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Germany At The 2004 Summer Olympics




  competitors 453 (254 men, 199 women)
  flagbearer Ludger Beerbaum
  gold 14
  silver 16
  bronze 19
  total 49
  rank 6


Germany competed at the ''' 2004 Summer Olympics ''' in Athens , Greece .
German athletes participated in all sports except for baseball, basketball, men's football, women's handball, softball, synchronized swimming, taekwondo, women's tennis, men's volleyball, and women's water polo.


MEDALS

Germany finished in sixth position in the final medal rankings, with 14 gold medals and 49 medals overall.

Gold



Silver



Bronze



RESULTS BY EVENT


Archery

Men's individual:

Women's individual:

Women's team:
  • Anja Hitzler, Wiebke Nulle, and Cornelia Pfohl - 7th place



Athletics


Running

Men's 100 metres:

Women's 100 metres:

Men's 110 metre hurdles:

Women's 100 metre hurdles:

Men's 200 metres:

Men's 400 metres:

Women's 400 metre hurdles:

Men's 800 metres:
  • Rene Herms - Semifinal, 1:47.7 (did not advance)


Women's 800 metres:

Men's 1500 metres:

Women's 5000 metres:

Women's 10000 metres:

Men's 4x100 metre relay:
  • Ronny Ostwald , Tobias Unger, Alexander Kosenkow, Till Helmke - Round 1, 0:38.64 (did not advance)


Women's 4x100 metre relay:

Men's 4x400 metre relay:

Women's 4x400 metre relay:

Women's marathon:

Men's 20 km walk:

Women's 20 km walk:

Men's 50 km walk:


Jumping

Men's long jump:

Women's long jump:
  • Bianca Kappler - Round 1: 6.69 metres, Final: 6.66 metres (9th place)


Men's triple jump:

Men's high jump:

Men's pole vault:

Women's pole vault:


Throwing

Men's shot put:

Women's shot put:

Men's discus:

Women's discus:

Men's hammer:

Men's javelin:

Women's javelin:

Women's hammer:


Combined

Men's decathlon:

Women's heptathlon:


Badminton

Men's singles:

Women's singles:

Women's doubles:

Mixed doubles:


Boxing

Germany sent two boxers to the 2004 Olympics. They won two bronze medals as the team went for a combined record of 6-4. Germany was in a four-way tie for 12th place in the boxing medals scoreboard.

Flyweight (51kg)

Featherweight (57kg)

Middleweight (75kg)

Super Heavyweight (over 91kg)


Canoeing

Germany entered 19 canoes in the canoeing competition in 2004. 18 qualified for semifinals, 17 qualified for finals, and 16 placed in the top 8. 9 won medals, including 4 gold, 4 silver, and 1 bronze. This made Germany the most successful nation in the Athens canoeing competition.


Flatwater canoe

Flatwater men's C1 500m:

Flatwater men's C1 1000m:

Flatwater men's C2 500m:

Flatwater men's C2 1000m:


Flatwater kayak

Flatwater men's K1 500m:
  • Lutz Altepost - 6th place

  • # Heat - 1:38.859

  • # Semifinal - 1:39.643

  • # Final - 1:39.647


Flatwater women's K1 500m:
  • Katrin Wagner - 4th place

  • # Heat - 1:53.234

  • # Semifinal - 1:52.630

  • # Final - 1:52.557


Flatwater women's K1 1000m:
  • Björn Goldschmidt - 8th place

  • # Heat - 3:31.310

  • # Semifinal - 3:29.561

  • # Final - 3:34.381


Flatwater men's K2 500m:

Flatwater women's K2 500m:

Flatwater men's K2 1000m:

Flatwater women's K4 500m:

Flatwater men's K4 1000m:


Slalom

Slalom men's C1:
  • Stefan Pfannmöller - bronze medal

  • # Heat - 205.88

  • #--- Run 1 - 104.34

  • #--- Run 2 - 101.54

  • # Total - 191.56

  • #--- Semifinal - 96.99

  • ## Final - 94.57


Slalom men's C2:
  • Marcus Becker and Stefan Henze - silver medal

  • # Heat - 215.56

  • #--- Run 1 - 108.35

  • #--- Run 2 - 107.21

  • # Total - 210.98

  • #--- Semifinal - 106.32

  • #--- Final - 104.66

  • Christian Bahmann and Michael Senft - 4th place

  • # Heat - 230.59

  • #--- Run 1 - 116.01

  • #--- Run 2 - 114.58

  • # Total - 213.45

  • #--- Semifinal - 107.01

  • #--- Final - 106.44


Slalom men's K1:
  • Thomas Schmidt - 5th place

  • # Heat - 190.64

  • #--- Run 1 - 93.28

  • #--- Run - 97.36

  • # Total - 192.93

  • #--- Semifinal - 95.11

  • #--- Final - 97.82

  • Jens Ewald - 25th place

  • # Heat - 250.09

  • #--- Run 1 - 150.69

  • #--- Run 2 - 99.40

  • # Total - Did not qualify for semifinal


Slalom women's K1:
  • Jennifer Bongardt - 9th place

  • # Heat - 212.20

  • #--- Run 1 - 102.96

  • #--- Run 2 - 109.24

  • # Total - 237.66

  • #--- Semifinal - 107.36

  • #--- Final - 130.30

  • Mandy Planert - 14th place

  • # Heat - 225.77

  • #--- Run 1 - 114.90

  • #--- Run 2 - 110.87

  • # Total - DNF (did not qualify for final)

