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  1. The sports featured at the 2004 Summer Olympics are listed below. Officially there were 301 events in 28 sports as swimming, diving, synchronised swimming and water polo are classified by the IOC as disciplines within the sport of aquatics , and wheelchair racing was a demonstration sport.

  2. Swimmer Michael Phelps won six gold medals and set a single-Games record with eight total medals. Leontien Ziljaard-van Moorsel became the first female cyclist to earn four career gold medals, reaching a total of six Olympic medals, while canoeist Birgit Fischer became the first athlete in any sport to win two medals in each of five Olympic Games.

  3. Great Britain's Leslie Law and Pippa Funnell were awarded the gold and bronze medals, respectively, in the individual eventing, and the French team were awarded the gold medal in the team eventing discipline. [14] [15] ^. Cian O'Connor of Ireland at the 2004 Summer Olympics won the gold medal in the men's individual jumping event, [16] but was ...

  4. 2016. 2020. 2024. India competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. The Indian Olympic Association sent a total of 73 athletes, 48 men, and 28 women, to compete in 14 sports. Men's field hockey was the only team-based sport in which India had its representation in these Olympic games.

  5. May 29, 2024 · August 13, 2004 - August 29, 2004. Location: Athens. Greece. Athens 2004 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in Athens that took place August 13–29, 2004. The Athens Games were the 25th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. The 2004 Olympic Games returned to Greece, birthplace of the ancient Games and site of the inaugural modern Olympics.

  6. Overview. The Athina Olympic Games were a return of the Olympic Movement to its roots, as the Ancient Olympic Games were held in Greece, in Ancient Olympia, on the Peloponnesus Peninsula. The first Modern Olympic Games were held in Athina, and in 1906, Athina again hosted an Intercalated Games, though not considered official by the IOC.

  7. Medal Table. See the list of teams and medals won by each. Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. Celebrate medal-winning moments by the world's top athletes.

  8. 2004 Summer Olympics medal table. The Olympic flame burns in the Athens Olympic Stadium cauldron, during the opening ceremonies of the 2004 Summer Olympics. The 2004 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Athens, the capital city of Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004.

  9. Athens 2004. Medal Table. Official medal table of the Summer Olympic Games in Athens. Find an alphabetical list of medals and celebrate the achievements of 2004's finest athletes.

  10. The American swimmer Michael PHELPS set a record when he won 8 medals (6 gold and two bronze) in a single Olympics. It was the first Summer Olympic Games for Jacques Rogge, a new President of the IOC, who was elected on 16 July 2001 at the 112th IOC session in Moscow. Full List of 2004 Summer Olympics medal winners.