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  2. Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. Celebrate medal-winning moments by the world's top athletes.

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    A record 201 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the Olympic Games. The overall tally for events on the programme was 301 (one more than at the Sydney Games in 2000).

    Popularity in the Games also soared, as 3.9 billion people had access to the television coverage compared to 3.6 billion for Sydney. This global audience enjoyed coverage of never-before-seen sports such as women's wrestling, which was included in the programme for the first time.

    Swimmer Michael Phelps won six gold medals and set a single-Games record with eight total medals. Leontien Ziljaard-van Moorsel became the first female cyclist to earn four career gold medals, reaching a total of six Olympic medals, while canoeist Birgit Fischer became the first athlete in any sport to win two medals in each of five Olympic Games.

  3. United States' gymnast Carly Patterson became the second American woman to win the all-around gold medal, and the first American woman to win the all-around competition at a non-boycotted Olympic Games.

  4. Athletes from 74 countries won at least one medal and 56 of them won at least one gold medal. [7] The United States led the medal table both in number of gold medals won and in overall medals, winning 36 and 101 respectively. [8] It was the third consecutive Summer Olympic Games that the United States led the medal count in both gold and ...

  5. Official medal table of the Summer Olympic Games in Athens. Find an alphabetical list of medals and celebrate the achievements of 2004's finest athletes.

  6. Sep 5, 1997 · Athens wins 2004 Olympics. Olympic Games. Mike Rowbottom. Friday 05 September 1997 23:02 BST. 0 Comments. Your support helps us to tell the story. Support Now. Find out more. Athens, denied the...

  7. Sep 29, 2024 · Nearly 11,100 athletes competed in 37 disciplines in 28 sports; women participated in freestyle wrestling and sabre fencing for the first time. American swimming phenomenon Michael Phelps topped the medals table with a record-tying eight (six gold and two bronze).

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