United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics

United States at the Olympic Games
Flag of the United States IOC code  USA NOC United States Olympic Committee
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Competitors	596 in 27[1] sports
Flag bearer	Lopez Lomong[2] (opening) Khatuna Lorig (closing)
Medals Rank: 2	Gold 36	Silver 38	Bronze 36	Total 110
Olympic history (summary)
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Intercalated Games
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The United States, represented by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. U.S. athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, which was boycotted. The USOC sent a total of 596 athletes to Beijing (310 men and 286 women), and competed in all Olympic sports except handball.^[1][3]

The USOC selected San Jose State University in San Jose, California, as the primary processing center for all Team USA members headed for Beijing 2008.^[4] They flew into San Jose via San Jose International Airport or San Francisco International Airport for at least two days of document checks, health examinations, cultural briefings, portrait sittings, uniform fittings, and last-minute workout sessions.^[5]

The U.S. did not win the most gold medals for the first time in a Summer Games since 1992, losing to China (51–36), and United States never led the medal table during the games.^[6] However, the U.S. won its most medals ever (110) in a non-boycotted games, the total medal count, and more silver and bronze medals than any other participating nation.^[7] This games also marked the 8-gold medal record for U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps, who surpassed Mark Spitz's record of 7 golds in a single Olympic event in 1972.^[8] Phelps also surpassed Spitz, Larisa Latynina of the USSR, Paavo Nurmi of Finland, and U.S. sprinter Carl Lewis to become the current record holder for the most Olympic gold medals (14).^[9]

The United States also saw milestones in women's swimming. Natalie Coughlin won 6 medals in Beijing, the most for a female Olympic swimmer.^[10] Dara Torres, who won 3 silver medals after her eight-year absence, became the oldest Olympic swimmer to win a medal, at age 41.^[11] Gymnast Nastia Liukin became the third U.S. female to win a gold medal in individual all-around event.^[12] It was also a successful Olympics for U.S. team-based sports, as men's and women's basketball teams both won gold, as did men's volleyball, men and women's beach volleyball, women's soccer, women's eight in rowing, and the men's and women's 4 × 400 meter-relay teams.^[13] Several other sports saw silver and bronze medals in women's volleyball, softball, baseball, both men's and women's team gymnastics, men's fencing sabre team, women's fencing foil team, and both men's and women's water polo.

Medalists

The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Zagunis, MarielMariel Zagunis Fencing Women's sabre August 9  Gold Phelps, MichaelMichael Phelps Swimming Men's 400 m individual medley August 10  Gold Adrian, NathanNathan Adrian* Matt Grevers* Cullen Jones Jason Lezak Michael Phelps Garrett Weber-Gale Ben Wildman-Tobriner* Swimming Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay August 11  Gold Phelps, MichaelMichael Phelps Swimming Men's 200 m freestyle August 12  Gold Coughlin, NatalieNatalie Coughlin Swimming Women's 100 m backstroke August 12  Gold Peirsol, AaronAaron Peirsol Swimming Men's 100 m backstroke August 12  Gold Eller, WaltonWalton Eller Shooting Men's double trap August 12  Gold Phelps, MichaelMichael Phelps Swimming Men's 200 m butterfly August 13  Gold Berens, RickyRicky Berens Klete Keller* Ryan Lochte Michael Phelps Peter Vanderkaay Erik Vendt* David Walters* Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay August 13  Gold Armstrong, KristinKristin Armstrong Cycling Women's time trial August 13  Gold Soni, RebeccaRebecca Soni Swimming Women's 200 m breaststroke August 15  Gold Lochte, RyanRyan Lochte Swimming Men's 200 m backstroke August 15  Gold Phelps, MichaelMichael Phelps Swimming Men's 200 m individual medley August 15  Gold Liukin, NastiaNastia Liukin Gymnastics Women's artistic individual all-around August 15  Gold Phelps, MichaelMichael Phelps Swimming Men's 100 m butterfly August 16  Gold Hancock, VincentVincent Hancock Shooting Men's skeet August 16  Gold Crocker, IanIan Crocker* Mark Gangloff* Matt Grevers* Brendan Hansen Jason Lezak Aaron Peirsol Michael Phelps Garrett Weber-Gale* Swimming Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay August 17  Gold Williams, SerenaSerena Williams Venus Williams Tennis Women's doubles August 17  Gold Cafaro, ErinErin Cafaro Anna Cummins Caryn Davies Susan Francia Anna Goodale Caroline Lind Elle Logan Lindsay Shoop Mary Whipple Rowing Women's eight August 17  Gold Brown Trafton, StephanieStephanie Brown Trafton Track & field Women's discus throw August 18  Gold Taylor, AngeloAngelo Taylor Track & field Men's 400 m hurdles August 18  Gold Kraut, LauraLaura Kraut Beezie Madden Will Simpson McLain Ward Equestrian Team jumping August 18  Gold Tunnicliffe, AnnaAnna Tunnicliffe Sailing Women's Laser Radial class August 19  Gold Cejudo, HenryHenry Cejudo Wrestling Men's freestyle 55 kg August 19  Gold Johnson, ShawnShawn Johnson Gymnastics Women's balance beam August 19  Gold Harper, DawnDawn Harper Track & field Women's 100 m hurdles August 19  Gold May-Treanor, MistyMisty May-Treanor Kerri Walsh Beach volleyball Women's tournament August 21  Gold Merritt, LaShawnLaShawn Merritt Track & field Men's 400 m August 21  Gold women's national soccer team, United StatesUnited States women's national soccer team Nicole Barnhart   Carli Lloyd Shannon Boxx   Kate Markgraf Rachel Buehler   Heather Mitts Lori Chalupny   Heather O'Reilly Lauren Cheney   Christie Rampone Stephanie Cox   Amy Rodriguez Tobin Heath   Hope Solo Angela Hucles   Lindsay Tarpley Natasha Kai   Aly Wagner Football Women's tournament August 21  Gold Dalhausser, PhilPhil Dalhausser Todd Rogers Beach volleyball Men's tournament August 22  Gold Clay, BryanBryan Clay Track & field Men's decathlon August 22  Gold Clement, KerronKerron Clement* LaShawn Merritt David Neville Angelo Taylor Jeremy Wariner Reggie Witherspoon* Track & field Men's 4 × 400 m relay August 23  Gold Felix, AllysonAllyson Felix Natasha Hastings* Monique Henderson Sanya Richards Mary Wineberg Track & field Women's 4 × 400 m relay August 23  Gold women's national basketball team, United StatesUnited States women's national basketball team Seimone Augustus   DeLisha Milton-Jones Sue Bird   Candace Parker Tamika Catchings   Cappie Pondexter Sylvia Fowles   Katie Smith Kara Lawson   Diana Taurasi Lisa Leslie   Tina Thompson Basketball Women's tournament August 23  Gold men's national volleyball team, United StatesUnited States men's national volleyball team Lloy Ball   Ryan Millar Gabe Gardner   Reid Priddy Kevin Hansen   Sean Rooney Tom Hoff   Riley Salmon Rich Lambourne   Clay Stanley David Lee   Scott Touzinsky Volleyball Men's tournament August 24  Gold men's national basketball team, United StatesUnited States men's national basketball team Carmelo Anthony   Jason Kidd Carlos Boozer   Chris Paul Chris Bosh   Tayshaun Prince Kobe Bryant   Michael Redd Dwight Howard   Dwyane Wade LeBron James   Deron Williams Basketball Men's tournament August 24  Silver Jacobson, SadaSada Jacobson Fencing Women's sabre August 9  Silver Coughlin, NatalieNatalie Coughlin Kara Lynn Joyce Lacey Nymeyer Emily Silver* Julia Smit* Dara Torres Swimming Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay August 10  Silver Magnuson, ChristineChristine Magnuson Swimming Women's 100 m butterfly August 11  Silver Hoff, KatieKatie Hoff Swimming Women's 400 m freestyle August 11  Silver Grevers, MattMatt Grevers Swimming Men's 100 m backstroke August 12  Silver Soni, RebeccaRebecca Soni Swimming Women's 100 m breaststroke August 12  Silver Miles, GinaGina Miles Equestrian Individual eventing August 12  Silver Shawn Johnson Nastia Liukin Chellsie Memmel Samantha Peszek Alicia Sacramone Bridget Sloan Gymnastics Women's artistic team all-around August 13  Silver Rhode, KimberlyKimberly Rhode Shooting Women's skeet August 14  Silver Peirsol, AaronAaron Peirsol Swimming Men's 200 m backstroke August 15  Silver Emmons, MatthewMatthew Emmons Shooting Men's 50 m rifle prone August 15  Silver Johnson, ShawnShawn Johnson Gymnastics Women's artistic individual all-around August 15  Silver Cantwell, ChristianChristian Cantwell Track & field Men's shot put August 15  Silver Hoelzer, MargaretMargaret Hoelzer Swimming Women's 200 m backstroke August 16  Silver Guérette, MichelleMichelle Guérette Rowing Women's single sculls August 16  Silver Cross, EmilyEmily Cross Erinn Smart Hanna Thompson Fencing Women's team foil August 16  Silver Fountain, HyleasHyleas Fountain Track & field Women's heptathlon August 16  Silver Torres, DaraDara Torres Swimming Women's 50 m freestyle August 17  Silver Breeden, ElaineElaine Breeden* Natalie Coughlin Margaret Hoelzer* Megan Jendrick* Kara Lynn Joyce* Christine Magnuson Rebecca Soni Dara Torres Swimming Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay August 17  Silver Railey, ZachZach Railey Sailing Finn class August 17  Silver Morehouse, TimTim Morehouse Jason Rogers Keeth Smart James Williams Fencing Men's team sabre August 17  Silver Johnson, ShawnShawn Johnson Gymnastics Women's floor August 17  Silver Clement, KerronKerron Clement Track & field Men's 400 m hurdles August 18  Silver Liukin, NastiaNastia Liukin Gymnastics Women's uneven bars August 18  Silver Stuczynski, JenniferJennifer Stuczynski Track & field Women's pole vault August 18  Silver Liukin, NastiaNastia Liukin Gymnastics Women's balance beam August 19  Silver Horton, JonathanJonathan Horton Gymnastics Men's horizontal bar August 19  Silver Tosta, SheenaSheena Tosta Track & field Women's 400 m hurdles August 20  Silver Crawford, ShawnShawn Crawford Track & field Men's 200 m August 20  Silver women's national water polo team, United StatesUnited States women's national water polo team Elizabeth Armstrong   Heather Petri Patty Cardenas   Jessica Steffens Kami Craig   Moriah van Norman Natalie Golda   Brenda Villa Alison Gregorka   Lauren Wenger Brittany Hayes   Elsie Windes Jaime Hipp Water polo Women's tournament August 21  Silver women's national softball team, United StatesUnited States women's national softball team Monica Abbott   Kelly Kretschman Laura Berg   Lauren Lappin Crystl Bustos   Caitlin Lowe Andrea Duran   Jessica Mendoza Jennie Finch   Stacey Nuveman Tairia Flowers   Cat Osterman Victoria Galindo   Natasha Watley Lovieanne Jung Softball Women's tournament August 21  Silver Felix, AllysonAllyson Felix Track & field Women's 200 m August 21  Silver Lopez, MarkMark Lopez Taekwondo Men's 68 kg August 21  Silver Wariner, JeremyJeremy Wariner Track & field Men's 400 m August 21  Silver Payne, DavidDavid Payne Track & field Men's 110 m hurdles August 21  Silver Day, MikeMike Day Cycling Men's BMX August 22  Silver women's national volleyball team, United StatesUnited States women's national volleyball team Robyn Ah Mow-Santos   Jennifer Joines Lindsey Berg   Ogonna Nnamani Heather Bown   Danielle Scott-Arruda Nicole Davis   Stacy Sykora Kim Glass   Logan Tom Tayyiba Haneef-Park   Kim Willoughby Volleyball Women's tournament August 23  Silver men's national water polo team, United StatesUnited States men's national water polo team Tony Azevedo   Rick Merlo Ryan Bailey   Merrill Moses Layne Beaubien   Jeff Powers Brandon Brooks   Jesse Smith Peter Hudnut   Peter Varellas Tim Hutten   Adam Wright J. W. Krumpholz Water polo Men's tournament August 24  Bronze Turner, JasonJason Turner Shooting Men's 10 m air pistol August 9  Bronze Ward, RebeccaRebecca Ward Fencing Women's sabre August 9  Bronze Lochte, RyanRyan Lochte Swimming Men's 400 m individual medley August 10  Bronze Jensen, LarsenLarsen Jensen Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle August 10  Bronze Hoff, KatieKatie Hoff Swimming Women's 400 m individual medley August 10  Bronze Cogdell, CoreyCorey Cogdell Shooting Women's trap August 11  Bronze Vanderkaay, PeterPeter Vanderkaay Swimming Men's 200 m freestyle August 12  Bronze Hoelzer, MargaretMargaret Hoelzer Swimming Women's 100 m backstroke August 12  Bronze Artemev, AlexanderAlexander Artemev Raj Bhavsar Joe Hagerty Jonathan Horton Justin Spring Kevin Tan Gymnastics Men's artistic team all-around August 12  Bronze Coughlin, NatalieNatalie Coughlin Swimming Women's 200 m individual medley August 13  Bronze Leipheimer, LeviLevi Leipheimer Cycling Men's time trial August 13  Bronze Rousey, RondaRonda Rousey Judo Women's 70 kg August 13  Bronze Lezak, JasonJason Lezak Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle August 14  Bronze Burckle, CarolineCaroline Burckle Natalie Coughlin Katie Hoff Christine Marshall* Allison Schmitt Julia Smit* Kim Vandenberg* Swimming Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay August 14  Bronze Jacobson, SadaSada Jacobson Rebecca Ward Mariel Zagunis Fencing Women's team sabre August 14  Bronze Wheeler, AdamAdam Wheeler Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg August 14  Bronze Lochte, RyanRyan Lochte Swimming Men's 200 m individual medley August 15  Bronze Coughlin, NatalieNatalie Coughlin Swimming Women's 100 m freestyle August 15  Bronze Flanagan, ShalaneShalane Flanagan Track & field Women's 10000 m August 15  Bronze Bryan, BobBob Bryan Mike Bryan Tennis Men's doubles August 16  Bronze Dix, WalterWalter Dix Track & field Men's 100 m August 16  Bronze Miller, RandiRandi Miller Wrestling Women's freestyle 63 kg August 17  Bronze Allen, WyattWyatt Allen Micah Boyd Steven Coppola Beau Hoopman Josh Inman Marcus McElhenney Matt Schnobrich Bryan Volpenhein Daniel Walsh Rowing Men's eight August 17  Bronze Liukin, NastiaNastia Liukin Gymnastics Women's floor August 17  Bronze Jackson, BershawnBershawn Jackson Track & field Men's 400 meter hurdles August 18  Bronze Richards, SanyaSanya Richards Track & field Women's 400 meters August 19  Bronze Dix, WalterWalter Dix Track & field Men's 200 meters August 20  Bronze Lopez, DianaDiana Lopez Taekwondo Women's 57 kg August 21  Bronze Neville, DavidDavid Neville Track & field Men's 400 m August 21  Bronze Oliver, DavidDavid Oliver Track & field Men's 110 m hurdles August 21  Bronze Madden, BeezieBeezie Madden Equestrian Individual jumping August 21  Bronze Kintner, JillJill Kintner Cycling Women's BMX August 22  Bronze Robinson, DonnyDonny Robinson Cycling Men's BMX August 22  Bronze Wilder, DeontayDeontay Wilder Boxing Heavyweight August 22  Bronze López, StevenSteven López Taekwondo Men's 80 kg August 22  Bronze national baseball team, United StatesUnited States national baseball team Brett Anderson   Dexter Fowler   Blaine Neal Jake Arrieta   John Gall   Jayson Nix Brian Barden   Mike Hessman   Nate Schierholtz Matthew Brown   Kevin Jepsen   Jeff Stevens Trevor Cahill   Brandon Knight   Stephen Strasburg Jeremy Cummings   Mike Koplove   Taylor Teagarden Jason Donald   Matthew LaPorta   Terry Tiffee Brian Duensing   Lou Marson   Casey Weathers Baseball Men's tournament August 23

