Olympic 2016 Medal Count: Updated Tally, List of Winners After Wednesday Results
American Kristin Armstrong clinched her third Olympic gold medal in succession in the women’s individual time trial event on Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Armstrong, who will turn 43 on Thursday, raced to a thrilling victory by a 5.55-second margin over Russian rider Olga Zabelinskaya. The Netherlands’ Anna van der Breggen, who won the road race earlier in the Games, could add only bronze in the time trial.
The victory set the tone for what promises to be another absorbing day at the Games, with gold up for grabs in the men’s time trial, swimming, rowing, weightlifting, table tennis and more. Here's how the medals table currently looks and a recap of the action so far from Rio.
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Medal Winners
Cycling
| Kristin Armstrong (USA) | Olga Zabelinskaya (RUS) | Anna van der Breggen (NED) |
For the third time in her distinguished Olympic career, Armstrong pulled a brilliant ride out of the bag in the time trial, conquering testing conditions to grab gold.
The Team USA Twitter feed paid tribute to her tremendous achievement:
As the rain crashed down on an undulating course, the riders found it difficult to maintain control throughout the entirety of the race. Indeed, 2013 time trial world champion Ellen van Dijk lost her balance and crashed into shrubbery on the ascent, essentially ending her chances of a medal.
Still, the years of experience Armstrong has came to the fore, as she went out last of all the riders.
Zabelinskaya, whose inclusion was controversial because she returned from a doping ban last year, laid down an impressive time of 44 minutes, 31.97 seconds earlier on. But the American was a picture of determination in the final stages, storming home in 44:26.42 to grab a historic win.
| Fabian Cancellara (SUI) | Tom Dumoulin (NED) | Chris Froome (GBR) |
In the men’s individual time trial, it was Fabian Cancellara who grabbed gold with an incredible ride, winning the Olympic title in this event for the second time in his career.
The veteran Swiss is set to retire from cycling following the Games, although he showed no signs of decline with an exceptional mark of 1:12:15.42.
The Netherlands’ Tom Dumoulin (1:13:02.83) and Great Britain’s Chris Froome (1:13:17.54), both of whom won time trial stages at the recent Tour de France, had no answer to his efforts, taking the silver and bronze medals, respectively.
Cancellara has been renowned as a time trial specialist throughout his career, and his expertise in this testing discipline shone through here. The 35-year-old tore his way down the descents on the course, leaving both Dumoulin and Tour de France winner Froome with far too much to do in the latter stages.
Shooting
| Jin Jongoh (KOR) | Hoang Xuan Vinh (VIE) | Kim Song Guk (PRK) |
South Korea's Jin Jongoh set an Olympic record on his way to glory in the men’s 50-metre pistol shooting final, becoming the first male shooter to win three golds in a row in the same event.
Jongoh posted a final score of 193.7 after a fascinating battle with Hoang Xuan Vinh (191.3) of Vietnam, with the latter going on to grab silver. Kim Song Guk (172.8) will be on the final step of the podium, securing bronze for North Korea.
The top two were evenly matched throughout the final before Hoang lost his way with the gold up for grabs. Jongoh was more composed under the immense pressure of the final rounds; his last series score of 19.3 far surpassed Hoang’s 16.7.
| Fehaid Aldeehani (IOA) | Marco Innocenti (ITA) | Steven Scott (GBR) |
Competing under the Olympic flag Fehaid Aldeehani won gold in the men’s double trap shooting, beating Italy’s Marco Innocenti 26-23 in the competition final.
Aldeehani, who is from Kuwait, becomes the first competitor ever to win gold as an independent athlete. He capitalised on a difficult start for Innocenti in the gold medal match to build a commanding lead and despite a brilliant finish from the Italian, was able to hold on for glory.
Great Britain’s Steven Scott produced a faultless performance to win the bronze medal match against his compatriot Tim Kneale.
Kayak
| Joseph Clarke (GBR) | Peter Kauzer (SLO) | Jiri Prskavec (CZE) |
In the men’s K-1 canoe slalom it was 23-year-old Joseph Clarke who turned in a brilliant run to win gold for Great Britain.
His time of 88.53 saw him clinch top spot on the podium from Peter Kauzer of Slovenia and the Czech Republic’s Jiri Prskavec. The Briton was a surprise winner on the day, with the likes of Giovanni de Gennaro and Jakub Grigar falling short of their absolute best.
“Everything pieced together so nicely, I can’t put it into words. I knew I was capable but to put down that run in the Olympic final, it is a dream come true,” said Clarke afterwards to BBC Sport. “It is hard to put it into words how much work has gone into this.”
Clarke did seem to be keeping something back in his semi-final run, though, and that showed as he powered through the circuit on Wednesday. After ousting Kauzer he was guaranteed of a medal, before Prskavec and then Grigar, who was last out, unable to better his time.
Weightlifting
| Xiang Yanmei (CHN) | Zhazira Zhapparkul (KAZ) | Sara Ahmed (EGY) |
China’s Xiang Yanmei continued her nation’s dominance in women’s weightlifting on Wednesday, as she edged out Kazakhstan’s Zhazira Zhapparkul in the 69-kilogram category.
Xiang, who now holds both the Olympic and World Championship titles, totalled 261 kilograms, just two more than the eventual silver medalist. Egypt’s Sara Ahmed finished in third with an overall score of 255 kilograms.
