Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the name under which the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 competes at the Olympics) sent a wide-ranging delegation to the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

, continuing its ubiquitous presence in the Olympic games — the only country to have sent competitors to every summer and winter games since the birth of the modern Olympics in 1896. Great Britain's 271 athletes competed in 22 disciplines throughout the two-week event. The team entered the opening ceremony

2004 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony

The Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games was held on August 13, 2004 at the Olympic Stadium in Maroussi, Greece, a suburb of Athens. 72,000 spectators attended the event, with approximately 15,000 athletes from 202 countries participating in the ceremony as well...

 behind the Union Flag

Union Flag

The Union Flag, also known as the Union Jack, is the flag of the United Kingdom. It retains an official or semi-official status in some Commonwealth Realms; for example, it is known as the Royal Union Flag in Canada. It is also used as an official flag in some of the smaller British overseas...

 carried by judo

Judo

is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...

ka Kate Howey

Kate Howey

Kate Louise Howey is a former British judoka, the only British judoka to have competed at four Olympic Games. Howey is also the only British woman to have won two Olympic judo medals...

. Double gold medal winner Kelly Holmes

Kelly Holmes

Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...

 carried the flag at the closing ceremony.

Chronology

The delegation started the Olympics slowly, the silver its divers won on August 14 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 by Matthew Pinsent

Matthew Pinsent

Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent CBE is an English rower and broadcaster. During his rowing career, he won 10 world championship gold medals and four consecutive Olympic gold medals, of which three were with Steve Redgrave...

, narrowly won gold, a defining moment since this was Pinsent's fourth gold medal in as many games. Sailor Ben Ainslie

Ben Ainslie

Charles Benedict Ainslie, CBE is an English sailor and three-times Olympic gold medalist. He started sailing at the age of 8 and first competed at the age of 10...

 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

Bradley Wiggins

Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE is a British professional track and road bicycle racer, currently riding for Team Sky. Wiggins' career began on the track, where he specialised in the pursuit and madison disciplines....

 continued Britain's cycling success, winning gold in the 4 km pursuit. Young swimmer David Davies

David Davies (swimmer)

David Davies is a Welsh Commonwealth Games and Olympic distance swimmer. Born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Davies swam for Wales at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games and represented Great Britain at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics...

, coming third in the 1500 m Freestyle, set a European record in the process and won Britain's second swimming medal of the games — a notable improvement over the 2000 Sydney games

2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

 from which the swimmers had returned empty-handed. Also on Saturday, it was announced that, after an appeal, Leslie Law

Leslie Law

Leslie Law is a British eventer, who won the individual gold medal in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. He started riding at age 10, competing with his brother, and participated in his first accredited event in 1982.He attended Lady Hawkins' School, where his passion for riding really shone...

 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

Kelly Sotherton

Kelly Jade Sotherton is an English heptathlete and 400m sprinter. She was the bronze medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics and was fourth at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She also was a bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, and was the heptathlon gold medallist at the 2006 Commonwealth...

 came third in the heptathlon.

Sunday 22 August brought another rowing medal. However, marathon favourite Paula Radcliffe

Paula Radcliffe

Paula Jane Radcliffe, MBE is an English long-distance runner. She is the current women's world record holder in the marathon with her time of 2:15:25 hours...

 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.

23 August saw Britain's first gold medal of the track and field events, Kelly Holmes

Kelly Holmes

Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...

 winning the women's 800 metres. This was Britain's first gold medal on the track since Sally Gunnell

Sally Gunnell

Sally Jane Janet Gunnell OBE is a former British Olympic champion in the 400 m hurdles...

 won the 400 metre hurdles at the 1992 Barcelona games

1992 Summer Olympics

The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same...

.

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

Bradley Wiggins

Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE is a British professional track and road bicycle racer, currently riding for Team Sky. Wiggins' career began on the track, where he specialised in the pursuit and madison disciplines....

 became the first Briton for 40 years to claim three medals in one games.

The evening of Saturday 28 August saw Britain's medal hunt centered on the Olympic Stadium. Steve Backley

Steve Backley

Stephen James Backley OBE is a retired British athlete who was formerly the world record holder for javelin throwing...

, in his final javelin throw

Javelin throw

The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

 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. The men's 4×100 metre relay team won a surprising victory, winning gold ahead of the American

United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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

 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, saw Amir Khan

Amir Khan (boxer)

Amir Iqbal Khan , is a British Pakistani professional boxer who is currently the unified WBA & IBF light welterweight champion....

 collect Britain's last medal of the event with a silver in boxing

Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall. The event was only open to men and bouts were contested over four rounds of two minutes each...

's lightweight division.

Overall performance

In the final medal table

2004 Summer Olympics medal count

The 2004 Summer Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees ranked by the number of medals won during the 2004 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece, from August 13 to August 29, 2004. A total of 10,625 athletes from 201 countries participated in these games, competing...

, 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." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/3608158.stm

Medallists

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

Archery

Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, Greece with ranking rounds on 12 August and regular competition held from 15 August to 21 August...

Men's individual:

• Laurence Godfrey
  Laurence Godfrey (archer)
  Laurence Paul Godfrey is an athlete from the United Kingdom. He competes in archery.He studied for an HND in Mechanical Manufacturing at the University of the West of England from 1997 to 2000.-2004 Summer Olympics:...
  
   – 4th place

Women's individual:

• Alison Williamson
  Alison Williamson
  Alison Jane Williamson is an athlete from Great Britain. She competes in archery.Williamson, who is a member of the Long Mynd Archers, has represented Great Britain at five Olympic Games, from 1992-2008....
  
   – bronze medal
• Naomi Folkard
  Naomi Folkard
  Naomi Anne Folkard is an archer from Leamington Spa, England. She is a music graduate from Birmingham University .-2004 Summer Olympics:...
  
   – 11th place
• Helen Palmer – 54th place

Women's team:

• Naomi Folkard, Helen Palmer, and Alison Williamson – 12th place

Athletics

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, the athletics events were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 18 to August 29, except for the marathons , the race walks , and the shot put...

Men's 100 metres:

• Jason Gardener
  Jason Gardener
  Jason Carl Gardener is a retired British sprint athlete, and former World Indoor Champion. Gardener was educated at Beechen Cliff School and the City of Bath College, and went on to graduate from Bath Spa University.-Athletics career:Gardener started his career at the World Junior Championships in...
  
   – Semifinal, 10.12 s (did not advance)
• Mark Lewis-Francis
  Mark Lewis-Francis
  Mark Anthony Lewis-Francis is a British track and field athlete, specifically a sprinter, who specialises in the 100 metres. A renowned junior, his greatest sporting achievement at senior level has been to anchor the Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4 x 100 metres relay team to a shock gold...
  
   – Semifinal, 10.28 s (did not advance)
• Darren Campbell
  Darren Campbell
  Darren Andrew Campbell MBE is a former English sprint athlete. He competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres, as well as the 4 × 100 metres relay...
  
   – Round 1, 10.35 s (did not advance)

Women's 100 metres:

• Abiodun Oyepitan – Semifinal, 11.18 s (did not advance)

Men's 110 metre hurdles:

• Andrew Turner – Round 1, 13.75 s (did not advance)
• Robert Newton
  Robert Newton (athlete)
  Robert Alan Newton is a British hurdling athlete. As of 2004, he was Britain's number one sprint hurdler...
  
   – Round 1, 13.85 s (did not advance)

Women's 100 metre hurdles:

• Sarah Claxton
  Sarah Claxton
  Sarah Claxton is an English athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles.She finished eighth at the 2008 Olympic Games...
  
   – Round 1, 13.14 s (did not advance)

Men's 200 metres:

• Christian Malcolm
  Christian Malcolm
  Christian Sean Malcolm is a Welsh athlete, specialising in the 200m.Malcolm was born in Cardiff and resides in Newport, Wales. He won the title of World Junior Athlete of the Year in 1998 and in the 1998 World Junior Championships, he won the 200m in 20.44 seconds...
  
   – Semifinal, 20.77 s (did not advance)
• Darren Campbell – Semifinal, 20.89 s (did not advance)
• Chris Lambert – Round 1, DNF

Women's 200 metres:

• Abi Oyepitan
  Abi Oyepitan
  Abiodun Adesola "Abi" Oyepitan is a British sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She won the 100 m at the 2001 Summer Universiade and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games she took a bronze medal with the 4×100 metres relay team...
  
   – Round 1: 22.50 s, Round 2: 22.79 s, Semifinal: 22.56 s, Final: 22.87 s (=7th place)
• Joice Maduaka
  Joice Maduaka
  Joice Maduaka is a British athlete who competes over the 100, 200 and occasionally 400 metres. She holds the record for winning the most medals of any athlete at the British Athletics Championships, standing at 19 medals to date, including being the 100m champion 6 times, and the 200m champion...
  
   – Round 1: 23.15 s, Round 2: 23.30 s

Men's 400 metres:

• Timothy Benjamin
  Timothy Benjamin
  Timothy David Benjamin is a former professional athlete from Wales. He specialised in the 400 metres, and in his teens was coached by Jock Anderson, in the same training group as Christian Malcolm...
  
