Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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IOC code	GBR
NOC	British Olympic Association
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Competitors	264 in 22 sports
Flag bearers	Kate Howey (opening)[1] Kelly Holmes (closing)
Medals Ranked 10th	Gold 9 Silver 9 Bronze 12 Total 30
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Great Britain, the team of theBritish Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the2004 Summer Olympics inAthens,Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004 with the team of selected athletes was officially known asTeam GB.^[2] The British sent a wide-ranging delegation to the Games, continuing its ubiquitous presence at the Olympics. Great Britain's 264 athletes, 161 men and 103 women, competed in 22 disciplines throughout the two-week event. The team entered theopening ceremony behind theUnion Flag carried byjudokaKate Howey.^[1] Double gold medal winnerKelly Holmes carried the flag at theclosing ceremony.

These games continued the success that Great Britain made at Sydney. Although they won just nine gold medals compared with the eleven won at Sydney, the team did increase their overall medal haul to thirty medals, and for the second summer games in a row finished in tenth place on the medal table.

The delegation started the Olympics slowly, the silver its divers won on 14 August being the first of only a few opening-week medals. Although a sprinkling of silver and bronze medals – including a pair in men's and women's k1 kayak slalom – enlivened the mid-week, Britain's first gold did not come until Friday the 20th (won by Chris Hoy in the 1 km track cycling time-trial).

Then, on 21 August ("Golden Saturday") Britain's contributions to the medal table became more significant. First Britain's traditional strength in rowing continued as the men's coxless four, stroked byMatthew Pinsent, narrowly won gold, a defining moment since this was Pinsent's fourth gold medal in as many games.^[3] SailorBen Ainslie wrapped up a successful few days of racing with a gold, as did the women's Yngling sailboats who were finally awarded the gold medal they had sewn up on Thursday.Bradley Wiggins continued Britain's cycling success, winning gold in the 4 km pursuit. Young swimmerDavid Davies, coming third in the men's 1500 m freestyle, set a European record in the process and won Britain's second swimming medal of the games – a notable improvement over the2000 Sydney games from which the swimmers had returned empty-handed. Also on Saturday, it was announced that, after an appeal,Leslie Law would be promoted from silver to gold in the three-day equestrian eventing (and his team from bronze to silver). As the games' aquatic-dominated first week shifted into a second week focused more on track and field events,Kelly Sotherton came third in the heptathlon.

Sunday 22 August brought another rowing medal. However, marathon favouritePaula Radcliffe failed to cope with the heat of Athens and did not finish. The timing of the race with a late afternoon start, supposedly to appease US broadcasters, produced some controversy since summer marathons normally start early in the morning to avoid the heat.^[4]

23 August saw Britain's first gold medal of the track and field events,Kelly Holmes winning the women's 800 metres. This was Britain's first gold medal on the track sinceSally Gunnell won the 400-metre hurdles at the1992 Barcelona games.

By claiming bronze in the Madison cycling on 25 August, to add to his earlier individual gold and a silver from the team pursuit,Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton for 40 years to claim three medals in one games.^[5]

The evening of Saturday 28 August saw Britain's medal hunt centred on the Olympic Stadium.Steve Backley, in his finaljavelin throw competition, failed to win the gold he had been seeking since 1992, finishing fourth. Kelly Holmes achieved the middle-distance double, taking gold in the 1500 metres.^[6] The men's 4×100-metre relay team won a surprising victory, winning gold ahead of theAmerican team. Earlier in the day, Ian Wynne had added to the medal haul, with a bronze medal in the K1 kayak class, competing despite an ankle injury picked up the day before.

The final day of the games, 29 August, sawAmir Khan collect Britain's last medal of the event with a silver inboxing's lightweight division.

In the finalmedal table, Great Britain finished in 10th place overall. The BBC stated that this was "the best British performance in the modern era", and quantified this with further considerations: "GB won 37 in 1984, but that was a boycott-hit Games missing the Eastern Bloc countries. Take Los Angeles out of the picture, and this was Britain's best haul since 1924."^[7]

Great Britain finished in tenth position in the final medal rankings, with 9 gold and 30 total medals.

