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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 ...
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 ]
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 ...
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.
[3] [4] The team was selected based on the results of the 2004 United States Olympic Trials. Adam Nelson originally claimed a silver medal in men's shot put. On December 5, 2012, the International Olympic Committee and the IAAF stripped off Ukrainian shot putter Yuriy Bilonoh 's gold medal after drug re-testings of his samples were discovered ...
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 ...
Organised by USA Track and Field, the ten-day competition lasted from July 9 until July 18 and served as the national championships in track and field for the United States. The results of the event determined qualification for the American Olympic team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, held in Athens. Provided they had achieved the Olympic "A ...