   – Semifinal, 46.28 s (did not advance)
• Daniel Caines
  Daniel Caines
  Daniel Stephen Caines is an English athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres.-Early life:He was educated at Solihull School, a British independent school in the affluent West Midlands town of Solihull...
  
   – Round 1, 46.15 s (did not advance)
• Malachi Davis
  Malachi Davis
  Malachi Davis is a former British Olympic athlete.Davis was a member of the UCLA athletics team, competing in the 400 metres and 200 metres.-Athens Olympics:...
  
   – Round 1, 46.28 s (did not advance)

Women's 400 metres:

• Christine Ohurougu – Round 1: 50.50 s, Semifinal: 51.00 s
• Donna Fraser
  Donna Fraser
  Donna Karen Fraser in Thornton Heath, Croydon is an English athlete who mainly competed in the 200 and 400 metres.-Career:...
  
   – Round 1: 51.19 s, Semifinal: 51.94 s
• Lee McConnell
  Lee McConnell
  Lee McConnell is a Scottish athlete, who competes in the 400 metres. She attended Holyrood R.C. Secondary School in Glasgow before graduating from Loughborough University in 2000 with a degree in Sports Science. She became the Scottish 200 metres champion in 2002, and 2005. She also won the 400...
  
   – Round 1: 51.19 s, Semifinal: 52.63 s

Men's 400 metre hurdles:

• Christopher Rawlinson
  Chris Rawlinson
  Christopher Lee Rawlinson is a track and field athlete who competes in the 400 metre hurdles.He also appeared in the 1995 series of the popular TV series Gladiators....
  
   – Semifinal, 50.89 s (did not advance)
• Matthew Douglas – Round 1, 49.77 s (did not advance)

Men's 800 metres:

• Ricky Soos – Semifinal, 1:46.7 (did not advance)

Women's 800 metres:

• Kelly Holmes
  Kelly Holmes
  Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
  
   – Round 1: 2:00.81, Semifinal: 1:57.98, Final: 1:56.38 (gold medal)
• Joanne Fenn
  Joanne Fenn
  Joanne Fenn née Mersh, is an English middle distance runner.-Career:Jo had shown a great deal of promise in her early athletics career having been the English schools 300m hurdles champion. However, a series of injuries, particularly shin splints, halted her career...
  
   – Round 1: 2:03.72, Semifinal: 2:00.60

Men's 1500 metres:

• Michael East – Final, 3:36.33 (6th place)

Women's 1500 metres:

• Kelly Holmes
  Kelly Holmes
  Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
  
   – Round 1: 4:05.58, Semifinal: 4:04.77, Final: 3:57.90 (NR) (gold medal)
• Hayley Tullett
  Hayley Tullett
  Hayley Tullett is a Welsh middle distance runner mainly competing over 1500 metres. Her main claim to fame is the bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships...
  
   – Round 1: 4:07.27, Semifinal: 4:08.92
• Joanne Pavey – Round 1: 4:12.50

Men's 3000 metre steeplechase:

• Justin Chaston – Round 1, 8:28.35 (did not advance)

Men's 5000 metres:

• John Mayock
  John Mayock
  John Paul Mayock is a British middle distance runner. He has competed at three Olympic Games, at the 1996 games in Atlanta and the 2000 games in Sydney in the 1500 m and at the 2004 games in Athens in the 5000 m...
  
   – Round 1, 13:26.81 (did not advance)

Women's 5000 metres:

• Joanne Pavey – Round 1: 14:55.45, Final: 14:57.87 (5th place)

Women's 10000 metres:

• Kathy Butler
  Kathy Butler
  Kathy Butler is a Scottish long-distance runner who competes in the 10000 metres and Marathon, as well as cross country running and Road running .Kathy lives in Nederland, Colorado Kathy is the track coach at Nederland High School....
  
   – 31:41.13 (12th place)
• Paula Radcliffe
  Paula Radcliffe
  Paula Jane Radcliffe, MBE is an English long-distance runner. She is the current women's world record holder in the marathon with her time of 2:15:25 hours...
  
   – DNF

Men's 4×100 metre relay:

• Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish
  Marlon Devonish
  Marlon Ronald Devonish, MBE is an English sprint athlete.He is a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers athletics club and is coached by Tony Lester. Early in his career he was successful at both 100 and 200 metre distances, winning English Schools and European Junior titles at both, but in recent...
  
  , and Mark Lewis-Francis – Final, 38.07 (gold medal)

Men's 4×400 metre relay:

• Timothy Benjamin
  Timothy Benjamin
  Timothy David Benjamin is a former professional athlete from Wales. He specialised in the 400 metres, and in his teens was coached by Jock Anderson, in the same training group as Christian Malcolm...
  
  , Sean Baldock, Malachi Davis, and Matthew Elias
  Matthew Elias
  Matthew John Elias is a Welsh athlete who specialises in the 400 metres sprint and represents Great Britain. In 2003 he won a gold medal at the European Championships and at the Olympic Games in Athens he finished 5th in the 4x400m relayHe won the European Under23 Championships for the 400m...
  
   – Final, 3:01.07 (5th place)

Women's 4×400 metre relay:

• Christine Ohuruogu
  Christine Ohuruogu
  Christine Ijeoma Ohuruogu MBE is an English athlete, who specialises in the 400 metres; the event for which she is the current Olympic and former World and Commonwealth Champion...
  
  , Catherine Murphy
  Catherine Murphy (athlete)
  Catherine Ann Murphy is a Welsh athlete who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece in the 4X400m relay.Born in Sheffield, she lives in London.Catherine announced her retirement from athletics on 28 April 2006....
  
  , Helen Karagounis, and Lee McConnell
  Lee McConnell
  Lee McConnell is a Scottish athlete, who competes in the 400 metres. She attended Holyrood R.C. Secondary School in Glasgow before graduating from Loughborough University in 2000 with a degree in Sports Science. She became the Scottish 200 metres champion in 2002, and 2005. She also won the 400...
  
   – Round 1: 3:26.99, Final: 3:25.12 (4th place)

Men's decathlon:

• Dean Macey
  Dean Macey
  Dean Macey is an English athlete from Canvey Island. He is best known for competing in the decathlon, which he did from 1995 to 2008, winning World Championship and Commonwealth Games medals, as well as twice finishing fourth in the Olympic Games...
  
   – 8414 points (4th place)

Women's heptathlon:

• Kelly Sotherton
  Kelly Sotherton
  Kelly Jade Sotherton is an English heptathlete and 400m sprinter. She was the bronze medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics and was fourth at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She also was a bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, and was the heptathlon gold medallist at the 2006 Commonwealth...
  
   – 6424 points (bronze medal)
• Denise Lewis
  Denise Lewis
  Denise Lewis OBE is a retired British athlete who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.-2000 Olympics:...
  
   – DNF

Men's marathon:

• Jon Brown
  Jon Brown
  Jonathan Michael Brown is a former British athlete, now representing Canada. He specialises in the marathon....
  
   – 2h 12m 26s (4th place)
• Dan Robinson
  Dan Robinson (athlete)
  Daniel Stephen Robinson is an English long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. He represented Great Britain in the marathon at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Games....
  
   – 2h 17m 53s (23rd place)
• Matthew O'Dowd – 2h 22m 37s (50th place)

Women's marathon:

• Liz Yelling
  Liz Yelling
  Elizabeth Anne Yelling is a British long-distance runner currently based in Poole, Dorset...
  
   – 2:40:13 (25th place)
• Tracey Morris – 2:41:00 (29th place)
• Paula Radcliffe
  Paula Radcliffe
  Paula Jane Radcliffe, MBE is an English long-distance runner. She is the current women's world record holder in the marathon with her time of 2:15:25 hours...
  
   – DNF

Men's long jump:

• Christopher Tomlinson – Final, 8.25 metres (5th place)

Women's long jump:

• Jade Johnson
  Jade Johnson
  Jade Linsey Johnson is an English athlete, specialising in long jump.She is allergic to sand.Johnson came second in the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Later she won the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships and finished fourth at the 2003 World Championships...
  
   – Round 1: 6.71 metres, Final: 6.80 metres (7th place)

Men's triple jump:

• Phillips Idowu
  Phillips Idowu
  Phillips Olaosebikan Idowu MBE is a Nigerian-English triple jumper...
  
   – Final, no mark
• Nathan Douglas
  Nathan Douglas
  Nathan James Douglas is an English athlete who specialises in the triple jump. He won the silver medal at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg with a jump of 17.21 metres...
  
   – Round 1, 16.84 metres (did not advance)
• Andrew Owusu
  Andrew Owusu
  Andrew Owusu is a Ghanaian athlete who competes in the triple jump.His personal best was 17.23 metres, achieved in August 1998 in Dakar. This is the Ghanaian record as well as the fourth best triple jump result in Africa, behind Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa , Ajayi Agbebaku and Khotso Mokoena...
  
   – Round 1, 16.64 metres (did not advance)

Men's pole vault:

• Nick Buckfield
  Nick Buckfield
  Nicholas Jean Buckfield is an English pole vaulter. His personal best jump is 5.80 metres, achieved in May 1998 in Chania. He has 5.81 metres on the indoor track, achieved in February 2002 in Bad Segeberg.-Achievements:...
  