Medals by sport Sport Total Swimming 12 9 10 31 Track & field 7 10 7 24 Volleyball 3 1 0 4 Gymnastics 2 6 2 10 Shooting 2 2 2 6 Basketball 2 0 0 2 Fencing 1 3 2 6 Cycling 1 1 3 5 Equestrian 1 1 1 3 Rowing 1 1 1 3 Sailing 1 1 0 2 Wrestling 1 0 2 3 Tennis 1 0 1 2 Soccer 1 0 0 1 Water polo 0 2 0 2 Taekwondo 0 1 2 3 Softball 0 1 0 1 Baseball 0 0 1 1 Boxing 0 0 1 1 Judo 0 0 1 1 Total 36 38 36 110 Medals by day Day Total August 9 1 1 2 4 August 10 1 1 3 5 August 11 1 2 1 4 August 12 4 3 3 10 August 13 3 1 3 7 August 14 0 1 4 5 August 15 4 4 3 11 August 16 2 4 2 8 August 17 3 5 3 11 August 18 3 3 1 7 August 19 4 2 1 7 August 20 0 2 1 3 August 21 3 6 4 13 August 22 2 1 4 7 August 23 3 1 1 5 August 24 2 1 0 3 Total 36 38 36 110 Medals by gender Gender Total Male 20.5 14 20 54.5 Female 15.5 24 16 55.5 Total 36 38 36 110 Multiple medalists Name Sport Total Michael Phelps Swimming 8 0 0 8 Natalie Coughlin Swimming 1 2 3 6 Nastia Liukin Gymnastics 1 3 1 5 Ryan Lochte Swimming 2 0 2 4 Shawn Johnson Gymnastics 1 3 0 4 Matt Grevers Swimming 2 1 0 3 Aaron Peirsol Swimming 2 1 0 3 Jason Lezak Swimming 2 0 1 3 Rebecca Soni Swimming 1 2 0 3 Dara Torres Swimming 0 3 0 3 Margaret Hoelzer Swimming 0 2 1 3 Katie Hoff Swimming 0 1 2 3 LaShawn Merritt Track & field 2 0 0 2 Angelo Taylor Track & field 2 0 0 2 Garrett Weber-Gale Swimming 2 0 0 2 Kerron Clement Track & field 1 1 0 2 Allyson Felix Track & field 1 1 0 2 Jeremy Wariner Track & field 1 1 0 2 Beezie Madden Equestrian 1 0 1 2 David Neville Track & field 1 0 1 2 Sanya Richards Track & field 1 0 1 2 Peter Vanderkaay Swimming 1 0 1 2 Mariel Zagunis Fencing 1 0 1 2 Kara Lynn Joyce Swimming 0 2 0 2 Christine Magnuson Swimming 0 2 0 2 Jonathan Horton Gymnastics 0 1 1 2 Sada Jacobson Fencing 0 1 1 2 Julia Smit Swimming 0 1 1 2 Walter Dix Track & field 0 0 2 2 Becca Ward Fencing 0 0 2 2

* - Indicates the athlete competed in preliminaries but not the final

Won all medals in one event

• Women's sabre
• Men's 400 m
• Men's 400 m hurdles

Won all gold medals in one sport

• Basketball (2 gold)
• Beach volleyball (2 gold)

Won gold medals in both men's and women's events

• 100 m backstroke
• 4 × 400 meter relay

Archery

The United States men's archery team took sixth place at the 2007 World Outdoor Target Championships, earning the nation a full complement of three qualification spots for the Olympic men's competitions. The women's team finished in eleventh place, not qualifying the team. Jennifer Nichols earned a spot via individual qualification in that tournament.^[14] Karen Scavotto earned the United States another women's spot by finishing second in the Pan American championship.^[15]

The United States announced its Olympic team on May 5, 2008, following a national selection tournament.^[16] The women's roster included 2004 Olympian Jennifer Nichols and three-time Olympian Khatuna Lorig, who previously represented the Unified Team (1992) and Georgia (1996 and 2000) at the Olympics.^[17] On the men's side, first-time Olympian Brady Ellison joined four-time Olympian Butch Johnson and two-time Olympian Vic Wunderle.

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Brady Ellison	Individual	664	15	Burnes (CAN) (50) W 111–89	Lyon (CAN) (47) L 107–113	Did not advance
Butch Johnson		653	40	Abramov (RUS) (25) W 109 (26)–109 (25)	Im D-H (KOR) (8) L 106–115	Did not advance
Vic Wunderle		652	41	Vélez (MEX) (24) W 106–102	di Buò (ITA) (9) W 108 (19)–108 (17)	Im D-H (KOR) (8) W 113–111	Serrano (MEX) (1) L 106–113	Did not advance
Brady Ellison Butch Johnson Vic Wunderle	Team	1969	10	N/A		Chinese Taipei (TPE) (7) L 218–222	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Khatuna Lorig	Individual	635	26	Arnold (FRA) (39) W 107–105	Williamson (GBR) (7) W 112–109	Rendón (COL) (10) W 107–95	Yun O-H (KOR) (2) L 105–111	Did not advance
Jennifer Nichols		637	24	Rochmawati (INA) (41) W 114–101	Hayakawa (JPN) (9) L 103–105	Did not advance

Athletics (track and field)

American David Neville dives for the bronze medal as Jeremy Wariner takes second place behind LaShawn Merritt, completing a sweep of the 400 m final.

The 2008 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials were held in Eugene, Oregon, at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field from June 27 through July 6, 2008.^[18] Hayward Field had previously hosted the U.S. Olympic Trials in 1972, 1976 and 1980.

Key

• Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
• NR = National record
• N/A = Round not applicable for the event
• Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Walter Dix[19]	100 m	10.35	3 Q	10.08	2 Q	9.95	2 Q	9.91
Tyson Gay[19]		10.22	1 Q	10.09	2 Q	10.05	5	Did not advance
Darvis Patton[19]		10.25	2 Q	10.04	2 Q	10.03	4 Q	10.03	8
Shawn Crawford[19]	200 m	20.61	1 Q	20.42	2 Q	20.12	2 Q	19.96
Walter Dix[19]		20.77	2 Q	20.27	2 Q	20.19	3 Q	19.98
Wallace Spearmon[19]		20.46	1 Q	20.39	2 Q	20.14	3 Q	DSQ
LaShawn Merritt[19]	400 m	44.96	1 Q	N/A		44.12	1 Q	43.75
David Neville[19]		45.22	2 Q	N/A		44.91	2 Q	44.80
Jeremy Wariner[19]		45.23	1 Q	N/A		44.15	1 Q	44.74
Christian Smith[20]	800 m	1:48.20	4	N/A		Did not advance
Nick Symmonds[20]		1:46.01	1 Q	N/A		1:46.96	5	Did not advance
Andrew Wheating[20]		1:47.05	4	N/A		Did not advance
Leonel Manzano[21]	1500 m	3:36.67	1 Q	N/A		3:50.33	12	Did not advance
Bernard Lagat[21]		3:41.98	4 Q	N/A		3:37.79	6	Did not advance
Lopez Lomong[21]		3:36.70	5 Q	N/A		3:41.00	12	Did not advance
Ian Dobson[22]	5000 m	14:05.47	9	N/A				Did not advance
Bernard Lagat[22]		13:39.70	1 Q	N/A				13:26.89	9
Matt Tegenkamp[22]		13:37.36	1 Q	N/A				13:33.13	13
Abdi Abdirahman[22]	10000 m	N/A						27:52.53	15
Galen Rupp[22]		N/A						27:36.99	13
Jorge Torres[22]		N/A						28:13.93	25
David Oliver[23]	110 m hurdles	13.30	1 Q	13.16	1 Q	13.31	1 Q	13.18
David Payne[23]		13.42	1 Q	13.24	1 Q	13.21	2 Q	13.17
Terrence Trammell[23]		DNF		Did not advance
Kerron Clement[24]	400 m hurdles	49.42	1 Q	N/A		48.27	1 Q	47.98
Bershawn Jackson[24]		49.20	1 Q	N/A		48.02	2 Q	48.06
Angelo Taylor[24]		48.67	1 Q	N/A		47.94	1 Q	47.25
Anthony Famiglietti[25]	3000 m steeplechase	8:17.34	3 Q	N/A				8:31.21	13
Joshua McAdams[25]		8:33.26	9	N/A				Did not advance
William Nelson[25]		8:36.66	11	N/A				Did not advance
Walter Dix Leroy Dixon Tyson Gay Rodney Martin Travis Padgett Darvis Patton	4 × 100 m relay[26]	DNF		N/A				Did not advance
Kerron Clement* LaShawn Merritt David Neville Jeremy Wariner Angelo Taylor Reggie Witherspoon*	4 × 400 m relay[26]	2:59.98	1 Q	N/A				2:55.39 OR
Ryan Hall[27]	Marathon	N/A						2:12:33	10
Dathan Ritzenhein[27]		N/A						2:11:59	9
Brian Sell[27]		N/A						2:16:07	22
Kevin Eastler[28]	20 km walk	N/A						1:28:44	43
Philip Dunn[28]	50 km walk	N/A						4:08:32	39

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Brian Johnson[29]	Long jump	7.79	22	Did not advance
Miguel Pate[29]		7.34	38	Did not advance
Trevell Quinley[29]		7.87	19	Did not advance
Kenta Bell[30]	Triple jump	16.55	25	Did not advance
Rafeeq Curry[30]		16.88	19	Did not advance
Aarik Wilson[30]		15.97	33	Did not advance
Dusty Jonas[31]	High jump	2.20	=26	Did not advance
Andra Manson[31]		2.25	13	Did not advance
Jesse Williams[31]		2.25	=19	Did not advance
Jeff Hartwig[32]	Pole vault	5.55	=20	Did not advance
Derek Miles[32]		5.65	=9 q	5.70	4
Brad Walker[32]		NM	—	Did not advance
Christian Cantwell[28]	Shot put	20.48	4 Q	21.09
Reese Hoffa[28]		20.41	6 Q	20.53	6
Adam Nelson[28]		20.56	2 Q	NM	—
Casey Malone[33]	Discus throw	61.26	19	Did not advance
Michael Robertson[33]		61.64	16	Did not advance
Ian Waltz[33]		60.02	25	Did not advance
Breaux Greer[34]	Javelin throw	73.68	22	Did not advance
Mike Hazle[34]		72.75	25	Did not advance
Leigh Smith[34]		76.55	18	Did not advance
AG Kruger[35]	Hammer throw	71.21	27	Did not advance

Combined events – Decathlon

Athlete	Event	100 m	LJ	SP	HJ	400 m	110H	DT	PV	JT	1500 m	Final	Rank
Bryan Clay[36]	Result	10.44	7.78	16.27	1.99	48.92	13.94	53.79	5.00	70.97	5:06.59	8791
	Points	989	1005	868	794	865	984	950	910	904	522
Trey Hardee[36]	Result	10.52	7.72	13.49	2.05	47.75	14.20	44.35	NM	DNS	—	DNF
	Points	970	990	697	850	921	949	737	0	0	—
Tom Pappas[36]	Result	11.12	7.41	DNS	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	DNF
	Points	834	913	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

American Allyson Felix crosses the finish line for a first-place finish in the second 200 m semifinal.

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Torri Edwards[19]	100 m	11.26	1 Q	11.31	1 Q	11.18	2 Q	11.20	8
Muna Lee[19]		11.33	1 Q	11.08	2 Q	11.06	2 Q	11.07	5
Lauryn Williams[19]		11.38	2 Q	11.07	2 Q	11.10	3 Q	11.03	4
Allyson Felix[19]	200 m	23.02	1 Q	22.74	2 Q	22.33	1 Q	21.93
Marshevet Hooker[19]		23.07	1 Q	22.76	3 Q	22.50	2 Q	22.34	5
Muna Lee[19]		22.71	1 Q	22.83	2 Q	22.29	3 Q	22.01	4
Sanya Richards[19]	400 m	50.54	1 Q	N/A		49.90	1 Q	49.93
DeeDee Trotter[19]		51.41	4 Q	N/A		51.87	7	Did not advance
Mary Wineberg[19]		51.46	2 Q	N/A		51.13	5	Did not advance
Hazel Clark[20]	800 m	2:01.59	5	N/A		Did not advance
Alice Schmidt[20]		2:02.33	6	N/A		Did not advance
Nicole Teter[20]		DNF		N/A		Did not advance
Erin Donohue[21]	1500 m	4:16.05	8	N/A				Did not advance
Shannon Rowbury[21]		4:03.89	4 Q	N/A				4:03.58	7
Christin Wurth-Thomas[21]		4:09.70	8	N/A				Did not advance
Shalane Flanagan[22]	5000 m	14:59.69	6 Q	N/A				15:50.80	10
Kara Goucher[22]		15:00.98	7 Q	N/A				15:49.39	9
Jennifer Rhines[22]		15:15.12	6 Q	N/A				16:34.63	14
Amy Yoder Begley[22]	10000 m	N/A						32:38.28	26
Shalane Flanagan[22]		N/A						30:22.22
Kara Goucher[22]		N/A						30:55.16	10
Damu Cherry[37]	100 m hurdles	12.92	3 Q	N/A		12.62	1 Q	12.65	4
Dawn Harper[37]		12.73	2 Q	N/A		12.66	2 Q	12.54
Lolo Jones[37]		12.71	1 Q	N/A		12.43	1 Q	12.72	7
Queen Harrison[24]	400 m hurdles	55.96	4 Q	N/A		55.88	7	Did not advance
Sheena Tosta[24]		56.12	5 Q	N/A		54.07	1 Q	53.70
Tiffany Williams[24]		55.51	1 Q	N/A		54.99	3 Q	57.55	8
Lindsey Anderson[25]	3000 m steeplechase	9:36.81	8	N/A				Did not advance
Jennifer Barringer[25]		9:29.20	3 Q	N/A				9:22.26	9
Anna Willard[25]		9:28.52	6 Q	N/A				9:25.63	10
Torri Edwards Muna Lee Mechelle Lewis LaShauntea Moore Angela Williams Lauryn Williams	4 × 100 m relay[26]	DSQ		N/A				Did not advance
Allyson Felix Natasha Hastings Monique Henderson Sanya Richards Mary Wineberg	4 × 400 m relay[26]	3:33.45	1 Q	N/A				3:18.54
Deena Kastor[27]	Marathon	N/A						DNF
Magdalena Lewy Boulet[27]		N/A						DNF
Blake Russell[27]		N/A						2:33:13	27
Joanne Dow[28]	20 km walk	N/A						1:34.15	31

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Funmi Jimoh[29]	Long jump	6.61	=9 q	6.29	12
Brittney Reese[29]		6.87	1 Q	6.76	5
Grace Upshaw[29]		6.68	6 Q	6.58	8
Shani Marks[30]	Triple jump	13.44	28	Did not advance
Erica McLain[30]		13.52	26	Did not advance
Amy Acuff[31]	High jump	1.89	=19	Did not advance
Sharon Day[31]		1.85	=24	Did not advance
Chaunte Howard[31]		1.93	=8 q	1.99	6
Erica Bartolina[32]	Pole vault	NM	—	Did not advance
April Steiner Bennett[32]		4.50	=6 q	4.55	8
Jennifer Stuczynski[32]		4.50	=2 q	4.80
Jillian Camarena[28]	Shot put	18.51	12 Q	18.24	12
Michelle Carter[28]		18.49	13 Q	17.74	15
Kristin Heaston[28]		17.34	23	Did not advance
Suzy Powell-Roos[33]	Discus throw	58.02	26	Did not advance
Aretha Thurmond[33]		61.90	6 Q	59.80	10
Stephanie Brown Trafton[33]		62.77	1 Q	64.74
Kim Kreiner[34]	Javelin throw	55.13	38	Did not advance
Kara Patterson[34]		54.39	41	Did not advance
Amber Campbell[35]	Hammer throw	67.86	21	Did not advance
Jessica Cosby[35]		NM	—	Did not advance
Loree Smith[35]		63.60	39	Did not advance

Combined events – Heptathlon

Athlete	Event	100H	HJ	SP	200 m	LJ	JT	800 m	Final	Rank
Hyleas Fountain[38]	Result	12.78	1.89	13.36	23.21	6.38	41.93	2:15.45	6619	*
	Points	1158	1093	751	1058	1058	704	886
Jacquelyn Johnson[38]	Result	13.22	1.77	11.82	24.74	5.88	DNS	—	DNF
	Points	1091	941	649	911	911	0	—
Diana Pickler[38]	Result	14.28	DNS	—	—	—	—	—	DNF
	Points	939	0	—	—	—	—	—

* The athlete who finished in second place, Lyudmila Blonska of the Ukraine, tested positive for a banned substance.^[39] On August 22, Blonska was stripped of her medal and Hyleas Fountain was upgraded to silver.

