pergel

Hungary

7Elizabeta Samara, Daniela Dodean, Iulia Necula

Romania 8Li Jiao, Li Jie, Elena Timina, Linda Creemers, Carla Nouwen

Netherlands

1Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen, Guo Yan, Li Xiaoxia, Guo Yue

China

2Feng Tianwei, Wang Yuegu, Li Jiawei, Sun Beibei, Yu Mengyu

Singapore

3Tie Ya Na, Jiang Huajin, Lee Ho Ching, Ng Wing Nam, Yu Kwok See

Hong Kong

3Kim Kyung-Ah, Park Mi-Young, Seok Ha-Jung, Yang Ha-Eun, Dang Ye-Seo

South Korea

5Kasumi Ishikawa, Ai Fukuhara, Sayaka Hirano, Hiroko Fujii, Yuka Ishigaki

Japan

6Li Jiao, Li Jie, Elena Timina, Linda Creemers, Britt Eerland

Netherlands

7Wu Jiaduo, Irene Ivancan, Zhenqi Barthel, Kristian Silbereisen, Sabine Winter

Germany

8Li Qian, Natalia Pertyka, Katarzyna Grybowska, Kinga Stefanska, Magdelea Szczerkowska

Poland





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Taekwondo

Men's -58kg

1 Guillermo Perez MEX2 Gabriel Mercedes DOM3 Chu Mu-Yen TPE3 Rohullah Nikpai AFG 1 Chutchawal Khawlaor THA5 Chutchawal Khawlaor THA 2 Park Ji-Woong KOR5 Juan Antonio Ramos ESP 3 Seyfula Magmedov RUS7 Pedro Povoa POR 3 Meisam Bagheri IRI7 Michael Harvey GBR 5 Abdul Wahab Zazai AFG7 Marcio Wenceslau BRA 5 Hsu Chia-lin TPE7 Ryan Carneli AUS 5 Michael Silva BRA

5 Sergej Kolb GERPoints

1 Joel Gonzalez ESP 263

3 Wei Chen-yang TPE 137 1 Joel Gonzalez ESP4 Pen-Ek Karaket THA 134 2 Rui Braganca POR5 Gabriel Mercedes DOM 117 3 Wei Chen Yang TPE

10 Mokdad El-Yamine ALG 98 3 Yulis Mercedes Reyes DOM11 Tamer Bayoumi EGY 92 5 Xu Yongzeng CHN15 Damian Villa MEX 81 5 Mahmood Haidari AFG16 Alexsey Denisenko RUS 81 5 Ruslan Poiseev RUS17 Safwan Khalil AUS 79 5 James Howe USA23 Oscar Munoz COL 5534 Heiner Oviedo CRC 3836 Le Huynh Chau VIE 3743 Nursultan Mamayev KAZ 2950 Uno Sanli SWE 2666 Lee Dae-Hoon KOR 1977 Tameem Mohammed YEM 18

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Taekwondo debuted at the 1988 Seoul Olympics as a demonstration sport and remained a demonstration sport until 1994 when it was selected to become a full medal sport for the 2000 Olympiad. This was a remarkable achievement for a little known martial art from Korea, and is testament to a well-run and expansionist sporting federation. By limiting countries to just two athletes per gender across all weight categories the Taekwondo federation has ensured that the maximum number of countries will be represented at the Games. When coupled with the frankly arbitrary nature of scoring (the post-2008 introduction of electronic scoring pressure pads has had little effect), this means that, for relatively little investment, countries who set up a taekwondo programme in their country stand an excellent chance of having athletes qualify for the Games with a decent shot at a medal. In just three Olympics, 29 countries have welcomed home a taekwondo medallist (the entire swimming programme has had 30 medalling countries in the same period) and Afghani and Vietnamese fighters have won their countries’ first ever Olympic medals.

As all international events between Olympiads have twice the number of weight categories it can be very hard to predict favourites; many fighters will make a choice between dropping down or stepping up a weight division. What can be predicted is that South Korea will face a tough selection decision before the Olympics and all their athletes

will set out hoping to win gold. In men's taekwondo Iran have set up a stunningly successful programme and will have a number of athletes available, particularly in the -80kg category. In women's taekwondo China are still a

dominant force and should do well in the lower weight categories.

The Great Britain taekwondo team have benefited from consistent, if not extensive, funding for the past 10 years. Basing all their fighters in Manchester, they have sadly failed to live up to expectations at major events. Though much of the blame for this could be placed at the hands of scorers (remember Sarah Stevenson's exit in 2008 when a clear head kick was missed, only for an appeal to be accepted minutes before the next round leaving Sarah no time to prepare for her semi-final), inconsistency also has to be acknowledged by the young team. However there is hope for stronger performances in front of their home crowd; Sarah Stevenson recovered bravely from the death of her father to win gold in the -67kg category at last year's World Championships, and has talked openly about using that, and the death of her mother later that summer, as drive for 2012. At her fourth Olympics she will be an incredibly popular and deserving winner if she can maintain her form throughout the rounds. The British Taekwondo Federation courted controversy when picking the other Olympic berths for London. Initially picking world number 104 Lutalo Muhammad for the -80kg berth over world number one Aaron Cook seemed to be petty recrimination for Aaron Cook deciding to leave the GB training set-up in early 2011 due to a row over tactics. However, the British Olympic Authority ultimately decided that the selection was a legitimate response to a rule change which, in allowing points to be scored for any kick to the head rather than just forceful kicks, should benefit Lutalo's greater height and flexibility. Lutalo will now join Martin Stamper and Jade Jones; all have the experience of winning international events and at least one of them will win the three fights necessary for a medal.

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1 Son Tae-Jin KOR2 Mark Lopez USA3 Servet Tazegul TUR3 Sung Yu-Chi TPE 1 Lee Dae-Hoon KOR5 Peter Lopez PER 2 Michael Harvey GBR5 Daniel Manz GER 3 Nacha Punthong THA7 Nesar Ahmad Bahave AFG 3 Le Huynh Chau VIE7 Dennis Bekkers NED 5 Reza Naderian IRI7 Dmitriy Kim UZB 5 Vladimir Dalakliev BUL7 Isah Adam Muhammad NGR 5 Zainobiddin Nazaraliev UZB

5 Cem Ulugnuyan TURPoints

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2 Mohammad Bagheri Motamed IRI 198 1 Servet Tazegul TUR4 Idulio Islas MEX 99 2 Mohammad Bagheri Motamed IRI5 Mohammad Abu-Libdeh JOR 93 3 Martin Stamper GBR6 Peter Lopez PER 86 3 Rohullah Nikpai AFG7 Diogo Silva BRA 79 5 Jhohanny Jean Bartermi DOM

10 Martin Stamper GBR 77 5 Vasily Nikitin RUS13 Rohullah Nikpai AFG 68 5 Christopher Dubois FRA16 Logan Campbell NZL 64 5 Mohammad Abulibdeh JOR28 Terrence Jennings USA 4729 Isah Mohammad NGR 4635 Michal Loniewski POL 4136 Damir Fejzic SRB 4040 David Boui CAF 3879 Dmitry Kim UZB 2370 Hryhorii Husarov UKR 24

Men's -80kg

1 Hadi Saei IRI2 Mauro Sarmiento ITA3 Zhu Guo CHN3 Steven Lopez USA 1 Alireza Nasr Azadani IRI5 Rashad Ahmadov AZE 2 Patiwat Thongsalap THA5 Aaron Cook GBR 3 Ismael Coulibaly MLI7 Sebastien Konan CIV 3 Ridvan Baygut TUR7 Deepak Bista NEP 5 Mark Lopez USA7 Sebastien Michaud CAN 5 Song Ji-Hoon KOR7 Carlos Vasquez VEN 5 Manuel Mark AUT

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2 Ramin Azizov AZE 175

3 Issam Chernoubi MAR 142 1 Farzad Abdollahi IRI7 Abdelrahman Ossama EGY 111 2 Yunus Sari TUR8 Nicolas Garcia ESP 107 3 Issam Chernoubi MAR

10 Sebastien Michaud CAN 95 3 Ramin Azizov AZE11 Sebastian Crismanich ARG 91 5 Mauro Sarmiento ITA13 Mauro Sarmiento ITA 86 5 Anestis Nikolaidis GRE15 Nesar Ahmad Bahave AFG 81 5 Mamedy Doucara FRA21 Vaughn Scott NZL 60 5 Nesar Ahmad Bahave AFG24 Tommy Mollet NED 5529 Arman Yeremyan ARM 5230 Steven Lopez USA 4936 Yousef Karami IRI 4043 Rasul Abduraim KGZ 33104 Lutalo Muhammed GBR 14108 Farkhod Negmatov TJK 14


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1 Cha Dong-Min KOR2 Alexandros Nikolaidis GRE3 Chika Chukwumerije NGR3 Arman Chilmanov KAZ 1 Yousef Karami IRI5 Angel Matos CUB 2 Cha Dong-Min KOR5 Akmal Irgashev UZB 3 Jon Garcia ESP7 Kristopher Moitland CRC 3 Carlo Molfetta ITA7 Abdelkader Zrouri MAR 5 Ivan Nikitin RUS7 Daba Modibo Keita MLI 5 Augustin Bata FRA7 Liu Xiaobo CHN 5 Alberto Celestrin GER

5 Konstantinos Gkoltsios GREPoints

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4 Francois Coulombe-Fortier CAN 117 1 Jo Chol-Ho KOR5 Carlo Molfetta ITA 114 2 Akmal Irgashev UZB7 Robelis Despaigne CUB 108 3 Kourosh Rajoli IRI8 Anthony Obame GAB 106 3 Andreas Stylianou CYP9 Liu Xiaobo CHN 103 5 Mohammad Ayman JOR

10 Akmal Irgashev UZB 89 5 Liu Xiaobo CHN11 Bahri Tanrikulu TUR 86 5 Ulvi Kaya GER16 Kaino Thomsen SAM 69 5 Michael Kitchke CAN19 Alexandros Nikolaidis GRE 6520 Chika Chukwumerije NGR 6424 Ivan Trajovic SLO 5626 Gadzhi Umarov RUS 5451 Daba Modibo Keita MLI 3472 Kenneth Edwards JAM 2373 Alisher Gulov TJK 23

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1 Wu Jingyu CHN2 Buttree Puedpong THA3 Daynellis Montejo CUB3 Dalia Conteras VEN 1 Kim So-Hui KOR5 Mildred Alango KEN 2 Li Zhaoyi CHN5 Yang Shu-Chun TPE 3 Rukiye Yildirim TUR7 Hanna Zajc SWE 3 Sumeyye Manz GER7 Tran Thi Mgoc Truc VIE 5 Elaia Torrontegui ESP7 Charlotte Craig USA 5 Itzel Manjarrez MEX7 Sara Khoshjamal IRI 5 Carolena Carstens PAN

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2 Yang Shu-chun TPE 181 1 Wu Jingyu CHN4 Brigitte Yague ESP 129 2 Yang Shu-Chun TPE5 Sanaa Atabrour MAR 146 3 Brigida Yague ESP6 Lucija Zaninovic CRO 135 3 Sanaa Atabrour MAR7 Janet Alegria MEX 147 5 Lucija Zaninovic CRO9 Chanatip Sonkham THA 105 5 Kim Hye Jeong KOR

10 Erika Kasahara JPN 96 5 Fernanda Silva BRA11 Kristina Kim RUS 90 5 Kristina Kim RUS14 Sumeyye Manz GER 7116 Dana Haidar JOR 7017 Elizabeth Zamora GUA 6719 Carolena Carstens PAN 6629 Theresa Tona PNG 4861 Catherine Kang CAF 2383 Carola Lopez ARG 14

