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Summary of the Day's Olympic Events in Athens -- Saturday, 21st August, 2004

Athens Daily Olympic Summaries, August 2004
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Medal Winners at the Athens 2004 Olympics

Summer Olympics

I Athens 1896
II Paris 1900
III St Louis 1904
IV London 1908
V Stockholm 1912
VI Berlin 1916
VII Antwerp 1920
VII Paris 1924
IX Amsterdam 1928
X Los Angeles 1932
XI Berlin 1936
XII Tokyo 1940
XIII London 1944
XIV London 1948
XV Helsinki 1952
XVI Melbourne 1956
XVII Rome 1960
XVIII Tokyo 1964
XIX Mexico City 1968
XX Munich 1972
XXI Montreal 1976
XXII Moscow 1980
XXIII Los Angeles 1984
XXIV Seoul 1988
XXV Barcelona 1992
XXVI Atlanta 1996
XXVII Sydney 2000
XXVIII Athens 2004
XXIX Beijing 2008
XXX London 2012

Athens 2004 -- Summary of Day 8

Saturday, 21st August

Day 8 of the 2004 Olympics in Athens belonged to the European rivals, Great Britain and Germany. Both nations hauled in 9 medals, with Germany getting the edge in the gold rush by five to four.

Saturday, August 21st, 2004: 33 Gold Medals
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Germany Germany 5 2 2 9
2 Great Britain Great Britain 4 2 3 9
3 China China 3 3 0 6
4 Australia Australia 3 1 2 6
5 USA United States 2 3 1 6
6 Belarus Belarus 1 2 2 5
= Russia Russia 1 2 2 5
8 France France 1 2 1 4
= South Korea South Korea 1 2 1 4
10 Greece Greece 1 1 1 3
= Ukraine Ukraine 1 1 1 3
12 Italy Italy 1 0 2 3
13 Holland Holland 1 0 1 2
= Indonesia Indonesia 1 0 1 2
= Sweden Sweden 1 0 1 2
16 Belgium Belgium 1 0 0 1
= Georgia Georgia 1 0 0 1
= New Zealand New Zealand 1 0 0 1
= Norway Norway 1 0 0 1
= Romania Romania 1 0 0 1
= Turkey Turkey 1 0 0 1
22 Spain Spain 0 4 1 5
23 Japan Japan 0 1 2 3
24 Canada Canada 0 1 0 1
= Croatia Croatia 0 1 0 1
= Estonia Estonia 0 1 0 1
= Hong Kong Hong Kong 0 1 0 1
= Lithuania Lithuania 0 1 0 1
= Slovenia Slovenia 0 1 0 1
= Taiwan Taiwan 0 1 0 1
31 Bulgaria Bulgaria 0 0 2 2
= Denmark Denmark 0 0 2 2
= Poland Poland 0 0 2 2
34 Argentina Argentina 0 0 1 1
= Chile Chile 0 0 1 1
= Jamaica Jamaica 0 0 1 1
= South Africa South Africa 0 0 1 1
= Thailand Thailand 0 0 1 1

Aquatics

Men's 1500m Freestyle
Gold -- Grant Hackett (Aus) Time:14:43.40
Silver -- Larsen Jensen (USA) Time:14:45.29
Bronze -- David Davies (Gbr) Time:14:45.95

Men's 4 x 100m Medley
Gold -- United States, 3:30.68 World Record
(Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Ian Crocker, Jason Lezak)
Silver -- Germany, 3:33.62 European Record
(Steffen Driesen, Jens Kruppa, Thomas Rupprath, Lars Conrad)
Bronze -- Japan, 3:35.22 Asian Record
(Tomomi Morita, Kosuke Kitajima, Takashi Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Okumura)

Women's 50m Freestyle
Gold -- Inge de Bruijn (Hol) Time:24.58
Silver -- Malia Metella (Fra) Time:24.89
Bronze -- Lisbeth Lenton (Aus) Time:24.91

Women's 4 x 100m Medley
Gold -- Australia, 3:57.32 World Record
(Giaan Rooney, Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas, Jodie Henry)
Silver -- United States, 3:59.12
(Natalie Coughlin, Amanda Beard, Jenny Thompson, Kara Lynn Joyce)
Bronze -- Germany, 4:00.72 European Record
(Antje Buschschulte, Sarah Poewe, Franziska van Almsick, Daniela Gotz)

Archery

Men's Team (70m)
Gold -- South Korea 251pts
(Dong Hyun Im, Kyung Mo Park, Yong Ho Jang)
Silver -- Taiwan 245pts
(Szu Yuan Chen, Ming Huang Liu, Cheng Pang Wang)
Bronze -- Ukraine 237pts
(Dmytro Hrachov, Viktor Ruban, Oleksandr Serdyuk)

