August 2004 in Sports - August 22, 2004

August 22, 2004

• 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 9: (BBC)
  • Athletics:
    • Men's 100 m: Justin Gatlin, USA
    • Men's Hammer Throw: Adrián Annus, HUN
    • Men's High Jump: Stefan Holm, SWE
    • Men's Triple Jump: Christian Olsson, SWE
    • Women's Marathon: Mizuki Noguchi, JPN
  • Cycling:
    • Women's Individual Pursuit 3000 m: Sarah Ulmer, NZL
  • Diving:
    • Women's 10 m Platform: Chantelle Newbery, AUS
  • Fencing:
    • Men's Team Épée: France (Hugues Obry, Érik Boisse, Fabrice Jeannet, Jérôme Jeannet)
  • Gymnastics:
    • Women's Asymmetric Bars: Émilie Lepennec, FRA
    • Men's Floor Exercise: Kyle Shewfelt, CAN
    • Women's Horse Vault: Monica Roşu, ROM
    • Men's Pommel Horse: Haibin Teng, CHN
    • Men's Rings: Dimosthenis Tampakos, GRE
  • 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 (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 Lipă, Georgeta Damian, Doina Ignat, Elena Georgescu)
    • Men's Lightweight Double Sculls: Poland (Tomasz Kucharski, Robert Sycz)
    • Women's Lightweight Double Sculls: Romania (Constanţa Burcică, Angela Alupei)
  • Sailing:
    • Women's Europe: Siren Sundby, NOR
    • Mixed Laser: Robert Scheidt, BRA
  • Shooting:
    • Men's 50 m Free Rifle 3 Positions: Zhanbo Jia, CHN
    • Men's Skeet: Andrea Benelli, ITA
  • Table Tennis:
    • Women's Singles: Zhang Yining, CHN
  • Tennis:
    • Men's Singles: Nicolás Massú, CHI
    • Women's Doubles: Li Ting and Sun Tiantian, CHN
• NASCAR Nextel Cup: Greg Biffle wins the GFS Marketplace 400 in Brooklyn, Michigan 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)