Busy day of competition on Day 9

Thirty-three medals are available on Day 9. The most of the sixteen days of competition.

It will also be a busy day for the band of supporters as we aim to take in three events. Up first is the start of the Women's Marathon in Tiananmen Square and then hopefully it will be over to the Olympic Stadium to see the finish (we don't know if we've got tickets yet).

Second stop is the final day of the Rowing Regatta and then on to the Badminton to see the Mixed Doubles Final.

Athletics	5 (Women's Marathon, Men's Hammer Throw, Women's Triple Jump, Women's 100m, Men's 10000m)
Badminton	2 (Mixed Doubles, Men's Singles)
Basketball	Preliminaries
Beach Volleyball	Women's Quarter-Finals
Boxing	Quarter-Finals
Cycling - Track	1 (Women's 3000m Individual Pursuit)
Diving	1 (Women's 3m Springboard )
Equestrian	Preliminaries
Fencing	1 (Men's Team Sabre)
Gymnastics - Artistic	4 (Men's Floor Exercise, Women's Floor Exercise, Men's Pommel Horse, Women's Vault)
Handball	Preliminaries
Hockey	Preliminaries
Rowing	7 (Women's Lightweight Double Sculls, Men's Lightweight Double Sculls, Men's Lightweight Four, Women's Quadruple Sculls, Men's Quadruple Sculls, Women's Eight, Men's Eight)
Sailing	1 (Skiff Dinghy-49er)
Shooting	1 (Men's 50m Rifle 3 Position)
Softball	Preliminaries
Swimming	4 (Women's 50m Freestyle, Men's 1500m Freestyle, Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay, Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay)
Synchronised Swimming	Preliminaries
Table Tennis	1 (Women's Team)
Tennis	2 (Men's Singles, Women's Doubles)
Volleyball	Preliminaries
Water Polo	Women's Quarter-Finals
Weightlifting	1 (Men's 94kg)
Wrestling	2 (Women's Freestyle 63kg, Women's Freestyle 72kg )

Paula Radcliffe will be seeking to erase the disappointment of Athens 2004 if she goes in the Women's Athletics Marathon. Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms will be seeking to turn World Championship Gold into Olympic Gold in the Mixed Doubles Badminton, but Anthony Clark & Donna Kellogg may have something to say about that! There are medal chances for the Women's Quadruple Sculls team of Annie Vernon , Debbie Flood , Frances Houghton and Katherine Grainger and Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter in the Men's Lightweight Double scull at the final day of the Rowing Regatta. Swimming is another sport completing it's programme on 17th August. David Davies (Bronze medallist at Athens 2004) will be competing in the Men's 1500m Freestyle Swimming. The Men's Pommel Horse offers a chance for a Gymnastics medal, with both Daniel Keatings and Louis Smith being specialists in this exercise. In the Velodrome Rebecca Romero is among the favourites for the Women’s Individual Pursuit.
In Qingdao at the Olympic Sailing Centre, the Skiff Dinghy-49er Medals are decided. British pair Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes will hope to again be in contention.

Rowing and Athletics are the place to be on Day 8

A further 28 medals are on offer on the 16th August, as the first week of competition comes to a close. Rowing and Athletics are the place to be on Day 8 for GB supporters and we will be! The Men's 100m sprint is the last Athletics event of the day in the Olympic Stadium. The competition to decide the 'Worlds fastest Man' is always a spectacle.

Athletics	4 (Men's 20km Walk, Women's Shot Put, Women's Heptathlon, Men's 100m)
Badminton	2 (Men's Doubles, Women's Singles)
Baseball	Preliminaries
Basketball	Preliminaries
Beach Volleyball	Women's Quarter-Finals
Boxing	Preliminaries
Cycling - Track	3 (Men's Points Race, Men's 4000m Individual Pursuit, Men's Keirin)
Diving	Preliminaries
Equestrian	Preliminaries
Fencing	1 (Women's Team Foil)
Football	Men's Quarter-Finals
Gymnastics - Trampoline	Preliminaries
Handball	Preliminaries
Hockey	Preliminaries
Rowing	7 (Women's Single Sculls, Men's Single Sculls, Women's Pair, Men's Pair, Women's Double Sculls, Men's Double Sculls, Men's Four)
Sailing	2 (Heavy Weight Dinghy-Finn, Women's Keelboat Yngling)
Shooting	2 (Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol, Men's Skeet)
Softball	Preliminaries
Swimming	4 (Women's 200m Backstroke, Men's 100m Butterfly, Women's 800m Freestyle, Men's 50m Freestyle)
Table Tennis	Men's Team Semi-Finals
Tennis	2 (Women's Singles, Men's Doubles)
Volleyball	Preliminaries
Water Polo	Women's Quarter-Finals
Weightlifting	1 (Women's +75kg)
Wrestling	2 (Women's Freestyle 48kg, Women's Freestyle 55kg)

In the first of two days of finals at the Rowing, the Men's Four of Tom James, Steve Williams , Peter Reed and Andy Triggs Hodge should be amongst the medal contenders as should Elise Laverick and Anna Bebington in the Women's Double scull. On the track at the Velodrome, there should be two Athens 2004 Gold medallists competing, Bradley Wiggins in the Individual Pursuit and Chris Hoy in the Keirin. In the Olympic Stadium, Kelly Sotherton will be finishing her second day in the Heptathlon.

In Qingdao at the Olympic Sailing Centre, Double Gold medallist, Ben Ainslie will be a favourite for the Gold in the Finn Class and the British team of Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson in the Yngling class will also be one to watch.