  • #--- Semifinal - 122.61

  • #--- Final - Did not qualify



Cycling


Road cycling

Men's road race:

Women's road race:

Men's time trial:
  • Michael Rich - 5th place, 58:09.46

  • Jan Ullrich - 7th place, 59:02.04


Women's time trial:
  • Judith Arndt - 11th place, 32:46.94

  • Trixi Worrack - 15th place, 33:05.72



Track cycling

Men's individual pursuit:

Men's team pursuit:

Men's individual sprint:

Women's individual sprint:

Men's team sprint:
  • Jens Fieldler , Stefan Nimke, and Rene Wolff - final, gold medal


Women's time trial:
  • Katrin Meinke - 11th place, 35.088 seconds


Men's time trial:

Men's points race:
  • Guido Fulst - bronze medal, 79 points


Women's points race:
  • Katrin Meinke - 8th place, 5 points


Men's Keirin:
  • Rene Wolff - final, 5th place

  • Jens Fiedler - classification 7-12, 8th place


Men's Madison:
  • Robert Bartko and Guido Fulst - 4th place, 9 points



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:
  • Tobias Schellenberg and Andreas Wels - silver medal, 350.01 points


Women's synchronized 3 metre springboard:

Women's synchronized 10 metre platform:


Equestrian

Because only three horse and rider pairs from each nation could advance past certain rounds in the individual events, three German pairs did not advance despite being ranked highly enough to do so. They received final rankings at the top of the group that did not qualify to advance, often much lower than their ranking in the last round in which they competed.

Individual dressage:

Team dressage:
  • Salzgeber, Schmidt, Schaudt, and Kemmer - gold medal, 74.563%


Individual eventing:

Team eventing:
  • Romeike, Hoy, Dibowski, Ostholt, and Klimke - 4th place, 147.8 penalties


Individual jumping:

Team jumping:
  • Kutscher, Becker, and Ahlmann - final, bronze medal



Fencing

Men's épée individual:

Women's épée individual:

Men's foil individual:

Women's foil individual:

Women's sabre individual:

Men's épée team:
  • Sven Schmid, Joerg Fiedler, and Daniel Strigel - bronze medal


Women's épée team:
  • Imke Duplitzer, Britta Heidemann, and Claudia Bokel - silver medal


Men's foil team:
  • Andre Wessels, Peter Joppich, and Simon Senft - 6th place



Football (Soccer)

Women's: bronze medal
  • Preliminary round: 2-0-0

  • Quarterfinal: defeated Nigeria, 2-1

  • Semifinal: lost to United States, 2-1

  • Bronze medal match: defeated Sweden, 1-0



Gymnastics

Men's artistic: 8th place team

Women's artistic:

Women's rhythmic:

Men's trampoline:

Women's trampoline:


Handball

Men's: silver medal
  • Preliminary round: 3-0-2

  • Quarterfinal: defeated Spain, 32-30

  • Semifinal: defeated Russia, 21-15

  • Gold medal match: lost to Croatia, 26-25



Hockey


Men's competition

  • Bronze medal

  • --- Preliminary round: 3-2-0

  • --- Semifinal: lost to Netherlands, 3-2

  • --- Bronze medal match: defeated Spain, 4-3





Women's competition

  • Gold medal

  • --- Preliminary round: 2-0-2

  • --- Semifinal: defeated China, 4-3

  • --- Gold medal match: defeated Netherlands, 2-1





Judo

Men's 60 kg:

Men's 81 kg:

Men's 90 kg:

Men's 100 kg:
  • Michael Jurack - bronze medal; defeated in semifinals; won repechage finals


Men's 100+ kg:

Women's 48 kg:
  • Julia Matijass - bronze medal; defeated in semifinals; won repechage finals


Women's 52 kg:

Women's 57 kg:

Women's 63 kg:

Women's 70 kg:
  • Annett Boehm - bronze medal; defeated in semifinals; won repechage finals


Women's 78 kg:

Women's 78+ kg:


Modern Pentathlon

Men's:

Women's:


Tennis

Men's Single:

Men's Doubles:
  • Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schüttler : silver medal

  • --- Round 1: Kiefer/Schuettler - Hanescu/Pavel, 7:5, 7:6

  • --- Round 2: Kiefer/Schuettler - Arthurs/Woodbridge, 7:6, 6:3

  • --- Quarterfinal: Kiefer/Schuettler - Erlich/Ram, 2:6, 6:2, 6:2

  • --- Semifinal: Kiefer/Schuettler - Bhupathi/Paes, 6:2, 6:3

  • --- Final: Gonzalez/Massu - Kiefer/Schuettler, 6:2, 4:6, 3:6, 7:6, 6:4



Triathlon

Germany's five triathletes in 2004 included three veterans, but the defending Silver Medal list was not among them. Each of the three improved upon their ranking from four years earlier, while the two rookie men also had solid races. Germany earned no medals in the 2004 triathlons, but did have a top eight finisher.

Women's:

Men's:


Volleyball


Men's Beach Competition



Women's Beach Competition



Women's Team Competition



Water Polo

Men's: 5th place
  • Preliminary round: 3-1-1

  • Quarterfinal: Lost to Russia , 12-5

  • Classification 5/6: Defeated Spain , 6-4



OFFICIALS

  • President: Klaus Steinbach

  • Secretary General: Bernhard Schwank