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August 2004 in sports - Definition and Overview |
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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:
- Men's 48-51 kg: Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano. CUB
- Men's 54-57 kg: Kim Song Guk, PRK
- Men's 60-64 kg: Manus Boonjumnong, THA
- Men's 69-75 kg: Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov, RUS
- Men's 81-91 kg: Odlanier Solis Fonte, CUB
- Canoeing:
- Men's K-1 500 m: Adam van Koeverden, CAN
- Men's C-1 500 m: Andreas Dittmer, GER
- Women's K-1 500 m: Natasa Janics, HUN
- Men's K-2 500 m: Ronald Rauhe, Tim Wieskoetter, (GER)
- Men's C-2 500 m: Meng Guanliang, Yang Wenjun, (CHN)
- Women's K-2 500 m: Katalin Kovacs, Natasa Janics, (HUN)
- Cycling:
- Men's Individual Mountain Bike: Julien Absalon, FRA
- Diving:
- Men's 10 m Platform: Jia Hu, CHN
- Football:
- Gymnastics:
- Women's Group Rhythmic: Russia
- Sailing:
- Men's Keelboat: Torben Grael, Marcelo Ferreira, BRA
- Men's Multihull: Roman Hagara, Hans Peter Steinacher, AUS
- Taekwondo:
- Women's 57-67 kg: Wei Luo, CHN
- Men's 68-80 kg: Steven Lopez, USA
- Volleyball:
- Wrestling:
- Men's Freestyle 55 kg: Mavlet Batirov, RUS
- Men's Freestyle 66 kg: Elbrus Tedeyev, UKR
- Men's Freestyle 84 kg: Cael Sanderson, USA
- Men's Freestyle 120 kg: Artur Taymazov, UZB
- 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:
- Women's Individual Mountain Bike: Gunn-Rita Dahle, NOR
- Equestrian:
- Hockey:
- Modern Pentathlon:
- Women's Individual: Zsuzsanna Voros, HUN
- Synchronized Swimming:
- Taekwondo:
- Women's 49-57 kg: Ji Won Jang, KOR
- Men's 58-68 kg: Hadia Saei Bonehkohal, IRN
- 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: Gold medal winners on day 12: (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/results/3534730.stm)
- Athletics:
- Baseball:
- Beach Volleyball:
- Men: Ricardo Alex Santos and Emanuel Rego, BRA
- Cycling:
- Men's Keirin: Ryan Bayley, AUS
- Men's Madison: Graeme Brown and Stuart O'Grady, AUS
- Women's Points Race: Olga Slyusareva, RUS
- Equestrian:
- Mixed Individual Dressage: Anky van Grunsven - Salinero, NED
- Sailing:
- Men's Windsurfing Mistral: Gal Fridman, ISR
- Women's Windsurfing Mistral: Faustine Merret, FRA
- Synchronized Swimming:
- Women's Duet: Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova, RUS
- Triathlon:
- Weightlifting:
- Wrestling:
- Men's Greco-Roman Under 55 kg: Istvan Majoros, HUN
- Men's Greco-Roman 60-66 kg: Farid Mansurov, AZE
- Men's Greco-Roman 74-84 kg: Alexei Michine, RUS
- FA Premier League: Arsenal beat Blackburn Rovers 3-0 to set a new record of 43 consecutive league matches without defeat. Nottingham Forest's previous record stood for 26 years. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/3577058.stm)
- UEFA Champions League 2004-05 Third qualifying round, second leg. Teams progressing to the group stage 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:
- Athletics: Shot put winner Irina Korzhanenko (RUS) fails a drug test and is stripped of her gold medal. The Olympic title goes to Yumileidi Cumba (CUB) instead. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/athletics/3588546.stm)
- Gold medal winners on day 10: (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/results/3534748.stm)
- 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:
- Women's 10 m Platform: Chantelle Newbery, AUS
- Fencing:
- Men's Team Epee: France (Hugues Obry, Eric Boisse, Fabrice Jeannet, Jerome Jeannet)
- 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:
- Men's 50 m Free Rifle 3 Positions: Zhanbo Jia, CHN
- Men's Skeet: Andrea Benelli, ITA
- Table Tennis:
- Women's Singles: Yining Zhang, CHN
- 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)
- English football player Jonathan Woodgate makes a surprise move from Newcastle United to Spanish side Real Madrid, for a transfer fee of £15 million. Woodgate is the second English footballer in the space of a week to sign for Real, following Michael Owen's transfer from Liverpool. They join fellow Englishman David Beckham, who has been a player at the club for a year.
