Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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 male and 22 by female athletes.

Medal winners

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Justin Gatlin  United States	9.85	Francis Obikwelu  Portugal	9.86AR	Maurice Greene  United States	9.87
200 metres	Shawn Crawford  United States	19.79	Bernard Williams  United States	20.01	Justin Gatlin  United States	20.03
400 metres	Jeremy Wariner  United States	44.00	Otis Harris  United States	44.16	Derrick Brew  United States	44.42
800 metres	Yuriy Borzakovskiy  Russia	1:44.45	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi  South Africa	1:44.61	Wilson Kipketer  Denmark	1:44.65
1500 metres	Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco	3:34.18	Bernard Lagat  Kenya	3:34.30	Rui Silva  Portugal	3:34.68
5000 metres	Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco	13:14.39	Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia	13:14.59	Eliud Kipchoge  Kenya	13:15.10
10,000 metres	Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia	27:05.10 (OR)	Sileshi Sihine  Ethiopia	27:09.39	Zersenay Tadese  Eritrea	27:22.57
110 metres hurdles	Liu Xiang  China	12.91 =WR	Terrence Trammell  United States	13.18	Anier García  Cuba	13.20
400 metres hurdles	Félix Sánchez  Dominican Republic	47.63	Danny McFarlane  Jamaica	48.11	Naman Keïta  France	48.26
3000 metres steeplechase	Ezekiel Kemboi  Kenya	8:05.81	Brimin Kipruto  Kenya	8:06.11	Paul Kipsiele Koech  Kenya	8:06.64
4×100 metres relay	Great Britain (GBR) Jason Gardener Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Mark Lewis-Francis	38.07	United States (USA) Shawn Crawford Justin Gatlin Coby Miller Maurice Greene Darvis Patton*	38.08	Nigeria (NGR) Olusoji Fasuba Uchenna Emedolu Aaron Egbele Deji Aliu	38.23
4×400 metres relay	United States (USA) Otis Harris Derrick Brew Jeremy Wariner Darold Williamson Andrew Rock* Kelly Willie*	2:55.91	Australia (AUS) John Steffensen Mark Ormrod Patrick Dwyer Clinton Hill	3:00.60	Nigeria (NGR) James Godday Musa Audu Saul Weigopwa Enefiok Udo-Obong	3:00.90
Marathon	Stefano Baldini  Italy	2:10.55	Mebrahtom Keflezighi  United States	2:11.29	Vanderlei de Lima  Brazil	2:12.11
20 kilometres walk	Ivano Brugnetti  Italy	1:19.40	Francisco Javier Fernández  Spain	1:19.45	Nathan Deakes  Australia	1:20.02
50 kilometres walk	Robert Korzeniowski  Poland	3:38.46	Denis Nizhegorodov  Russia	3:42:50	Aleksey Voyevodin  Russia	3:43:34
High jump	Stefan Holm  Sweden	2.36 m	Matt Hemingway  United States	2.34 m	Jaroslav Bába  Czech Republic	2.34 m
Pole vault	Timothy Mack  United States	5.95 m (OR)	Toby Stevenson  United States	5.90 m	Giuseppe Gibilisco  Italy	5.85 m
Long jump	Dwight Phillips  United States	8.59 m	John Moffitt  United States	8.47 m	Joan Lino Martínez  Spain	8.32 m
Triple jump	Christian Olsson  Sweden	17.79 m	Marian Oprea  Romania	17.55 m	Danil Burkenya  Russia	17.48 m
Shot put	Adam Nelson  United States	21.16 m	Joachim Olsen  Denmark	21.07 m	Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez  Spain	20.84 m
Discus throw	Virgilijus Alekna  Lithuania	69.89 m (OR)	Zoltán Kővágó  Hungary	67.04 m	Aleksander Tammert  Estonia	66.66 m
Hammer throw	Koji Murofushi  Japan	82.91 m	Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus	79.81 m	Eşref Apak  Turkey	79.51 m
Javelin throw	Andreas Thorkildsen  Norway	86.50 m	Vadims Vasiļevskis  Latvia	84.95 m	Sergey Makarov  Russia	84.84 m
Decathlon	Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic	8893 (OR)	Bryan Clay  United States	8820	Dmitriy Karpov  Kazakhstan	8725

* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Yulia Nesterenko  Belarus	10.93	Lauryn Williams  United States	10.96	Veronica Campbell  Jamaica	10.97
200 metres	Veronica Campbell  Jamaica	22.05	Allyson Felix  United States	22.18	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie  Bahamas	22.30
400 metres	Tonique Williams-Darling  Bahamas	49.41	Ana Guevara  Mexico	49.56	Natalya Antyukh  Russia	49.89
800 metres	Kelly Holmes  Great Britain	1:56.38	Hasna Benhassi  Morocco	1:56.43	Jolanda Čeplak  Slovenia	1:56.43
1500 metres	Kelly Holmes  Great Britain	3:57.90	Tatyana Tomashova  Russia	3:58.12	Maria Cioncan  Romania	3:58.39
5000 metres	Meseret Defar  Ethiopia	14:45.65	Isabella Ochichi  Kenya	14:48.19	Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia	14:51.83
10,000 metres	Xing Huina  China	30:24.36	Ejegayehu Dibaba  Ethiopia	30:24.98	Derartu Tulu  Ethiopia	30:26.42
100 metres hurdles	Joanna Hayes  United States	12.37 (OR)	Olena Krasovska  Ukraine	12.45	Melissa Morrison  United States	12.56
400 metres hurdles	Fani Chalkia  Greece	52.82	Ionela Târlea-Manolache  Romania	53.38	Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova  Ukraine	53.44
4×100 metres relay	Jamaica (JAM) Tayna Lawrence Sherone Simpson Aleen Bailey Veronica Campbell Beverly McDonald*	41.73	Russia (RUS) Olga Fyodorova Yuliya Tabakova Irina Khabarova Larisa Kruglova	42.27	France (FRA) Véronique Mang Muriel Hurtis Sylviane Félix Christine Arron	42.54
4×400 metres relay	United States (USA) DeeDee Trotter Monique Henderson Sanya Richards Monique Hennagan Moushaumi Robinson*	3:19.011	Russia (RUS) Olesya Krasnomovets Natalya Nazarova Olesya Zykina Natalya Antyukh Tatyana Firova* Natalya Ivanova*	3:20.16	Jamaica (JAM) Novlene Williams Michelle Burgher Nadia Davy Sandie Richards Ronetta Smith*	3:22.00
Marathon	Mizuki Noguchi  Japan	2:26:20	Catherine Ndereba  Kenya	2:26:32	Deena Kastor  United States	2:27:20
20 kilometres walk	Athanasia Tsoumeleka  Greece	1:29:12	Olimpiada Ivanova  Russia	1:29:16	Jane Saville  Australia	1:29:25
High jump	Yelena Slesarenko  Russia	2.06 m (OR)	Hestrie Cloete  South Africa	2.02 m	Viktoriya Styopina  Ukraine	2.02 m
Pole vault	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia	4.91 m (WR)	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia	4.75 m	Anna Rogowska  Poland	4.70 m
Long jump	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia	7.07 m	Irina Simagina  Russia	7.05 m	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	7.05 m
Triple jump	Françoise Mbango Etone  Cameroon	15.30 m	Hrysopiyi Devetzi  Greece	15.25 m	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia	15.14 m
Shot put	Yumileidi Cumbá  Cuba	19.59 m	Nadine Kleinert  Germany	19.55 m	Svetlana Krivelyova  Russia	19.49 m
Discus throw	Natalya Sadova  Russia	67.02 m	Anastasia Kelesidou  Greece	66.68 m	Iryna Yatchenko  Belarus	66.17 m
Hammer throw	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	75.02 m (OR)	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba	73.36 m	Yunaika Crawford  Cuba	73.16 m
Javelin throw	Osleidys Menéndez  Cuba	71.53 m (OR)	Steffi Nerius  Germany	65.82 m	Mirela Manjani  Greece	64.29 m
Heptathlon	Carolina Klüft  Sweden	6952	Austra Skujytė  Lithuania	6435	Kelly Sotherton  Great Britain	6424

* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.
¹ The United States victory has been in doubt since 2010 when Crystal Cox, who ran in the preliminary round, admitted to using anabolic steroids from 2001 to 2004. However as of 2012 no decision has been taken and the US team still retain their gold medals. On July 2012, IOC decided to revoke the gold medal from Crystal Cox and asked the IAAF to make its decision about the US squad.

