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Olympic Games 2004 - Athens

The men's marathon took place on August 29, 2004. The streets of Athens were recently painted for the event, which provided an excellent condition of the road surface for the athletes, along with the excellent climate of that day. The event was marked by an incident in which an Irish protester pushed Vanderlei de Lima into the crowd while de Lima was leading the marathon on the last 10 kilometers. De Lima lost about 15 to 20 seconds of his running time because of the interruption, and finished third in the event with a time of 2:12:11 — winning the bronze medal (Vanderlei de Lima was awarded the special Pierre de Coubertin medal for sportsmanship in addition to his bronze). The protester had a sign on his back that read "The Grand Prix Priest. Israel Fulfilment of Prophecy Says The Bible. The Second Coming is Near". This incident had been preceded by a dog also interfering with the race; the dog, which escaped from the crowd and got in front of de Lima, was quickly subdued by two larger, security dogs and run off the field.

Results
1°	Stefano	Baldini	Italy	2:10:55
2°	Mebrahtom	Keflezighi	United States of America	2:11:29
3°	Vanderlei	de Lima	Brazil	2:12:11
4°	Jon	Brown	Great Britain	2:12:26
5°	Shigeru	Aburaya	Japan	2:13:11
6°	Toshinari	Suwa	Japan	2:13:24
7°	Erick	Wainaina	Kenya	2:13:30
8°	Alberto	Chaica	Portugal	2:14:17
9°	Alberico	di Cecco	Italy	2:14:34
10°	Paul	Tergat	Kenya	2:14:45
11°	Jaouad	Gharib	Morocco	2:15:12
12°	Alan	Culpepper	United States of America	2:15:26
13°	Leonid	Shvetsov	Russia	2:15:28
14°	Lee	Bong-Ju	South Korea	2:15:33
15°	Ambesse	Tolosa	Ethiopia	2:15:39
16°	Gert	Thys	South Africa	2:16:08
17°	Ji	Young-Joon	South Korea	2:16:14
18°	Antoni	Pena	Spain	2:16:38
19°	Georgiy	Andreyev	Russia	2:16:55
20°	Haile	Satayin	Israel	2:17:25
21°	Jonathan	Wyatt	New Zealand	2:17:45
22°	Janne	Holmén	Finland	2:17:50
23°	Dan	Robinson	Great Britain	2:17:53
24°	Nikolaos	Polias	Greece	2:17:56
25°	Ndabili	Bashingili	Botswana	2:18:09
26°	Pavel	Loskutov	Estonia	2:18:09
27°	José	Rios	Spain	2:18:40
28°	Lee	Troop	Australia	2:18:46
29°	Michael	Buchleitner	Austria	2:19:19
30°	Anuradha	Cooray	Sri Lanka	2:19:24
31°	Li	Zhuhong	China	2:19:26
32°	Joachim	Nshimirimana	Burundi	2:19:31
33°	Dale	Warrender	New Zealand	2:19:42
34°	Waldemar	Glinka	Poland	2:19:43
35°	Jong	Myong-Chol	North Korea	2:19:47
