August 25, 2004
- 2004 Summer Olympics: Gold medal winners on day 12: (BBC)
- Athletics:
- Women's 200 m: Veronica Campbell, JAM
- Women's 400 m Hurdles: Fani Halkia, GRE
- Women's Hammer Throw: Olga Kuzenkova, RUS
- Baseball:
- Men: Cuba
- Beach Volleyball:
- Men: Ricardo Alex Santos and Emanuel Rego, BRA
- Cycling:
- Men's Keirin: Ryan Bayley, AUS
- Men's Madison: Graeme Brown and Stuart O'Grady, AUS
- Women's Points Race: Olga Slyusareva, RUS
- Equestrian:
- Mixed Individual Dressage: Anky van Grunsven – Salinero, NED
- Sailing:
- Men's Windsurfing Mistral: Gal Fridman, ISR
- Women's Windsurfing Mistral: Faustine Merret, FRA
- Synchronized Swimming:
- Women's Duet: Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova, RUS
- Triathlon:
- Women's Individual: Kate Allen, AUT
- Weightlifting:
- Men's Over 105 kg: Hossein Reza Zadeh, IRN
- Wrestling:
- Men's Greco-Roman Under 55 kg: Istvan Majoros, HUN
- Men's Greco-Roman 60–66 kg: Farid Mansurov, AZE
- Men's Greco-Roman 74–84 kg: Alexei Michine, RUS
- Athletics:
- FA Premier League: Arsenal beat Blackburn Rovers 3–0 to set a new record of 43 consecutive league matches without defeat. Nottingham Forest's previous record stood for 26 years. (BBC)
- UEFA Champions League 2004–05 Third qualifying round, second leg. Teams progressing to the group stage in bold:
- Trabzonspor 0 – 2 Dynamo Kyiv
- Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC 1 – 0 PAOK FC
- Rangers F.C. 1 – 1 PFC CSKA Moskva
- AC Sparta Praha 2 – 0 Ferencváros (aet)
- Manchester United F.C. 3 – 0 F.C. Dinamo Bucureşti
- Club Brugge KV 2 – 2 FC Shakhtar Donetsk
- PSV Eindhoven 5 – 0 FK Crvena Zvezda
- FC Baník Ostrava 2 – 1 Bayer Leverkusen
- Djurgårdens IF 1 – 4 Juventus
- Real Madrid 3 – 1 Wisła Kraków (UEFA.com)
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