Rebecca Adlington Rebecca Adlington Rebecca Adlington, OBE (born 17 February 1989) is a British former competitive swimmer who specialized in freestyle events in international competition. She won two gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 400-metre freestyle and 800-metre freestyle, breaking the 19-year-old world record of Janet Evans in the 800-metre final. Adlington was Britain's first Olympic swimming champion since 1988, and the first British swimmer to win two Olympic gold medals since 1908. She won bronze medals in both the women's 400-metre and 800-metre freestyle events in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. On 5 February 2013, Adlington retired
Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Keirin at the late 2007 World Cup event in Sydney, affording another position to qualifiers based on Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) rankings. REL=Relegated, DNF=Did not finish, DNS=Did not start Heat 1 Heat 2 Heat 3 Heat 4 Heat 1 Heat 2 Heat 3 Heat 4 Heat 1 Heat 2 Classification race Medals race Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Keirin The men's Keirin at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 16 at the Laoshan Velodrome. This track cycling event consisted of multiple rounds. In each race, the four to seven cyclists in the heat covered 8 laps