Olympics. Day 8

Russian athletes won five medals at the end of the eighth day of the London Olympics on August 4: silver in women's tennis, men's weightlifting and discus throwing, bronze in women's doubles badminton and heptathlon.

Tennis player Maria Sharapova received a silver medal in a match at the Olympic tennis tournament. She lost to American Serena Williams with a score of 6:0, 6:1.

Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka

Alexander Ivanov received silver in the weightlifting competition in the weight category up to 94 kg. The winner was an athlete from Kazakhstan Ilya Ilyin, third place went to Anatoly Chirik from Moldova.

Alexander Ivanov

Daria Pishchalnikova won a silver medal in discus throwing, Croatian Sandra Perkovic took gold, and Li Yanfen from China took bronze.

Tatyana Chernova became the Olympic bronze medalist in the heptathlon. Moreover, it was initially announced that Chernova took second place, but the “silver” was taken away from her because of the Germans. The jury overturned the disqualification of German Lily Schwarzkopf, which was imposed for a violation in the seventh event - the 800-meter race. Briton Jessica Ennis won gold.

Tatiana Chernova

Thus, the Russian team completed half of the games, receiving 28 medals: three gold, 15 silver and 10 bronze. Russia is in tenth place in the medal standings.

Meanwhile, the struggle continues in the qualifying competitions. Victoria Voronina reached the finals of the trampoline competition. In the qualifying competition, she showed the eighth time.

The Russian national basketball team on Saturday beat Spain in the final match of the group tournament at the Olympics with a score of 77:74 (11:28, 21:12, 24:13, 21:21) in favor of David Blatt's team. Vitaly Fridzon scored the most points in the Russian team - 24. Among the Spaniards, Pou Gasol stood out, scoring 20 points. Thus, in Group B Russia takes first place.

Russia vs Spain game

Maria Kirilenko lost bronze to Belarusian Victoria Azarenka at the Olympic tennis tournament with a score of 6:3, 6:4.

Elena Isinbaeva, two-time Olympic champion and multiple world record holder in the pole vault, reached the final. She made her first jump to a height of 4.40, and then overcame 4.55 meters.

Elena Isinbaeva

Badminton players Valeria Sorokina and Nina Vislova beat Canadians Alex Bruce and Michelle Lee with a score of 21:9, 21:10.

Valeria Sorokina and Nina Vislova

Epee fencers Violetta Kolobova, Anna Sivkova and Lyubov Shutova defeated athletes from Ukraine and reached the 1/2 finals. The final score is 45:34. The next rival is China.

Runner Maxim Dyldin advanced to the semi-finals in the 400 meters with a time of 45.52 seconds. Dyldin came third - he was overtaken by Oscar Pistorius, a legless runner from South Africa, with a time of 45.44 seconds. Pistorius is a multiple Paralympic champion, last year he achieved participation in the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, and now he is allowed to compete for medals at the London Olympics along with ordinary athletes.

Pistorius had his legs amputated below the knee when he was not yet a year old, and now runs on carbon prosthetics, which tests have shown do not give him an advantage over ordinary athletes.

Lugelin Santos from the Dominican Republic won this race, overtaking Pistorius and Dyldin, with a result of 45.04 seconds.

Russians Evgenia Ukolova and Ekaterina Khomyakova lost to Chinese Xue Chen and Xi Zhang in the beach volleyball tournament - 2:0 (21:12, 21:11)

Two-time world champion Valery Borchin left the race about a kilometer before the finish. The Chinese Chen Ding won and broke the record - in 1 hour 18 minutes 46 seconds he walked 20 kilometers. Eric Barrondo from Guatemala took silver, 11 seconds behind, and China's Wang Zhen was third, 39 seconds behind the winner.

Borchin was first in the lead, and then lost consciousness in front of tens of thousands of spectators. Doctors now have to find out the cause of the athlete's fainting.