Belarus at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Belarus
games=2004 Summer
competitors=151 (82 men and 69 women)
sports=22
flagbearer=Alexander Medved (wrestler)
officials=
gold=2
silver=6
bronze=7
total=15
rank=26

Belarus competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Before gaining independence many Belarusian athletes competed for the USSR team: Vitaly Scherbo is a 6-times Olympic champion, Nellie Kim is five times Olympic champion, Olga Korbut, Olga Belova, Viktar Sidziak are 4-times Olympic champions, Uladzimir Parfianovich, Svetlana Boguinskaya are 3-times Olympic champions.

Medalists

The Belarus national team won 15 medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens: 2 gold, 6 silver, and 7 bronze. By comparison, in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney Belarus won 17 medals (3 gold, 3 silver, 11 bronze), and in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, won 15 medals (1 gold, 6 silver, and 8 bronze).

Gold

* Athletics - Women's 100 m Yulia Nestsiarenka
* Judo - Men's - 100 kg Ihar Makarau

Silver

* Athletics - Men's Hammer Throw Ivan Tikhon
* Boxing - Men's Light Heavy (81 kg) Magomed Aripagadjiev
* Boxing - Men's Heavy (91 kg) Viktar Zuyev
* Rowing - Women's Single Sculls Ekaterina Karsten
* Weightlifling - Men's 85 kg Andrei Rybakou
* Weightlifling - Women's 63 kg Hanna Batsiushka

Bronze

* Athletics - Women's Discus Throw Irina Yatchenko
* Canoe/Kayak Flatwater - Men's K2 500 m Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu
* Cycling Track - Women's 500 m Time Trial Natallia Tsylinskaya
* Rowing - Women's Pairs Yuliya Bichyk and Natallia Helakh
* Shooting - Men's 50 m Rifle Prone Sergei Martynov
* Weightlifling - Women's 63 kg Tatsiana Stukalava
* Wrestling - Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg Viachaslau Makaranka

Results by event

(incomplete)

=Archery=

* Anton Prylepav - men's individual, 9th place
* Hanna Karasiova - women's individual, 37th place

=Athletics=

Women's 100 metres:
* Yulia Nestsiarenka - Final, 10.93 s (gold medal)

Women's 200 metres:
* Natalya Safronnikova - Round 1: 23.28 s, Round 2: 23.63 s

Women's 400 metres:
* Svetlana Usovich - Round 1: 51.37 s, Semifinal: 51.42 s

Women's 5000 metres:
* Olga Kravtsova - Round 1: 15:44.01

Women's 4x100 metre relay:
* Oksana Dragun, Yelena Nevmerzhitskaya, Natalya Safronnikova, Yulia Nestsiarenka - Round 1: 43.06 s, Final: 42.94 s (NR) (5th place)

Women's 4x400 metre relay:
* Natalya Sologub, Irina Khlyustova, Ilona Usovich, and Svetlana Usovich - Round 1: 3:27.38 (9th place)

Men's decathlon:
* Aleksandr Parkhomenko - 7918 points (20th place)

Women's heptathlon:
* Natalya Sazanovich - DNF (withdrew after two events)

Men's marathon:
* Azat Rakipov - DNF

Men's 20 km walk:
* Yevgeniy Misyulya – 1:25:10 (19th place)
* Ivan Trotskiy – 1:25:53 (23rd place)
* Andrei Talashko – 1:29:36 (35th place)

Women's 20 km walk:
* Margarita Turova - 1:29:39 (4th place)
* Yelena Ginko - 1:30:22 (9th place)
* Valentina Tsybulskaya - 1:31:49 (15th place)

Men's 50 km walk:
* Andrey Stepanchuk – 3:59:32 (19th place)

Men's triple jump:
* Dmitriy Valyukevich - Round 1, 16.32 metres (did not advance)
* Aleksandr Glavatskiy - Round 1, 16.18 metres (did not advance)

Women's triple jump:
* Natalya Safronova - Round 1: 14.52 metres, Final: 14.22 metres (13th place)

