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August 2004 In Sports2004 in sports : June - July - August - September - October - November - December
See also: Other events in August 2004 - 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 15: (BBC)
- Athletics:
- Women's High Jump: Yelena Slesarenko, RUS
- Women's 1500 m: Kelly Holmes, GBR
- Men's Javelin: Andreas Thorkildsen, NOR
- Men's 800 m: Yuriy Borzakovskiy, RUS
- Men's 5000 m: Hicham El Guerrouj, MAR
- Men's 4x100 m Relay: Great Britain (Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis)
- Men's 4 x 400 m Relay: United States of America (Otis Harris, Derrick Brew, Jeremy Wariner, Darold Williamson)
- Women's 4 x 400 m Relay: United States of America (DeeDee Trotter, Monique Henderson, Sanya Richards, Monique Hennagan)
- Basketball:
- Boxing:
- Canoeing:
- Cycling:
- Diving:
- Football:
- Gymnastics:
- Women's Group Rhythmic: Russia
- Sailing:
- Taekwondo:
- Volleyball:
- Wrestling:
- 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 14: (BBC)
- Athletics:
- Women's 10,000 m: Huina Xing, CHN
- Men's 100 m Hurdles: Xiang Liu, CHN
- Women's 4x100 m Relay: Jamaica (Tayna Lawrence, Sherone Simpson, Aleen Bailey, Veronica Campbell)
- Men's 50 km Race Walk: Robert Korzeniowski, POL
- Women's Javelin Throw: Osleidys Menendez, CUB
- Women's Long Jump: Tatyana Lebedeva, RUS
- Men's Pole Vault: Timothy Mack, USA
- Canoeing:
- Men's C-1 1000 m: David Cal, ESP
- Men's C-2 1000 m: Germany (Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek)
- Men's K-1 1000 m: Eirik Veraas Larsen, NOR
- Men's K-2 1000 m: Sweden (Markus Oscarsson, Henrik Nilsson)
- Men's K-4 1000 m: Hungary (Zoltan Kammerer, Botond Storcz, Akos Vereckei, Gabor Horvath)
- Women's K-4 500 m: Germany (Birgit Fischer, Maike Nollen, Katrin Wagner, Carolin Leonhardt)
- Cycling:
- Equestrian:
- Hockey:
- Modern Pentathlon:
- Synchronized Swimming:
- Taekwondo:
- UEFA Champions League 2004-05 Third qualifying round, second leg. Teams progressing to the group stage in bold:
- 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 9: (BBC)
- Athletics:
- Cycling:
- Diving:
- Fencing:
- Gymnastics:
- Rowing:
- Men's Lightweight Coxless Four: Denmark (Thor Kristensen, Thomas Ebert, Stephan Moelvig, Eskild Ebbesen)
- Men's Coxless Quadruple Sculls: Russia (Nikolai Spinev, Igor Kravtsov, Alekseij Svirin, Sergej Fedorovtsev)
- Women's Coxless Quadruple Sculls: Germany (Kathrin Boron, Meike Evers, Manuela Lutze, Kerstin El Qalqili)
- Men's Eight: United States of America (Jason Read, Wyatt Allen, Chris Ahrens, Joseph Hansen, Matt Deakin, Dan Beery, Beau Hoopman, Bryan Volpenhein, Pete Cipollone)
- Women's Eight: Romania (Rodica Florea, Viorica Susanu, Aurica Barascu, Ioana Papuc, Liliana Gafencu, Elisabeta Lipa, Georgeta Damian, Doina Ignat, Elena Georgescu)
- Men's Lightweight Double Sculls: Poland (Tomasz Kucharski, Robert Sycz)
- Women's Lightweight Double Sculls: Romania (Constanta Burcica, Angela Alupei)
- Sailing:
- Shooting:
- Table Tennis:
- Tennis:
- NASCAR Nextel Cup: Greg Biffle wins the GFS Marketplace 400 in Brooklyn, MI for his second career Nextel Cup victory. Biffle leads nearly half of the laps in a car featuring a special Justice League paint scheme. (ESPN.com)
- 2004 Summer Olympics:
- Athletics: Konstantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, who missed a mandatory drugs test last Thursday, withdraw from the games after an IOC disciplinary hearing – even though the IOC chose not to take any action against them. A meeting of the IAAF on August 26 will consider whether a doping offence has been committed. (BBC)
- Equestrian: Bettina Hoy of Germany crosses the start line twice, and is awarded penalty points. After an appeal, the points are removed. This gives Hoy the gold medal in the individual event, and Germany gold in the team event, overturned on appeal (see August 21).
- Gold medal winners on day 5: (BBC)
- Ice hockey: Ivan Hlinka, head coach of the Czech team, dies after being injured in a car crash, days before training camp opens for the 2004 World Cup of Hockey. (CBC news)
- Test cricket: England beat the West Indies by seven wickets at Old Trafford in the third Test, securing the series. England's last-innings total of 231 is a record winning score in Old Trafford Tests. (BBC)
- 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 3:
- Baseball: Chipper Jones of the Atlanta Braves hits his 300th career home run in a 5-4 victory over the San Diego Padres. AtlantaBraves.com
- Softball: Ninotska Amaro, her sister Alizabeth and Joselyn Steider combine to throw a perfect game, as team Puerto Rico beats the Red Mountain team from Mesa, Arizona, as part of the Senior League Softball World Series.
- Boxing: Former world Bantamweight champion Robert Quiroga, 35, is found murdered in his hometown of San Antonio, Texas.
- NFL: The Dallas Cowboys release quarterback Quincy Carter, who started all 16 games for the team last year. (NY Times) ESPN has reported that Carter tested positive for an illegal substance just before his release, and that he was in the NFL's substance abuse program.
- Baseball: The New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics, 8-6, with an eleventh inning home run hit by Alex Rodriguez, in a nationally televised game. (ESPN)
- Basketball: A three-pointer by Allen Iverson from near half-court with less than a second to go lifts the Dream Team 80-77 over Germany in a friendly game held in Cologne. German NBA superstar Dirk Nowitzki, who had tied the game with a three-pointer of his own seconds before Iverson's shot, led all scorers with 32 points. (ESPN)
- In a blockbuster trade, the Atlanta Hawks trade Jason Terry, Alan Henderson and a future first round draft pick to the Dallas Mavericks for Antoine Walker and Tony Delk. (ESPN)
- The Detroit Pistons trade center Corliss Williamson to the Philadelphia 76ers for Derrick Coleman and Amal McCaskill. (ESPN)
- UEFA Champions League 2004-05 Second qualifying round, second leg (team progressing to next round in bold):
Past sports events by month 2004 in sports: June July (for earlier sports events, see May 2004 and preceding months)
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