Medal Name Sport Event Date Leslie Law Equestrian Individual eventing August 18 Chris Hoy Cycling Men's track time trial August 20 Bradley Wiggins Cycling Men's individual pursuit August 21 Ed Coode James Cracknell Matthew Pinsent Steve Williams Rowing Men's four August 21 Ben Ainslie Sailing Finn class August 21 Sarah Ayton Shirley Robertson Sarah Webb Sailing Yngling class August 21 Kelly Holmes Athletics Women's 800 m August 23 Kelly Holmes Athletics Women's 1500 m August 28 Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Jason Gardener Mark Lewis-Francis Athletics Men's 4 × 100 m relay August 28 Leon Taylor Peter Waterfield Diving Men's synchronised 10 m platform August 14 Jeanette Brakewell William Fox-Pitt Pippa Funnell Mary King Leslie Law Equestrian Team eventing August 18 Gail Emms Nathan Robertson Badminton Mixed doubles August 19 Campbell Walsh Canoeing Men's slalom K-1 August 19 Cath Bishop Katherine Grainger Rowing Women's pair August 21 Debbie Flood Frances Houghton Alison Mowbray Rebecca Romero Rowing Women's quadruple sculls August 22 Steve Cummings Rob Hayles Paul Manning Bradley Wiggins Cycling Men's team pursuit August 23 Jonathan Glanfield Nick Rogers Sailing Men's 470 class August 28 Amir Khan Boxing Lightweight August 29 Stephen Parry Swimming Men's 200 m butterfly August 17 Alison Williamson Archery Women's individual August 18 Helen Reeves Canoeing Women's slalom K-1 August 18 Pippa Funnell Equestrian Individual eventing August 18 Kelly Sotherton Athletics Women's heptathlon August 21 Elise Laverick Sarah Winckless Rowing Women's double sculls August 21 David Davies Swimming Men's 1500 m freestyle August 21 Rob Hayles Bradley Wiggins Cycling Men's madison August 25 Nick Dempsey Sailing Men's sailboard August 25 Chris Draper Simon Hiscocks Sailing 49er class August 26 Georgina Harland Modern pentathlon Women's event August 27 Ian Wynne Canoeing Men's K-1 500 m August 28

Medals by sport Sport Total Athletics 3 0 1 4 Sailing 2 1 2 5 Cycling 2 1 1 4 Rowing 1 2 1 4 Equestrian 1 1 1 3 Canoeing 0 1 2 3 Badminton 0 1 0 1 Boxing 0 1 0 1 Diving 0 1 0 1 Swimming 0 0 2 2 Archery 0 0 1 1 Modern pentathlon 0 0 1 1 Total 9 9 12 30 Medals by date Day Date Total 1 14 Aug 0 1 0 1 2 15 Aug 0 0 0 0 3 16 Aug 0 0 0 0 4 17 Aug 0 0 1 1 5 18 Aug 1 1 3 5 6 19 Aug 0 2 0 2 7 20 Aug 1 0 0 1 8 21 Aug 4 1 3 8 9 22 Aug 0 1 0 1 10 23 Aug 1 1 0 2 11 24 Aug 0 0 0 0 12 25 Aug 0 0 2 2 13 26 Aug 0 0 1 1 14 27 Aug 0 0 1 1 15 28 Aug 2 1 1 4 16 29 Aug 0 1 0 1 Total 9 9 12 30

The following Team GB competitors won multiple medals at the 2004 Olympic Games.Kelly Holmes became the first British athlete since 1972 and the first British track and field athlete to win two gold medals at the same Summer Olympics.

Name	Medal	Sport	Event
Kelly Holmes	Gold  Gold	Athletics	800 m 1500 m
Bradley Wiggins	Gold  Silver  Bronze	Cycling	Men's Individual pursuit Team pursuit Men's Madison
Leslie Law	Gold  Silver	Equestrian	Individual eventing Team eventing
Rob Hayles	Silver  Bronze	Cycling	Team pursuit Men's Madison

