Monday, August 25, 2008

Day 16: Final Results: Beijing 2008 Italy Wins 28 Medals for NINTH Place

The ANNOTICO Report

 

From My Last Report of : Day 14: Beijing 2008:  Italy's Alex Schwarzer Gold in 50km Marathon Walk -Total  22 Medals and Still 10th.

Italian Medal Count: Seven (7) GOLD; Seven (7) SILVER; Eight  (8) BRONZE equals a TOTAL of TWENTY TWO (22)

On Day 15: ONE (1) SILVER; Taekwondo 80 kg; Mauro Sammiento and TWO  (2) BRONZE ; Canoe/Kayak, Men's K-2, 1000 , and N?A     for a Total of  TWENTY FIVE (25)

On Day 16: FINAL DAY: ONE (1) GOLD; Boxing Men's Super Heavy (+91kg) Roberto Cammarelle; ONE (1) BRONZE; Boxing Men's Heavyweight (91kg); Clemente Russo; ONE (1) BRONZE, Boxing Men's Boxing Flyweight (51 kg) Vincenzio Picardi with a Total of  EIGHT (8) GOLDS, TEN (10) SILVERS, TEN (10) BRONZE; for a GRAND TOTAL OF TWENTY  EIGHT (28) Medals,

 

This would place Italy in NINTH Place in Total Medals, or even if the Ranking was determined by Number of Golds.

 

The number of Narrow Italy fourth place finishes were incredibly disapointing

 

Final Results:

Discipline

 

GOLD

Event

 

 

Name

 

 

 

Boxing

Men's Super Heavy (+91kg)

CAMMARELLE Roberto

Athletics

Men's 50km Walk

SCHWAZER Alex

Wrestling

Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg

MINGUZZI Andrea

Fencing

Women's Individual Foil

VEZZALI Maria Valentina

Shooting

Women's Skeet

CAINERO Chiara

Fencing

Men's Individual Epee

TAGLIARIOL Matteo

Swimming

Women's 200m Freestyle

PELLEGRINI Federica

Judo

Women -57 kg

QUINTAVALLE Giulia

 

SILVER

 

 

BRONZE

 

 

Overall Medal Count

Country

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

United States

36

38

36

110

China

51

21

28

100

Russia

23

21

28

72

Britain

19

13

15

47

Australia

14

15

17

46

Germany

16

10

15

41

France

7

16

17

40

South Korea

13

10

8

31

Italy

8

10

10

28

Ukraine

7

5

15

27

Japan

9

6

10

25

Cuba

2

11

11

24

Belarus

4

5

10

19

Spain

5

10

3

18

Canada

3

9

6

18

Netherlands

7

5

4

16

Brazil

3

4

8

15

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/medals;_ylt=AmsH8csjkDYAaYLHx2E22LSVTZd4

 

Italy's Cammarelle wins Final Boxing Gold

Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) ? Roberto Cammarelle of Italy has won the super heavyweight boxing gold medal in the final Olympic bout, stopping China's Zhang Zhilei in the final round.

Cammarelle is the defending world champion and a bronze winner in Athens. He picked apart the larger Zhang with combinations and sharp hooks Sunday before staggering him to the canvas early in the fourth round.

The referee stopped the bout 19 seconds into the round because of the serious head blow.

Cammarelle emphatically prevented China from winning its third boxing gold of the day. China and Russia paced the overall Beijing tournament with two gold medals apiece, while Cuba led with eight total medals ? but no golds.

 

 

Boxing Heavyweight

Russia's Chakhkiev Beats Champion Italy's Clemente Russo for Gold

Associated Press

BEIJING (AP)  Rakhim Chakhkiev of Russia has won the heavyweight boxing gold medal, avenging a loss to Italy's Clemente Russo at last year's world championships with a 4-2 victory.

Chakhkiev is the only Russian to win gold so far from a touted 11-man boxing team that had an awful Olympics. He got the decisive points late in his gritty bout Saturday with Russo, the world champion after beating Chakhkiev last fall.

Chakhkiev is the first non-Cuban to win the Olympic heavyweight title since 1988 and just the third non-Cuban to win it since George Foreman's victory in 1968. Cuba's heavyweight, Osmai Acosta, lost to Chakhkiev in the semifinals.

 

 

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