Cycling - Men's road race: 1. Paolo Bettini (Italy); 2. Sergio Paulinho (Portugal); 3. Axel Merckx (Belgium).

Diving - Women's synchronised 3m springboard: 1. Guo Jinjing and Wu Minxia (China); 2. Yulia Pakhalina and Vera Ilyina (Russia); 3. Irina Lashko and Chantelle Newbery (Australia).

Diving - Men's synchronised 10m platform: 1. Tian Liang and Yang Jinghui (China); 2. Leon Taylor and Peter Waterfield (Britain); 3. Matthew Helm and Robert Newbery (Australia).

Fencing - Men's individual sabre: 1. Aldo Montano (Italy); 2. Zsolt Nemcsik (Hungary); 3. Vladislav Tretiak (Ukraine).

Judo - Men's 60kg: 1. Tadahiro Nomura (Japan); 2. Nestor Khergiani (Georgia); 3. Choi Min-ho (South Korea) and Khashbaatar Tsagaan-baatar (Mongolia).

Judo - Women's 48kg: 1. Ryoko Tani (Japan); 2. Frederique Jossinet (France); 3. Julia Matijass (Germany) and Gao Feng (China).

Shooting - Women's 10-metre air rifle: 1. Du Li (China); 2. Lioubov Galkina (Russia); 3. Katerina Kurkova (Czech Republic).

Shooting - Men's 10-metre air pistol: 1. Wang Yifu (China); 2. Mikhail Nestruev (Russia); 3. Vladimir Isakov (Russia).

Swimming - Men's 400 metres individual medley: 1. Michael Phelps (US); 2. Erik Vendt (US); 3. Laszlo Cseh (Hungary).

Swimming - Men's 400 metres freestyle: 1. Ian Thorpe (Australia); 2. Grant Hackett (Australia); 3. Klete Keller (US).

Swimming - Women's 400m medley: 1. Yana Klochkova (Ukraine); 2. Kaitlin Sandeno (US); 3. Georgina Bardach (Argentina).

Swimming - Women's 4x100 metre freestyle: 1. Australia; 2. US; 3. Netherlands.

Weightlifting - Women's 48kg: 1. Nurcan Taylan (Turkey); 2. Li Zhou (China); 3. Aree Wiratthaworn (Thailand).

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