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1 Lim Su-Jeong KOR2 Azize Tanrikulu TUR3 Diana Lopez USA3 Martina Zubcic CRO 1 Ana Zaninovic CRO5 Su Li-Wen TPE 2 Lamyaa Bekkali MAR5 Veronica Calabrese ITA 3 Lee Hye-Young KOR7 Robin Cheong NZL 3 Hatice Kubra Yangin TUR7 Teo Elaine MAS 5 Samaneh Sheshpari IRI7 Debora Nunes BRA 5 Shahd Al-Tarman JOR7 Bineta Diedhiou SEN 5 Lei Jie CHN

5 Ivett Gonda CANPoints

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2 Hou Yuzhuo CHN 201 1 Hou Yuzhou CHN3 Marlene Harnois FRA 168 2 Jade Jones GBR5 Hedaya Malak EGY 127 3 Su Jeong Lim KOR6 Ana Zaninovic CRO 125 3 Marlene Harnois FRA9 Bineta Diedhiou SEN 101 5 Sousan Hajipourgoli IRI

11 Jade Jones GBR 94 5 Bineta Diedhiou SEN16 Andrea Paoli LEB 68 5 Hajiba Enhari MAR19 Robin Cheong NZL 62 5 Ekaterina Kuzheleva RUS22 Nidia Munoz CUB 5323 Rangsiya Nisaisom THA 5231 Yeny Contreras CHI 4332 Mayu Hamada JPN 4335 Suvi Mikkonen FIN 3936 Diana Lopez USA 3937 Dragana Gladovic SRB 38


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1 Hwang Kyung-Seon KOR2 Karine Sergerie CAN3 Sandra Saric CRO3 Gwladys Epangue FRA 1 Rangsiya Nisaisom THA5 Asuncion Ocasio PUR 2 Marina Sumic CRO5 Tina Morgan AUS 3 Karine Sergerie CAN7 Vanina Sanchez ARG 3 Durdane Altunel TUR7 Sheika Maitha Al-Maktoum UAE 5 Lin Jo-Wei TPE7 Mouna Benabderrassoul MAR 5 Carmen Marton AUS7 Helena Fromm GER 5 Joyce van Baaren NED

5 Kim Hwi-Lang KORPoints

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2 Karine Sergerie CAN 187 1 Sarah Stevenson GBR6 Helena Fromm GER 140 2 Guo Yunfei CHN

10 Sarah Stevenson GBR 131 3 Kyung Seon Hwang KOR4 Nur Tatar TUR 164 3 Helena Fromm GER3 Kim Mi-Kyung KOR 185 5 Viktoryia Belanouskaya BLR

14 Carmen Marton AUS 98 5 Paige McPherson USA13 Gulnafis Aitmukhambetova KAZ 98 5 Hakima Elmeslahy MAR19 Paige McPherson USA 86 5 Katarzyna Wieczorek POL28 Ruth Gbagbi CIV 6533 Farida Azizova AZE 5926 Elin Johansson SWE 6964 Sousan Hajipour IRI 3841 Chu Hoang Dieu Linh VIE 4957 Andrea St. Bernard GRN 3677 Franka Anic SLO 24

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1 Maria Espinoza MEX2 Nina Solheim NOR3 Natalia Falavigna BRA3 Sarah Stevenson GBR 1 Gwladys Epangue FRA5 Karolina Kedzierska SWE 2 Oh Hye-Ri KOR5 Noha Abd Rabo EGY 3 Milica Mandic SRB7 Che Chew Chan MAS 3 Anastasia Baryshnikova RUS7 Khaoula Ben Hamza TUN 5 Furkan Asena Aydin TUR7 Chen Zhong CHN 5 Maria Espinoza MEX7 Carmen Marton AUS 5 Iwona Kosiorek POL

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3 Maria Espinoza MEX 191 1 Anne-Caroline Graffe FRA4 Anastasia Baryshnikova RUS 177 2 An Sae-Bom KOR6 Wiam Dislam MAR 156 3 Olga Ivanova RUS7 Nadin Dawani JOR 116 3 Rosana Simon ESP8 An Sae-Bom KOR 104 5 Briseida Acosta MEX9 Feruza Yergeshova KAZ 92 5 Evgeniya Karimova UZB

10 Milica Mandic SRB 92 5 Wiam Dislam MAR12 Natalia Falavigna BRA 75 5 Lauren Cahoon USA16 Khaoula Ben Hamza TUN 7023 Nusa Rajher SLO 6025 Maryna Konieva UKR 5628 Glenhis Hernandez CUB 5144 Talitiga Crawley SAM 3846 Davin Sorn CAM 3698 Natalya Mamatova UZB 14


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Men's Singles

1 Rafael Nadal ESP 1 Novak Djokovic SRB2 Fernando Gonzalez CHI 2 Andy Murray GBR3 Novak Djokovich SRB 3 Roger Federer SUI4 James Blake USA 3 David Ferrer ESP

1 Rafael Nadal ESP 1 Novak Djokovic SRB2 Roger Federer SUI 2 Rafael Nadal ESP3 Andy Murray GBR 3 Jo-Wilfred Tsonga FRA3 Novak Djokovic SRB 3 Andy Murray GBR

1 Novak Djokovic SRB 1 Novak Djokovic SRB2 Rafael Nadal ESP 2 Rafael Nadal ESP3 Roger Federer SUI 3 Andy Murray GBR3 Andy Murray GBR 3 Roger Federer SUI

1 Rafael Nadal ESP 1 Roger Federer SUI2 Novak Djokovic SRB 2 Andy Muray GBR3 David Ferrer ESP 3 Novak Djokovic SRB3 Roger Federer SUI 3 Jo-Wilfred Tsonga FRA

Points1 Roger Federer SUI 11,0752 Novak Djokovic SRB 11,0003 Rafael Nadal ESP 8,9054 Andy Murray GBR 7,4605 David Ferrer ESP 5,4306 Jo-Wilfred Tsonga FRA 5,2307 Tomas Berdych CZE 4,5158 Janko Tipsarevic SRB 3,2159 Juan Martin Del Potro ARG 3,180

10 Nicolas Almagro ESP 2,60511 John Isner USA 2,52012 Gilles Simon FRA 2,480

Three weeks after men’s singles final at Wimbledon, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club will see action on Centre Court once again as the Olympic Tennis tournament rolls into town. Although the Olympic tennis tournament may lack the kudos and importance of any of the Grand Slams, it brings a different atmosphere. Out goes the sponsorship, the prize money and the 5-set matches and in comes national colours and an attention to doubles matches unseen at any other time of year.

In 2008 the victory in the men’s singles by Rafael Nadal (ESP) and the defeat of Roger Federer (SUI) in the quarter-finals brought to a close Federer’s record 237-week stay at the top of the world rankings. Four years on, in which time Nadal had

himself been overtaken in the rankings by the exciting Serbian, Novak Djokovic (who won bronze in 2008), Federer has once again climbed to the top of the world rankings after claiming his 7th Wimbledon Open Championships. Joined by the home

favourite fresh from his first final at Wimbledon, Andy Murray (GBR), in men’s tennis, we have four men vying for gold. A case could be made for each. Federer, less than a month after returning to some of his best form is arguably the greatest grass-

court player in history; Nadal, reigning Olympic champion and twice winner of Wimbledon will have had an extra week to prepare after his shock 3rd round loss at Wimbledon in June; Djokovic, world number 2, winner of 3 of the past 5 Grand Slams; and Murray the home crowd favourite who may find the one-week and 3-set format helps him retain better form

towards the finals. All will be comfortable in the familiar surroundings and motivated for victory.

Ever since the retirement of Steffi Graf a decade ago, women's tennis has struggled to find a real star who can dominate the game and take it to a new level. The Williams sisters (USA) looked as though they had the natural talent, but, despite unquestionably successful careers, they always lacked the motivation to devote the time and travel required to deliver the whole commercial package. The current world number 1, Maria Sharapova (RUS), was another that looked as though she might have the extra gear. So far that hasn’t quite materialised but the four time Grand Slam winner, coming into this tournament in great form, will be very hard to stop.

It is in the doubles, however, Olympic tennis shows it’s true worth. The doubles format produces greater tactical variation, requires a broader skill set and is often more exciting to watch than the singles, but is often disregarded by professionals. At

the Olympics we get to see some of the best in the world really go for it. In Beijing we saw Federer recover from his loss in the singles to claim a gold medal in the doubles. The Williams sisters were simply unstoppable, winning the final 6-0, 6-2.

Tennis does not usually go in for patriotic pride, but the Olympics provides a showcase a showcase for skills which the players are keen to display.

By virtue of how seldom many of these players play doubles, form is near impossible to guess. The American doubles specialists Bob and Mike Bryan will hope to improve on their bronze four years ago, whilst British hopes will rest on Andy Murray and his younger brother, Jamie Murray. In the women’s doubles we will see the pairing of Heather Watson and Laura Robson, the two big hopes for the future of British women’s tennis and both winners of Junior Grand Slam titles. Mixed doubles, which makes its first appearance at the Games since 1928, will only be made up of players already qualified for the doubles or singles events and the pairings will not be announced until immediately before the Games.

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Roger Federer Bob BryanStanislas Wawrinka Mike BryanSimon Aspelin Mahesh BhupathiThamas Johansson Leander PaesBob Bryan Eric Butorac USAMike Bryan Jean-Julien Rojer NEDArnaud Clement Max Mirnyi BLRMichael Llodra Daniel Nestor CAN

Max Mirnyi BLR Bob BryanDaniel Nestor CAN Mike BryanJuan Sebastian Cabal COL Robert Lindstedt SWEEduado Schwank ARG Horia Tecau ROUMicahel Llodra FRA Michael Llodra FRANenad Zimonjic SRB Nenad Zimonjic SRBBob Bryan Christopher Kas GERMike Bryan Alexandra Peya AUT

Jurgen Melzer AUT Leander Paes INDPhilipp Petzschner GER Radek Stepanek CZEMariusz Fyrstenberg Bob BryanMarcin Matkowski Mike BryanSimone Bolello Max Mirnyi BLRFabio Fognini Daniel Nestor CANRohan Bopanna IND Horia Tecau ROUAisam-ul-Haq Qureshi PAK Robert Lindstedt SWE

Max Mirnyi BLR Jonathan Marray GBRDaniel Nestor CAN Frederik Nielsen DENBob Bryan Robert Lindstedt SWEMike Bryan Horia Tecau ROUDaniele Bracciali Bob BryanPotito Starace Mike BryanAisam-ul-Haq Qureshi PAK Jurgen Melzer AUTJean-Julien Rojer NED Philipp Petzschner GER

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Women's Singles

1 Elena Dementieva RUS 1 Kim Clijsters BEL2 Dinara Safina RUS 2 Li Na CHN3 Vera Zvonareva RUS 3 Vera Zvonareve RUS4 Li Na CHN 3 Caroline Wozniacki DEN

1 Li Na CHN 1 Petra Kvitova CZE2 Francesca Schiavone ITA 2 Maria Sharapova RUS3 Maria Sharapova RUS 3 Victoria Azarenka BLR3 Marion Bartoli FRA 3 Sabine Lisicki GER

1 Samantha Stosur AUS 1 Victoria Azarenka BLR2 Serena Williams USA 2 Maria Sharapova RUS3 Angelique Kerber GER 3 Kim Clijsters BEL3 Caroline Wozniacki DEN 3 Petra Kvitova CZE

1 Maria Sharapova RUS 1 Serena Williams USA2 Sara Errani ITA 2 Agnieszka Radwanska POL3 Petra Kvitova CZE 3 Victoria Azarenka BLR3 Samantha Stosur AUS 3 Angelique Kerber GER

Points1 Victoria Azarenka BLR 8,8002 Agnieszka Radwanska POL 8,5303 Maria Sharapova RUS 8,3704 Serena Williams USA 7,3605 Samantha Stosur AUS 6,1956 Petra Kvitova CZE 5,2757 Angelique Kerber GER 5,1708 Caroline Wozniacki DEN 4,0919 Sara Errani ITA 3,410

