August 23, 2004
- 2004 Summer Olympics:
- Athletics: Shot put winner Irina Korzhanenko (RUS) fails a drug test and is stripped of her gold medal. The Olympic title goes to Yumileidi Cumba (CUB) instead. (BBC)
- Gold medal winners on day 10: (BBC)
- Athletics:
- Women's 20 km Race Walk: Athanasia Tsoumeleka, GRE
- Men's 400 m: Jeremy Wariner, USA
- Women's 5000 m: Meseret Defar, ETH
- Women's 800 m: Kelly Holmes, GBR
- Men's Discus: Virgilijus Alekna, LTU (revised result: see August 24)
- Women's Triple Jump: Françoise Mbango Etone, CMR
- Cycling:
- Men's Team Pursuit 400 m: Australia (Graeme Brown, Brett Lancaster, Brad McGee, Luke Roberts)
- Gymnastics:
- Women's Balance Beam: Cătălina Ponor, ROM
- Women's Floor Exercise: Cătălina Ponor, ROM
- Men's Horizontal Bar: Igor Cassina, ITA
- Men's Horse Vault: Gervasio Deferr, ESP
- Men's Parallel Bars: Valeri Goncharov, UKR
- Table Tennis:
- Men's Singles: Seung Min Ryu, KOR
- Weightlifting:
- Men's 85–94 kg: Milen Dobrev, BUL
- Wrestling:
- Women's Freestyle Under 48 kg: Irini Merleni, UKR
- Women's Freestyle 48–55 kg: Saori Yoshida, JPN
- Women's Freestyle 55–63 kg: Kaori Icho, JPN
- Women's Freestyle 63–72 kg: Xu Wang, CHN
- Athletics:
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