Olympic 2016 Medal Count: Saturday's Updated Tally, List of Winners and Results
Mahe Drysdale of New Zealand took gold in a dramatic men's singles sculls final at the 2016 Rio Olympics on Saturday, despite recording the same time as Croatia's Damir Martin.
The pair looked to have produced a dead heat ahead of the Czech Republic's Ondrej Synek, with the gold eventually going to the 37-yer-old. In the women's race, Australia's Kimberley Brennan easily beat the competition to the top spot.
Later in the day, the highlights will include the women's 100-metre sprint final, the remainder of the women's heptathlon, the men's 10,000-metre final and the men's long jump final.
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Here is the live medal table:
Read on for the day's results as they come in.
Rowing
| Mahe Drysdale (NZ) 6:41.34 | Damir Martin (CRO) 6:41.34 | Ondrej Synek (CZE) 6:44.10 |
| Kimberley Brennan (AUS) 7:21.54 | Genevra Stone (USA) 7:22.92 | Duan Jingli (CHN) 7:24.13 |
| Great Britain | Germany | Netherlands |
| USA | Great Britain | Romania |
Martin enjoyed a promising early start, hitting the first 1,000 metres ahead of world champion Synek and defending Olympic champion Drysdale.
Drysdale had worked his way out in front heading into the final 500 metres, seemingly leaving Martin to battle with Synek for silver.
The Croatian responded powerfully, though, and pulled level with Drysdale in the final 10 strokes. The pair both recorded the same time, but officials gave the Kiwi the gold.
BBC Sport shared the narrowness of the margins:
In the women's event, Brennan led from start to finish as she powered home to a comfortable victory.
Team USA's Genevra Stone secured silver, while Duan Jingli of China held off a late fight from New Zealand's Emma Twigg to bring home bronze.
The team finals for both the men's and women's Eight sides took place later in the day, with Great Britain finishing behind the Americans to grab silver in the women's race and adding a gold medal in the men's event.
Athletics
| Christoph Harting (GER) | Piotr Malachowski (POL) | Martin Kupper (EST) |
| Jeff Henderson (USA) | Luvo Manyonga (RSA) | Greg Rutherford (GBR) |
| Mo Farah (GBR) | Paul Kipngetich Tanui (KEN) | Tamirat Tola (ETH) |
| Elaine Thompson (JAM) | Tori Bowie (USA) | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) |
Germany's Christoph Harting caused one of the biggest shocks of the day by beating Piotr Malachowski to the gold medal in the men's discus throw.
Malachowski entered the final as the clear favourite for the gold and led until the final round. He cracked the 67-metres mark three times, which none of the other contenders were able to do until Harting, younger brother of defending champion Robert Harting, took his final throw.
He promptly cleared 68.37 metres to take the lead, and Malachowski couldn't match his effort with his final toss. Estonia's Martin Kupper finished in third place.
In the long jump, defending Olympic champion Greg Rutherford of Great Britain could only win Bronze in Rio as America's Jeff Henderson won gold with a season-best jump of 8.38 meters.
Great Britain did manage to get gold in the following race when Mo Farah repeated as champion in the 10,000-meter run despite being tripped by his training partner, via NBC Olympics:
While the men were tested with distance, Saturday night settled the annual argument of who the fastest woman in the world is in the 100-meter.
On the biggest stage, Jamaica's Elaine Thompson edged Tori Bowie of the United States and fellow countrywoman Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price with a time of 10.71.
Shooting
| Christian Reitz (GER) | Jean Quiquampoix (FRA) | Li Yuehong (CHI) |
| Gabriele Rossetti (ITA) | Marcus Svensson (SWE) | Abdullah Alrashidi (Independent) |
Christian Reitz of Germany used a perfect score in the final round to beat France's Jean Quiquampoix to the gold in the 25m rapid fire pistol men's event.
The 29-year-old, who took the bronze in Beijing eight years ago, held a two-shot lead over his opponent after Li Yuehong of China was eliminated, and five perfect shots later, the title was his.
The winning margin would eventually be four points, as Reitz delivered Germany its third medal in shooting.
The skeet shooting competition was won by Italy's Gabriele Rossetti, who beat Sweden's Marcus Svensson by a single shot. Abdullah Alrashidi, who competed as an Independent athlete, took the bronze.
Cycling
| Great Britain | USA | Canada |
| Elis Ligtlee (NED) | Rebecca James (GBR) | Anna Meares (AUS) |
Great Britain once again ruled the day on the track, as the British team of Joanna Rowsell Shand, Laura Trott, Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker beat the USA in the final of the women's pursuit in record-breaking time, and Becky James sprinted to the silver medal in the Keirin.
Elis Ligtlee of the Netherlands proved too strong for James, who entered the final lap toward the back of the group and produced a stunning sprint to make the podium. Pre-race favourite Anna Meares of Australia took the bronze.
Canada beat New Zealand in the team pursuit for the bronze before the USA and Britain went head-to-head, and while the American team made a strong start, they soon fell well off the pace of the Brits.
Trampoline Gymnastics
| Uladzislau Hancharou (BLR) | Dong Dong (CHI) | Gao Lei (CHI) |
Uladzislau Hancharou won Belarus its first gold medal of the 2016 Olympics on Saturday, upsetting gold-medal favourites Dong Dong and Lei Gao of China in the men's trampoline gymnastics final.
The 20-year-old is widely seen as a big talent and already earned a silver medal at the world championships, but he wasn't expected to challenge the two Chinese favourites in Rio. For Dong, it's his second straight silver medal.
Fencing
| Russia | Ukraine | USA |
Russia easily beat Ukraine in the final of the women's sabre team competition, as singles champion Yana Egorian, Sofya Velikaya and Yuliya Gavrilova took the maximum of five points in each of their bouts.
The USA finished third, beating Italy in the play-off by a score of 45-30.
Tennis
| Monica Puig (PR) | Angelique Kerber (GER) | Petra Kvitova (CZE) |
The No. 2 tennis player in the world, Germany's Angelique Kerber, was upset in the gold medal final by Puerto Rico's Monica Puig in three sets.
Puig's ability to convert her break points (71 percent) is what put her over the top of Kerber, as she could only pull off three of 12.
It's Puerto Rico's first Olympic gold medal ever.
Swimming
| Pernille Blum (DEN) | Simone Manuel (USA) | Aliaksandra Herasimenia (BLR) |
| Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA) | Connor Jaeger (USA) | Gabriele Detti (ITA) |
| United States | Australia | Denmark |
| United States | Great Britain | Australia |
The final event of the night was the largest event as it marked the end of Michael Phelps' Olympic career in the men's 4x100-meter medley final.
It was only fitting that the United States would take gold, fueled by a world-record setting opening backstroke leg by Ryan Murphy as he put up a time of 51.85 seconds.
After falling to second, Phelps entered the pool in the third leg, doing his best event in the butterfly and regained the lead before Nathan Adrian finished it off on the freestyle.
The American's time of 3:27.95 was an Olympic record.
NBC Olympics could do nothing more than thank Phelps for a wonderful career that included 23 gold medals and 28 total medals:
The United States women's relay team also took home gold, beating second-place Australia by almost two seconds.
It capped off a dominant showing by the United States in the pool as it collected 33 swimming medals, 16 of them gold. After Saturday's events, it accounted for 55 percent of the nation's medals won at Rio, per NBC Olympics.
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