36°	El Hassan	Lahssini	France	2:19:50
37°	Michal	Bartoszak	Poland	2:20:20
38°	Ahmed Jumaa	Jaber	Qatar	2:20:27
39°	Ali Mabrouk	El Zaidi	Libya	2:20:31
40°	Samson	Ramadhani	Tanzania	2:20:38
41°	Lee	Myong-Seun	South Korea	2:21:01
42°	Tomoaki	Kunichika	Japan	2:21:13
43°	Jose Alirio	Carrasco	Colombia	2:21:14
44°	Ernest	Ndjissipou	Central African Republic	2:21:23
45°	Nicholas	Harrison	Australia	2:21:42
46°	Tereje	Wodajo	Ethiopia	2:21:53
47°	Aguelmis	Rojas	Cuba	2:21:59
48°	Abel	Chimukoko	Zimbabwe	2:22:09
49°	Said	Belhout	Algeria	2:22:32
50°	Matthew	O'Dowd	Great Britain	2:22:37
51°	Juan Carlos	Cardona	Colombia	2:22:49
52°	Daniele	Caimmi	Italy	2:23:07
53°	João	N'Tyamba	Angola	2:23:26
54°	Roman	Kejžar	Slovenia	2:23:34
55°	Procopio	Franco	Mexico	2:23:34
56°	Wu	Wen-Chien	Chinese Taipei	2:23:54
57°	Antoni	Bernadó	Andorra	2:23:55
58°	Julio	Rey	Spain	2:24:54
59°	Asaf	Bimro	Israel	2:25:20
60°	Sisay	Bezabeh	Australia	2:25:26
61°	Silvio	Guerra	Ecuador	2:25:29
62°	Mathias	Ntawulikura	Rwanda	2:26:05
63°	Robert	Stefko	Czech Republic	2:27:12
64°	José Amado	García	Guatemala	2:27:13
65°	Daniel	Browne	United States of America	2:27:17
66°	Hang	Gang	China	2:27:31
67°	Eduardo	Buenavista	Philippines	2:28:18
68°	Driss	El Himer	France	2:29:07
69°	Andrés	Espinosa	Mexico	2:29:43
70°	Mpesela	Ntlot Soeu	Lesotho	2:30:19
71°	Franklin	Tenorio	Ecuador	2:31:12
72°	Jose Ernani	Palalia	Mexico	2:31:41
73°	Dmitriy	Burmakin	Russia	2:31:51
74°	Mindaugas	Pukstas	Lithuania	2:33:02
75°	Ser-Od	Bat-Ochir	Mongolia	2:33:24
76°	Ronghua	Zhu	China	2:34:02
77°	Alfredo	Arévalo	Guatemala	2:34:02
78°	Antonio Carlos	Zeferino	Cape Verde	2:36:22
79°	Valery	Pisarev	Kyrgyzstan	2:40:10
80°	Zepherinus	Joseph	Saint Lucia	2:44:19
81°	Marcel	Matanin	Slovakia	2:50:26
Did not finish
DNF	Mustapha	Bennacer	Algeria
DNF	Rachid	Ziar	Algeria
DNF	Al Mustafa	Riyadh	Bahrain
DNF	Azat	Rakipov	Belarus
DNF	Andre Luiz	Ramos	Brazil
DNF	Romulo	Silva	Brazil
DNF	Jean Paul	Gahimbare	Burundi
DNF	Hailu	Negussie	Ethiopia
DNF	Jussi	Utriainen	Finland
DNF	Zsolt	Bacskai	Hungary
DNF	Khalid	El Boumlili	Morocco
DNF	Rachid	Ghanmouni	Morocco
DNF	Hendrick	Ramaala	South Africa
DNF	Ian	Syster	South Africa
DNF	Viktor	Röthlin	Switzerland
DNF	Amnaay Zebedayo	Bayo	Tanzania
DNF	John	Nada Saya	Tanzania
DNF	Gil	da Cruz Trindade	Timor-Leste
DNF	Dmytro	Baranovskyy	Ukraine
DNF	Luis	Fonseca	Venezuela
Did not start
DNS	Luc	Krotwaar	Netherlands
Disqualified

