Cuba at the 2004 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	CUB
Nocname:	Cuban Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2004
Location:	Athens
Competitors:	151
Sports:	18
Flagbearer:	Iván Pedroso
Rank:	11
Gold:	9
Silver:	7
Bronze:	11
Appearances:	auto

Cuba competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. This was the nation's seventeenth appearance in the Olympics, except for some editions. Cuban athletes did not attend in two Olympic Games (1984 and 1988), where they joined the Soviet and North Korean boycott. Cuban Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since 1972. A total of 151 athletes, 97 men and 54 women, competed in 18 sports.

The Cuban team featured seven defending Olympic champions from Sydney: taekwondo jin Ángel Matos in the men's welterweight division, the women's volleyball team (led by Yumilka Ruíz), boxers Mario Kindelán and Guillermo Rigondeaux, Greco-Roman wrestler Filiberto Azcuy, sprint hurdler Anier García, and long jumper Iván Pedroso, who later became the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.^[1] Among the champions, Kindelan and Rigondeaux managed to defend Olympic titles in their respective weight categories.^[2] Skeet shooter Guillermo Alfredo Torres, the oldest athlete of the team at age 45, became the first Cuban athlete to compete in five Olympic Games since 1980; meanwhile, judoka Yamila Zambrano was the youngest of the team at age 18.

Cuba left Athens with a total of 27 Olympic medals (9 gold, 7 silver, and 11 bronze), failing only two golds short of the total record achieved from Sydney. Eight of these medals were awarded to the athletes in boxing, six in judo, and five in athletics. Cuba's team-based athletes proved successful in Athens, as men's baseball and women's volleyball teams won gold and bronze medals, respectively. Among the nation's gold medalists were Osleidys Menéndez, who previously won the bronze in Sydney and also, became the first non-European athlete to claim an Olympic title in women's javelin throw since María Caridad Colón did so in 1980.^[3] On August 23, 2004, the International Olympic Committee stripped off Russia's Irina Korzhanenko shot put title after failing the doping test for stanozolol, and the gold medal was subsequently awarded to Yumileidi Cumbá at the conclusion of the Games.^[4]

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
	5	2	1	8
	2	1	2	5
	1	1	1	3
	1	0	0	1
	0	1	5	6
	0	1	0	1
	0	1	0	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
Total	9	7	11	27

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics. One Cuban archer qualified for the women's individual archery.

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Cuban athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard).^{[5] [6]}

Yumileidi Cumbá originally claimed a silver medal in women's shot put. On August 23, 2004, the International Olympic Committee stripped off Russia's Irina Korzhanenko shot put title after failing the doping test for stanozolol. Following the announcement of Annus' disqualification, Cumba's medal was eventually upgraded to gold.^{[4] [7]}

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Anier García	align=left rowspan=3	110 m hurdles	13.24	1 Q	13.28	2 Q	13.30	3 Q	13.20
Yoel Hernández	13.41	2 Q	13.29	2 Q	13.37	6	Did not advance
Yuniel Hernández	13.48	4 Q	13.46	4 Q			Did not advance
Yeimer López	400 m	45.44	2 Q	45.52	4	Did not advance
Yacnier Luis	400 m hurdles			Did not advance
Aguelmis Rojas	Marathon	2:21:59	47

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Yoandri Betanzos	Triple jump	17.53	2 Q	17.47	4
Frank Casañas	Discus throw	60.60	17	Did not advance
Arnie David Giralt	Triple jump	16.70	17	Did not advance
Isbel Luaces	Javelin throw	80.07	13	Did not advance
Lois Maikel Martínez	Discus throw	57.18	29	Did not advance
Iván Pedroso	Long jump	8.05	11 q	8.23	7
Lisvany Pérez	High jump	2.28	=4 Q	2.25	11
Yoelbi Quesada	Triple jump	17.01	9 Q	16.96	8

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Zulia Calatayud	800 m	2:03.99	3 Q	1:59.21	4 q	2:00.95	8
Mariela González	Marathon	3:02:20	59
Daimí Pernía	400 m hurdles	55.91	5	Did not advance
Anay Tejeda	100 m hurdles	13.24	5	Did not advance
Virgen Benavides Roxana Díaz Miladis Lazo Ana López	4 × 100 m relay	43.60	6	Did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Noraida Bicet	Javelin throw	60.97	12 q	62.51	7
Yusmay Bicet	Triple jump	14.53	14 Q	14.57	9
Sonia Bisset	Javelin throw	61.45	8 Q	63.54	5
Yunaika Crawford	Hammer throw	71.74	2 Q	73.16
Yumileidi Cumbá	Shot put	19.10	2 Q	19.59
Yudelkis Fernández	Long jump	6.36	30	Did not advance
Yania Ferrales	Discus throw	61.54	10 q		—
Misleydis González	Shot put	18.33	10 q	18.59	7
Osleidys Menéndez	Javelin throw	64.91	1 Q	71.53
Yipsi Moreno	Hammer throw	70.56	7 Q	73.36
Aldenay Vasallo	Hammer throw	62.64	37	Did not advance