   – Round 1, 5.60 metres (did not advance)

Men's discus:

• Emeka Udechuku
  Emeka Udechuku
  Chukwuemeka Udechuku OA is an English discus thrower. "Emeka" is a nickname for the Igbo name "Chukwuemeka" ....
  
   – Round 1, 58.41 (did not advance)

Women's discus:

• Philippa Roles
  Philippa Roles
  Philippa Kate Roles is a Welsh discus thrower.Born in Neath, she studied at Neath Port Talbot College and is resident in London. Roles works for the train operating company Southern as a train driver on the London Metro services servicing South London...
  
   – Round 1: 58.83 metres
• Shelley Newman
  Shelley Newman
  Shelley Newman, now Shelley Parr and maiden name Shelley Drew, is a retired English discus thrower.Her personal best throw is 61.22 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Loughborough...
  
   – Round 1: 56.04 metres

Men's javelin:

• Steve Backley
  Steve Backley
  Stephen James Backley OBE is a retired British athlete who was formerly the world record holder for javelin throwing...
  
   – Final, 84.13 metres (4th place)
• Nick Nieland
  Nick Nieland
  Dr Nicholas Nieland is a British javelin thrower.He was the British number three for many years...
  
   – Round 1, 72.79 metres (did not advance)

Women's javelin:

• Katherine Sayers – Round 1: 59.11 metres

Women's hammer:

• Lorraine Shaw
  Lorraine Shaw
  Lorraine Shaw is an English hammer thrower. Her personal best throw is 68.93 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Loughborough. This is the British record.-Achievements:-References:* at Sporting Heroes...
  
   – Round 1: 64.79 metres
• Shirley Webb
  Shirley Webb
  Shirley Webb is a British hammer thrower and Gladiator. She was born in Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear, England and is the daughter of Andrew Webb, a Scottish international hurdler who competed at the Commonwealth Games...
  
   – Round 1: 61.60 metres

Badminton

Badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Goudi Olympic Hall at the Goudi Olympic Complex from August 14 through August 21. Both men and women competed in their own singles and doubles events and together they competed in a mixed doubles event....

Men's singles:

• Richard Vaughan
  Richard Vaughan (badminton)
  Richard Vaughan is a Welsh badminton player from Llanbradach, Caerphilly, Wales. Vaughan is currently the Chief Executive of Badminton Ireland and has a MBA from Leicester University; MA Sports Development from Bath University, having previously achieved a BSc in Economics and Politics.Vaughan...
  
   – defeated in round of 16

Women's singles:

• Tracey Hallam
  Tracey Hallam
  -Career:Hallam played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In women's singles, she defeated Juliane Schenk of Germany and Camilla Martin of Denmark in the first two rounds...
  
   – defeated in quarterfinals
• Kelly Morgan
  Kelly Morgan
  Kelly Morgan is a Welsh Commonwealth and Olympic Games badminton player born in Pontypridd.Morgan attended Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive school in Beddau, Wales.- 1996 Olympics :...
  
   – defeated in round of 16

Men's doubles:

• Anthony Clark
  Anthony Clark (badminton)
  Anthony Ian Clark is an English badminton player.-2004 Summer Olympics:Clark competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Nathan Robertson...
  
   and Nathan Robertson
  Nathan Robertson
  Nathan James Robertson is an English badminton player who has achieved international success in both the men's events and the mixed doubles event...
  
   – defeated in round of 16

Women's doubles:

• Gail Emms
  Gail Emms
  Gail Elizabeth Emms MBE is a retired English badminton player who has achieved international success in doubles tournaments....
  
   and Donna Kellogg
  Donna Kellogg
  Donna Victoria Kellogg MBE is an English badminton player. She first played badminton at the age of 10.-Career:Her first representative match for England was against China at the World Championships 1997 in Scotland...
  
   – defeated in round of 16
• Ella Tripp
  Ella Tripp
  Ella Tripp is an English badminton player.Tripp competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Joanne Wright. They beat Bulgarians in the first round and were defeated by Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina of the Netherlands in the round of 16...
  
   and Joanne Wright
  Joanne Wright
  Joanne Nicholas is a female badminton player from the United Kingdom.Joanne attended Churchtown Primary School, Stanley High School and King George V College , all in Southport, Merseyside....
  
   – defeated in round of 16

Mixed doubles:

• Nathan Robertson
  Nathan Robertson
  Nathan James Robertson is an English badminton player who has achieved international success in both the men's events and the mixed doubles event...
  
   and Gail Emms
  Gail Emms
  Gail Elizabeth Emms MBE is a retired English badminton player who has achieved international success in doubles tournaments....
  
   – silver medal
• Robert Blair
  Robert Blair (badminton)
  Robert Blair is a Scottish badminton player.Blair was born in Scotland, but after attending Loughborough University in Leicestershire, he competed for England from 2001 until 2010, except at the Olympic Games, where Scotland and England are both parts of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team...
  
   and Natalie Munt
  Natalie Munt
  Natalie Munt is a female badminton player from the United Kingdom who currently resides in Milton Keynes. She participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics partnering Robert Blair in the mixed doubles.-External links:*...
  
   – defeated in round of 16

Boxing

Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall. The event was only open to men and bouts were contested over four rounds of two minutes each...

Great Britain sent only one boxer to Athens, the 17-year old Amir Khan

Amir Khan (boxer)

Amir Iqbal Khan , is a British Pakistani professional boxer who is currently the unified WBA & IBF light welterweight champion....

. 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 the 2008 Summer Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

 but in the event he decided to turn professional later in 2004.

The silver medal put Britain in a four-way tie for 8th place in the boxing medals scoreboard.

Lightweight (57–60 kg):

• Amir Khan
  Amir Khan (boxer)
  Amir Iqbal Khan , is a British Pakistani professional boxer who is currently the unified WBA & IBF light welterweight champion....
  
   – silver medal
  1. Round of 32 – Defeated Marios Kaperonis of Greece
     Greece
     Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
     
     , outscored
  2. Round of 16 – Defeated Dimitar Stilianov
     Dimitar Stilianov
     Dimitar Stilianov is boxer from Bulgaria, who won a bronze medal at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas. Two years later, at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships, he won the silver medal in the Light Welterweight .Stilianov represented for Bulgaria at the 2004...
     
      of Bulgaria
     Bulgaria
     Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
     
     , 37-21
  3. Quarterfinal – Defeated Jong Sub Baik of South Korea
     South Korea
     The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
     
     , stopped contest
  4. Semifinal – Defeated Serik Yeleuov
     Serik Yeleuov
     Serik Samatovich Yeleuov is a Kazakhstani boxer who won the bronze medal in the men's lightweight division at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Guangzhou, PR China...
     
      of Kazakhstan
     Kazakhstan
     Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
     
     , 40-26
  5. Final – Lost to Mario César Kindelán Mesa
     Mario César Kindelán Mesa
     Mario César Kindelán Mesa is a former two time Olympic Gold Medalist amateur boxer from Cuba, who competed in the lightweight category...
     
      of Cuba
     Cuba
     The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
     
     , 30-22

Canoeing

Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre for the sprint events and the Olympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre at the Helliniko Olympic Complex for the canoe and kayak slalom disciplines....

• Stuart Bowman – Canadian Double (C2) slalom – semifinal
• Tim Brabants
  Tim Brabants
  Tim Brabants MBE is a British sprint kayaker who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals with one gold and two bronzes .Brabants won the K-1 1000 m European championship at Szeged, Hungary in 2002, the first time a British paddler had...
  
   – Men’s K1 1000 metre – 5th place
• Paul Darby-Dowman
  Paul Darby-Dowman
  Paul Darby-Dowman is a British sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of seventh in the K-2 1000 m event at Athens in 2004.-Reference:*...
  
   – Men’s K2 1000 metre – 7th place
• Lucy Hardy
  Lucy Hardy
  Lucy Hardy-Wainwright is a British sprint canoer who has competed since the mid 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she earned her best finish of seventh in the K-1 500 m event twice .-References:*...
  
   – Women's K1 500 metre – 7th place
• Stuart McIntosh
  Stuart McIntosh
  Stuart McIntosh is a British slalom canoeist who competed in the 2000s. Winning many World Cup Series medals, including a silver medal at the 2004 World Cup Final at Bourg st.Maurice, France...
  
   – Canadian Double (C1) slalom – 8th place
• Helen Reeves – Women’s Kayak Single (K1) slalom – bronze medal
• Nick Smith – Canadian Double (C2) slalom – semifinal
• Campbell Walsh
  Campbell Walsh
  Campbell Walsh is a Scottish slalom canoer. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-1 event at Athens in 2004....
  
   – Men’s Kayak Single (K1) slalom – silver medal
• Ian Wynne
  Ian Wynne
  Ian Wynne is a British sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event at Athens in 2004....
  
   – Men’s K1 500 metre – bronze medal & Men’s K2 1000 metre – 7th place

Cycling

Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics had 18 events in three disciplines:*Road cycling, held at the Athens historic centre and in Vouliagmeni Olympic Centre ....

