Argentina won its first ever field hockey gold medal after topping Belgium 4-2.
•    Within the first three minutes of the match, Belgium’s Tanguy Cosyns got his team an early lead after tipping in a long pass to the circle.
•    However, Argentina went on a three-goal scoring rampage to close out the first two quarters of play.
•    The Argentina national field hockey team, represents Argentina in international field hockey competitions.
•    The team, which plays in sky blue and white jerseys, is organised by the Argentine Hockey Confederation.
•    Argentina is also the only American team to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. 
•    They achieved the victory during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
•    Argentina has won more than 20 official titles, which are detailed below:
    Summer Olympics : Gold 2016
    Champions Challenge I: 2005, 2007, 2012
    Sultan Azlan Shah Cup: 2008
    Pan American Cup: 2004, 2013
    Pan American Games : 1967, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1991, 1995, 2003, 2011, 2015
    South American Championship: 2003, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014
 

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), situated in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 18 August 2016 banned wrestler Narsingh Yadav for four years following an appeal by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
•    The CAS also ruled to disqualify all the competitive results obtained by Narsingh from 25 June 2016. 
•    The CAS panel further stated that there was no evidence to accept his claim that his food/drink was spiked.
•    After this will not be able to participate at the Rio 2016 Olympics. He was scheduled to commence his campaign on 19 August 2016 against Zelimkhan Khadjiev of France in the 74 category.
•    In July 2016, Narsingh Yadav was tested positive for a banned substance steroid in an out-of-competition test conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).
•    In the samples collected at the National camp in Sonepat, he was tested positive for the methandienone, which is a banned anabolic steroid.
•    However on 1 August 2016, he was given clean chit by NADA, which accepted his claim of sabotage.
 

India's top squash player Dipika Pallikal on 13 August 2016 won the Australian Open Squash women’s singles title in Melbourne.
•    To win the title, the top seed Dipika defeated eighth seed Mayar Hany of Egypt 10-12, 11-5, 11-6, 11-4 in the 40-minute final.
•    For Dipika, this was the first title win in 2016. Earlier, in February 2015, she won the Winnipeg Winter Open in Canada.
•    She is the first Indian to break into the top 10 in the PSA Women's rankings.
•    Dipika came to prominence in 2011, when she won three WISPA tour titles to attain a career-best ranking of 13th.
•    In the 2014 Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, she won the women’s doubles titles pairing with Joshna Chinappa.
•    She became the first squash player to receive prestigious Arjuna Award in 2012. In 2014, she won Padma Shri honour.

Indian steeplechase sprinter Lalita Babar became the first Indian in 32 years to qualify for the finals of an athletic event at the Olympics.
•    She qualified for the finals of the 3,000-metre steeplechase event on Saturday, after registering a new national record of 9 minutes and 19.76 seconds. 
•    Lalita will compete for a medal in the final on Monday.
•    Lalita clocked a national mark of 9 minutes, 19.76 seconds while finishing fourth in heat 2 and progressed to the final, scheduled on August 15, on the basis of being among the fastest six from the rest who did not directly qualify from the three preliminary heats.
•    Lalita, who had won the bronze medal in the event in the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, two years ago, in fact finished with the seventh-best time in the heats with the new national record to boot.
 

Anthony Ervin has capped a remarkable turnaround to become the oldest ever Olympic swimming champion at the age of 35 with victory in the 50m freestyle.
•    The American won joint gold in the same event in 2000 when he was 19 years old but quit the sport aged just 23.
•    US swimmer Anthony Ervin, aged 35, became the oldest swimmer to win an individual Olympic gold medal, after winning the 50-metre freestyle event on Saturday. 
•    The swimmer had earlier won a joint gold medal in the same event 16 years ago in 2000 Sydney Olympics. 
•    Ervin broke Michael Phelps' record who had become the oldest Olympic swimming champion on Tuesday.
•    France’s Florent Manaudou, the defending champion, finished second and just 0.01 seconds behind the 35-year-old veteran, who won in 21.40 seconds in a splash and dash down the pool.
 

