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The United States was represented at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, by the United States Olympic Committee (abbreviated USOC). The delegation of 613 athletes was the largest the country has ever sent to the Summer Olympics.

Medals


United States finished in first position in the final medal rankings

Half of the U.S. medals came from two sports:

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Results by event


Archery

Men's Individual

Women's Individual

Men's Team

  • Butch Johnson, John Magera, and Vic Wunderle - 4th place

Women's Team

  • Stephanie Arnold, Janet Dykman, and Jennifer Nichols - 13th place

Athletics

Men's 100 metres:
  • Justin Gatlin - Round 1: 10.07 s, Round 2: 9.96 s, Semifinal: 10.09 s, Final: 9.85 s (gold medal)
  • Maurice Greene - Round 1: 10.18 s, Round 2: 9.93 s, Semifinal: 9.97 s, Final: 9.87 s (bronze medal)
  • Shawn Crawford - Round 1: 10.02 s, Round 2: 9.89 s, Semifinal: 10.07 s, Final: 9.89 s (4th place)

Women's 100 metres:

Men's 110 metre hurdles:

  • Terrence Trammell - Round 1: 13.51 s, Round 2: 13.34 s, Semifinal: 13.17 s, Final: 13.18 s (silver medal)
  • Duane Ross - Round 1: 13.39 s, Round 2: 13.50 s, Semifinal: 13.30 s
  • Allen Johnson - Round 1: 13.45 s, Round 2: DNF

Women's 100 metre hurdles:

Men's 200 metres:

  • Shawn Crawford - Round 1: 20.55 s, Round 2: 19.95 s, Semifinal: 20.05 s, Final: 19.79 s (gold medal)
  • Bernard Williams - Round 1: 20.29 s, Round 2: 20.40 s, Semifinal: 20.18 s, Final: 20.01 s (silver medal)
  • Justin Gatlin - Round 1: 20.51 s, Round 2: 20.03 s, Semifinal: 20.35 s, Final: 20.03 s (bronze medal)

Women's 200 metres:

  • Allyson Felix - Round 1: 22.39 s, Round 2: 22.69 s, Semifinal: 22.36 s, Final: 22.18 s (silver medal)
  • Muna Lee - Round 1: 22.57 s, Round 2: 22.74 s, Semifinal: 22.69 s, Final: 22.87 s (7th place)
  • la Shauntea Moore - Round 1: 23.10 s, Round 2: 22.96 s, Semifinal: 22.93 s

Men's 400 metres:

  • Jeremy Wariner - Round 1: 45.56 s, Semifinal: 44.87 s, Final: 44.00 s (gold medal)
  • Otis Harris - Round 1: 45.11 s, Semifinal: 44.99 s, Final: 44.16 s (silver medal)
  • Derrick Brew - Round 1: 45.41 s, Semifinal: 45.05 s, Final: 44.42 s (bronze medal)

Women's 400 metres:

  • Monique Hennagan - Round 1: 51.02 s, Semifinal: 49.88 s, Final: 49.97 s (4th place)
  • DeeDee Trotter - Round 1: 50.56 s, Semifinal: 50.14 s, Final: 50.00 s (5th place)
  • Sanya Richards - Round 1: 50.11 s, Semifinal: 50.54 s, Final: 50.19 s (6th place)

Men's 400 metre hurdles:

  • James Carter - Round 1: 48.64 s, Semifinal: 48.18 s, Final: 48.58 s (4th place)
  • Bennie Brazell - Round 1: 48.57 s, Semifinal: 48.19 s, Final: 49.51 s (8th place)
  • Angelo Taylor - Round 1: 48.79 s, Semifinal: 48.72 s

Women's 400 metre hurdles:

  • Sheena Johnson - Round 1: 54.81 s, Semifinal: 54.32 s, Final: 53.83 s (4th place)
  • Brenda Taylor - Round 1: 54.72 s, Semifinal: 55.02 s, Final: 54.97 s (7th place)
  • Lashinda Demus - Round 1: 54.66 s, Semifinal: 54.32 s

Men's 800 metres:

Women's 800 metres:

Men's 1500 metres:

Women's 1500 metres:

Men's 3000 metre steeplechase:

Men's 5000 metres:

Women's 5000 metres:

Men's 10000 metres:

Women's 10000 metres:

Men's 4x100 metre relay:

Women's 4x100 metre relay:

Men's 4x400 metre relay:

  • Otis Harris, Derrick Brew, Jeremy Wariner, and Darold Williamson - Final, 2:55.91 (gold medal)

Women's 4x400 metre relay:

Men's decathlon:

