Medal Standings

(BEIJING, August 10) -- China's "Golden Pair" Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia claimed their second consecutive Olympic gold in Synchronized Women's 3m Springboard with a score of 343.50 on Sunday, August 10, at National Aquatics Center. Russians Julia Pakhalina and Anastasia Pozdnyakova finished second, while Ditte Kotzian and Heike Fischer of Germany finished third.

China was tied for first with Russia and the United States after the first dive, with a score of 52.80, then pulled ahead with three 10s on their second dive and never looked back. Their lead over Russia after an 81.90-point fourth dive was 17.37, making gold all but certain, and a score of 75.60 on the final dive sealed the deal.

Guo Jingjing (above) and Wu Minxia of China dive. (Photo credit: Liu Yu/ Xinhua)

(L-R) Julia Pakhalina and Anastasia Pozdnyakova, Guo Jingjing and
Wu Minxia and Ditte Kotzian and Heike Fischer
(Photo credit: Al Bello/Getty Images)

Medal Standings

Total

1	CHN	4	1		5
2	USA	2	2	4	8
3	KOR	2	2		4
4	CZE	2			2
5	AUS	1		1	2

Guo Wenjun of China competes. (Photo credit: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)

(BEIJING, August 10) -- Some of the biggest names in world sports are in action as 14 gold medals are at stake in seven sports and an additional 14 sports are contested on day two of Beijing 2008.

Four of the day's finals are in Swimming: the Men's 400m Individual Medley, Men's 400m Freestyle, Women's 400m Individual Medley and Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay, which will be contested on Sunday morning, local time.

Undoubtedly, the biggest star at the Water Cube will be Michael Phelps -- the 'Baltimore Bullet' will start his quest to break Michael Spitz's Olympic record of seven gold medals at a single Olympic Games, beginning with the 400m Individual Medley. Phelps rewrote his own Olympic record with a time of 4:07.82 in the preliminary round, and will also feature in the Men's 200m Freestyle preliminaries later in the evening, one of six qualifying heats, in addition to semifinals in the Women's 100m Butterfly and Men's 100m Breaststroke.

The Men's 400m Freestyle final will center on the 2004 silver medalist Grant Hackett of Australia and Park Tae-hwan of the Republic of Korea (ROK).

Nineteen-year-old Katie Hoff (USA) will be the highlight of the Women's 400m Individual Medley on Sunday. Her biggest challenges could come from her fifteen-year-old teammate, top qualifier of today's prelim Elizabeth Beisel, and ex-world-record holder Stephanie Rice from Australia.