Nina Kennedy became the first Australian woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the pole vault, with a leap of 4.9 metres. Her feat also helped Australia set a record for the most gold medals.
Nina Kennedy wins historic pole vault gold medal - Photo: Reuters
At 2:45 a.m. on August 8, Australian athlete Nina Kennedy won the gold medal in the women's pole vault with a score of 4.90m. With Nina Kennedy's gold medal, the Australian sports delegation has a total of 18 gold medals at the Paris Olympics. This is the best achievement of the Australian sports delegation in all Olympics. Previously, Australia's best achievement was winning 17 gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics.
At 2:25 a.m. on August 8, 26-year-old Quincy Hall won the gold medal in the men's 400m race with a time of 43.04 seconds. This is the first Olympic medal in the career of this American star.
Quincy Hall won the men's 400m race - Photo: Reuters
At 2:16 a.m. on August 8, the US team won the gold medal in the women's team track cycling event.
At 0:00 on August 8, Australia won the gold medal in men's skateboarding, Australian athlete Keegan Palmer won the gold medal in men's skateboarding with an impressive score of 93.11 points. Tom Schaar of the US received the silver medal with 92.23 points. The bronze medal went to Augusto Akio of Brazil with a score of 91.85 points.
Keegan Palmer won the men's skateboarding gold medal - Photo: Reuters
11:30 p.m., Australia won another gold medal in track cycling . On the evening of August 7, the Australian sports delegation continued to win another gold medal in track cycling in the men's team event with a time of 3 minutes 42 seconds 67. After 20 years since Athens 2004, the Australians won again. The United Kingdom won the silver medal with a time of 3 minutes 44 seconds 39. The bronze medal went to.
10:30 p.m., Thai weightlifter Theerapong Silachai won silver medal in the men's 61kg event with a lift of 303kg, while the gold medal in this event went to Chinese weightlifter Li Fabin (310kg). American weightlifter Hampton Morris won bronze medal with a total lift of 298kg.
At 10:19 p.m., the Thai taekwondo star entered the finals. In the women's 49kg semifinals, Panipak Wongpattanakit defeated Lena Stojkovic (Croatia) to reach the finals. The Thai athlete won a gold medal in this event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Her opponent in this year's final is Chinese boxer Guo Qing.
21:32, Chinese weightlifter Li Fabin broke the Olympic record. He successfully lifted 143kg and set a new Olympic record in the snatch event.
Li Fabin is the current Olympic champion in the 61kg weight class. The snatch competition has ended, and the athletes are preparing to compete in the clean and jerk.
Li Fabin successfully lifted 143kg to set an Olympic record for men's 61kg snatch - Photo: REUTERS
21:08, Trinh Van Vinh failed in the third snatch. He had no results in the snatch and could not compete for a medal.
Trinh Van Vinh failed in all three snatches - Photo: REUTERS
Trinh Van Vinh's performance was broadcast live on the screen at the Paris Olympics press center at the Palais des Congrès de Paris. Photo: TRUNG NGHIA
21:06, Trinh Van Vinh failed in the second snatch. Van Vinh has one more lift. However, things will be very difficult.
21:04, Trinh Van Vinh failed in the first snatch. He could not lift the weight 128kg.
At 8:35 p.m., according to the announcement from the organizing committee, Trinh Van Vinh registered for 128kg in the snatch event.
Trinh Van Vinh (4th from right) steps onto the competition floor - Photo: AFP
20:24, the 2024 Olympic men's weightlifting 61kg competition has begun.
8:00 p.m., the 2024 Olympic men's weightlifting 61kg event is postponed due to technical reasons. This is the event that Trinh Van Vinh will participate in.
Trinh Van Vinh is about to compete in weightlifting at the 2024 Olympics - Photo: NK
At 6:31 p.m. , in the women's speed climbing final, athlete Aleksandra Miroslaw won with a time of 6.10 seconds. Meanwhile, with the defeat in the final, Deng Lijuan of China only won silver.
The bronze medal also went to a Pole, Aleksandra Kalucka.
Aleksandra Miroslaw brings Poland's first gold medal at the 2024 Olympics - Photo: REUTERS
16:40, Taekwondo, Thai female boxer Panipak Wongpattanakit just defeated Moroccan boxer Oumaima El Bouchti 2-0 in the round of 16 of the women's 49kg weight class.
16:20, currently there are many competitions taking place in athletics, diving, table tennis and golf.
At 3:30 p.m., Spain won the first gold medal of the 7-8 competition day , when they won the mixed relay marathon walking event. Ecuador won the silver medal 51 seconds later, Australia won the bronze medal 1 minute 07 seconds slower than Spain.
Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez hug each other to celebrate winning the gold medal in the mixed relay marathon walking event - Photo: Reuters
15:00, Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said he would boycott the Olympic closing ceremony after his country was denied a medal in women's gymnastics, specifically the bronze medal won by Ana Barbosu.
Ana Barbosu was stripped of her bronze medal after the US appealed - Photo: Reuters
At first, when the competition ended, Ana Barbosu was in third place and won the bronze medal, so she started celebrating. But the American coaches sent an appeal to the judges, and the results were changed to Jordan Chiles winning the bronze medal. Ana Barbosu only finished fourth.
Mr Ciolacu said on Facebook: "I have decided not to attend the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics, following the scandalous situation in gymnastics, where our athletes were treated in a completely dishonourable way. Revocation of medals won for honest work based on an appeal… is completely unacceptable!"
Up to this point, the Vietnamese sports delegation has not won any medals. Now the Vietnamese sports delegation focuses on the last medal hope, weightlifter Trinh Van Vinh. He will compete from 8pm in the final of the men's 61kg weightlifting.
According to the 2024 Olympic qualifying rankings, Trinh Van Vinh ranked 9th/12 with a total lift of 294kg. This is also his best performance since the beginning of 2023. In this ranking, the leading weightlifters are: Li Fabin (China) with a total lift of 314kg; Hampton Morris (USA) - 303kg; Sergio Massidda (Italy) - 302kg; Eko Yuli Irawan (Indonesia) and John Ceniza (Philippines) with 300kg each.In addition to Trinh Van Vinh's competition, many other medal competitions also took place today, August 7.
Today's competition starts with golf with the women's individual final at 2:00 p.m.
American athlete Nelly Korda - Tokyo 2020 champion - is expected to continue to successfully defend her gold medal.
Next, the sport climbing event will also have the women's speed final from 5:54 p.m.
Men's volleyball will also have an exciting day of competition in the semi-finals. The US will face Poland at 9pm, while host France will face Italy at 1am (early morning of August 8).
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