• Oli Beckingsale
  Oli Beckingsale
  Oliver James Beckingsale , is a professional mountain biker. He represented Britain at the Olympic Games in 2000, 2004 and 2008, and England at the Commonwealth Games in 2002 and 2006...
  
   – Mountain Biking – 17th place
• Nicole Cooke
  Nicole Cooke
  Nicole Denise Cooke, MBE is a Welsh professional road bicycle racer for the Mario Cipollini - Giordana Team team, and is the current Olympic road race champion.-Early life:...
  
   – Women's Road Time Trial – 19th place; Road Race – 5th place
• Steve Cummings
  Steve Cummings
  Stephen Philip Cummings is an English racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team .-Biography:Cummings won the team pursuit at the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles and at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He also took bronze in the individual pursuit...
  
   – Team Pursuit – silver medal
• Stuart Dangerfield
  Stuart Dangerfield
  Stuart Dangerfield is an English racing cyclist who has been prominent in British individual time trial events during the 1990s and early 21st century....
  
   – Men's Road Time Trial – 30th place; Road Race – did not finish
• Emma Davies
  Emma Davies (cyclist)
  Emma Davies Jones is a British Olympic cyclist. She competed in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.-Biography:Born in Knutsford, Cheshire...
  
   – Individual Pursuit – 8th place; Points Race
• Ross Edgar
  Ross Edgar
  Ross Edgar is a Scottish track cyclist who represented Scotland at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games, where he won a gold medal in the team sprint riding with Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean...
  
   – Sprint – repechage; Keirin
• Roger Hammond – Road Race – 7th place
• Rob Hayles
  Rob Hayles
  Robert John Hayles is a track and road racing cyclist, riding for Great Britain and England on the track and his professional team Endura Racing on the road. Hayles rides the team pursuit and madison events....
  
   – Team Pursuit – silver medal; Madison – bronze; Individual Pursuit – 4th place;
• Rachel Heal
  Rachel Heal
  Rachel Heal is an English racing cyclist.She joined British Cycling's World Class Performance Plan in 2001 when she gave up her job to become a full-time cyclist. She turned professional and rode for the Belgian Farm Frites-Hartol team after obtaining a degree in chemical engineering from...
  
   – Road Race – 22nd place
• Chris Hoy
  Chris Hoy
  Sir Christopher Andrew "Chris" Hoy, MBE is a Scottish track cyclist representing Great Britain and Scotland. He is a multiple world champion and Olympic Games gold medal winner...
  
   – 1 km Track Time Trial – gold medal; Team Sprint – 5th place
• Jeremy Hunt
  Jeremy Hunt (cyclist)
  Jeremy Hunt is a British road racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team . He is mainly a sprinter. Hunt was the British national road race champion in 1997 and in 2001....
  
   – Road Race – did not compete
• Liam Killeen
  Liam Killeen
  Liam Killeen , is a professional mountain biker. He represented England at the Commonwealth Games in 2002 where he came 3rd, and in 2006 he won the Cross Country race...
  
   – Mountain Biking – 5th place
• Craig MacLean
  Craig MacLean
  Craig MacLean is a Scottish track cyclist who has represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, winning a Silver Medal in the Team Sprint at the 2000 Olympics....
  
   – 1 km Track Time Trial – 7th place; Team Sprint
• Paul Manning
  Paul Manning (cyclist)
  Paul Christian Manning MBE is a former English professional track and road bicycle racer who rode for the UCI Professional Continental team Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner in 2007 and 2008...
  
   – Team Pursuit – silver medal; Individual Pursuit
• Chris Newton
  Chris Newton
  Christopher Malcolm Newton is a successful road and track racing cyclist. Newton is a multiple world champion and Olympian.-Biography:Newton is an alumnus of the University of Teesside in Middlesbrough...
  
   – Team Pursuit – silver medal
• Victoria Pendleton
  Victoria Pendleton
  Victoria Louise Pendleton MBE is a British Olympic and world champion track cyclist. Her father, Max, was also a British national grass-track cycling champion.-Early years:...
  
   – Women's 500 m Time Trial – 6th place; Individual Sprint – 9th place
• Jason Queally
  Jason Queally
  Jason Paul Queally is an English track cyclist. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.Born at Great Heywood, Staffordshire, Queally attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he was part of the swimming squad in the mid-1980s, later representing Lancaster and British Universities...
  
   – Team Sprint – 5th place
• Jamie Staff
  Jamie Staff
  Jamie Alan Staff MBE is an English racing cyclist and coach, formerly on BMX and later on the track. A World and Olympic champion, he has also won numerous other medals at World Championships, World Cups and at the Commonwealth Games....
  
   – Team Sprint – 5th place
• Bryan Steel
  Bryan Steel
  Bryan Steel is an English former professional racing cyclist. He represented Great Britain at the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. Steel was born in Nottingham and now lives in Peterborough....
  
   – Team Pursuit – silver medal
• Sara Symington
  Sara Symington
  Sara Symington is an English professional cyclist, she was a member of the triathlon national team prior to becoming a full-time cyclist. She represented Great Britain at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. Symington was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, she now lives in Aylestone,...
  
   – Road Race – did not finish
• Charly Wegelius – Road Race – did not finish
• Bradley Wiggins
  Bradley Wiggins
  Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE is a British professional track and road bicycle racer, currently riding for Team Sky. Wiggins' career began on the track, where he specialised in the pursuit and madison disciplines....
  
   – Individual Pursuit – gold medal; Team Pursuit – silver medal; Madison – bronze
• Julian Winn
  Julian Winn
  Julian Winn from Abergavenny, Wales is a former Welsh competitive cyclist who now manages the UCI Continental cycling team Endura Racing. He represented Wales in the 1998 Commonwealth Games at Kuala Lumpur and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester...
  
   – Road Race – did not finish

Diving

Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens, eight diving events were contested during a competition that took place at the Olympic Aquatic Centre, from 20 to 28 August , comprising a total of 125 divers from 30 nations.-Men:-Women:-Medal table:-Participating nations:Here are listed the nations that...

• Tony Ally
  Tony Ally
  Antonio Piero Ally is a British diver. He was born in Luton, England.In 1998 he was a bronze medalist at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, won Gold in the European Championships for the three metre event in 1999, and won Silver at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games.He placed 18th and...
  
  
  • 3 metre Springboard (preliminary+semifinal: 617.13, 15th place)
  • 3 metre Synchronised – 5th place
• Tandi Gerrard – 3 metre Synchronised Springboard – 4th place
• Tracey Richardson
  Tracey Richardson
  Tracey Richardson is a British diver.-Career:*2001 - Competed in the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.*2003 - World Diving Championships at the European Champions Cup in Stockholm, Sweden....
  
   – 3 metre Springboard
• Mark Shipman
  Mark Shipman
  Mark Shipman is a British diver.He has competed at European, Commonwealth, World and Olympic levels on the 3 metre springboard. With Tony Ally he came 7th in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney....
  
  
  • 3 metre Springboard (preliminary+semifinal: 599.88, 18th place)
  • 3 metre Synchronised – 5th place
• Jane Smith – 3 metre Springboard; 3 metre Synchronised Springboard – 4th place
• Leon Taylor
  Leon Taylor
  Leon Taylor is a British former competitive diver.He was hyperactive as a child and his parents were advised to channel his energies and enthusiasm into sport. He was a swimmer and gymnast from the age of two and only took up competitive diving when he was eight...
  
   – 10 metre Synchronised Platform – silver medal; 10 metre Platform
• Peter Waterfield
  Peter Waterfield
  Peter Graham Waterfield is a British diver. His specialism is the 10 metre platform event, both as solo competitor and in the synchronised event with his former partner Leon Taylor...
  
   – 10 metre Synchronised Platform – silver medal; 10 metre Platform

Equestrian

Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics

The events of the Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics featured three equestrian disciplines: dressage, eventing and jumping. All three disciplines are further divided into individual and team contests for a total of six events....

• Jeanette Brakewell
  Jeanette Brakewell
  Jeanette Brakewell, born 4 February 1974, has been riding since the age of four and is a competitive professional Event Rider.She was a member of both the British silver medal team at the Athens Olympics of 2004, and the silver medal team in the same event at the Summer Olympics in Sydney 2000...
  
   – Three Day Event Team – Team Silver
• Richard Davison – Dressage
• William Fox-Pitt
  William Fox-Pitt
  William Speed Lane Fox-Pitt , known as William Fox-Pitt, is an English equestrian. He has had notable successes at the Burghley, Badminton, Blenheim and Bramham Horse Trials...
  
   – Eventing – Team Silver
• Pippa Funnell
  Pippa Funnell
  Pippa Funnell MBE is an equestrian sportswoman, regarded as one of three-day eventing's sporting elite...
  
   – Eventing – Individual Bronze, Team Silver
• Carl Hester – Dressage
• Emma Hindle
  Emma Hindle
  Emma Hindle is a British international equestrian. She first rode for her country in 2004, competing in the World Equestrian Games of that year, and competed for Great Britain in Dressage at both the Athens and Beijing Olympic Games....
  
