There are 19 golds to be won on day four in Beijing, including in the men's team gymnastics competition, where China come out on top America's Olympic beach volleyball champions Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor see off Cuba in straight sets Spain score first in their hockey match against Australia but end up on the wrong end of a 6-1 drubbing by the Hockeyroos Natalie Coughlin is part of a big American medal haul at the Water Cube, winning gold in the women's 100m backstroke The real star in the pool once again is Coughlin's compatriot Michael Phelps, chasing an unprecedented eight swimming golds in Beijng Phelps duly delivers his third gold of the Games so far by winning the 200m freestyle title in another new world record time Aaron Peirsol wins the 100m backstroke as the United States grab three golds in the Water Cube during a successful morning in the pool Australia claim a gold in the water as Leisel Jones wins the women's 100m breaststroke - bettering her old Olympic record Great Britain's Richard Faulds misses out on a medal in the men's double trap final - the Sydney gold medallist finishes sixth Britain's Bryony Shaw slips from third to fifth overall after finishing 11th in her third race of the women's RSX races Joe Murray loses 17-7 to China's Gu Yu in the first round of the bantamweight competition to inflic Britain's first defeat in the ring David Florence claims silver for Great Britain in the C1 canoeing event with a perfect run at Shunyi white water park Florence celebrates on the podium after picking up only the fourth medal ever by a British paddler behind the superb Michal Martikan Naomi Folkard ends the hopes of fellow Briton Charlotte Burgess in the women's archery and advances to the quarter-finals Benjamin Boukpeti makes history as he takes Togo's first ever Olympic medal with bronze in the men's kayak single Russia's Nazyr Mankiev wins gold in the 55kg greco-roman wrestling ahead of Azerbaijan's Rovshan Bayramov Britain's Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms win a thrilling badminton match 21-16, 16-21, 21-19 against China's Ling Gao and Bo Zheng Mary King secures the bronze for Great Britain in the eventing alongside Sharon Hunt, Daisy Dick, William Fox-Pitt and Tina Cook Rafael Nadal is in impressive form as he beats Australia's Lleyton Hewitt 6-1 6-2 to progress to the third round Cook and Minors Frolic add individual bronze in the eventing with a terrific clear round in the show jumping in Hong Kong Great Britain's eventing team receive their bronze medals on a balmy Hong Kong evening with Cook also picking up her individual bronze
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