Four British archers (one man and three women) qualified each for the men's and women's individual archery, and a spot for the women's team.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semi-finals	Final /BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Laurence Godfrey	Men's individual	650	31	Orbay (TUR) W 157–155	Petersson (SWE) W 163–162	Ruban (UKR) W 167–162	Chen S-Y (TPE) W 110–108	Galiazzo (ITA) L 108–110	Cuddihy (AUS) L 112–113	4
Naomi Folkard	Women's individual	638	17	Pilipova (KAZ) W 139–128	Piuva (FIN) W 156–151	Park S-H (KOR) L 159–171	Did not advance
Helen Palmer		594	61	He Y (CHN) L 130–141	Did not advance
Alison Williamson		637	21	Dykman (USA) W 147–121	Kawauchi (JPN) W 154–150	Zhang Jj (CHN) W 165–161	He Y (CHN) W 109–89	Park S-H (KOR) L 100–110	Yuan S-C (TPE) W 105–104
Naomi Folkard Helen Palmer Alison Williamson	Women's team	1869	12	—		India (IND) L 228–230	Did not advance

British athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard).^[8][9]

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarter-final		Semi-final		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Darren Campbell	100 m	10.35	4	Did not advance
Jason Gardener		10.15	2Q	10.15	2Q	10.12	5	Did not advance
Mark Lewis-Francis		10.13	1Q	10.12	2Q	10.28	5	Did not advance
Darren Campbell	200 m	20.72	4Q	20.59	4q	20.89	8	Did not advance
Chris Lambert		DNF		Did not advance
Christian Malcolm		20.62	2Q	20.56	5q	20.77	7	Did not advance
Timothy Benjamin	400 m	45.69	3q	—		46.28	8	Did not advance
Daniel Caines		46.15	4	—		Did not advance
Malachi Davis		46.28	5	—		Did not advance
Ricky Soos	800 m	1:45.70	2Q	—		1:46.74	6	Did not advance
Michael East	1500 m	3:37.37	1Q	—		3:36.46	6q	3:36.33	6
John Mayock	5000 m	13:26.81	10	—				Did not advance
Robert Newton	110 m hurdles	13.85	7	Did not advance
Andy Turner		13.75	8	Did not advance
Matthew Douglas	400 m hurdles	49.77	6	—		Did not advance
Chris Rawlinson		48.94	3Q	—		50.89	8	Did not advance
Justin Chaston	3000 m steeplechase	8:28.35	5	—				Did not advance
Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Jason Gardener Mark Lewis-Francis	4 × 100 m relay	38.53	2Q	—				38.07
Sean Baldock Timothy Benjamin Malachi Davis Matthew Elias	4 × 400 m relay	3:02.40	1Q	—				3:01.07	5
Jon Brown	Marathon	—						2:12.26	4
Matt O'Dowd		—						2:22.37	50
Dan Robinson		—						2:17.53	23

Field events

Combined events –Decathlon

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarter-final		Semi-final		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Abi Oyepitan	100 m	11.23	2Q	11.28	3Q	11.18	5	Did not advance
Joice Maduaka	200 m	23.15	4Q	23.30	5	Did not advance
Abi Oyepitan		22.50	2Q	22.79	2Q	22.56	2Q	22.87	=7
Donna Fraser	400 m	51.19	2Q	—		51.94	7	Did not advance
Lee McConnell		51.19	2Q	—		52.63	8	Did not advance
Christine Ohuruogu		50.50	3Q	—		51.00	4	Did not advance
Joanne Fenn	800 m	2:03.72	3Q	—		2:00.60	5	Did not advance
Kelly Holmes		2:00.81	1Q	—		1:57.98	1Q	1:56.38
Kelly Holmes	1500 m	4:05.58	2Q	—		4:04.77	2Q	3:57.90NR
Jo Pavey		4:12.50	13	—		Did not advance
Hayley Tullett		4:07.27	7q	—		4:08.92	11	Did not advance
Jo Pavey	5000 m	14:55.45	3Q	—				14:57.87	5
Kathy Butler	10000 m	—						31:41.13	12
Paula Radcliffe		—						DNF
Sarah Claxton	100 m hurdles	13.14	6	—		Did not advance
Tracey Morris	Marathon	—						2:41:00	29
Paula Radcliffe		—						DNF
Liz Yelling		—						2:40:13	25
Donna Fraser Helen Karagounis* Lee McConnell Catherine Murphy Christine Ohuruogu	4 × 400 m relay	3:26.99	4q	—				3:25.12	4