   – Dressage
• Mary King
  Mary King (equestrian)
  Mary Elizabeth King is a British Olympic equestrian sportswoman who has represented Great Britain at five Olympics from 1992 to 2008, winning one silver and one bronze medal in the team eventing...
  
   – Three Day Event Team – Team Silver
• Leslie Law
  Leslie Law
  Leslie Law is a British eventer, who won the individual gold medal in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. He started riding at age 10, competing with his brother, and participated in his first accredited event in 1982.He attended Lady Hawkins' School, where his passion for riding really shone...
  
   – Three Day Event Team – Individual Gold, Team Silver
• Nicola McGivern – Dressage
• Nick Skelton
  Nick Skelton
  Nicholas "Nick" Skelton is a British Showjumper with over 30 years experience.-Biography:...
  
   – Show Jumping
• Robert Smith – Show Jumping

Fencing

Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Fencing Hall at the Helliniko Olympic Complex. Ten gold medals were awarded in individual and team events further divided into three styles of fencing: épée, foil and sabre....

• Louise Bond-Williams – Sabre – 16th place
• Richard Kruse
  Richard Kruse
  Richard Kruse is a British fencer who has twice represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics....
  
   – Foil – 8th place

Gymnastics

Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, three disciplines of gymnastics were contested: artistic gymnastics , rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline...

Women's Artistic Gymnastics:

• Elizabeth Tweddle
  • Women's Artistic Individual All-around – 19th place – (35.761)
  • Asymmetric Bars – 13th place – (9.575 – behind 0.175)
  • Balance Beam – 34th place – (9.025 – behind 0.750)
  • Floor Exercise – 30th place – (9.300 – behind 0.387)
• Katy Lennon
  • Women's Artistic Individual All-around – 21st place – (35.374)
  • Asymmetric Bars – 65th place – (8.850 – behind 0.900)
  • Balance Beam – 35th place – (9.025 – behind 0.750)
  • Floor Exercise – 42nd place – (9.125 – behind 0.562)
• Cherrelle Fennell
  • Asymmetric Bars – 56th place – (9.087 – behind 0.663)
  • Floor Exercise – 52nd place – (9.012 – behind 0.675)
• Vanessa Hobbs
  • Asymmetric Bars – 73rd place – (8.437 – behind 1.313)
  • Balance Beam – 42nd place – (8.937 – behind 0.838)
  • Floor Exercise – 44th place – (9.087 – behind 0.600)
• Elizabeth Line
  • Balance Beam – 41st place – (8.950 – behind 0.825)
• Nicola Willis
  • Asymmetric Bars – 56th place – (8.937 – behind 0.813)
  • Balance Beam – 82nd place – (7.625 – behind 2.150)
  • Floor Exercise – 39th place – (9.175 – behind 0.512)

Women's Rhythmic Gymnastics:

• Hannah McKibbin – 21st place

Women's Trampoline:

• Kirsten Lawton – 12th place – (60.20)

Men's Trampoline:

• Gary Smith – 7th place – (40.00)

Hockey

Field hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Field Hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Hockey Centre located within the Helliniko Olympic Complex. The competitions for both men and women was split into two groups with the top two teams after the preliminary rounds progressing through to the semi-finals.-Men's...

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)
• Great Britain – Egypt 3-1
• Great Britain – South Korea 2-3
• Great Britain – Spain 1-5
• Great Britain – Germany 1-4
• Great Britain – Pakistan 2-8
• Classification Matches
• 9th-12th place: Great Britain – Argentina 6-1
• 9th-10th place: Great Britain – South Africa 1-1 (GB wins after penalty strokes, 4-3) → 9th place
• Team Roster
• ( 1.) Simon Mason (gk)
• ( 2.) Jimi Lewis
  Jimi Lewis
  James "Jimi" Lewis is an English field hockey goalkeeper, who was a member of the Great Britain squad that finished ninth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
  
   (gk)
• ( 5.) Rob Moore
  Rob Moore (field hockey player)
  Robert Stephen Moore born in Winchester on 21 May 1981, is a key member of the England Senior Mens Hockey team. Moore is amongst the most capped England players and was a key part of the team that recently picked up a silver medal at the Champions Trophy 2010 and a gold medal at the European Cup...
  
  
• ( 6.) Craig Parnham
  Craig Parnham
  Craig Parnham is an English field hockey defender, who participated in two Summer Olympics for Great Britain: in 2000 and 2004...
  
  
• ( 7.) Niall Stott
  Niall Stott
  Niall Craig Stott is a Scottish field hockey player, who was a member of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad that finished ninth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was born in Dundee....
  
  
• ( 8.) Tom Bertram
  Tom Bertram
  Tom Quesenbery Bertram is an English field hockey player. Bertram played in two Summer Olympics for Great Britain in 2000 and 2004....
  
  
• ( 9.) Mark Pearn
• (10.) Jimmy Wallis
• (11.) Brett Garrard
• (12.) Ben Hawes
  Ben Hawes
  Benjamin Robert Hawes is an English field hockey player who plays in midfield or as a half back.Competing for England and Great Britain at numerous tournaments, he represented Great Britain in Field hockey at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics...
  
  
• (13.) Daniel Hall
• (14.) Michael Johnson
• (17.) Guy Fordham
• (18.) Barry Middleton
  Barry Middleton
  Barry John Middleton is an English field hockey player. He was a member of the Great Britain squad that finished ninth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and fifth in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and the England Squad that won the 2009 Eurohockey Nations Cup and gained silver at the 2010...
  
  
• (19.) Graham Dunlop
  Graham Dunlop
  Graham Barry Dunlop is a Scottish field hockey player.Dunlop was a member of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad that finished ninth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
  
  
• (22.) Graham Moodie
  Graham Moodie
  Graham Thomas Moodie is a Scottish field hockey player, who was a member of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad that finished ninth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
  
  
• Head Coach: Jason Lee
  Jason Lee (field hockey player)
  Jason David Lee is a former field hockey player from England, who won 62 caps for England and 25 with Great Britain. He played in the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics .-References:* *...
  
  

Judo

Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall and featured 368 judoka competing for 14 gold medals with seven different weight categories in both the men's and women's competitions. Japan dominated the event by taking 8 gold and 2 silver medals.Gold and silver medals...

• Karina Bryant
  Karina Bryant
  Karina Bryant is a British judoka.Bryant is due to represent Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Judo Heavyweight event.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...
  
   – 78+ kilograms – 1st round
• Sarah Clark – 57-63 kilograms – 2nd round
• Sophie Cox
  Sophie Cox
  Sophie Cox is a British Judo player from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England.She represented Great Britain at the 2004 Olympics in Greece. She is one of the British Judo team athletes for London 2012 Olympic....
  
   – 52-57 kilograms – Quarter-final
• Craig Fallon
  Craig Fallon
  Craig Andrew Fallon is a British judoka.CareerIn September 2005, Fallon won the -60 kg weight class at the World Judo Championships in Cairo, beating Ludwig Paischer in the final...
  
   – below 60 kilograms – 2nd round
• Winston Gordon
  Winston Gordon
  Winston Alanzo Gordon is a British judoka, and Sensei at the in Tooting, London.He is also British Open Champion 2009.Winston is hoping to compete in his third Olympic games in London 2012.-Achievements:...
  
   – 81-90 kilograms – 5th place
• Kate Howey
  Kate Howey
  Kate Louise Howey is a former British judoka, the only British judoka to have competed at four Olympic Games. Howey is also the only British woman to have won two Olympic judo medals...
  
   – 63-70 kilograms – 2nd round
• Georgina Singleton – 48-52 kilograms – 7th place
• Rachel Wilding – 70-78 kilograms – Quarter-final

Modern Pentathlon

Modern pentathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics

The modern pentathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Olympic Modern Pentathlon Centre at the Goudi Olympic Complex as single day events for men and women on August 26 and August 27, respectively....

• Kate Allenby
  Kate Allenby
  Kate Allenby is a British modern pentathlete who competed in two Summer Olympics .She was born in London.Allenby won a bronze medal in 2000 at Sydney...
  
   – 8th place
• Georgina Harland
  Georgina Harland
  Georgina Harland is a modern pentathlete from Great Britain, who won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.Her score of 5344 is broken down as follows:* Shooting—808* Fencing—832...
  
   – bronze medal

Rowing

Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre and featured 550 competitors taking part in 14 events....

• Cath Bishop
  Cath Bishop
  Catherine Bishop is a former British rower.She was educated at Westcliff High School for Girls. Bishop has a BA in modern languages from Pembroke College, Cambridge, a master's in international politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and a Ph.D...
  
   – Women's Coxless Pair – silver medal
• Robin Bourne-Taylor
  Robin Bourne-Taylor
  Robin Edwin Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, CGC was a British officer and sportsman. He is a three times Boat Race winner, and for his service in Afghanistan he was awarded the second-highest British gallantry medal.-Education:Bourne-Taylor was educated at Abingdon School and Christ Church, Oxford where...
  
