Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Beijing Games Finish

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2008 Summer Olympic Games finished. It is the time to total up.
China topped the medals table at the Beijing Olympics with 51 golds while the United States came second with 36 and the Russian Federation finished third with 23.

CHN - China
USA - United States
RUS - Russian Fed.

They were followed by Great Britain (19), Germany (16), Australia (14), South Korea (13), Japan (9) and Italy (8) while France, Netherlands and Ukraine won seven gold medals each.
Jamaica obtained six, Kenya and Spain got five each while Belarus, Ethiopia and Romania secured four golds each.
Nine countries – Canada, Poland, Hungary, Norway, Brazil, Czech Republic, Slovakia, New Zealand and Germany won three gold medals each.
Nine more countries won two gold medals each. They were Cuba, Kazakhstan, Denmark, Mongolia, Thailand, North Korea, Argentina, Switzerland and Mexico.

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