The Women's marathon event at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in August 22, 2004. World record holder Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain started as favourite for the race, and led from the start. However, she was overtaken by Mizuki Noguchi from Japan and Catherine Ndereba of Kenya. After dropping to fourth place, she retired citing pre-race nutrition problems and illness for her disappointing performance. Deena Kastor of the United States ran a conservative race to come through for a bronze.

Results
1°	Mizuki	Noguchi	Japan	2:26:20
2°	Catherine	Ndereba	Kenya	2:26:32
3°	Deena	Kastor	United States of America	2:27:20
4°	Elfenesh	Alemu	Ethiopia	2:28:15
5°	Reiko	Tosa	Japan	2:28:44
6°	Olivera	Jevtic	Serbia and Montenegro	2:31:15
7°	Naoko	Sakamoto	Japan	2:31:43
8°	Lyudmila	Petrova	Russia	2:31:56
9°	Svetlana	Zakharova	Russia	2:32:04
10°	Bruna	Genovese	Italy	2:32:50
11°	Alice	Chelangat	Kenya	2:33:52
12°	Zhang	Shujing	China	2:34:34
13°	Nuta	Olaru	Romania	2:34:45
14°	Zivile	Balciunaite	Lithuania	2:35:01
15°	Corinne	Raux	France	2:35:54
16°	Rosaria	Console	Italy	2:35:56
17°	Malgorzata	Sobanska	Poland	2:36:43
18°	Luminita	Zaituc	Germany	2:36:45
19°	Lee	Eun-Jung	South Korea	2:37:23
20°	Constantina	Tomescu	Romania	2:37:31
21°	Jong	Yong-Ok	North Korea	2:37:52
22°	Li	Helan	China	2:37:53
23°	Chung	Yun-Hee	South Korea	2:38:57
24°	Stine	Larsen	Norway	2:39:55
25°	Liz	Yelling	Great Britain	2:40:13
26°	Maria	Abel	Spain	2:40:13
27°	Hafida	Izem	Morocco	2:40:46
28°	Anna	Pichrtova	Czech Republic	2:40:58
29°	Tracey	Morris	Great Britain	2:41:00
30°	Kenza	Wahbi	Morocco	2:41:36
31°	Kerryn	McCann	Australia	2:41:41
32°	Beatriz	Ros	Spain	2:41:51
33°	Zhou	Chunxiu	China	2:42:54
34°	Jennifer	Rhines	United States of America	2:43:52
35°	Choi	Kyung-Hee	South Korea	2:44:05
36°	Sandra	Ruales	Ecuador	2:44:28
37°	Maria Dolores	Pulido	Spain	2:44:33
38°	Margarita	Tapia	Mexico	2:46:14
39°	Colleen	De Reuck	United States of America	2:46:30
40°	Albina	Ivanova	Russia	2:47:23
41°	Grazyna	Syrek	Poland	2:47:26
42°	Nili	Avramski	Israel	2:48:08
43°	Clarisse	Rasoarizay	Madagascar	2:48:14
44°	Jane	Salumäe	Estonia	2:48:47
45°	Simona	Staicu	Hungary	2:48:57
46°	Angelica	Sanchez	Mexico	2:49:04
47°	Helena	Sampaio	Portugal	2:49:18
48°	Beata	Rakonczai	Hungary	2:49:41
49°	Annemette	Jensen	Denmark	2:50:01
50°	Yeoryia	Abatzidou	Greece	2:50:01
51°	Liza	Hunter-Galvan	New Zealand	2:50:23
52°	Hafida	Gadi	France	2:50:29
53°	Gulsara	Dadabayeva	Tajikistan	2:50:45
54°	Epiphanie	Nyirabarame	Rwanda	2:52:50
55°	Sandra	Torres	Argentina	2:54:48
56°	Jo	Bun-Hui	North Korea	2:55:54
57°	Hsu	Yu-Fang	Chinese Taipei	2:55:58
58°	Érika	Olivera	Chile	2:57:14
59°	Mariela	Gonzalez	Cuba	3:02:20
60°	Ida	Kovacs	Hungary	3:03:21
61°	Svetlana	Tkach-Shepeleva	Moldova	3:03:29
62°	Ana	Dias	Portugal	3:08:11
63°	Inga	Juodeskiene	Lithuania	3:09:18
64°	Mamokete	Lechela	Lesotho	3:11:56
65°	Agueda	Amaral	Timor-Leste	3:18:25
66°	Otgonbayar	Luvsanlkhündegiin	Mongolia	3:48:42
Did not finish
DNF	Nasria	Azaidj	Algeria
DNF	Nadia	Ejjafini	Bahrain
DNF	Marlene	Fortunato	Brazil
DNF	Márcia	Narloch	Brazil
DNF	Asha	Gigi	Ethiopia
DNF	Workenesh	Tola	Ethiopia
DNF	Rakiya	Maraoui Quetier	France
DNF	Ulrike	Maisch	Germany
DNF	Paula	Radcliffe	Great Britain
DNF	Margaret	Okayo	Kenya
DNF	Irina	Bogachova	Kyrgyzstan
DNF	Ham	Bong-Sil	North Korea
DNF	Monika	Drybulska	Poland
DNF	Lidia	Simon	Romania
DNF	Banuelia	Mrashani	Tanzania
DNF	Lale	Ozturk	Turkey
Did not start
Disqualified

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Results 2004

MEN MARATHON
2:10:55
Stefano Baldini
(Italy)

WOMEN MARATHON
2:26:20
Mizuki Noguchi
(Japan)

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