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Double [[2003 Pan American Games|Pan Am Games]] gold medalist [[Ricardo Monasterio]] was unable to advance from either of his heats, with the only one of the four Venezeulan swimmers being Luis Rojas in the 100 metre Freestyle.
Double [[2003 Pan American Games|Pan Am Games]] gold medalist [[Ricardo Monasterio]] was unable to advance from either of his heats, with the only one of the four Venezeulan swimmers being Luis Rojas in the 100 metre Freestyle.


'''[[Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 50 metre freestyle|Men's 50 metre Freestyle]]:'''
'''[[Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle|Men's 50 metre Freestyle]]:'''
* [[Luis Rojas (swimmer)|Luis Rojas]]
* [[Luis Rojas (swimmer)|Luis Rojas]]
** Heat: Did not start
** Heat: Did not start

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Template:Infobox Olympics Venezuela

Venezuela competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Weightlifter Israel José Rubio won the nation's first medal of these Games when he placed third in the 62 kg class. It was Venezuela's eighth medal in Olympic history, but the first since the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date
 Bronze Israel José Rubio Weightlifting Men's 62 kg August 16
 Bronze Adriana Carmona Taekwondo Women's +67 kg August 29

Results and competitors by event

Athletics

Victor Castillo was the only Venezuelan to place in the top half of an Athletics event, and came only 7 centimetres short of a spot in the final 12.

Men's 400 metres:

  • Luis Luna
    • Round 1: 47.92 s (6th in heat 8, did not advance, 49th overall)

Men's 5000 metres:

  • Freddy Gonzalez
    • Round 1: 13:42.44 (13th in heat 2, did not advance, 28th overall)

Men's Marathon:

Fonseca pulled out between the 15 and 20 km checkpoints, crossing the 15 km checkpoint 97th.

Men's Long Jump:

  • Victor Castillo
    • Qualification: 7.98 metres (8th in Group B, did not advance, 15th overall)

Men's Javelin Throw:

  • Manuel Fuenmayor
    • Qualification: 72.26 metres (15th in Group A, did not advance, 30th overall)

Boxing

Venezuela sent seven boxers to Athens. Five of them lost their first matches, while the two in the heavier weight classes each won their first round (one by walkover, however) before falling in their second match.

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48kg):

Men's Flyweight (– 51kg):

Men's Bantamweight (– 54kg):

Men's Light Welterweight (– 64kg):

Men's Welterweight (– 69kg):

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81kg):

Men's Heavyweight (– 91kg):

Cycling

Road cycling

Unai Etxebarría was the most notable Venezuelan cyclist at the 2004 Olympics, as he joined a leading group of 10 at the 146 kilometre mark of the Men's Road Race, later attacked this group, leading to the formation of a group of 6 at the start of lap 13 (160 kilometres) before being caught by the peloton at the 185 kilometre mark, with Etxebarría finishing in the middle of the pack.

Men's Road Race:

Chacon was part of a group of 10 riders that stopped on lap 12 of 17.

Track cycling

Larreal crossed the line fifth in the classification race of the Women's Sprint, but was disqualified for causing a crash behind her, involving Lithuania's Simona Krupeckiate.

Women's Individual Sprint:

Diving

Ramon Fumado badly missed his first dive of the semifinal, a forward 1½ somersault in the pike position, scoring an average of around 3.0 points. A dive in the 8.0s would have put him very close to qualifying for the final.

Men's 3 metre Springboard:

  • Ramon Fumado
    • Preliminary: 410.97 (14th overall, 'Qualified')
    • Semifinal: 194.82 (Total: 605.79) (17th overall, did not advance)

Fencing

As expected from the relative seedings, Silvio Fernández was the only Venezuelan fencer to progress beyond the Round of 16, and held eventual gold medalist Fischer close before succumbing. Three of the four Venezuelans lost to an eventual finalist.

Men's Épée Individual:

Men's Foil Individual:

Women's Foil Individual:

Women's Sabre Individual:

Judo

Venezuelan judokas put up a record of 4-13 at the Athens Games, with female heavyweight Giovanna Blanco having the most success; a 2-2 record and a quarterfinal appearance.