   – Men's Eight – 9th place
• Alan Campbell
  Alan Campbell (sculler)
  Alan Campbell is a British scullerCampbell started rowing for his school, Coleraine Academical Institution for Boys, in Northern Ireland before moving to London and joining the Tideway Scullers School....
  
   – Men's Quadruple scull – 12th place
• Helen Casey
  Helen Casey
  Helen Casey is a British rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...
  
   – Lightweight Double Scull – 9th place
• Ed Coode
  Ed Coode
  Ed Coode, MBE is a British rower, twice World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist.Educated at Papplewick School, Ascot, Eton College, University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Oxford University, where he attended Keble College and rowed in the Oxford crew at the 1998 Boat Race.Coode won his first World...
  
   – Men's Coxless Four – gold medal
• Christian Cormack
  Christian Cormack
  Christian Cormack is a British rowing cox. He competed for the British National Team between 1996 and 2004, winning four medals at the World Rowing Championships including a gold in 2002...
  
   – Men's Eight (Cox) – 9th place
• Simon Cottle – Men's Quadruple scull – 12th place
• James Cracknell
  James Cracknell
  James Cracknell, OBE is a British rowing champion and double Olympic gold medalist and adventurer. Cracknell is married to TV and radio presenter Beverley Turner; they have three children. In the New Year Honours List, 2004, he was appointed OBE for services to sport...
  
   – Men's Coxless Four – gold medal
• Jonno Devlin
  Jonno Devlin
  Jonathan "Jonno" Devlin is an Irish rower. He rowed for Great Britain until 2007.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...
  
   – Men's Eight – 9th place
• Rick Dunn – Men's Coxless Pair – 7th place
• Nick English – Lightweight Men's Four
• Debbie Flood
  Debbie Flood
  Deborah Kirsty "Debbie" Flood is an English female rower, noteworthy for winning Silver Medals in the Quadruple Sculls at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games....
  
   – Women's Quadruple Scull – silver medal
• Toby Garbett
  Toby Garbett
  Toby Garbett is a British rower.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...
  
   – Men's Coxless Pair – 7th place
• Peter Gardner – Men's Quadruple scull – 12th place
• Katherine Grainger
  Katherine Grainger
  Katherine Grainger MBE is a Scottish rower.Her family moved to Netherley, Aberdeenshire and Katherine represents Edinburgh's St Andrew Boat Club in rowing events. She trained on the River Dee, which has the distinction of being the only river she has fallen into whilst rowing.She is a three time...
  
   – Women's Coxless Pair – silver medal
• Mike Hennessy
  Mike Hennessy
  Mike Hennessy is a British rower, who represented Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.Hennessy began rowing in 1995 whilst at Queen Mary, University of London for the university boat club...
  
   – Lightweight Men's Four
• Frances Houghton
  Frances Houghton
  Frances Julia P. Houghton is an English female rower, noteworthy for winning Silver Medals in the Quadruple Sculls at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games....
  
   – Women's Quadruple Scull – silver medal
• Mark Hunter
  Mark Hunter (rower)
  Mark John Hunter MBE is a British rower.In 2007 he partnered Zac Purchase in the Great Britain Lightweight Men's Double Scull. They won medals at each World Cup Regatta through the season. At the World Rowing Championships in Munich-Oberschleissheim they won a Bronze medal...
  
   – Lightweight Men's Four
• Tom James
  Tom James
  Thomas James MBE is a Welsh rower, Olympic Champion, and victorious Cambridge Blue.-Education:James was educated at The King's School, Chester, where he took up the sport of rowing...
  
   – Men's Eight – 9th place
• Tracy Langlands
  Tracy Langlands
  Tracy Langlands is a British rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...
  
   – Lightweight Double Scull – 9th place
• Matthew Langridge
  Matthew Langridge
  Matthew Langridge is a current Great Britain oarsman.-Junior Rowing Career:...
  
   – Men's Double Scull – 8th place
• Elise Laverick
  Elise Laverick
  Elise Mary Laverick is a British rower. She won bronze at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the double scull with Sarah Winckless, and again at the 2008 Summer Olympics with Anna Bebington...
  
   – Women's Double Scull – bronze medal
• Ian Lawson – Men's Single Scull – 10th place
• Tim Male
  Tim Male
  Tim Male is an Olympic rower who represented Great Britain in the lightweight four at the Olympic Games in 2004. He finished second in the lightweight men's single at the 2006 Great Britain Senior Selection Trials in Belgium....
  
   – Lightweight Men's Four
• Alison Mowbray
  Alison Mowbray
  Alison Mowbray was a British rower who won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics competing in the women's quadruple scull.- External links :...
  
   – Women's Quadruple Scull – silver medal
• Dan Ouseley
  Dan Ouseley
  Dan Ouseley is a British rower.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...
  
   – Men's Eight – 9th place
• Matthew Pinsent
  Matthew Pinsent
  Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent CBE is an English rower and broadcaster. During his rowing career, he won 10 world championship gold medals and four consecutive Olympic gold medals, of which three were with Steve Redgrave...
  
   – Men's Coxless Four – gold medal
• Rebecca Romero
  Rebecca Romero
  Rebecca Jayne Romero MBE is an English sportsperson, a former World Champion and Olympic Games medallist at rowing, and a former World champion and reigning Olympic champion track cyclist.-Biography:...
  
   – Women's Quadruple Scull – silver medal
• Phil Simmons – Men's Eight – 9th place
• Tom Stallard
  Tom Stallard
  Thomas Alexander Stallard is a professional rower. He won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics for Great Britain in the Mens eight.-References:...
  
   – Men's Eight – 9th place
• Andrew Triggs Hodge
  Andrew Triggs-Hodge
  Andrew Triggs Hodge MBE is a British rower and an Olympic and double World Champion.- Education :...
  
   – Men's Eight – 9th place
• Peter Wells – Men's Quadruple scull – 12th place
• Matthew Wells
  Matthew Wells (rower)
  Matthew Wells is a British Olympic rower.Wells was born in Bradford and grew up in Hexham, where he learnt to row at Queen Elizabeth High School...
  
   – Men's Double Scull – 8th place
• Josh West
  Josh West
  Joshua "Josh" West is a British rower.-Early life:West is Jewish, was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. His mother is American, and his father is British.-Rowing career:...
  
   – Men's Eight – 9th place
• Steve Williams
  Steve Williams (rower)
  Stephen David Williams OBE is an English rower and double Olympic champion.In April and May 2011, Steve will be taking part in Richard Parks'...
  
   – Men's Coxless Four – gold medal
• Sarah Winckless
  Sarah Winckless
  Sarah Winckless is a former British rower. She won a bronze medal in Double sculls with her partner Elise Laverick at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and was twice world champion, in 2005 and 2006....
  
   – Women's Double Scull – bronze medal

Sailing

Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Centre with eleven events being contested.The events were split into four classes for men, four for women, and three mixed classes that were open to both men and women...

• Ben Ainslie
  Ben Ainslie
  Charles Benedict Ainslie, CBE is an English sailor and three-times Olympic gold medalist. He started sailing at the age of 8 and first competed at the age of 10...
  
   – Finn Class – gold medal
• Sarah Ayton
  Sarah Ayton
  Sarah Lianne Ayton Dempsey OBE is an English professional sailor.She won a gold medal in the Yngling sailing class in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, together with Shirley Robertson and Sarah Webb, and another gold medal in the Yngling sailing class in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing,...
  
   – Yngling Class – gold medal
• Laura Baldwin – Europe Class – 23rd place
• Christina Bassadone – 470 Class – 7th place
• Mark Bulkeley – Tornado Class – 13th place
• Nick Dempsey
  Nick Dempsey
  Nick Dempsey is an English windsurfer, who lives in Weymouth. He married Sarah Ayton in October 2008 just 2 months after their gold medal victories. In June 2009, they had a son, Thomas-Flynn....
  
   – Mistral Class – bronze medal
• Chris Draper
  Chris Draper
  Chris Draper is a British sailor who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics competing in the mixed 49er.-References:...
  
   – 49er Class – bronze medal
• Jonathan Glanfield
  Jonathan Glanfield
  Jonathan "Joe" James Glanfield is a sailing competitor from Great Britain. He won a silver medal at both the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics with Nick Rogers in the 470 class. He also came 4th in the 2000 Olympics.Jonathan previously attended Exmouth Community College.-References:...
  
   – 470 Class – silver medal
• Paul Goodison
  Paul Goodison
  Paul Martin Goodison MBE is an English sailor.In March 2005, he was ranked 2nd in the world in the Laser, behind Robert Scheidt of Brazil, and ahead of Michael Blackburn of Australia and Mark Mendelblatt of the United States.He won the gold medal in the Men's Laser class at the 2008 Summer Olympics...
  
   – Laser – 4th place
• Simon Hiscocks
  Simon Hiscocks
  Simon Hiscocks is a British sailor who won a bronze medal for Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the mixed 49er. Hiscocks also won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the same category.-References:...
  
   – 49er Class – bronze medal
• Katherine Hopson – 470 Class – 7th place
• Leigh McMillan – Tornado Class – 13th place
• Steve Mitchell – Star Class – 13th place
• Iain Percy
  Iain Percy
  Iain Bryden Percy OBE is a British sailor and double Olympic champion.-Sailing competitions:Percy competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he won a gold medal in the Finn class...
  