Badminton

The United States was represented in four out of the five badminton events: men's singles, men's doubles, women's singles and women's doubles. The U.S. had qualified a mixed doubles team, but the Badminton World Federation rescinded the slot.^[40] No American has ever medaled in badminton since it became an Olympic sport in 1992, although Howard Bach and Bob Malaythong became the first Americans to reach the quarter-finals.^[41]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Raju Rai	Men's singles	BYE	Lång (FIN) L 9–21, 16–21	Did not advance
Howard Bach Bob Malaythong	Men's doubles	N/A		C Dednam / R Dednam (RSA) W 21–10, 21–16	Cai Y / Fu Hf (CHN) L 9–21, 10–21	Did not advance
Eva Lee	Women's singles	Rice (CAN) L 15–21, 21–19, 19–21	Did not advance
Eva Lee Mesinee Mangkalakiri	Women's doubles	N/A		Jiang Ym / Li Yj (SIN) L 12–21, 12–21	Did not advance

Baseball

The United States earned a qualification spot in baseball by placing in the top two at the 2006 Americas Olympic Qualifying Event.^[42] This marked the return of the United States national baseball team to the Olympics after not qualifying in 2004; the United States had appeared in all three of the official baseball tournaments, and nearly all of the exhibition and demonstration events, before then.^[43][44] The American team sought its second gold medal in the sport, but finished winning the bronze.^[43]

Team roster and tournament statistics

USA Baseball named its Olympic roster on July 16, 2008.^[43] The Olympic team was made up of anyone not on an Major League Baseball 25-man roster at the time of the tournament.

Manager: Davey Johnson, Bob Watson (General Manager)

Coaches: Marcel Lachemann – Pitching Coach, Reggie Smith – Hitting Coach, Rick Eckstein – 3rd Base Coach, Dick Cooke – Auxiliary Coach, Rolando de Armas – Auxiliary Coach.

Batting

№	Player	Pos	GP	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	TB	BB	SO	SB	OBP	SLG	BA
2	Donald, JasonJason Donald	SS	8	21	4	8	1	5	12	5	3	1	.536	.571	.381
3	Nix, JaysonJayson Nix	2B	3	14	3	3	1	1	7	1	4	0	.267	.500	.214
6	Marson, LouLou Marson	C	5	13	3	4	0	0	4	3	3	0	.438	.308	.308
7	Gall, JohnJohn Gall	LF	8	33	5	8	1	5	15	2	7	0	.286	.455	.242
10	Hessman, MikeMike Hessman	3B	5	22	2	2	1	1	5	0	11	0	.091	.227	.091
14	Schierholtz, NateNate Schierholtz	CF	9	37	7	8	1	6	15	2	9	0	.275	.405	.216
17	Brown, MatthewMatthew Brown	1B	9	32	4	9	2	10	18	6	8	2	.390	.563	.281
18	Barden, BrianBrian Barden	SS	9	34	8	9	1	5	15	4	9	1	.342	.441	.265
19	Teagarden, TaylorTaylor Teagarden	C	5	16	2	3	0	4	5	4	8	0	.381	.313	.188
24	Fowler, DexterDexter Fowler	PR	9	28	5	7	0	2	12	2	4	0	.300	.429	.250
26	Tiffee, TerryTerry Tiffee	DH	9	37	4	12	0	5	18	2	6	0	.341	.486	.324
44	LaPorta, MatthewMatthew LaPorta	RF	6	19	3	3	2	4	9	3	8	0	.333	.474	.158
Team totals			9	306	50	76	10	48	135	34	80	4	.333	.441	.248

Pos – Position; GP – Games Played; AB – At Bat; R – Runs; H – Hits; HR – Home Runs; RBI – Runs Batted In; TB – Total Bases; BB – Base On Balls; SO – Strikeouts; SB – Stolen Bases; OBP – On-Base Percentage; SLG – Slugging Percentage; BA – Batting Average

Pitching

№	Player	GP	GS	W	L	SV	IP	H	R	HR	SO	BB	ERA
15	Knight, BrandonBrandon Knight	2	2	1	0	0	10.2	13	8	2	7	4	6.75
21	Koplove, MikeMike Koplove	4	0	0	0	0	5.1	0	0	0	6	1	0.00
29	Strasburg, StephenStephen Strasburg	2	2	1	1	0	11	7	3	1	16	1	1.64
30	Cahill, TrevorTrevor Cahill	2	2	0	0	0	8	6	2	0	5	5	2.25
34	Arrieta, JakeJake Arrieta	1	1	1	0	0	6	2	0	0	7	2	0.00
35	Weathers, CaseyCasey Weathers	3	0	0	0	1	3	3	2	0	5	1	0.00
37	Stevens, JeffJeff Stevens	4	0	1	2	0	4	6	7	1	2	1	9.00
39	Jepsen, KevinKevin Jepsen	4	0	0	0	1	5.2	3	0	0	5	2	0.00
40	Anderson, BrettBrett Anderson	2	2	1	0	0	12.2	13	8	2	10	3	4.98
45	Duensing, BrianBrian Duensing	4	0	1	0	0	7.2	3	1	1	5	2	1.17
47	Cummings, JeremyJeremy Cummings	2	0	0	0	0	5	3	1	1	2	0	1.80
49	Neal, BlaineBlaine Neal	3	0	0	0	0	3.2	5	4	2	2	0	7.38
Team totals		9	9	6	3	2	82.2	64	36	10	72	22	3.05

GP – Games Played; GS – Games Started; W – Wins; L – Losses; SV – Saves; IP – Innings Pitched; H – Hits; R – Runs; HR – Home Runs; SO – Strikeouts; BB – Base On Balls; ERA – Earned Run Average

Group stage

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
United States	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	3	7	12	1
South Korea	0	2	1	0	3	0	0	0	2	8	9	1
WP: Suk Min Yoon (1–0)   LP: Jeff Stevens (0–1) Home runs: USA: Nate Schierholtz (1), Mike Hessman (1) KOR: Dae-Ho Lee (1)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
United States	0	1	0	4	0	0	1	1	-	7	10	0
Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	0	1	0
WP: Stephen Strasburg (1–0)   LP: Shairon Martis (0–1) Home runs: USA: Matt Brown (1), Matt Laporta (1) NED: None

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E
Cuba	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	5	10	0
United States	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	6	0
WP: Pedro Luis Lazo (1–0)   LP: Jeff Stevens (0–2) Home runs: CUB: Alfredo Despaigne (2) USA: Jayson Nix (1)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Canada	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	10	1
United States	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	5	9	1
WP: Brian Duensing (1–0)   LP: Chris Reitsma (0–1) Home runs: CAN: None USA: Brian Barden (1)

China vs USA baseball on August 18, 2008.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
China	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	1
United States	1	0	0	0	3	1	4	0	X	9	9	0
WP: Jake Arrieta (1–0)   LP: Chenhao Li (0–1) Home runs: CHN: Yang Yang (1) USA: None

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	5	0
United States	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	X	4	10	2
WP: Brandon Knight (1–0)   LP: Wen-Hsiung Hsu (0–1)   Sv: Kevin Jepsen (1) Home runs: TPE: Chih-Sheng Lin (1) USA: John Gall (1)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E
United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	5	0
Japan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	5	0
WP: Jeff Stevens (1–2)   LP: Hitoki Iwase (0–2)   Sv: Casey Weathers (1)

Preliminary round summary

The top four teams advanced to the semifinal round.

Team	G	W	L	RS	RA	WIN%	GB	Tiebreaker
South Korea	7	7	0	41	22	1.000	-	-
Cuba	7	6	1	52	23	.857	1	-
United States	7	5	2	40	22	.714	2	-
Japan	7	4	3	30	14	.571	3	-
Chinese Taipei	7	2	5	29	33	.286	5	1–0
Canada	7	2	5	29	20	.286	5	0–1
Netherlands	7	1	6	9	50	.143	6	1–0
China	7	1	6	14	60	.143	6	0–1

Semifinal

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
United States	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	6	2
Cuba	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	6	X	10	14	2
WP: Norge Luis Vera (2–0)   LP: Stephen Strasburg (1–1)   Sv: Pedro Luis Lazo (2) Home runs: USA: None CUB: Alfredo Despaigne (3), Frederich Cepeda (2), Alexei Bell (1), Ariel Pestano (2)

Bronze medal match

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Japan	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	6	1
United States	0	1	3	0	4	0	0	0	X	8	9	0
WP: Brett Anderson (1–0)   LP: Kenshin Kawakami (0–1) Home runs: JPN: Masahiro Araki (1), Norichika Aoki (1) USA: Matt LaPorta (2), Matt Brown (2), Jason Donald (1)

Final rank

 Bronze

Basketball

The United States earned qualification spots for both men's and women's basketball by winning the FIBA Americas Championship 2007 and the FIBA Americas Championship for Women 2007.^[45]

The women's team successfully defended their 2004 Olympic championship against Australia in the gold medal game for the third consecutive Olympics. The victory allowed Lisa Leslie to join former teammate Teresa Edwards as the only basketball players to win four Olympic gold medals.^[46] After a disappointing third-place finish in Athens, the men's team adopted the name "Redeem Team."^[47] In the gold medal match, they beat 2006 FIBA World Champion Spain to give the U.S. its first gold medal in men's international competition in eight years.^[48]

Men's tournament

Roster

The following is the United States roster in the men's basketball tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[49]

United States men's national basketball team – 2008 Summer Olympics roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Name Age – Date of birth Ht. Club Ctr. PF 4 Boozer, Carlos 26 – November 20, 1981 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) Utah Jazz PG 5 Kidd, Jason 35 – March 23, 1973 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) Dallas Mavericks SF 6 James, LeBron 23 – December 30, 1984 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) Cleveland Cavaliers PG 7 Williams, Deron 24 – March 24, 1984 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Utah Jazz SG 8 Redd, Michael 28 – August 24, 1979 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) Milwaukee Bucks SG 9 Wade, Dwyane 26 – January 17, 1982 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) Miami Heat SG 10 Bryant, Kobe (C) 29 – August 23, 1978 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) Los Angeles Lakers C 11 Howard, Dwight 22 – December 8, 1985 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) Orlando Magic PF 12 Bosh, Chris 24 – March 24, 1984 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) Toronto Raptors PG 13 Paul, Chris 23 – May 6, 1985 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) New Orleans Hornets SF 14 Prince, Tayshaun 28 – February 28, 1980 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) Detroit Pistons SF 15 Anthony, Carmelo 24 – May 29, 1984 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) Denver Nuggets	Head coach Mike Krzyzewski Assistant coach(es) Jim Boeheim Nate McMillan Mike D'Antoni Legend (C) Team captain Club – describes last club before the tournament Age – describes age on August 9, 2008

Group play

Qualified for the quarterfinals

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
United States	5	5	0	515	354	+161	10
Spain	5	4	1	418	369	+49	9
Greece	5	3	2	415	375	+40	8
China	5	2	3	366	400	−34	7
Germany	5	1	4	330	390	−60	6
Angola	5	0	5	321	477	−156	5

August 10, 2008 22:15

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United States	101–70	China
Scoring by quarter: 20–16, 29–21, 25–11, 27–22
Pts: Wade 19 Rebs: Bosh 8 Asts: Paul 6		Pts: Yao 13 Rebs: Yao 10 Asts: Chen, Liu, Zhu, Sun 2

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Carl Jungebrand (FIN)

August 12, 2008 20:00

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Angola	76–97	United States
Scoring by quarter: 18–29, 19–26, 16–26, 23–16
Pts: Morais 24 Rebs: Gomes 8 Asts: Costa, Ambrosio 2		Pts: Wade 19 Rebs: Anthony 6 Asts: James 5

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Pablo Estévez (ARG)

August 14, 2008 20:00

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United States	92–69	Greece
Scoring by quarter: 20–16, 31–16, 23–22, 18–15
Pts: Bryant, Bosh 18 Rebs: James, Howard, Anthony 6 Asts: James 6		Pts: Papaloukas 15 Rebs: Fotsis, Papaloukas 8 Asts: Diamantidis 3

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Romualdas Brazauskas (LTU)

August 16, 2008 22:15

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Spain	82–119	United States
Scoring by quarter: 22–31, 23–30, 18–25, 19–33
Pts: Reyes 19 Rebs: Reyes 8 Asts: Fernández, Rubio 3		Pts: James 18 Rebs: Bosh 7 Asts: James, Paul 8

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Romualdas Brazauskas (LTU)

August 18, 2008 20:00

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United States	106–57	Germany
Scoring by quarter: 31–12, 22–17, 30–17, 23–11
Pts: Howard 22 Rebs: Howard 10 Asts: Williams 5		Pts: Nowitzki 14 Rebs: Nowitzki 8 Asts: Hamann, Jagla 2

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Juan Carlos Arteaga (ESP)

Quarterfinals

August 20, 2008 20:00

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United States	116–85	Australia
Scoring by quarter: 25–24, 30–19, 34–18, 27–24
Scoring by half: 55–43, 61–42
Pts: Bryant 25 Rebs: James 9 Asts: James, Paul, Wade, Williams 3		Pts: Mills 20 Rebs: Worthington 6 Asts: Newley 3

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Juan Carlos Arteaga (ESP)

Semifinals

August 22, 2008 22:00

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Argentina	81–101	United States
Scoring by quarter: 11–30, 29–19, 24–29, 17–23
Scoring by half: 40–49, 41–52
Pts: Scola 28 Rebs: Scola 11 Asts: Prigioni 3		Pts: Anthony 21 Rebs: Bosh 10 Asts: Kidd 7

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Luigi Lamonica (ITA)

Gold medal match

August 24, 2008 14:00

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Spain	107–118	United States
Scoring by quarter: 31–38, 30–31, 21–22, 25–27
Scoring by half: 61–69, 46–49
Pts: Fernández 22 Rebs: Reyes 7 Asts: Navarro 4		Pts: Wade 27 Rebs: Bosh 7 Asts: Bryant 6

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Romualdas Brazauskas (LTU), Pablo Estévez (ARG), Carl Jungebrand (FIN)

Women's tournament

Roster

The following is the United States roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[50]

United States women's national basketball team – 2008 Summer Olympics roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Name Age – Date of birth Ht. Club Ctr. F 5 Augustus, Seimone 24 – April 30, 1984 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Minnesota Lynx G 6 Bird, Sue 27 – October 16, 1980 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Seattle Storm F 10 Catchings, Tamika 29 – July 21, 1979 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Indiana Fever C 13 Fowles, Sylvia 23 – June 10, 1985 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) Chicago Sky G 7 Lawson, Kara 27 – February 14, 1981 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Sacramento Monarchs C 9 Leslie, Lisa 36 – July 7, 1972 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) Los Angeles Sparks F 8 Milton-Jones, DeLisha 33 – September 11, 1974 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Los Angeles Sparks G/F 15 Parker, Candace 22 – April 19, 1986 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) Los Angeles Sparks G 4 Pondexter, Cappie 25 – January 7, 1983 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Phoenix Mercury G 14 Smith, Katie 34 – June 4, 1974 5 ft 11 in (1.8 m) Detroit Shock G/F 12 Taurasi, Diana 26 – June 11, 1982 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Phoenix Mercury F 11 Thompson, Tina 33 – February 10, 1975 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Houston Comets	Head coach Anne Donovan Assistant coach(es) Gail Goestenkors Dawn Staley Mike Thibault Legend (C) Team captain Club – describes last club before the tournament Age – describes age on August 9, 2008

Group play

Qualified for the quarterfinals

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
United States	5	5	0	491	276	+215	10
China	5	4	1	358	346	+12	9
Spain	5	3	2	357	324	+33	8
Czech Republic	5	2	3	346	356	−10	7
New Zealand	5	1	4	320	423	−103	6
Mali	5	0	5	255	402	−147	5

August 9, 2008 20:00

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Czech Republic	57–97	United States
Scoring by quarter: 17–22, 14–27, 13–26, 13–22
Pts: Veselá 8 Rebs: Veselá 9 Asts: Machová 4		Pts: Pondexter 12 Rebs: Fowles 14 Asts: Lawson 3

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Michael Aylen (AUS)

August 11, 2008 20:00

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China	63–108	United States
Scoring by quarter: 11–33, 16–28, 19–20, 17–27
Pts: Miao 16 Rebs: Bian, Liu, Sui 4 Asts: Miao, Shao 3		Pts: Thompson 27 Rebs: Leslie 10 Asts: Lawson, Pondexter 5

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Romualdas Brazauskas (LTU)

August 13, 2008 22:15

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Mali	41–97	United States
Scoring by quarter: 12–24, 16–27, 5–25, 9–21
Pts: Sininta 13 Rebs: Sissoko 7 Asts: Bagayoko 3		Pts: Leslie 16 Rebs: Fowles 6 Asts: Lawson 7

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Maogong Yang (CHN)

August 15, 2008 20:00

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United States	93–55	Spain
Scoring by quarter: 22–17, 17–17, 23–10, 31–11
Pts: Thompson 17 Rebs: Leslie 11 Asts: Lawson, Leslie, Parker 2		Pts: Valdemoro 17 Rebs: Nicholls 5 Asts: Martinez 2

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Fabio Facchini (ITA)

August 17, 2008 22:15

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New Zealand	60–96	United States
Scoring by quarter: 18–23, 6–27, 18–25, 18–21
Pts: Marino 17 Rebs: Harmon 7 Asts: Marino 17		Pts: Thompson 15 Rebs: Leslie, Fowles 6 Asts: Taurasi 5

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Luigi Lamonica (ITA)

Quarterfinals

August 19, 2008 20:00

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United States	104–60	South Korea
Scoring by quarter: 25–21, 26–9, 26–9, 27–21
Pts: Fowles 26 Rebs: Fowles 14 Asts: Augustus 3		Pts: Kim 14 Rebs: Kim 5 Asts: Park 7

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Stephen Seibel (USA)

Semifinals

August 21, 2008 20:00

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Russia	52–67	United States
Scoring by quarter: 16–13, 16–20, 8–15, 12–19
Pts: Stepanova 14 Rebs: Korstin 8 Asts: Six-way tie 1		Pts: Taurasi 21 Rebs: Fowles 10 Asts: Smith 3

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Cristiano Maranho (BRA)

Gold medal match

August 23, 2008 22:00

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United States	92–65	Australia
Scoring by quarter: 22–15, 25–15, 22–24, 23–11
Pts: Lawson 15 Rebs: Leslie 7 Asts: Thompson 4		Pts: Jackson 20 Rebs: Jackson 10 Asts: Grima 2

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Nikolaos Zavlanos (GRE)

Boxing

The United States qualified nine boxers for the Olympic boxing tournament. Five boxers (Yanez, Warren, Russell, Williams and Andrade) earned their spots at the 2007 World Championships.^[51] Ali, Molina and Wilder qualified at the first American qualifying tournament.^[52] Estrada was the last American boxer to qualify, doing so at the second American tournament.^[53] The United States did not qualify in light heavyweight or super heavyweight classes.

