• Thursday August 21

    0200 Swimming - Open Water (David Davies)
    0400 Cycling - BMX (Shanaze Reade)
    1320 Athletics - Men's triple jump final (Phillips Idowu)
    1420 Athletics - Women's 200m (Allyson Felix)
    1435 Athletics - Men's 110m hurdles final (Dayron Robles)
    All times BST
  • Friday August 22

    1300 Modern Pentathlon - Final women's event
    1330 Hockey - Women's final
    1440 Athletics - Decathlon, final event
    1510 Athletics - Men's 4x100m relay
    All times BST
  • Saturday August 23

    0500 Football - Men's final
    1200 Boxing - Five finals
    1300 Diving - Tom Daley
    1330 Hockey - Men's final
    1340 Athletics - Women's 4x400m relay
    All times BST
Medals Table
G S B Tot
1 CHN 45 14 20 79
2 USA 26 28 28 82
3 GBR 16 10 11 37
4 RUS 13 14 18 45
5 AUS 11 12 13 36
6 GER 11 8 9 28
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