Women's decathlon:

Men's marathon:

Women's marathon:

Men's 20 km walk:

Women's 20 km walk:

Men's 50 km walk:

Men's long jump:

Women's long jump:

Men's triple jump:

Women's triple jump:

Men's high jump:

Women's high jump:

Men's pole vault:

Women's pole vault:

Men's shot put:

Women's shot put:

Men's discus:

Women's discus:

Men's javelin:

Women's javelin:

Men's hammer:

Women's hammer:

Badminton

Men's Singles
Did not compete

Men's Doubles

Women's Singles

Did not compete

Women's Doubles

Did not compete

Basketball

The United States Olympic men's basketball team

August 15 Puerto Rico 92-71 USA
August 17 USA 77-71 Greece
August 19 USA 89-79 Australia
August 21 Lithuania 94-90 USA
August 23 USA 89-53 Angola
August 26
(quarter final)
Spain 94-102 USA
August 27
(semi final)
Argentina 89-81 USA
August 28
(Bronze medal match)
Lithuania 94-106 USA
The so-called "Dream Team" overcame a poor showing against Puerto Rico to win 3 out of their five preliminary games, the last of which was a blowout win against Angola. They failed to defend their gold medal from the 2000 games in Sydney, however, losing to Argentina in the semifinals. Argentina became the first team to prevent the U.S. team with NBA players to win the gold in men's basketball.

The United States Olympic women's basketball team

Head Coach: Van Chancellor

August 14 USA 99-47 New Zealand
August 16 Czech Republic 61-80 USA
August 18 Korea 57-80 USA
August 20 USA 71-58 Spain
August 22 China, People's Republic of 62-100 USA
August 25
(quarter final)
USA 102-72 Greece
August 27
(semi final)
Russia 62-66 USA
August 28
(Gold medal match)
Australia 63-74 USA

Boxing

The United States sent nine boxers to Athens. They claimed two medals, a gold and a bronze. Only two boxers lost their first bouts. Four made the quarterfinals, with two falling there, one falling in the semifinal, and the fourth taking the gold by going undefeated. The combined record of the nine Americans was 12-8. The U.S. was fifth in the boxing medal count.

Light Flyweight (48kg)

Flyweight (51kg)

Lightweight (60kg)

Light Welterweight (64kg)

Welterweight (69kg)

Middleweight (75kg)

Light Heavyweight (81kg)

Heavyweight (91kg)

Super Heavyweight (over 91kg)

Canoeing

Flatwater
Men's C2 500 metres:

Men's C2 1000 metres:

  • Jordan Malloch and Nathan Johnson - semifinal, 14th place

Men's K1 500 metres:

Women's K1 500 metres:

Men's K1 1000 metres:

Men's K2 500 metres:

Men's K2 1000 metres:

Women's K4 500 metres:

Slalom
Men's C1 slalom:

Men's C2 slalom:

Men's K1 slalom:

Women's K1 slalom:

Cycling

Road cycling
Men's road race:

Women's road race:

Men's time trial:

  • Tyler Hamilton - gold medal, 57:31.74
  • Bobby Julich - bronze medal, 57:58.19

Women's time trial:

  • Deirdre Demet-Barry - silver medal, 31:35.62
  • Chirstine Thorburn - 4th place, 32:14.82

Track cycling
Women's individual pursuit:

Women's individual sprint:

Men's team sprint:

Men's points race:

Women's points race:

Men's Keirin:

Mountain biking
Men's cross country:

Women's cross country:

Diving

Men's 3 metre springboard:

Women's 3 metre springboard:

Men's 10 metre platform:

Women's 10 metre platform:

Men's synchronized 3 metre springboard:

Men's synchronized 10 metre platform:

  • Mark Ruiz and Kyle Prandi - 8th place, 325.44 points

Women's synchronized 10 metre platform:

Equestrian

Because only three horse and rider pairs from each nation could advance beyond certain rounds in the individual events, five American pairs did not advance despite being placed sufficiently high. They received rankings below all pairs that did advance.

