Athletics: Women's marathon:
Luvsanlkhundeg Otgonbayar of Mongolia finished 66th with a time of 3:48:42 -- half an hour behind the 65th-place finisher and over an hour and twenty minutes behind the winner. Sixteen competitors did not finish.
Men's high jump:
Liu Yang (China) and
Alfredo Deza (Peru) both finished at the bottom of their qualifying heats with jumps of 2.10 metres, the minimum required, so I'll award them a last-place tie. Two jumpers received no mark; the gold-medal jump was 2.36 metres.
Men's triple jump:
Armen Martirosyan of Armenia had the shortest distance in the heats at 15.05 metres; the winning jump in the final was 17.79 metres.
Men's 1,500-metre wheelchair: The wheelchair athletes weren't allowed to march with the athletes during the opening ceremonies. Screw that; I'm including them here.
Joel Jeannot of France finished 7th with a time of 3:22.14, a little less than 12 seconds off the winning pace. There was one
DNF.
Women's 800-metre wheelchair: British athlete
Tanni Grey Thompson finished 8th with a time of 1:56.87; this was a much closer race, with a bit more than three seconds separating all finishers.
Men's hammer throw:
Alfred Kruger of the USA had a best throw of 69.38 metres in the qualifying; the winner's best in the final was 83.19 metres. Two tossers received no mark.
Men's 100-metre: In the Games' marquee event, the slowest time put in in the heats was by
Sultan Saeed of the Maldives at 11.72 seconds; the winner's time was 9.85 seconds.
Cycling: Evelyn Garcia of El Salvador had the 12th-slowest speed in the qualifying rounds of the women's individual pursuit. Her speed was 45.752 km/h; the top eight speeds (you needed a top eight finish to advance to the next round) were between 50.191 and 52.325 km/h in the qualifying round.
Diving: South Africa's
Jenna Dreyer finished 34th in the preliminary round of the women's 10-metre platform event. Her score of 186.90 was 184.20 points behind the leader in that round.
Rowing: Whether the last-place finisher is determined in the repechage, the semifinals, or one of the finals seems to depend on the number of entrants.
Women's lightweight double sculls:
Pham Thi Hien and
Nguyen Thi Thi, Vietnam (C final).
Men's lightweight double sculls: Three teams did not make it out of the C/D semifinal, but of those three, the Uzbek squad of
Sergey Bogdanov and
Ruslan Naurzaliyev had the slowest time: 6:45.47.
Men's lightweight four: The foursome from
Great Britain didn't make it out of the repechage.
Women's quadruple sculls:
Belarus (B final); only eight teams competed.
Men's quadruple sculls: The foursome from
France didn't make it out of the repechage.
Women's eight:
Canada (woe! alack!) didn't make it out of the repechage.
Men's eight:
Great Britain (B final). And that wraps up rowing.
Sailing: In the women's Europe class,
Natalia Ivanova of Russia finished 25th; and
Sami Kooheji of Bahrain finished 42nd in the mixed laser class.
Shooting: In the men's 50-metre rifle, three positions,
Alexsander Babchenko of Kyrgyzstan finished 40th with a score of 1130; the scores were fairly close together in this event, but you needed a score of 1164 to advance to the final round. And in the men's skeet, Syrian
Roger Dahi finished 41st with a score of 106 (those advancing to the final had scores of 122 or better).
Standings to date: China solidifies its hold on first place, France and Kyrgyzstan make a run for the "top", Great Britain makes a "strong" debut, and even more countries get added to the list.
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