Sports year 2004

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American football

badminton

The highlights of the badminton year 2004 were the Olympic badminton tournament , the Thomas Cup and the Uber Cup .

World Badminton Grand Prix

event Men's singles Ladies singles Men's doubles Ladies doubles Mixed
Thailand Open ThailandThailand Boonsak Ponsana NetherlandsNetherlands Yao Jie IndonesiaIndonesia Luluk Hadiyanto Alvent Yulianto
IndonesiaIndonesia
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Dan Zhang Yawen
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
EnglandEngland Nathan Robertson Gail Emms
EnglandEngland
Swiss Open China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Lin Dan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Gong Ruina China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Fu Haifeng Cai Yun
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Gao Ling Huang Sui
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min
Korea SouthSouth Korea
All of England China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Lin Dan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Gong Ruina DenmarkDenmark Jens Eriksen Martin Lundgaard Hansen
DenmarkDenmark
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Gao Ling Huang Sui
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min
Korea SouthSouth Korea
Korea Open China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xia Xuanze China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Ning IndonesiaIndonesia Luluk Hadiyanto Alvent Yulianto
IndonesiaIndonesia
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min
Korea SouthSouth Korea
Japan Open IndonesiaIndonesia Ronald Susilo NetherlandsNetherlands Mia Audina Korea SouthSouth Korea Ha Tae-kwon Kim Dong-moon
Korea SouthSouth Korea
Korea SouthSouth Korea Ra Kyung-min Lee Kyung-won
Korea SouthSouth Korea
IndonesiaIndonesia Nova Widianto Vita Marissa
IndonesiaIndonesia
Malaysia Open MalaysiaMalaysia Lee Chong Wei China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Ning MalaysiaMalaysia Choong Tan Fook Lee Wan Wah
MalaysiaMalaysia
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Jun Gao Ling
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
US Open SingaporeSingapore Lee Yen Hui Kendrick SingaporeSingapore Xing Aiying United StatesUnited States Howard Bach Tony Gunawan
United StatesUnited States
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chien Yu-Chin Cheng Wen-Hsing
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Lin Wei-Hsiang Cheng Wen-Hsing
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg
Dutch Open DenmarkDenmark Kenneth Jonassen FranceFrance Pi Hongyan United StatesUnited States Tony Gunawan Howard Bach
United StatesUnited States
DenmarkDenmark Lena Frier Kristiansen Kamilla Rytter Juhl
DenmarkDenmark
DenmarkDenmark Thomas Laybourn Kamilla Rytter Juhl
DenmarkDenmark
Denmark Open China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Lin Dan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xie Xingfang DenmarkDenmark Lars Paaske Jonas Rasmussen
DenmarkDenmark
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wei Yili Zhao Tingting
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chen Qiqiu Zhao Tingting
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
German Open China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Lin Dan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xie Xingfang DenmarkDenmark Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen
DenmarkDenmark
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Dan Zhang Yawen
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
DenmarkDenmark Carsten Mogensen Rikke Olsen
DenmarkDenmark
China Open China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Lin Dan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xie Xingfang IndonesiaIndonesia Candra Wijaya Sigit Budiarto
IndonesiaIndonesia
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Jiewen Yang Wei
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
DenmarkDenmark Jens Eriksen Mette Schjoldager
DenmarkDenmark
Singapore Open DenmarkDenmark Kenneth Jonassen China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Ning IndonesiaIndonesia Luluk Hadiyanto Alvent Yulianto
IndonesiaIndonesia
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
IndonesiaIndonesia Nova Widianto Liliyana Natsir
IndonesiaIndonesia
Chinese Taipei Open MalaysiaMalaysia Lee Chong Wei JapanJapan Chie Umezu MalaysiaMalaysia Chan Chong Ming Koo Kien Keat
MalaysiaMalaysia
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chien Yu-Chin Cheng Wen-Hsing
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg
MalaysiaMalaysia Koo Kien Keat Wong Pei Tty
MalaysiaMalaysia
Indonesia Open IndonesiaIndonesia Taufik Hidayat China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xie Xingfang IndonesiaIndonesia Luluk Hadiyanto Alvent Yulianto
IndonesiaIndonesia
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Jun Gao Ling
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Hong Kong Open called off

baseball

formula 1

Michael Schumacher celebrates his victory in Indianapolis

The German Michael Schumacher became world champion for the seventh time and thus the most successful Formula 1 driver in racing history. The Ferrari team won the constructors' championship for the 14th time.

Soccer

Logo of EM 2004

Otto Rehhagel led the outsider Greece to the title at the European championship held in Portugal . The national teams from Germany and Switzerland failed in the preliminary round.
The Champions League winner was FC Porto and the UEFA Cup was won by FC Valencia . German champion was Werder Bremen for the fourth time . In Austria, the Grazer AK won the championship for the first time in the club's history, while FC Basel celebrated its tenth title in Switzerland .

hockey

The Olympic hockey tournaments were held in Athens in August . In the men's race, Australia became the first Olympic champion. In the women's category, the German team won the gold medal for the first time in its history. The Champions Trophy also saw a new winner: Spain , fourth in the Olympic Games, won the men's title for the first time. The Netherlands secured the women's trophy for the third time.
In Germany, the club on the Alster defended its German championship title from the previous year. RK 08 from Rüsselsheim was the women's champion for the sixth time.

athletics

Motorcycling

Motorcycle world championship

MotoGP class (990 cm³)

  • In the MotoGP class, the 25-year-old Italian Valentino Rossi won the sixth world title of his career on a Yamaha and the third in a row in this category. He prevails against the Spaniard Sete Gibernau and his compatriot Max Biaggi (both Honda ). In the constructors' championship, Honda wins ahead of Yamaha and Ducati .

250 cc class

125 cc class

Superbike World Championship

Details: 2004 Superbike World Championship

Supersport world champion Karl Muggeridge 2012.

World Supersport Championship

Details: 2004 Supersport World Championship

swim

  • November 26-28: German Short Course Championship (in Essen)

skeleton

  • 28.11./2.12 .: European Championship (in Altenberg)

Alpine skiing

Three years after his serious motorcycle accident, the Austrian Hermann Maier was able to secure the overall World Cup for the fourth time in his career . He also won the Super-G discipline. At the end of the year he received the Laureus World Sports Award for the comeback of the year . In the women's category, Anja Pärson from Sweden won the Large Crystal Ball for the first time . Bode Miller and Renate Götschl won two discipline evaluations each.

tennis

The Swiss Roger Federer was the dominant player of the year. He won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments. Only at the French Open did the Argentinian Gastón Gaudio surprisingly celebrate his first and so far only Grand Slam success. In Athens, the Chilean Nicolás Massú became a two-time Olympic champion. The women's tournaments were determined by Russian players. Anastassija Myskina , Maria Sharapova and Svetlana Kuznetsova won the tournaments in Paris, Wimbledon and New York. Only at the Australian Open won Justine Henin-Hardenne . She also won the women's Olympic singles.
Davis Cup winner was Spain for the second time after 2000 . The
Russian team won the Fed Cup for the first time in front of their own audience .

Table tennis

The first highlight of the season was the team world championship in Doha. China defended its title in both men and women. The German men were in the final of a world championship for the first time in 35 years.

Born

Died

See also

Portal: Sport  - Overview of Wikipedia content on sport

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