10 Marion Bartoli FRA 3,40011 Li Na CHN 3,24512 Ana Ivanovic SRB 3,190

Women's Doubles

Serena Williams Gisela Dulko ARGVenus Williams Flavia Pennetta ITAAnabel Medina Victoria Azarenka BLRVerginia Ruano Pascual Maria Kirlilenko RUSYan Zi Liezel Huber USAZheng Jie Nadia Petrova RUSAlona Bondarenko Kveta Peschke CZEKateryna Bondarenko Katarina Srebotnik SLO

Andrea Hlavackova Kveta Peschke CZELucie Hradecka Katarina Srebotnik SLOSania Mirza IND Sabine Lisicki GERElena Vesnina RUS Samantha Stosur AUSVania King USA Sania Mirza INDYaroslava Shvedova KAZ Elena Vesnina RUSLiezel Huber Marina Erakovic NZLLisa Raymond Tamarine Tanasugam THA

Liezel Huber Svetlana KuznetsovaLisa Raymond Vera ZvonarevaVania King USA Sara ErraniYaroslava Shvedova KAZ Roberta VinciDaniela Hantuchova SVK Sania Mirza INDAgnieszka Radwanska POL Elena Vesnina RUSMaria Kirlilenko Andrea HlavackovaNadia Petrova Lucie Hradecka

Sara Errani Serena WilliamsRoberta Vinci Venus WilliamsMaria Kirlilenko Andrea HlavackovaNadia Petrova Lucie HradeckaNuria Llagostera Vives Liezel HuberMaria Sanchez Lisa RaymondAndrea Hlavackova Flavia PennetaLucie Hradecka Francesca Schiavone

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Mixed Doubles

Not contested in Beijing 2008 Katarina Srebotnik SLODaniel Nestor CANChan Yung-Jan TPEPaul Hanley AUSMaria Kirilenko RUSNenad Zimonjic SRBBethanie Mattek-Sands USAHoria Tecau ROU

Casey Dellacqua AUS Iveta Benesova CZEScott Lipsky USA Jurgen Melzer AUTKatarina Srebotnik SLO Elena Vesnina RUSNenad Zimonjic SRB Mahesh Melzer INDJarmila Gajdosova AUS Chan Yung-Jan TPEThomasz Bellucci BRA Daniel Nestor CANNadia Petrova RUS Hsieh Su-Wei TPEJamie Murray GBR Paul Hanley AUS

Melanie Oudin USA Bethanie Mattek-Sands USAJack Sock USA Horia Tecau ROUGisela Dulko Elena Vesnina RUSEduardo Schwank Leander Paes INDElena Vesnina RUS Sania MirzaLeander Paes IND Mahesh BhupathiLucie Hradecka Roberta VinciFrantisek Cermak Daniele Bracciali

Sania Mirza Mike BryanMahesh Bhupathi Lisa RaymondKlaudia Jans-Ignacik Leander Paes INDSantiago Gonzalez Elena Vesnina RUSGalina Voskoboeva KAZ Nenad Zimonjic SRBDaniele Bracciali ITA Katarina Srebotnik SLOElena Vesnina RUS Bob BryanLeander Paes IND Liezel Huber

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Points1 Jan Frodeno GER 1:48:53 1 Alistair Brownlee GBR 4,2852 Simon Whitfield CAN 1:48:58 2 Jonathan Brownlee GBR 3,9923 Bevan Docherty NZL 1:49:06 3 Javier Gomez ESP 3,6714 Javier Gomez ESP 1:49:14 4 Sven Riederer SUI 3,3065 Ivan Rana ESP 1:49:22 5 Alexander Brukhankov RUS 3,2086 Daniel Unger GER 1:49:44 6 David Hauss FRA 3,1577 Hunter Kemper USA 1:49:49 7 Laurent Vidal FRA 3,8448 Rasmus Henning DEN 1:49:57 8 Dmitry Polyansky RUS 3,764

1 Alistair Brownlee GBR 1:48:07 1 Steffen Justus GER 1:51:042 Sven Riederer SUI 1:48:14 2 Richard Murray RSA 1:51:133 Jonathan Brownlee GBR 1:48:17 3 Laurent Vidal FRA 1:51:154 Dmitry Polyansky RUS 1:48:20 4 David Hauss FRA 1:51:305 Laurent Vidal FRA 1:48:24 5 Alexander Bryukhankov RUS 1:51:316 Javier Gomez ESP 1:48:27 6 Ivan Vasiliev RUS 1:51:347 David Hauss FRA 1:48:35 7 Kris Gemmell NZL 1:51:428 Vincent Luis FRA 1:48:44 8 William Clarke GBR 1:51:43

1 Jonathon Brownlee GBR 1:48:47 1 Jonathon Brownlee GBR 1:51:492 Sven Riederer SUI 1:48:52 2 Alexander Bryukhankov RUS 1:52:283 Richard Murray RSA 1:49:01 3 Dmitry Polyansky RUS 1:52:544 Mario Mola ESP 1:49:09 4 Ivan Vasiliev RUS 1:53:175 Hunter Kemper USA 1:49:18 5 Alessandro Fabian ITA 1:53:246 Ryan Sissons NZL 1:49:22 6 Maik Petzold GER 1:53:337 Tim Don GBR 1:49:25 7 Hirokatsu Tayama JPN 1:53:358 Bevan Docherty NZL 1:49:29 8 Aurelien Raphael FRA 1:53:53

1 Alistair Brownlee GBR 1:50:132 Jonathon Brownlee GBR 1:51:023 Javier Gomez ESP 1:51:184 Alexander Bryukhankov RUS 1:51:275 Dmitry Polyansky RUS 1:51:416 Steffen Justus GER 1:52:017 Laurent Vidal FRA 1:52:068 Tony Moulai FRA 1:52:07

One of the youngest sports around, Triathlon is a child of the ‘birth of fitness’ in 1970s California. With high equipment costs (think racing bike, wetsuit, triathlon lycra, running shoes…) it has spent much of its life as a sport only taken up by fitness-mad young professionals. This all changed at the 2000 Olympics where, in the stunning surroundings of Sydney harbour, it was launched into the worldwide consciousness with much acclaim. What we are seeing now is the first generation of athletes selected from a large crop of people who have been competing in triathlon from an early age. As the run has taken on increasing importance, so promising young runners from developed countries, seeing the dominance of Africans in long distance running, are turning to triathlon. The reigning men’s junior world champion, Lukas Verzbicas (USA), has run a sub-4 minute mile (though he narrowly missed selection for this summer’s Olympics). Alistair Brownlee (GBR) can run 10,000m on the road in times only a couple of minutes slower than the fastest track times in the world, and this after swimming 1500m and cycling 40k. Growing fast, with young attractive (and universally white) athletes competing at warm attractive locations in rich developed countries, triathlon is set to become one of the most commercially attractive sports around.

When, in 2006, a young lad from West Yorkshire dropped out of his medicine degree at Cambridge University after his first term to pursue a career in triathlon, there are many who could be forgiven for having thought that he was making a big mistake.

Two years later, representing Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics, Alistair Brownlee repeatedly attacked on the bike and run before hitting the wall and finishing in 12th. Four years later he is double world champion (he missed much of 2010 with a

stress fracture) and is hot favourite to take a gold medal in Hyde Park. Despite missing most of the season again in 2012 with an achilles tear, he made his comeback in Kitzbuhel in June and promptly destroyed the field, winning by almost a minute. If

mishap besets him in London, a particular risk in wet conditions, then Mrs Brownlee can take comfort from the fact the next best male triathlete in the world is Alistair’s younger brother, Jonathon Brownlee, who won both World Cup events he entered

this year in Alistair’s absence and finished second in Kitzbuhel.

The women’s event is much more open. Again GB holds a strong hand in Helen Jenkins, and much will be made of her being reigning world champion, but this title is awarded on points gathered across the season and she has recorded only two top-level wins in her career. Nevertheless, as these wins came on the Olympic course in London last year and against the strongest field of 2012 in San Diego, she must count as narrow favourite. The challenge will be led by Andrea Hewitt (NZL), Nicola Spirig (SUI), Paula Findlay (CAN), Barbara Riveros Diaz (CHI) and Erin Densham (AUS) but the gold could go to anyone brave enough to seize the day.

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Points1 Emma Snowsill AUS 1:58:28 1 Helen Jenkins GBR 4,023 2 Vanessa Fernandes POR 1:59:35 2 Andrea Hewitt NZL 3,836 3 Emma Moffatt AUS 1:59:56 3 Sarah Groff USA 2,783 4 Laura Bennett USA 2:00:22 4 Emma Jackson AUS 2,760 5 Juri Ide JPN 2:00:24 5 Barbara Riveros Diaz CHI 2,754 6 Nicola Spirig SUI 2:00:30 6 Paula Findlay CAN 2,637 7 Daniela Ryf SUI 2:00:40 7 Emma Moffatt AUS 2,611 8 Andrea Hewitt NZL 2:00:46 8 Laura Bennett USA 2,560

1 Andrea Hewitt NZL 1:58:26 1 Erin Densham AUS 2:01:292 Helen Jenkins GER 1:58:40 2 Helen Jenkins GBR 2:01:383 Melanie Annaheim SUI 1:58:58 3 Andrea Hewitt NZL 2:01:454 Lisa Norden SWE 1:59:00 4 Gwen Jorgensen USA 2:02:125 Laura Bennett USA 1:59:02 5 Nicola Spirig SUI 2:02:196 Kate McIlry NZL 1:59:04 6 Ainhoa Murua ESP 2:02:267 Jessica Harrison FRA 1:59:09 7 Anne Haug GER 2:02:328 Liz Blatchford GBR 2:00:11 8 Kathy Tremblay CAN 2:02:34

1 Helen Jenkins GBR 1:58:21 1 Nicola Spirig SUI 2:06:352 Erin Densham AUS 1:59:26 2 Aileen Morrison IRL 2:06:383 Laura Bennett USA 2:00:11 3 Barbara Riveros Diaz CHI 2:06:404 Jessica Harrison FRA 2:00:14 4 Anne Haug GER 2:06:435 Vicky Holland GBR 2:00:28 5 Rachel Klamer NED 2:07:056 Flora Duffy BER 2:00:46 6 Ainhoa Murua ESP 2:07:187 Anne Haug GER 2:00:50 7 Vicky Holland GBR 2:07:208 Sarah Haskins USA 2:00:56 8 Alexandra Razarenova RUS 2:07:32

1 Nicola Spirig SUI 2:05:372 Lisa Norden SWE 2:05:403 Andrea Hewitt NZL 2:05:434 Barbara Riveros Diaz CHI 2:05:455 Jessica Harrison FRA 2:05:576 Nicky Samuels NZL 2:06:077 Anja Dittmer GER 2:06:208 Kate Milroy NZL 2:06:23

2008 Olympics 2011 World Series

2011 World Cup Final 2012 Sydney Triathlon

2012 San Diego Triathlon 2012 Madrid Triathlon

2012 Kitzbuhel Triathlon

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Volleyball

Men's Volleyball

Country Qualification Group World Ranking Achievements Top Player

Italy Won European Qualification A 3

4th at 2008 Olympics; 4th 2010 World Championships; 4th 2011 World Cup; World League - 7th in 2009, 6th in 2010, 6th in 2011; European Championships - 10th in 2009, 2nd in 2011

Christian Savani - 196cm, 30yo - Best Server 2011 World Cup

Poland 2nd at 2011 World Cup A 4

Quarter-Final at 2008 Olympics; =13th 2010 World Championships; 2nd 2011 World Cup; World League - 11th in 2009, 10th in 2010, 3rd in 2011; European Championships - 1st in 2009, 3rd in 2011

Krzysztof Ignaczak - 188cm, 33yo - Best Libero in 2011 World League

ArgentinaWon South American Qualification

A 8

DNQ at 2008 Olympics; 9th 2010 World Championships; 7th 2011 World Cup; World League - 5th in 2009, 5th in 2010, 4th in 2011; 3rd at 2011 Pan-American Games

