Tracking Wisconsin's Olympians: Sunday, Aug. 17 (with TV listings)
Each day during the Beijing Games, The Capital Times will update how Wisconsin's Olympians are doing and highlight some upcoming events.
BRONZE FOR HOOPMAN, BOYD
Beau Hoopman and Micah Boyd added to the medal total for the University of Wisconsin rowing program.
Hoopman and Boyd collected the 13th and 14th medals by former UW rowers Sunday when they took the bronze as part of the U.S. men's Eight crew.
The Americans finished the 2,000-meter course in 5:25.34, 1.45 seconds behind winner Canada and 0.23 behind silver medalist Great Britain.
In sixth place after 500 meters, the U.S. had to stage a comeback just to get on the medal podium. They moved into fourth at the halfway point, then put together the two fastest 500-meter splits of the race (1:21.38 and 1:20.21) down the stretch.
"It's a medal," Boyd told the Star Tribune. "It goes up on the grand tally. It hurts that it's not gold or silver, but we're coming home with hardware."
Hoopman, a Plymouth native, has his second Olympic medal; he won gold with the Eight in 2004.
WEBER-GALE GOLDEN AGAIN
He didn't appear on the medal stand, but Milwaukee's Garrett Weber-Gale will have a second gold medal from the Beijing Olympics because he took part in the qualifying for the Americans' 400-meter medley relay.
And that's a pretty good connection to have, considering that it was the race in which Michael Phelps won his record eighth gold in these Games.
NO MEDAL FOR BARKOW
Nashotah's Sally Barkow and the U.S. Yngling crew finished ninth in Sunday's medal race and tumbled to seventh in the final standings.
The American crew finished 2:28 behind the winners of both the race and the gold medal, Great Britain.
MADDEN DROPS TO 29TH
Milwaukee's Beezie Madden took eight jump penalties and three time penalties to fall into 29th place after the second individual qualifier in equestrian's jumping competition.
She had no penalties after the first qualifier, so it was a long fall out of a tie for first place.
Her score was the one that the Americans tossed out of the team competition, and after the first round the U.S. is tied for first with Switzerland.
SURFING
Other links related to Wisconsin's Olympic contingent:
Kate Markgraf quotes before Americans' semifinal against Japan in women's soccer
Dwyane Wade quotes after U.S. men's basketball victory over Spain
MONDAY'S SCHEDULE (Sunday-Monday overnight CDT)
10:15 p.m. — Andrew Bogut (Milwaukee Bucks) vs. Lithuania in Men's Basketball (Australia) [TV: Online]
6:15 a.m. — Beezie Madden (Milwaukee native) in Equestrian-Jumping-Team Round 2/Individual 3rd Qualifier [TV: Online; Oxygen, 5 p.m.]
7 a.m. — Michael Redd (Milwaukee Bucks) and Dwyane Wade (former Marquette) vs. Germany in Men's Basketball [TV: USA Network]
8 a.m. — Lindsay Tarpley (Madison native) and Kate Markgraf (Whitefish Bay resident) vs. Japan in Semifinals in Women's Soccer [TV: Online]
PREVIOUS REPORTS
Gregory Bull/Associated Press
Former UW rowers Beau Hoopman (left) and Micah Boyd (third from left) won bronze in the men's Eight.
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