Afghanistan at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Afghanistan
games=2004 Summer
competitors=5
sports=4
flagbearer=Neema Suratgar (coach)

Afghanistan returned to the Olympic Games at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Afghanistan was banned from Olympic competition in 1999, during Taliban rule, but was reinstated in 2002. [http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901040419-610030,00.html] At the 2004 Games, female athletes (Friba Razayee and Robina Muqim Yaar) represented Afghanistan for the first time in the country's history. In 2004, the Afghani athletes were attempting to improve upon Afghanistan's best finish, Mohammed Ebrahimi's fifth place in wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Results and competitors by event

Athletics

;Men's 100 metres
* Masound Azizi — round 1: 11.66 s (79th place)

;Women's 100 metres
* Robina Muqimyar — round 1, 14.14 s (NR, did not advance)

Boxing

One boxer from Afghanistan competed at the 2004 games.
* Basharmal Sultani — welterweight, defeated in round of 32

Judo

Afghanistan's entrant into the judo competition is one of the first two females to compete internationally from Afghanistan.
* Friba Razayee — Defeated in round of 32

Wrestling

* Bashir Ahmad Rahmati — Defeated in pool F of men's freestyle 55 kilograms (0-2)

Officials

*President: Anwar Jekdalek
*Secretary General: Seyed Ahmad Zia Muzafari

ee also

* Afghanistan at the 2004 Summer Paralympics