Men's high jump:
* Gennadiy Moroz - Round 1, 2.25 metres (did not advance)
* Aleksey Lesnichiy - Round 1, DQ

Men's shot put:
* Andrey Mikhnevich - Final, 20.60 metres (5th place)
* Yuriy Belov - Final, 20.34 metres (6th place)
* Pavel Lyzhyn - Round 1, 19.60 metres (did not advance)

Women's shot put:
* Nadzeya Astapchuk - Round 1: 19.69 metres, Final: 19.01 metres (4th place)
* Natallia Kharaneka - Round 1: 18.52 metres, Final: 18.96 metres (5th place)

Men's discus:
* Vasiliy Kaptyukh - Final, 65.10 metres (4th place)
* Aleksandr Malashevich - Round 1, 58.45 metres (did not advance)
* Leonid Cherevko - Round 1, 57.89 metres (did not advance)

Women's discus:
* Irina Yatchenko - Final, 66.17 metres (bronze medal)
* Ellina Zvereva - Round 1: 60.63 metres

Women's javelin:
* Natalya Shymchuk - Round 1: 51.23 metres

Men's hammer:
* Ivan Tikhon - Final, 79.81 metres (silver medal)
* Vadzim Dzeviatkouski - Final, 78.82 metres (4th place)
* Igor Astapkovich - Final, 76.22 metres (9th place)

Women's hammer:
* Mariya Smolyachkova - Round 1: 65.58 metres

=Boxing=

Belarus entered six boxers in 2004. They won a pair of silver medals, with a combined record of 9-6 in competition. Belarus ranked 6th in the medals chart for boxing.

Flyweight (51kg)
* Bato Vankeev
*# Round of 32 - Lost to Juan Carlos Payano of Dominican Republic, 26-18

Bantamweight (54kg)
* Khavazhi Khatsigov
*# Round of 32 - Defeated Juan López of Puerto Rico, 27-19
*# Round of 16 - Lost to Worapoj Petchkoom of Thailand, 33-18

Featherweight (57kg)
* Mikhail Biarnadski
*# Round of 32 - Defeated Likar Ramos Concha of Colombia, 32-18
*# Round of 16 - Lost to Viorel Simion of Romania, 38-13

Light Heavyweight (81kg)
* Magomed Aripgadjiev - silver medal
*# Round of 32 - Defeated Ramiro Goben Reducindo Radilla of Mexico, 29-10
*# Round of 16 - Defeated Edgar Ramon Munoz Mata of Venezuela, 18-10
*# Quarterfinal - Defeated Lei Yuping of China, 27-18
*# Semifinal - Defeated Ahmed Ismail of Egypt, 23-20
*# Final - Lost to Andre Ward of United States, 20-13

Heavyweight (91kg)
* Viktar Zuyev - silver medal
*# Round of 16 - Defeated Daniel Betti of Italy, injury
*# Quarterfinal - Defeated Devin Vargas of United States, 36-27
*# Semifinal - Defeated Mohamed Elsayed, walkover
*# Final - Lost to Odlanier Solis Fonte of Cuba, 22-13

Super Heavyweight (over 91kg)
* Aliaksandr Apanasionak
*# Round of 16 - Lost to Aleksey Masikin of Ukraine, 23-5

=Canoeing=

Belarus sent five canoe teams to Athens. They competed in seven events, earning a bronze medal in the flatwater men's double kayak 500 metre race. This put Belarus in a three-way tie for 17th place in the canoeing medal count.