The U.S. boxing team suffered several early setbacks from which it never recovered. Alternate Boyd Melson withdrew with an injury.^[54] Before they arrived in Beijing, U.S. boxers were reportedly unhappy with training methods, coaching, and travel restrictions.^[55] On August 8, 2008, two-time national champion and bantamweight boxer Gary Russell Jr. forcibly withdrew from the Olympics after collapsing before his weigh-in.^[56] Under International Amateur Boxing Federation rules, the U.S. was not permitted to select another boxer to take his place. Reigning flyweight world champion Raushee Warren, America's best hope for gold, lost his opening bout to Lee Ok-Sung of South Korea.^[57] In the end, the U.S. left Beijing with one bronze won by Deontay Wilder, its worst performance in Olympic history.^[58] The U.S. had previously won a single silver in 1948 and no medals in 1908 and 1980, when it did not send a boxing team. On September 5, 2008, Dan Campbell, the national director of coaching for USA Boxing, resigned.^[55]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Luis Yáñez	Light flyweight	de la Nieve (ESP) W 12–9	Serdamba (MGL) L 7–8	Did not advance
Raushee Warren	Flyweight	Lee O-S (KOR) L 8–9	Did not advance
Raynell Williams	Featherweight	di Savino (ITA) W 9–1	Djelkhir (FRA) L 7–9	Did not advance
Sadam Ali	Lightweight	Popescu (ROU) L 5–20	Did not advance
Javier Molina	Light welterweight	Georgiev (BUL) L 1–14	Did not advance
Demetrius Andrade	Welterweight	Jvania (GEO) W 11–9	Balanov (RUS) W 14–3	Kim J-J (KOR) L 9–11	Did not advance
Shawn Estrada	Middleweight	Maderna (ARG) W 10–2	DeGale (GBR) L 5–11	Did not advance
Deontay Wilder	Heavyweight	N/A	Touilbini (ALG) W 10–4	Arjaoui (MAR) W 10^+–10	Russo (ITA) L 1–7	Did not advance

Canoeing

Slalom

The Augsburg World Cup event on July 6 served as the final selection event for the Canoe-Kayak Slalom team. The United States qualified in all four slalom events and sent five people to compete in the slalom races.^[59]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary						Semifinal		Final
		Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Total	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Total	Rank
Benn Fraker	Men's C-1	91.97	11	87.47	8	179.44	10 Q	92.27	8 Q	90.87	5	183.14	6
Scott Parsons	Men's K-1	84.91	3	135.63	20	220.54	20	Did not advance
Casey Eichfeld Rick Powell	Men's C-2	101.69	10	151.65	11	253.34	11	Did not advance
Heather Corrie	Women's K-1	105.78	12	105.53	13	211.31	10 Q	114.51	8 Q	156.37	8	270.88	8

Sprint

The United States qualified in three out of twelve flatwater events and sent two people – one man and one woman – to compete in the flatwater sprint events at the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[60] The U.S. has not medaled in Olympic flatwater canoe and kayak racing since 1992.^[61]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rami Zur	Men's K-1 500 m	1:39.037	3 QS	1:47.163	6	Did not advance
	Men's K-1 1000m	3:38.693	7 QS	3:46.204	7	Did not advance
Carrie Johnson	Women's K-1 500 m	1:50.221	4 QS	1:53.721	4	Did not advance

Qualification Legend: QS = Qualify to semi-final; QF = Qualify directly to final

Cycling

Most of the United States’ cycling squad was announced on July 1, 2008. The team sent competitors in all four disciplines – BMX, mountain biking, road racing and track racing.^[62] The final three members of the team were announced on July 10.^[63]

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
George Hincapie	Road race	6:26:25	40
Levi Leipheimer		6:24:09	11
Jason McCartney		DNF
Christian Vande Velde		6:24:19	17
David Zabriskie		DNF
Levi Leipheimer	Time trial	1:03:21
David Zabriskie		1:05:18	12

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kristin Armstrong	Road race	3:33:07	25
Amber Neben		3:33:17	33
Christine Thorburn		3:41:08	52
Kristin Armstrong	Time trial	34:51.72
Christine Thorburn		35:54.16	5

Track

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Round 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Michael Blatchford	Men's sprint	10.470 68.767	15 Q	Sireau (FRA) L	Watanabe (JPN)  Zhang L (CHN) L	Did not advance
Michael Blatchford Adam Duvendeck Giddeon Massie	Men's team sprint	45.346 59.542	8 Q	Great Britain (GBR) L 45.423 59.441	N/A				Did not advance	8
Jennie Reed	Women's sprint	11.400 63.157	8 Q	Krupeckaitė (LTU) W 11.955 60.225	BYE	N/A	Kanis (NED) L	Did not advance	5th place final  Sanchez (FRA)  Tsylinskaya (BLR)  Krupeckaitė (LTU) L	7

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Opponent Results	Rank	Opponent Results	Rank
Taylor Phinney	Men's individual pursuit	4:22.860	7 Q	Roulston (NZL) 4:26.644	8	Did not advance
Sarah Hammer	Women's individual pursuit	3:35.471	5 Q	Shanks (NZL) 3:34.237	5	Did not advance

Keirin

Athlete	Event	1st round	Repechage	2nd round	Finals
		Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank
Giddeon Massie	Men's keirin	3 R	4	Did not advance

Omnium

Athlete	Event	Points	Laps	Rank
Bobby Lea	Men's points race	−20	−1	22
Sarah Hammer	Women's points race	Did not finish
Michael Friedman Bobby Lea	Men's madison	3	−4	16

Mountain biking

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Adam Craig	Men's cross-country	LAP (1 lap)	29
Todd Wells		LAP (3 laps)	43
Georgia Gould	Women's cross-country	1:50:51	8
Mary McConneloug		1:50:34	7

BMX

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Result	Rank
Kyle Bennett	Men's BMX	36.421	12	14	4 Q	14	6	Did not advance
Mike Day		35.692	1	3	1 Q	5	1 Q	36.606
Donny Robinson		36.810	24	11	3 Q	10	3 Q	36.972
Jill Kintner	Women's BMX	37.913	7	N/A		9	2 Q	38.647

Diving

The United States finalized its nomination process for the Olympic diving squad on July 7, 2008.^[64] For the first time since 1996, the U.S. diving team qualified for all individual and synchronized events. It became a major power in the Olympics from 1904 to 2000, winning 47 of 90 gold medals, but left out of the medals for the second consecutive Olympics.^[65][66]

Men

Athlete	Events	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Chris Colwill	3 m springboard	464.75	7 Q	480.95	6 Q	425.90	12
Troy Dumais		448.40	12 Q	463.15	10 Q	472.50	6
David Boudia	10 m platform	481.70	6 Q	491.55	5 Q	441.45	10
Thomas Finchum		477.00	7 Q	474.95	7 Q	412.65	12
Chris Colwill Jevon Tarantino	3 m synchronized springboard	N/A				410.73	4
David Boudia Thomas Finchum	10 m synchronized platform	N/A				440.64	5

Women

Athlete	Events	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Nancilea Foster	3 m springboard	300.15	11 Q	338.90	4 Q	316.70	8
Christina Loukas		312.60	8 Q	329.00	7 Q	315.70	9
Haley Ishimatsu	10 m platform	329.00	10 Q	292.95	14	Did not advance
Laura Wilkinson		370.70	5 Q	346.10	6 Q	311.80	9
Kelci Bryant Ariel Rittenhouse	3 m synchronized springboard	N/A				314.40	4
Mary Beth Dunnichay Haley Ishimatsu	10 m synchronized platform	N/A				309.12	5

Equestrian

On July 15, 2008, the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) named the rider/horse combinations for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team.^[67] The horses were shipped to England on July 17, placed under quarantine on July 22, 2008, and shipped to Hong Kong for the Olympic Games on July 30, 2008.^[67] Before the start of the games, Heidi White-Carty and her horse Northern Spy withdrew from the U.S. eventing team because of a veterinary issue. Karen O'Connor and her horse Mandiba took their place on the team.^[68]

The U.S. successfully defended its gold medal from Athens in the team jumping competition against Canada for a timed jumpoff.^[69]

On September 22, 2008, the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) disqualified the U.S. fourth-place finish in the Olympic team dressage event and Courtney King's thirteenth-place finish in individual dressage after King's horse Harmony's Mythilus tested positive for the banned substance felbinac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. According to USA Today, the FEI did not believe King or "anyone on her behalf or related to the USEF had knowingly administered the medication to the horse."^[70]

Dressage

Athlete	Horse	Event	Grand Prix		Grand Prix Special		Grand Prix Freestyle		Overall
			Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Courtney King-Dye	Harmony's Mythilus	Individual	70.458	7 Q	70.800	8 Q	69.550	14	70.175	DSQ*
Debbie McDonald	Brentina		63.000	34	Did not advance
Steffen Peters	Ravel		70.000	10 Q	71.800	4 Q	76.500	3	74.150	4
Courtney King-Dye Debbie McDonald Steffen Peters	See above	Team	67.819	4	N/A				67.819	DSQ*

Eventing

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country			Jumping						Total
								Qualifier			Final
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Phillip Dutton	Connaught	Individual	40.60 #	14	19.60	60.20	14	8.00	68.20	16 Q	Disqualified*
Becky Holder	Courageous Comet		35.70	5	82.00	117.70	48	8.00	125.70	43	Did not advance			125.70	42
Gina Miles	McKinlaigh		39.30	10	16.80	56.10	5	0.00	56.10	4 Q	0.00	56.10	2	56.10
Karen O'Connor	Mandiba		41.90	16	84.80 #	126.70	54	5.00	131.70	45	Did not advance			131.70	44
Amy Tryon	Poggio II		46.50 #	24	Eliminated			Did not advance
Phillip Dutton Becky Holder Gina Miles Amy Tryon Karen O'Connor	See above	Team	115.60	3	118.40	234.00	7	16.00	250.00	7	N/A			250.00	7

# - Indicates that points do not count in team total
* Phillip Dutton qualified for the final show jumping event round on 68.2 faults (sixteenth place) and jumped a clear round to move up to twelfth place, but was disqualified because weighted boots worn by his horse exceeded the maximum limit.

Show jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification								Final					Total
			Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Round A		Round B
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Laura Kraut	Cedric	Individual	5	39	4	9	=22 Q	0	9	12 Q	8	=23	Did not advance			8	=23
Beezie Madden	Authentic		0	=1	11	11	29 Q	4	15	17 Q	0	=1 Q	4	4	=7	4
Will Simpson	Carlsson vom Dach		0	=1	8	8	=16 Q	8	16	=18*	Did not advance					16	=18*
McLain Ward	Sapphire		0	=1	0	0	=1 Q	4	4	=2 Q	4	=11 Q	0	4	=1	4	6
Laura Kraut Beezie Madden Will Simpson McLain Ward	See above	Team	N/A								12	=1 Q	8	=20	=1	20

* Will Simpson received a qualifying score, but the US already had three other riders in the individual final.^[71]

Fencing

The 2008 United States Olympic Fencing Team was announced on June 11, 2008.^[72] After the 1904 Olympics, the United States did not win an Olympic fencing gold medal until 2004.^[73] But on the first full day of Olympic competition, Mariel Zagunis, Sada Jacobson and Becca Ward swept the fencing event in women's individual saber; it was the first American sweep of an Olympic fencing event since 1904. The U.S. left Beijing with a total of six medals.^[6]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Weston Kelsey	Individual épée	BYE	Jeannet (FRA) L 11–15	Did not advance
Gerek Meinhardt	Individual foil	N/A	Nagaty (EGY) W 15–3	Zhu J (CHN) L 9–15	Did not advance
Timothy Morehouse	Individual sabre	BYE	Sanson (FRA) L 12–15	Did not advance
Jason Rogers		Thiam (SEN) W 15–10	Smart (USA) L 3–15	Did not advance
Keeth Smart		BYE	Rogers (USA) W 15–3	Szilágyi (HUN) W 15–10	Pillet (FRA) L 13–15	Did not advance
Timothy Morehouse Jason Rogers Keeth Smart James Williams	Team sabre	N/A			Hungary (HUN) W 45–44	Russia (RUS) W 45–44	France (FRA) L 37–45

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kelley Hurley	Individual épée	N/A	Jung H-J (KOR) L 6–15	Did not advance
Emily Cross	Individual foil	BYE	Su Ww (CHN) L 7–15	Did not advance
Erinn Smart		Emanuel (GBR) W 15–7	Maîtrejean (FRA) L 9–15	Did not advance
Hanna Thompson		Khelfaoui (ALG) W 11–2	Golubykskyi (GER) L 5–13	Did not advance
Emily Cross Erinn Smart Hanna Thompson Doris Willette	Team foil	N/A			Poland (POL) W 31–30	Hungary (HUN) W 33–35	Russia (RUS) L 11–28
Sada Jacobson	Individual sabre	BYE	González (CUB) W 15–11	Kharlan (UKR) W 15–13	Khomrova (UKR) W 15–11	Velikaya (RUS) W 15–11	Zagunis (USA) L 8–15
Rebecca Ward		BYE	Navarro (ESP) W 12–7	Nagy (HUN) W 15–5	Besbes (TUN) W 15–14	Zagunis (USA) L 11–15	Velikaya (RUS) W 15–14
Mariel Zagunis		BYE	Sassine (CAN) W 15–10	Jóźwiak (POL) W 15–13	Bao Yy (CHN) W 15–9	Ward (USA) W 15–11	Jacobson (USA) W 15–8
Sada Jacobson Rebecca Ward Dagmara Wozniak Mariel Zagunis	Team sabre	N/A			South Africa (RSA) W 45–8	Ukraine (UKR) L 39–45	France (FRA) W 45–38

Field hockey

For the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics, the United States sent a women's field hockey team to the Olympics. The team was announced on July 3 and consisted of 16 women.^[74] The men's team failed to qualify for the Beijing games.

