Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics was represented by Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and abbreviated AUS. 482 athletes from Australia competed in all sports except for Handball in Athens.
Australia first competed in the Olympics in 1896, and is one of only three countries, along with Greece and the United Kingdom, to have sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games. In 1908 and 1912, Australia and New Zealand entered a combined team named Australasia.
Australia entered the Athens Games having won a total of 58 medals, including 16 gold, as the host of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Its strongest sports were swimming, cycling, diving and rowing.
Colin Beashel was Australia's flag bearer in the opening ceremony. Australia's national anthem, "Advance Australia Fair", was played when the country won a gold medal.
A list of the members of the Australian Olympic team follows. Names in bold are medal winners.
1 Bronze
Men's individual:
Women's individual:
Men's team:
- David Barnes, Tim Cuddihy, and Simon Fairweather - 6th place
Women's team:
- Deonne Bridger, Jo-Ann Galbraith, and Melissa Jennison - 11th place
1 Silver, 2 Bronze
- Men
- 100 m - Joshua Ross (eliminated in round 2)
- 200 m - Adam Miller (eliminated in round 1)
- 400 m - Casey Vincent, Clinton Hill (both eliminated in round 1)
- 3000 m steeplechase - Peter Nowill (eliminated in round 1)
- 5000 m - Craig Mottram (8th in final)
- 4x100 m relay - Adam Basil, Paul di Bella, Patrick Johnson, Joshua Ross (6th in final)
- 4x400 m relay - John Steffensen, Mark Ormrod, Patrick Dwyer, Clinton Hill (Silver medal)
- Marathon - Lee Troop (2:18:46, 28th place)
- Marathon - Nicholas Harrison (2:21:42, 45th place)
- Marathon - Sisay Bezabeh (2:25:26, 60th place)
- 20 km walk - Nathan Deakes (Bronze medal), Luke Adams (16th place)
- 50 km walk - Nathan Deakes (disqualified)
- Triple jump - Andrew Murphy (eliminated in first round)
- Pole vault - Paul Burgess (11th in final) Steven Hooker (eliminated in first round), Dmitri Markov (eliminated in first round)
- Shot put - Justin Anlezark (7th in final)
- Javelin - William Hamlyn-Harris (eliminated in first round), Oliver Dziubak (eliminated in first round)
- Hammer - Stuart Rendell (eliminated in first round)
- Women
Other: Christie Dawes; Katerina Dressler; Kurt Fearnley; David Geddes; Rosemary Hayward; Rebecca Irwin; Kristopher McCarthy; Andrew McManus; Renee Robson; Louise Sauvage; Annabelle Smith; Deborah Sosimenko; Eliza Stankovic.
All of Australia's badminton players and pairs were defeated in their respective first round.
Men's singles:
Women's singles:
Men's doubles:
Women's doubles:
Mixed doubles:
- Travis Denney and Kate Wilson-Smith - defeated in round of 32
Silver medal
Advanced into Final match after defeating a Japanese team made up of professional players in Semifinal (1-0). Lost to Cuba in Final 2-6.
1 Silver
Men's team competition
Team Roster
Head Coach:
Brian Goorjian
Women's Team Competition
- Silver Medal
- Players: Suzy Batkovic, Sandra Brondello, Trish Fallon, Kristi Harrower, Lauren Jackson, Natalie Porter, Alicia Poto, Belinda Snell, Rachael Sporn, Laura Summerton, Penelope Taylor, Allison Tranquilli.
