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Heading to the Panathinaiko Stadium, Noguchi continued to escalate her lead, and edged past the late-charging Ndereba by twelve seconds to win the Olympic gold medal in 2:26:20. Noguchi's victory also marked the second consecutive gold for Japan in the women's marathon with Naoko Takahashi claiming the event in Sydney four years earlier. [4] [5]
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 ...
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 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 marathon at the Summer Olympics is the only road running event held at the multi-sport event. The men's marathon has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first modern Olympics in 1896. Nearly ninety years later, the women's event was added to the programme at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Last summer in Paris, Sifan Hassan won the women’s marathon in an Olympic-record 2:22.55 after taking bronze in both the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, events that weren’t even on the Olympic ...
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon; Athletics at the 2004 Summer Paralympics – Women's marathon T54 This page was ...
Events at the 2004 Summer Olympics: Archery • Art competitions • Athletics • Badminton • Baseball • Basketball • Basque pelota • Beach volleyball • Boxing • Canoeing • Cricket • Croquet • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Field hockey • Figure skating • Football • Golf • Gymnastics • Handball • Ice hockey • Jeu de paume • Judo • Karate ...