* Competed only in heats

Field events

Combined events –Heptathlon

Athlete	Event	100H	HJ	SP	200 m	LJ	JT	800 m	Final	Rank
Denise Lewis	Result	13.40	1.73	15.33	25.42	5.89	DNS	—	DNF
	Points	1065	891	883	849	816	0	—
Kelly Sotherton	Result	13.44	1.85	13.29	23.57	6.51	37.19	2:12.27	6424
	Points	1059	1041	747	1022	1010	613	932

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semi-final	Final /BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Richard Vaughan	Singles	Vasconcelos (POR) W 15–5, 15–5	Shon S-M (KOR) L 9–15, 4–15	Did not advance
Anthony Clark Nathan Robertson	Doubles	Ngernsrisuk / Prapakamol (THA) W 15–5, 15–9	Hian / Limpele (INA) L 7–15, 12–15	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semi-final	Final /BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Tracey Hallam	Singles	Schenk (GER) W 11–7, 6–11, 11–9	Martin (DEN) W 11–2, 5–11, 13–10	Audina (NED) L 0–11, 9–11	Did not advance
Kelly Morgan		Permana (AUS) W 11–5, 11–3	Zhang N (CHN) L 6–11, 8–11	Did not advance
Gail Emms Donna Kellogg	Doubles	Koon W C / Li W M (HKG) W 15–4, 15–4	Wei Yl / Zhao Tt (CHN) L 15–13, 7–15, 5–15	Did not advance
Ella Tripp Joanne Wright		Boteva / Nedelcheva (BUL) W 17–15, 17–14	Audina / Bruil (NED) L 7–15, 7–15	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semi-final	Final /BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Robert Blair Natalie Munt	Doubles	Ohtsuka / Yamamoto (JPN) W 13–15, 15–7, 15–13	Marissa / Widianto (INA) L 8–15, 12–15	Did not advance
Gail Emms Nathan Robertson		Bye	Pitro / Siegemund (GER) W 15–11, 15–4	Chen Qq / Zhao Tt (CHN) W 15–8, 17–15	Olsen / Rasmussen (DEN) W 15–6, 15–12	Gao / Zhang (CHN) L 1–15, 15–12, 12–15

Great Britain sent only one boxer to Athens, the 17-year-oldAmir Khan. Khan tore through his first four fights, including two that the referees had to stop prematurely. His loss in the final to the defending Olympic champion and three-time world champion gave Khan a 4–1 record and a silver medal; many hoped he would compete the2008 Summer Olympics but in the event he decided to turn professional later in 2004.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semi-finals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Amir Khan	Lightweight	Kaperonis (GRE) WRSC	Stilianov (BUL) W 37–21	Baik J-S (KOR) WRSC	Yeleuov (KAZ) W 40–26	Kindelán (CUB) L 22–30

Athlete	Event	Preliminary						Semi-final		Final
		Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Total	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Total	Rank
Stuart McIntosh	Men's C-1	99.87	3	102.87	7	202.74	5Q	100.08	7Q	111.11	8	211.19	8
Stuart Bowman Nick Smith	Men's C-2	102.25	2	111.16	6	213.41	2Q	114.02	9	Did not advance
Campbell Walsh	Men's K-1	91.25	1	97.73	12	188.98	2Q	93.68	1Q	96.49	3	190.17
Helen Reeves	Women's K-1	110.12	5	103.51	1	213.63	3Q	108.90	5Q	109.87	4	218.77

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semi-finals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tim Brabants	Men's K-1 1000 m	3:24.412	1Q	Bye		3:30.552	5
Ian Wynne	Men's K-1 500 m	1:37.341	1q	1:38.911	1Q	1:38.547
Paul Darby-Dowman Ian Wynne	Men's K-2 1000 m	3:10.819	2Q	Bye		3:20.848	7
Lucy Hardy	Women's K-1 500 m	1:54.518	4q	1:56.432	3Q	1:53.717	7

