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2004 Summer Olympics medal table

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Field	Value
name	2004 Summer Olympics medals
award2_type	Most total medals
award2_winner	USA
award1_type	Most gold medals
award1_winner	USA
award3_type	Medalling NOCs
award3_winner	74
previous	[2000](2000-summer-olympics-medal-table)
main	Olympics medal tables
next	[2008](2008-summer-olympics-medal-table)
location	Athens, GRE

The 2004 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Athens, the capital city of Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. A total of 10,625 athletes from a record 201 countries represented by National Olympic Committees (NOC) participated in these games. The games featured featured 301 events in 28 sports and 39 disciplines, including the Olympic debuts of women's wrestling and women's sabre. It was the second time after 1896 that Athens had hosted the Summer Olympics in the modern era.

Athletes from 74 countries won at least one medal and 56 of them won at least one gold medal. The United States led the medal table both in number of gold medals won and in overall medals, winning 36 and 101 respectively. It was the third consecutive Summer Olympic Games that the United States led the medal count in both gold and overall medals. The United Arab Emirates, Paraguay and Eritrea won their first ever Olympic medals. Israel, Chile, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Chinese Taipei and the United Arab Emirates won their first Olympic gold medals. American swimmer Michael Phelps won the most gold medals among individual participants with six and the most total medals with eight (six gold and two bronze), equalling the record held by Soviet gymnast Alexander Dityatin in 1980 for the most medals won at an Olympic Games.

During and after the Games, some athletes who were caught doping, or tested positive for banned substances, were disqualified from competition and had their medals rescinded.

TOC

Medal table

The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.

Events in boxing result in a bronze medal being awarded to each of the two competitors who lose their semi-final matches, as opposed to fighting in a third place tie breaker. Another combat sport, judo, uses a repechage system which also results in two bronze medals being awarded. In the women's 200 metre backstroke, there were ties for third place which resulted in two bronze medals being awarded.

;Key Changes in medal standings (see below) Please DO NOT bold highest medal counts. The table is sortable so bolding is redundant and unnecessary. Thanks.