Women's tournament

Roster

The following is the American roster in the women's field hockey tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[75]

Head Coach: Lee Bodimeade

Angela Loy Kelly Doton Jesse Gey Rachel Dawson Tiffany Snow Keli Smith Dana Sensenig Carrie Lingo

Caroline Nichols Kate Barber (c) Katelyn Falgowski Dina Rizzo Amy Tran (GK) Kayla Bashore Lauren Crandall Lauren Powley

Reserve:

11. Sara Silvetti
16. Barbara Weinberg (GK)

Group play

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Germany	5	4	0	1	12	8	+4	12
Argentina	5	3	2	0	13	7	+6	11
Great Britain	5	2	2	1	7	9	−2	8
United States	5	1	3	1	9	8	+1	6
Japan	5	1	1	3	5	7	−2	4
New Zealand	5	0	0	5	6	13	−7	0

     Advanced to semifinals

August 10, 2008 18:30 Argentina  2 – 2  United States Rebecchi  5', 11' Report Smith  18' Loy  64' Umpires: Julie Ashton-Lucy (AUS) Carol Metchette (IRL)

August 12, 2008 18:00 United States  1 – 1  Japan Barber  58' Report Chiba  12' Umpires: Sarah Garnett (NZL) Lisa Roach (AUS)

August 14, 2008 10:30 United States  2 – 4  Germany Snow  27' Loy  60' Report Keller  34' Rinne  49' Rodewald  55' Kühn  64' Umpires: Lee Keum-Ju (KOR) Marelize de Klerk (RSA)

August 16, 2008 08:30 New Zealand  1 – 4  United States Galletly  37' Report Smith  1', 42' Loy  12' Bashore  47' Umpires: Stella Bartlema (NED) Anne McRae (GBR)

August 18, 2008 18:00 Great Britain  0 – 0  United States Report Umpires: Ute Conen (GER) Lisa Roach (AUS)

7th–8th place

August 20, 2008 11:00 Spain  3 – 2 (a.e.t.)  United States Termens  8' Huertas  68' Ybarra  84' Report Sensenig  30' Loy  59' Umpires: Minka Woolley (AUS) Ute Conen (GER)

Final rank

Eighth place

Association football

The United States earned spots in Beijing for both men's and women's soccer by advancing to the finals of the CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournaments in March and April 2008.^[76][77] For the Olympic tournament, the full women's national team and the men's under-23 team (including three players over the age of 23) participated.^[78] The 18-player roster for the 2008 U.S. Olympic women's soccer team was announced on June 23, 2008.^[79] In the final match before the Olympics on July 16, the women's team lost leading scorer Abby Wambach after she broke her left leg in a collision with Brazilian defender Andréia Rosa.^[80] Lauren Cheney, originally selected as an alternate, replaced Wambach on the roster.^[81] The 18-player roster for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Men's Soccer Team was announced on July 17, 2008.^[82] After aggravating a hamstring injury, defender Nathan Sturgis was replaced by midfielder Dax McCarty on the Olympic roster July 24, 2008.^[83]

Despite playing without Wambach and an early first-round loss to Norway, the women's soccer team successfully defended their 2004 gold medal against Brazil in overtime; it was the third gold medal overall for the United States in women's soccer.^[84] The team had lost its previous match against Brazil 4–0 in the semifinals of the 2007 Women's World Cup.

Men's tournament

Roster

The following is the United States squad in the men's football tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[85]

Head coach: Piotr Nowak

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Chris Seitz	12 March 1987 (aged 21)	7	0	Real Salt Lake
2	DF	Marvell Wynne	8 May 1986 (aged 22)	5	0	Toronto FC
3	DF	Michael Orozco	7 February 1986 (aged 22)	4	0	San Luis
4	MF	Michael Bradley	31 July 1987 (aged 21)	0	0	Heerenveen
5	MF	Dax McCarty	30 April 1987 (aged 21)	5	0	FC Dallas
6	DF	Maurice Edu	18 April 1986 (aged 22)	5	0	Toronto FC
7	MF	Stuart Holden	1 August 1985 (aged 23)	6	0	Houston Dynamo
8	MF	Danny Szetela	17 June 1987 (aged 21)	0	0	Brescia
9	FW	Charlie Davies	25 June 1986 (aged 22)	6	1	Hammarby
10	MF	Benny Feilhaber	19 January 1985 (aged 23)	1	0	Derby County
11	FW	Freddy Adu	2 June 1989 (aged 19)	3	4	Monaco
12	FW	Jozy Altidore	6 November 1989 (aged 18)	6	0	Villarreal
13	DF	Patrick Ianni	15 June 1985 (aged 23)	5	1	Houston Dynamo
14	MF	Robbie Rogers	12 May 1987 (aged 21)	2	1	Columbus Crew
15	DF	Michael Parkhurst*	24 January 1984 (aged 24)	0	0	New England Revolution
16	MF	Sacha Kljestan	9 September 1985 (aged 22)	7	1	Chivas USA
17	FW	Brian McBride* (c)	19 June 1972 (aged 36)	0	0	Chicago Fire
18	GK	Brad Guzan*	9 September 1984 (aged 23)	0	0	Aston Villa

* Over-aged player.

Alternates

• Dominic Cervi (goalkeeper)
• Frankie Hejduk (defender)
• Robbie Findley (forward)

Group play

Qualified for the quarterfinals

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nigeria	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7
Netherlands	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
United States	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
Japan	3	0	0	3	1	4	−3	0

Japan  v  United States

August 7, 2008 17:00

Japan	0–1	United States
	Report	Holden  47'

Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, Tianjin Attendance: 57,102 Referee: Badara Diatta (Senegal)

United States  v  Netherlands

August 10, 2008 19:45

United States	2–2	Netherlands
Kljestan  64' Altidore  72'	Report	Babel  16' Sibon  90+3'

Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, Tianjin Attendance: 45,016 Referee: Michael Hester (New Zealand)

Nigeria  v  United States

August 13, 2008 17:00

Nigeria	2–1	United States
Isaac  39' Obinna  79'	Report	Kljestan  88' (pen.)

Beijing Workers' Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 48,096 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

Women's tournament

Roster

The following is the United States squad in the women's soccer tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[86][87]

Coach: Pia Sundhage

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Hope Solo	30 July 1981 (aged 27)	64	0	University of Washington
2	DF	Heather Mitts	9 June 1978 (aged 30)	78	2	University of Florida
3	DF	Christie Rampone (c)	24 June 1975 (aged 33)	193	4	Monmouth University
4	DF	Rachel Buehler	26 August 1985 (aged 22)	11	0	Stanford University
5	MF	Lindsay Tarpley	22 September 1983 (aged 24)	96	26	University of North Carolina
6	FW	Natasha Kai	22 May 1983 (aged 25)	48	19	University of Hawaiʻi
7	MF	Shannon Boxx	29 June 1977 (aged 31)	92	18	University of Notre Dame
8	FW	Amy Rodriguez	17 February 1987 (aged 21)	19	4	University of Southern California
9	MF	Heather O'Reilly	2 January 1985 (aged 23)	90	19	University of North Carolina
10	MF	Aly Wagner	10 August 1980 (aged 27)	121	21	Santa Clara University
11	MF	Carli Lloyd	16 July 1982 (aged 26)	62	15	Rutgers University
12	FW	Lauren Cheney	30 September 1987 (aged 20)	12	0	University of California
13	MF	Tobin Heath	29 May 1988 (aged 20)	12	2	University of North Carolina
14	DF	Stephanie Cox	3 April 1986 (aged 22)	42	0	University of Portland
15	DF	Kate Markgraf (c)	23 August 1976 (aged 31)	181	0	University of Notre Dame
16	MF	Angela Hucles	5 July 1978 (aged 30)	84	7	University of Virginia
17	DF	Lori Chalupny	29 January 1984 (aged 24)	70	6	University of North Carolina
18	GK	Nicole Barnhart	10 October 1981 (aged 26)	9	0	Stanford University

Alternates

• Briana Scurry (goalkeeper)
• Ali Krieger (defender)
• Kacey White (midfielder)

Group play

Qualified for the quarterfinals

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6
Norway	3	2	0	1	4	5	−1	6
Japan	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
New Zealand	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1

Norway  v  United States

August 6, 2008 19:45

Norway	2–0	United States
Larsen Kaurin  2' Wiik  4'	Report

Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Qinhuangdao Attendance: 17,673 Referee: Nicole Petignat (Switzerland)

United States  v  Japan

August 9, 2008 17:00

United States	1–0	Japan
Lloyd  27'	Report

Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Qinhuangdao Attendance: 16,912 Referee: Pannipar Kamnueng (Thailand)

United States  v  New Zealand

August 12, 2008 19:45

United States	4–0	New Zealand
O'Reilly  1' Rodriguez  43' Tarpley  56' Hucles  60'	Report

Shenyang Olympic Stadium, Shenyang Attendance: 12,453 Referee: Dagmar Damkova (Czech Republic)

Quarterfinals

United States  v  Canada

August 15, 2008 18:00

United States	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Canada
Hucles  12' Kai  101'	Report	Sinclair  30'

Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai Attendance: 26,129 Referee: Jenny Palmqvist (Sweden)

Semifinals

United States  v  Japan

August 18, 2008 21:00

United States	4–2	Japan
Hucles  41', 80' Chalupny  44' O'Reilly  70'	Report	Ohno  16' Arakawa  90+3'

Workers Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 50,937 Referee: Nicole Petignat (Switzerland)

Gold medal game

Brazil  v  United States

August 21, 2008 21:00

Brazil	0–1 (a.e.t.)	United States
	Report	Lloyd  96'

Workers Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 51,612 Referee: Dagmar Damkova (Czech Republic)

Gymnastics

Artistic

The United States qualified a full complement of six men and six women in artistic gymnastics. Two members of the U.S. men's gymnastics team, Paul Hamm and Jonathan Horton, were named at the conclusion of the Olympic Trials. The rest of the team was announced on Sunday, June 22. Because of the injury of his hand and shoulder, Paul Hamm withdrew from the Olympic team on July 28, 2008, and was replaced by alternate Raj Bhavsar. Additionally, Morgan Hamm withdrew from competition on August 7 because of an ankle injury, being replaced by Alexander Artemev.^[88]

Two members of the U.S. women's gymnastics team, Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin, were named at the end of the Olympic Trials on June 22. The remaining members were not named at the Trials, although Chellsie Memmel, Samantha Peszek and Alicia Sacramone were projected to be on the team. This left one spot vacant. The complete team was not announced until the conclusion of the women's selection camp at the Karolyi Camp near Houston, Texas, on July 17.^[89]

Men^[90]

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB			F	PH	R	V	PB	HB
Alexander Artemev	Team	14.875	15.250 Q	13.675	15.825	15.175	14.925	89.725	19 Q	N/A	15.350	N/A
Raj Bhavsar		14.175	14.050	15.325	16.175	15.625	N/A			N/A	13.750	15.325	16.125	15.575	N/A
Joe Hagerty		15.275	13.925	N/A	15.700	15.350	15.400	N/A		14.625	N/A				15.550	N/A
Jonathan Horton		15.350	13.925	15.325	15.950	15.525	15.575 Q	91.650	8 Q	15.575	N/A	15.625	16.200	15.625	15.700	N/A
Justin Spring		14.400	N/A	14.175	15.900	15.800	15.375	N/A		15.200	N/A		15.900	15.850	15.675	N/A
Kevin Tan		N/A	14.100	15.725	N/A		14.425	N/A		N/A	12.775	15.425	N/A
Total		59.900	57.325	60.550	63.850	62.300	61.275	365.200	6 Q	45.400	41.875	46.375	48.225	47.050	46.925	275.850

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB
Alexander Artemev	All-around	14.625	15.525	14.275	15.975	15.200	15.075	90.675	12
	Pommel horse	N/A	14.975	N/A				14.975	7
Jonathan Horton	All-around	15.600	13.675	15.575	16.100	15.275	15.350	91.575	9
	Horizontal bar	N/A					16.175	16.175

Shawn Johnson competes on vault during the team qualification.

Women^[91]

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		F	V	UB	BB			F	V	UB	BB
Shawn Johnson	Team	15.425 Q	16.000	15.325	15.975 Q	62.725	1 Q	15.100	16.000	15.350	16.175	N/A
Nastia Liukin		15.350 Q	15.100	15.950 Q	15.975 Q	62.375	2 Q	15.200	N/A	16.900	15.975	N/A
Chellsie Memmel*		N/A		15.050	N/A			N/A		15.725	N/A
Samantha Peszek*		N/A		14.800	N/A			Did not compete
Alicia Sacramone		14.425	15.850 Q	N/A	15.950	N/A		14.125	15.675	N/A	15.100	N/A
Bridget Sloan		15.275	14.800	15.500	14.850	60.425	11**	N/A	15.200	N/A
Total		62.225	61.125	63.400	60.050	246.800	2 Q	46.875	47.975	47.250	44.425	186.525

* Due to injury, Chellsie Memmel and Samantha Peszek could only compete on the uneven bars.
** Only two gymnasts per country may advance to a final.

Nastia Liukin competes on the balance beam during the individual all-around final.

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		F	V	UB	BB
Shawn Johnson	All-around	15.525	15.875	15.275	16.050	62.725
	Floor	15.500	N/A			15.500
	Balance beam	N/A			16.225	16.225
Nastia Liukin	All-around	15.525	15.025	16.650	16.125	63.325
	Floor	15.425	N/A			15.425
	Uneven bars	N/A		16.725	N/A	16.725
	Balance beam	N/A			16.025	16.025
Alicia Sacramone	Vault	N/A	15.537	N/A		15.537	4

Trampoline

Two trampolinists competed for the United States in Beijing. Chris Estrada became the first U.S. male in trampoline. Additionally, the United States had representatives in both men's and women's events for the first time.^[92][93] The U.S. has yet to have an athlete advance past the qualification stage.

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Chris Estrada	Men's	65.90	15	Did not advance
Erin Blanchard	Women's	60.90	13	Did not advance

Judo

USA Judo announced their 2008 U.S. Olympic Team on June 18, 2008, following trials at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Seven men and three women represented the United States in Judo.^[94] On August 13, 2008, Ronda Rousey became the ninth American athlete and the first American woman to win a medal in Olympic Judo.^[95][96]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Taraje Williams-Murray	−60 kg	BYE	Hiraoka (JPN) W 0001–0000	Guédez (VEN) L 0000–1000	Did not advance
Taylor Takata	−66 kg	BYE	Zintiridis (GRE) W 0010–0000	Elmont (NED) W 0001–0000	Arencibia (CUB) L 0000–0010	Did not advance	BYE	El Hady (EGY) L 0001–1000	Did not advance
Ryan Reser	−73 kg	N/A	Dashdavaa (MGL) L 0100–0111	Did not advance
Travis Stevens	−81 kg	BYE	Cisneros (ESA) W 1011–0000	Bischof (GER) L 0001–0011	Did not advance		Azizov (AZE) W 0200–0001	Camilo (BRA) L 0010–0011	Did not advance
Brian Olson	−90 kg	N/A	Rosati (ARG) L 0000–0001	Did not advance
Adler Volmar	−100 kg	N/A	Mekić (BIH) L 0000–0200	Did not advance
Daniel McCormick	+100 kg	BYE	Bathily (SEN) W 0010–0001	Gujejiani (GEO) L 0000–1000	Did not advance		Blas Jr. (GUM) W 0100–0010	Roudaki (IRI) L 0001–1001	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sayaka Matsumoto	−48 kg	Tani (JPN) L 0000–0020	Did not advance			Wu Sg (CHN) L 0000–1000	Did not advance
Valerie Gotay	−57 kg	Uralbayeva (KAZ) W 1001–0100	Fernández (ESP) L 0000–0010	Did not advance
Ronda Rousey	−70 kg	Surkieva (TKM) W 1010–0000	Piłocik (POL) W 1000–0000	Bosch (NED) L 0000–1000	Did not advance	BYE	Ouerdane (ALG) W 1001–0000	Mészáros (HUN) W 1010–0000	Böhm (GER) W 0010–0001

Modern pentathlon

Sheila Taormina, Margaux Isaksen and Eli Bremer were nominated to the pentathlon team after the U.S. was allocated three invitations by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM), modern pentathlon's world governing body.^[97] On the second allocation, both Sam Sacksen and Dennis Bowsher were offered bids by the UIPM.^[98] Since one man was already on the squad, only one other slot was available. The U.S. used World Cup rankings to determine who would be on the squad and who would be named alternate. Bowsher appealed the decision but his claim was denied.^[99]

On the men's team, U.S. Olympic Training Center residents Eli Bremer and Sam Sacksen both made their Olympic modern pentathlon debuts. They struggled early, with disappointing scores in shooting (10 m air pistol) and fencing (épée one touch).^[100] For the women's team, 16-year-old Margaux Isaksen joined Sheila Taormina, the first woman to appear in the Olympics in three different sports. Like the men, Isaksen and Toarmina started off slowly, failing to rank higher than 24th in either shooting or fencing. Taormina, however, finished strongly, taking first place in riding (show jumping) and setting a modern pentathlon Olympic record in swimming (200 m freestyle).^[101] The U.S. did not medal in modern pentathlon.

