A further 28 medals are on offer on the 16th August, as the first week of competition comes to a close. 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 | |
| Basketball | |
| Beach Volleyball | |
| Boxing | |
| Cycling - Track | 3 (Men's Points Race, Men's 4000m Individual Pursuit, Men's Keirin) |
| Diving | |
| Equestrian | |
| Fencing | 1 (Women's Team Foil) |
| Football | |
| Gymnastics - Trampoline | |
| Handball | |
| Hockey | |
| 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 | |
| Swimming | 4 (Women's 200m Backstroke, Men's 100m Butterfly, Women's 800m Freestyle, Men's 50m Freestyle) |
| Table Tennis | |
| Tennis | 2 (Women's Singles, Men's Doubles) |
| Volleyball | |
| Water Polo | |
| 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 should be amongst the medal contenders. 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 (if he is able to compete) and the British team in the Yngling class will also be one to watch.
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