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.

Athletics at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Athens Olympic Stadium (track and field) Panathenaic Stadium (marathon) Streets of Athens (walk) Stadium at Olympia (shot put)
Dates	18–29 August 2004
Competitors	from 197 nations
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Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	9	11	5	25
2	Russia (RUS)	6	7	6	19
3	Great Britain (GBR)	3	0	1	4
4	Sweden (SWE)	3	0	0	3
5	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	3	2	7
6	Greece (GRE)	2	2	1	5
7	Cuba (CUB)	2	1	2	5
	Jamaica (JAM)	2	1	2	5
9	Morocco (MAR)	2	1	0	3
10	Italy (ITA)	2	0	1	3
11	China (CHN)	2	0	0	2
	Japan (JPN)	2	0	0	2
13	Kenya (KEN)	1	4	2	7
14	Lithuania (LTU)	1	1	0	2
15	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	2	3
16	Bahamas (BAH)	1	0	1	2
	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
18	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	0	1
	Cameroon (CMR)	1	0	0	1
	Dominican Republic (DOM)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
22	Romania (ROU)	0	2	1	3
23	Germany (GER)	0	2	0	2
	South Africa (RSA)	0	2	0	2
25	Australia (AUS)	0	1	2	3
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	2	3
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	2	3
28	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	1	2
30	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
33	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	2	2
35	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Eritrea (ERI)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (39 entries)		46	45	44	135

Medal winners

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Justin Gatlin  United States	9.85	Francis Obikwelu  Portugal	9.86 (AR)	Maurice Greene  United States	9.87
200 metres details	Shawn Crawford  United States	19.79	Bernard Williams  United States	20.01	Justin Gatlin  United States	20.03
400 metres details	Jeremy Wariner  United States	44.00	Otis Harris  United States	44.16	Derrick Brew  United States	44.42
800 metres details	Yuriy Borzakovskiy  Russia	1:44.45	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi  South Africa	1:44.61	Wilson Kipketer  Denmark	1:44.65
1500 metres details	Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco	3:34.18	Bernard Lagat  Kenya	3:34.30	Rui Silva  Portugal	3:34.68
5000 metres details	Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco	13:14.39	Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia	13:14.59	Eliud Kipchoge  Kenya	13:15.10
10,000 metres details	Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia	27:05.10 (OR)	Sileshi Sihine  Ethiopia	27:09.39	Zersenay Tadese  Eritrea	27:22.57
110 metres hurdles details	Liu Xiang  China	12.91 (WR)	Terrence Trammell  United States	13.18	Anier García  Cuba	13.20
400 metres hurdles details	Félix Sánchez  Dominican Republic	47.63	Danny McFarlane  Jamaica	48.11	Naman Keïta  France	48.26
3000 metres steeplechase details	Ezekiel Kemboi  Kenya	8:05.81	Brimin Kipruto  Kenya	8:06.11	Paul Kipsiele Koech  Kenya	8:06.64
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain Jason Gardener Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Mark Lewis-Francis	38.07	United States Shawn Crawford Justin Gatlin Coby Miller Maurice Greene Darvis Patton*	38.08	Nigeria Olusoji Fasuba Uchenna Emedolu Aaron Egbele Deji Aliu	38.23
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Otis Harris Derrick Brew Jeremy Wariner Darold Williamson Andrew Rock* Kelly Willie*	2:55.91	Australia John Steffensen Mark Ormrod Patrick Dwyer Clinton Hill	3:00.60	Nigeria James Godday Musa Audu Saul Weigopwa Enefiok Udo-Obong	3:00.90
Marathon details	Stefano Baldini  Italy	2:10:55	Mebrahtom Keflezighi  United States	2:11:29	Vanderlei de Lima  Brazil	2:12:11
20 kilometres walk details	Ivano Brugnetti  Italy	1:19:40	Paquillo Fernández  Spain	1:19:45	Nathan Deakes  Australia	1:20:02
50 kilometres walk details	Robert Korzeniowski  Poland	3:38:46	Denis Nizhegorodov  Russia	3:42:50	Aleksey Voyevodin  Russia	3:43:34
High jump details	Stefan Holm  Sweden	2.36 m	Matt Hemingway  United States	2.34 m	Jaroslav Bába  Czech Republic	2.34 m
Pole vault details	Timothy Mack  United States	5.95 m (OR)	Toby Stevenson  United States	5.90 m	Giuseppe Gibilisco  Italy	5.85 m
Long jump details	Dwight Phillips  United States	8.59 m	John Moffitt  United States	8.47 m	Joan Lino Martínez  Spain	8.32 m
Triple jump details	Christian Olsson  Sweden	17.79 m	Marian Oprea  Romania	17.55 m	Danil Burkenya  Russia	17.48 m
Shot put details [a]	Adam Nelson  United States	21.16 m	Joachim Olsen  Denmark	21.07 m	Manuel Martínez  Spain	20.84 m
	Yuriy Bilonoh  Ukraine	21.16 m
Discus throw details	Virgilijus Alekna  Lithuania	69.89 m (OR)	Zoltán Kővágó  Hungary	67.04 m	Aleksander Tammert  Estonia	66.66 m
	Róbert Fazekas  Hungary	70.93 m (OR)
Hammer throw details [b]	Koji Murofushi  Japan	82.91 m	None Awarded [b]		None Awarded [b]
	Adrian Annus  Hungary	83.19 m			Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus	79.81 m
Javelin throw details	Andreas Thorkildsen  Norway	86.50 m	Vadims Vasiļevskis  Latvia	84.95 m	Sergey Makarov  Russia	84.84 m
Decathlon details	Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic	8893 pts (OR)	Bryan Clay  United States	8820 pts	Dmitriy Karpov  Kazakhstan	8725 pts