Athletics

Women's 100m
Gold -- Yuliya Nesterenko (Blr) 10.93s
Silver -- Lauryn Williams (USA) 10.96s Personal Best
Bronze -- Veronica Campbell (Jam) 10.97s

Women's Discus Throw
Gold -- Natalya Sadova (Rus) 67.02m
Silver -- Anastasia Kelesidou (Gre) 66.68m
Bronze -- Irina Yatchenko (Blr) 66.17m

Women's Heptathlon
Gold -- Carolina Kluft (Swe) 6952pts Season Best
100m hurdles: (13.21s, 1093pts)
High Jump: (1.91m, 1119pts)
Shot: (14.77m, 845pts)
200m: (23.27s, 1052pts)
Long Jump: (6.78m, 1099pts)
Javelin: (48.89m, 839pts)
800m: (2:14.15s, 905pts)
Silver -- Austra Skujyte (Lit) 6435pts Personal Best
100m hurdles: (14.03s, 974pts)
High Jump: (1.76m, 928pts)
Shot: (16.40m, 955pts)
200m: (24.82s, 903pts)
Long Jump: (6.30m, 943pts)
Javelin: (49.58m, 852pts)
800m: (2:15.92s, 880pts)
Bronze -- Kelly Sotherton (Gbr) 6424pts Personal Best
100m hurdles: (13.44s, 1059pts)
High Jump: (1.85m, 1041pts)
Shot: (13.29m, 747pts)
200m: (23.57s, 1022pts)
Long Jump: (6.51m, 1010pts)
Javelin: (37.19m, 613pts)
800m: (2:12.27s, 932pts)

Badminton

Men's Singles
Gold -- Taufik Hidayat (Ina) beat
Silver -- Seung Mo Shon (Kor)
Games: (2-0) Sets: (15-8, 15-7)
Bronze -- Soni Dwi Kuncoro (Ina) beat
Boonsak Ponsana (Tha)
Games: (2-0) Sets: (15-11, 17-16)

Women's Doubles
Gold -- Jiewen Zhang & Wei Yang (Chn) beat
Silver -- Huang & Ling Gao (Chn)
Games: (2-1) Sets: (7-15, 15-4, 15-8)
Bronze -- Kyung Min Ra & Kyung Won Lee (Kor) beat
Tingting Zhao & Yili Wei (Chn)
Games: (2-1) Sets: (10-15, 15-9, 15-7)

Cycling

Men's Individual Pursuit (Track)
Gold -- Bradley Wiggins (Gbr) 4:16.304 beat
Silver -- Brad McGee (Aus) 4:20.436
Bronze -- Sergi Escobar (Spa) 4:17.947 beat
Rob Hayles (Gbr) 4:22.291

Men's Team Sprint (Track)
Gold -- Germany 43.980s
(Jens Fiedler, Stefan Nimke, Rene Wolff) beat
Silver -- Japan 44.246s
(Toshiaki Fushimi, Masaki Inoue, Tomohiro Nagatsuka)
Bronze -- France 44.359s
(Mickael Bourgain, Laurent Gane, Arnaud Tournant) beat
Australia 44.404s
(Ryan Bayley, Sean Eadie, Shane Kelly)

Equestrian

Mixed Individual (Dressage)
Gold -- Ulla Salzgeber: on Rusty (Ger)
Judge C: (81.667%, Rank:1)
Judge H: (77.917%, Rank:1)
Judge B: (77.708%, Rank:1)
Judge E: (77.708%, Rank:1)
Judge M: (76.042%, Rank:1)
Total Score: 78.208% -T -Q
Silver -- Beatriz Ferrer-Salat: on Beauvalais (Spa)
Judge M: (75.417%, Rank:2)
Judge H: (75.208%, Rank:3)
Judge E: (74.792%, Rank:2)
Judge C: (74.583%, Rank:5)
Judge B: (73.333%, Rank:4)
Total Score: 74.667% -T -Q
Bronze -- Anky van Grunsven: on Salinero (Hol)
Judge H: (75.625%, Rank:2)
Judge C: (75.208%, Rank:3)
Judge B: (74.792%, Rank:2)
Judge M: (73.125%, Rank:5)
Judge E: (72.292%, Rank:5)
Total Score: 74.208% -T -Q