Luciano De Cecco - 201cm, 24yo - Best-Setter at 2011 World League and 2011 World Cup

BulgariaWon Additional Qualification Tournament

A 9

Quarter-Final at 2008 Olympics; 7th 2010 World Championships; DNQ 2011 World Cup; World League - 10th in 2009, 7th in 2010, 5th in 2011; European Championships - 3rd in 2009 , 5th in 2011

Vladimir Nikolov - 200cm, 34yo

Australia Won Asian Qualification A 22Outside top international groups - finished =19th at 2010 World Championships, competed at 2000 and 2004 Olympics

Thomas Edgar - 213cm, 23yo

Great Britain Host-Country Place A 92Never qualifed for major international tournament - have beaten Mexico, Belgium, Croatia, Slovakia, Norway, China and Egypt in past 2 years

Ben Pipes - 204cm, 25yo

Brazil 3rd at 2011 World Cup B 1

Silver at 2008 Olympics; 1st 2010 World Championships; 3rd 2011 World Cup; World League - 1st in 2009, 1st in 2010, 2nd in 2011 ; 1st at 2011 Pan-American Games

Murilo Endres - 192cm, 30yo - 2010 World League MVP, 2010 World Championships MVP, 2011 World League Best-Receiver, 2009 South American Championships MVP

Russia Won 2011 World Cup B 2

Bronze at 2008 Olympics; 5th 2010 World Championships; 1st 2011 World Cup; World League - 3rd in 2009, 2nd in 2010, 1st in 2011 ; European Championships - 4th in 2009, 4th in 2011

Maxim Mikhaylov - 203cm, 24yo - MVP in 2011 World Cup, MVP and Best-Blocker in 2011 World League, Best-Scorer & Best-Spiker in 2011 European Championships, 2010 World Championships Best-Spiker

United StatesWon North American Qualification

B 6

Gold at 2008 Olympics; 6th 2010 World Championships; 6th 2011 World Cup; World League - 6th in 2009, 8th in 2010, 7th in 2011; 5th at 2011 Pan-American Games

Clayton Stanley - 205cm, 34yo - MVP, Best-Scorer, Best-Server at the 2008 Olympics & 2010 World Championship Best-Server

SerbiaWon Additional Qualification Tournament

B 7

Quarter-Final at 2008 Olympics; 3rd 2010 World Championships; 8th 2011 World Cup; World League - 2nd in 2009, 3rd in 2010 , 9th in 2011; European Championships - 5th in 2009, 1st in 2011

Ivan Miljkovic - 206cm, 32yo - MVP 2011 European Championships, Best-Scorer 2009 World League,

GermanyWon Additional Qualification Tournament

B 13

9th at 2008 Olympics; 8th 2010 World Championships; DNQ 2011 World Cup; World League - DNQ in 2009, 9th in 2010, 11th in 2011; European Championships - 6th in 2009, 15th in 2011

Ferdinand Tille - 185cm, 23yo - Best-Libero 2010 World Championships

Tunisia Won African Qualification B 18Third in 2011 African Championships, 6th Olympic appearance (only once finished above last place)

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The only truly non-contact team ball-sport in the world, Volleyball was initially invented just ten miles away and four years after basketball as a gentler sporting alternative for the older members of a Massachusetts YMCA. 117 years later volleyball has the strongest worldwide following of any ball sport except football and basketball. For the uninitiated populace of Great Britain it has the potential to pick up a quick fan base with its fast flowing action, tactical variation and often nail-biting conclusions.

Recently the men’s sport has been dominated by two goliaths, Brazil and Russia, who have won every inter-continental trophy going since USA’s surprise win at the2008 Olympics. Each team boasts one of the true stars of the sport – Murilo Endres who leads Brazil in their more technical and defensive displays, and Maxim Mikhaylov, the 24 year old sensation that is the lynch-pin of Russia’s all-out attacking performances. With no other country having the depth, or perhaps I shouldsay height, of these two, Italy, USA and Poland will likely have to scrap for bronze. Ranked 92nd in the world, Great Britain will count themselves lucky to have

been drawn in a group with Australia; they may have a chance of racking up a victory if they can keep the likes of Australia’s tall Thomas Edgar, who can hit a spike 3.5m off the ground, quiet for long enough.

The women’s event is much more open. Italy, Russia, USA and Brazil have all recently won major international events and Japan, China and Serbia also have the form to target gold in London. At 202cm, 6’8”, Ekaterina Gamova (RUS) has been the standout women’s volleyball player (and one of the tallest female professional sportswomen) for some time. What makes the women’s game so fascinating, however, is the ability of shorter teams such as Japan to slow play down and play clever defensive tactics against the more powerful nations. Great Britain’s women’s team has had more success than the men and, in a relatively weak group, they should be targeting a win against Algeria and could go through to the quarter-finals if they manage a more tricky but still achievable win against the Dominican Republic.

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Volleyball

Women's Volleyball

Country Qualification Group World Ranking Achievements Top Players

Japan Won Asian Qualification A 3

Quarter-final at 2008 Olympics; 3rd 2010 World Championships; 4th 2011 World Cup; World Grand Prix - 6th in 2009, 5th in 2010, 5th in 2011; Asian Championships - 3rd in 2009, 2nd in 2011

Yoshie Takeshita - 159cm, 34yo - Best-Setter at 2008 & 2009 World Grand Prix & 2011 World Cup

Italy Won 2011 World Cup A 4

Quarter-final at 2008 Olympics; 5th 2010 World Championships; 1st 2011 World Cup; World Grand Prix - DNQ in 2009, 3rd in 2010, 7th in 2011; European Championships - 1st in 2009 , 4th in 2011

Carolina Costagrande - 188cm, 31yo - MVP at 2011 World Cup

RussiaWon Additional Qualification Tournament

A 7

Quarter-final at 2008 Olympics; 1st 2010 World Championships; DNQ 2011 World Cup; World Grand Prix - 2nd in 2009, DNQ in 2010, 4th in 2011; European Championships - 6th in 2009, 6th in 2011

Ekaterina Gamova - 202cm, 31yo - MVP at 2010 World Cup

Dominican Republic

Won North American Qualification

A 9

DNQ at 2008 Olympics; 17th 2010 World Championships; 8nd 2011 World Cup; World Grand Prix - 11th in 2009, 8th in 2010, 12th in 2011; 4th in 2011 Pan American Games

Milagros Cabral - 185cm, 33yo

Algeria Won African Qualification A 1611th at 2008 Olympics; 17th 2010 World Championships; 11th 2011 World Cup; World Grand Prix - DNQ; 2nd in 2011 African Championships

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Great Britain Host-Country Place A 69Never qualifed for major international tournament - have beaten Chile, Argentina, Portugal and Switzerland in past 2 years

Lynne Beattie - 182cm, 25yo

United States 2nd at 2011 World Cup B 1

Silver at 2008 Olympics; 4th 2010 World Championships; 2nd 2011 World Cup; World Grand Prix - 9th in 2009, 1st in 2010, 1st in 2011 ; 3rd in 2011 Pan American Games

Destinee Hooker - 193cm, 24yo - MVP at 2011 World Grand Prix, Best-Spiker at 2011 World Cup

BrazilWon South American Qualification

B 2

Gold at 2008 Olympics; 2nd 2010 World Championships; 5th 2011 World Cup; World Grand Prix - 1st in 2009, 2nd in 2010, 2nd in 2011 ; 1st in 2011 Pan American Games; 1st in 2009 and 2011 South American Championships

Paula Pequeno - 184cm, 30yo - MVP at 2008 Olympics

China 3rd at 2011 World Cup B 5

Bronze at 2008 Olympics; 10th 2010 World Championships; 3rd 2011 World Cup; World Grand Prix - 5th in 2009, 4th in 2010, 3rd in 2011; Asian Championships - 2nd in 2009, 1st in 2011

Wang Yimei - 190cm, 24yo - MVP at 2011 Asian Championships, Best-Scorer at 2010 World Grand Prix

Serbia3rd at Additional Qualification Tournament

B 6

Quarter-final at 2008 Olympics; 8th 2010 World Championships; 7th 2011 World Cup; World Grand Prix - DNQ in 2009, DNQ in 2010, 3rd in 2011; European Championships - 7th in 2009, 1st in 2011

Jovana Brakocevic - 196cm, 24yo - MVP at 2011 European Championships, Best-Scorer at 2011 World Grand Prix

Turkey Won European Qualification B 11

DNQ at 2008 Olympics; 6th 2010 World Championships; DNQ 2011 World Cup; World Grand Prix - DNQ in 2009, 2010 & 2011; European Championships - 5th in 2009, 3rd in 2011

Neslihan Darnel - 187cm, 28yo - Best-Scorer at 2006 World Championships, 2010 World Championships & 2011 European Championships

South Korea2nd at Additional Qualification Tournament

B 13

DNQ at 2008 Olympics; 13th 2010 World Championships; 9th 2011 World Cup; World Grand Prix - 12th in 2009, DNQ in 2010, 9th in 2011; Asian Championships - 4th in 2009, 3rd in 2011

Kim Yeon-Koung - 192cm, 24yo - Best-Scorer at 2009 & 2011 Asian Championships, Best-Spiker at 2011 Asian Championships

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Water Polo

Men's Water Polo

Country Qualification Group Achievements

ItalyWon the 2011 World Championships

AOlympics - 9th 2008, 8th 2004; World Championships - Gold 2011; World Cup - 5th 2006; World League - 7th 2006; European Championships - 4th 2012

CroatiaThird at 2011 World Championships

AOlympics - 6th 2008, 10th 2004; World Championships - Gold 2007, Bronze 2011, 2009; World Cup - Silver 2010; World League - Silver 2009, Bronze 2011, 2010; European Championships - Gold 2010, 9th 2012

SpainSecond at Olympic Qualification Tournament

AOlympics - 5th 2008, 6th 2004; World Championships - Silver 2009, Bronze 2007, 5th 2011; World Cup - Bronze 2010, 2006; World League - 4th 2011, 2009; European Championships - Bronze 2006.7th 2012

GreeceThird at Olympic Qualification Tournament

AOlympics - 7th 2008, 4th 2004; World Championships - Bronze 2005; World Cup - 7th 2006; World League - Bronze 2006; European Championships - 6th 2012

AustraliaOnly competitive team from Oceania

AOlympics - 8th 2008, 9th 2004; World Championships - 9th 2011; World Cup - 6th 2010; World League - 6th 2011

KazakhstanWon the 2012 Asian Championships

A Olympics - n/a 2008, 11th 2004; World Championships - 13th 2011

SerbiaWon the 2011 World League Super-Final

B

Olympics - Bronze 2008, Silver 2004, Bronze 2000; World Championships - Gold 2009, 2005, Silver 2011; World Cup - Gold 2010, 2006; World League - Gold 2011, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2006, Bronze 2009; European Championships - Gold 2012, 2006, Silver 2008, Bronze 2010

HungaryFourth at 2011 World Championships

BOlympics - Gold 2008, 2004, 2000; World Championships - 4th 2011, Silver 2007, 2005; World Cup - Silver 2006; European Championships - Bronze 2012, 2008, Silver 2006

MontenegroWon the Olympic Qualification Tournament

BOlympics - 4th 2008; World Championships - 7th 2011, 9th 2009; World League - Gold 2009, Silver 2010, 5th 2011 ; European Championships - Gold 2008, Silver 2012

United StatesWon the 2011 Pan-American Games

BOlympics - Silver 2008, 7th 2004; World Championships - 6th 2011; World Cup - 4th; World League - 2nd 2008, 5th 2010

RomaniaFourth at Olympic Qualification Tournament

BOlympics - n/a 2008, 2004; World Championships - 12th 2011; World Cup - 5th 2010; World League - 8th 2007; European Championships - 8th 2012

Great Britain Qualified as host nation BNo recent appearances at major tournaments - (Olympic gold in 1900, 1908, 1912 & 1920)

Water Polo provides an interesting case study for how Olympic results are often distorted by the very importance and excitement that they generate. Unusually for a team sport, there are at least two top-level international competitions a year in which (on the men's side) around ten top level teams participate, each made up of professional sportsmen who often also play against each other week-in week-out in their club-teams. This means that, come the Olympics, there are no surprises in terms of tactics, fitness or personnel - and so it should be expected that any team who are dominant outside of Olympic competition will continue their form into the Olympic pool. That is, however, precisely what we don't see. The men's Serbian and the women's American teams have dominated international water polo for the past 10 years, winning almost every World Championship, World League and World Cup that they entered; yet, for the past three Olympics they have failed to clinch gold, losing either in the final or semi-final. Whether being such hot favourites causes too much pressure, or whether less fancied teams raise their game come the biggest show of all, one of the most persistant patterns of Olympic competition is the triumph of the underdog.

