August 2004 in Sports - August 21, 2004

August 21, 2004

• 2004 Summer Olympics:
  • Rowing: Matthew Pinsent wins his fourth gold in consecutive Olympics in the men's coxless four. Pinsent, Ed Coode, James Cracknell and Steve Williams hold off the Canadian world champions to win by 0.08s. (BBC)
  • Equestrian: After an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport by Great Britain, France and the United States, the results of the Mixed Individual and Mixed Team competitions are changed. Penalty points awarded to Bettina Hoy of Germany for crossing the start gate twice, then removed on appeal (giving Hoy the individual gold and Germany the team gold), are reinstated. Leslie Law (GBR) is awarded the individual gold, and France the team gold. (BBC)
  • Gold medal winners on day 8: (BBC)
    • Archery:
      • Men's Team (70 m): Korea (Dong Hyun Im, Yong Ho Jang, Kyung Mo Park)
    • Athletics:
      • Women's 100 m: Yulia Nestsiarenka, BLR
      • Women's Discus: Natalya Sadova, RUS
      • Women's Heptathlon: Carolina Klüft, SWE
    • Badminton:
      • Women's Doubles: Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei, CHN
      • Men's Singles: Taufik Hidayat, INA
    • Cycling:
      • Men's Individual Pursuit: Bradley Wiggins, GBR
      • Men's Team Sprint: Germany (Jens Fiedler, Stefan Nimke, René Wolff)
    • Equestrian:
      • Dressage Mixed Team: Germany (Ulla Salzgeber – Rusty, Martin Schaudt – Weltall, Hubertus Schmidt – Wansuela Suerte, Heike Kemmer – Bonaparte)
    • Fencing:
      • Men's Team Foil: Italy (Simone Vanni, Salvatore Sanzo, Andrea Cassara)
    • Gymnastics:
      • Men's Individual Trampoline: Yuri Nikitin, UKR
    • Rowing:
      • Men's Coxless Four: Great Britain (Steve Williams, James Cracknell, Ed Coode, Matthew Pinsent)
      • Men's Coxless Pair: Australia (Drew Ginn, James Tomkins)
      • Women's Coxless Pair: Romania (Georgeta Damian, Viorica Susanu)
      • Men's Double Sculls: France (Sébastien Vieilledent, Adrien Hardy)
      • Women's Double Sculls: New Zealand (Georgina Evers-Swindell, Caroline Evers-Swindell)
      • Men's Single Sculls: Olaf Tufte, NOR
      • Women's Single Sculls: Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski, GER
    • Sailing:
      • Men's 470: United States (Paul Foerster, Kevin Burnham)
      • Women's 470: Greece (Sofia Bekatorou, Aimilia Tsoulfa)
      • Men's Finn: Ben Ainslie, GBR
      • Women's Yngling: Great Britain (Shirley Robertson, Sarah Webb, Sarah Ayton)
    • Shooting:
      • Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol: Ralf Schumann, GER
    • Swimming:
      • Men's 1500 m Freestyle: Grant Hackett, AUS
      • Men's 4x100 m Medley Relay: United States (Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Ian Crocker, Jason Lezak)
      • Women's 4x100 m Medley Relay: Australia (Giaan Rooney, Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas, Jodie Henry)
      • Women's 50 m Freestyle: Inge de Bruijn, NED
    • Table Tennis:
      • Men's Doubles: Qi Chen and Lin Ma, CHN
    • Tennis:
      • Women's Singles: Justine Henin-Hardenne, BEL
      • Men's Doubles: Fernando González and Nicolás Massú, CHI
    • Weightlifting:
      • Men's 77–85 kg: George Asanidze, GEO
      • Women's Over 75 kg: Tang Gonghong, CHN

• Test cricket: England beat the West Indies by ten wickets in the fourth and final Test match, at The Oval. England have now won seven consecutive Test matches, a feat they haven't achieved for 75 years. (BBC)
• Rugby union: In the final match of the Tri Nations Series held in Durban, the Springboks (South Africa) hold off a late charge by the Wallabies (Australia) to win 23–19, winning the Tri Nations for the first time since 1998.