August 2004 in Sports - August 25, 2004

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
  • 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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