Changes in medal standings

Ruling date	Event	Athlete (NOC)	Net change	Comment	Changes during the Games	20 August 2004	23 August 2004	24 August 2004
Weightlifting, Men's 62 kg	Leonidas Sabanis {{color	red	DSQ}}			−1	−1	Greece's Leonidas Sabanis was stripped of his bronze medal in the men's 62 kg weightlifting competition and expelled from the Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after he tested positive for excess testosterone. The bronze medal was reallocated to Venezuela's Israel José Rubio.
Israel José Rubio			+1	+1
Athletics, Women's shot put	Irina Korzhanenko {{color	red	DSQ}}	−1			−1	Russian athlete Irina Korzhanenko lost her gold medal in women's shot put due to her testing positive for the steroid stanozolol. Cuban Yumileidi Cumbá Jay was upgraded to the gold medal, with German competitor Nadine Kleinert receiving the silver medal, and Svetlana Krivelyova of Russia receiving the bronze medal. However, on 5 December 2012, Krivelyova had the bronze medal she had been given rescinded because she had tested positive for the anabolic androgenic steroid oxandrolone metabolite. , the IOC has not reallocated the bronze medal.
Yumileidi Cumbá Jay	+1	−1		0
Nadine Kleinert		+1	−1	0
Athletics. Men's discus throw	Róbert Fazekas {{color	red	DSQ}}	−1			−1	Hungarian discus thrower Róbert Fazekas was disqualified by the IOC's executive board from the gold medal of the men's discus throw event on 24 August 2004 after he failed to provide an full urine sample. Virgilijus Alekna of Lithuania was elevated to the gold medal, the silver medal was given to Zoltán Kővágó of Hungary and the bronze medal went to Aleksander Tammert of Estonia.
Virgilijus Alekna	+1	−1		0
Zoltán Kővágó		+1	−1	0
Aleksander Tammert			+1	+1
Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg	Ferenc Gyurkovics {{color	red	DSQ}}		−1		−1	On 28 August 2004, Hungary's Ferenc Gyurkovics was disqualified from the Olympic Games and stripped of the silver medal he had won in the men's 105 kg weightlighting competition because he had tested positive for the banned steroid oxandrolone. Both Ukraine's Ihor Razoronov and Russia's Gleb Pisarevskiy were elevated the silver and bronze medal positions, respectively.
Ihor Razoronov		+1	−1	0
Gleb Pisarevskiy			+1	0
Athletics, Men's hammer throw	Adrián Annus {{color	red	DSQ}}	−1			−1	On 29 August 2004, the IOC disqualified Hungarian hammer thrower Adrián Annus for not attending a second drugs test in Hungary after suspicions were raised that he possibly used a contraption to deceive testers. Koji Murofushi of Japan became the new gold medallist, while Belarus's Ivan Tsikhan received the silver medal and Turkey's Eşref Apak was upgraded to the bronze medal placing.
Koji Murofushi	+1	−1		0
Ivan Tsikhan		+1	−1	0
Eşref Apak			+1	+1
Equestrian, Team jumping	Ludger Beerbaum {{color	red	DSQ}}	−1		+1	0	In the team jumping event, German equestrian Ludger Beerbaum was disqualified, after his horse Goldfever tested positive for the illegal substance betamethasone. This led to the gold medal being awarded the second-placed American team Chris Kappler, Beezie Madden, McLain Ward, and Peter Wylde, and the silver medal to third-placed Peder Fredericson, Rolf-Göran Bengtsson, Peter Eriksson, and Malin Baryard of the Swedish team. Christian Ahlmann, Marco Kutscher, and Otto Becker of the German team retained a medal, as they were able to earn the bronze medal without Goldfever's results.
-	+1	−1		0
-		+1	−1	0
Equestrian, Individual jumping	Cian O'Connor {{color	red	DSQ}}	−1			−1	Irish equestrian Cian O'Connor was stripped of his gold medal in individual jumping, due to the doping of his horse, Waterford Crystal, resulting in the title being awarded to Rodrigo Pessoa of Brazil, the silver medal to Chris Kappler of the United States, and the bronze medal to Marco Kutscher of Germany.
Rodrigo Pessoa	+1	−1		0
Chris Kappler		+1	−1	0
Marco Kutscher			+1	+1
Cycling, Men's road time trial	Tyler Hamilton {{color	red	DSQ}}	−1			−1	American cyclist Tyler Hamilton, who won the gold medal in the men's road time trial, confessed that he used doping during the Olympic Games. His gold medal was reallocated to Viatcheslav Ekimov from Russia, American cyclist Bobby Julich was awarded the silver medal, and Australian cyclist Michael Rogers received bronze.
Viatcheslav Ekimov	+1	−1		0
Bobby Julich		+1	−1	0
Michael Rogers			+1	+1
Athletics, Men's hammer throw	Ivan Tsikhan {{color	red	DSQ}}		−1		−1	Four Athletes were stripped of their medals on 5 December 2012 after drug re-testings of their samples were found positive. They were Belarusian Ivan Tsikhan, silver medallist in men's hammer throw, Russian Svetlana Krivelyova, bronze medallist in women's shot put, Ukrainian Yuriy Bilonoh, gold medallist in men's shot put, Belarusian Iryna Yatchenko, bronze medallist in women's discus throw.
Athletics, Women's shot put	Svetlana Krivelyova {{color	red	DSQ}}			−1	−1
Athletics, Men's shot put	Yuriy Bilonoh {{color	red	DSQ}}	−1			−1
Adam Nelson	+1	−1		0
Joachim Olsen		+1	−1	0
Manuel Martínez			+1	+1
Athletics, Women's discus throw	Iryna Yatchenko {{color	red	DSQ}}			−1	−1
Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová			+1	+1
Weightlifting, Men's 77 kg	Oleg Perepetchenov {{color	red	DSQ}}			−1	−1	On 12 February 2013 the IOC stripped Russian weightlifter Oleg Perepetchenov of his bronze medal in the men's 77 kg event after both probes were retested and showed traces of anabolic steroids.
During the meeting of the IOC Executive Board, on 30 May 2013, it was decided that athlete Reyhan Arabacıoğlu (Turkey), originally fourth, would be the new bronze medallist in the men's 77 kg competition.
Reyhan Arabacıoğlu			+1	+1
Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 metres relay	Crystal Cox {{color	red	DSQ}}	0			0	In 2010, Crystal Cox, who only ran for the United States team in the preliminary rounds, admitted to using anabolic steroids from 2001 to 2004. As a result, she forfeited all of her results from that time period, and agreed to a four-year suspension, until January 2014. In 2013, both the International Athletic Association Federation and the IOC announced that the result would stand and the American squad (except Cox) would be allowed to retain their gold medals due to the fact that, according to the rules of the time, a team should not be disqualified because of a doping offense of an athlete who did not compete in the finals.

NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze
−2	0	−1	−3
0	−1	−1	−2
−1	+1	−1	−1
−1	0	0	−1
0	0	−1	−1
0	0	−1	−1
+1	−1	0	0
+1	0	−1	0
+1	−1	0	0
+1	−1	0	0
+1	−1	0	0
0	+1	−1	0
0	0	+1	+1
0	0	+1	+1
0	0	+1	+1
0	0	+1	+1
0	0	+1	+1
−1	+1	+1	+1
0	0	+2	+2

Notes

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