- Timor-Leste at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Infobox Olympics Timor-Leste
games=2004 Summer
competitors=2 (1 man, 1 woman)
sports=1
flagbearer=Agueda Amaral The island nation of
East Timor (Timor-Leste) first formally participated in theOlympic Games at the2004 Summer Olympics inAthens ,Greece . East Timorese athletes had competed asIndividual Olympic Athletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics .Results by event
Athletics
The first Timor-Leste Olympic team was somewhat less successful in terms of results in Athletics than the Individual Olympic Athletes from Timor-Leste were in Sydney. Trindade did not finish, but was well behind the other runners, while Amaral went from beating two runners to beating only one. Still, Amaral did handily beat the last placed finisher from Mongolia.
;Men
Trindade was two minutes behind the leaders after 5 km, and pulled out of the race between the 20 km checkpoint and the halfway point, having fallen 12 minutes behind the second-last runner.
;Women
References
* [http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2004/Results/ Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad]
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