2004 in the sport of athletics
This article contains an overview of the sport of athletics, including track and field, cross country and road running, in the year 2004. The major competition of the year was the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the event, Yelena Isinbayeva cleared a world record 4.91 m in the pole vault. Liu Xiang won the men's 110 metres hurdles with a world record-equalling time of 12.91 seconds, defying traditional beliefs about the physical calibre of Chinese (and Asian) sprint athletes. Hicham El Guerrouj capped off his prominent international career with two gold medals in the 1500 m and 5000 m. The Olympic competition in Athens was marred by an incident involving Greek Olympic medallists Konstantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, who were alleged to have staged a motorcycle crash in order to avoid doping
10,000 metres100 metres100 metres hurdles1500 metres2003 in the sport of athletics2004_African_Championships_in_Athletics2004 German Athletics Championships2004 Hypo-Meeting2004_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships2004 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships2004 Lithuanian Athletics Championships2004 South American Cross Country Championships2004 in athletics (track and field)2004 in hammer throw2004 in running2004 in the decathlon2004 in track and field2005 in the sport of athletics3000 metres400 metres5000 metres800 metresAthletics_at_the_2004_South_Asian_GamesBest Female Track Athlete ESPY AwardBest Male Track Athlete ESPY AwardBrenda Taylor (hurdler)Discus throwEuropean Athlete of the Year TrophyHypo-MeetingMobile phone throwingRobert Kipkoech CheruiyotShot putTom PappasTrack & Field News Athlete of the YearTwin Cities MarathonValerie AdamsWorld Athlete of the YearWorld Athletics Half Marathon Championships
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
primaryTopic
2004 in the sport of athletics
This article contains an overview of the sport of athletics, including track and field, cross country and road running, in the year 2004. The major competition of the year was the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the event, Yelena Isinbayeva cleared a world record 4.91 m in the pole vault. Liu Xiang won the men's 110 metres hurdles with a world record-equalling time of 12.91 seconds, defying traditional beliefs about the physical calibre of Chinese (and Asian) sprint athletes. Hicham El Guerrouj capped off his prominent international career with two gold medals in the 1500 m and 5000 m. The Olympic competition in Athens was marred by an incident involving Greek Olympic medallists Konstantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, who were alleged to have staged a motorcycle crash in order to avoid doping
has abstract
Chronologie de l'athlétisme Les faits marquants de l'année 2004 en athlétisme
@fr
This article contains an overv ...... or missing three doping tests.
@en
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
Wikipage page ID
10,947,108
page length (characters) of wiki page
Wikipage revision ID
965,493,978
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
bot
InternetArchiveBot
@en
caption
Hurdler Liu Xiang became Olympic champion and world record holder in 2004.
@en
date
May 2020
@en
fix-attempted
yes
@en
IAAF Athletes of the Year
imagesize
Major world competitions
No. of world records
previous
title
wikiPageUsesTemplate
comment
Chronologie de l'athlétisme Les faits marquants de l'année 2004 en athlétisme
@fr
This article contains an overv ...... crash in order to avoid doping
@en
label
2004 en athlétisme
@fr
2004 in the sport of athletics
@en