Medal table

The number of top eight placements (finalist positions) are also shown.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Medals	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	Total
1	United States (USA)	8	12	5	25	7	2	3	3	3	43
2	Russia (RUS)	6	7	7	20	4	3	4	3	5	39
3	Great Britain (GBR)	3	0	2	5	4	3	1	2	0	15
4	Sweden (SWE)	3	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3
5	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	3	2	7	3	2	0	0	0	12
6	Greece (GRE)	2	2	1	5	0	0	1	0	2	8
7	Jamaica (JAM)	2	1	2	5	4	4	2	0	1	16
8	Cuba (CUB)	2	1	2	5	1	1	0	3	2	12
9	Morocco (MAR)	2	1	0	3	1	0	0	0	1	5
10	Italy (ITA)	2	0	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	5
11	Japan (JPN)	2	0	0	2	2	2	1	1	0	8
12	China (CHN)	2	0	0	2	1	0	2	1	2	8
13	Kenya (KEN)	1	4	2	7	1	1	2	2	0	13
14	Ukraine (UKR)	1	1	2	4	0	4	1	0	3	12
15	Belarus (BLR)	1	1	1	3	4	3	2	0	0	12
16	Lithuania (LTU)	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
17	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	5
18	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2	1	3	4	2	0	12
19	Bahamas (BAH)	1	0	1	2	1	0	2	2	0	7
20	Cameroon (CMR)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	Dominican Republic (DOM)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
23	Romania (ROU)	0	2	1	3	0	0	2	2	2	9
24	Germany (GER)	0	2	0	2	1	2	2	4	3	14
25	South Africa (RSA)	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	1	1	6
26	Australia (AUS)	0	1	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	8
27	Spain (ESP)	0	1	1	2	1	3	1	2	1	10
28	Portugal (POR)	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	1	4
29	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	4
30	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	4
31	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
32	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	4	2	9
33	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	3
34	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
35	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	4
36	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	3
37	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	2
38	Eritrea (ERI)	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	2
39	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
40	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
41	Bulgaria (BUL)					1	2	0	0	0	3
42	Ecuador (ECU)					1	0	0	0	0	1
	Grenada (GRN)					1	0	0	0	0	1
	Mozambique (MOZ)					1	0	0	0	0	1
	Namibia (NAM)					1	0	0	0	0	1
	Qatar (QAT)					1	0	0	0	0	1
	Uganda (UGA)					1	0	0	0	0	1
48	Netherlands (NED)					0	2	1	0	1	4
49	Sudan (SUD)					0	1	0	0	1	2
50	Iceland (ISL)					0	1	0	0	0	1
	Panama (PAN)					0	1	0	0	0	1
52	Canada (CAN)					0	0	3	2	0	5
53	Belgium (BEL)					0	0	2	0	0	2
54	Algeria (ALG)					0	0	1	1	0	2
	India (IND)					0	0	1	1	0	2
56	Ghana (GHA)					0	0	1	0	0	1
	Mauritius (MRI)					0	0	1	0	0	1
	Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)					0	0	1	0	0	1
	Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)					0	0	1	0	0	1
60	New Zealand (NZL)					0	0	0	1	1	2
61	Barbados (BAR)					0	0	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)					0	0	0	1	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)					0	0	0	1	0	1
64	Botswana (BOT)					0	0	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)					0	0	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)					0	0	0	0	1	1

