Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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Canada at the Olympic Games

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NOC: Canadian Olympic Committee
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2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
Flag Bearer Nicolas Gill
Medals Gold
3		 Silver
6		 Bronze
3		 Total
12
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Canada competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The Canadian Olympic Committee sent a team of over 200 athletes, the lowest since Canada boycotted the games in 1980. This is a result of the COC changing its standards for qualifying, with the aim of sending fewer athletes but focusing its energy on those who have the best chance at winning medals. This somewhat controversial policy was pursued after a reduced medal showing at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Canada is not a power at the Summer Olympics. Many Canadians turn to winter sports, and recently the country has performed relatively better at the Winter Olympics. Canada's overall medal count has been dropping, along with the totals for most developed countries as the developing nations capture comparatively more medals. Most expected Canada to win a similar number of medals as they did in 2000.

The flag bearer was Nicolas Gill, a judoka. A mild controversy developed after it was revealed that Gill had made comments in favour of Quebec separatism, and had voted yes in the 1995 Quebec referendum.

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[edit] Medals

Canada finished in 21st position in the final medal rankings, with three gold medals and 12 medals overall.

[edit] Gold

Also, Chantal Petitclerc won gold in the Women's 800m Wheelchair race, which was a demonstration event.

[edit] Silver

[edit] Bronze

[edit] Results in the 'Top 8'

Gold Silver Bronze 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th Total
4* 6 3 9* 15 12 8 4* 61
Gold: Chantal Petitclerc, women's 800 m wheelchair*; Kyle Shewfelt, men's floor exercise gymnastics; Lori-Ann Muenzer, women's track cycling sprint; Adam van Koeverden, men's K1 500 m kayak
Silver: Karen Cockburn, women's trampoline gymnastics; men's four rowing team: Cameron Baerg, Jake Wetzel, Thomas Herschmiller and Barney Williams; Tonya Verbeek, women's 55 kg freestyle wrestling; Alexandre Despatie, men's 3 m springboard diving; Marie-Helene Premont, women's cross country mountain bike; Ross MacDonald and Mike Wolfs, men's Star sailing
Bronze: Blythe Hartley and Émilie Heymans, women's synchronized 10 m platform diving; Adam van Koeverden, men's K1 1000 m kayak; Caroline Brunet, women's K1 500 m
4th place: David Ford, men's K1 kayak slalom singles; women's team epee fencing: Monique Kavelaars, Sherraine Mackay, Julie Leprohon; Darcy Marquardt and Buffy-Lynne Williams, women's pairs rowing; Diane Roy, women's 800 m wheelchair*; Émilie Heymans, women's 10 m platform diving; Kyle Shewfelt, men's vault; men's baseball team: Chris Begg, Todd Betts, Richard Clapp, Eric Cyr, Phil Devey, Jason Dickson, Rob Ducey, Jeff Guiel, Shawn Hill, Mike Johnson, Danny Klassen, Mike Kusiewicz, Pierre-Luc Laforest, Chris Mears, Aaron Myette, Kevin Nicholson, John Ogiltree, Peter Orr, Simon Pond, Ryan Radmanovich, Paul Spoljaric, Adam Stern, Andy Stewart, Jeremy Ware; Alison Sydor, women's cross country mountain bike; Alexandre Despatie, men's 10 m platform diving
5th place: Philippe Comtois and Alexandre Despatie, men's synchronised 10 m platform diving; Marie-Hélène Chisholm, women's 63 kg judo; men's 4 x 200 m freestyle relay swimming team: Brent Hayden, Brian Johns, Andrew Hurd, Rick Say; men's lightweight fours rowing team: Iain Brambell, Jonathan Mandick, Gavin Hassett, Jon Beare; men's eight rowing team: Scott Frandsen, Kevin Light, Ben Rutledge, Kyle Hamilton, Adam Kreek, Andrew Hoskins, Joe Stankevicius, Jeff Powell, Brian Price; women's softball team: Lauren Bay, Alison Bradley, Erin Cumpstone, Cindy Eadie, Kaila Holtz, Jackie Lance, Sheena Lawrick, Angela Lichty, Ani Nyhus, Kristy Odamura, Sasha Olson, Kim Sarrazin, Rachel Schill, Auburn Sigurdson, Erin White; Viola Yanik, women's 63 kg freestyle wrestling; Christine Nordhagen, women's 72 kg freestyle wrestling; Guylaine Dumont and Annie Martin, women's Beach Volleyball; John Child, Mark Heese, men's Beach Volleyball; Blythe Hartley, women's 3 m springboard diving; Ivett Gonda, women's under 49 kg Taekwondo; Stephen Giles, men's C1 1000 m Canoeing; Women's synchronized swimming team: Erin Chan, Jessica Chase, Jessika Dubuc, Marie-Pierre Gagne, Fanny Letourneau, Shayna Nackoney, Anouk Reniere-Lafreniere, Courtenay Stewart; Andrew Kooner bantam weight (54 kg) boxing
6th place: Rick Say, men's 200 m freestyle swimming; Susan Nattrass, women's trap shooting; Mike Brown, men's 200 m breaststroke; Heather Ross-McManus, women's trampoline gymnastics; Dana Ellis, women's Pole Vault; Fanny Letourneau and Courtenay Stewart, women's duet free synchronized swimming; Charles Allen, men's 110 m hurdles; Richard Dalton and Michael Scarola, men's C2 1000 m canoeing; Richard Dalton men's C1 1000 m canoeing; Guivi Sissaouri, men's 60 kg freestyle wrestling; Daniel Igali, men's 74 kg freestyle wrestling; Angela Whyte, women's 110 m hurdles
7th place: Blythe Hartley and Émilie Heymans, women's synchronized 3 m springboard diving; Lori-Ann Muenzer women's 500 m time trial track cycling; Mark Boswell, men's high jump; Myriam Boileau, women's 10 m platform diving; Kate Richardson, women's floor exercise; Perdita Felicien, women's 100 m hurdles; women's water polo team: Whynter Lamarre, Rachel Riddell, Marianne Illing, Susan Gardiner, Andrea Dewar, Marie Luc Arpin, Cora Campbell, Melissa Collins, Ann Dow, Jana Salat, Valerie Dionne, Christine Robinson, Johanne Begin; Caroline Brunet and Mylanie Barre, women's K2 500 m kayak
8th place: Jeffrey Adams, men's 1500 m wheelchair*; Mara Jones and Fiona Milne women's lightweight doubles sculls rowing; women's K4 500 m kayak team: Karen Furneaux, Carrie Lightbound, Kamini Jain, Jillian D'Alessio; Attila Buday and Tamas Buday Jr., men's C2 500 m canoeing

