Athletes From San Diego’s (Chula Vista) USA Olympic Training Center raced for chances at medals Saturday. Swimming is one of the more popular events at the Olympics and has come to and end. Now track and field receives its spot light. One out of every nine USA track and field athletes train or live at the Olympic Training Center at Chula Vista. Today was the most successful day of the London 2012 Summer Olympics for San Diego Athletes. Our San Diego Athletes added three more medals to team USA’s medal count. This is a spoiler alert so if you would not like to see the results please go back to the home page and pick another article.

 

Men’s Four Crew

USA Men’s Four Crew team was led by Scott Gault, Charlie Cole, Henrik Rummel and Glenn Ochal. All members of the USA Men’s Four Crew team train at the USA Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Time
1	6	Great Britain	6:03.97
2	4	Australia	6:05.19
3	5	United States	6:07.20
4	3	Greece	6:11.43
5	2	Netherlands	6:14.78
6	1	Germany	6:16.37

Women’s Single Sculls

Gevvie Stone unfortunately did not make the final cut for the Women’s Single Sculls. Stone was able to finish first in her B heat with a faster time then the boat who won gold. STONE’s time was (7:45.24) and the gold medalist M Knapkova (Czech Republic) was (7:54.37).

Women’s Lightweight Double Sculls

Kristin Hedstrom and Julie Nichols placed sixth in the women’s lightweight double sculls finals.

Track & Field (Poll Vault)

Becky Holliday qualified for the finals in Track and Field with her finish in the preliminary event.

Rank	Bib Number	Athlete	Mark	Qualified
1	2863	ISINBAEVA Elena	4.55	q
2	2698	ROGOWSKA Anna	4.55	q
3	1967	SPIEGELBURG Silke	4.55	q
4	3296	HOLLIDAY Becky	4.55	q
5	1539	PTACNIKOVA Jirina	4.55	q

Track & Field (Long Jump)

Will Claye came in third in Saturdays long jump final and earned San Diego another Olympic medal.

Rank	Bib Number	Athlete	Mark	Qualified
1	1832	RUTHERFORD Greg	8.31	-0.4
2	1066	WATT Mitchell	8.16	-0.2
3	3211	CLAYE Will	8.12	-0.2
4	3002	TORNEUS Michel	8.11	-0.7
5	1892	BAYER Sebastian	8.10	+0.4
6	1839	TOMLINSON Christopher	8.07	+0.2
7	1219	DA SILVA Mauro Vinicius	8.01	-0.1
8	2785	MOKOENA Godfrey Khotso	7.93	-2.3
9	1043	FRAYNE Henry	7.85	-0.3
10	3218	GOODWIN Marquise	7.80	+0.2
11	2818	MENKOV Aleksandr	7.78	-0.9
12	1151	SMITH Tyrone	7.70	+0.9

Cycling (Women’s Team Pursuit)

Cyclist Sarah Hammer helped propel the US Women’s Cycling team to a silver medal in the women’s cycling team pursuit finals.

Rank	Nation
1	Great Britain
2	United States
3	Canada
4	Australia
5	New Zealand
6	Netherlands
7	Belarus
8	Germany
9	Ukraine
10	China

Sailing (Women’s Match Racing)

The US Women’s Match Racing team defeated Sweden and Great Britain. Next up for the American team, Finland. The team members are Molly O’Bryan Vandemoer, Anna Tunnicliffe and Debbie Capozzi.