Athlete	Event	Shooting (10 m air pistol)			Fencing (épée one touch)			Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Riding (show jumping)			Running (3000 m)			Total points	Final rank
		Points	Rank	MP Points	Results	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP Points
Eli Bremer	Men's	165	34	916	14–21	=29	736	2:02.80	7	1328	140	14	1060	9:19.61	7	1164	5204	23
Sam Sacksen		178	23	1072	14–21	=29	736	2:08.99	25	1256	96	7	1104	9:32.90	17	1112	5280	18
Margaux Isaksen	Women's	171	29	988	15–20	=24	760	2:20.30	20	1240	56	10	1144	10:40.41	14	1160	5292	21
Sheila Taormina		173	28	1012	4–31	36	496	2:08.86	1	1376 OR	0	1	1200	10:25.05	7	1220	5304	19

Rowing

Thirteen crews represented the United States at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.^[102]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ken Jurkowski	Single sculls	7:25.13	4 QF	N/A		6:53.26	3 SA/B	7:11.52	5 FB	7:22.75	11
Cameron Winklevoss Tyler Winklevoss	Pair	7:13.64	5 R	6:36.87	1 SA/B	N/A		6:36.65	2 FA	7:05.58	6
Elliot Hovey Wes Piermarini	Double sculls	6:39.37	5 R	6:26.05	4 FC	N/A		BYE		6:33.15	13
Scott Gault Matt Hughes Jamie Schroeder Sam Stitt	Quadruple sculls	5:45.77	3 SA/B	BYE		N/A		5:52.81	2 FA	5:47.63	5
David Banks Brett Newlin Giuseppe Lanzone Paul Teti	Four	6:03.96	3 SA/B	BYE		N/A		5:57.52	5 FB	6:07.17	9
Mike Altman Will Daly Tom Paradiso Patrick Todd	Lightweight four	5:56.54	4 R	6:27.43	3 SA/B	N/A		6:16.30	6 FB	6:07.79	11
Wyatt Allen Micah Boyd Steven Coppola Beau Hoopman Josh Inman Marcus McElhenney Matt Schnobrich Bryan Volpenhein Daniel Walsh	Eight	5:29.60	2 R	5:38.95	1 FA	N/A				5:25.34

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Michelle Guérette	Single sculls	7:49.14	2 QF	N/A		7:28.91	1 SA/B	7:35.69	2 FA	7:22.78
Anna Cummins Portia McGee	Pair	7:29.95	4 R	7:32.26	3 FB	N/A				7:33.17	7
Ellen Tomek Megan Kalmoe	Double sculls	7:11.17	3 R	6:58.54	1 FA	N/A				7:17.53	5
Jennifer Goldsack Renee Hykel	Lightweight double sculls	6:53.32	3 R	7:22.22	1 SA/B	N/A		7:12.15	4 FB	7:09.02	10
Jennifer Kaido Lindsay Meyer Lia Pernell Margot Shumway	Quadruple sculls	6:19.89	3 R	6:39.53	2 FA	N/A				6:25.86	5
Erin Cafaro Anna Cummins Caryn Davies Susan Francia Anna Goodale Caroline Lind Elle Logan Lindsay Shoop Mary Whipple	Eight	6:06.53	1 FA	BYE		N/A				6:05.34

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

The United States qualified in all 11 Olympic sailing classes and sent 18 athletes to the races in Qingdao, China.^[103] Laser Radial sailor Anna Tunnicliffe and Finn sailor Zach Railey became the first American sailors to win Olympic medals in their respective classes since 1992.^[104]

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Ben Barger	RS:X	21	22	24	26	26	32	25	18	25	31	EL	218	26
Andrew Campbell	Laser	14	18	1	26	32	BFD	8	DSQ	31	CAN	EL	174	26
Graham Biehl Stuart McNay	470	26	12	OCS	17	15	1	4	1	6	23	EL	105	13
John Dane III Austin Sperry	Star	8	2	4	12	15	15	16	16	10	4	EL	86	11

Women

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Nancy Rios	RS:X	25	24	22	26	24	27	DNF	DNF	26	22	EL	224	26
Anna Tunnicliffe	Laser Radial	4	5	6	5	6	3	15	2	2	CAN	4	37
Amanda Clark Sara Mergenthaler	470	12	12	10	14	4	17	7	6	17	7	EL	89	12
Sally Barkow Debbie Capozzi Carrie Howe	Yngling	14	2	8	5	6	11	1	10	CAN	CAN	10	63	8

Open

Athlete	Event	Race																Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	M*
Zach Railey	Finn	2	5	2	2	7	8	7	19	CAN	CAN	N/A					6	45
Chris Rast Tim Wadlow	49er	5	14	15	16	5	10	1	1	1	3	8	4	CAN	CAN	CAN	22	89	6
John Lovell Charlie Ogletree	Tornado	14	12	7	11	12	14	15	15	14	15	N/A					EL	114	15

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; CAN = Race cancelled

Shooting

Walton "Glenn" Eller bites his Olympic gold medal after winning the men's double trap event August 12 at the Beijing Shooting Range.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Jason Parker	10 m air rifle	591	23	Did not advance
Stephen Scherer		590	27	Did not advance
Michael Anti	50 m rifle prone	594	9	Did not advance
Matt Emmons		597	2 Q	701.7
Matt Emmons	50 m rifle 3 positions	1175	2 Q	1270.3	4
Jason Parker		1164	22	Did not advance
Brian Beaman	10 m air pistol	581	6 Q	682.0	4
Jason Turner		583	4 Q	682.0	*
Keith Sanderson	25 m rapid fire pistol	583 OR	1 Q	776.6	5
Daryl Szarenski	50 m pistol	555	14	Did not advance
Jason Turner		553	21	Did not advance
Bret Erickson	Trap	113	22	Did not advance
Dominic Grazioli		113	23	Did not advance
Walton Eller	Double trap	145 OR	1 Q	190 OR
Jeff Holguin		140	3 Q	182	4
Vincent Hancock	Skeet	121 OR	1 Q	145 OR
Randal McLelland		118	11	Did not advance

* Jason Turner originally finished fourth, behind Kim Jong Su of North Korea. On August 15, 2008, the International Olympic Committee announced Kim had tested positive for the banned substance propranolol and thus stripped of his medals from the 2008 Summer Olympics. Turner was awarded the bronze in 10 m air pistol.^[105]

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Jamie Beyerle	10 m air rifle	397	5 Q	499.8	4
Emily Caruso		395	15	Did not advance
Jamie Beyerle	50 m rifle 3 positions	586	5 Q	686.9	5
Sandra Fong		577	21	Did not advance
Brenda Shinn	10 m air pistol	373	37	Did not advance
Rebecca Snyder		370	41	Did not advance
Elizabeth Callahan	25 m pistol	575	25	Did not advance
Rebecca Snyder		575	28	Did not advance
Corey Cogdell	Trap	69	4 Q	86
Kimberly Rhode	Skeet	70	3 Q	93 OR

Softball

The team roster for USA Softball was released on March 28, 2008.^[106] It included a fifteen-person team roster and a replacement roster of three players. The United States brought an impressive softball record to Beijing, winning every Olympic and world title since 1982.^[107] Prior to Beijing, it had a record of 106–10 in World Championships and 32–4 in the Olympics.^[107][108] It had won all three Olympic gold medals in softball, and outscored opponents 51–1 in Athens. American dominance may have contributed to the IOC's decision to remove the sport from the Olympics in 2005.^[109]

But at the Beijing Olympics, the United States lost to Japan 3–1 in the gold medal game. Japanese pitcher Yukiko Ueno had an outstanding performance after pitching 21 innings the day before.^[110] Following the surprise loss, the top three teams spelled "2016" using softballs in front of home plate in the hopes of Olympic reinstatement.^[111]

Team roster Monica Abbott Laura Berg Crystl Bustos Andrea Duran Jennie Finch Tairia Flowers Vicky Galindo Lovieanne Jung Kelly Kretschman Lauren Lappin Caitlin Lowe Jessica Mendoza Stacey Nuveman Cat Osterman Natasha Watley

Head Coach Mike Candrea Assistant Coaches Chuck D'Arcy Karen Jonhs John Rittman Replacement roster Lisa Fernandez Alicia Hollowell Jenny Topping

Results

Group stage All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  United States 0 4 2 5 0 X X 11 11 0  Venezuela 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0 0 2 WP: Jennie Finch(1–0)   LP: Johana Gómez(0–1) Home runs: USA: Natasha Watley(1), Caitlin Lowe(1), Crystl Bustos(1) VEN: None Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  Canada 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3  United States 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 8 6 1 WP: Cat Osterman(2–0)   LP: Dione Meier(0–1) Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  United States 1 0 5 1 X X X 7 10 0  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0 2 1 WP: Jennie Finch(2–0)   LP: Su-Hua Lin(0–1) Home runs: USA: Jessica Mendoza(3) TPE: None Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  China 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0 1 1  United States 9 0 0 0 X X X 9 9 0 WP: Cat Osterman(3–0)   LP: Wei Lu(1–3) Home runs: CHN: None USA: Kelly Kretschman(1)

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  United States 0 0 0 0 1 2 X 3 5 0  Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 WP: Cat Osterman(1–0)   LP: Tanya Harding(0–1) Home runs: USA: Crystl Bustos(2) AUS: None Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  United States 4 0 0 3 0 X X 7 9 0  Japan 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0 1 1 WP: Monica Abbott(1–0)   LP: Naho Emoto(0–1) Home runs: USA: Natasha Watley(2), Jessica Mendoza(1,2), Crystl Bustos(3) JPN: None Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  United States 1 2 3 2 X X X 8 13 0  Netherlands 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0 0 1 WP: Monica Abbott(2–0)   LP: Rebecca Soumeru(0–1) Home runs: USA: Tairia Flowers(1), Crystl Bustos(4), Jessica Mendoza(4) NED: None

	Qualified for the semifinals
	Eliminated

The top four teams will advance to the semifinal round.

Final group standings

Team	W	L	RS	RA	WIN%	GB	Tiebreaker
United States	7	0	53	1	1.000	-	-
Japan	6	1	23	13	.857	1	-
Australia	5	2	30	11	.714	2	-
Canada	3	4	17	23	.429	4	-
China	2	5	19	21	.286	5	-
Chinese Taipei	2	5	10	23	.286	5	-
Venezuela	2	5	15	35	.286	5	-
Netherlands	1	6	8	48	.143	6	-

Semifinals

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	6	0
Japan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	0
WP: Monica Abbott(3–0)   LP: Yukiko Ueno(3–1)   Sv: Cat Osterman Home runs: USA: Crystl Bustos(5) JPN: None

Gold medal match

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Japan	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	3	5	0
United States	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	5	2
WP: Yukiko Ueno(5–1)   LP: Cat Osterman(3–1) Home runs: JPN: Eri Yamada (2) USA: Crystl Bustos (6)

Final rank

 Silver

Official Olympic softball schedule

Swimming

From left to right: Ryan Lochte (bronze), Michael Phelps (gold) and László Cseh (silver) show off the medals they earned from the men's 400 metre individual medley.

The United States Olympic Team Trials in Swimming were held on June 29 – July 6 in Omaha, Nebraska.^[112] The U.S. sent two people in each individual discipline and up to six people for the 4x100 freestyle relays and 4x200 freestyle relays. On August 1, Jessica Hardy, who had qualified in the 100 meter breaststroke and the 50 meter freestyle, withdrew from the Olympic team after failing an anti-doping test at the national trials. Hardy opted to pull out instead of contesting the test results at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.^[113]

The U.S. left Beijing with 31 swimming medals: 12 gold, 9 silver and 10 bronze.^[114] This surpassed the 28 medals won by the swimming team in Athens.^[6] In the process, the U.S. broke ten swimming world records and twenty-four American records.^[115] The American performance in swimming was highlighted by Michael Phelps, who won a total of eight gold medals, surpassing Mark Spitz's 36-year-old single Games record of seven gold medals.^[116] Phelps also surpassed Spitz, Larisa Latynina of the USSR, Paavo Nurmi of Finland, and American sprinter Carl Lewis to become the current record holder for the most Olympic gold medals (fourteen).^[9] All three men's relay teams set world records, and an additional six individual world records were set by Phelps, Ryan Lochte and Aaron Peirsol.

The United States also saw milestones in women's swimming. Natalie Coughlin won six medals, more than any other female swimmer in Beijing.,^[10] and the most for any American female athlete in a single Olympics. Rebecca Soni set a world record in the 200 meter breaststroke. Dara Torres, who won 3 silver medals after her eight-year absence, became the oldest Olympic swimmer to win a medal, at age 41.^[11]

• Qualifiers for the latter rounds of swimming events were decided on a time only basis, therefore positions shown are overall results versus competitors in all heats.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Garrett Weber-Gale	50 m freestyle[117]	21.95	9 Q	22.08	13	Did not advance
Ben Wildman-Tobriner		21.75	3 Q	21.76	7 Q	21.64	5
Jason Lezak	100 m freestyle	48.33	11 Q	47.98	6 Q	47.67
Garrett Weber-Gale		48.19	8 Q	48.12	10	Did not advance
Michael Phelps	200 m freestyle	1:46.48	4 Q	1:46.28	4 Q	1:42.96 WR
Peter Vanderkaay		1:47.39	12 Q	1:45.76	1 Q	1:45.14
Larsen Jensen	400 m freestyle	3:43.10 AM	1 Q	N/A		3:42.78 AM
Peter Vanderkaay		3:44.22	6 Q	N/A		3:43.11	4
Larsen Jensen	1500 m freestyle	14:49.53	8 Q	N/A		14:48.16	5
Peter Vanderkaay		14:52.11	11	N/A		Did not advance
Matt Grevers	100 m backstroke	53.41 OR	1 Q	52.99	2 Q	53.11
Aaron Peirsol		53.65	3 Q	53.56	5 Q	52.54 WR
Ryan Lochte	200 m backstroke	1:56.29	1 Q	1:55.40	2 Q	1:53.93 WR
Aaron Peirsol		1:56.35	2 Q	1:55.26	1 Q	1:54.33
Mark Gangloff	100 m breaststroke	1:00.71	16 Q	1:00.44	7 Q	1:00.24	8
Brendan Hansen		1:00.36	10 Q	59.94	5 Q	59.57	4
Eric Shanteau	200 m breaststroke	2:10.29	7 Q	2:10.10	10	Did not advance
Scott Spann		2:10.61	10 Q	2:09.08	3 Q	2:09.76	6
Ian Crocker	100 m butterfly	51.95	13 Q	51.27	3 Q	51.13	4
Michael Phelps		50.87	2 Q	50.97	2 Q	50.58 OR
Michael Phelps	200 m butterfly	1:53.70 OR	1 Q	1:53.70 =OR	1 Q	1:52.03 WR
Gil Stovall		1:55.42	8 Q	1:55.36	9	Did not advance
Ryan Lochte	200 m individual medley	1:58.15	1 Q	1:57.69	1 Q	1:56.53
Michael Phelps		1:58.65	6 Q	1:57.70	2 Q	1:54.23 WR
Ryan Lochte	400 m individual medley	4:10.33	4 Q	N/A		4:08.09
Michael Phelps		4:07.82 OR	1 Q	N/A		4:03.84 WR
Nathan Adrian* Matt Grevers* Cullen Jones Jason Lezak Michael Phelps Garrett Weber-Gale Ben Wildman-Tobriner*	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:12.23 WR	1 Q	N/A		3:08.24 WR
Ricky Berens Klete Keller* Ryan Lochte Michael Phelps Peter Vanderkaay Erik Vendt* Dave Walters*	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:04.66 OR	1 Q	N/A		6:58.56 WR
Ian Crocker* Matt Grevers* Mark Gangloff* Brendan Hansen Jason Lezak Aaron Peirsol Michael Phelps Garrett Weber-Gale*	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:32.75	1 Q	N/A		3:29.34 WR
Mark Warkentin	10 km open water	N/A				1:52:13.00	8

* Competed in the heats only

American swimmer Dara Torres waves to the crowd after taking silver in the women's 50 m freestyle event.

