The random draw was felt harshly as the top two seeds Jordan Burroughs and Aniuar Geduev came up against each other in the quarter-finals

Lasha Talakhadze beat the old World Record with a lift of 215kg, but it was outdone by Behdad Salimi beating his own World Record

Serbia and Croatia were seeded number one heading into the tournament, but neither won their group

There, they came up against China who had overcome Brazil, winning 3-2 in the shock of the tournament.

Soon, Luis was dropped, leaving the two brothers in the familiar position of battling for the gold.

The greatest difficulty and flight went to Gao Lei, but his execution let him down so he could only finish bronze.

Kenny lost his first race in the semi but rebounded to qualify where he’d come up against teammate Callum Skinner.

The draw opened up in the top quarter when number one seed Novak Djokovic (Serbia) was eliminated in two tie breaks by Juan Martin Del Potro

This tournament was thrown open in the preliminary round as the top two seeds Farzan Ashourzadeh and Kim Tae-Hun were upset

Just as impressive in the bottom half of the draw was Li Xiaoxia and Ai Fukuhara neither of whom dropped a set in making the quarter finals

Russia were absolutely dominant in this event, proving their status as pre-event favourites to be correct. They led in both

The fastest ever breaststroke split by Adam Peaty took time out of his rivals and gave Britain the lead but America had Phelps and Adrian

Batsarashkina, once again started fast in the final, leading on 39.8. That gap was closed by Zhang Mengxue

After five events, it was pretty clear that the race was going to come down to Dorian van Rijsselberghe and Nick Dempsey

New Zealand turned it on in the semi-final, with Portia Woodman scoring a hat trick to help beat Great Britain 25-7

In the final, Britain got off to the better start but at halfway the gap was only 0.22 seconds. Britain entered the race having won the last

He edged Rohan Dennis’ time up the mountain and although he lost 25 seconds before the second check he would fly around the rest

In the final, performances only improved. Mamun scored 19 points in every event with Kudryavtseva managing it in all but one.

On lap two though, Indergrand went backwards with Neff trying to keep up with Rissveds.

The quickest final stage came from Jun Woong-Tae (South Korea) but he was too far off to land a medal.

Baker once again won by ippon in the semi-final and would take on Liparteliani who also won by ippon.

In the semi-finals, the Netherlands beat Germany after an epic 14-shot penalty shootout. Great Britain joined them in the final

Brazil could not continue the hot streak and were knocked out in the quarter finals by Netherlands. The other ties went to form

Stacy Lewis had an eight-under round to get into second while Brooke Henderson went seven under to join Charley Hull into third

In the other semi-final once again Sweden and Brazil would head to a penalty shootout. This time Sweden would get the win

Steffen continued his run beating Borel (France) in the quarter-finals but lost to Park in the semis. Géza Imre (Hungary) who had conceded only nine points in his worst bout, eliminated Gauthier Grumier (France). Imre, at 41 years old, went 14-10 up needing only one point to win gold but could not get the final touch as Park landed five straight shots.

Only three riders incurred no time penalties in the cross country, with Burton leading Michael Jung (Germany) and Astier Nicolás (France).

Once again the Chinese dominance was clear. For every single dive, they outscored all their opponents on that dive.

The two Australians would go on to dominate the semi-finals, both Dean and Willoughby winning all three semi-finals.

The fastest time came in the second semi as Danuta Kozák (Hungary) took the win ahead of Emma Jørgensen (Denmark)

The final was incredibly close though with five men separated by less than a second.

One of the more memorable moments of the Olympics as Conlan put his middle finger up at all the judges before launching a scathing attack

Ludwig/Walkenhorst beat Larissa/Talita in straight sets and were joined in the final by Agatha/Barbara who stopped the American team

Once again, it took an expected route with the United States averaging 104 points in their group stage games.

Lin Dan was also taken to three sets, against Srikanth Kidambi. Long was comfortable against Axelsen, winning in straight sets

The first two won their semi-finals but Van Niekerk finished behind Machel Cedenio (Trinidad & Tobago) which meant he’d run from lane eight.

Smith was first up and improved on both scores from qualification, scoring 15.833. Whitlock was the final man to go

The ranking round saw Kim Woo-Jin (South Korea) set a world record of 700 including 52 10s. Despite this, Kim was upset in the second round