World records at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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During the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , 23 world records were set.

Archery

discipline World record World record holder previous world record previous world record holder set up
singles 687 rings In the dong-hyun 685 rings Young Sung Shim 1995
singles 682 rings Sung-hyun Park 679 rings Natalia Valeeva 2004
team 2030 rings South Korean women's team 1994 rings South Korean women's team 2000

Weightlifting

class World record World record holder previous world record previous world record holder set up
up to 48 kg 210.0 kg Nurcan Taylan 207.5 kg Mingjuan Wang 2002
up to 62 kg 325 kg Shi Zhiyong 325 kg Nikolai Peshalov 2000
up to 69 kg 275.0 kg Liu Chunhong 270.0 kg Liu Chunhong 2003
over 75 kg 305.0 kg Gonghong Tang 302.5 kg Gonghong Tang 2004
Super heavyweight 472.5 kg Hossein Rezazadeh

athletics

discipline World record World record holder previous world record previous world record holder set up
Pole vault 4.91 m Elena Isinbayeva 4.90 m Elena Isinbayeva 2004
110 meter hurdles 12.91 s Liu Xiang 12.91 s Colin Jackson 1993

Cycling

discipline World record World record holder previous world record previous world record holder set up
500 meter time trial 33,952 s Anna Meares 34,000 s Yonghua Jiang 2002
3000 meter individual pursuit 3: 24.537 min Sarah Ulmer 3: 26,400 min Sarah Ulmer 2004
Team chase 3: 56.610 min Australian team 3: 59.583 min Australian team 2002

shoot

discipline World record World record holder previous world record previous world record holder set up
Running disc 590 rings Manfred Kurzer 588 rings Igor Kolesov , Yang Ling 2002
10 meter air rifle 702.7 rings Zhu Qinan 702.5 rings Jason Parker 2003

swim

route World record World record holder previous world record previous world record holder set up
100 meters freestyle 53.52 s Jodie Henry 53.66 s Libby Lenton 2004
100 meters back 53.45 s Aaron Peirsol 53.60 s Lenny Krayzelburg 1999
400 meter locations 4: 08.26 min Michael Phelps 4: 08.41 min Michael Phelps 2004
4 × 100 meter freestyle 3: 13.17 min South African men's relay 3: 13.67 min Australian men's relay 2000
4 × 100 meter freestyle 3: 35.94 min Australian women's relay 3: 36.00 min German women's relay 2002
4 × 100 meter layers 3: 57.32 min Australian women's relay 3: 58.30 min American women's relay 2000
4 × 100 meter layers 3: 30.68 min American men's relay 3: 31.54 min American men's relay 2003
4 × 200 meter freestyle 7: 53.42 min American women's relay 7: 55.47 min GDR women's relay 1987