- 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 7: (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/results/3534772.stm)
- Archery:
- Women's Team (70 m): Korea (Sung Jin Lee, Sung Hyun Park, Mi Jin Yun)
- Athletics:
- Men's 10,000 m: Kenenisa Bekela, ETH
- Men's 20 km Walk: Ivano Brugnetti, ITA
- Badminton:
- Men's Doubles: Dong Moon Kim and Tae Kwon Ha, KOR
- Canoeing:
- Men's C-2 Slalom: Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner, SVK
- Men's K-1 Slalom: Benoit Peschier, FRA
- Cycling:
- Fencing:
- Women's Team Épée: Russia (Oxana Ermakova, Anna Sivkova, Tatiana Logounova, Karina Aznavourian)
- Gymnastics:
- Women's Individual Trampoline: Anna Dogonadze, GER
- Judo:
- Men's Over 100 kg: Keiji Suzuki, JPN
- Women's Over 78 kg: Maki Tsukada, JPN
- Shooting:
- Men's 50 m Free Rifle Prone: Matthew Emmons, USA
- Women's 50 m Rifle 3 Positions: Lioubov Galkina, RUS
- Swimming:
- Table Tennis:
- Women's Doubles: Nan Wang and Yining Zhang, CHN
- Weightlifting:
- Boxing: Former world Heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe announces he will attempt a comeback.(ESPN) (http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=1864289)
- 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)
- Archery:
- Women's Individual (70 m): Sung Hyun Park, KOR
- Athletics:
- Men's Shot Put: Yuriy Bilonog, UKR
- Women's Shot Put: Yumileidi Cumba, CUB (revised result: See Aug 23)
- Canoeing:
- Men's C-1 Slalom: Tony Estanguet, FRA
- Women's K-1 Slalom: Elena Kaliska, SVK
- Cycling:
- Equestrian:
- Mixed Individual: Leslie Law, Shear L'Eau, GBR (result changed after appeal)
- Mixed Team: France (Nicolas Touzaint - Galan de Sauvagere, Jean Teulere - Espoir de la Mare, Didier Courreges - Deba d'Estruval, Cedric Lyard - Fine Merveille, Arnaud Boiteau - Expo du Moulin) (result changed after appeal)
- Fencing:
- Women's Individual Foil: Valentina Vezzali, ITA
- Gymnastics:
- Judo:
- Women's 63-70 kg: Masae Ueno, JPN
- Men's 81-90 kg: Zurab Zviadauri, GEO
- Shooting:
- Swimming:
- Weightlifting:
- Women's 58-63 kg: Nataliya Skakun, UKR
- Men's 62-69 kg: Guozheng Zhang, CHN
- 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:
- Diving:
- Women's Synchronized 10 m Platform: Lao Lishi and Li Ting, CHN
- Men's Synchronized 3m Springboard: Nikolaos Siranidis and Thomas Bimis, GRE
- Fencing:
- Men's Individual Foil: Brice Guyart, FRA
- Gymnastics:
- Men's Team Artistic: Japan (Takehiro Kashima, Hisashi Mizutori, Daisuke Nakano, Hiroyuki Tomita, Naoya Tsukahara, Isao Yoneda)
- Judo:
- Women's 52-57 kg: Yvonne Boenisch, GER
- Men's 66-73 kg: Won Hee Lee, KOR
- Shooting:
- Women's Trap: Suzanne Balogh, AUS
- Men's 10 m Air Rifle: Qinan Zhu, CHN
- Swimming:
- Weightlifting:
- Women's 58 kg: Chen Yanqing, CHN
- Men's 62 kg: Zhiyong Shi, CHN
- 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.