- Men's Light Fly Weight (< 48 kg)
- Peter Wakefield - Eliminated in the Round of 16 - Points Decision 29:20
- Men's Fly Weight (49 kg - 51 kg)
- Bradley Hore - Eliminated in the Round of 32 - Points Decision 18:32
- Men's Bantam Weight (52 kg - 54 kg)
- Joel Brunker - Eliminated in the Round of 32 - Referee Stop Contest Outscored 3:23 in Round 3
- Men's Feather Weight (55 kg - 57 kg)
- Ryan Langham - Eliminated in the Round of 32 - Points Decision 15:40
- Men's Light Weight (58 kg - 60 kg)
- Anthony Little - Eliminated in the Round of 16 - Referee Stop Contest Outscored 9:29 in Round 3
- Men's Light Welter Weight (61 kg - 64 kg)
- Anoushirvan Nourian - Eliminated in the Round of 16 - Points Decision 25:33
- Men's Welter Weight (65 kg - 69 kg)
- Gerard O'Mahony - Eliminated in the Round of 32 - Points Decision 27:54
- Men's Middle Weight (70 kg - 75 kg)
- Jamie Pittman - Eliminated in the Round of 32 - Points Decision 23:24
- Men's Light Heavy Weight (76 kg - 81 kg)
- Men's Heavy Weight (82 kg - 91 kg)
- Adam Forsyth - Eliminated in the Quarterfinals - Points Decision 12:27
- Men's Super Heavy Weight (> 91 kg)
2 Silver
Men's K1 500m:
Nathan Baggaley (Silver)
Men's K2 500m: Nathan Bagalley, Clint Robinson (Silver)
Kate Barclay; Robin Bell; Mark Bellofiore; Daniel Collins; Warwick Draper; Martin Marinov; Chantal Meek; Lachlan Milne; Louise Natoli; Lisa Oldenhof; Amanda Rankin; David Rhodes.
6 Gold, 2 Silver, 2 Bronze
Mountain bike: Joshua Fleming; Lisa Mathison; Sidney Taberlay.
Road:
Track:
1 Gold, 4 Silver, 4 Bronze
Men's 3m Springboard:
Men's 10m Platform:
Women's 3m Springboard:
Women's 10m Platform:
Other Divers:
Tim Amitrano; Olivia Bunn; Phillip Dutton; Mary Hanna;
Andrew Hoy; Phillip Dutton; Erica MacMillan; Stuart Tinney; Rebel Morrow; Olivia Bunn.
Men's: Épée Individual:
Seamus Robinson - defeated in round of 32
Women's Épée Individual: Evelyn Halls - defeated in round of 16
Men's Foil Individual: Frank Bartolillo - defeated in round of 32
Men's Team Roster: John Aloisi;
Alex Brosque;
Tim Cahill;
Shane Cansdell-Sherriff;
Anthony Danze;
Spase Dilevski;
Ahmad Elrich;
Eugene Galekovic;
Ryan Griffiths;
Brett Holman;
Bradley Jones;
Adrian Madaschi;
Jonathan McKain;
Craig Moore;
Jade North;
David Tarka;
Carl Valeri;
Luke Wilkshire.
Australia lost to Iraq in Quarter-Finals. Score: Iraq: 1 Australia: 0
Women's Team Roster: Dianne Alagich, Melissa Barbieri, Rhian Davies, Lisa De Vanna, Gillian Foster, Heather Garriock, Tal Karp, Cassandra Kell, Selin Kuralay, Kylie Ledbrook, Joanne Peters, Karla Reuter, Cheryl Salisbury, Sally Shipard, Thea Slatyer, Danielle Small, Sacha Wainwright, and Sarah Walsh.
Australia lost to Sweden in Quarter-Finals. Score: Sweden: 2 Australia: 1
Men's artistic:
Women's artistic: 8th place team
Women's rhythmic:
Lesley Daly; Danielle Kelly
1 Gold
Men's team competition
- Preliminary Round (Group B)
- Australia - New Zealand 4-1
- Australia - Argentina 2-2
- Australia - India 4-3
- Australia - South Africa 3-2
- Australia - Netherlands 1-2
- Australia - Netherlands 2-1 (After extra time, → Gold Medal)
Team Roster
Women's team
- Preliminary Round (Group B)
- Australia - Germany 1-2
- Australia - South Africa 3-0
- Australia - South Korea 2-2
- Australia - The Netherlands 0-1
- 5th-8th place: Australia - Japan 3-1
- 5th-6th place: Australia - New Zealand 3-0 (→ Fifth place)
Team Roster
Men
Women
Men's
Women's
1 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze
Men
- Eight: Bo Hanson, Michael McKay, Stuart Reside, Geoffrey Stewart, James Stewart, Stephen Stewart, Stefan Szczurowski, Stuart Welch, Michael Toon (cox) - Bronze medal
- Coxless four: David Dennis, Robert Jahrling, Tom Laurich, David McGowan - 4th
- Coxless pair: Drew Ginn, James Tomkins - Gold medal
- Quad scull: Scott Brennan, Shaun Coulton, David Crawshay, Duncan Free.