Individual dressage:

Team dressage:

  • McDonald, Dover, Seidel, and Wilcox - bronze medal, 71.500%

Individual eventing:

Team eventing:

  • Severson, Tryon, Chiacchia, Williams, and Richards - bronze medal, 145.6 penalties

Individual jumping:

Team jumping:

  • Kappler, Ward, Madden, and Wylde - final, silver medal

Fencing

Men's épée individual:

Women's épée individual:

Men's foil individual:

Women's foil individual:

Men's sabre individual:

Women's sabre individual:

Men's épée team:

Men's foil team:

  • Dan Kellner, Jonathan Tiomkin, and Jedediah Dupree - 4th place

Men's sabre team:

  • Keeth Smart, Jason Rogers, and Ivan Lee - 4th place

Football (Soccer)

The United States Olympic women's soccer team Head Coach: April Heinrichs

August 11 Greece 0-3 USA
August 14 USA 2-0 Brazil
August 17 USA 2-0 Australia
August 20
(quarter final)
USA 2-1 Japan
August 23
(semi final)
USA 2-1
(aet)
Germany
August 26
(gold medal final)
USA 2-1
(aet)
Brazil

Gymnastics

Men's artistic: silver medal team
  • Paul Hamm - advanced in five exercises
    • All-around - gold medal
    • Horizontal bar - silver medal
    • Floor - 5th place
    • Pommel horse - 6th place
    • Parallel bars - 7th place
  • Morgan Hamm - advanced in two exercises
    • Horizontal bar - 4th place
    • Floor - 8th place
  • Brett McClure - advanced in one exercise
    • All-around - 9th place
  • Blaine Wilson - did not advance in any exercise
  • Jason Gatson - did not advance in any exercise
  • Guard Young - did not advance in any exercise

Women's artistic: silver medal team

  • Carly Patterson - advanced in two exercises
    • All-around - gold medal
    • Beam - silver medal
  • Terin Humphrey - advanced in one exercise
    • Uneven bars - silver medal
  • Annia Hatch - advanced in one exercise
    • Vault - silver medal
  • Courtney Kupets - advanced in three exercises
    • Uneven bars - bronze medal
    • Beam - 5th place
    • All-around - 9th place
  • Mohini Bhardwaj - advanced in one exercise
    • Floor - 6th place
  • Courtney McCool - did not advance in any exercise

Women's rhythmic:

Women's trampoline:

Judo

Men's 60 kg:

Men's 66 kg:

Men's 73 kg:

  • James Pedro - bronze medal; defeated in round of 16; won repechage finals

Men's 81 kg:

  • Richard Hawn - defeated in round of 16; repechage round of 16

Men's 90 kg:

Men's 100 kg:

Men's 100+ kg:

Women's 52 kg:

Women's 57 kg:

  • Ellen Wilson - defeated in round of 16; repechage round of 32

Women's 63 kg:

  • Ronda Rousey - defeated in round of 32; repechage round of 16

Women's 70 kg:

Women's 78 kg:

  • Nicole Kubes - defeated in round of 16; repechage round of 16

Modern Pentathlon

Men's:

Women's:

Softball

The United States Olympic softball team

August 14 United States 7-0 Italy
August 15 United States 10-0 Australia
August 16 United States 3-0 Japan
August 17 United States 4-0 China
August 18 United States 7-0 Canada
August 19 United States 7-0 Greece
August 20 United States 3-0 Chinese Taipei
August 22
(semi final)
United States 5-0 Australia
August 23
(gold medal final)
United States 5-1 Australia

Tennis

Men's Individual

Men's Doubles

  • Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick - Defeated in round of 32 by Mahesh Bhupathi & Leander Paes, India
  • Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan - Defeated in Quarterfinals by Fernando González & Nicolás Massú, CHI

Women's Individual

Women's Doubles

  • Chanda Rubin & Venus Williams - Defeated in round of 32 by Li Ting & Sun Tian Tian, China
  • Martina Navratilova & Lisa Raymond - Defeated in Quarterfinals by Shinobu Asagoe & Ai Sugiyama, JPN

Triathlon

The United States won its first medal in the triathlon when Susan Williams earned a bronze medal in the second iteration of the Olympic competition.

Women's:

Men's:

Volleyball

Men's beach:

Women's beach:

Men's:

  • Prelims: 3-2
  • Quarterfinal: Won 3-2 against Greece
  • Semifinal: Defeated 3-0 by Brazil
  • Bronze medal game: Defeated 3-0 by Russia

Women's:

  • Prelims: 2-3
  • Quarterfinal: Defeated 3-2 by Brazil

Water polo

Men's: 7th place
  • Preliminary round: 2-3-0
  • Classification 7-10: defeated Australia, 6-5
  • Classification 7/8: defeated Italy, 9-8

Women's: bronze medal

  • Preliminary round: 2-1-0
  • Semifinal: Lost to Italy, 6-5
  • Bronze medal game: Defeated Australia, 6-5

Officials


  • President: Williams C. Martin


External links


Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics | United States at the Olympics

Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004/Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες | Statele Unite ale Americii la Jocurile Olimpice de Vară din 2004

 

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