Belarus at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Belarus competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Before gaining independence many Belarusian athletes competed for the USSR team: Vitaly Scherbo is a 6-times Olympic champion, Nellie Kim is five times Olympic champion, Olga Korbut, Olga Belova, Viktar Sidziak are 4-times Olympic champions, Uladzimir Parfianovich, Svetlana Boguinskaya are 3-times Olympic champions.

Medalists

The Belarus national team won 15 medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens: 2 gold, 6 silver, and 7 bronze. By comparison, in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney Belarus won 17 medals (3 gold, 3 silver, 11 bronze), and in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, won 15 medals (1 gold, 6 silver, and 8 bronze).

Gold

• Athletics - Women's 100 m Yulia Nestsiarenka
• Judo - Men's - 100 kg Ihar Makarau

Silver

• Athletics - Men's Hammer Throw Ivan Tikhon
• Boxing - Men's Light Heavy (81 kg) Magomed Aripagadjiev
• Boxing - Men's Heavy (91 kg) Viktar Zuyev
• Rowing - Women's Single Sculls Ekaterina Karsten
• Weightlifling - Men's 85 kg Andrei Rybakou
• Weightlifling - Women's 63 kg Hanna Batsiushka

Bronze

• Athletics - Women's Discus Throw Irina...... ...
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