Rafael Nadal added a second Olympic tennis gold medal to all of those Grand Slam trophies, teaming with Marc Lopez to win the men’s doubles championship for Spain at the Rio de Janeiro Games.
•    Nadal and Lopez came back from a break down in the third set and claimed the last three games to beat Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau of Romania 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 in the final.
•    They’ve known each other since they were kids, first meeting in Barcelona when Nadal, who is four years younger, asked Lopez to play a set for fun. 
•    They joked about it at their news conference, agreeing that Lopez won 6-0, but trading good-natured barbs and chuckles because Lopez insisted Nadal was 14 at the time, while Nadal said he was only 12 and, therefore, couldn’t possibly have had a fair chance.
•    Nadal has gone on to collect 14 major championships, as well as an Olympic title in singles at the 2008 Beijing Games.
 

US shooter Kim Rhode became the first female Olympian to win medals at six straight Olympics, after a bronze-medal finish in the women's skeet shooting event. 
•    She also became the first person to win Olympic medals on five continents. 
•    Rhode won her first Olympic medal in 1996, which had made her youngest female gold medalist in Olympic shooting.
•    Her bronze in women’s skeet at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games marked the fifth continent on which Rhode has won a medal. 
•    She defeated Meng Wei of China 7-6 in a shoot-off in the bronze-medal match after both hit 15 of 16 targets.
•    Reigning world champion Morgan Craft of Team USA finished fifth in her first Olympic Games, losing in the shoot-off for the bronze-medal match when she missed her last clay out of four. 
•    Diana Bacosi of Italy defeated teammate and training partner Chiara Cainero 15-14 for the gold.
 

Dipa Karmakar, the Indian Gymnast, on 7 August 2016 created history by becoming the first Indian gymnast to enter the Olympic final at the Rio Olympic Centre.
•    The 22-year-old qualified for the final round in the Individual vault final of artistic gymnastics after finishing eighth on the standings.
•    Competing in the third sub-division, Dipa had an average score of 51.665. 
•    She scored 14.850 by performing her much-vaunted ‘Produnova’ vault cleanly on the vault, 11.666 on the uneven bars, 12.866 in balance beam and 12.033 in floor exercises.
•    American Simone Biles, the three-time world all-round champion topped the charts with a score of 16.050. 
•    North Korea's Jong Un Hong stood at the second position after securing 15.683 followed by Switzerland's Giulia Steingruber (15.266). 
•    Dipa Karmakar is an Indian artistic gymnast who hails from the Northeastern Indian state of Tripura. She represents India at the international circuit. 
 

Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta has won the 20th Commonwealth Chess championship crown 2016 held in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
•    With this victory he has retained the Commonwealth Chess championship crown which was won earlier by him in 19th edition. 
•    Besides, International Master Tania Sachdev also finished with a gold medal. 
•    In this edition all the medals were won by the Indians players in the senior category.
•    Grandmasters S L Narayanan and Deep Chakkravarthy got the silver and bronze medals respectively in the open section.
•    Abhijeet started on a sedate note and conceded two draws to lower ranked opponents by the fourth round itself.
•    Abhijeet has won many laurels for the country, winning 23 medals in all in various World, Asian and Commonwealth Chess Championships in Sub Junior, Junior and Senior Category.
•    Abhijeet became National Junior (Under-19) Chess Champion at the age of 13 years and 10 days in 2002, a record unsurpassed till 2011.
 

Chinese weightlifter Long Qingquan set a world record in the 56-kilogram category at the Rio Olympics, lifting a total of 307 kilograms to win the Gold.
•    Qingquan broke Halil Mutlu's world record of 305 kilograms, set at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. 
•    Long joined defending champion Om Yun Chol as one of seven men to have lifted thrice their bodyweight.
•    The 25-year-old – who previously won gold at the Beijing Games in 2008 – took first prize from reigning Olympic champion Om Yun-Chol of North Korea, who lifted 303 kg.
•    The Chinese weightlifter has broken a record that had previously stood for 16 years.
•    Long Qingquan is a Chinese weightlifter. He is a twice Olympic champion in the 56 kg weight division.
•    Long qualified for the 56 kg class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he won a gold medal in the 56 kg weightlifting. 
•    He achieved two junior world records on his way to winning the gold in the men's weightlifting 56 kg category