Rowing Olympic Players: Rowing is a water sport, which helps in the exercise of the muscles of the full body. On lakes, rivers or oceans rowers race with their boats. On pushing the oar blades against the water, the boats move forward. Rowing is a sport, which is often taken as a recreation. To take part in rowing, one has to be fit enough and must know swimming.
Rowing is one of the oldest Olympic sports. The stems or oars are fixed to the boats. The rowing competitions are however different from place to place. The types of race include time trials, bumps racing, endurance races, stake racing, and the side-by-side format. In the Olympics, the side-by-side method is used.
The types of rowing include sweep oar rowing and sculling. In case of sweep oar rowing, each rower uses one oar, which he holds with both the hands. In sculling, each rower has two oars, which he holds with each hand.
Steven Redgrave is one of the most popular rowing champions in the world. Born on the 23rd of March in 1962 in England, Sir Stephen Geoffrey Redgrave has won silver and gold medal in rowing. He is a gold medallist of the Los Angeles Summer Games of 1984 as well as World Rowing Championships in 1987. During his career, he has won several awards.
| The Greatest Rower at the Olympic Games |
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| Rank | Players Name | Representing Country | Gender | Gold Medal | Silver Medal | Bronze Medal | Total Medals |
| 1 | Elisabeta Lipă | Romania | F | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | Georgeta Damian | Romania | F | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Steve Redgrave | Great Britain | M | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Doina Ignat | Romania | F | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | Kathrin Boron | Germany | F | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | Viorica Susanu | Romania | F | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Matthew Pinsent | Great Britain | M | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | Jack Beresford | Great Britain | M | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 9 | Constanţa Burcică | Romania | F | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 10 | Elena Georgescu | Romania | F | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 11 | Drew Ginn | Australia | M | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 12 | Eskild Ebbesen | Denmark | M | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 13 | Kathleen Heddle | Canada | F | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 14 | Marnie McBean | Canada | F | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 15 | James Tomkins | Australia | M | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 16 | Agostino Abbagnale | Italy | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 17 | Siegfried Brietzke | East Germany | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 18 | Paul Costello | USA | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 19 | Liliana Gafencu | Romania | F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 20 | Vyacheslav Ivanov | Soviet Union | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 21 | Pertti Karppinen | Finland | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 22 | John B. Kelly, Sr. | USA | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Team USA defeated team Serbia to win its third straight basketball gold medal in Men’s Basketball tournament. The winning team’s coach Mike Krzyzewski was utmost delighted with his team’s victory on the final day of Rio 2016 Olympic Games. USA won by a 19-15 lead and this is their 25th straight victory at the Olympic Games in addition to the 15th straight victory in the basketball tournament.
Mo Farah of Great Britain has bagged the gold by winning the 5000 meters final and completed the double double. According to media reports, with this victory Farah has become the second man in the history of Olympics to be able to successfully defend his 5000 and 10000 Olympic championships. His victory is being hailed on Twitter with some calling him the greatest long distance runner of all time. Meanwhile, the silver medal has gone to Paul Kipkemoi Chelimo and Dejen Gebremeskel of Ethiopia has bagged the bronze.
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Chen Long of China has taken gold medal in the Rio Olympics 2016 after defeating Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, who has won a silver in men’s badminton today. Lee was facing pressure not to lose the match. He beat Lin Dan of China in the semi-final. Lee and Lin, both are considered to be the best players of their time. With Lee’s defeat, Malaysia has missed out the chance of getting an Olympic gold medal.
Italy came up with a win and is heading to men's volleyball final against Brazil, after defeating USA. The US men's volleyball team tried all their survival skills, but could not stand in front of Italy. The winning team's thriller was 30-28, 26-28, 9-25, 25-22, 15-9. After it was over, US coach John Speraw said that the team was not skilled enough and they did not execute on some of the opportunities, which Italy flawlessly did
French boxer Estelle Mossely celebrated her 24th birthday by winning a gold medal in Women’s lightweight boxing championship. She defeated China’s Yin Junhua after the end of four rounds that had the two defending champions leveled on the scorecards of three judges. The bronze medals were earned by Mira Potkonen of Finland and Anastasia Beliakova of Russia.
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