August 2004 in Sports - August 14, 2004

August 14, 2004

• 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 1:
  • Cycling:
    • Men's Road Race: Paolo Bettini, ITA
  • Diving:
    • Women's Synchronized 3m Springboard: Minxia Wu and Jingjing Guo, CHN
    • Men's Synchronized 10 m Platform: Liang Tian and Jinghui Yang, CHN
  • Fencing
    • Men's Individual Sabre: Aldo Montano, ITA
  • Judo
    • Women's Under 48 kg: Ryoko Tani, JPN
    • Men's Under 60 kg: Tadahiro Nomura, JPN
  • Shooting:
    • Women's 10 m Air Rifle: Li Du, CHN
    • Men's 10 m Air Pistol: Wang Yifu, CHN
  • Swimming
    • Men's 400 m Individual Medley: Michael Phelps, USA
    • Men's 400 m Freestyle: Ian Thorpe, AUS
    • Women's 400 m Individual Medley: Yana Klochkova, UKR
    • Women's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay: Australia (Alice Mills, Libby Lenton, Petria Thomas, Jodie Henry)
  • Weightlifting
    • Women's 48 kg: Nurcan Taylan, TUR
• Rugby union: In the fifth match of the Tri Nations Series, held at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, the Springboks (South Africa), behind a three-try effort by Marius Joubert, defeat the All Blacks (New Zealand) 40–26. This ends the All Blacks' chances of defending their Tri Nations crown, and sets up a winner-take-all showdown on 21 August between the Boks and the Wallabies (Australia) in Durban. (BBC)