Rowing Team for Beijing 2008

The British Olympic Association (BOA) have selected the additional Rowing members of Team GB for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The women's eight line-up has also been finalised, meaning that Alice Freeman becomes a reserve for the Women's squad.

Athlete	Event	Final
Tom Solesbury and Robin Bourne-Taylor	Men's Pair	16 August

Rowing Team for Beijing 2008

The British Olympic Association (BOA) have selected the Rowing members of Team GB for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Tom James, Steve Williams , Peter Reed & Andy Triggs Hodge	Men's Four	16 August
Alan Campbell	Men's Single Scull
Matt Wells & Stephen Rowbotham	Men's Double Scull
Louisa Reeve & Olivia Whitlam	Women's Pair
Elise Laverick & Anna Bebington	Women's Double scull
Helen Casey & Hester Goodsell	Women's Lightweight Double scull	17 August
Zac Purchase & Mark Hunter	Men's Lightweight Double scull
Richard Chambers, James Lindsay-Fynn , Paul Mattick & James Clarke	Men's Lightweight Four
Annie Vernon , Debbie Flood , Frances Houghton & Katherine Grainger	Women's Quad Scull
Carla Ashford , Jess Eddie , Alice Freeman , Katie Greves, Natasha Howard , Alison Knowles , Natasha Page, Beth Rodford , Sarah Winckless , Caroline O'Connor (cox)	Women's Eight
Alex Partridge, Tom Stallard , Tom Lucy , Richard Egington, Josh West, Alastair Heathcote , Matt Langridge , Colin Smith & Acer Nethercott (cox)	Men's Eight

Two Golds on Second Finals Day

The Great Britain boats won two gold and three bronze medals on the second finals day at the Rowing World Championships, in Munich, Germany.

The women's quadruple scull of Katherine Grainger, Fran Houghton, Debbie Flood and Annie Vernon led the field from the start to win their third consecutive world title.

In the lightweight men's four, Richard Chambers, James Lindsay-Fynn, Paul Mattick and James Clarke pulled past Italy in the final stages to win gold for the first time.

Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter clinched a bronze in the lightweight double sculls.

The men's eight of Tom James, Tom Stallard, Tom Lucy, Tom Solesbury, Josh
West, Richard Egington, Robin Bourne–Taylor and Alastair
Heathcote wion an unexpected bronze.

But it was the women's eight of Carla Ashford, Baz Moffat, Alice Freeman, Louisa Reeve, Natasha Howard, Alison Knowles, Katie Greves, Jess Eddie who provided the biggest surprise in the only final where Olympic qualification was not already assured. Needing to a void a last place finish to get the boat into the Olympic Regatta the crew produced an impressive performance to not only achieve this but also win the bronze!

Great Britain now has eleven boats in the Olympic Regatta.

By reaching the World Championships final, all these boats qualified for Beijing. The Olympic finals for these boats is on 17th August.

Day of near misses for British Rowers

The Great Britain boats won two bronze medals on the first finals day at the Rowing World Championships, in Munich, Germany.

The bronze medals came from Colin Smith and Matt Langridge in the men's pair and Anna Bebington and Elise Laverick in the women's double scull, but the flagship men's four lost their crowns. The double world champions finished fourth, as did single sculler Alan Campbell and the men's double sculls of Matthew Wells and Stephen Rowbotham.

By reaching the World Championships final, all these boats qualified for Beijing. The Olympic finals for these boats is on 16th August.

Day 9 - 17th August 2008

Thirty-three medals are available on 17th August. The most of the sixteen days of competition.

Athletics	5 (Women's Marathon, Men's Hammer Throw, Women's Triple Jump, Women's 100m, Men's 10000m)
Badminton	2 (Mixed Doubles, Men's Singles)
Basketball
Beach Volleyball
Boxing
Cycling - Track	1 (Women's 3000m Individual Pursuit)
Diving	1 (Women's 3m Springboard )
Equestrian
Fencing	1 (Men's Team Sabre)
Gymnastics - Artistic	4 (Men's Floor Exercise, Women's Floor Exercise, Men's Pommel Horse, Women's Vault)
Handball
Hockey
Rowing	7 (Women's Lightweight Double Sculls, Men's Lightweight Double Sculls, Men's Lightweight Four, Women's Quadruple Sculls, Men's Quadruple Sculls, Women's Eight, Men's Eight)
Sailing	1 (Skiff Dinghy-49er)
Shooting	1 (Men's 50m Rifle 3 Position)
Softball
Swimming	4 (Women's 50m Freestyle, Men's 1500m Freestyle, Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay, Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay)
Synchronised Swimming
Table Tennis	1 (Women's Team)
Tennis	2 (Men's Singles, Women's Doubles)
Volleyball
Water Polo
Weightlifting	1 (Men's 94kg)
Wrestling	2 (Women's Freestyle 63kg, Women's Freestyle 72kg )

Paula Radcliffe will be seeking to erase the disappointment of Athens 2004, when she goes in the Women's Marathon. Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms will be seeking to turn World Championship Gold into Olympic Gold in the Mixed Badminton, as will the Women's Quadruple Sculls team on the final day of the Rowing Regatta. Swimming is another sport completing it's programme on 17th August. David Davies (Bronze medallist at Athens 2004) will be competing in the Men's 1500m Freestyle.

In Qingdao at the Olympic Sailing Centre, the Skiff Dinghy-49er Medals are decided. British pair Chris Draper and Simon Hiscocks will hope to again be in contention.