*includes placing in a demonstration event

[edit] Broadcasts

The main network for Olympic coverage in Canada is the CBC which covers events live, and then replays highlights in prime time. Both the French and English CBC are covering the CBC often showing different events, with Radio-Canada focusing more on Quebec athletes. The cable channels TSN & RDS won the rights to broadcast some parts of the games, mostly team sports that CBC and Radio-Canada decided not to cover. The digital channel CBC Country Canada, only available to a minority of Canadians, covered equestrian events.

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

Men's individual:

Women's individual:

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Men

[edit] 100 m
  • Nicolas Macrozonaris ran 10.40 s in the first round of the men's 100 m and 10.28 s in the second round; he did not advance to the 100 m semifinal.
  • Pierre Browne ran 10.32 s in the first round of the men's 100 m and 10.21 s in the second round; he did not advance to the 100 m semifinal.

[edit] 800 m
  • Gary Reed ran 1:46.74 min in the first round of the 800 m and 1:47.38 min in the semi-final, finishing 12th overall.
  • Achraf Tadili ran 1:46.63 min in the first round of the 800 m finishing 25th overall.

[edit] 1500 m
  • Kevin Sullivan ran 3:39.30 min in the first round and 3:42.86 in the semi-finals, placing 19th overall.

[edit] 110 m hurdles
  • Charles Allen In the first round, ran 13.35 s, a personal best. In second round, he ran 13.30 s, another personal best and the in semi-final he ran 13.23 s, another personal best, to qualify for the final. In the final, he ran a 13.48 to finish 6th.

