Estonia competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. This is a list of the results of all Estonian athletes who qualified for the Olympics and were nominated by Estonian Olympic Committee. Estonia was represented in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games by 47 athletes in total of 13 different sporting events. The Estonian delegation, the largest in the nation's Olympic history,^[1] marched into the Beijing National Olympic stadium as the 160th nation, before Haiti and after Ireland delegations during the opening ceremony.

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Estonia at the 2008 Summer Olympics
IOC code	EST
NOC	Estonian Olympic Committee
Website	www.eok.ee (in Estonian)
in Beijing
Competitors	47 in 13 sports
Flag bearers	Martin Padar (opening) Gerd Kanter (closing)
Officials	28
Medals Ranked 46th	Gold 1 Silver 1 Bronze 0 Total 2
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948–1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1908–1912)  Soviet Union (1952–1988)

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Jüri Jaanson, who competed at his sixth Olympics, was the oldest and most experienced team member, and became Estonia's oldest Olympic medal winner with the age of 42 years, 10 months and two days.^[2]

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Track & road events

Field events

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Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Märt Israel	Discus throw	61.98	14	Did not advance
Gerd Kanter		64.66	5 Q	68.82
Mihkel Kukk	Javelin throw	75.56	21	Did not advance
Taavi Peetre	Shot put	19.57	26	Did not advance
Aleksander Tammert	Discus throw	63.10	10 q	61.38	12

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Combined events – Decathlon

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Field events

Combined events – Heptathlon

* The athlete who finished in second place, Lyudmila Blonska of the Ukraine, tested positive for a banned substance.^[3] Both the A and the B tests were positive, therefore Blonska was stripped of her silver medal, and Kand moved up a position.

Estonia had qualified two berths in men's and women's badminton events.

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Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Raul Must	Men's singles	Wacha (POL) L 14–21, 15–21	Did not advance
Kati Tolmoff	Women's singles	Magee (IRL) L 21–18, 18–21, 19–21	Did not advance

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Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Nikolai Novosjolov	Individual épée	Nabil (EGY) W 15–8	Jeannet (FRA) L 14–15	Did not advance

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Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Andrei Jämsä	Single sculls	7:48.20	4 QF	—		7:05.48	4 SC/D	7:16.38	2 FC	7:19.60	17
Tõnu Endrekson Jüri Jaanson	Double sculls	6:27.95	3 SA/B	Bye		—		6:21.11	2 FA	6:29.05
Igor Kuzmin Vladimir Latin Allar Raja Kaspar Taimsoo	Quadruple sculls	5:42.22	4 R	6:01.46	1 SA/B	—		5:54.57	4 FB	5:48.12	9

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Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

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M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; CAN = Race cancelled

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• Estonia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics