August 2004 in sports
2004 in sports : June - July -
August - September - October - November - December
See also: Other events in August 2004
- 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 15:
(BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/results/3534712.stm)
- Athletics:
- Women's High Jump: Yelena Slesarenko, RUS
- Women's 1500 m: Kelly Holmes, GBR
- Men's Javelin: Andreas Thorkildsen, NOR
- Men's 800 m: Yuriy
Borzakovskiy, RUS
- Men's 5000 m: Hicham El Guerrouj, MAR
- Men's 4x100 m Relay: Great Britain (Jason
Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis)
- Men's 4 x 400 m Relay: United States of America (Otis Harris, Derrick
Brew, Jeremy Wariner, Darold Williamson)
- Women's 4 x 400 m Relay: United States of America (DeeDee Trotter, Monique Henderson, Sanya Richards, Monique Hennagan)
- Basketball:
- Boxing:
- Canoeing:
- Cycling:
- Diving:
- Football:
- Gymnastics:
- Women's Group Rhythmic: Russia
- Sailing:
- Taekwondo:
- Volleyball:
- Wrestling:
- 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 14:
(BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/results/3534720.stm)
- Athletics:
- Women's 10,000 m: Huina Xing, CHN
- Men's 100 m Hurdles: Xiang Liu, CHN
- Women's 4x100 m Relay: Jamaica (Tayna Lawrence,
Sherone Simpson, Aleen Bailey, Veronica Campbell)
- Men's 50 km Race Walk: Robert Korzeniowski, POL
- Women's Javelin Throw: Osleidys Menendez, CUB
- Women's Long Jump: Tatyana Lebedeva, RUS
- Men's Pole Vault: Timothy
Mack, USA
- Canoeing:
- Men's C-1 1000 m: David Cal,
ESP
- Men's C-2 1000 m: Germany
(Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek)
- Men's K-1 1000 m: Eirik Veraas Larsen, NOR
- Men's K-2 1000 m: Sweden
(Markus Oscarsson,
Henrik Nilsson)
- Men's K-4 1000 m: Hungary
(Zoltan Kammerer, Botond Storcz, Akos Vereckei, Gabor Horvath)
- Women's K-4 500 m: Germany (Birgit Fischer, Maike Nollen, Katrin Wagner, Carolin Leonhardt)
- Cycling:
- Equestrian:
- Hockey:
- Modern
Pentathlon:
- Synchronized Swimming:
- Taekwondo:
- 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 13:
(BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/results/3534724.stm)
- UEFA Cup 2004-05 Second qualifying round second leg. Teams progressing to the
first round proper in bold:
- 2004 Summer Olympics:
- Athletics: After
"refusing or failing to admit a urine sample", men's Discus champion Robert Fazekas (HUN) is stripped of his title. Virgilijus Alekna (LTU) now receives the gold medal.
(BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/athletics/3595006.stm)
- Gold medal winners on day 11: (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/results/3534738.stm)
- UEFA Champions League
2004-05 Third qualifying round, second leg. Teams progressing to the group stage in bold:
- 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 9:
(BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/results/3534750.stm)
- Athletics:
- Cycling:
- Diving:
- Fencing:
- Gymnastics:
- Rowing:
- Men's Lightweight Coxless Four: Denmark (Thor Kristensen, Thomas Ebert, Stephan Moelvig, Eskild Ebbesen)
- Men's Coxless Quadruple Sculls: Russia (Nikolai Spinev, Igor Kravtsov, Alekseij Svirin, Sergej Fedorovtsev)
- Women's Coxless Quadruple Sculls: Germany (Kathrin Boron,
Meike Evers, Manuela Lutze, Kerstin El Qalqili)
- Men's Eight: United States of America (Jason Read, Wyatt Allen, Chris Ahrens, Joseph Hansen,
Matt Deakin, Dan Beery, Beau Hoopman, Bryan Volpenhein, Pete Cipollone)
- Women's Eight: Romania
(Rodica Florea, Viorica Susanu, Aurica Barascu, Ioana Papuc, Liliana Gafencu, Elisabeta Lipa, Georgeta Damian, Doina Ignat, Elena Georgescu)
- Men's Lightweight Double Sculls: Poland (Tomasz Kucharski, Robert Sycz)
- Women's Lightweight Double Sculls: Romania (Constanta Burcica, Angela Alupei)
- Sailing:
- Shooting:
- Table Tennis:
- Tennis:
- NASCAR Nextel Cup: Greg Biffle wins the GFS Marketplace 400 in
Brooklyn, MI for his second career Nextel Cup victory. Biffle leads
nearly half of the laps in a car featuring a special Justice League
paint scheme. (ESPN.com) (http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?id=1865285)
- 2004 Summer Olympics:
- Athletics: Konstantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, who missed a mandatory drugs test last Thursday, withdraw from the games after an
IOC disciplinary hearing – even
though the IOC chose not to take any action against them. A meeting of the IAAF on
August 26 will consider whether a doping offence has been committed. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/athletics/3571944.stm)
- Equestrian:
Bettina Hoy of Germany crosses the start line twice, and is awarded penalty points. After an appeal,
the points are removed. This gives Hoy the gold medal in the individual event, and Germany gold in the team event, overturned on
appeal (see August 21).
- Gold medal winners on day 5: (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/results/3534788.stm)
- Ice hockey: Ivan
Hlinka, head coach of the Czech team, dies after being injured in a
car crash, days before training camp opens for the 2004
World Cup of Hockey. (CBC news) (http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2004/08/16/Sports/hlinka040816.html)
- Test cricket: England beat the West
Indies by seven wickets at Old Trafford in the
third Test, securing the series. England's last-innings total of 231 is a record winning score in Old Trafford Tests. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/3570906.stm)
- 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 3:
- Baseball: Chipper Jones
of the Atlanta Braves hits his 300th career home run in a 5-4 victory over the San Diego
Padres.
AtlantaBraves.com (http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/atl/news/atl_news.jsp?ymd=20040816&content_id=829748&vkey=news_atl&fext=.jsp)
- Softball: Ninotska Amaro, her sister Alizabeth and Joselyn Steider combine to
throw a perfect game, as team Puerto Rico beats the Red Mountain team from
Mesa, Arizona, as part of the Senior League Softball World Series.
- Boxing: Former world Bantamweight champion Robert Quiroga, 35, is found murdered in his hometown of San Antonio, Texas.