That doesn't mean, however, that we should expect anything other than Serbia to win men's gold, and USA to win women's gold in the Water Polo Arena. Both have boasted almost complete dominance coming into the Games. It is surely too much to expect that

Hungary will again defy expectations to win their fourth gold medal in a row or that another unfancied team like the Netherlands,who finished 9th in the previous year's World Championships, will take the women's title. My money? Montenegro in the men's

and China in the women's - what better countries to continue the favourites' denial.

There was once a time when Great Britain was the dominant force in world water polo. The first four Olympic gold medals all went GB's way at the start of the twentieth century. Now, however, countries in which outdoor swimming pools dominate summer culture (the Balkans, Spain, Italy, California, Australia), and, crucially, where 6' 5" muscular frames are not pulled into rugby have moved Britian firmly down the international pecking order. As with handball and volleyball most of Britain's top talent have spent thepast 5 years having their salaries in European professional leagues subsidised by the UK Sport. This has been successful in moving the British team on leaps and bounds - but sadly only to the point where we can hope for competitive performances rather than any real charge for medals. Both will do very well to achieve even one win. Hopefully, however, enough of a legacy will have been generated for this exciting and incredibly physically demanding sport to continue to grow post-Games.

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Water Polo

Women's Water Polo

Country Qualification Group Achievements

United StatesWon the 2011 Pan-American Games

AOlympics - Silver 2008, 2000, Bronze 2004; World Championships - Gold 2009, 2007, Silver 2005, 6th 2011; World Cup - Gold 2010; World League - Gold 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006

ChinaWon the 2012 Asian Championships

AOlympics - 5th 2008 Olympics; World Championships - Silver 2011; World Cup - Bronze 2010; World League - 4th 2011

HungaryFourth at Olympic Qualification Tournament

AOlympics - 4th 2008, 6th 2004; World Championships - 9th 2011, Gold 2005; World Cup - 6th 2010; European Championships - Bronze 2012, 2008, 2006

SpainWon the Olympic Qualification Tournament

AOlympics - n/a; World Championships - 11th 2011; World Cup - n/a; World League - 8th 2011; European Championships - Silver 2008

ItalySecond at Olympic Qualification Tournament

BOlympics - Gold 2004, 6th 2008; World Championships - 4th 2011; World Cup - Silver 2006; World League - Silver 2011; European Championships - Gold 2012

RussiaThird at Olympic Qualification Tournament

BOlympics - 7th 2008, 5th 2004, Bronze 2000; World Championships - Bronze 2011, 2009, 2007; World Cup - 4th 2010, Bronze 2006; European Championships - Gold 2010, 2008, 2006, 4th 2011

AustraliaOnly competitive team from Oceania

BOlympics - Bronze 2008, 4th 2004, Gold 2000; World Championships - Silver 2007, 5th 2011; World Cup - Gold 2006, Silver 2010; World League - Silver 2010, 2007, Bronze 2011, 2009, 2008, 2005

Great Britain Qualified as host nation BFirst ever appearance at a major championships came at 2012 Europeans where they won one match to finish 7th

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Weightlifting

Men's 56kgWorld Record Total: 305kg Halil Mutli TUR 16 September 2000 Olympic Record Total: 305kg Halil Mutli TUR 16 September 2000

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Long Qingquan CHN 132 160 292 1 Wu Jingbiao CHN 132 160 2922 Hoang Anh Tuan VIE 130 160 290 2 Long Qingquan CHN 127 161 2883 Eko Yuli Irawan INA 130 158 288 3 Cha Kum Choi PRK 130 150 2804 Yang Chin-Yi TPE 128 157 285 4 Hoang Anh Tuan VIE 123 150 2735 Cha Kum Choi PRK 128 155 283 5 Ruslan Makarov UZB 120 149 2696 Sergio Alvarez CUB 120 152 272 6 Chen Xiong CHN 120 148 2687 Wang Shin-Yuan TPE 115 150 265 7 Sergio Alvarez CUB 116 151 2678 Amirul Hamizan Ibrahim MAS 121 144 265 8 Khalil El Maoui TUN 127 140 267

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Wu Jingbiao CHN 133 159 292 1 Valentin Hristov AZE 125 155 2802 Thanh Kim Tuan VIE 127 150 277 2 Li Fabin CHN 126 153 2793 Valentin Hristov AZE 122 154 276 2 Tran Le Quoc Toan VIE 126 153 2794 Tran Le Quoc Toan VIE 125 150 275 4 Jadi Setiadi INA 123 153 2765 Majid Askari IRI 123 150 273 5 Sergio Rodriguez COL 122 152 2746 Sergio Alvarez CUB 118 154 272 6 Jose Lino Montes MEX 115 156 2717 Om Yun Chol PRK 115 156 271 7 Thanh Kim Tuan VIE 124 145 2698 Florin Croitoru ROU 121 149 270 8 Yang Chin Yi TPE 116 146 262

Men's 62kgWorld Record Total: 326kg Zhang Jie CHN 27 April 2008Olympic Record Total: 325kg Nikolaj Pesalov CRO 20 September 2000

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Zhang Xiangxiang CHN 143 176 319 1 Kim Un Guk PRK 147 173 3202 Diego Fernando Salazar COL 138 167 305 2 Zhang Jie CHN 141 174 3153 Triyatno INA 135 163 298 3 Erol Bilgin TUR 143 171 3144 Antoniu Buci ROU 130 165 295 4 Eko Yuli Irawan INA 140 172 3125 Phaisan Hansawong THA 132 162 294 5 Ji Hun-Min KOR 137 172 3096 Lazaro Maikel Ruiz CUB 132 162 294 6 Ding Jianjun CHN 142 160 3027 Tilkunbek Hudaybargenov TKM 126 162 288 7 Antoniu Buci ROU 135 165 3008 Mohamed Abd Elbaki EGY 129 159 288 8 Lazaro Maikel Ruiz CUB 132 166 298

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Zhang Jie CHN 145 176 321 1 Chen Hongqing CHN 135 169 3042 Kim Un Guk PRK 150 170 320 2 Bunyamin Sezer TUR 142 159 3013 Oscar Figueroa Mosquera COL 137 175 312 3 Mao Chen CHN 136 164 3004 Eko Yuli Irawan INA 139 171 310 4 Muhamad Hasbi INA 131 166 2975 Umurbek Bazarbayev TKM 135 168 303 5 Huang Minhao CHN 140 155 2956 Bunyamin Sezer TUR 140 158 298 6 Ji Hun-Min KOR 131 164 2957 Ji Hun-Min KOR 136 161 297 7 Mosquera Francisco COL 128 163 2918 Jesus Lopez Sanchez VEN 130 166 296 8 Dimitris Minasidis CYP 130 158 288

15 gold medals will be won in Weightlifting at the 2012 Olympic Games. Most, possibly all, will be won by lifters from countries widely critised for having poor national drug testing programmes - the 2011 World Championship gold medals were shared by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran and North Korea. Almost 40% of positive tests for banned performance-enhancing drugs at Olympic Games have come from weightlifting; that this amounts to only 38 lifters says more about the historical reluctance of the IOC to catch cheats than anything else. Weightlifters also tend to exhibit short term (1-2 year) bursts of form before returning to mediocrity, a classic indicator of drug use. Only the athletes, or in some regimes perhaps only the coaches, can really know who is competing clean. Perhaps China deserves credit for holding all but one of the women's weightlifitng world records and winning 8 golds in Beijing (a feat they could repeat in London). Perhaps the world's attention should be drawn to Iranian Behad Salimikordasiabi who won the 105kg+ category at last years World Championships by an astonishing 31kg. There are undoubtably many clean weightlifters competing in London; the Pacific Islands in particular have become fanatical about weightlifting in recent years and, given their athletes lacking the tell-tale abnormal muscle definition, they are doing it clean. But until the sport takes drastic measures to introduce stringent testing and remove people involved in doping from its governance, the best entertainment gained from watching is guessing who is on what.

2008 Olympics 2010 World Ranking

2011 World Ranking 2012 World Ranking

Great Britain's weightlifting team are the best they have been in the modern era. Despite having the second lowest funding of any sport theyhave steadily improved their programme and will take 5 lifters into the Games. The highest profile British athlete, and the only one who is

internationally competitive, is Zoe Smith. The 18 year-old has improved consistently since coming into the international squad in 2010, when she won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games. She created headlines after losing her funding due to ongoing difficulty dropping weight

(which, in a sport where dropping body fat to make a lower weight category is a key motivator for drug use, could be viewed as a good thing) and lifted at the -63kg catagory in the 2011 World Championships. In 2012, however, she has successfully dropped back down to the -58kg category,

thanks largely to moving back home where her mother controls her food intake. At the European Championships she lifted a new PB of 208kg - good enough for fourth place and, though she will still be some distance from the medals, her continued growth and dedication bode well for future

Games.



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Weightlifting

Men's 69kgWorld Record Total: 357kg Galabin Boevski BUL 24 November 1999Olympic Record Total: 357kg Galabin Boevski BUL 20 September 2000

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Liao Hui CHN 158 190 348 1 Liao Hui CHN 160 198 3582 Venceslas Dabaya FRA 151 187 338 2 Martin Razvan ROU 151 189 3403 Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan ARM 153 185 338 3 Ninel Miculescu ROU 157 180 3374 Yordanis Borrero CUB 148 180 328 4 Mete Binay TUR 160 175 3355 Turan Mirzayev AZE 146 181 327 5 Armen Kazaryan RUS 148 181 3296 Kim Chol Jin PRK 146 180 326 6 Tang Deshang CHN 147 180 3277 Afgan Bayramov AZE 145 175 320 7 Triyatno INA 146 178 3248 Sitthisak Suphalak THA 147 171 318 8 Kim Kum Sok PRK 140 181 321

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Tang Deshang CHN 155 186 341 1 Wu Chao CHN 152 190 3422 Oleg Chen RUS 157 180 337 2 Oscar Figueroa COL 145 185 3303 Lin Qingfeng CHN 150 185 335 3 Shi Zhiyong CHN 144 180 3244 Mete Binay TUR 157 177 334 4 Liu Weihuang CHN 144 180 3245 Razvan Martin ROU 150 181 331 5 Junior Sanchez VEN 149 174 3236 Sardar Hasanov AZE 150 176 326 5 Sajad Behrouzi IRI 148 175 3237 Won Jeongsik KOR 144 182 326 7 Afgan Bayramov AZE 143 178 3218 Bernadin Kingue Matam FRA 141 181 322 8 Su Ying CHN 150 170 320

Men's 77kgWorld Record Total: 378kg Lu Xiaojun CHN 24 November 2009Olympic Record Total: 375kg Taner Sagir TUR 19 August 2008