   – Star Class – 13th place
• Shirley Robertson
  Shirley Robertson
  Shirley Ann Robertson, OBE is a Scottish sailor and Olympic gold medallist. She made it in the history books by becoming the first British woman to win two Olympic gold medals at consecutive games, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004....
  
   – Yngling Class – gold medal
• Nick Rogers – 470 Class – silver medal
• Natasha Sturges – Mistral Class
• Sarah Webb
  Sarah Webb
  Sarah Kathleen Webb Gosling OBE is a British professional sailor and two-time Olympic gold medalist.-Sailing career:...
  
   – Yngling Class – gold medal

Shooting

Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics

In shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 390 competitors from 106 nations contested 17 events . The competition took place at the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, located in the east of the Greek region of Attica....

• Michael Babb – 50 m Free Rifle Prone – 7th place
• Richard Brickell
  Richard Brickell
  Richard Brickell is a sport shooter who represented Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2010 commonwealth games in Delhi where he won both individual Gold and Bronze medals in the pairs event....
  
   – Skeet – 34th place
• Richard Faulds
  Richard Faulds
  Richard Bruce Faulds MBE , is an English sport shooter, who competed for Great Britain in the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the men's double trap....
  
   – Double Trap – 13th place
• Sarah Gibbins
  Sarah Gibbins
  Sarah Gibbins is a sport shooter who represented Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics....
  
   – Trap – 9th place
• Edward Ling
  Edward Ling
  Edward Ling is a sport shooter who represented Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics.At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens he participated in the men's trap event, finishing tied for 25th position....
  
   – Trap – 25th place
• Ian Peel
  Ian Peel
  Ian Peel is a sport shooter who has represented Great Britain in the Summer Olympic Games on three occasions....
  
   – Trap – 19th place

Swimming

Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Olympic Aquatic Centre with the athletes competing in 32 events. There was a total of 937 participants from 152 countries competing.-Medal table:-Men's events:...

• Kirsty Balfour
  Kirsty Balfour
  Kirsty Balfour is a Scottish breaststroke swimmer.She won gold in the 200 metres breaststroke at the European Long-Course Championships in 2006, and took silver in same event at the World Championships in Melbourne in 2007.She announced her retirement from swimming on 7 November 2008 stating she...
  
   – 200 m breaststroke – semifinal; 4×100 m team medley – final (excluded)
• Rosalind Brett
  Rosalind Brett
  Rosalind Brett is a former British swimmer.During her swimming career Brett represented Great Britain in numerous world and European championships in butterfly and freestyle over various distances, winning a handful of medals as part of relay teams...
  
  
• Simon Burnett
  Simon Burnett
  Simon Andrew Burnett is an English swimmer.He holds the British Records in the 100 and 200 metre freestyles, he trains at the USA's University of Arizona--where he attended—and in 2007 signed a sponsorship deal with Nike.-Career:...
  
   – 200 m freestyle – 7th place; 4×200 m freestyle relay – 4th place
• David Carry
  David Carry
  David Robert Carry is a Scottish swimmer of Faroese heritage. His specialism is freestyle, and he has represented Scotland at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games...
  
  
• Lisa Chapman – 4×100 m freestyle relay – 6th place
• Chris Cook – 200 m breaststroke – semifinal
• Rebecca Cooke
  Rebecca Cooke
  Rebecca Cooke is a former British freestyle swimmer.She has won medals at every major international championships with the exception of the Olympic Games. She retired from international competition in April 2008 after failing to make the British team for the 2008 Games in Beijing.-References:...
  
   – 400 m freestyle – 8th place; 800 m freestyle – 6th place
• Todd Cooper
  Todd Cooper
  Todd Alexander Cooper is a freestyle and butterfly swimmer from England, who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he finished in 22nd position in the 100 m butterfly...
  
   – 100 m butterfly – heats
• Ross Davenport
  Ross Davenport
  Ross Paul Davenport is a British swimmer. He won two gold medals in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne for the 200 m freestyle and the 4×200 m freestyle relay....
  
   – 4×200 m freestyle relay – 4th place
• David Davies
  David Davies (swimmer)
  David Davies is a Welsh Commonwealth Games and Olympic distance swimmer. Born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Davies swam for Wales at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games and represented Great Britain at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics...
  
   – 1500 m freestyle – bronze medal
• Ian Edmond
  Ian Edmond
  Ian Edmond is a former British breaststroke swimmer.Edmond was the silver medallist at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in the 200 m breaststroke...
  
   – 200 m breaststroke – semifinal (excluded)
• Kathryn Evans – 4×100 m freestyle relay – 6th place; 4×100 m team medley – final (excluded)
• Adam Faulkner – 400 m freestyle – heats
• Robin Francis
  Robin Francis
  Robin Francis is a former British International Swimmer. He was born on the 20th of April 1982 in Durban, South Africa.Francis is a two time European Championship Silver Medallist in the 400 m Individual Medley from 2001 and 2003. He also won the Silver medal at the 2004 World Championships in...
  
   – 200 m individual medley – semifinal; 400 m individual medley – heats
• James Gibson
  James Gibson (swimmer)
  James Gibson MBE is an English swimmer.Born in Chelmsford, Essex, and raised in Witham, Gibson's specialism is breaststroke and he competes in the 50 metre, 100 metre and 200 metre events. In 2003 he became world champion at 50 metres . He was 6th in the 100 metre event at the Athens Olympics in...
  
   – 100 m breaststroke – 6th place; 4×100 m team medley – 8th place
• James Goddard
  James Goddard
  James Francis Goddard is a British backstroke swimmer.Goddard represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley swimming events...
  
   – 200 m backstroke – 4th place
• James Hickman
  James Hickman
  James Hickman is a former swimmer from Great Britain, who became a world champion five times on the 200 m butterfly in short course , twice world record holder, Commonwealth Champion and four times European Champion. He announced his retirement from the sport in 2004...
  
   – 100 m butterfly – semifinal; 4×100 m team medley – 8th place
• Joanne Jackson
  Joanne Jackson (swimmer)
  Joanne Amy Jackson is a British freestyle swimmer. She is the sister of retired Olympic swimmer Nicola Jackson. She went to Richmond School, North Yorkshire....
  
   – 400 m freestyle – heats
• Matthew Kidd
  Matthew Kidd
  Matthew Kidd is a freestyle swimmer from Great Britain.Matthew competed in the 100 metre freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, finishing 23rd fastest overall. He combined with the British squad to place 8th in the 4×100 metre medley relay final in a time of 3 minutes 37.77 seconds...
  
   – 100 m freestyle – heats; 4×100 m team medley – 8th place
• Georgina Lee – 100 m butterfly – heats; 200 m butterfly – semifinal; 4×100 m team medley – final (excluded); 4×200 m freestyle relay – 5th place
• Karen Lee – 200 m backstroke – heats
• Karen Legg
  Karen Legg
  Karen Legg-Crumpler is a former British freestyle swimmer.During her seven year international career , she won four world, two European and seven Commonwealth medals. Legg also competed for Great Britain in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney in the women's 4×200 m freestyle...
  
  
• Melanie Marshall
  Melanie Marshall
  Melanie Marshall is a former British swimmer.Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, brought up in Wrangle and currently residing in Loughborough with her two dogs, Missy and Jetson, she is 1.7 m , 62 kg...
  
   – 100 m freestyle – heats (did not start); 200 m freestyle – semifinal; 4×100 m freestyle relay – 6th place; 4×200 m freestyle relay – 5th place
• Caitlin McClatchey
  Caitlin McClatchey
  Caitlin McClatchey is a Scottish swimmer. To date her greatest sporting achievement was winning two gold medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games....
  
   – 4×200 m freestyle relay – 5th place
• Gavin Meadows
  Gavin Meadows
  Gavin Meadows is a former international freestyle swimmer for England and Great Britain.Meadows competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics for Great Britain...
  
   – 4×200 m freestyle relay – 4th place
• Darren Mew
  Darren Mew
  Darren Mew is a British swimmer specialising in breaststroke. He is a member of Ellesmere College Titans and studied sport as a student at the University of Bath...
  
   – 100 m breaststroke – 7th place
• David O'Brien – 4×200 m freestyle relay – 4th place
• Stephen Parry
  Stephen Parry (swimmer)
  Stephen Benjamin Parry is a former British butterfly swimmer. He competed internationally in 100-metre and 200-metre butterfly distances....
  
   – 200 m butterfly – bronze medal
• Karen Pickering
  Karen Pickering
  Karen Pickering is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain, who made her international senior debut in 1986. She was first selected to represent her country at the European Junior Championships...
  
   – 4×100 m freestyle relay – 6th place; 4×200 m freestyle relay – 5th place
• Sarah Price
  Sarah Price
  This article is about the swimmer. For the filmmaker see Sarah Price Sarah Price is a former backstroke swimmer from the United Kingdom. She began her swimming career at the Potters Bar club, and turned professional aged fifteen. She set her first British record in 1997 in the 50 m backstroke...
  