Mixed Team (Dressage)
Gold -- Germany, Score: 74.653
Ulla Salzgeber: on Rusty (Ger) Score: 78.208% -Ttl
Martin Schaudt: on Weltall (Ger) Score: 73.417% -Ttl
Hubertus Schmidt: on Wansuela Suerte (Ger) Score: 72.333% -Ttl
Heike Kemmer: on Bonaparte (Ger) Score: 71.292%
Silver -- Spain, Score: 72.917
Beatriz Ferrer-Salat: on Beauvalais (Spa) Score: 74.667% -Ttl
Rafael Soto: on Invasor (Spa) Score: 72.792% -Ttl
Juan Antonio Jimenez: on Guizo (Spa) Score: 71.292% -Ttl
Ignacio Rambla: on Oleaje (Spa) Score: 64.750%
Bronze -- United States, Score: 71.500
Deborah McDonald: on Brentina (USA) Score: 73.375% -Ttl
Robert Dover: on Kennedy (USA) Score: 71.625% -Ttl
Guenter Seidel: on Aragon (USA) Score: 69.500% -Ttl
Lisa Wilcox: on Relevant 5 (USA) Score: 68.792%

Fencing

Men's Team Foil
Gold -- Italy
(Salvatore Sanzo, Simone Vanni, Andrea Cassara) beat
Silver -- China
(Chong Ye, Zhaozhi Dong, Hanxiong Wu) (45,42)
Bronze -- Russia
(Viatcheslav Pozdniakov, Renal Ganeev, Youri Moltchan) beat
United States (Jonathan Tiomkin, Dan Kellner, Jedediah Dupree) (45,38)

Gymnastics

Men's Individual (Trampoline)
Gold -- Yuri Nikitin (Ukr) Total Points:41.50
Silver -- Alexander Moskalenko (Rus) Total Points:41.20
Bronze -- Henrik Stehlik (Ger) Total Points:40.80

Rowing

Men's Single Sculls
Gold -- Olaf Tufte (Nor) 6:49.30
Silver -- Jueri Jaanson (Est) 6:51.42
Bronze -- Ivo Yanakiev (Bgr) 6:52.80

Men's Coxless Pair
Gold -- Australia 6:30.76
[Drew Ginn(B), James Tomkins(S)]
Silver -- Croatia 6:32.64
[Sinisa Skelin(B), Niksa Skelin(S)]
Bronze -- South Africa 6:33.40
[Donovan Cech(B), Ramon di Clemente(S)]

Men's Double Sculls
Gold -- France 6:29.00
[Sebastien Vieilledent(B), Adrien Hardy(S)]
Silver -- Slovenia 6:31.72
[Luka Spik(B), Iztok Cop(S)]
Bronze -- Italy 6:32.93
[Rossano Galtarossa(B), Alessio Sartori(S)]

Men's Four
Gold -- Great Britain 6:06.98
[Steve Williams(B), James Cracknell(2), Ed Coode(3), Matthew Pinsent(S)]
Silver -- Canada 6:07.06
[Cameron Baerg(B), Thomas Herschmiller(2), Jake Wetzel(3), Barney Williams(S)]
Bronze -- Italy 6:10.41
[Lorenzo Porzio(B), Dario Dentale(2), Luca Agamennoni(3), Raffaello Leonardo(S)]

Women's Single Sculls
Gold -- Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski (Ger) 7:18.12
Silver -- Ekaterina Karsten (Blr) 7:22.04
Bronze -- Rumyana Neykova (Bgr) 7:23.10

Women's Coxless Pair
Gold -- Romania 7:06.55
[Georgeta Damian(B), Viorica Susanu(S)]
Silver -- Great Britain 7:08.66
[Katherine Grainger(B), Cath Bishop(S)]
Bronze -- Belarus 7:09.86
[Yuliya Bichyk(B), Natallia Helakh(S)]

Women's Double Sculls
Gold -- New Zealand 7:01.79
[Georgina Evers-Swindell(B), Caroline Evers-Swindell(S)]
Silver -- Germany 7:02.78
[Peggy Waleska(B), Britta Oppelt(S))]
Bronze -- Great Britain 7:07.58
[Sarah Winckless(B), Elise Laverick(S)]

Sailing

Men's 470
Gold -- United States, 71.0
(Paul Foerster, Kevin Burnham)
Number of finished races:11
Points per race (1,8,2,15,9,4,3,7,18,4,22)
Silver -- Great Britain, 74.0
(Nick Rogers, Joe Glanfield)
Number of finished races:11
Points per race (2,3,9,4,17,5,2,3,10,19,23)
Bronze -- Japan, 90.0
(Kazuto Seki, Kenjiro Todoroki)
Number of finished races:11
Points per race (3,7,21,18,7,12,1,9,5,17,11)