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Sa Jae-Hyouk KOR 163 203 366 1 Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan ARM 173 200 3732 Li Hongli CHN 168 198 366 2 Lu Xiaojun CHN 170 200 3703 Gevorg Davtyan ARM 165 195 360 3 Tarek Yehia EGY 157 199 3564 Kim Kwang -Hoon KOR 155 200 355 4 Kianoush Rostami IRI 161 193 3545 Oleg Perepetchenov RUS 162 192 354 5 Ramzi Bahloul TUN 160 192 3526 Ivan Cambar CUB 157 196 353 6 Krzysztof Szramiak POL 160 191 3517 Ara Khachatryan ARM 162 191 353 7 Erkand Qerimaj ALB 155 196 3518 Krzysztof Szramiak POL 161 191 352 8 Mikalai Charniak BLR 161 185 346

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Lu Xiaojun CHN 170 205 375 1 Erkand Qerimaj ALB 158 190 3482 Su Dajin CHN 166 206 372 2 Razvan Martin ROU 159 188 3473 Sa Jae-Hyouk KOR 157 203 360 3 Alaxandru Dudoglu MDA 158 186 3444 Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan ARM 166 190 356 4 Dmitry Khomyakov RUS 155 187 3425 Demih Yagci TUR 155 192 347 5 Alexandr Spac MDA 153 187 3406 Arayik Mirzoyan ARM 160 187 347 5 Guo Zhimin CHN 160 180 3407 Yukio Peter NRU 157 190 347 7 Yony Andica COL 149 188 3378 Ibrahim Ramadan Ibrahim EGY 150 195 345 8 Jhon Villacuero COL 154 182 336

Men's 85kgWorld Record Total: 394kg Andrei Rybakou BLR 15 August 2008Olympic Record Total: 394kg Andrei Rybakou BLR 15 August 2008

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Lu Yong CHN 180 214 394 1 Adrian Zielinski POL 173 210 3832 Andrei Rybakou BLR 185 209 394 2 Aleksey Yufkin RUS 172 208 3803 Tigran Vardan Martirosyan ARM 177 203 380 3 Siarhei Lahun BLR 166 211 3774 Vladimir Sedov KAZ 180 200 380 4 Yolemis Hernandez Paumier CUB 164 210 3745 Jadiel Valladares CUB 169 203 372 5 Lu Yong CHN 170 202 3726 Benjamin Hennequin FRA 162 205 367 6 Abti Aukadov RUS 170 201 3717 Mamsurbek Chashemov UZB 165 202 367 7 Memsurbek Chashemov UZB 169 200 3698 Kendrick Farris USA 160 202 362 8 Gevorik Poghosyan ARM 165 204 369

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Alexsey Yufkin RUS 170 215 385 1 Sourab Moradi IRI 172 216 3881 Abti Aukadov RUS 173 212 385 2 Kianoush Rostami IRI 172 211 3833 Lu Yong CHN 173 212 385 3 Sa Jaehyok KOR 167 203 3704 Kianoush Rostami IRI 173 209 382 4 Rauli Tsirekidze GEO 165 200 3655 Benjamin Hennequin FRA 170 208 378 5 Zhang Huacong CHN 165 194 3596 Adrian Zielinski POL 174 202 376 5 Fatih Baydar TUR 166 193 3597 Gabriel Sincraian ROU 169 201 370 5 Gabriel Sincraian ROU 164 195 3598 Andrei Rybakou BLR 178 190 368 8 Safaa Al-Jumaili IRQ 155 203 358







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Weightlifting

Men's 94kgWorld Record Total: 412kg Akakios Kakiasvilis GRE 27 November 1999Olympic Record Total: 406kg Ilya Ilin KAZ 17 August 2008

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Ilya Ilin KAZ 180 226 406 1 Alexandr Ivanov RUS 185 218 4032 Szymon Kolecki POL 179 224 403 2 Artem Ivanov UKR 185 217 4023 Khadjimourad Akkayev RUS 185 217 402 3 Valeriu Calancea ROU 177 220 3974 Arsen Kasabiev GEO 176 223 399 4 Andrey Demanov RUS 175 218 3935 Nizami Pashayev AZE 181 215 396 5 Arsen Kasabijew POL 176 216 3926 Yoandry Hernsnadez CUB 178 215 393 6 Rovshan Fatullayev AZE 175 215 3907 Asghar Ebrahimi IRI 180 212 392 7 Vladimir Sedov KAZ 180 210 3908 Roman Konstantinov RUS 175 212 387 8 Intiqam Zairov AZE 175 211 386

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Ilya Ilin KAZ 181 226 407 1 Anatoli Ciricu MDA 178 224 4021 Aretm Ivanov UKR 186 221 407 2 Aurimas Didzbalis LTU 180 215 3953 Saeid Mohammadpourkarkaragh IRI 181 221 402 3 Saeid Mohammadpourkarkaragh IRI 178 215 3934 Alexandr Ivanov RUS 186 215 401 4 Kim Min-Jae KOR 175 211 3865 Ruslan Nurudinov UZB 177 221 398 5 Egor Klimonov RUS 170 215 3856 Andrey Demanov RUS 178 220 398 5 He Shuyong CHN 175 210 3857 Kim Min-Jae KOR 182 214 396 7 Aslan Bideev RUS 170 212 3828 Anatoli Ciricu MDA 175 220 395 8 Ibrahim Arat TUR 171 209 380

Men's 105kgWorld Record Total: 436kg Andrei Aramnau BLR 18 August 2008Olympic Record Total: 436kg Andrei Aramnau BLR 18 August 2008

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Andrei Aramnau BLR 200 236 436 1 Andrei Aramnau BLR 195 225 4202 Dmitriy Klokov RUS 193 230 423 2 Marcin Dolega POL 188 227 4153 Dmitriy Lapikov RUS 190 230 420 3 Dmitriy Klokov RUS 192 223 4154 Marcin Dolega POL 195 225 420 4 Vladimir Smorchkov RUS 190 220 4105 Bakhyt Akhmetov KAZ 190 225 415 5 Bartlomiej Bonk POL 180 222 4026 Albert Kuzilov GEO 182 227 409 6 Ivan Efremov UZB 181 221 4027 Sergey Istomin KAZ 181 225 406 7 Sergey Istomin KAZ 182 215 3978 Robert Dolega POL 184 221 405 8 Oleksiy Torokhtiy UKR 175 221 396

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Khadzhimurat Akkaev RUS 198 232 430 1 Jorge Arroyo ESU 190 215 4052 Dmitry Klokov RUS 196 232 428 2 David Bedzhanyan RUS 185 220 4053 Oleksiy Torokhtiy UKR 181 229 410 3 Ruslan Murudinov UZB 184 220 4044 Gia Machavariani GEO 187 222 409 4 Maxim Sheyko RUS 185 216 4015 Bartlomiej Bonk POL 185 221 406 5 Mikhail Audzayev BLR 180 215 3955 Navab Nasirshelal IRI 180 223 403 6 Ibragim Bersanov KAZ 180 211 3917 Yang Zie CHN 187 216 403 7 Sergiy Tagirov UKR 180 210 3908 Ahed Joughili SYR 180 217 397 8 Arturs Plesnieks LAT 172 215 387

Men's +105kgWorld Record Total: 472kg Hossein Rezazadeh IRI 26 September 2000Olympic Record Total: 472kg Hossein Rezazadeh IRI 26 September 2000

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Matthias Steiner GER 203 258 461 1 Behdad Salimikordasiabi IRI 208 245 4532 Evgeny Chigishev RUS 210 250 460 2 Evgeny Chigishev RUS 205 235 4403 Viktor Scerbatihs LAT 206 242 448 3 Matthias Steiner GER 194 246 4404 Artem Udachyn UKR 207 235 442 4 Artem Udachyn UKR 205 235 4405 Ihor Shymechko UKR 201 232 433 5 Ruben Alexsanyan ARM 195 237 4326 Rashid Sharifi IRI 196 230 426 6 Jeon Sang-Guen KOR 185 242 4277 Grzegorz Kleszcz POL 185 234 419 7 Sajjad Anoushirvanihamlabad IRI 191 235 4268 Almir Velagic GER 188 225 413 8 Almir Velagic GER 190 235 425

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Behdad Salimikordasiabi IRI 214 250 464 1 Behdad Salimikordasiabi IRI 206 245 4512 Jeon Sang-Guen KOR 192 241 433 2 Jeon Sang-Guen KOR 200 237 4373 Chingiz Mogushkov RUS 192 240 432 3 Sajjad Anoushirvanihamlabad IRI 193 238 4314 Ihor Shymechko UKR 200 230 430 4 Ruslan Albegov RUS 191 238 4295 Sun Hai Bo CHN 192 230 422 5 Magomev Abuev RUS 191 235 4266 Dmitry Lapikov RUS 192 227 419 6 Matthias Steiner GER 190 234 4247 An Yong-Kwon KOR 196 222 418 7 Irakli Turmanidze GEO 195 228 4238 Oleg Proshak UKR 190 225 415 8 Andrey Kozlov RUS 187 235 422







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Women's 48kgWorld Record Total: 217kg Yang Lian CHN 1 October 2006Olympic Record Total: 212kg Chen Xiexia CHN 9 August 2008

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Chen Xiexia CHN 95 117 212 1 Nurcan Taylan TUR 93 121 2142 Sibel Ozkan TUR 88 111 199 2 Sibel Ozkan Oz TUR 90 115 2053 Chen Wei-Ling TPE 84 112 196 3 Tian Yuan CHN 88 116 2044 Im Jyong-Hwa KOR 86 110 196 4 Wu Yanmei CHN 84 103 1875 Pensiri Laosirikul THA 85 110 195 5 Pramsiri Bunphitak THA 83 103 1866 Hiromi Miyake JPN 80 105 185 6 Chen Wei-Ling TPE 80 105 1857 Melanie Moel FRA 80 97 177 7 Xiao Hongyu CHN 80 105 1858 Misaki Oshiro JPN 80 92 172 8 Im Jyong-Hwa KOR 80 100 180

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Tian Yuan CHN 90 117 207 1 Huang Yuezhen CHN 92 108 2002 Nurcan Taylan TUR 90 105 195 2 Marzena Karpinska POL 85 102 1873 Panida Khamsri THA 80 107 187 3 Feng Linmei CHN 81 105 1864 Wipada Sirimongkhon THA 101 187 288 4 Sirivimon Pramongkhol THA 77 106 1835 Ryang Chun Hwa PRK 80 106 186 5 Katheryn Mercado COL 77 101 1785 Nurdan Karagoz TUR 80 103 183 5 Marina Sisoeva UZB 75 103 1787 Genny Pagliaro ITA 85 98 183 7 Wipada Sirimongkhon THA 76 101 1777 Marzena Karpinska POL 82 101 183 8 Nurdan Togoeva TUR 77 100 177

Women's 53kgWorld Record Total: 220kg Li Ping CHN 14 November 2010Olympic Record Total: 225kg Yang Yia CHN 18 September 2000

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 P. Jaroenrattanatarakoon THA 95 126 221 1 Chen Xiaoting CHN 100 122 2222 Yoon Jin-Hee KOR 94 119 213 2 Aylin Dasdelen TUR 90 121 2113 Nastassia Novikava BLR 95 118 213 3 Peng Hui CHN 90 120 2104 Raema Lisa Rumbewas INA 91 115 206 4 Yuderqui Contreras DOM 93 113 2065 Yudelquis Maridalin DOM 93 111 204 5 Citra Febrianti INA 88 113 2016 Melanie Roach USA 83 110 193 6 Rusmeris Villar Barbosa COL 88 113 2017 Julia Rohde GER 82 103 185 7 Hiromi Miyake JPN 87 113 2008 Dika Toua PNG 80 104 184 8 Hsu Shu-Ching TPE 86 113 199

