Olympic Stats from Athens 2004 Quiz

Answer: True

Phelps won gold in the 400m individual medley, 200m butterfly, 200m individual medley, 100m butterfly, 4x100m medley relay, and 4x 200m free relay. He added the bronze for the 200m freestyle and the 4x100m free relay. This gave him a total of 8 individual medals of which 6 were gold. The US team as a whole secured 12 golds (and 28 in total).

Answer: 2

Just two nations the USA with 35 gold and China with 32.

Answer: 25

Germany won 16 silver medals, with GB securing nine.

Answer: Argentina

Argentina beat Paraguay in the final 1-0, and Italy defeated Iraq in the bronze medal match by the same score.

Answer: 5

Of 11 weight divisions, the Cubans won 5 golds and 2 silvers, to demonstrate their supremacy in the sport.

Answer: China

The Chinese won four golds in total, with the Russians winning three. Italy won one, and South Korea did not win any.

Answer: Romania

Romania beat USA and Russia to gold in a fantastic final. The women who won gold were Oana Ban, Alexandra Eremia, Catalina Ponor, Monica Rosu, Nicoleta Sofronie, and Silvia Stroescu.

Answer: Japan

Japan had magnificent games in Judo, winning eight of the 14 categories. The other six golds went to China, South Korea, Belarus, Georgia, Greece, and Germany, who all won one.

Answer: China

The five golds were won by China (3), Indonesia (1) and South Korea (1). The five silvers won by South Korea (2), Great Britain (1), Netherlands (1), and China (1). Finally the five bronzes went to Indonesia (2), China (1), South Korea (1) and Denmark (1); therefore six nations took medals.

Answer: Equestrian

The only medal of the games for Ireland came in the Individual Jumping, with O'Connor riding Waterford Crystal to gold.

Answer: Yes

Francoise Mbango Etone was the only person from that nation to land a medal of any colour when winning the women's triple jump. She beat Devetzi Hrysopiyi of Greece and Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia to gold.

Answer: USA

The US team secured both golds ,but not without controversy. In the women's, Carly Patterson won with a great performance from Russian Svetlana Khorkina and Chinese Nan Zhang. However, in the men's, things were not so clear cut. American Paul Hamm won the gold but only after a decision by the judges to drop points from the Korean Tae Young Yang, after the original score had been published.

It caused an outrage, and the American was to win the gold in a manner he would not have liked. Young Yang had to settle for bronze whilst his compatriot Eun Dae Kim landed silver.

Answer: Germany & Australia

In the men's event, Australia defeated the Dutch (Holland) whilst in the women's event, Germany also beat the unlucky Dutch. Both finals were hard fought and very closely matched.

Answer: Romania & Germany

The Romania women's crews won three of the six medals available for women, whilst the German women won two of the other three. Only New Zealand women landed one. In the men's however, the eight races were won by eight nations, Great Britain, Poland, Russia, Australia, France, Denmark, Norway, and USA.

Answer: Kelly Holmes & Hicham El Guerrouj

Holmes won gold in both the women's 1500m and 800m, whilst El Guerrouj triumphed in the mens 5000m and 1500m. Wariner won the men's 400m, and also the mens 4x400m, but as an individual he only won one event. Campbell won the women's 200m whilst taking the bronze in the 100m. Gatlin won the mens 100m but took bronze in the 200m. Williams-Darling won the 400m for women. Phillips secured the Long Jump title whilst Cumba won the shot put in the women's version.