Gold Medals seized

AS of 9:00 last night, China led in Gold Medals with six, followed by the Republic of Korea with three and the United States with two … but the night was still young.
Olympic competitions on Sunday saw Chinese Long Qingquan total 292kg to win the men's 66kg division weightlifting gold medal and Chinese judoka Xian Dongmei defend her Athen's win by defeating An Kum-ae of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with two koka in the final of Judo Women's 52kg.
China’s Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia won their second successive gold medal in Synchronized Women's 3m Springboard event by scoring 343.50 Sunday afternoon.
The Republic of Korea women's team of Park Sung-Hyun, Yun Ok-Hee and Joo Hyun-Jung outshot China in the Archery Women's Team Gold Medal match Sunday. The ROK scored 224 out of a possible 240 points. The Chinese team of Zhang Juanjuan, Chen Ling and Guo Dan took Silver with 215 points.
French Virginie Arnold, Sophie Dodemont and Berengere Schuh took third.
Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon of Thailand became the new Olympic champion in the 53kg category of Women's Weightlifting, thanks to her total lift of 221kg..
Nicole Cooke of Great Britain opened up a long sprint with 200m to go to claim Gold in the Women's Road Race under a torrential rainstorm along the Great Wall.
The Czech Republic's David Kostelecky put on a stellar display to win Gold in the Men's Trap. Kostelecky hit a perfect 25 targets.
China's Guo Wenjun won Gold in the Women's 10m Air Pisto. Guo shot 102.3, which took her total score to 492.3 -- an Olympic record for the final score.
A dazzling first day got off to a storming start with seven Gold Medals seized by competitors in five separate sports and challengers in a further 13 sports beginning their Olympic quest.
The pace was set by the first Gold Medalist of the Games, 24-year-old Katerina Emmons of the Czech Republic, who claimed a new Olympic record in the Women's 10m Air Rifle of 103.5 points in the final, which gave her an overall 503.5.
Pang Wei took the Men's 10m Air Pistol Gold, with the ROK’s Jin Jong-oh claiming Silver and Kim Jong-su collecting Bronze for North Korea.
Chen Xiexia won the 48kg Weightlifting competition with a new Olympic Record total score of 212kg.
Spaniard Samuel Sanchez captured Cycling Gold in the Men's Road Race.
America seized Gold, Silver and Bronze in the Fencing Women's Individual Sabre with reigning Olympic Champion Mariel Zagunis defeating Sada Jacobson 15-8 in the final to retain her crown, and Rebecca Ward beating Russian Sofiya Velikaya.
Alina Alexandra Dumitru of Romania defeated Cuba's Yanet Bermoy with an ippon in 1:20 to win Gold in the Judo Women's 48kg final.
In the Men's 60kg contest, Choi Min-ho from the ROK Korea won Gold by defeating World No.1 Ludwig Paischer of Austria.
Records tumbled at the Water Cube as with Michael Phelps of the US set a new Olympic record of 4:07.82 in the heats for the Men's 400m Individual Medley.
(ZD News)