Early in the morning took place the traditional marathon, won by Kenyan Samuel Wanjiru, a young athlete aged 21, who was a chrono of 2 hours, 6 minutes and 32 seconds, a new Olympic record.The silver went to the Moroccan Jaouad Gharib (2h07: 16.), World champion in 2003 and 2005, while the bronze was awarded the Ethiopian Tsegaye Kebede (2h10: 00.), Winner of the Paris marathon this year.
He also held the finals of men's volleyball, where Brazil, which had the Olympic title, fell to U.S., which confirmed its evolution over the past year that had already proved to be the World League-2008.
The decisive match played in the Capital Gymnasium culminated with a score of 3-1 (20-25, 25-22, 25-21 and 25-23 in favor of the new champion.
In recent late boxing, the Cubans lost the last two gold to those who still could not aspire to leave empty and passed the scepter to the hosts.
The Caribbean harvested titles nonstop for 36 years (Munich-1972).
While in weight rooster Yankiel Leon presea Alarcon took the silver, three other boxers islanders took another Argent and two bronze in their respective categories.
In welter weight, Banteaux Carlos Suarez also won the second place, as well as YAMPI Hernandez got a bronze in the lightweight category and Yordenis Ugas the same distinction in the category minimosca.
For its part, in the men's waterpolo, the same day, the podium was composed of Hungary, USA and Serbia.
Finally, France beat Iceland in the final of men's handball by 28-23 and celebrated his first Olympic title. Spain won 35-29 by the king of Athens-2004 Croatia for the bronze, which won for the third time in its Olympic history medal standings.
With the victory of the "Bleus" in the capital china was heard for the seventh time "La Marseillaise" during these Olympics.
With these results, China led the hosts with 51 PRES medallero gold for a total of 100 (plus 21 silver and 28 bronze), ahead of U.S. second largest with a total (110) but distributed differently ( 36, 28 and 36).
Russia ranked last step of the podium (23, 21 and 28 for a total of 72.)
The records of the world shakes in the Olympic Games of Beijing-2008.
Complete medal standings.
Athletes
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Men's 100 m: 9.69 - USAIN Bolt (JAM)
200 m male: 19.30 - USAIN Bolt (JAM)
Relais 4x100 m male: 37.10 - Jamaica (Carter, Frater, Bolt, Powell)
3000 m women's obstacles: 8:58.81 - Gulnara Samitova-Galkina (RUS)
Women's Pole Vault: 5.05 m - Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS)
Cycling Track
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Persecution by male teams: 3:53.314 - Great Britain (Clancy, Thomas Manning, Wiggins)
Persecution by male teams: 3:55.202 - Great Britain (Clancy, Thomas Manning, Wiggins)
Weightlifting
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-69 Kg female: 286 kg - Chuhong Liu (CHN)
Women's +75 kg: 326 kg - Jang Mi-ran (KOR)
-85 Kg female: 394 kg - Andrei Rybajou (BLR)
-105 Kg female: 436 kg - Andrei Aramnau (BLR)
Swimming
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Men's 100 m breaststroke: 58.91 - Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)
Women's 100 Backstroke: 58.77 - Kirsty Coventry (ZIM)
Men's 100 Backstroke: 52.54 - Aaron Peirsol (USA)
Men's 100 Freestyle: 47.05 - Eamon Sullivan (AUS)
200 m women's styles: 2:08.45 - Stephanie Rice (AUS)
200 m men's styles: 1:54.23 - Michael Phelps (USA)
Women's 200 m breaststroke: 2:20.22 - Rebecca Soni (USA)
Men's 200 Backstroke: 1:53.94 - Ryan Lochte (USA)
Women's 200 Backstroke: 2:05.24 - Kirsty Coventry (ZIM)
Women's 200 Freestyle: 1:54.82 - Federica Pelligrini (ITA)
Women's 200 Freestyle: 1:55.45 - Federica Pellegrini (ITA)
Men's 200 Freestyle: 1:42.96 - Michael Phelps (USA)
Men's 200 m butterfly: 1:52.03 - Michael Phelps (USA)
Women's 200 m butterfly: 2:04.18 - Zig Liu (CHN)
400 m men's styles: 4:03.84 - Michael Phelps (USA)
400 m women's styles: 4:29.45 - Stephanie Rice (AUS)
Women's 800 Freestyle: 8:14.10 - Rebecca Adlington (GBR)
4x100 m Relay feminine styles: 3:52.69 - Australia (Seebohm, Jones, SCHIP, Lenton-Trickett)
Men's 4x100 m Relay styles: 3:29.34 - United States (Peirsol, Hansen, Phelps, Lezak)
Men's 4x100 Freestyle Relay: 3:12.23 - United States (Adrian, Jones, Wildman-Tobriner, Grevers)
Men's 4x100 Freestyle Relay: 3:08.24 - United States (Phelps, Weber-Gale, Jones, Lezak)
Women's 4x200 Freestyle Relay: 7:44.31 - Australia (Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer, Linda McKenzie)
Men's 4x200 Freestyle Relay: 6:58.56 - United States (Phelps, Locht, Berens, Vanderkaay)
