Day after day, crowds filled the stands and lapped up the high quality content on offer at Riocentro Pavilion 6, as boxers from Uzbekistan, Cuba and France shone in the men’s boxing competitions.

Figuring large among the six Greco-Roman wrestling gold medallists at Rio 2016 were Cuba’s Mijain Lopez, who won his third straight -120kg title, Russia’s Roman Vlasov, who topped the podium for the second Games in a row, and Davor Stefanek, Serbia’s first Olympic wrestling champion.

France’s Denis Gargaud-Chanut, Great Britain’s Joseph Clarke, Spain’s Maialen Chourraut and Slovakian cousins Ladislav and Peter Skantar topped the four podiums in the Rio 2016 canoe slalom events, held at the Deodoro Whitewater Arena.

The women’s boxing competition at Rio 2016 served up an exhilarating array of action across three weight categories. Great Britain’s Nicola Adams and Claressa Shields of the USA retained the flyweight and middleweight titles they won in London in 2012, while France’s Estelle Mossely gave her country a maiden boxing gold in the lightweight category.

China’s athletes won gold in seven of the eight diving events at Rio 2016, the only exception being the men’s synchronised 3m springboard, where Great Britain’s Jack Laugher and Chris Mears took the honours.

Generating excitement aplenty on the host city’s most famous beach, the Rio 2016 beach volleyball competitions left the local fans feeling mixed emotions. While Germany’s Kira Walkenhorst and Laura Ludwig beat Brazil’s Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas de Freitas to the women’s gold, home favourites Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt got the better of Italy’s Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo to win the men’s title.

From 19 to 21 September 2016, under the aegis of the IOC and the Zambian NOC, a forum aimed at training women working in African National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and National Federations to excel as leaders in sports was held in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, with 65 participants from 42 countries taking part.

The USA continued their reign as the kings and queens of Olympic basketball, winning both the men’s and women’s titles at Rio 2016. The American women’s team made it six Olympic golds in a row by defeating Spain in the final, while their male compatriots defeated Serbia to secure their third straight gold.

The Republic of Korea completed the first clean sweep in Olympic archery since the introduction of the team events at Seoul 1988, winning all four golds on offer at Rio 2016, with individual men’s and women’s champions Ku Bonchan and Chang Hyejin claiming two apiece.