Without Hansen's score, his team was below the bronze medal threshold so the medal was awarded to the team from Switzerland on December 22, 2008. [19] Phelps also set a new record for most career gold medals (14), and his 16 total medals were ranked second all-time behind Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina (18) at the time. Designer: Medal Design Group, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Elena Votsi [4][5] Baseball and softball may have made their last appearances in Olympics history during these Games, as the International Olympic Committee voted to remove them from the programme of the 2012 Olympics. Athletes from the United States won the most total medals, with 110. [7] Therefore, the total number of bronze medals is greater than the total number of gold or silver medals. After Kim Jong-su was disqualified, the bronze medal in the 10 metre air pistol went to Jason Turner of the United States; in the 50 metre pistol, the silver medal went to Tan Zongliang of China, and the bronze medal to Vladimir Isakov of Russia. While on their reverse side, the medals are inlaid with jade with the emblem of the 2008 Games in Beijing engraved in the metal centrepiece.          Political / Social. Athletes from Mongolia (Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar – judo, men's 100 kg),[17] and Panama (Irving Saladino – athletics, men's long jump)[18] won their nations' first gold medal. Ramzi had been the first athlete from Bahrain to win an Olympic gold medal. Equestrian is the only sport in which men and women compete together in the same events. The 2008 Summer Olympics were held in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from 8 August … After attending a disciplinary hearing in September, they were stripped of their medals on December 11, 2008. [2], Nine new events were held, including two from the new cycling discipline of BMX. [6] A total of 958 medals for events (302 gold, 303 silver and 353 bronze) were awarded. google_ad_width = 160; On August 22, 2008, the International Olympic Committee officially stripped Blonska of her medal, and as a result, the silver medal went to Hyleas Fountain of the United States, and the bronze medal to Tatyana Chernova of Russia. Team events (men and women) in table tennis replaced the doubles events. Exception was men's 84 kg Greco-Roman wrestling, where Ara Abrahamian was stripped his medal due to his conduct during the medal ceremony. On their obverse side, the medals reflect the Greek character of the Olympic Games: the goddess of victory Nike pictured in the Panathinaikos Stadium. WHEBN0017273204 google_ad_slot = "6416241264"; [20] Several records for career medals in a sport were tied or surpassed, including cycling (Bradley Wiggins of the United Kingdom won two gold, tied for record with six career medals); judo (Ryoko Tani of Japan won a bronze, five career medals); softball (Laura Berg of the United States won a gold and Natalie Ward, Melanie Roche and Tanya Harding of Australia won a bronze; all have four career medals); swimming (Michael Phelps, 16 career medals); taekwondo (Steven López of the United States won a bronze and Hadi Saei of Iran won a gold, both three career medals); and table tennis (Wang Nan of China won a gold and silver medal, five career medals).[20]. The 2008 Summer Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, from 8 August to 24 August 2008.Approximately 11,028 athletes from 204 NOCs participated in 302 events in 28 sports. World Heritage Encyclopedia content is assembled from numerous content providers, Open Access Publishing, and in compliance with The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Public Library of Science, The Encyclopedia of Life, Open Book Publishers (OBP), PubMed, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and USA.gov, which sources content from all federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government publication portals (.gov, .mil, .edu). [19] The silver medal was later awarded to Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland (the original bronze medal recipient) and the bronze medal was awarded to Alexandr Kolobnev of Russia. Voting is conducted to determine the fourth event. In boxing, judo, taekwondo and wrestling, two bronze medals are awarded in each weight class. [Note 2] Two sports were open only to men, baseball and boxing, while one sport and one discipline were open only to women, softball and synchronized swimming. [1] Overall, 302 events in 28 sports were held; 165 events were opened to men, 127 were opened to women and 10 were mixed events. For the first time jade is used for the Beijing Olympic medals. To sort this table by nation, total medal count, or any other column, click on the icon next to the column title. World Heritage Encyclopedia™ is a registered trademark of the World Public Library Association, a non-profit organization. google_ad_width = 728; 2008 Beijing (National Stadium) PR OF CHINA 2004 Athína (Olympic Stadium) GREECE 2000 Sydney (Olympic Stadium) AUSTRALIA ... placing table Medal Table Please click on a row below to view Medal Winners Rank Country Total [22], ^ Note 2. google_ad_height = 600; The leading country is Russia with 14 medals stripped. The medals have been designed with inspiration coming from "bi", China's ancient jade piece inscribed with a dragon pattern. He had won a bronze medal in the 10 metre air pistol and silver in the 50 metre pistol. Serbian athletes have previously won medals as nationals of Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro.[9]. While on their reverse side, the medals are inlaid with jade with the emblem of the 2008 Games in Beijing engraved in the metal centrepiece. Hansen had the best score on his team, and it was removed from the total. [13], Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian was originally awarded a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman 84 kg event. Athletes from China won 51 gold medals. Thus, in 2008, the women's foil and sabre events and men's épée were automatically selected. Additionally there was a tie for the silver medal in the women's 100 metres in athletics and no bronze was awarded. In 2012 Phelps set a record for most total medals. The medals symbolise nobility and virtue and are the embodiment of traditional Chinese values of ethics and honour, emitting a strong Chinese flavour. In the team jumping system, the top three scores garnered by the four riders are counted. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IOC country code. In total there was one more event than in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. Hansen, who won a bronze medal in the team jumping event, was disqualified. [Note 1] Approximately 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOC) participated. [17], Norwegian equestrian athlete Tony André Hansen's horse tested positive for the pain relieving medication capsaicin, a banned substance. Excessive Violence Men's sabre was chosen over foil by a 45–20 vote. The fencing programme included six individual events and four team events, though the team events were a different set than were held in 2004. [1], Athletes from 86 countries won medals, leaving 118 countries without a medal, and 54 of them won at least one gold medal. His frozen blood sample was re-tested and found to contain traces of Cera, a stamina-building blood-booster.

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