Qualification Legend:Q = Qualify to final;q = Qualify to semifinal

Men

Women

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Round 2	Repechage 2	Quarterfinals	Semi-finals	Final
		Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Ross Edgar	Men's sprint	10.381 69.357	3	Forde (BAR) W 10.768 66.864	Bye	Zieliński (POL) L	Ng (MAS)  Eadie (AUS) W 10.906 66.018	Bos (NED) L,L	Did not advance	5th place final  Forde (BAR)  Zieliński (POL)  Bourgain (FRA) W 11.214	5
Victoria Pendleton	Women's sprint	11.646 61.823	10	Abassova (RUS) L	Meinke (GER)  Hijgenaar (NED) L	—		Did not advance		9th place final  Reed (USA)  Hijgenaar (NED)  Radanova (BUL) W 12.699	9
Chris Hoy Craig MacLean Jamie Staff	Men's team sprint	44.693 60.412	7Q	Germany (GER) L 44.075 61.259	—					Did not advance	5

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semi-finals		Final
		Time	Rank	Opponent Results	Rank	Opponent Results	Rank
Rob Hayles	Men's individual pursuit	4:17.930	4Q	Dyudya (UKR) 4:19.559	3Q	Escobar (ESP) 4:22.291	4
Bradley Wiggins		4:15.165	1Q	Sanchez (FRA) 4:17.215	1Q	McGee (AUS) 4:16.304
Emma Davies	Women's individual pursuit	3:35.609	7Q	Mactier (AUS) LAP	8	Did not advance
Steve Cummings Rob Hayles Paul Manning Bradley Wiggins	Men's team pursuit	4:03.985	2Q	France (FRA) 3:59.866	2Q	Australia (AUS) 4:01.760

Time trial

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Chris Hoy	Men's time trial	1:00.711OR
Craig MacLean		1:02.369	7
Victoria Pendleton	Women's time trial	34.626	6

Keirin

Omnium

Athlete	Event	Points	Laps	Rank
Emma Davies	Women's points race	4	0	12
Rob Hayles Bradley Wiggins	Men's madison	12	0

British divers qualified for eight individual spots at the 2004 Olympic Games. Three British synchronised diving teams qualified through the 2004 FINA Diving World Cup.

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semi-finals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Tony Ally	3 m springboard	401.52	16Q	617.13	15	Did not advance
Mark Shipman		396.90	18Q	599.88	18	Did not advance
Leon Taylor	10 m platform	433.38	11Q	628.47	9Q	663.12	6
Peter Waterfield		474.03	4Q	654.54	6Q	669.24	5
Tony Ally Mark Shipman	3 m synchronised springboard	—				334.98	5
Leon Taylor Peter Waterfield	10m synchronised platform	—				371.52

Women

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

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country			Jumping						Total
								Qualifier			Final
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Jeanette Brakewell	Over To You	Individual	49.80 #	28	4.00 #	53.80 #	23	4.00	57.80 #	18	Did not advance			57.80	18
William Fox-Pitt	Tamarillo		38.60	6	0.00	38.60	5	Withdrew			Did not advance
Pippa Funnell	Primmore's Pride		31.40	2	11.20 #	42.60	8	0.00	42.60	3Q	4.00	46.60	3	46.60
Mary King	King Solomon III		48.00 #	=24	0.00	48.00 #	18	8.00 #	56.00	16Q	18.00	74.00	20	74.00	20
Leslie Law	Shear l'Eau		43.20	10	1.20	44.40	11	0.00	44.40	4Q	0.00	44.40
Jeanette Brakewell William Fox-Pitt Pippa Funnell Mary King Leslie Law	See above	Team	113.20	1	1.20	125.60	=3	4.00	143.00	2	—			143.00

"#" indicates that the score of this rider does not count in the team competition, since only the best three results of a team are counted.

Two British fencers qualified for the following events:

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semi-final	Final /BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Richard Kruse	Individual foil	Bye	Wang Hb (CHN) W 15–11	Kellner (USA) W 15–14	Cassarà (ITA) L 8–15	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semi-final	Final /BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Louise Bond-Williams	Individual sabre	König (GER) W 15–13	Nechaeva (RUS) L 12–15	Did not advance

Roster

The following is the British roster in the men's field hockey tournament of the 2004 Summer Olympics.^[10]