Baseball

See main article: Baseball at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

RosterManager: 39 – Higinio Vélez

Coach: 22 – Carlos Pérez Cepero, 30 – Pedro José Delgado Pérez, 34 – José Sánchez Elosegui, 41 – Francisco Laza Escaurrido Chapelle

Round robin

width=170	Team	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=100	Tiebreaker
	6	1	1-0
	6	1	0-1
	5	2	-
	4	3	-
	3	4	-
	2	5	-
	1	6	1-0
	1	6	0-1

Semifinal

Gold Medal Final

Won Gold Medal

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Cuba, by far the most successful country at boxing in the 2004 Olympics, entered a boxer in each of the 11 weight classes in Athens. None of the seven boxers with a round of 32 match lost it. Only one of the boxers fell in the round of 16 (also the only boxer not to win a match), with the other ten advancing to quarterfinals. Two lost there, while the remaining eight ensured medals for themselves by winning their quarterfinal matches. One lost in the semifinal, earning a bronze medal. Of the seven Cuban boxers that advanced to the final bout in their weight classes, five won the match to take gold and two lost to claim silver medals.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Yan Bartelemí	Light flyweight	W	W 23–14	W 30–11	W 29–17	W 21–16
Yuriorkis Gamboa	Flyweight	W 46–33	W 26–21	W 26–18	W 20–11	W 38–23
Guillermo Rigondeaux	Bantamweight	W 21–7	W	W 20–5	W 27–13	W 22–13
Luis Franco	Featherweight	W 32–15	W 30–15	L 26–34	Did not advance
Mario Kindelán	Lightweight	W	W 24–9	W 23–11	W 20–10	W 30–22
Yudel Johnson	Light welterweight		W	W 32–28	W 13–9	L 11–17
Lorenzo Aragón	Welterweight	W	W 16–14	W 32–28	W 38–10	L 26–36
Yordanis Despaigne	Middleweight	W 36–24	W 38–25	L 11–12	Did not advance
Yoan Pablo Hernández	Light heavyweight		L 18–30	Did not advance
Odlanier Solís	Heavyweight		W 24–21	W 24–4	W	W 22–13
Michel López Núñez	Super heavyweight		W 18–13	W 21–7	L 16–18	Did not advance

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Karel Aguilar Chacon	Men's C-1 1000 m	3:54.250	3 q	3:52.260	2 Q	3:54.957	8
Aldo Pruna Díaz	Men's C-1 500 m	1:50.426	3 q	1:53.229	4	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Ledis Balceiro Ibrahim Rojas	Men's C-2 500 m	1:39.860	2 Q	1:40.350
Men's C-2 1000 m	3:30.435	2 Q	3:50.346	8

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify to final; q = Qualify to semifinal

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Track

Sprint

Time trial

Omnium

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Cuban divers qualified for eight individual diving spots at the 2004 Olympic Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Jorge Betancourt	align=left rowspan=2	3 m springboard	382.56	21	Did not advance
Erick Fornaris	380.07	22	Did not advance
Erick Fornaris	align=left rowspan=2	10 m platform	351.75	28	Did not advance
José Guerra	375.87	25	Did not advance
Jorge Betancourt Erick Fornaris	3 m synchronized springboard	338.46	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Iohana Cruz	3 m springboard	203.76	29	Did not advance
Yaima Mena	align=left rowspan=2	10 m platform	238.44	30	Did not advance
Yolanda Ortiz	259.47	26	Did not advance

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Four Cuban fencers (two men and two women) qualified for the following events:

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Andrés Carillo	Individual épée		W 15–10	L 11–15	Did not advance
Cándido Maya	Individual sabre	W 15–13	L 9–15	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Eimey Gómez	Individual épée	W 11–9	L 9–15	Did not advance
Ana Faez Miclin	Individual sabre		W 15–13	L 4–15	Did not advance

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Artistic

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
Abel Driggs Santos	align=left rowspan=2	All-around	8.875	9.600	9.550	9.012	9.425	8.812	55.274	28	Did not advance
Eric López Ríos	9.062	9.500	9.637	9.400	9.687	9.112	56.398	18 Q	9.137	8.600	9.500	9.700	9.675	8.837	55.449	20

Women

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Twelve Cuban judoka (five men and seven women) qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Yordanis Arencibia	−66 kg	W 0101–0010	W 1001–0001	W 1001–0001	L 0002–1010	W 0200–0000
Rubert Martínez	−73 kg	L 0000–1000	Did not advance
Gabriel Arteaga	−81 kg	W 0130–0001	L 0001–0010	Did not advance
Yosvany Despaigne	−90 kg	L 0001–0011	Did not advance
Oreidis Despaigne	−100 kg	W 0100–0010	L 0000–1001	Did not advance		W 1000–0010	L 0000–0221	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Yamila Zambrano	−48 kg		L 0000–1110	Did not advance
Amarilis Savón	−52 kg	W 1000–0000	W 1010–0000	W 0101–0000	L 0010–1000	W 1000–0000
Yurisleydis Lupetey	−57 kg		W 1000–0000	W	L 0000–1000	W 0010–0000
Driulis González	−63 kg		L 0001–0010	Did not advance			W 1000–0000	W 1010–0000	W
Anaysi Hernandez	−70 kg	L 0000–1000	Did not advance
Yurisel Laborde	−78 kg		W 0011–0001	L 0000–1001	Did not advance		W 1001–0000	W 0030–0022	W 1001–0001
Daima Beltrán	+78 kg	W 0030–0010	W 1000–0000	W 1001–0000	W 1000–0000	L 0100–1000

