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Host City: Athina, Greece
Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Athens Olympic Sports Complex Spiros Loues, Maroussi
Date Started: August 20, 2004
Date Finished: August 22, 2004
Gold: | Stefan Holm |
Silver: | Matt Hemingway |
Bronze: | Jaroslav Bába |
The favorite was Sweden’s Stefan Holm. He had been runner-up at the 2002 Europeans and 2003 Worlds, but had won the 2004 World Indoor, and had won 17 consecutive meets leading up to Athina. The 2003 World Champion, Jacques Freitag (RSA), went out in qualifying due to an ankle injury. Four jumpers cleared 2.34 (7-8) with Matt Hemingway (USA) and Jaroslav Bába (CZE) leading with first-attempt clearances. But at 2.36 (7-8¾), only Holm was successful and the gold medal was his. Hemingway won silver over Bába because of Bába two misses at 2.32 (7-7¼).
Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | |
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1 | Stefan Holm | 28 | Sweden | SWE | Gold | |
2 | Matt Hemingway | 31 | United States | USA | Silver | |
3 | Jaroslav Bába | 19 | Czech Republic | CZE | Bronze | |
4 | Jamie Nieto | 27 | United States | USA | ||
5 | Andriy Sokolovskiy | 26 | Ukraine | UKR | ||
6 | Yaroslav Rybakov | 23 | Russia | RUS | ||
7 | Mark Boswell | 26 | Canada | CAN | ||
8 | Svatoslav Ton | 25 | Czech Republic | CZE | ||
9 | Vyacheslav Voronin | 30 | Russia | RUS | ||
10 | Dragutin Topić | 33 | Serbia and Montenegro | SCG | ||
11 | Lisvany Pérez | 22 | Cuba | CUB | ||
12 | Alessandro Talotti | 23 | Italy | ITA | ||
13T QR | Gennady Moroz | 26 | Belarus | BLR | ||
13T QR | Nicola Ciotti | 24 | Italy | ITA | ||
15T QR | Abderrahmane Hammad | 27 | Algeria | ALG | ||
15T QR | Ştefan Vasilache | 25 | Romania | ROU | ||
17 QR | Jessé de Lima | 23 | Brazil | BRA | ||
18T QR | Kyriakos Ioannou | 20 | Cyprus | CYP | ||
18T QR | Staffan Strand | 28 | Sweden | SWE | ||
20T QR | Grzegorz Sposób | 28 | Poland | POL | ||
20T QR | Jacques Freitag | 22 | South Africa | RSA | ||
20T QR | Rožle Prezelj | 24 | Slovenia | SLO | ||
20T QR | Manjula Kumara Wijesekera | 20 | Sri Lanka | SRI | ||
24 QR | Linus Thörnblad | 19 | Sweden | SWE | ||
25T QR | Oskari Frösén | 28 | Finland | FIN | ||
25T QR | Roman Fricke | 27 | Germany | GER | ||
25T QR | Jean-Claude Rabbath | 27 | Lebanon | LIB | ||
25T QR | Robert Wolski | 21 | Poland | POL | ||
25T QR | Pyotr Brayko | 27 | Russia | RUS | ||
30 QR | Tomáš Janků | 29 | Czech Republic | CZE | ||
31T QR | Javier Bermejo | 25 | Spain | ESP | ||
31T QR | Marko Aleksejev | 25 | Estonia | EST | ||
33 QR | László Boros | 22 | Hungary | HUN | ||
34 QR | Tora Harris | 25 | United States | USA | ||
35 QR | Alfredo Deza | 24 | Peru | PER | ||
36 QR | Liu Yang | 18 | China | CHN | ||
AC QR | Aleksey Lesnichy | 26 | Belarus | BLR | ||
AC QR | Adrian O'Dwyer | 20 | Ireland | IRL |