[edit] 4x100 m relay
  • Nicolas Macrozonaris, Anson Henry, Charles Allen, and Pierre Browne - Round 1, 0:38.64 (did not advance)

[edit] 50 km walk

[edit] High Jump
  • Mark Boswell, who was seen a potential medal winner, jumped 2.28 m in the first round and 2.29 m in the second round to finish 7th overall.

[edit] Shot Put
  • Brad Snyder threw 19.46 m in the first round to finish 20th overall.

[edit] Discus
  • Jason Tunks threw 61.21 m in the first round to place 15th overall.

[edit] Women

[edit] 100 m hurdles
  • Perdita Felicien and Angela Whyte qualified for the women's 100 m hurdles final. In the final, Felicien, well-favoured to medal, fell at the first hurdle and did not finish; Whyte finished sixth, better than was expected.
  • Priscilla Lopes ran 13.08 s in the first round to finish 20th overall.

[edit] 800 m
  • Diane Cummins ran 2:01.19 min in the first round of the 800 m and 2:00.30 min in the semifinal to place 14th overall.

[edit] 1500 m
  • Courtney Babcock ran 4:08.18 min in the first round to place 26th overall.
  • Malindi Elmore ran 4:09.81 min in the first round to place 32nd overall.
  • Carmen Douma Hussar ran 4:06.90 min in the first round and 4:05.09 min in the semi-finals to qualify for the final. In the final, she ran 4:02.31 to place 9th overall.

[edit] 5000 m
  • Emilie Mondor ran 15:20.15 min in the first round to place 17th overall.
  • Courtney Babcock ran 15:47.35 min in the first round to place 29th overall.

[edit] Pole Vault
  • Dana Ellis and Stephanie McCann both qualified for the final with jumps of 4.40 m both. In the final they again reached 4.40 placing 6th and 10th respectively.

[edit] Badminton

Women's singles:

Women's doubles:

Mixed doubles:

[edit] Baseball

Canada's baseball team did very well in the initial stages of the round-robin winning their four first games. Despite losses to Japan and Cuba, they rebounded in their final game vs. Australia. Most notable has been the performance of second baseman Richard "Stubby" Clapp.

With a 5-2 record in the preliminary round, Canada finished in 3rd position, behind Japan and Cuba and ahead of Australia. In the semi-finals on August 24, Canada lost 8-5 to Cuba. Canada was leading Cuba 3-2 going into the bottom of the eighth inning but then gave up 6 runs. Japan lost 1-0 to Australia in a surprising result in the other semifinal, almost ruining Canada's hopes for a medal in Baseball, which would later prove true as Canada lost to Japan on August 25 in the Bronze medal game, thereby finishing fourth.

Team Canada's roster:

Scores:

[edit] Boxing

Boxing saw much controversy over the COC higher qualifying standards. After an appeal it was decided that three more boxers could go to Athens. Canada's most notable success was Benoit Gaudet defeat of Thai former champion Somluck Kamsing and Andrew Kooner who made it to the quarter-final in the Bantamweight class.

[edit] Canoe/Kayak

[edit] Slalom Racing Men's

  • James Cartwright finished 11th in the first round of his heat for men's C1 canoe singles, and 10th in the second round. He finished 9th in the semi-final, and did not qualify for the finals.
  • Margaret Langford finished 16th in both rounds of her heat for women's K1 kayak singles, and did not qualify for the semi-finals.
  • David Ford finished 4th in the men's K1 kayak singles slalom final.

[edit] Flatwater Racing Men's

[edit] Canoeing 1000 m
  • Stephen Giles raced 3:52.451 min in the preliminaries, 3:51.720 min in the semi-finals, and 3:51.457 min in the final to finish 5th overall.

[edit] Canoeing 500 m
  • Richard Dalton raced 1:50.005 min in the preliminaries, 1:51.027 min in the semi-final, 1:48.103 min in the final to finish 6th overall.

[edit] Canoeing 1000 m Pairs
  • Richard Dalton and Michael Scarola raced 3:31.123 min in the preliminaries 3:32.280 min in the semi-finals, and 3:45.638 min in the final to place 6th overall.