Diving
| Jack Laugher and Chris Mears (GBR) | Sam Dorman and Michael Hixon (USA) | Yuan Cao and Kai Qin (CHN) |
Jack Laugher and Chris Mears made history for Great Britain in the final of the three-metre synchronised final, clinching the team’s first ever diving gold medal.
The duo were able to better the efforts of American pair Sam Dorman and Michael Hixon, while the highly-fancied Chinese twosome of Cao Yuan and Qin Kai could only muster third.
As Sky News’ Anna Botting noted, Mears’ story is a remarkable one:
It was this spirit, unerring consistency and peerless composure under pressure that was the foundation for this win for Laugher and Mears. The British duo executed a tremendous dive in the third of six rounds and from that point on, never looked as though they were going to relinquish the top spot.
Gymnastics
| Kohei Uchimura (JPN) | Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) | Max Whitlock (GBR) |
Japan's Kohei Uchimura won his second-straight Olympic All-Around gold medal by defeating the Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev by less than a tenth of a point at 92.365-92.266.
He's the first man to repeat as champion since 1972, per CNN Breaking News.
Heading into the last rotation, Uchimura trailed Verniaiev with the Ukrainian needing a 14.9 on the high bar to win after the defending champion put up a score of 15.8.
Verniaiev though came up just a tenth short, recording a 14.8 to narrowly lose out on gold.
Fencing
| Inna Deriglazova (RUS) | Elisa Di Francisca (ITA) | Ines Boubakri (TUN) |
Italy's Elisa Di Francisca looked destined to defend her 2012 individual foil gold she earned in London. With 2.4 seconds left, she was on the attack trailing by just one with Russia's Inna Deriglazova desperately trying to keep her at bay.
She had already scored four points in less than a minute after trailing 12-7. But with her final lunge, Deriglazova parried and won gold with a 12-11 win, the first Russian to do so since Elena Novikova-Belova in 1968, via Eric Goodman of NBCOlympics.com.
| Aron Szilagyi (HUN) | Daryl Homer (USA) | Junghwan Kim (KOR) |
Unlike Di Francisca, Hungary's Aron Szilagyi was able to retain his gold medal from the 2012 London Games.
He defeated American Daryl Homer 15-8 on Wednesday as his agility was too much for the challenger to handle.
Judo
| Haruka Tachimoto (JPN) | Yuri Alvear (COL) | Sally Conway (GBR) | Laura Vargas Koch (GER) |
Japan's Haruka Tachimoto shut out Colombia's Yuri Alvear 100s1-0 as she was finally able to win gold at the Olympics.
Tachimoto didn't even make the podium four years ago and had never won gold in a major competition. But she overcame a difficult draw to win it all as Alvear is a three-time world champion.
| Mashu Baker (JPN) | Varlam Liparteliani (GEO) | Donghan Gwak (KOR) | Xunzhao Cheng (CHN) |
Mashu Baker ensured there would be a Japanese sweep of gold on Wednesday after he defeated Goergia's Varlam Liparteliani 1s2-0.
It might not get any better than this for Baker, who was making his Olympic debut this year at Rio.
Table Tennis
| Ding Ning (CHN) | Xiaoxia Li (CHN) | Kim Song-I (PRK) |
Wednesday's gold medal match was a rematch of the final matchup from the London 2012 Games. For the second-straight time, Ning Ding defeated Xiaoxia Li for the gold.
This time, it took seven games compared to the five Ding needed in 2012.
Ding was actually down three games to two before sweeping the final two games as Li will have to settle for silver one more time.
Swimming
| Dmitriy Balandin (KAZ) | Josh Prenot (USA) | Anton Chupkov (RUS) |
Starting in lane No. 8, Kazahkstan's Dmitriy Balandin wasn't expected to make much noise in the 200-meter breastroke final.
However, he was able to edge American Josh Prenot by 0.07 seconds to take home gold. It was the first gold in swimming ever for Kazahkstan.
| Mireia Belmonte Garcia (ESP) | Madeline Groves (AUS) | Natsumi Hoshi (JPN) |
Heading into the women's 200-meter buttefly final, Mireira Belmonte Garcia was the only swimmer in the field of eight to have earned a medal after taking bronze in the 400-meter individual medley.
She added a second medal on Wednesday, this time gold, after holding off Australia's Madeline Groves by 0.03 seconds, via NBC Olympics:
Groves held the lead for the first 100 meters and looked like she was fading when Belmonte Garcia took the lead, but she stayed virtually even with her, just losing out on Olympic gold.
| Kyle Chalmers (AUS) | Pieter Timmers (BEL) | Nathan Adrian (USA) |
For the first time in 48 years, Australia has a medalist in the 100-meter freestyle after Kyle Chalmers edged out Pieter Timmers of Belgium and Nathan Adrian of the United States by less than 0.3 seconds.
Adrian was the favorite in the race and held the lead in the final stretch, but he was chased down by the Australian, via NBC Olympics:
| United States | Australia | Canada |
The United States relay team breezed to a win in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay in which they finished over 1.8 seconds ahead of second-place Australia, via NBC Olympics:
America's first three racers were consistent as Allison Schmitt, Leah Smith and Maya DiRado posted times in the 1:56 range, setting things up for the anchor of Katie Ledecky, who already scored two golds and a silver heading into Wednesday night.
Ledecky wrapped up the United States' win by posting a time of 1:53.47, the only swimmer to go under 1:54.
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