Flatwater men's C1 500m:
* Aliaksandr Zhukouski - 4th place
*# Heat - 1:50.378 (4th in heat)
*# Semifinal - 1:50.563 (1st in heat)
*# Final - 1:47.903 (4th in Final)

Flatwater men's C1 1000m:
* Aliaksandr Zhukouski - 10th place
*# Heat - 4:02.159 (5th in heat)
*# Semifinal - 3:55.456 (4th in heat - 3rd needed to advance)

Flatwater men's C2 500m:
* Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich - 6th place
*# Heat - 1:41.576 (5th in heat)
*# Semifinal - 1:42.484 (3rd in heat)
*# Final - 1:40.858 (6th in Final)

Flatwater men's C2 1000m:
* Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich - 10th place
*# Heat - 3:38.391 (7th in heat)
*# Semifinal - 3:33.588 (4th in heat - 3rd needed to advance)

Flatwater men's K2 500m:
* Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu - bronze medal
*# Heat - 1:28.925 (1st in heat)
*# Final - 1:27.996 (3rd in Final)

Flatwater women's K2 500m:
* Hanna Puchkova and Alena Bets - 9th place
*# Heat - 1:45.279 (6th in heat)
*# Semifinal - 1:45.234 (3rd in heat)
*# Final - 1:43.729 (9th in Final)

Flatwater men's K4 1000m:
* Raman Piatrushenka, Aliaksei Abalmasau, Dziamyan Turchyn, Vadzim Makhneu - 6th place
*# Heat - 2:52.170 (2nd in heat)
*# Final - 3:02.419 (6th in heat)

=Cycling=

Road cycling

Men's road race:
* Alexandre Usov - did not finish

Women's road race:
* Zinaida Stahurskaya - 19th place, 3:25:42
* Volha Hayeva - 45th place, 3:33:35

Track cycling

Men's individual pursuit:
* Vasili Kiryienka - qualifying round, 13th place

Women's individual sprint:
* Natallia Tsylinskaya - classification 5-8, 5th place

Women's time trial:
* Natallia Tsylinskaya - bronze medal, 34.167

Men's points race:
* Yauheni Sobal - 12th place, 24 points

=Diving=

Men's 3 metre Springboard:
* Sergei Kuchmasov :* Prelims — 377.61 (→ 25th place)

* Aleksandr Varlamov :* Prelims — 357.09 (→ 30th place)

Men's 10 metre Platform:
* Aleksandr Varlamov :* Prelims — 27th place

* Andrei Mamontov:* Prelims — 30th place

=Equestrian=

Individual dressage:
* Iryna Lis riding Problesk - second round, 24th place

=Fencing=

Women's foil individual:
* Vita Siltchenko - defeated in round of 32

Men's sabre individual:
* Dmitri Lapkes - 4th place

=Gymnastics=

Men's artistic:
* Ivan Ivankov - advanced in one exercise
** Parallel bars - 4th place
* Denis Savenkov - did not advance in any exercise

Women's artistic:
* Yulia Tarasenka - did not advance in any exercise

Women's rhythmic:
* Individual
** Inna Zhukova - 7th place
** Svetlana Rudalova - 10th place
* Team - 4th place
** Natalia Aliaksandrava (hoops and balls)
** Yavhenia Burlo
** Hlafira Martsinovich
** Zlatislava Nersesian
** Alina Nikandrava (ribbons)
** Maria Paplyka

Men's trampoline:
* Dimitri Polyarush - 4th place
* Nikolai Kazak - 14th place

Women's trampoline:
* Tatiana Petrenia - 16th place

=Judo=

Men's 60 kg:
* Siarhei Novikau - defeated in round of 32

Men's 73 kg:
* Anatoly Laryukov - defeated in round of 32; repechage round of 32

Men's 81 kg:
* Siarhei Shundzikau - defeated in round of 16

Men's 90 kg:
* Siarhei Kukharenka - defeated in round of 32; repechage round of 16

Men's 100 kg:
* Ihar Makarau - gold medal; won final

Men's 100+ kg:
* Yury Rybak - defeated in quarterfinals; repechage round of 16

Women's 48 kg:
* Tatiana Moskvina - defeated in round of 16; repechage round of 16

=Modern Pentathlon=

Men's:
* Dzmitry Meliakh - 5th place

Women's:
* Tatsiana Mazurkevich - 9th place
* Galina Bashlakova - 21st place

Officials

*President: S.e. M. Alexandre Lukashenko
*Secretary General: Anatoli Ivanov