August 2004 in Sports - August 23, 2004

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