- Double scull: Peter Hardcastle, Brendan Long
- Single scull: Craig Jones - eliminated in heats
- Lightweight coxless four: Simon Burgess, Ben Cureton, Anthony Edwards, Glen Loftus - Silver medal
- Lightweight double scull: George Jelbart, Cameron Wurf
Women
- Eight: Kyeema Doyle, Katie Foulkes (cox), Monique Heinke, Catriona Oliver, Sarah Outhwaite, Victoria Roberts, Sally Robbins, Julia Wilson, Jodi Winter.
- Quad scull: Amber Bradley, Kerry Hore, Dana Faletic, Rebecca Sattin - 4th in final (Promoted to Bronze after a member of third-placed Ukrainian team fails drug test)
- Double scull: Donna Martin, Jane Robinson - eliminated in heats
- Lightweight double scull: Amber Halliday, Sally Newmarch - World Record in Heat (6:49.90), fourth place in A Final
Jennifer Armstrong;
Colin Beashel; Nicky Bethwaite; Michael Blackburn; Sarah Blanck; Gary Boyd; Darren Bundock; Jessica Crisp; John Forbes; David Giles; Karyn Gojnich; Lars Kleppich; Kristin Kosmala; Christopher Nicholson; Anthony Nossiter; Malcolm Page; Belinda Stowell; Nathan Wilmot.
1 Gold, 1 Bronze
Men's
Women's
- 10 m Air Pistol
- 10 m Air Rifle
- Trap
Other: George Barton; Michael Diamond; Kim Frazer; Stephen Haberman; Matthew Inabinet; Timothy Lowndes; Lauryn Mark; Warren Potent; Bruce Quick; Paul Rahman; Susan Trindall; Tom Turner; Bryan Wilson; Annette Woodward.
1 Silver
Sandra Allen; Marissa Carpadios; Fiona Crawford; Amanda Doman; Peta Edebone; Tanya Harding; Natalie Hodgskin; Simmone Morrow; Tracey Mosley; Stacey Porter; Melanie Roche; Natalie Titcume; Natalie Ward; Brooke Wilkins; Kerry Wyborn.
- Preliminary round: 6-1 record, 2nd seed
- Semifinal: lost to United States, 5-0
- Bronze medal game: defeated Japan, 3-0
- Gold medal game: lost to United States, 5-1
Silver Medal - Lost to USA in Gold Medal match 5-1. The Team was the only one to score a run against the USA in the tournament.