[edit] Canoeing 500 m Pairs

[edit] Kayaking 1000 m
  • Adam van Koeverden raced 3:24.984 min in the preliminaries, 3:27.502 min in the semi-final, and 3:28.218 min in the final to win the bronze medal.

[edit] Kayaking 500 m
  • Adam van Koeverden raced 1:37.591 min in the preliminaries, 1:38.907 min in the semi-finals, and 1:37.919 min in the final to win the gold medal.

[edit] Kayaking 500 m pairs
  • Steven Jorens and Richard Dober raced 1:31.985 min in the preliminaries and 1:34.318 min in the semi-finals to place 13th overall.

[edit] Kayaking 1000 m fours
  • Steven Jorens, Richard Dober, Ryan Cuthbert, and Andrew Willows raced 2:56.336 min in the preliminaries, 2:55.926 min in the semi-final, and 3:07.714 min in the final to finish 9th overall.

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Road cycling

  • Michael Barry finished 32nd in the Men's Road race.
  • Gordon Fraser did not finish the Men's Road race.
  • Eric Wohlberg did not finish the Men's Road race and finished 18th in the Time Trials.
  • Susan Palmer-Komar finished 11th in the Women's Road race and 17th in the Time Trials.
  • Manon Jutras finished 30th in the Women's Road race.
  • Lyne Bessette did not finish the Women's Road race and finished 16th in the Individual Time Trials.

[edit] Mountain biking

  • Marie-Helene Premont won the silver medal in the women's cross country mountain bike final.
  • Alison Sydor finished fourth in the women's cross country mountain bike final.
  • Seamus McGrath finished ninth.
  • Ryder Hesjedal did not finish.

[edit] Diving

[edit] Synchronized

[edit] Platform

[edit] Springboard

  • Alexandre Despatie got the silver medal in the men's 3 m springboard after being the clear leader in the preliminary and final round.
  • Blythe Hartley started at 2nd place in the preliminary, dropped to 3rd after the semifinal, and finished at 5th place.
  • Émilie Heymans placed 10th after a 7th-place preliminary round and 8th-place semifinal.
  • Philippe Comtois was 12th in the priliminaries and 13th in the semi-final. He did not advance.

[edit] Equestrian

  • Hawley Bennett finished 47th at the Mixed Individual Eventing Dressage, 67th in the Mixed Individual Eventing Cross Country, 64th in the Mixed Individual Eventing Jumping Final.
  • Michael Winter finished 51st at the Mixed Individual Eventing Dressage, 44th in the Mixed Individual Eventing Cross Country, 40th in the Mixed Individual Eventing Jumping Final.
  • Garry Roque finished 52nd at the Mixed Individual Eventing Dressage, 59th in the Mixed Individual Eventing Cross Country, 55th in the Mixed Individual Eventing Jumping Final.
  • Bruce Mandeville finished 60th at the Mixed Individual Eventing Dressage, 42nd in the Mixed Individual Eventing Cross Country, 41st in the Mixed Individual Eventing Jumping Final.
  • Ian Roberts finished 68th at the Mixed Individual Eventing Dressage, 70th in the Mixed Individual Eventing Cross Country, 67th in the Mixed Individual Eventing Jumping Final.
  • Bennett, Winter, Roque, Mandeville and Roberts finished 12th in the Mixed Team Eventing Dressage, 13th in the Mixed Team Eventing Cross Country, and 12th in the Mixed Team Eventing Jumping Final.

[edit] Fencing

Women's épée individual:

Men's foil individual:

  • Joshua McGuire - defeated in round of 32

Men's sabre individual:

  • Michel Boulos - defeated in round of 32

Women's épée team:

[edit] Gymnastics

[edit] Artistic

Prior to 2004, Canada had never won an Olympic medal in artistic gymnastics, and few expected this to change in Athens.

  • Surprising many the relatively unheralded Kyle Shewfelt won a gold medal in the men's floor exercise final, in a tiebreaker with Marian Dragulescu of Romania.
  • Kyle Shewfelt finished fourth in the men's vault final. Canada disputed the result.