Head coach:Jason Lee

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	5	3	2	0	14	3	+11	11	Semi-finals
2	Germany	5	3	2	0	15	6	+9	11
3	Pakistan	5	3	0	2	19	8	+11	9	5–8th place semi-finals
4	South Korea	5	2	2	1	17	8	+9	8
5	Great Britain	5	1	0	4	9	21	−12	3	9–12th place semi-finals
6	Egypt	5	0	0	5	2	30	−28	0

15 August 2004 20:00 Great Britain  3–1  Egypt Middleton 18' Fordham 53' Hawes 59' Report S. Mohamed 37' Umpires: Henrik Ehlers (DEN) Satinder Kumar (IND)

17 August 2004 08:30 South Korea  3–2  Great Britain Lee Jung-Seon 15', 68' Yeo Woon-Kon 47' Report Hall 45' Stott 52' Umpires: Pedro Teixeira (POR) John Wright (RSA)

19 August 2004 18:30 Great Britain  1–5  Spain Middleton 57' Report Amat 7', 38' Freixa 32', 35' Ribas 61' Umpires: Satinder Kumar (IND) Christian Blasch (GER)

21 August 2004 20:30 Germany  4–1  Great Britain Zeller 21', 39' Witthaus 38' Scharowsky 52' Report Moodie 60' Umpires: Jason McCracken (NZL) Sumesh Putra (CAN)

23 August 2004 18:00 Pakistan  8–2  Great Britain Abbas 9', 39' Ali 35+' Nadeem 37' Butt 55', 68' Abbasi 59' Shabbir 60' Report Stott 5' Hall 65' Umpires: Murray Grime (AUS) Ray O'Connor (IRL)

9th–12th place Semi-final

25 August 2004 11:00 Great Britain  4–1  Argentina Moore 24' Bertram 35+' Hall 38' Pearn 67' Report Retegui 64' Umpires: Jason McCracken (NZL) Christian Blasch (GER)

9th–10th place Final

27 August 2004 11:30 South Africa  1–1 (a.e.t.)  Great Britain Nicol 45' Report Fordham 43' Penalties Symons Clark Nicol Denne Fulton 3–4 Hawes Moodie Stott Garrard Hall Umpires: David Gentles (AUS) Amarjit Singh (MAS)

Women

Team

Individual finals

Eight British judoka (two men and six women) qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semi-finals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Craig Fallon	−60 kg	Fernandis (AUS) W 1000–0000	Zintiridis (GRE) L 0110–1010	Did not advance
Winston Gordon	−90 kg	Kelly (AUS) W 1100–0000	Geraldino (DOM) W 1000–0001	Honorato (BRA) W 0012–0010	Zviadauri (GEO) L 0020–1000	Bye			Huizinga (NED) L 0000–1001	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semi-finals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Georgina Singleton	−52 kg	Hukuda (BRA) W 1001–0000	Velázquez (VEN) W 0010–0000	Yokosawa (JPN) L 0000–1001	Did not advance	Bye	Ri S-S (PRK) W 0011–0010	Heylen (BEL) L 0000–0011	Did not advance
Sophie Cox	−57 kg	Nasaudrodro (FIJ) W 1010–0000	Boukouvala (GRE) W 0001–0000	Kye S-H (PRK) L 0010–1010	Did not advance	Bye	Yukhareva (RUS) L 0000–1000	Did not advance
Sarah Clark	−63 kg	Bye	Heill (AUT) L 0001–1001	Did not advance		Rousey (USA) L 0001–1000	Did not advance
Kate Howey	−70 kg	Salayeva (TKM) W 1011–0000	Roberge (CAN) L 0001–0010	Did not advance
Rachel Wilding	−78 kg	Bye	San Miguel (ESP) W 1011–0011	Matrosova (UKR) L 0000–1000	Did not advance	Bye	Lee S-Y (KOR) L 0000–0001	Did not advance
Karina Bryant	+78 kg	Beltrán (CUB) L 0010–0030	Did not advance			Bvegadzi (CGO) W 1003–0000	Blanco (VEN) L 0020–0111	Did not advance

Two British athletes qualified to compete in the modern pentathlon event through the European and UIPM World Championships.