Men's Finn
Gold -- Ben Ainslie (Gbr) Total Points:38.0
Number of finished races:11
Points per race (9,26,1,1,4,1,2,3,2,1,14)
Silver -- Rafael Trujillo (Spa) Total Points:51.0
Number of finished races:11
Points per race (8,3,3,6,2,3,26,4,5,4,13)
Bronze -- Mateusz Kusznierewicz (Pol) Total Points:53.0
Number of finished races:11
Points per race (3,1,6,4,11,26,17,1,7,2,1)

Women's 470
Gold -- Greece, 38.0
(Sofia Bekatorou, Aimilia Tsoulfa)
Number of finished races:11
Points per race (1,2,2,13,1,1,14,1,1,2,21)
Silver -- Spain, 62.0
(Natalia Via Dufresne, Sandra Azon)
Number of finished races:11
Points per race (2,4,9,15,19,5,8,3,5,6,5)
Bronze -- Sweden, 63.0
(Therese Torgersson, Vendela Zachrisson)
Number of finished races:11
Points per race (9,10,7,2,3,14,9,6,7,7,3)

Women's Yngling
Gold -- Great Britain, 39.0
(Shirley Robertson, Sarah Webb, Sarah Ayton)
Number of finished races:11
Points per race (5,4,1,1,4,3,4,6,3,8,17)
Silver -- Ukraine, 50.0
(Ruslana Taran, Ganna Kalinina, Svitlana Matevusheva)
Number of finished races:11
Points per race (10,3,9,3,7,2,2,8,1,16,5)
Bronze -- Denmark, 54.0
(Dorte O. Jensen, Helle Jespersen, Christina Otzen)
Number of finished races:11
Points per race (1,14,5,5,5,6,3,4,6,5,17)

Shooting

Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (60 shots)
Gold -- Ralf Schumann (Ger) Total Points:694.9
Qual' Round:592 Final Round:102.9
Silver -- Sergei Poliakov (Rus) Total Points:692.7
Qual' Round:592 Final Round:100.7
Bronze -- Sergei Alifirenko (Rus) Total Points:692.3
Qual' Round:592 Final Round:100.3

Table Tennis

Men's Doubles
Gold -- Qi Chen & Lin Ma (Chn) beat
Silver -- Lai Chak Ko & Ching Li (Hkg)
Games: (4-2) Sets: (11-6, 11-9, 7-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-5)
Bronze -- Michael Maze & Finn Tugwell (Den) beat
Dimitrij Mazunov & Alexei Smirnov (Rus)
Games: (4-2) Sets: (11-3, 11-8, 12-14, 3-11, 11-9, 11-8)

Tennis

Men's Singles
Bronze -- Fernando Gonzalez (Chi) beat
Taylor Dent (USA)
Games: (2-1) Sets: (6-4, 2-6, 16-14)

Women's Singles
Gold -- Justine Henin-Hardenne (Bel) beat
Silver -- Amelie Mauresmo (Fra)
Games: (2-0) Sets: (6-3, 6-3)
Bronze -- Alicia Molik (Aus) beat
Anastasia Myskina (Rus)
Games: (2-0) Sets: (6-3, 6-4)

Women's Doubles
Bronze -- Paola Suarez & Patricia Tarabini (Arg) beat
Shinobu Asagoe & Ai Sugiyama (Jpn)
Games: (2-0) Sets: (6-3, 6-3)

Weightlifting

Men's 77-85kg
Gold -- George Asanidze (Geo) 382.5kg
(Snatch:177.5kg, C&J:205.0kg)
Silver -- Andrei Rybakou (Blr) 380.0kg
(Snatch:180.0kg, C&J:200.0kg)
Bronze -- Pyrros Dimas (Gre) 377.5kg
(Snatch:175.0kg, C&J:202.5kg)

Women's +75 kg
Gold -- Gonghong Tang (Chn) 305.0kg World Record
(Snatch:122.5kg, C&J:182.5kg World Record)
Silver -- Mi Ran Jang (Kor) 302.5kg
(Snatch:130.0kg, C&J:172.5kg)
Bronze -- Agata Wrobel (Pol) 290.0kg
(Snatch:130.0kg, C&J:160.0kg)

Women's -48 kg
Gold -- Nurcan Taylan (Tur) 210.0kg World Record
(Snatch:97.5kg World Record, C&J:112.5kg)
Silver -- Zhuo Li (Chn) 205.0kg
(Snatch:92.5kg, C&J:112.5kg)
Bronze -- Aree Wiratthaworn (Tha) 200.0kg
(Snatch:85.0kg, C&J:115.0kg Olympic Record)

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