- French footballer Zinedine Zidane, one of the most celebrated players of all time, announces his international retirement. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/3548572.stm)
- UEFA Cup 2004-05 Second qualifying round first leg:
- The United States basketball team defeats Turkey, 79-67, despite 11 3-point shots by Turkey. (Yahoo! (http://sports.yahoo.com/oly/news;_ylc=X3oDMTBpcnQzN2d2BF9TAzk2NjczMTUwBHNlYwN0bQ--?slug=ap-us-turkeybko&prov=ap&type=lgns))
- NFL: The Dallas Cowboys release quarterback Quincy Carter, who started all 16 games for the team last year. (NY Times) (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/sports/football/05carter.html) ESPN (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1852208) has reported that Carter tested positive for an illegal substance just before his release, and that he was in the NFL's substance abuse program.
- Baseball: The New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics, 8-6, with an eleventh inning home run hit by Alex Rodriguez, in a nationally televised game. (ESPN) (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/gameUpdate?gameId=240804110)
- Basketball: A three-pointer by Allen Iverson from near half-court with less than a second to go lifts the Dream Team 80-77 over Germany in a friendly game held in Cologne. German NBA superstar Dirk Nowitzki, who had tied the game with a three-pointer of his own seconds before Iverson's shot, led all scorers with 32 points. (ESPN) (http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer04/basketball/news/story?id=1852137)
- In a blockbuster trade, the Atlanta Hawks trade Jason Terry, Alan Henderson and a future first round draft pick to the Dallas Mavericks for Antoine Walker and Tony Delk. (ESPN) (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1852069)
- The Detroit Pistons trade center Corliss Williamson to the Philadelphia 76ers for Derrick Coleman and Amal McCaskill. (ESPN) (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1852310)
- UEFA Champions League 2004-05 Second qualifying round, second leg (team progressing to next round in bold):
- Asian Cup 2004: Hosts China thrill fans by defeating Iran in a penalty shootout 4-3. Iran missed their fourth and fifth shots. The game was tied 1-1 aet. In the other match, Bahrain ties Japan in a hard-fought match 3-3, with Japan only tying on the 90th minute of regulation play. Japan scores first in extra time, however, and keeps the score at 4-3 to win the game.
- Basketball: Team Italy upsets the United States' Dream Team, 95-78, during a friendly in Cologne, Germany. (ESPN) (http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer04/basketball/news/story?id=1852137)
- UEFA Champions League 2004-05 Second qualifying round, second leg (team progressing to next round in bold):
- Horse racing: The owners of Smarty Jones, the horse who gained popularity with his spirited pursuit of the Triple Crown, announce that he is forced to retire due to deep bruises in all four of his legs. Smarty was the first undefeated horse to win Kentucky Derby since Seattle Slew, in his retirement he will reside in the exact stall that Slew retired at in Kentucky. (ESPN.com) (http://espn.go.com/horse/news/2004/0802/1850769.html)
- National Football League: Running back Ricky Williams files paperwork officially declaring his retirement from the NFL at the age of 27. Williams, who rushed for 6,354 yards in his 5 NFL seasons for the New Orleans Saints and, most recently, the Miami Dolphins, told Miami he was leaving the team a week earlier. Because Williams is part of the NFL's substance abuse program, he is forbidden from playing in 2004 should he choose to unretire. (ESPN.com) (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1850741)
- Test cricket: England win the second Test match against the West Indies at Edgbaston by 256 runs. During the match Marcus Trescothick becomes the first batsman to score centuries in both innings of an Edgbaston Test. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/3526054.stm)
- Football (soccer): Mark Palios resigns as chief executive of the English Football Association. Both he and the England head coach Sven-Göran Eriksson have admitted affairs with the same woman: Faria Alam, an FA secretary. Palios does not admit any wrongdoing (he, Eriksson, and the secretary are all unmarried) but says he feels his action is necessary to help the Football Association return to normality. Eriksson is also under pressure to resign. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/3526524.stm)
Past sports events by month
2004 in sports: June July (for earlier sports events, see May 2004 and preceding months)
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