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kara Lynn Joyce	50 m freestyle[117]	25.01	14 Q	24.63	7 Q	24.63	6
Dara Torres		24.58	3 Q	24.27	1 Q	24.07 AM
Natalie Coughlin	100 m freestyle	53.82	4 Q	53.70	1 Q	53.39 AM
Lacey Nymeyer		54.62	14 Q	54.74	12	Did not advance
Katie Hoff	200 m freestyle	1:57.20	4 Q	1:57.01	2 Q	1:55.78 AM	4
Allison Schmitt		1:57.38	7 Q	1:58.01	9	Did not advance
Katie Hoff	400 m freestyle	4:03.71	3 Q	N/A		4:03.29
Kate Ziegler		4:09.59	14	N/A		Did not advance
Katie Hoff	800 m freestyle	8:27.78	11	N/A		Did not advance
Kate Ziegler		8:26.98	10	N/A		Did not advance
Natalie Coughlin	100 m backstroke	59.69	4 Q	59.43	2 Q	58.96 AM
Margaret Hoelzer		1:00.13	7 Q	59.84	6 Q	59.34
Elizabeth Beisel	200 m backstroke	2:09.02	6 Q	2:07.90	2 Q	2:08.23	5
Margaret Hoelzer		2:09.12	7 Q	2:08.25	5 Q	2:06.23
Megan Jendrick	100 m breaststroke	1:08.07	9 Q	1:08.07	7 Q	1:07.62	5
Rebecca Soni		1:07.44	4 Q	1:07.07	2 Q	1:06.73
Amanda Beard	200 m breaststroke	2:27.70	18	Did not advance
Rebecca Soni		2:22.17 OR	1 Q	2:22.64	1 Q	2:20.22 WR
Elaine Breeden	100 m butterfly	58.06	2 Q	58.55	10	Did not advance
Christine Magnuson		57.70	6 Q	57.08 AM	2 Q	57.10
Elaine Breeden	200 m butterfly	2:07.92	9 Q	2:07.73	8 Q	2:07.57	7
Kathleen Hersey		2:07.65	7 Q	2:06.96	5 Q	2:08.23	8
Natalie Coughlin	200 m individual medley	2:11.63	3 Q	2:11.84	4 Q	2:10.34
Katie Hoff		2:11.58	2 Q	2:10.90	3 Q	2:10.68	4
Elizabeth Beisel	400 m individual medley	4:34.55	1 Q	N/A		4:34.24	4
Katie Hoff		4:34.63	2 Q	N/A		4:31.71
Natalie Coughlin Kara Lynn Joyce Lacey Nymeyer* Emily Silver Julia Smit* Dara Torres	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:37.53	3 Q	N/A		3:34.33 AM
Caroline Burckle Natalie Coughlin Katie Hoff Christine Marshall* Allison Schmitt Julia Smit* Kim Vandenberg*	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:52.43	2 Q	N/A		7:46.33 AM
Elaine Breeden* Natalie Coughlin Margaret Hoelzer* Megan Jendrick* Kara Lynn Joyce* Rebecca Soni Christine Magnuson Dara Torres	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:59.15	3 Q	N/A		3:53.30 AM
Chloe Sutton	10 km open water	N/A				2:02:13.6	22

* Competed in the heats only

Synchronized swimming

One of the first sports in which the U.S. qualified for Beijing and formalized its Olympic roster was synchronized swimming. Berths in the duet and team events were secured at the 2007 Pan American Games.^[118][119] After winning both duet and team bronze medals in Athens, the U.S. failed to win a medal for the second time since synchronized swimming became an Olympic sport in 1984.^[120]

Athlete	Event	Technical routine		Free routine (preliminary)			Free routine (final)
		Points	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank
Christina Jones Andrea Nott	Duet	47.750	5	47.750	95.500	5 Q	47.750	95.500	5
Brooke Abel Janet Culp Kate Hooven* Christina Jones Becky Kim Andrea Nott Annabelle Orme Jillian Penner Kim Probst*	Team	47.584	=5	N/A			47.750	95.334	=5

*Team captain

Table tennis

The United States qualified for the women's team competition, 3 places in women's singles, and 1 place in men's singles. Gao Jun and Wang Chen automatically qualified in women's singles by being in the top 20 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) world rankings.^[121] Yao "Crystal" Huang took the third and final North American women's spot by winning at the North American Trials in Vancouver, qualifying an American women's team in the process. David Zhuang secured the only American spot in men's singles at the North American Trials.

The entire American team was composed of Chinese-born athletes.^[122] This included Gao Jun, doubles silver medalist for China at the 1992 Olympics, who competed as an American for the third time.^[123] Although she failed to obtain a medal, Wang Chen became the first American player to advance to the quarter-finals in Olympic table tennis history after defeating 2004 Olympic bronze medalist Kim Kyung-Ah.^[124] The fifth-place performance by the women's team was also the best finish for U.S in this sport.^[123]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
David Zhuang	Men's singles	Toriola (NGR) L 3–4	Did not advance
Gao Jun	Women's singles	BYE		Odorova (SVK) W 4–2	Hirano (JPN) W 4–1	Wu X (DOM) L 3–4	Did not advance
Crystal Huang		Yang F (CGO) L 2–4	Did not advance
Wang Chen		BYE			Tóth (HUN) W 4–1	Kim K-A (KOR) W 4–3	Li Jw (SIN) L 1–4	Did not advance

Team

Athlete	Event	Group round		Semifinals	Bronze playoff 1	Bronze playoff 2	Bronze medal	Final
		Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Gao Jun Crystal Huang Wang Chen	Women's team	Group B  Singapore (SIN) L 0 – 3  Netherlands (NED) W 3 – 1  Nigeria (NGR) W 3 – 0	2	Did not advance	Romania (ROU) W 3 – 1	South Korea (KOR) L 0 – 3	Did not advance

Taekwondo

The United States sent the maximum of four athletes to compete in taekwondo; the team was announced after the final phase of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials for taekwondo on April 5, 2008.^[125][126] Diana, Mark and Steven López became the first trio from the same family to compete for the United States since 1904.^[127] All three of them won medals: one silver and two bronze. Steven López, a defending two-time Olympic gold medalist, lost his only match in six years after a controversial point deduction in the quarterfinals.^[128][129]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Bronze Medal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mark López	Men's −68 kg	Bahave (AFG) W 3–0	Manz (GER) W 3–1	López (PER) W 2–1	BYE		Son T-J (KOR) L 2–3
Steven López	Men's −80 kg	B Tanrıkulu (TUR) W 3–0	Sarmiento (ITA) L 1–2	Did not advance	Konan (CIV) W 3–0	Ahmadov (AZE) W 3–2	Did not advance
Charlotte Craig	Women's −49 kg	Bezzola (SUI) W 4–0	Contreras (VEN) L 2–3	Did not advance
Diana López	Women's −57 kg	Premwaew (THA) W 2–0	A Tanrıkulu (TUR) L 1–2	Did not advance	Teo (MAS) W 3–0	Calabrese (ITA) W 3–2	Did not advance

Tennis

The United States Tennis Association (USTA) formally announced their Olympic team for tennis on June 26, 2008.^[130] Because of a nagging knee injury, Lindsay Davenport withdrew from the women's singles competition on August 8, 2008, although she still played in women's doubles.^[56] In a last-minute decision, Jill Craybas was selected to participate in her first Olympics at age 34.^[131]

After losing all eight previous matches against Roger Federer, James Blake defeated him in a surprise upset in the quarterfinals of men's singles.^[132] But Federer went on to beat the top-ranked American twins Bob and Mike Bryan in the doubles semifinals.^[133] Blake finished in fourth place after losing the bronze medal match to Novak Djokovic, while the Bryan twins won a bronze medal by defeating Arnaud Clément and Michaël Llodra. Venus Williams, 2008 Wimbledon champion, and her sister Serena were both upset in the quarterfinals of women's singles.^[134] However, they went on to win the gold in doubles over Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual, and in improving the sisters' Olympic record to 10–0.^[135]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
James Blake	Singles	Guccione (AUS) W 6–3, 7–6^(7–3)	Hrbatý (SVK) W 7–6^(7–3), 4–6, 6–3	Simon (FRA) W 6–4, 6–2	Federer (SUI) W 6–4, 7–6^(7–2)	González (CHI) L 6–4, 5–7, 9–11	Djokovic (SRB) L 3–6, 6–7^(4–7)	4
Robby Ginepri		Djokovic (SRB) L 4–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Sam Querrey		Andreev (RUS) L 4–6, 4–6	Did not advance
James Blake Sam Querrey	Doubles	N/A	Andreev / Davydenko (RUS) L 3–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Bob Bryan Mike Bryan		N/A	Knowles / Mullings (BAH) W 6–2, 6–1	Knowle / Melzer (AUT) W 7–6^(7–2), 6–4	Guccione / Hewitt (AUS) W 6–4, 6–3	Federer / Wawrinka (SUI) L 6–7^(6–8), 4–6	Clément / Llodra (FRA) W 3–6, 6–3, 6–4

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Jill Craybas	Singles	Schnyder (SUI) L 3–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Serena Williams		Govortsova (BLR) W 6–3, 6–1	Stosur (AUS) W 6–2, 6–0	Cornet (FRA) W 3–6, 6–3, 6–4	Dementieva (RUS) L 6–4, 4–6, 3–6	Did not advance
Venus Williams		Bacsinzsky (SUI) W 6–3, 6–2	Benešová (CZE) W 6–1, 6–4	Azarenka (BLR) W 6–3, 6–2	Li N (CHN) L 5–7, 5–7	Did not advance
Lindsay Davenport Liezel Huber	Doubles	N/A	Jans / Rosolska (POL) W 6–2, 6–1	Azarenka / Poutchek (BLR) W 6–4, 4–6, 6–3	Medina Garrigues / Ruano Pascual (ESP) L 7–5, 6–7^(6–8), 6–8	Did not advance
Serena Williams Venus Williams		N/A	Benešová / Vaidišová (CZE) W 4–6, 7–5, 6–1	Morita / Sugiyama (JPN) W 7–5, 6–2	Vesnina / Zvonareva (RUS) W 6–4, 6–0	A Bondarenko / K Bondarenko (UKR) W 4–6, 6–4, 6–1	Medina Garrigues / Ruano Pascual (ESP) W 6–2, 6–0

Triathlon

From September 2007 to April 2008, the U.S. held three selection events, with the top American man and woman securing a place on the U.S. Olympic team.^[136] The U.S. qualified the maximum of three women and three men in Olympic triathlon, following the Vancouver BG Triathlon World Championships in June 2008 and the world rankings released by the International Triathlon Union.^[137] Americans have medaled once since triathlon was added to the Olympic program in 2000: a bronze in Athens.^[138]

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total Time	Rank
Hunter Kemper	Men's	18:04	0:30	59:06	0:28	31:40	1:49:48.75	7
Matt Reed		18:25	0:30	58:48	0:28	34:19	1:52:30.44	32
Jarrod Shoemaker		18:19	0:29	59:03	0:28	32:27	1:50:46.39	18
Laura Bennett	Women's	19:49	0:30	1:04:23	0:29	35:10	2:00:21.54	4
Julie Ertel		19:51	0:30	1:04:24	0:32	37:22	2:02:39.22	19
Sarah Haskins		19:50	0:32	1:04:18	0:32	36:10	2:01:22.57	11

Volleyball

Beach

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Phil Dalhausser Todd Rogers	Men's	Pool B  Pļaviņš – Samoilovs (LAT) L 0 – 2 (19–21, 18–21)  Heuscher – Heyer (SUI) W 2 – 0 (21–15, 21–10)  Baracetti – Conde (ARG) W 2 – 0 (21–12, 21–13)	2 Q	Laciga – Schnider (SUI) W 2 – 1 (21–16, 21–23, 15–13)	Klemperer – Koreng (GER) W 2 – 0 (21–13, 25–23)	Geor – Gia (GEO) W 2 – 0 (21–11, 21–13)	Araújo – Luiz (BRA) W 2 – 1 (23–21, 17–21, 15–4)
Jake Gibb Sean Rosenthal		Pool F  Boersma – Ronnes (NED) W 2 – 0 (21–16, 21–15)  Brink – Dieckmann (GER) W 2 – 0 (21–15, 21–13)  Asahi – Shiratori (JPN) W 2 – 1 (21–15, 19–21, 18–16)	1 Q	Herrera – Mesa (ESP) W 2 – 0 (26–24, 21–17)	Emanuel – Ricardo (BRA) L 0 – 2 (18–21, 16–21)	Did not advance
Misty May-Treanor Kerri Walsh	Women's	Pool B  Kusuhara – Saiki (JPN) W 2 – 0 (21–12, 21–15)  Fernández – Peraza (CUB) W 2 – 0 (21–15, 21–16)  Håkedal – Tørlen (NOR) W 2 – 0 (21–12, 21–15)	1 Q	Mouha – van Breedam (BEL) W 2 – 0 (24–22, 21–10)	Larissa – Ana Paula (BRA) W 2 – 0 (21–18, 21–15)	Talita – Renata (BRA) W 2 – 0 (21–12, 21–14)	Tian J – Wang J (CHN) W 2 – 0 (21–18, 21–18)
Nicole Branagh Elaine Youngs		Pool E  Kadijk – Mooren (NED) W 2 – 0 (21–19, 27–25)  Pohl – Rau (GER) W 2 – 0 (21–17, 21–16)  Crespo – Esteves (CUB) W 2 – 1 (21–19, 13–21, 15–12)	2 Q	Fernández – Peraza (CUB) W 2 – 0 (21–15, 21–13)	Xue C – Zhang X (CHN) L 0 – 2 (17–21, 13–21)	Did not advance

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  President George W. Bush poses with Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser during a practice session in Beijing.

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  President George W. Bush poses with Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh during a practice session in Beijing.

Indoor

The United States was one of nine NOCs that managed to qualify a team in both then men's and the women's tournaments. The men's team won all their matches in the tournament, and earned the gold medal. The women's team won all group matches but one, and qualified to the final round, where they continued the winning streak until losing the gold medal match, ending the tournament with the silver medal.

Men's tournament

Roster

The following is the American roster in the men's volleyball tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[75][139]

The United States team just before the group stage match against Italy. From left: Stanley, Lee, Hansen, Priddy, Ball, Touzinsky, Gardner, Salmon, Rooney, Millar, Lambourne, Hoff.

№	Name	Date of birth	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	2008 club
1	Ball, LloyLloy Ball	February 17, 1972	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	351 cm (138 in)	316 cm (124 in)	Zenit Kazan
2	Rooney, SeanSean Rooney	November 13, 1982	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	354 cm (139 in)	336 cm (132 in)	Dinamo-Yantar Kalingrad
4	Lee, DavidDavid Lee	March 8, 1982	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	105 kg (231 lb)	350 cm (140 in)	325 cm (128 in)	Halkbank Ankara
5	Lambourne, RichardRichard Lambourne	May 6, 1975	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	90 kg (200 lb)	324 cm (128 in)	312 cm (123 in)	AZS Olsztyn
8	Priddy, WilliamWilliam Priddy	October 1, 1977	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	89 kg (196 lb)	353 cm (139 in)	330 cm (130 in)	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk
9	Millar, RyanRyan Millar	January 22, 1978	2.04 m (6 ft 8 in)	98 kg (216 lb)	354 cm (139 in)	326 cm (128 in)	Sparkling Milano
10	Salmon, RileyRiley Salmon	July 2, 1976	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	89 kg (196 lb)	345 cm (136 in)	331 cm (130 in)	Top Volley SRL
12	Hoff, ThomasThomas Hoff	June 9, 1973	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	94 kg (207 lb)	353 cm (139 in)	333 cm (131 in)	Fakel New Urengoy
13	Stanley, ClayClay Stanley	January 20, 1978	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	104 kg (229 lb)	357 cm (141 in)	332 cm (131 in)	Zenit Kazan
14	Hansen, KevinKevin Hansen	March 19, 1982	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	349 cm (137 in)	330 cm (130 in)	Stade Poitevin Poitiers
15	Gardner, GabeGabe Gardner	March 18, 1976	2.09 m (6 ft 10 in)	103 kg (227 lb)	353 cm (139 in)	335 cm (132 in)	Sparkling Milano
18	Touzinsky, ScottScott Touzinsky	April 22, 1982	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	344 cm (135 in)	330 cm (130 in)	ACH Volley Bled

Group play

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	United States	10	5	0	460	371	1.240	15	4	3.750
2	Italy	9	4	1	439	401	1.095	13	6	2.167
3	Bulgaria	8	3	2	446	440	1.014	10	9	1.111
4	China	7	2	3	445	492	0.904	9	13	0.692
5	Venezuela	6	1	4	421	451	0.933	8	12	0.667
6	Japan	5	0	5	392	448	0.875	4	15	0.267

August 10, 2008 12:35	United States	3 – 2	Venezuela	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,000 Referee(s): Konstantin Tufekchiev (BUL), Umit Sokullu (TUR) Report(s): result statistics
	25 25 22 21 15 108	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	18 18 25 25 10 96

August 12, 2008 12:30	United States	3 – 1	Italy	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 12,500 Referee(s): Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT), Kun-Tae Kim (KOR) Report(s): result statistics
	24 25 25 25 99	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	26 22 15 21 84

August 14, 2008 22:30	Bulgaria	1 – 3	United States	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 5,700 Referee(s): Laert Souza (BRA), Kun-Tae Kim (KOR) Report(s): result statistics
	29 21 14 24 88	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	27 25 25 26 103

August 16, 2008 10:00	United States	3 – 0	China	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium, Beijing Attendance: 3,650 Referee(s): Patrick Deregnaucourt (FRA), Laert Souza (BRA) Report(s): result statistics
	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	22 12 18 52

August 18, 2008 22:35	Japan	0 – 3	United States	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 5,800 Referee(s): Dejan Jovanovic (SRB), Patrick Deregnaucourt (FRA) Report(s): result statistics
	18 12 21 51	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 25 25 75

Quarterfinal

August 20, 2008 22:01	United States	3 – 2	Serbia	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 7,500 Referee(s): Ning Wang (CHN), Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI) Report(s): result statistics
	20 25 21 25 15 106	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	25 23 25 18 12 103

Semifinal

August 22, 2008 12:35	United States	3 – 2	Russia	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 12,500 Referee(s): Osamu Sakaide (JPN), Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT) Report(s): result statistics
	25 25 25 22 15 112	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	22 21 27 25 13 108

Gold medal match

August 24, 2008 12:00	United States	3 – 1	Brazil	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 13,000 Referee(s): Ning Wang (CHN), Bela Hobor (HUN) Report(s): result statistics
	20 25 25 25 95	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	25 22 21 23 91

Women's tournament

Roster

The following is the American roster in the women's volleyball tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[75][140]