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Zulfiya Chinshanlo KAZ 97 130 227 1 Hsu Shu-Ching TPE 97 123 2202 Ji Jing CHN 100 122 222 2 Li Qimei CHN 93 115 2083 Aylin Dasdelen TUR 93 126 219 3 Cristina Iovu MDA 91 116 2074 Li Ping CHN 90 125 215 4 Rusmeris Villar Barbosa COL 92 112 2045 Hsu Shu-Ching TPE 93 120 213 5 Zhang Wanqiong CHN 90 113 2036 Yuderqui Contreras DOM 96 110 206 6 Chineye Fidelis NGR 87 115 2027 Pramsiri Bunphitak THA 90 115 205 7 Sopita Tanasan THA 90 111 2018 Hiromi Miyake JPN 88 115 203 7 Aylin Dasdelen TUR 88 113 201

Women's 58kgWorld Record Total: 251kg Chen Yanqing CHN 3 December 2006Olympic Record Total: 244kg Chen Yangqing CHN 8 August 2008

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Chen Yanqing CHN 106 138 244 1 Deng Wei CHN 110 132 2422 Marina Shainova RUS 98 129 227 2 Nastassia Novikana BLR 105 133 2383 O Jong Ae PRK 95 131 226 3 Jong Chun Mi PRK 100 130 2304 Wandee Kameaim THA 98 128 226 4 Maria Escobar Guerrero ECU 100 127 2275 Alexandra Escobar ECU 99 124 223 5 Zulfina Chinshanlo KAZ 95 130 2256 Romela Begaj ALB 98 118 216 6 Deng Mengrong CHN 98 123 2217 Aleksandra Klejnowska POL 95 120 215 7 Yuliya Kalina UKR 94 126 2208 Roxana Cocos ROU 89 115 204 8 Yuderqui Contreras DOM 96 120 216

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Deng Wei CHN 110 133 243 1 Hsu Shu-Ching TPE 97 123 2202 Nastassia Novikana BLR 101 136 237 2 Li Qimei CHN 93 115 2083 Li Xueying CHN 103 133 236 3 Christina Iovu MDA 91 116 2074 Pimsiri Sirikaew THA 99 131 230 4 Rusmeris Villar Barbosa COL 92 112 2045 Yuliya Kalina UKR 100 123 223 5 Zhang Wanqiong CHN 90 113 2036 Jong Chun Mi PRK 95 127 222 6 Chineye Fidelis NGR 87 115 2027 Maria Escobar Guerrero ECU 99 122 221 7 Sopita Tanasan THA 90 111 2018 Jackelina Heredia Cuesta COL 95 125 220 7 Aylin Dasdelen TUR 88 113 201







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Women's 63kgWorld Record Total: 257kg Liu Haixia CHN 23 September 2007Olympic Record Total: 242.5kg Chen Xiaomin CHN 9 September 2000

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Pak Hyon-Suk PRK 106 135 241 1 Maiya Maneza KAZ 105 143 2482 Irina Nekrassova KAZ 110 130 240 2 Sibel Simsek TUR 110 134 2443 Lu Ying-Chi TPE 104 127 231 3 Svetlana Tsarukaeva RUS 114 130 2444 Christine Girard CAN 102 126 228 4 Ouyang Xiaofang CHN 112 129 2415 Thi Thiet Nguyen VIE 100 125 225 5 Nisida Palomeque Valoyes COL 103 134 2376 Kim Soo-Kyung KOR 98 127 225 6 Kim Soo-Kyung KOR 107 128 2357 Ruth Kasirye NOR 103 121 224 7 Rim Jong Sim PRK 104 127 2318 Luz Mercedes MEX 103 120 223 8 Roxana Cocos ROU 99 130 229

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Svetlana Tsarukaeva RUS 117 138 255 1 Primsiri Sirikaew THA 100 131 2312 Maiya Maneza KAZ 109 139 248 2 Kuo Hsing-Chun TPE 98 130 2283 Xiaofang Ouyang CHN 113 133 246 3 Jackelin Heredia COL 98 128 2264 Marina Shainova RUS 104 141 245 4 Maria Escobar Guerrero ECU 100 125 2255 Roxana Cocos ROU 107 136 243 5 Zhao Jun CHN 95 125 2206 Pak Hyon-Suk PRK 108 133 241 6 Hidilyn Diaz PHI 95 122 2177 Sibel Simsek TUR 108 130 238 7 Boyanka Kostova AZE 98 117 2158 Christine Girard CAN 105 133 238 7 Romela Begaj ALB 102 113 215

Women's 69kgWorld Record Total: 286kg Liu Chunhong CHN 13 August 2008Olympic Record Total: 286kg Liu Chunhong CHN 13 August 2008

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Liu Chunhong CHN 128 158 286 1 Oxana Slivenko RUS 117 145 2622 Oxana Slivenko RUS 115 140 255 2 Meline Daluzyan ARM 115 145 2603 Natalya Davydova UKR 115 135 250 3 Svetlana Shimkova RUS 116 140 2564 Leydi Solis COL 105 135 240 4 Kang Yue CHN 113 140 2535 Abir Khalil EGY 105 133 238 5 Leidy Solis Arboleda COL 108 139 2476 Angela Medina COL 106 124 230 6 Shemshat Tuliayeva BLR 115 129 2447 Hanna Batsiushka BLR 105 120 225 7 Zhang Shaoling MAC 106 137 2438 Saito Rika JPN 87 122 209 8 Yulia Artemova UKR 111 131 242

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Oxana Slivenko RUS 118 148 266 1 Deng Mengrong CHN 108 244 3522 Xiang Yanmei CHN 116 148 264 1 Zhou Wenyu CHN 108 244 3523 Huang Shih Hsu TPE 116 135 251 3 Diana Akhmetova RUS 107 237 3444 Kang Yue CHN 113 131 244 4 Rattikan Gulnoi THA 96 226 3225 Wiriya Suwannaratana THA 105 135 240 5 Long Dingling CHN 99 225 3246 Roxana Cocos ROU 105 135 240 5 Karina Goricheva KAZ 100 225 3257 Maryna Shkermankova BLR 107 131 238 5 Sibel Simsek TUR 100 225 3258 Mun Yura KOR 108 130 238 8 Marina Kaneva RUS 98 224 322

Women's 75kgWorld Record Total: 296kg Natalia Zabolotnaya RUS 17 December 2011Olympic Record Total: 282kg Cao Lei CHN 15 August 2008

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Cao Lei CHN 128 154 282 1 Svetlana Podobedova KAZ 134 161 2952 Alla Vazhenina KAZ 119 147 266 2 Natalya Zabotnaya RUS 133 160 2933 Nadezhda Yevstyukhina RUS 117 147 264 3 Svetlana Zabotnaya RUS 129 156 2854 Irina Kulesha BLR 118 137 255 4 Nadezda Evstyukhina RUS 123 160 2835 Lidia Valentin ESP 115 135 250 5 Hripsime Khurshudyan ARM 122 151 2736 Damaris Aguirre MEX 109 136 245 6 Lidia Valentin ESP 115 140 2557 Ubaldina Valoyes COL 110 134 244 7 Iryna Kulesha BLR 120 135 2558 Jean Lassen CAN 105 135 240 8 Olga Zubova RUS 112 139 251

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Nadezda Evstyukhina RUS 130 163 293 1 Olga Zubova RUS 115 150 2652 Svetlana Podobedova KAZ 131 156 287 2 Lidia Valentin ESP 117 143 2603 Kim Un Ju PRK 114 151 265 3 Lan Huixian CHN 104 131 2354 Lidia Valentin ESP 122 142 264 3 Lim Ji-Hye KOR 104 131 2355 Xiang Yanmei CHN 115 146 261 5 Maria Harlova RUS 103 125 2286 Iryna Kulesha BLR 121 140 261 6 Madias Nzesso CMR 98 127 2257 Anna Nurmukhambetova KAZ 115 142 257 7 Hatice Yilmaz TUR 98 125 2238 Li Rongyan CHN 111 142 253 7 Rumyana Petkova BIL 100 123 223







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Women's +75kgWorld Record Total: 328kg Zhou Lulu CHN 13 November 2011Olympic Record Total: 326kg Jang Mi-Ran KOR 16 August 2008

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Jang Mi-Ran KOR 140 186 326 1 Tatiana Kasharina RUS 145 170 3152 Olha Korobka UKR 124 153 277 2 Meng Suping CHN 131 179 3103 Mariya Grabovetskaya KAZ 120 150 270 3 Jang Mi-Ran KOR 130 179 3094 Ele Opeloge SAM 119 150 269 4 Ele Opeloge SAM 125 160 2855 Mariam Usman NGR 115 150 265 5 Hripsime Khurshudyan ARM 123 160 2836 Cheryl Haworth USA 115 144 259 6 Olha Korobka UKR 123 150 2737 Yuliya Dovhal UKR 118 140 258 7 Feng Hong CHN 118 150 2688 Deborah Lovely AUS 113 135 248 8 Julia Konovalova RUS 118 146 264

Snatch Jerk Total Snatch Jerk Total1 Zhou Lulu CHN 146 182 328 1 Tatiana Kashirina RUS 145 183 3282 Tatiana Kashirina RUS 146 181 327 2 Jang Mi-Ran KOR 125 165 2903 Meng Suping CHN 134 170 304 3 Mariam Usman NGR 125 156 2814 Olha Korobka UKR 127 157 284 4 Julia Konovalova RUS 121 153 2745 Ele Opeloge SAM 120 161 281 5 Yuliya Dovhal AZE 123 150 2736 Mariam Usman NGR 117 156 273 6 Ele Opeloge SAM 117 147 2647 Nadezhda Nogay KAZ 121 151 272 7 Oliba Nieve Arroyo ECU 117 140 2578 Chitchnok Pulsabsakul THA 123 147 270 8 Alexandra Aborneva KAZ 110 141 251



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Men's 55kg Freestyle Men's 60kg Freestyle

1 Henry Cujudo USA 1 Mavlet Batirov RUS2 Tomohiro Matsunaga JPN 2 Vasyl Fedoryshyn UKR3 Radoslav Velikov BUL 3 Kenichi Yumoto JPN3 Besik Kudukhov RUS 3 Morad Mohammadi IRI5 Namig Sevdimov AZE 5 Bazar Bazarguruev KGZ5 Dilshod Mansurov UZB 5 Zelimkhan Huseynov AZE

1 Victor Lebedev RUS 1 Besik Kudukhov RUS2 Toghrul Asgarov AZE 2 Vasyl Fedoryshyn UKR3 Frank Chamizo Marquez CUB 3 Morad Mohammadi IRI3 Yasuhiro Inaba JPN 3 Zelimkhan Huseynov AZE5 Kin Hyo-Sub KOR 5 Ulan Nadyrbek Uulu KGZ5 Naranbaatar Bayaraa MGL 5 Ersin Cetin TUR

1 Victor Lebedev RUS 1 Besik Kudukhov RUS2 Radoslav Velikov BUL 2 Franklin Gomez PUR3 Daulet Niyazbekov KAZ 3 Kenichi Yumoto JPN3 Hassan Rahimi IRI 3 Dauren Zhumagaziyev KAZ5 Mihran Jaburyan ARM 5 Dider Pais FRA5 Nicholas Simmons USA 5 Malkhaz Zaruka GEO



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Wrestling suffers from an image problem. Despite being the oldest sport in the world, and having independant roots in almost every indigenous culture, it has become associated with some very unsexy places: Eastern Europe, Siberia, the Caucuses, the American Mid-West. It is also an unashamedly working class sport -- bruising, tough, technical -- matches are low scoring and often, in the case of Greco-Roman wrestling, appear to consist of 6 minutes in exactly the same repose. Still, given that wrestling's governing body (FILA) fails to update its website with results from major championships for many months afterwards, the suggestion could be made that more could be done to grow the sport in the public's interest.

The tightness of matches and extreme physical strain placed upon their bodies makes it tough for a wrestler to maintain success over an extended period of time. Any wrestler who does so therefore deserves respect

and we are lucky to have three true champions of the sport coming to London. Saori Yoshida and Kaori Icho (both JPN) have dominated the middle two weight catagories in women's freestyle wrestling since 2002,

never failing to win gold in any major championship (Yoshida has only lost one bout since 2001). Both shouldcontinue this run in London and beyond. Despite the relative lack of depth in women's wrestling this is a

remarkable achievement. Artur Taymezov (UZB) will not have such an easy ride in the men's -120kg freestyle, but will be among the contendors to take the title. Should he do so he will equal the great

Alexander Karelin's all time Olympic medal record for wrestling, at 3 gold and 1 silver.