Medals by sex

Men Rank Nation Total 1  United States (USA) 6 10 3 19 2  Italy (ITA) 2 0 1 3 3  Morocco (MAR) 2 0 0 2 =  Sweden (SWE) 2 0 0 2 5  Kenya (KEN) 1 2 2 5 6  Ethiopia (ETH) 1 2 0 3 7  Russia (RUS) 1 1 3 5 8  Czech Republic (CZE) 1 0 1 2 9  China (CHN) 1 0 0 1 =  Dominican Republic (DOM) 1 0 0 1 =  Great Britain (GBR) 1 0 0 1 =  Japan (JPN) 1 0 0 1 =  Lithuania (LTU) 1 0 0 1 =  Norway (NOR) 1 0 0 1 =  Poland (POL) 1 0 0 1 =  Ukraine (UKR) 1 0 0 1 17  Australia (AUS) 0 1 1 2 =  Spain (ESP) 0 1 1 2 =  Portugal (POR) 0 1 1 2 20  Belarus (BLR) 0 1 0 1 =  Hungary (HUN) 0 1 0 1 =  Jamaica (JAM) 0 1 0 1 =  Latvia (LAT) 0 1 0 1 =  Romania (ROU) 0 1 0 1 =  South Africa (RSA) 0 1 0 1 26  Denmark (DEN) 0 0 2 2 =  Nigeria (NGR) 0 0 2 2 28  Brazil (BRA) 0 0 1 1 =  Cuba (CUB) 0 0 1 1 =  Eritrea (ERI) 0 0 1 1 =  Estonia (EST) 0 0 1 1 =  France (FRA) 0 0 1 1 =  Kazakhstan (KAZ) 0 0 1 1 =  Turkey (TUR) 0 0 1 1

Women Rank Nation Total 1  Russia (RUS) 5 6 4 15 2  United States (USA) 2 2 2 6 3  Greece (GRE) 2 2 1 5 4  Jamaica (JAM) 2 0 2 4 5  Great Britain (GBR) 2 0 2 4 6  Ethiopia (ETH) 1 1 2 4 7  Cuba (CUB) 1 1 1 3 8  Bahamas (BAH) 1 0 1 2 =  Belarus (BLR) 1 0 1 2 10  Cameroon (CMR) 1 0 0 1 =  China (CHN) 1 0 0 1 =  Japan (JPN) 1 0 0 1 =  Sweden (SWE) 1 0 0 1 14  Germany (GER) 0 2 0 2 =  Kenya (KEN) 0 2 0 2 16  Ukraine (UKR) 0 1 2 3 17  Romania (ROU) 0 1 1 2 18  Lithuania (LTU) 0 1 0 1 =  Mexico (MEX) 0 1 0 1 =  Morocco (MAR) 0 1 0 1 =  South Africa (RSA) 0 1 0 1 22  Australia (AUS) 0 0 1 1 =  France (FRA) 0 0 1 1 =  Poland (POL) 0 0 1 1 =  Slovenia (SLO) 0 0 1 1

Participating nations

A total of 197 nations participated in the different Athletics events at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Numbers in parenthesis indicate the number of athletes representing each nation.

•  Afghanistan (2)
•  Albania (2)
•  Algeria (21)
•  American Samoa (2)
•  Andorra (2)
•  Angola (2)
•  Antigua and Barbuda (3)
•  Argentina (9)
•  Armenia (2)
•  Aruba (1)
•  Australia (45)
•  Austria (6)
•  Azerbaijan (5)
•  Bahamas (18)
•  Bahrain (6)
•  Bangladesh (1)
•  Barbados (3)
•  Belarus (43)
•  Belgium (18)
•  Belize (2)
•  Benin (2)
•  Bermuda (1)
•  Bolivia (2)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
•  Botswana (9)
•  Brazil (37)
•  British Virgin Islands (1)
•  Brunei (1)
•  Bulgaria (20)
•  Burkina Faso (3)
•  Burundi (6)
•  Cambodia (2)
•  Cameroon (8)
•  Canada (23)
•  Cape Verde (1)
•  Cayman Islands (2)
•  Central African Republic (2)
•  Chad (2)
•  Chile (3)
•  China (52)
•  Chinese Taipei (2)
•  Colombia (13)
•  Comoros (2)
•  Republic of the Congo (2)
•  Cook Islands (2)
•  Ivory Coast (2)
•  Croatia (12)
•  Cuba (39)
•  Cyprus (7)
•  Czech Republic (36)
•  Denmark (5)
•  Democratic Republic of the Congo (2)
•  Djibouti (2)
•  Dominica (2)
•  Dominican Republic (6)
•  Ecuador (8)
•  Egypt (2)
•  El Salvador (2)
•  Equatorial Guinea (2)
•  Eritrea (4)
•  Estonia (16)
•  Ethiopia (25)
•  Fiji (2)
•  Finland (30)
•  France (61)
•  Gabon (2)