№	Name	Date of birth	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	2008 club
1	Nnamani, OgonnaOgonna Nnamani	July 29, 1983	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	315 cm (124 in)	305 cm (120 in)	Asystel Novara
2	Scott-Arruda, DanielleDanielle Scott-Arruda	October 1, 1972	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	84 kg (185 lb)	325 cm (128 in)	302 cm (119 in)	Florens Castellana
3	Haneef-Park, TayyibaTayyiba Haneef-Park	March 23, 1979	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	82 kg (181 lb)	328 cm (129 in)	312 cm (123 in)	Eczacıbaşı Zentiva
4	Berg, LindseyLindsey Berg	July 16, 1980	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	75 kg (165 lb)	287 cm (113 in)	274 cm (108 in)	Asystel Novara
5	Sykora, StacyStacy Sykora	June 24, 1977	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)	61 kg (134 lb)	305 cm (120 in)	295 cm (116 in)	Lines Ecocapitanata Altamura
6	Davis, NicoleNicole Davis	April 24, 1982	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)	73 kg (161 lb)	284 cm (112 in)	266 cm (105 in)	Fenerbahçe
7	Bown, HeatherHeather Bown	November 29, 1978	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	90 kg (200 lb)	301 cm (119 in)	290 cm (110 in)	Marche Jesi
9	Joines, JenniferJennifer Joines	November 23, 1982	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	82 kg (181 lb)	315 cm (124 in)	301 cm (119 in)	Toyota Auto Body Queenseis
10	Glass, KimKim Glass	August 18, 1984	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	75 kg (165 lb)	314 cm (124 in)	299 cm (118 in)	Fenerbahçe
11	Ah Mow-Santos, RobynRobyn Ah Mow-Santos	September 15, 1975	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)	67 kg (148 lb)	291 cm (115 in)	281 cm (111 in)	Voléro Zürich
12	Willoughby, KimKim Willoughby	November 7, 1980	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	75 kg (165 lb)	315 cm (124 in)	300 cm (120 in)	Famila Chieri
15	Tom, LoganLogan Tom	May 25, 1981	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	306 cm (120 in)	297 cm (117 in)	Dynamo Moscow

Group play

	Qualified for the quarterfinals
	Eliminated

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Cuba	10	5	0	426	371	1.148	15	3	5.000
2	United States	9	4	1	459	441	1.041	12	9	1.333
3	China	8	3	2	467	395	1.182	13	7	1.857
4	Japan	7	2	3	381	389	0.979	7	11	0.636
5	Poland	6	1	4	441	445	0.991	9	12	0.750
6	Venezuela	5	0	5	262	395	0.663	1	15	0.067

August 9, 2008 22:00	Japan	1 – 3	United States	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 11,500 Referee(s): Massimo Menghini (Italy), Andrei Zenovich (Russia) Report(s): result statistics
	20 25 19 21	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4	25 20 25 25

August 11, 2008 12:35	United States	0 – 3	Cuba	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee(s): Umit Sokullu (Turkey), Dejan Jovanovic (Serbia) Report(s): result statistics
	15 24 17	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	25 26 25

August 13, 2008 12:00	Venezuela	1 – 3	United States	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Attendance: 3,400 Referee(s): Andrei Zenovich (Russia), Dejan Jovanovic (Serbia) Report(s): result statistics
	17 25 14 18	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4	25 20 25 25

August 15, 2008 20:00	United States	3 – 2	China	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 13,000 Referee(s): Konstantin Tufekchiev (Bulgaria), Umit Sokullu (Turkey) Report(s): result statistics
	23 25 23 25 15	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	25 22 25 20 11

August 17, 2008 12:30	Poland	2 – 3	United States	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 11,000 Referee(s): Ibrahim al-Naama (Qatar), Francisco de Souza (Brazil) Report(s): result statistics
	25 21 25 19 13	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	18 25 19 25 15

Quarterfinal

August 19, 2008 22:00	United States	3 – 2	Italy	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee(s): Francisco de Souza (Brazil), Osamu Sakaide (Japan) Report(s): result statistics
	20 25 19 25 15	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	25 21 25 18 6

Semifinal

August 21, 2008 12:35	Cuba	0 – 3	United States	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 13,000 Referee(s): Frans Loderus (Netherlands), Dejan Jovanovic (Serbia) Report(s): result statistics
	20 16 17	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	25 25 26

Gold medal match

August 23, 2008 20:00	United States	1 – 3	Brazil	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 13.000 Referee(s): Massimo Menghini (Italy), Umit Sokullu (Turkey) Report(s): result statistics
	15 25 13 21	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4	25 18 25 25

Water polo

United States participated in both the men's and women's tournaments. Both teams won the silver medal.

Men's tournament

The United States men's water polo team qualified for Beijing by winning the 2007 Pan American Games tournament, held July 21–26 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[141] The 13-man Olympic roster was set by U.S. head coach Terry Schroeder on June 30. For the first time since 1988, the American men reached the finals of the water polo tournament. They won the silver after a loss to the two-time defending gold medalists from Hungary.^[142]

Roster

The following is the American roster in the men's water polo tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[75]

№	Name	Pos.	Height	Weight	Date of birth	Club
1	Moses, MerrillMerrill Moses	GK	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	98 kg (216 lb)	August 13, 1977	The New York Athletic Club
2	Varellas, PeterPeter Varellas	D	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	October 2, 1984	Olympic Club
3	Hudnut, PeterPeter Hudnut	CB	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	102 kg (225 lb)	February 16, 1980	Los Angeles WP Club
4	Powers, JeffJeff Powers	CB	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	109 kg (240 lb)	January 21, 1980	Newport Aquatics Foundation
5	Wright, AdamAdam Wright	D	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	May 4, 1977	The New York Athletic Club
6	Merlo, RickRick Merlo	D	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	98 kg (216 lb)	August 5, 1982	The New York Athletic Club
7	Beaubien, LayneLayne Beaubien	D	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	July 4, 1976	The New York Athletic Club
8	Azevedo, TonyTony Azevedo	D	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	November 21, 1981	The New York Athletic Club
9	Bailey, RyanRyan Bailey	CF	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	111 kg (245 lb)	August 28, 1975	Newport Aquatics Foundation
10	Hutten, TimTim Hutten	CB	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	June 4, 1985	Newport Aquatics Foundation
11	Smith, JesseJesse Smith	CB	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	105 kg (231 lb)	April 27, 1983	Los Angeles WP Club
12	Krumpholz, J. W.J. W. Krumpholz	CF	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	November 22, 1987	Los Angeles WP Club
13	Brooks, BrandonBrandon Brooks	GK	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	111 kg (245 lb)	April 29, 1981	Los Angeles WP Club

Head coach: Terry Schroeder

Group play

	Qualified for the semifinals
	Qualified for the quarterfinals
	Will play for places 7–10
	Will play for places 7–12

Team	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	5	4	0	1	37	31	+6	8
Croatia	5	4	0	1	56	31	+25	8
Serbia	5	3	0	2	50	38	+12	6
Germany	5	2	0	3	33	44	−11	4
Italy	5	2	0	3	57	50	+7	4
China	5	0	0	5	25	64	−39	0

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8).

August 10, 2008 16:40	Game reference	United States	8–4	China	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Balfanbayev (KAZ), Brguljan (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 3-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-0
		Azevedo 5, Beaubien 2	Goals	Wang B. 2

August 12, 2008 12:10	Game reference	Italy	11–12	United States	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Brguljan (MNE), Patelli (BRA)
		Score by quarters: 1-2, 2-3, 4-3, 4-4
		Gallo 3, Felugo 3, Calcaterra 2, Sottani 2	Goals	Powers 3, Azevedo 2

August 14, 2008 10:50	Game reference	United States	2–4	Serbia	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Antsiferov (RUS), Littlejohn (GBR)
		Score by quarters: 0-0, 1-2, 0-2, 1-0
		Varellas 2	Goals	Udovičić 1, Pijetlović 1, Šapić 1, Vujasinović 1

August 16, 2008 12:10	Game reference	Croatia	5–7	United States	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Simion (ROU), Antsiferov (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 2-2, 1-3, 0-0, 2-2
		Đogaš 2	Goals	Azevedo 3

August 18, 2008 14:00	Game reference	United States	8–7	Germany	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Margeta (SLO), Kiszelly (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 3-2, 2-1, 2-2, 1-2
		Powers 2, Wright 2	Goals	Nossek 5

Semifinal

August 22, 2008 19:40	Game reference	United States	10–5	Serbia	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Turcotte (CAN), Margeta (SLO)
		Score by quarters: 3-3, 2-1, 2-1, 3-0
		Azevedo 3, Beaubien 2, Bailey 2	Goals	Pijetlović 2, Vujasinović 2

Final

August 24, 2008 15:40	Game reference	Hungary	14–10	United States	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Turcotte (CAN), Brguljan (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 6-4, 3-4, 2-1, 3-1
		Dá. Varga 3, Biros 3, Dé. Varga 2	Goals	Azevedo 4, Beaubien 2, Smith 2

Women's tournament

The United States women's water polo team qualified for Beijing by winning the 2007 Pan American Games tournament, held July 14–20 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[143] The U.S. Olympic roster of 13 was named by head coach Guy Baker on June 30. In Beijing, the American women won their second silver medal in the last three Olympics. The U.S. also became the only nation to medal in all three Olympics featuring women's water polo.^[144]

Roster

The following is the American roster in the women's water polo tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[75]

№	Name	Pos.	Height	Weight	Date of birth	Club
1	Armstrong, ElizabethElizabeth Armstrong	GK	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	79 kg (174 lb)	January 31, 1983	Great Lakes Ann Arbor
2	Petri, HeatherHeather Petri	D	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	75 kg (165 lb)	June 13, 1978	The New York Athletic Club
3	Hayes, BrittanyBrittany Hayes	D	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	72 kg (159 lb)	February 7, 1985	Socal Tustin
4	Villa, BrendaBrenda Villa	D	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)	79 kg (174 lb)	April 18, 1980	Orizzonta Catania
5	Wenger, LaurenLauren Wenger	CF	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	77 kg (170 lb)	March 11, 1984	Glyfada Athens
6	Golda, NatalieNatalie Golda	CB	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	84 kg (185 lb)	December 28, 1981	The New York Athletic Club
7	Cardenas, PattyPatty Cardenas	D	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	73 kg (161 lb)	August 19, 1984	Commerce
8	Steffens, JessicaJessica Steffens	CF	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	77 kg (170 lb)	April 7, 1987	Sunset San Diego
9	Windes, ElsieElsie Windes	CB	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	79 kg (174 lb)	June 17, 1985	Tualatin Hills
10	Gregorka, AlisonAlison Gregorka	CB	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	73 kg (161 lb)	June 29, 1985	Great Lakes Ann Arbor
11	Norman, MoriahMoriah van Norman	CF	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	May 30, 1984	The New York Athletic Club
12	Craig, KamiKami Craig	CF	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	July 21, 1987	Santa Barbara
13	Hipp, JamieJamie Hipp	GK	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	73 kg (161 lb)	September 1, 1981	CN Ondaretta Alcorcón

Head coach: Guy Baker

Group play

	Qualified for the semifinals
	Qualified for the quarterfinals
	Will play for places 7–8

Team	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	2	1	0	33	27	+6	5
Italy	3	2	1	0	28	26	+2	5
China	3	1	0	2	33	33	0	2
Russia	3	0	0	3	26	34	−8	0

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8).

August 11, 2008 17:00	Game reference	United States	12–11	China	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Kiszelly (HUN), Tulga (TUR)
		Score by quarters: 3-3, 5-4, 2-2, 2-2
		Golda 4, Craig 3, Hayes 2	Goals	Gao 3, Teng 2, Sun Yu. 2, Sun H. 2

August 13, 2008 15:40	Game reference	United States	9–9	Italy	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Balfanbayev (KAZ), Kiszelly (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 0-2, 4-2, 2-2, 3-3
		Hayes 2, Villa 2	Goals	Miceli 2, di Mario 2

August 15, 2008 14:20	Game reference	Russia	7–12	United States	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Moliner Molins (ESP), Tulga (TUR)
		Score by quarters: 0-5, 3-2, 2-4, 2-1
		Konukh 2, Turova 2	Goals	Golda 3, Villa 2, Gregorka 2

Semifinal

August 19, 2008 14:20	Game reference	United States	9–8	Australia	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Margeta (SLO), Caputi (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 2-2, 2-2, 4-1, 1-3
		Villa 3, Hayes 2	Goals	Gynther 3, R. Rippon 2

Final

August 21, 2008 18:20	Game reference	United States	8–9	Netherlands	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Kiszelly (HUN), Caputi (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 2-4, 3-1, 1-2, 2-2
		Steffens 2	Goals	de Bruijn 7

Weightlifting

The USA Weightlifting trials were held on May 25 in Atlanta, Georgia. The initial team included seven competitors and two alternates.^[145] Casey Burgener was originally selected to lift at the +105 kg event after the USOC reported that the International Weightlifting Federation offered the United States a third men's Olympic slot.^[146] The third slot never materialized, and the United States was not placed on the start list for the +105 event.^[147] The best U.S. hope for a weightlifting medal was expected to be Melanie Roach, who set a new American record and finished in sixth place.^[148]

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Chad Vaughn	−77 kg	147	16	144	DNF	147	DNF
Kendrick Farris	−85 kg	160	11	202	=7	362	8

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Melanie Roach	−53 kg	83	6	110	6	193	6
Carissa Gump	−63 kg	88	14	116	14	204	14
Natalie Woolfolk		97	=9	114	12	211	12
Cheryl Haworth	+75 kg	115	=6	144	6	259	6

Wrestling

The United States qualified in all weight classes except 60 kg men's Greco-Roman. A total of sixteen wrestlers represented the U.S. in Beijing,^[149] winning a total of three medals: two bronze and one gold. Henry Cejudo became the first American wrestler to win a freestyle gold medal in four years.^[150]

Key:

• VT - Victory by Fall.
• PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
• PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Henry Cejudo	−55 kg	BYE	Velikov (BUL) W 3–1 ^PP	Gochashvili (GEO) W 3–1 ^PP	Sevdimov (AZE) W 3–1 ^PP	BYE		Matsunaga (JPN) W 3–1 ^PP
Mike Zadick	−60 kg	BYE	Fedoryshyn (UKR) L 0–3 ^PO	Did not advance		Bazarguruev (KGZ) L 0–3 ^PO	Did not advance		19
Doug Schwab	−66 kg	Stadnik (UKR) L 0–3 ^PO	Did not advance						14
Ben Askren	−74 kg	Veréb (HUN) W 5–0 ^VT	Fundora (CUB) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance					7
Andy Hrovat	−84 kg	BYE	Salas (CUB) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance					12
Daniel Cormier	−96 kg	Batista (CUB) L 0–5 ^VB[151]	Did not advance						19
Steve Mocco	−120 kg	Tomar (IND) W 3–0 ^PO	Liang L (CHN) W 3–0 ^PO	Akhmedov (RUS) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance	BYE	Masoumi (IRI) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance	7

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Spenser Mango	−55 kg	BYE	Munteanu (ROU) W 3–1 ^PP	Park E-C (KOR) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance				8
Jake Deitchler	−66 kg	BYE	Begaliev (KGZ) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance		BYE	Vardanyan (UKR) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance	12
T. C. Dantzler	−74 kg	Bácsi (HUN) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance						16
Brad Vering	−84 kg	Michalkiewicz (POL) W 3–1 ^PP	Forov (ARM) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance					12
Adam Wheeler	−96 kg	BYE	Virág (HUN) W 3–1 ^PP	Jiang Hc (CHN) W 3–1 ^PP	Englich (GER) L 1–3 ^PP	BYE		Han T-Y (KOR) W 3–1 ^PP
Dremiel Byers	−120 kg	Chernetskyi (UKR) W 3–1 ^PP	Liu Dl (CHN) W 3–1 ^PP	Sjöberg (SWE) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance				7

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Clarissa Chun	−48 kg	BYE	Mattsson (SWE) W 3–1 ^PP	Boubryemm (FRA) W 3–1 ^PP	Icho (JPN) L 1–3 ^PP	BYE		Merleni (UKR) L 1–3 ^PP	5
Marcie Van Dusen	−55 kg	N/A	Synyshyn (UKR) W 3–1 ^PP	Rentería (COL) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance				9
Randi Miller	−63 kg	Farag (EGY) W 3–0 ^PO	Ostapchuk (UKR) W 3–1 ^PP	Icho (JPN) L 0–3 ^PO	Did not advance	BYE	Zamula (AZE) W 3–0 ^PO	Dugrenier (CAN) W 3–1 ^PP
Ali Bernard	−72 kg	N/A	Obiajunwa (NGR) W 5–0 ^VT	Wang J (CHN) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance	BYE	Fransson (SWE) W 3–1 ^PP	Hamaguchi (JPN) L 1–3 ^PP	5

See also

• United States at the 2007 Pan American Games
• United States at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
• United States at the Olympics

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