China girl completes 3,500km run
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A Chinese girl arrives in Beijing after running more than 3,550km (2,200 miles) from the province of Hainan.
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BERLIN: Japanâs Yoko Shibui ran the fourth fastest womenâs race in history on a chilly, drizzling Sunday and broke the Berlin Marathon record with a time of 2 hours, 19 minutes and 41 seconds.
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Athanasia Tsoumeleka of Greece wins the women's 20km walk.
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Sarah Ulmer of New Zealand continued her dominance of pursuit racing yesterday, breaking her world record to win the Olympic gold medal in the 3,000-meter pursuit.
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World champion diver Guo Jingjing snatched China&#39;s fifth straight women&#39;s Olympic three meters springboard title on August 26, finishing ahead of teammate Wu Minxia and Russian Yulia Pakhalina.
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Three-day stint led to collapse from exhaustion, Chinese officials say.
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Xie Xingfang defended her crown when she   beat world number two Zhang Ning to win an all-Chinese women's   singles final 21-16 21-14 at the world championships in Madrid   on Sunday.
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New Zealander Sarah Ulmer broke the world record in winning the women&#39;s 3000-meter individual pursuit gold medal at the Athens Olympics on Sunday.
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Australia has set a new world record of 3 minutes, 56.342 seconds in winning its quarter-final of the men's team pursuit at the Athens Olympics.
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Kelly Holmes won the women&#39;s 1,500 meters to become the third woman to win that race and the 800 meters at the same Olympics. The 34-year-old runner from the UK added the metric-mile gold medal in 3 minutes, 57.
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ATHENS   Anna Meares of Australia won the gold medal Friday in the 500-meter time trial with a world-record time of 33.952 seconds.
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Japan&#39;s Yoko Shibui overcame a run-in with an official to win the Berlin Marathon on Sunday in a race-record 2 hours, 19 minutes, 41 seconds, the fourth-best time for a woman at the distance.
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Ever since being awarded the 2008 Olympic Games three years ago, China has seen the event as a sort of coming-out party to the world and an opportunity to showcase the strides it has made.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Kelly Holmes of Britain won the gold medal Saturday in the 1,500-meter race with a time of 3:57.90. Tatyana Tomashova of Russia won the silver in 3:58.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Teenager Liu Chunhong of China set a world record in winning the women&#39;s 69kg weightlifting division on Thursday.
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Sarah Ulmer of New Zealand continued her dominance of pursuit racing Sunday, breaking her own world record to win the Olympic gold medal.
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Athens -- They might as well paint the diving board red. The gold medal for women&#39;s 3-meter springboard diving went to the Chinese -- for the fifth Olympics in a row.