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The United States ' Serena Williams defeated Russia 's Maria Sharapova in the final, 6–0, 6–1 to win the gold medal in women's singles tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Both finalists were attempting to become the second woman (after Steffi Graf) to complete the career Golden Slam in singles. Williams won the gold, only weeks after ...
The Washington Post. Associated Press. 5 August 2012. Archived from the original on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2012. ^ "Molfetta wins Olympic gold in men's plus-80K". Huffington Post. Retrieved 11 August 2012. ^ Fordyce, Tom (6 August 2012). "Grenada's Kirani James wins Olympic 400m gold".
The Women's 800 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 8–11 August. [2] The race was won by Mariya Savinova, but she has since been stripped of the gold medal for doping.
men. v. t. e. The athletics competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held during the last 10 days of the Games, on 3–12 August. Track and field events took place at the Olympic Stadium in east London. The road events, however, started and finished on The Mall in central London. [3]
BOA. LOCOG. v. t. e. The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, was a summer multi-sport event held in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August. A total of 10,768 athletes from 204 nations participated in 302 events in 26 sports across 39 different disciplines. [1] [2] Overall, 86 ...
The women's singles table tennis event was a part of the table tennis programme at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The event took place from Saturday 28 July to Wednesday 1 August 2012 at ExCeL London. [2] The tournament was a single elimination tournament with a third place playoff played between the two losing semi-finalists.
The Williams sisters did not drop a set en route to their third gold medal in doubles, becoming the first players in tennis history to win four Olympic gold medals, with the pairing also winning the doubles golds in 2000 and 2008, and Venus winning the 2000 singles and Serena winning the 2012 singles events. In the bronze medal match, Russia's ...
t. e. The Women's heptathlon competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 3–4 August. [1] The gold medal was won by Jessica Ennis. [2] She bettered Eunice Barber 's World Heptathlon Best in the 100 metres hurdles by .08 of a second. [3] Many others in the field also achieved ...