Olympic 2016 Results: Sunday's Medal Winners for Each Event, Highlights
Sunday was a day for superstars at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, as household names such as Jamaica's Usain Bolt and the United States' Simone Biles captured gold medals for their respective countries.
Bolt and Biles were the headliners, but they were far from the only ones to take home medals Sunday. With that in mind, here are the results from all the medal events as well as a closer look at some of the notable performances from Sunday, courtesy of the Rio Games' official website:
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| Men's Floor Exercise Gymnastics | Max Whitlock (Great Britain) | Diego Hypolito (Brazil) | Arthur Mariano (Brazil) |
| Women's Vault Gymnastics | Simone Biles (United States) | Maria Paseka (Russia) | Giulia Steingruber (Switzerland) |
| Men's Pommel Horse Gymnastics | Max Whitlock (Great Britain) | Louis Smith (Great Britain) | Alexander Naddour (United States) |
| Women's Uneven Bars Gymnastics | Aliya Mustafina (Russia) | Madison Kocian (United States) | Sophie Scheder (Germany) |
| Women's Marathon | Jemima Jelagat Sumgong (Kenya) | Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa (Bahrain) | Mare Dibaba (Ethiopia) |
| Women's Triple Jump | Caterine Ibarguen (Colombia) | Yulimar Rojas (Venezuela) | Olga Rypakova (Kazakhstan) |
| Men's 400 Meters (Track) | Wayde van Niekerk (South Africa) | Kirani James (Grenada) | Lashawn Merritt (United States) |
| Men's 100 Meters (Track) | Usain Bolt (Jamaica) | Justin Gatlin (United States) | Andre de Grasse (Canada) |
| Men's Light (60 Kilograms) Boxing | -- | -- | Lazaro Jorge Alvarez (Cuba) and Otgondalai Dorjnyambuu (Mongolia) |
| Men's Light (46-49 Kilograms) Boxing | Hasanboy Dusmatov (Uzbekistan) | Yurberjen Herney Martinez (Colombia) | -- |
| Men's Cycling Track Sprint Cycling | Kenny Jason (Great Britain) | Callum Skinner (Great Britain) | Denis Dmitriev (Russia) |
| Women's Three-Meter Springboard Diving | Tingmao Shi (China) | He Zi (China) | Tania Cagnotto (Italy) |
| Men's Epee Team Fencing | France | Italy | Hungary |
| Men's Golf | Justin Rose (Great Britain) | Henrik Stenson (Sweden) | Matt Kuchar (United States) |
| RS:X Men's Sailing | Dorian van Rijsselberghe (Netherlands) | Nick Dempsey (Great Britain) | Pierre Le Coq (France) |
| RS:X Women's Sailing | Charline Picon (France) | Chen Peina (China) | Stefaniya Elfutina (Russia) |
| Men's 50-Meter Rifle 3 Positions | Niccolo Campriani (Italy) | Sergey Kamenskiy (Russia) | Alexis Raynaud (France) |
| Women's Doubles Tennis | Russia (Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina) | Switzerland (Timea Bacsinszky and Martina Hingis) | -- |
| Mixed Doubles Tennis | United States (Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jack Sock) | United States (Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram) | Czech Republic (Lucie Hradecka and Radek Stepanek) |
| Men's Singles Tennis | Andy Murray (Great Britain) | Juan Martin Del Potro (Argentina) | Kei Nishikori (Japan) |
| Women's Weightlifting: 75-Plus Kilograms | Meng Suping (China) | Kim Kuk Hyang (North Korea) | Sarah Robles (United States) |
| Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling: 59 Kilograms | Ismael Borrero Molina (Cuba) | Shinobu Ota (Japan) | Elmurat Tasmuradov (Uzbekistan) and Stig-Andre Berge (Norway) |
| Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling: 75 Kilograms | Roman Vlasov (Russia) | Mark Overgaard Madsen (Denmark) | Saeid Morad Abdevali (Iran) and Kim Hyeon-woo (South Korea) |
Max Whitlock Dominates for Great Britain
Biles and the American women's team have made plenty of gymnastics headlines in the United States, but a Great Britain star stole the show on the men's side Sunday.
Max Whitlock won the men's floor exercise and pommel horse to secure two gold medals in an impressive double outing. His 15.633 score beat out Brazil's Diego Hypolito by one-tenth of a point in the floor exercise, and he outlasted fellow countryman Louis Smith on the pommel horse by notching a score of 15.966.
According to Julia Fincher of NBC Olympics, the victory on the pommel horse came "just an hour after" he won the floor exercise.
After Sunday's performance, Whitlock, who also won bronze in the individual all-around competition at the Rio Games, said, "I've completely outdone myself," per BBC.com.
Whitlock has five career Olympic medals on his resume after earning three at the Rio Games. He also won bronze in the team event and pommel horse at the 2012 London Olympics.
His gold in the floor exercise was the first Olympic gold in gymnastics in Great Britain's history, per BBC.com. His bronze in the all-around competition earlier in the Games also marked Great Britain's first medal in that event in 108 years.
Biles Flies Again
Biles has quickly become one of the breakout stars of the Rio Games, and she added to her growing legacy Sunday with a gold in the vault.
NBC Olympics shared her performance:
It was her third gold medal of the Olympics after triumphs in the team and individual all-around events. She finished with an average score of 15.966 to beat out Russia's Maria Paseka and Switzerland's Giulia Steingruber on Sunday.
According to Fincher, "Steingruber became Switzerland's first female gymnast ever to win an Olympic medal."
However, Biles proved too difficult to top, and she talked about what it meant to win the gold in the vault after coming close in previous meets, per Eliott C. McLaughlin of CNN.
"I feel very excited, because having gone to worlds and having two silvers and a bronze, it means a lot to me," she said. "It's something I wanted so badly, so I just tried to keep a good mind going into vault."
Biles will attempt to add to her impressive haul Monday on the balance beam and Tuesday in the floor exercise. If she prevails in each of those events, "she will become the first American gymnast to take home five medals since Anton Heida did it in the 1904 Summer Olympics," according to McLaughlin.
Nothing she has done in Rio suggests she will fall short of joining Heida on the exclusive list.
Bolt Proves His Dominance
Given how dominant he has been at recent Olympics, it was almost a foregone conclusion that Bolt would win the 100-meter dash Sunday. In doing so (at 9.81 seconds), he became the first sprinter to win the event at three different Games:
NBC Olympics shared an image of the finish, underscoring how far ahead of the field Bolt was:
For a time, it looked as though the United States' Justin Gatlin would challenge for the gold, but Bolt turned on the famous speed that has made him arguably the best sprinter in the sport's history to pass the American. Gatlin earned the silver with a time of 9.89 seconds, while Canada's Andre de Grasse captured bronze by finishing in 9.91 seconds.
Bolt tweeted after the victory:
Bolt has been faster than the rest of the field for virtually his entire career, and he wasn't ready to go out in the 100-meter dash with anything other than a gold medal Sunday.
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