Sprinter Christine Ohuruogu became the first British woman to win the Olympic 400 metres title on Tuesday.
Ohuruogu produced a storming finish to overhaul favourite Sanya Richards and win in a time of 49.62 seconds to add Olympic gold to the world title she won in Osaka last year.
American Lolo Jones looked to have the 100m hurdles won before hitting the penultimate hurdle and stumbling to seventh.
Team-mate Dawn Harper took advantage to win in 12.54s with Australian Sally McLellan winning silver ahead of Canada's Priscilla Lopes-Schliep after a photo-finish.
Gerd Kanter added the Olympic discus gold medal to his collection with a winning throw of 68.82m.
Bahrain's Rashid Ramzi showed nerves of steel when winning the 1500m title in 3min 32.94sec.
European champion Andrey Silnov won the high jump title with a clearance of 2.36m, two centimetres ahead of Great Britain's Germaine Mason and Yaroslav Rybakov.
Great Britain won a further two gold medals in cycling as they took their total medal total in the discipline to 14 - eight of them gold.
Chris Hoy beat team-mate Jason Kenny to secure his third gold of the games in the men's sprint just moment's after Victoria Pendleton had won the women's sprint.
But Hoy's team-mate Bradley Wiggins could not add a third of his own in the Madison as he and team-mate Mark Cavendish were out of the medals as Argentina duo Juan Esteban Curuchet and Walter Fernando Perez won gold from Spain and Russia.
Germany's Jan Frodeno took gold in a thrilling sprint finish to the triathlon.
Frodeno burst past Sydney champion Simon Whitfield to win his first Olympic title with New Zealander Bevan Docherty taking the bronze medal.
Ohuruogu produced a storming finish to overhaul favourite Sanya Richards and win in a time of 49.62 seconds to add Olympic gold to the world title she won in Osaka last year.
American Lolo Jones looked to have the 100m hurdles won before hitting the penultimate hurdle and stumbling to seventh.
Team-mate Dawn Harper took advantage to win in 12.54s with Australian Sally McLellan winning silver ahead of Canada's Priscilla Lopes-Schliep after a photo-finish.
Gerd Kanter added the Olympic discus gold medal to his collection with a winning throw of 68.82m.
Bahrain's Rashid Ramzi showed nerves of steel when winning the 1500m title in 3min 32.94sec.
European champion Andrey Silnov won the high jump title with a clearance of 2.36m, two centimetres ahead of Great Britain's Germaine Mason and Yaroslav Rybakov.
Great Britain won a further two gold medals in cycling as they took their total medal total in the discipline to 14 - eight of them gold.
Chris Hoy beat team-mate Jason Kenny to secure his third gold of the games in the men's sprint just moment's after Victoria Pendleton had won the women's sprint.
But Hoy's team-mate Bradley Wiggins could not add a third of his own in the Madison as he and team-mate Mark Cavendish were out of the medals as Argentina duo Juan Esteban Curuchet and Walter Fernando Perez won gold from Spain and Russia.
Germany's Jan Frodeno took gold in a thrilling sprint finish to the triathlon.
Frodeno burst past Sydney champion Simon Whitfield to win his first Olympic title with New Zealander Bevan Docherty taking the bronze medal.
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