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

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Yulia Nesterenko  Belarus	10.93	Lauryn Williams  United States	10.96	Veronica Campbell  Jamaica	10.97
200 metres details	Veronica Campbell  Jamaica	22.05	Allyson Felix  United States	22.18	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie  Bahamas	22.30
400 metres details	Tonique Williams-Darling  Bahamas	49.41	Ana Guevara  Mexico	49.56	Natalya Antyukh  Russia	49.89
800 metres details	Kelly Holmes  Great Britain	1:56.38	Hasna Benhassi  Morocco	1:56.43	Jolanda Čeplak  Slovenia	1:56.43
1500 metres details	Kelly Holmes  Great Britain	3:57.90	Tatyana Tomashova  Russia	3:58.12	Maria Cioncan  Romania	3:58.39
5000 metres details	Meseret Defar  Ethiopia	14:45.65	Isabella Ochichi  Kenya	14:48.19	Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia	14:51.83
10,000 metres details	Xing Huina  China	30:24.36	Ejegayehu Dibaba  Ethiopia	30:24.98	Derartu Tulu  Ethiopia	30:26.42
100 metres hurdles details	Joanna Hayes  United States	12.37 (OR)	Olena Krasovska  Ukraine	12.45	Melissa Morrison  United States	12.56
400 metres hurdles details	Fani Chalkia  Greece	52.82	Ionela Târlea-Manolache  Romania	53.38	Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova  Ukraine	53.44
4 × 100 metres relay details	Jamaica Tayna Lawrence Sherone Simpson Aleen Bailey Veronica Campbell Beverly McDonald*	41.73	Russia Olga Fyodorova Yuliya Tabakova Irina Khabarova Larisa Kruglova	42.27	France Véronique Mang Muriel Hurtis Sylviane Félix Christine Arron	42.54
4 × 400 metres relay details [c]	United States DeeDee Trotter Monique Henderson Sanya Richards Monique Hennagan Moushaumi Robinson*	3:19.01 [c]	Russia Olesya Krasnomovets Natalya Nazarova Olesya Zykina Natalya Antyukh Tatyana Firova* Natalya Ivanova*	3:20.16	Jamaica Novlene Williams Michelle Burgher Nadia Davy Sandie Richards Ronetta Smith*	3:22.00
Marathon details	Mizuki Noguchi  Japan	2:26:20	Catherine Ndereba  Kenya	2:26:32	Deena Kastor  United States	2:27:20
20 kilometres walk details	Athanasia Tsoumeleka  Greece	1:29:12	Olimpiada Ivanova  Russia	1:29:16	Jane Saville  Australia	1:29:25
High jump details	Yelena Slesarenko  Russia	2.06 m (OR)	Hestrie Cloete  South Africa	2.02 m	Viktoriya Styopina  Ukraine	2.02 m
Pole vault details	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia	4.91 m (WR)	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia	4.75 m	Anna Rogowska  Poland	4.70 m
Long jump details	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia	7.07 m	Irina Simagina  Russia	7.05 m	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	7.05 m
Triple jump details	Françoise Mbango Etone  Cameroon	15.30 m	Hrysopiyi Devetzi  Greece	15.25 m	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia	15.14 m
Shot put details [d]	Yumileidi Cumbá  Cuba	19.59 m	Nadine Kleinert  Germany	19.55 m	None Awarded [d]
	Irina Korzhanenko  Russia	21.06 m
Discus throw details [e]	Natalya Sadova  Russia	67.02 m	Anastasia Kelesidou  Greece	66.68 m	Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová  Czech Republic	66.08 m
					Iryna Yatchenko  Belarus	66.17 m
Hammer throw details	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	75.02 m (OR)	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba	73.36 m	Yunaika Crawford  Cuba	73.16 m
Javelin throw details	Osleidys Menéndez  Cuba	71.53 m (OR)	Steffi Nerius  Germany	65.82 m	Mirela Manjani  Greece	64.29 m
Heptathlon details	Carolina Klüft  Sweden	6952 pts	Austra Skujytė  Lithuania	6435 pts	Kelly Sotherton  Great Britain	6424 pts

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

Participating nations

A total of 197 nations participated in the different Athletics events at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

•  Afghanistan (2 athletes)
•  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 (15)
•  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 (59)
•  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)

Notes

^a After the announcement of the disqualification for doping of the athlete Yuri Bilonog (UKR), who won the gold medal at the time, there was a new distribution of medals in March 2013. The IOC upgraded original silver medalist Adam Nelson (USA) to gold, bronze medalist Joachim Olsen (DEN) to silver, and fourth place finisher Manuel Martínez (ESP) to bronze.^[1][2]
b Adrian Annus (HUN) and Ivan Tsikhan (BLR) were disqualified due to doping.^[1] IOC decided to declare the silver and bronze medals vacant.^[3]
c Crystal Cox (USA), who ran in the preliminary round of a relay team, admitted to using anabolic steroids from 2001 to 2004. The IOC decided to revoke the gold medal from Crystal Cox and asked the IAAF to make its decision about the US squad. The IOC and IAAF announced that the result would stand because, according to the rules of the time, a team should not be disqualified because of a doping offense by an athlete who did not compete in finals.^[4][5]
d Russian athlete Irina Korzhanenko lost her gold medal in women's shot put due to doping, with Cuban Yumileidi Cumbá Jay replacing her as the Olympic champion, German Nadine Kleinert receiving the silver medal, and Svetlana Krivelyova of Russia receiving the bronze medal,^[6] however Krivelyova was later stripped of her bronze for the same reason. IOC decided to declare the bronze medal vacant.^[7]
e Iryna Yatchenko (BLR), was disqualified due to doping. The IOC decided that the bronze medal was reallocated to the athlete Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová (CZE) during the IOC Executive Board on 30 May 2013.^[1][2]