Athlete	Event	Shooting (10 m air pistol)			Fencing (épée one touch)			Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Riding (show jumping)			Running (3000 m)			Total points	Final rank
		Points	Rank	MP Points	Results	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP Points
Kate Allenby	Women's	169	19	964	21–10	=2	972	2:17.41	5	1272	196	25	1004	11:14.00	14	1024	5236	8
Georgina Harland		156	30	808	16–15	=12	832	2:14.60	2	1308	56	6	1144	10:17.31	1	1252	5344

British rowers qualified the following boats:

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semi-finals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ian Lawson	Single sculls	7:24.01	2R	6:56.55	1SA/B/C	6:57.55	3FB	6:57.63	10
Rick Dunn Toby Garbett	Pair	6:58.95	3SA/B	Bye		6:25.06	4FB	6:22.04	7
Matt Langridge Matthew Wells	Double sculls	6:48.13	2SA/B	Bye		6:13.71	4FB	6:14.40	8
Ed Coode James Cracknell Matthew Pinsent Steve Williams	Four	6:20.85	1SA/B	Bye		5:50.44	1FA	6:06.98
Alan Campbell Simon Cottle Peter Gardner Peter Wells	Quadruple sculls	5:54.69	4R	5:48.65	3SA/B	5:48.52	6FB	6:07.87	12
Nick English Mike Hennessy Mark Hunter Tim Male	Lightweight four	6:05.57	4R	5:58.80	4	Did not advance
Robin Bourne-Taylor Christian Cormack (cox) Jonno Devlin Dan Ouseley Phil Simmons Tom Stallard Andrew Triggs Hodge Josh West Kieran West	Eight	5:32.26	4R	5:34.37	3FB	—		5:53.31	9

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semi-finals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Cath Bishop Katherine Grainger	Pair	7:34.66	2R	7:06.75	1FA	—		7:08.66
Elise Laverick Sarah Winckless	Double sculls	7:29.75	2R	6:55.44	1FA	—		7:07.58
Helen Casey Tracy Langlands	Lightweight double sculls	6:59.19	4R	6:59.63	2SA/B	6:59.23	5FB	7:29.12	9
Debbie Flood Frances Houghton Alison Mowbray Rebecca Romero	Quadruple sculls	6:15.60	2FA	Bye		—		6:31.26

Qualification Legend:FA=Final A (medal);FB=Final B (non-medal);FC=Final C (non-medal);FD=Final D (non-medal);FE=Final E (non-medal);FF=Final F (non-medal);SA/B=Semifinals A/B;SC/D=Semifinals C/D;SE/F=Semifinals E/F;R=Repechage

British sailors qualified one boat for each of the following events.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Nick Dempsey	Mistral	2	11	15	10	2	9	1	10	1	6	1	53
Ben Ainslie	Finn	9	DSQ	1	1	4	1	2	3	2	1	14	38
Jonathan Glanfield Nick Rogers	470	2	3	9	4	17	5	2	3	10	19	22	74
Steve Mitchell Iain Percy	Star	8	3	12	9	6	3	16	5	7	17	4	73	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Natasha Sturges	Mistral	16	10	3	9	9	14	12	11	15	11	9	103	9
Laura Baldwin	Europe	21	14	9	23	20	21	25	22	23	21	4	178	23
Christina Bassadone Katherine Hopson	470	5	14	15	4	5	6	17	RAF	2	16	7	91	7
Sarah Ayton Shirley Robertson Sarah Webb	Yngling	5	4	1	1	4	3	4	6	3	8	DNS	39

Open

Athlete	Event	Race																Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	M*
Paul Goodison	Laser	13	3	28	5	11	7	1	9	8	7	—					17	81	4
Chris Draper Simon Hiscocks	49er	8	5	6	3	10	8	1	13	11	8	2	4	1	9	6	6	77
Mark Bulkeley Leigh McMillan	Tornado	8	14	17	12	7	14	8	3	16	15	—					15	112	13

M = Medal race;OCS =On course side of the starting line;DSQ = Disqualified;DNF = Did not finish;DNS= Did not start;RDG = Redress given

Six British shooters (five men and one woman) qualified to compete in the following events:

Men

Women

British swimmers earned qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard time, and 1 at the B-standard time): All British swimmers must qualify by finishing in the top two of the Olympic trials having gained the GB qualifying A standard set byBritish Swimming in the relevant final (that time being the fastest time of the sixteenth fastest swimmer internationally in that event in 2003).