7 Gold, 5 Silver, 3 Bronze
Men
- 50 m Freestyle - Brett Hawke (6th in final), Ashley Callus (eliminated in heats)
- 100 m Freestyle - Ian Thorpe (Bronze medal), Ashley Callus (eliminated in heats)
- 200 m Freestyle - Ian Thorpe (Gold medal), Grant Hackett (5th in final)
- 400 m Freestyle - Ian Thorpe (Gold medal), Grant Hackett (Silver medal)
- 1500 m Freestyle - Grant Hackett (Gold medal), Craig Stevens (8th in final)
- 100 m Backstroke - Matt Welsh (5th in final), Josh Watson (eliminated in heats)
- 200 m Backstroke - Patrick Murphy (eliminated in heats), Matt Welsh (eliminated in heats)
- 100 m Butterfly - Geoff Huegill (8th in final), Adam Pine (eliminated in heats)
- 200 m Butterfly - Justin Norris (5th in semi-final), Travis Nederpelt (eliminated in heats)
- 100 m Breaststroke - Jim Piper (eliminated in heats)
- 200 m Breaststroke - Jim Piper (disqualified in final), Regan Harrison (eliminated in heats)
- 200 m Individual Medley - Justin Norris (eliminated in heats), Adam Lucas (eliminated in heats)
- 400 m Individual Medley - Travis Nederpelt (8th in final), Justin Norris (eliminated in heats)
- 4x100 m Freestyle Relay
- 4x200 m Freestyle Relay
- 4x100 m Medley Relay
Women
- 50 m Freestyle - Libby Lenton (Bronze medal), Michelle Engelsman (6th in final)
- 100 m Freestyle - Jodie Henry (Gold medal), Libby Lenton (5th in semi-final)
- 200 m Freestyle - Elka Graham (6th in semi-final), Linda Mackenzie (eliminated in heats)
- 400 m Freestyle - Elka Graham (eliminated in heats), Linda Mackenzie (7th in final)
- 800 m Freestyle - Sarah Paton (eliminated in heats), Linda Mackenzie (eliminated in heats)
- 100 m Backstroke - Marieke Guehrer (eliminated in heats), Giaan Rooney (4th in semi-final)
- 200 m Backstroke - Melissa Morgan (7th in semi-final), Frances Adcock (7th in semi-final)
- 100 m Butterfly - Petria Thomas (Gold medal), Jessicah Schipper (4th in final)
- 200 m Butterfly - Petria Thomas (Silver medal), Felicity Galvez (5th in final)
- 100 m Breaststroke - Brooke Hanson (Silver medal), Leisel Jones (Bronze medal)
- 200 m Breaststroke - Leisel Jones (Silver medal), Brooke Hanson (8th in final)
- 200 m Individual Medley - Lara Carroll (5th in final), Alice Mills (6th in semi-final)
- 400 m Individual Medley - Lara Carroll (eliminated in heats), Jennifer Reilly (eliminated in heats)
- 4x100 m Freestyle Relay
- 4x200 m Freestyle Relay
- 4x100 Medley Relay
Melissa Mitchell was a member of the Australian swimming team as part of the 4x100 m freestyle relay team, however she did not compete in any event at the games.
Amanda Laird; Leonie Nichols.
Men: Trevor Brown; William Henzell; Russell Lavale; David Zalcberg.
Women: Miao Miao; Jian Fang Lay.
1 Bronze
Men's singles:
Men's doubles:
Women's singles:
Women's doubles:
1 Silver
Men's
Women's
Women's beach:
Men's:
- Prelims: 0-5
- Quarterfinal: Did not qualify
Team members: Brett Alderman; David Beard; Luke Campbell; Zane Christensen; Andrew Earl; David Ferguson; Benjamin Hardy; Dan Howard; Travis Moran; Grant Sorensen; Hidde Van Beest; Matthew Young.
Men's: 9th place
- Preliminary round: 1-3-1
- Classification 7-12: Defeated Kazakhstan, 10-5
- Classification 7-10: Lost to United States, 6-5
- Classification 9/10: Defeated Croatia, 8-7
- Team members: Pietro Figlioli; Trent Franklin; Toby Jenkins; Sam McGregor; Craig Miller; Tim Neesham; Aleksandr Osadchuk; Dean Semmens; James Stanton; Rafael Sterk; Nathan Thomas; Thomas Whalan; Gavin Woods.
Women's: 4th place
- Preliminary round: 2-0-1
- Semifinal: Lost to Greece, 6-2
- Bronze medal game: Lost to United States, 6-5
- Team members: Belinda Brooks; Jemma Brownlow; Naomi Castle; Nikita Cuffe; Joanne Fox; Kate Gynther; Kelly Heuchan; Emma Knox; Elise Norwood; Melissa Rippon; Rebecca Rippon; Bronwyn Smith; Jodie Stuhmcke.
Sergo Chakhoyan; Deborah Lovely.
Ali Abdo
Officials
- President: Mr. John Coates
- Secretary General: Mr. Bob Elphinston
External link
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