Men's 60 kg (Extra-Lightweight):

Men's 66 kg (Half-Lightweight):

Men's 73 kg (Lightweight):

Men's 90 kg (Middleweight):

Men's +100 kg (Heavyweight):

Women's 52 kg (Half-Lightweight):

Men's 66 kg (Half-Lightweight):

Women's 78 kg (Half-heavyweight):

Women's +78 kg (Heavyweight):

Sailing

Flores Perez's best placing in an individual race was 11th in the 4th race of the Mistral competition.

Men's Mistral:

Shooting

The lone Venezuelan shooter had the dubious honour of finishing last in both shooting events she entered.

Women's 25 metre Pistol:

Women's 0 metre Air Pistol

Swimming

Double Pan Am Games gold medalist Ricardo Monasterio was unable to advance from either of his heats, with the only one of the four Venezeulan swimmers being Luis Rojas in the 100 metre Freestyle.

Men's 50 metre Freestyle:

Men's 100 metre Freestyle:

  • Luis Rojas
    • Heat: 49.69 s (14th overall, Qualified)
    • Semifinal: 49.85 s (15th overall, did not advance)

Men's 200 metre Freestyle:

Men's 400 metre Freestyle:

Men's 1500 metre Freestyle:

Men's 100 metre Butterfly:

  • Luis Rojas
    • Heat: 54.58 s (36th overall, did not advance)

Women's 50 metre Freestyle:

Women's 100 metre Freestyle:

Table Tennis

The Venezuelan doubles team came back from down 3 sets to 2 to defeat their Chilean opponents, but couldn't muster a set win in the second round against the Americans.

Women's Singles:

Women's Doubles:

Taekwondo

No woman or martial artist had ever won an Olympic medal for Venezuela, but Adriana Carmona changed all that by winning bronze in the Over 67 kg division. Carmona lost a close quarterfinal to the eventual gold medal winner, but fought her way through the repechage before handily beating her Brazilian opponent to claim bronze. The only other match win from the Venezuelan taekwondo team was from another woman, Dalia Contreras.

Men's Under 68kg:

Men's Over 80kg:

Women's Under 49kg:

Women's Over 67kg:

Tennis

Vento-Kabchi entered the Olympic tournament as the #31 ranked player in the world, but was comprehensively beaten over 64 minutes by eventual champion Justine Henin-Hardenne, despite breaking Henin's serve in the third game of their match.

Women's Singles:

Triathlon

Venezuela's only competitor in the 2004 Olympic triathlon was a veteran of the 2000 competition. He improved his ranking by one place.

Men's Competition:

Weightlifting

Israel José Rubio won Venezuela's first ever medal in weightlifting by virtue of his lower body weight (61.38 kg), after he tied with Armenia's Armen Ghazaryan in total weight lifted. Rubio was 5th after the Snatch, but made his lift of 162.5 kg in the Clean & Jerk, while Indonesia's Gustar Junantio failed two attempts at that mark, and Ghazaryan skipped it entirely, then missed twice at 170.0 kg. At 94 kg, Julio César Luña would have finished third in the Clean & Jerk alone, but struggling in the Snatch had already cost him a shot at a medal. Octavio Mejías missed only one lift in the 77 kg division, but his weights were nowhere near those of the leaders.

Men's 62 kg:

Men's 77 kg:

  • Octavio Mejías
    • 342.5 kg (155.0 kg Snatch, 187.5 kg Clean & Jerk) (12th overall)

Men's 94 kg:

Wrestling

Freestyle

Caripa was defeated in all three matches handily, twice by superiority, and managed only a single technical point in her matches.

Women's 48 kg:

Greco-Roman

Barreno also failed to win a match, but his 9-3 loss to Galstyan was the Venezuelan wrestling team's best result of the Games.

Men's 120 kg:

Officials

  • President: Mr. Fernando Romero Mazzeo
  • Secretary General: Mr. Leonardo Rodriguez

Remarks

  1. ^ Albert Subirats (17 years, 325 days) was the youngest member of the Venezuelan team at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  2. ^ Gilberto Gonzalez (33 years, 255 days) was the oldest member of the Venezuelan team at the 2004 Summer Olympics

See also

References

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