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Watch video footage of medal-winning performances from Beijing 2008. See the world's greatest athletes make Olympic history.
7 Αυγ 2008 · Some 87 of them celebrated their medal-winning athletes. Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Mauritius and Togo all experienced podium finishes for the first time. Tajikistan won its first medals thanks to Rasul Boqiev in judo and Yusup Abdusalomov in wrestling; Afghanistan stepped up on to the podium thanks to Rohullah Nikpai in taekwondo.
Speed skater Guido Caroli carried the Olympic Torch on the ice during the opening ceremony of the 1956 Winter Olympics. He tripped over a microphone wire and fell, but fortunately he was not harmed and the fire did not go out.
Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Celebrate medal-winning moments by the world's top athletes.
An unprecedented 87 countries won at least one medal during the 2008 Games. Host nation China won the most gold medals (48), and became the seventh different team to top the Summer Olympics medal standings, winning a total of 100 medals overall.
In addition to Bolt and the Jamaican men’s 4×100 relay, Shelly-Ann Fraser won the women’s 100, leading a Jamaican medal sweep, Veronica Campbell-Brown won the women’s 200, followed by Kerron Stewart who won a bronze, Shericka Williams took bronze in the women’s 400, and Melaine Walker won the women’s 400 hurdles.
Among individual participants, American swimmer Michael Phelps won the most gold medals and the most total medals with eight each, breaking Mark Spitz's 1972 record for the most gold medals won at an Olympic Games.