[edit] Rhythmic

[edit] Trampoline

  • Karen Cockburn, a Sydney bronze medallist, won the silver medal in the women's trampoline final.
  • Heather Ross-McManus qualified for the final and finished in 6th place.
  • Mathieu Turgeon, a Sydney bronze medallist, was eliminated in qualifying for the men's trampoline final, finishing in 11th place.

[edit] Judo

Men's 90 kg:

  • Keith Morgan - defeated in quarterfinals; repechage round of 16

Men's 100 kg:

Women's 48 kg:

  • Carolyne Lepage - defeated in round of 16; repechage round of 16

Women's 63 kg:

Women's 70 kg:

  • Catherine Roberge - defeated in quarterfinals; repechage round of 16

Women's 78 kg:

  • Amy Cotton - defeated in round of 16

[edit] Modern pentathlon

Women's:

  • Monica Pinette - 13th place
  • Kara Grant - 22nd place

[edit] Rowing

Canada's most heralded team going into Athens was its rowers, and there was considerable hope for success by Canadians with expectations of three medals or more. While the Canadians did well, with a number of finals appearances, only one group won medals the men's fours of Cam Baerg, Jake Wetzel, Tom Herschmiller and Barney Williams won the silver medal in the men's four rowing final, losing to Great Britain by only 0.08 seconds.

Most disappointing was the men's eights who had been undefeated for two years before the Olympics, but to the surprise of many finished fifth in their event.

Controversy broke out over the rowing team of Dave Calder and Chris Jarvis (rower) who were disqualified from the men's pairs semifinal race for entering another team's lane, and thus failed to qualify for the final. The COC appealed the decision, but it was upheld.

[edit] Sailing

[edit] Softball

Women's: 5th place

  • Preliminary round: 3-4 (5th place)

The Canadian softball team finished the preliminary round with the same record as China, but had lost to China 4-2 in head-to-head play and therefore received 5th place and did not advance to the semifinals while China got 4th and moved on.

[edit] Swimming

For the first time in decades Canada did not win a single medal in swimming. This led to calls for the resignation of coach Don Johnson by a number of former swimmers, most notably Barcelona gold medallist Mark Tewksbury. Swim Canada focuses on personal bests rather than medals, but even by that measure Canada fared poorly. This lack of medals also stood in sharp contrast to Canada's sibling dominion Australia which won many medals in swimming, as they did in Sydney. There were a few bright spots, including Rick Say making it to the finals of the 200 m freestyle, considered by many to be the premier event of the 2004 Olympics, and a number of Canadian records were set. Generally though, performances by the swim team were slower than the times they had swum at Canadian olympic trials 2 weeks before.

[edit] Synchronized swimming

Canada has strong hopes for medals in synchronized swimming having won medals in this event in every Olympic it has been included.

  • Team Canada:

Erin Chan Jessica Chase Jessika Dubuc Marie Pierre Gagne Fanny Letourneau Shayna Nackoney Anouk Reniere Lafreniere Courtenay Stewart Nicole Cargill

[edit] Taekwondo

[edit] Triathlon

Canada has a strong triathlon program and is the home of the defending men's gold medallist Simon Whitfield, who won surprisingly in Sydney. The women's race was something of a disappointment as top ranked Canadian Jill Savege, who came out of the water in fifth place crashed in the bicycle stage and only finished 39th. The two other Canadian women did not fare much better. In the men's triathlon a day later Whitfield finished a respectable eleventh.

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Beach Volleyball

[edit] Water polo

Canada's women's water polo team fared poorly, despite beating the number one ranked team from the United States during the round robin. Losing the other two games in the preliminary round put Canada in last place in the pool and eliminated the team from medal contention. They would end up finishing seventh.

[edit] Women's: 7th place

  • Preliminary round: 1-2-0
  • Classification 7/8: Defeated Kazakhstan, 10-4

[edit] Wrestling

  • Tonya Verbeek won the silver medal in women's freestyle wrestling, 55 kg class.
See also: List of Canadian athletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics

[edit] Officials

  • President: Michael A. Chambers
  • Secretary General: Christopher H. Rudge


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