2004 in the sport of athletics
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This article contains an overview of the sport of athletics, including track and field, cross country and road running, in the year 2004.
2004 in athletics | |
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Major world events | Olympic Games |
World records set | 7 |
IAAF Athletes of the Year | Kenenisa Bekele Yelena Isinbayeva |
← 2003 2005 → |
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] Hicham El Guerrouj capped off his prominent international career with two gold medals in the 1500 m and 5000 m. The Olympic competition in Athens was marred by an incident involving Greek Olympic medallists Konstantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, who were alleged to have staged a motorcycle crash in order to avoid doping tests.[3] Both athletes missed the competition and were later banned for missing three doping tests.[4]