•  The Gambia (2)
•  Georgia (3)
•  Germany (86)
•  Ghana (11)
•  Great Britain (58)
•  Greece (66)
•  Grenada (3)
•  Guam (2)
•  Guatemala (6)
•  Guinea (2)
•  Guinea-Bissau (2)
•  Guyana (2)
•  Haiti (4)
•  Honduras (1)
•  Hong Kong (2)
•  Hungary (39)
•  Iceland (2)
•  India (19)
•  Indonesia (2)
•  Iran (2)
•  Iraq (2)
•  Ireland (15)
•  Israel (5)
•  Italy (54)
•  Jamaica (45)
•  Japan (41)
•  Jordan (2)
•  Kazakhstan (22)
•  Kenya (32)
•  Kiribati (2)
•  Kuwait (5)
•  Kyrgyzstan (7)
•  Laos (2)
•  Latvia (17)
•  Lebanon (2)
•  Lesotho (2)
•  Liberia (2)
•  Libya (2)
•  Lithuania (12)
•  Luxembourg (1)
•  Macedonia (2)
•  Madagascar (3)
•  Malaysia (2)
•  Malawi (2)
•  Maldives (2)
•  Mali (2)
•  Malta (2)
•  Mauritania (2)
•  Mauritius (4)
•  Mexico (27)
•  Federated States of Micronesia (2)
•  Moldova (13)
•  Monaco (1)
•  Mongolia (2)
•  Morocco (27)
•  Mozambique (2)
•  Namibia (3)
•  Nepal (2)
•  Netherlands (25)
•  Netherlands Antilles (2)
•  Nicaragua (3)
•  Niger (2)
•  Nigeria (26)
•  New Zealand (15)
•  North Korea (4)
•  Norway (10)

•  Oman (1)
•  Pakistan (2)
•  Palau (2)
•  Palestine (2)
•  Panama (2)
•  Papua New Guinea (2)
•  Paraguay (2)
•  Peru (2)
•  Philippines (2)
•  Poland (55)
•  Portugal (32)
•  Puerto Rico (3)
•  Qatar (14)
•  Romania (28)
•  Russia (130)
•  Rwanda (3)
•  Saint Kitts and Nevis (2)
•  Saint Lucia (1)
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2)
•  Samoa (2)
•  San Marino (1)
•  São Tomé and Príncipe (2)
•  Saudi Arabia (12)
•  Senegal (10)
•  Serbia and Montenegro (7)
•  Seychelles (2)
•  Sierra Leone (2)
•  Singapore (2)
•  Slovakia (12)
•  Slovenia (18)
•  Solomon Islands (2)
•  Somalia (2)
•  South Africa (38)
•  South Korea (18)
•  Spain (71)
•  Sri Lanka (5)
•  Sudan (5)
•  Suriname (2)
•  Swaziland (2)
•  Sweden (15)
•  Switzerland (10)
•  Syria (2)
•  Tanzania (8)
•  Tajikistan (2)
•  Thailand (3)
•  Timor-Leste (2)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (21)
•  Togo (2)
•  Tonga (2)
•  Tunisia (6)
•  Turkey (13)
•  Turkmenistan (2)
•  Uganda (4)
•  Ukraine (54)
•  United Arab Emirates (1)
•  United States (140)
•  Uruguay (3)
•  Uzbekistan (11)
•  Vanuatu (2)
•  Venezuela (5)
•  Vietnam (2)
•  Virgin Islands (2)
•  Yemen (1)
•  Zambia (2)
•  Zimbabwe (6)

References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 4 January 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-03. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• "Official Olympic Report" (PDF). la84.org. Retrieved 2012-03-09.