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At the 2004 Summer Olympics, the athletics events were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 18 to August 29, except for the marathons (run from Marathonas to the Kallimarmaro Stadium), the race walks (on the streets of Athens), and the shot put (held at the Ancient Olympia Stadium). A total of 46 events were contested, of which 24 by ...
nb1 Marion Jones was stripped of her Olympic medal in 2000. nb2 Crystal Cox was stripped of her Olympic medal in 2004. nb3 Dominique Blake was accidentally given her Olympic medal and she returned it in 2017. [8] a Original silver medalists, Russia, and 4th place finishers, Belarus, were stripped of their results for doping offenses. Following ...
For the women's 5000 metres, each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had run the race in 15:08.70 or faster during the qualification period. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had run the race in 15:20.45 or faster could be entered.
The women's 100 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 20 to 21. [1]In the first round, the first three runners from each of the eight heats, together with the eight next fastest overall runners (8×3+8=32), automatically qualified for the second round.
Women's 20 km walk details: Athanasia Tsoumeleka Greece: Olimpiada Ivanova Russia: Jane Saville Australia: Men's 50 km walk details: Robert Korzeniowski Poland: Denis Nizhegorodov Russia: Aleksey Voyevodin Russia: Men's marathon details: Stefano Baldini Italy: Mebrahtom Keflezighi United States: Vanderlei de Lima Brazil: Women's marathon ...
The women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 26 to 27. [1] The sixteen teams competed in a two-heat qualifying round in which the first three teams from each heat, together with the next two fastest teams, were given a place in the final race.
The major competition of the year was the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the event, Yelena Isinbayeva cleared a world record 4.91 m in the pole vault . Liu Xiang won the men's 110 metres hurdles with a world record-equalling time of 12.91 seconds, [ 1 ] defying traditional beliefs about the physical calibre of Chinese (and Asian) sprint athletes. [ 2 ]
The games featured featured 301 events in 28 sports and 39 disciplines, [3] [4] including the Olympic debuts of women's wrestling and women's sabre. [5] Kiribati and Timor Leste competed for the first time in these Olympic Games. [5] It was the second time after 1896 that Athens had hosted the Summer Olympics in the modern era. [6] Athletes ...