Peter Burling and Carl Evans finished 11th in the 470 class and Hamish Pepper and Carl Williams finished 9th in the Star class.
New Zealand won 3 gold medals at Beijing in 2008 * Womens double sculls * Womens shot put * mens sailboard
New Zealand's first medal of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was won by Mahe Drysdale, who achieved a Bronze in the men's singles sculls event. The first Gold medal won by New Zealand at Beijing was achieved by Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell in the Women's Double Sculls.
Yes, they won gold in women's double sculls rowing.
Gold medalists for New Zealand at the 2008 Games in Beijing:1) Valerie Vili - women's shot put.2) Caroline Evers-Swindell and Georgina Evers-Swindell - women's double sculls rowing.3) Tom Ashley - men's windsurfer sailing.
New Zealand won their first gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics when Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell won the Women's Double Sculls. On the same day, Valerie Vili also won gold in the Women's Shot Put, and four days later Tom Ashley won Gold in the Men's Sailboard event.
They have two Olympic medals to their credit, golds in Double sculls event at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and 2008 Olympics in Beijing. In the Rowing World Championships in the Double Sculls event they achived gold medals in 2002 and 2003.
According to http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/16/sports/OLY-ROW-Womens-Double-Sculls.php Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell of New Zealand beat Germany's Annekatrin Thiele and Christiane Huth at the line by one-hundredth of a second.
Three, the Evers-Swindell twins in women's double sculls rowing, Valerie Vili in women's shot put, and Tom Ashley in men's windsurfing.
New Zealand first competed in the Olympics in 1908. Since then the country has won over one hundred medals in the summer games. They have won gold, silver, and bronze medals. They have also won one medal in the winter games. The winter medal was silver won in Albertville in 1992.
The Mexican Olympic delegation for Beijing comprised 83 athletes. The Mexican team included athletes in the following disciplines: Athletics: Women's 4 x 400m Relay Beach Volleyball: Women Canoe/Kayak - Flatwater: Canoe Double (C2) 1000m Men | Canoe Double (C2) 500m Men Diving: Women's Synchronised 10m Platform Equestrian: Jumping Team Rowing: Lightweight Women's Double Sculls Sailing: RS:X Men | RS:X Women | Laser Radial Synchronized Swimming: Duet
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