The Cuban Mijain Lopez will be the only other Beijing gold medallist going into his event (-120kg Greco-Roman) as favourite, if you get the opportunity to see him fight you will see why he has been offered big money to move into the MMA scene in America. Victor Lebedev and Bedik Kudukhov (both RUS) will go in as strong favourites to the lightest men's catagories in freestyle and Hitomi Sakamoto (JPN) will hope to share in the glory of her more experienced team-mates by taking the -48kg class in women's freestyle.

Great Britain decided not to fill their allocation of three places and will only send one wrestler to theseGames - Olga Butkevych in the -55kg women's freestyle wrestling. Existing on a UK Sport budget of

£350,000 per year, which will probably drop to nothing post-2013, there is little hope for growth of the sport inthis country.

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1 Ramazan Sahin TUR 1 Buviasar Saitiev RUS2 Andriy Stadnik UKR 2 Soslan Tigiev UZB3 Otar Tushishvili GEO 3 Murad Gaidarov BLR3 Sushil Kumar IND 3 Kiril Terziev BUL5 Leonid Spiridonov KAZ 5 Gheorghita Stefan ROU5 Geandry Garzon CUB 5 Ivan Fundora CUB

1 Sushil Kumar IND 1 Denis Tsargush RUS2 Alan Gogaev RUS 2 S. S. Goudarzi IRI3 Jabrayil Hasanov AZE 3 Gabor Hatos HUN3 J. Garzon Caballero CUB 3 Addulkhakim Shapiyev KAZ5 Batzorig Buyanjav MGL 5 Krystian Brzozowski POL5 H. Varanes Garcia CAN 5 I. Fundora Zaldivar CUB

1 Mehdi Taghavi IRI 1 Jordan Burroughs USA2 Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu JPN 2 Sadegh Goudarzi IRI3 Jabrail Hasanov AZE 3 Ashraf Aliyev AZE3 Livan Lopez CUB 3 Davit Khutsishvili GEO5 Leonid Bazan BUL 5 Ricardo Robertty Moreno VEN5 Adam Batirov RUS 5 Abdulkhakim Shapiyev KAZ


1 Revaz Mindorashvili GEO 1 Shirvani Muradov RUS2 Yusup Abdusalomov TJK 2 Taimuraz Tigiyev KAZ3 Taras Danko UKR 3 Georgi Gogshelidze GEO3 Georgy Ketoyev RUS 3 Khetag Gazyumov AZE5 Davyd Bichinashvili GER 5 Michel Batista CUB5 Serhat Balci TUR 5 Georgii Tibilov UKR

1 Mihail Petrov Ganev BUL 1 Khetag Gazyumov AZE2 Zaurbek Sokhiev UZB 2 Khadzhimurat Gatsalov RUS3 Soslan Ktsoev RUS 3 Alexey Krupnyakov KGZ3 Reineris Salas Perez CUB 3 George Gogshelidze GEO5 Piotr Ianulov MDA 5 Ruslan Sheikhau BLR5 Ibragim Aldatov UKR 5 A. Amiri IRI

1 Sharif Sharifov AZE 1 Reza Yazdani IRI2 Ibragim Aldatov UKR 2 Serhat Balci TUR3 Dato Mersagishvili GEO 3 Ruslan Sheikhau BLR3 Albert Saritov RUS 3 Jake Varner USA5 Cael Norman Sanderson USA 5 Taimuraz Tigiyev KAZ5 Armands Zvirbulis LAT 5 Sinivie Boltic NGR

Men's 120kg Freestyle

1 Artur Taymazov UZB2 Bakhtiyar Akhmedov RUS3 David Musul'bes SVK3 Marid Mutalimov KAZ5 Disney Rodriguez CUB5 Fardin Masoumi IRI

1 Bilyal Makhov RUS2 Artur Taymazov UZB3 Levan Berianidze GEO3 Ioannis Arzoumanidis GRE5 Daniel Ligeti HUN5 Ali Isayev AZE

1 Aleksey Shemarov BLR2 Beylal Makhov RUS3 Jamaladdin Magomedov AZE3 Davit Modzmanashvili GEO5 Tervel Dlagnev USA5 Chuluunbat Jargalsaikhan MGL

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Men's 55kg Greco-Roman Men's 60kg Greco-Roman

1 Nazyr Mankiev RUS 1 Islambek Albiev RUS2 Rovshan Bayramov AZE 2 Vitaliy Rahimov AZE3 Roman Amoyan ARM 3 Ruslan Tumenbaev KGZ3 Park Eun-Chul KOR 3 Nurbakyt Tengizbayev KAZ5 Yagnier Hernandez CUB 5 Roberto Monzon CUB5 Hamid Sourian IRI 5 Sheng Jiang CHN

1 Hamid Sourian IRI 1 Hasan Aliyev AZE2 Choi Gyu-Jin KOR 2 Ryutaro Matsumoto JPN3 Nazyr Mankiev RUS 3 Almat Kepispayev KAZ3 Roman Amoyan ARM 3 Jung Ji-Hyun KOR5 Peter Modas HUN 5 I. Angelov BUL5 V. Venkov BUL 5 Revaz Lashkhi GEO

1 Rovshan Bayramov AZE 1 Omid Norouzi IRI2 Elbek Tazyieu BLR 2 Almat Kebispayev KAZ3 Li Shujin CHN 3 Zaur Kuramegomedov RUS3 Bekkhan Mankiev RUS 3 Ivo Angelov BUL5 Peter Modos HUN 5 Luis Liendo VEN5 Yun Wun Chol PRK 5 Jung Ji-Hyun KOR


1 Steeve Guenot FRA 1 Manuchar Kvirkelia GEO2 Kanatbek Begaliev KGZ 2 Chang Yongxiang CHN3 Armen Vardanyan UKR 3 Yavor Yanakiev BUL3 Mikhail Siamionau BLR 3 Christophe Guenot FRA5 Nikolay Gergov BUL 5 Aleh Mikhalovich BLR5 Darkhan Bayakhmetov KAZ 5 Peter Bacsi HUN

1 Ambako Vachadze RUS 1 Salcuk Cebi TUR2 Armen Vardanyan UKR 2 Arsen Julfalakyan ARM3 Vasif Arzimanov TUR 3 Imil Sharafetdinov RUS3 Vitaly Rahimov AZE 3 Daniyar Kobonov KGZ5 Steeve Guenot FRA 5 Rafig Huseynov AZE5 Tamas Lorincz HUN 5 Takehiro Kanakubo JPN

1 Saeid Abdevali IRI 1 Roman Vlasov RUS2 Manuchar Tskhadaia GEO 2 Selcuk Cebi TUR3 Kim Hyeon-Woo KOR 3 Neven Zugaj CRO3 Pedro Isaac CUB 3 Arsen Julfalakyan ARM5 Frank Stabler GER 5 Askhat Dilmukhamedov KAZ5 Justin Lester USA 5 Robert Rosengren SWE







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1 Andrea Minguzzi ITA 1 Aslanbek Khushtov RUS2 Zoltan Fodor HUN 2 Mirko Englich GER3 Nazmi Avluca TUR 3 Adam Wheeler USA3 Ara Abrahamian SWE 3 Asset Mambetov KAZ5 Ma Sanyi CHN 5 Han Tae-Yong KOR5 Melonin Noumonvi FRA 5 Marek Svec CZE

1 Hristo Marinov BUL 1 Amir Aliakbari IRI2 P. Shorey Hernandez CUB 2 Tsimafei Dzeinichenka BLR3 Alexsey Mishin RUS 3 Aslanbek Khushtov RUS3 Nenad Zugaj CRO 3 Jimmy Lidberg SWE5 Damian Janikowski POL 5 David Saldadze UZB5 Nazmi Avluca TUR 5 Justin Ruiz USA

1 Alim Selimau BLR 1 Elis Guri BUL2 Damian Janikowski POL 2 Jimmy Lidberg SWE3 Nazmi Avluca TUR 3 Ristam Totriv RUS3 Rami Hietaniemi FIN 3 Cenk Ildem TUR5 Saman Tahmesebi AZE 5 Tsimafei Dzeinichenka BLR5 Alan Khugaev RUS 5 Mohammed Abdelfatah EGY

Men's 120kg Greco-Roman

1 Mijain Lopez CUB2 Khasan Baroyev RUS3 Mindaugas Mizgaitis LTU3 Yuri Patrikeyev ARM5 Yannick Sczepaniak FRA5 Jalmer Sjoberg SWE

1 Mijain Lopez CUB2 Yuri Patrikeyev ARM3 Nurmakhan Tinaliyev KAZ3 Riza Kayaalp TUR5 Marek Svec CZE5 D. Byers USA

1 Riza Kayaalp TUR2 Mijain Lopez CUB3 Nurnakhan Tinaliyev KAZ3 Bashir Babajanzadeh IRI5 Lukasz Banak POL5 Mihaly Deak-Bardos HUN




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Women's 48kg Freestyle Women's 55kg Freestyle

1 Carol Huynh CAN 1 Saori Yoshida JPN2 Chiharu Icho JPN 2 Xu Li CHN3 Mariya Stadnik AZE 3 Tonya Verbeek CAN3 Irina Merleni UKR 3 Jackeline Renteria COL5 Tatyana Bakatyuk KAZ 5 Ida-Theres Nerell SWE5 Clarissa Chun USA 5 Ana Maria Paval ROU

1 Hitomi Sakamoto JPN 1 Saori Yoshida JPN2 Lorisa Oorzhak RUS 2 Yuliya Ratkevich AZE3 Zhao Shasha CHN 3 Anna Gomis FRA3 Carol Huynh CAN 3 Tatiana Yadira Suarez USA5 Patimat Bagomedova AZE 5 Aiym Abdildina KAZ5 I. Matkowska POL 5 Maria Gurova RUS

1 Hitomi Sakamoto JPN 1 Saori Yoshida JPN2 Mariya Stadnik AZE 2 Tonya Verbeek CAN3 Zhao Shasha CHN 3 Tetyana Lazareva UKR3 Zhudyz Eshimova KAZ 3 Ida-Theres Nerell SWE5 Carolina Castillo COL 5 Helen Maroulis USA5 Carol Huynh CAN 5 Mariya Gurova RUS

Women's 63kg Freestyle Women's 72kg Freestyle

1 Kaori Icho JPN 1 Wang Jiao CHN2 Alena Kartashova RUS 2 Stanka Zlateva BUL3 Yelena Shalygina KAZ 3 Kyoko Hamaguchi JPN3 Randi Miller USA 3 Agnieszka Wieszczek POL5 Lise Golliot-Legrande FRA 5 Ali Bernard USA5 Martine Dugrenier CAN 5 Maider Unda ESP

1 Kaori Icho JPN 1 Stanka Hristova BUL2 Elene Pirozhkova USA 2 Ohenewa Akuffo CAN3 Hanna Johansson SWE 3 Ekaterina Bukina RUS3 Lubov Volosova RUS 3 Kyoko Hamaguchi JPN5 Marianna Sastin HUN 5 Anna Fransson SWE5 K. Vidiaux Lopez CUB 5 Maider Unda ESP

1 Kaori Icho JPN 1 Stanka Zlateva BUL2 Marianna Sastin HUN 2 Ekaterina Bukina RUS3 Ochirbatyn Nasunburmaa MGL 3 Ali Bernard USA3 Jing Ruixue CHN 3 Vasilisa Marzaliuk BLR5 Elena Priozhkov USA 5 Guzel Manyurova KAZ5 Kim Ran Mi PRK 5 Annabel Laure Ali CMR







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