   – 100 m backstroke – semifinal
• Katy Sexton
  Katy Sexton
  Katy Sexton MBE is a British swimmer.One of her most significant achievements was becoming the first British female swimmer to win gold at the 2003 World Championships in the 200 m backstroke...
  
   – 100 m backstroke – semifinal; 200 m backstroke – 7th place; 4×100 m team medley – final (excluded)
• Alison Sheppard
  Alison Sheppard
  Alison Sheppard MBE is a freestyle swimmer from Scotland, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics for Great Britain, starting in 1988.-Personal bests and records held:-External links:*...
  
   – 50 m freestyle – semifinal
• Ed Sinclair
• Graeme Smith
  Graeme Smith (swimmer)
  Graeme Smith is a former British freestyle swimmer.He won the bronze medal in the 1500 m freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Three years later, at the European Short Course Swimming Championships 1999 in Lisbon, he captured the golden medal in the same event...
  
   – 400 m freestyle – heats
• Gregor Tait
  Gregor Tait
  Gregor Tait is a Scottish swimmer. He was the Commonwealth Games 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley champion at the 2006 games in Melbourne....
  
   – 100 m backstroke – semifinal; 200 m backstroke – 7th place; 4×100 m team medley – 8th place
• Adrian Turner
  Adrian Turner
  Adrian Turner is an actor and former British Olympic swimmer, known also for winning silver and bronze medals representing England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games....
  
   – 200 m individual medley – semifinal; 400 m individual medley – heats

Taekwondo

Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics were held in the Sports Pavilion at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex where 124 competitors competed in eight events, four each for men and women....

• Sarah Bainbridge – 57-67 kilograms
• Craig Brown – 68-80 kilograms
• Paul Green – Under 58 kilograms
• Sarah Stevenson
  Sarah Stevenson
  Sarah Diana Stevenson is a British Taekwondo athlete from Bentley near Doncaster, England.Stevenson finished fourth on her Olympics debut in 2000 and after a judging error was reversed in the quarter-finals of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, she went on to win a Bronze medal, the first British...
  
   – Over 67 kilograms

Tennis

Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place on ten separate courts at the Olympic Tennis Centre. The surface was hardcourt, specifically DecoTurf....

Men's Singles:

• Tim Henman
  Tim Henman
  Timothy Henry "Tim" Henman OBE is a retired English professional tennis player and former British Number One. Henman played a serve-and-volley style of tennis that suited the grass courts of Wimbledon. He was the first player from the United Kingdom since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the...
  
   – 1st round

Triathlon

Triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, the triathlon events were held at the Vouliagmeni Olympic Centre. Fifty triathletes contested the female event on August 25, and the same number contested the male event on August 26, making up a total of 100 competitors....

Men's Triathlon:

• Andrew Johns
  Andrew Johns (triathlete)
  Andrew Johns is a male triathlete from the United Kingdom. Johns is a former European and World Cup Champion as well as a World Championship bronze medalist....
  
   – 16th place
• Tim Don
  Tim Don
  Timothy Philip Don is a triathlete from the United Kingdom.-Career:Don competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took tenth place with a total time of 1hr 49min 28.85sec. In the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics he was placed eighteenth with a...
  
   – 18th place
• Marc Jenkins
  Marc Jenkins
  Marc Jenkins is a Welsh triathlete from Bridgend.Jenkins competed at the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was the last man to finish, because of a collision during the cycling leg that left his bicycle unusable. Rather than quit, he ran the two remaining kilometers with...
  
   – 45th place

Women's Triathlon:

• Michelle Dillon
  Michelle Dillon
  Michelle Dillon is a British triathlete.Dillon's first Olympic triathlon was at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was one of the three British athletes, along with Sian Brice and Andrew Johns, not to finish the competition...
  
   – 6th place
• Julie Dibens
  Julie Dibens
  Julie Claire Dibens is a professional triathlete. She represented Great Britain in the 2004 Summer Olympics and has won the 2009 Ironman 70.3 World Championship as well as the XTERRA Triathlon World Champion in 2007, 2008, and 2009...
  
   – 30th place
• Jodie Swallow
  Jodie Swallow
  Jodie Swallow is a British triathlete from Loughborough, Leicestershire. She is the 2010 Ironman 70.3 champion as well as the winner of the 2009 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships. In 2004, she represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics competing in triathlon, placing...
  
   – 34th place

Weightlifting

Weightlifting at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, fifteen events in weightlifting were contested, in eight classes for men and seven for women. Competition was held in the Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall.-Doping:...

• Michaela Breeze
  Michaela Breeze
  Michaela Alica Breeze MBE is a British weightlifter. Breeze was born in Watford and raised in Cornwall and educated at Wadebridge School. She started weightlifting under the guidance of PE teacher Dave Allen...
  
   – 53-58 kilograms – 9th place
• Kamran Panjavi
  Kamran Panjavi
  Kamran Panjavi is a British-Iranian weightlifter.Born in Iran, he came to Britain in 1997 and waited several years for citizenship.At the 2003 World Weightlifting Championshipshe participated for Britain as soon as he obtained his citizenship....
  
  

Wrestling

Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall and was split into two disciplines, Freestyle and Greco-Roman which are further divided into different weight categories. Men competed in both disciplines whereas women only took part in the Freestyle event with 18...

• Nate Ackerman
  Nate Ackerman
  Nate Ackerman is a British-American wrestler. He is the son of Peter Ackerman.Ackerman competed in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games as part of the Great Britain National Team. He also competed in the 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005 World Championships...
  
   – 74 kilograms freestyle

Media coverage

The main rights to Olympic coverage in the UK are held by the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

, under the Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed & Designated Events. 2004 marked the first year that digital television

Digital television

Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...

 and webcast

Webcast

A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand...

s 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

Broadband

The term broadband refers to a telecommunications signal or device of greater bandwidth, in some sense, than another standard or usual signal or device . Different criteria for "broad" have been applied in different contexts and at different times...

 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) by Craig Doyle

Craig Doyle

Craig Doyle is an Irish television and radio presenter. To British viewers he is recognisable as working for the BBC and ITV...

, Clare Balding

Clare Balding

Clare Balding is a BBC sports presenter, journalist and jockey.-Early life:In 1989 and 1990, Balding was a leading amateur flat jockey and Champion Lady Rider in 1990....

, Suzi Perry

Suzi Perry

Suzi Perry is an English television presenter, best known for covering MotoGP for the BBC for 13 years and The Gadget Show.-Early life:...

, Sue Barker

Sue Barker

Susan Barker, MBE is an English television presenter and former professional tennis player. During her tennis career, she won the women's singles title at the French Open and reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3...

, Steve Rider

Steve Rider

Stephen Rider is an English sports presenter, and was the anchorman of ITV's football coverage, which included the Champions League, England Internationals, the FA Cup and the 2006 World Cup. He anchored ITV's Formula One coverage from 2006 to 2008, and football coverage from 2006 to April 2010...

, Hazel Irvine

Hazel Irvine

Hazel Irvine , is a television presenter from the United Kingdom.- Life and career :Educated at Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh, she achieved an M.A. in History of Art at the University of St. Andrews, and competed in golf, netball and athletics at university level. In her final year she was...

 and Steve Cram

Steve Cram

Stephen "Steve" Cram MBE is a British retired athlete. Along with fellow Britons Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, he was one of the world's dominant middle distance runners during the 1980s. Nicknamed "The Jarrow Arrow", Cram set world records in the 1500 metres, 2000 metres and the mile during a...

.
Expert analysts and commentators included Sharron Davies

Sharron Davies

Sharron Elizabeth Davies MBE is a retired swimmer from the United Kingdom. She won a silver medal in the 400 metre individual medley at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and two gold medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton...

, Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards (athlete)

Jonathan David Edwards, CBE, is a former British triple jumper. He is a former Olympic, Commonwealth, European and World champion, and has held the world record in the event since 1995....

, Sally Gunnell

Sally Gunnell

Sally Jane Janet Gunnell OBE is a former British Olympic champion in the 400 m hurdles...

, Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson (athlete)

Michael Duane Johnson is a retired American sprinter. He won four Olympic gold medals and eight world championship gold medals. Johnson currently holds the world and Olympic records in the 400 m and 4 x 400 meters relay. He formerly held the world and Olympic record in the 200 m, and the world...

, Colin Jackson

Colin Jackson

Colin Ray Jackson CBE is a British former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. Over his career representing Great Britain and Wales he won an Olympic silver medal, became world champion three times, went undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and...

, and Steve Redgrave

Steve Redgrave

Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave CBE is an English rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships gold medals...

.

Eurosport

Eurosport

Eurosport is a pan-European television sport network operated by French broadcaster TF1 Group. The network of channels are available in 59 countries, in 20 different languages providing viewers with European and international sporting events...

 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 by BBC Radio Five Live

BBC Radio Five Live

BBC Radio 5 Live is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries...

 and IRN, and the events were also covered by the sports pages of the major newspapers.

External links

• British Olympic Association – and their Team GB pages
• BBC Olympics news and coverage