Olympic Results 2012: Recapping Latest London Action

The London Games continue on with medals being handed out across several events.

One of the best parts of the Olympics is there is a little something for everyone. Mainstream sports such as basketball and soccer have their tournaments rolling, but there are also fringe sports such as archery and rowing to excite the crowds.

Here is a look at some of the early medal matches on day seven.

Archery
China’s Dai Xiaoxiang captured the bronze medal in a shoot-off with Rick van der Ven of the Netherlands.

Van der Ven took the first two sets, Xiaoxiang got the next two and the two archers split the fifth set. It all came down to the final arrow. Van der Ven hit an eight while Xiaoxiang got the full 10 for bronze.

The gold medal match was not as closely contested.

South Korea’s Oh Jin-Hyek defeated Japan’s Takaharu Furukawa by a score of 7-1. Jin-Hyek did not hit anything less than nine on the target all match.

Badminton
The mixed doubles bronze went to the Danish team of Christinna Pedersen and Joachim Fischer. They toppled Indonesia’s Liliyana Natsir and Tontowi Ahmad 21-12, 21-12 in just 40 minutes of play.

Gold and silver would go to China. The gold medal match between the two Chinese teams only took a minute longer than the bronze medal match. Yunlei Zhao and Nan Zhang beat Jin Ma and Chen Xu 21-11, 21-17 on their way to gold.

Cycling
Great Britain continued their excellent performance in cycling with a gold medal in men's team pursuit.

Edward Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Steven Burke and Peter Kennaugh rode to a world record time of 3:51.659 against Australia in the gold medal final.

Their time was a full three seconds ahead of the Aussies. A big performance for the host nation.

Judo
The women’s 78kg and men’s 100kg tournaments were up next on day seven.

Judo gives away two bronze medals and they went to Great Britain’s Karina Bryant and China’s Wen Tong. Both women won their matches on points.

In the gold medal match, Idalys Ortiz of Cuba defeated Mike Sugimoto of Japan by a decision.

In the men’s 100kg bracket, Andreas Toelzer of Germany and Rafael Silva of Brazil nabbed the bronze medals.

Teddy Riner of France took men’s gold by Waza-ari, or a half a point, over Russia’s Alexander Mikhaylin.

Rowing
The rowing competitions were in full force on day seven with four finals.

New Zealand's Mahe Drysdale took gold in the men's single sculls event. Drysdale was nearly two seconds faster than Ondrej Synek of the Czech Republic who took silver. Great Britain's Alan Campbell got on the podium with a bronze medal run.

The Germans paddled their way to a gold medal in the men's quadruple sculls event. A time of 5:42.48 was more than enough to put Germany atop the podium. Croatia topped Australia for second place in a heated battle in the event. The Croatians came in with a time of 5:44.78 and Australia just behind with a time of 5:45.22.

In the men's pair, New Zealand got another rowing gold. Eric Murray and Hamish Bond crushed the competition with a time of 6:16.65. The battle for silver was much closer. The French team of Germain Chardin and Dorian Mortelette came in more than a half-second ahead of the British team of George Nash and William Satch.

The women also had a medal to decide on day seven.

Women's double sculls got underway and Great Britain got another gold medal to add to their total. Anna Watkins and Katherine Grainger posted a time of 6:55.82 to earn the top spot. The Australian team of Kim Crow and Brooke Pratley came in with a silver medal time of 6:58.55. The bronze medal time was not as impressive. Magdalena Fularczyk and Julia Michalska of Poland clocked in at 7:07.92.

Shooting
Belarus got on the board with its first gold in the prone 50-meter rifle event.

Sergei Martynov had a final score of 705.5, a new world record.

The battle for silver was tightly contested. Slovakia's Rajmond Debevec shot his way to a score of 701.0, but Belgium's Lionel Cox finished just slightly ahead with a 701.2 to earn the silver.

The other shooting event of the day was the men's 25-meter rapid fire pistol.

Leuris Pupo of Cuba matched the world record with score of 34 to win the gold medal. Indonesia's Vijay Kumar came in second with a total of 30, and China's Feng Ding captured bronze with a score of 27.

Trampoline
In the men's final, China's Chunlong Lu got his bronze medal with a score of 31.319. Russia's Dmitry Ushakov received a higher score in execution to take silver with a total of 61.769.

However, the day would belong to China's Dong Dong.

His score of 62.990 was comprised of a 17.800 in difficulty, 27.100 in execution, and 18.090 in flight. With no penalties, Dong Dong cruised to the gold medal with his difficult routine.

Weightlifting
The women's 75kg finals set two new Olympic records.

Gold medalist Svetlana Podobedova of Kazakhstan snatched 130kg, but silver medalist Natalya Zabolotnaya of Russia hit a new Olympic record with 131kg.

In the clean and jerk portion of the event, it was Podobedova who set a new Olympic record with a lift of 161kg. Both Podobedova and Zabolotnaya had a total of 291, but Podobedova was awarded the gold.

Belorussian Iryna Kulesha took home bronze with a total lift of 269kg.