Gold medalists emerge

Triple Olympic champion Guo Jingjing bagged women's 3m springboard gold at Beijing Olympics on Sunday, becoming the first-ever diver to win back-to-back Olympic individual and synchro titles.
Chinese shuttler Lin Dan claimed the men's singles title on Sunday, beating Lee Chong-wei from Malaysia 21-12, 21-9 in the final. China's Chen Jin beat Lee Hyun-il from South Korea 21-16, 12-21, 21-14 in the bronze medal match on Saturday.
China clinched the women's Olympic team table tennis title Sunday, after fighting off a strong challenge from Singapore to win the final 3-0.
China receives men's rifle three positions Olympic gold from Emmons again yesterday, and the title went to Chinese shooter Qiu Jian, with 1,272.5 points, and Emmons even slipped to the fourth, as Jury Sukhorukov from Ukraine took the silver with 1,272.4 and world record holder Rajmond Debevec from Slovenia the bronze with 1,271.7 points.
China's Zou Kai earned 16.050 points in the Men's Floor Exercise final to take the gold medal when two heavy favorites, Marian Dragulescu of Romania and Diego Hypolito of Brazil, gave up their medal chances with mistakes in their routines.
Xiao Qin won the gold medal in the Men's Pommel Horse with a score of 15.875. Filip Ude of Croatia won the silver medal and Louis Smith of Great Britain won the bronze medal.
Chinese wrestler Wang Jiao pinned Stanka Zlateva of Bulgaria to the mat to claim gold in the Women's Freestyle Wrestling 72 kilogram weight category on Sunday.
China (Tang Bin, Jin Ziwei, Xi Aihua and Zhang Yangyang) won gold in the Women's Quadruple Sculls with a time of 6:16.06, edging out Great Britain with spirited row in the final sprint on Sunday. The British crew grabbed silver with a time of 6:17.37; bronze went to Germany, which finished in 6:19.56.
China's fourth-seeded He Hanbin and Yu Yang suffered a first game loss but clawed their way back to emerge triumphant against third seeds Flandy Limpele and Vita Marissa of Indonesia to take bronze in Badminton Mixed Doubles on Sunday.
Defending champion Zhang Ning, at the age of 33, retained her women's singles title of the badminton tournament of the Beijing Olympic Games on Saturday.
Chinese Yu Yang/Du Jing beat South Korea's Lee Kyung-won/Lee Hyon-jung 21-15, 21-13 to win the women's doubles gold medal at the Olympic badminton tournament on Friday. The bronze medal went to Chinese Wei Yili/Zhang Yawen.
China's Tong Wen defeated reigning champion Maki Tsukada in the women's heavyweight judo final on Friday at the Beijing Olympic Games, making the Chinese judoda to be the first grand slam judo champion at an age of 25.
Chinese weightlifter Cao Lei clinches the gold medal in the women's 75kg weightlifting on Friday.
Chinese weightlifter Lu Yong claimed the men's 85kg title on Friday, clearing a total of 394kg.
Chinese archer Zhang Juanjuan took away South Korean women's family heirloom as she won the Olympic women's individual archery gold medal with a 110-109 victory over Park Sung-hyun on Thursday.
China's judoka Yang Xiuli claimed the women's 78kg title at the Beijing Olympics on Thursday, edging Yalennis Castillo from Cuba in the breath-taking final.
China made a 1-2 finish in the women's 200m butterfly final with Olympic debutant Liu Zige winning gold in a world record time Thursday at the Beijing Games.
Chinese shooter Du Li staged a comeback after a failure last Saturday to smash the Olympic record in the women's 50-meter rifle three positions at the Beijing Shooting Range on Thursday.
China's all-conquering gymnast Yang Wei won the men's all-around title with a convincing 94.575 points here Thursday at the Beijing Olympics.
World weightlifting powerhouse China continued its winning trend in Beijing Olympics as Liu Chunhong broke three world records to retain her Olympics title in women's 69kg division on Wednesday, but another Chinese lifter Li Hongli was beaten by South Korean Sa Jaehyouk at men's 77kg.
Chinese women gymnasts won their first ever Olympic team gold medal in Wednesday's final of the Beijing Olympic Games on Wednesday, making a historic breakthrough expected by China for decades.
China's Chen Ying shot 793.4 points to win the Olympic women's 25m pistol gold medal on Wednesday.
Defending world champions Qin Kai and Wang Feng made it fourth Olympic diving title for China when they twirled to a comprehensive victory in the men's 3m springboard synchronized final on Wednesday.
Zhong Man ignited the home crowd Tuesday night, as all Chinese people in the Olympic Fencing Hall roared for their second Olympic fencing gold medal in 24 years.
China's formidable male gymnasts stormed to a long-awaited Olympic team gold before an ecstatic home crowd on Tuesday.
Chinese Wang Xin/Chen Ruolin won the women's 10-meter synchronized platform diving gold medal with 363.54 points on Tuesday.
Chinese weightlifters have easily handled the weight of expectations on them in front of a highly-critical audience of more than one billion Chinese spectators.
Chen Xiexia won the women's 48 kg category on the opening day of competition, bagging the first gold for the Chinese delegation; teen prodigy Long Qingquan triumphed in the men's 56 kg on Sunday.
On Monday, Chen Yanqing (the two Chens are not related), 29, retained her women's 58 kg Olympic title with a total lift of 244 kg, while 25-year-old Zhang Xiangxiang contributed another gold in the men's 62 kg.
The next gold came from Liao Hui winning the men's 69 kg division by 10 kg over Frenchman Vencelas Dabaya-Tientcheu who took the silver.
(ZD News)

China's table tennis players Zhang Yining (L), Guo Yue (C) and Wang Nan pose with their gold medals .