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semi-final		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Simon Burnett	200 m freestyle	1:48.68	6Q	1:47.72	6Q	1:48.02	7
Chris Cook	200 m breaststroke	2:14.68	16Q	2:15.91	15	Did not advance
Todd Cooper	100 m butterfly	53.48	22	Did not advance
David Davies	1500 m freestyle	14:57.03	1Q	—		14:45.95NR
Ian Edmond	200 m breaststroke	2:13.08	7Q	DSQ		Did not advance
Adam Faulkner	400 m freestyle	3:51.97	17	—		Did not advance
Robin Francis	200 m individual medley	2:01.57	12Q	2:02.06	15	Did not advance
	400 m individual medley	4:18.34	12	—		Did not advance
James Goddard	200 m backstroke	1:57.96	2Q	1:57.25	2Q	1:57.76	4
James Gibson	100 m breaststroke	1:00.99	5Q	1:01.07	=4Q	1:01.36	6
James Hickman	100 m butterfly	52.91	12Q	53.10	15	Did not advance
Matthew Kidd	100 m freestyle	49.97	23	Did not advance
Darren Mew	100 m breaststroke	1:00.89	4Q	1:00.83	3Q	1:01.66	7
Stephen Parry	200 m butterfly	1:58.88	16Q	1:55.57	1Q	1:55.52
Graeme Smith	400 m freestyle	3:52.41	20	—		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	15:07.45	7Q	—		15:09.71	6
	400 m individual medley	4:23.53	23	—		Did not advance
Gregor Tait	100 m backstroke	55.77	14Q	55.31	12	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	1:59.35	5Q	1:58.75	5Q	1:59.28	7
Adrian Turner	200 m individual medley	2:01.73	13Q	2:03.85	16	Did not advance
Simon Burnett David Carry* Ross Davenport Gavin Meadows David O'Brien	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:17.41	4Q	—		7:12.60	4
James Gibson James Hickman Matthew Kidd Gregor Tait	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:36.94	3Q	—		3:38.21	8

* Competed only in heats

Women

* Competed only in heats

Four British taekwondo jin qualified for the following events.

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semi-finals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Paul Green	Men's −58 kg	Rahadhani (INA) W 6–5	Nguyen (VIE) L 2–4	Did not advance
Craig Brown	Men's −80 kg	Trenton (AUS) L 6–12	Did not advance
Sarah Bainbridge	Women's −67 kg	Sobers (NED) L 6–7	Did not advance
Sarah Stevenson	Women's +67 kg	Carmona (VEN) L 8–8SUP	Did not advance

Great Britain had only a single tennis player that qualified automatically through their world ranking.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semi-finals	Final /BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Tim Henman	Men's singles	Novák (CZE) L 3–6, 3–6	Did not advance

Six British triathletes qualified for the following events.

Two British weightlifters qualified for the following events:

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool			Quarterfinal	Semi-final	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Nate Ackerman	−74 kg	Gevorgyan (ARM) L 0–4ST	Laliyev (KAZ) L 0–4ST	3	Did not advance			19

The main rights to Olympic coverage in the UK are held by theBBC, under theOfcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events. 2004 marked the first year thatdigital television andwebcasts were used to cover an Olympic Games. The digital television service allowed up to five streamed channels covering the games, allowing more extensive coverage of minor sports, whilst the BBC's website permitted UK broadband users to view live streams from a variety of events, and other countries to view delayed highlights. Live broadcasts were run throughout the day, with a highlights program on BBC1 following the close of the day's events.

The BBC's coverage was anchored (at various times of the day) byCraig Doyle,Clare Balding,Suzi Perry,Sue Barker,Steve Rider,Hazel Irvine andSteve Cram. Expert analysts and commentators includedSharron Davies,Jonathan Edwards,Sally Gunnell,Michael Johnson,Colin Jackson, andSteve Redgrave.

Eurosport also ran coverage of the Games viewable in the UK – in accordance with the ITC Code, it can show live events, provided that such events can also be broadcast by the BBC (although the BBC can choose not to do so).

Radio coverage was provided byBBC Radio 5 Live andIRN, and the events were also covered by the sports pages of the major newspapers.

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