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Cuban rowers qualified the following boats:

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yuleidys Cascaret	Single sculls	7:19.45	2 R	6:58.44	1 SA/B/C	6:58.35	4 FB	6:58.61	12
Yoennis Hernández Yosbel Martínez	Double sculls	7:20.95	5 R	6:16.38	2 SA/B	6:24.54	5 FB	6:15.37	9
Armando Arrechavaleta Yosvel Iglesias	Lightweight double sculls	6:25.14	5 R	6:27.89	4 SC/D	6:28.09	2 FC	6:48.50	14

Women

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; R=Repechage

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Eight Cuban shooters (six men and two women) qualified to compete in the following events:

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Norbelis Bárzaga	10 m air pistol	573	=30	Did not advance
50 m pistol	542	=34	Did not advance
Arseny Borrero	50 m pistol	535	40	Did not advance
Reinier Estpinan	50 m rifle prone	581	46	Did not advance
Leuris Pupo	25 m rapid fire pistol	585	=7	Did not advance
Juan Miguel Rodríguez	align=left rowspan=2	Skeet	122 (4)	=3 Q	147 (10)
Guillermo Alfredo Torres	119	=21	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Eglis Yaima Cruz	10 m air rifle	385	39	Did not advance
50 m rifle 3 positions	571	=20	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Margarita Tarradell	10 m air pistol	368	=35	Did not advance
25 m pistol	565	=32	Did not advance

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Cuban swimmers earned qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard time, and 1 at the B-standard time):

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Imaday Núñez González	100 m breaststroke	1:12.14	27	Did not advance
200 m breaststroke	2:36.40	28	Did not advance

Taekwondo

See main article: Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Two Cuban taekwondo jin qualified for the following events.

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ángel Matos	Men's −80 kg	L 7–8	Did not advance
Yanelis Labrada	Women's −49 kg		W 3–1	W 8–3	L 4–5

Volleyball

Beach

See also: Beach volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Francisco Álvarez Juan Rossell	Men's	Pool B L 1 – 2 (19–21, 21–19, 10–15) L 0 – 2 (21–23, 20–22) W 2 – 0 (21–18, 21–19)	3	Did not advance
Dalixia Fernández Tamara Larrea	Women's	Pool B W 2 – 1 (21–17, 18–21, 15–10) W 2 – 0 (21–19, 21–16) L 0 – 2 (14–21, 19–21)	2 Q	L 0 – 2 (18–21, 19–21)	Did not advance

Indoor

See main article: Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Women's tournament

See main article: Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament.

Roster

Group play

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Bronze Medal Final

Won Bronze Medal

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Two Cuban weightlifters qualified for the following events:

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Yoandry Hernández	Men's −94 kg	167.5	=14	207.5	=10	375	12
Michel Batista	Men's −105 kg	182.5	=12	212.5	12	395	11

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool			Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
René Montero	−55 kg	W 3–0	L 1–3	2	Did not advance			13
Yandro Quintana	−60 kg	W 3–0	W 3–0	1 Q	W 3–0	W 3–1	W 3–0
Serguei Rondón	−66 kg	L 1–3	W 4–0	2	Did not advance			9
Iván Fundora	−74 kg	W 3–0	W 3–0	1 Q	W 3–1	L 1–3	W 3–1
Yoel Romero	−84 kg	W 4–0	W 3–0	1 Q	W 3–1	L 1–3	L 1–3	4
Alexis Rodríguez	−120 kg	W 4–0	W 3–0	1 Q	L 1–3	Did not advance	W 5–0	5

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Lázaro Rivas	−55 kg	W 4–0	W 3–1		1 Q	L 1–3	Did not advance	W 4–0	5
Roberto Monzón	−60 kg	W 3–1	W 3–0	W 3–0	1 Q		W 3–1	L 0–3
Juan Marén	−66 kg	L 0–3	W 3–0		2	Did not advance			13
Filiberto Azcuy	−74 kg	W 3–1	W 3–0		1 Q	L 1–3	Did not advance	L 0–5	6
Ernesto Peña	−96 kg	W 3–1	W 3–1		1 Q	L 1–3	Did not advance	W 3–0	5
Mijaín López	−120 kg	W 3–0	W 3–0		1 Q	L 0–3	Did not advance	W 5–0	5

See also

• Cuba at the 2003 Pan American Games
• Cuba at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

External links

• Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad

Notes and References

1. News: Mastrascusa. Francisco. Pudiera ser Iván Pedroso el abanderado de Cuba. Can Iván Pedroso be the flag bearer for Cuba?. Cuba Hora. 9 August 2004. 22 April 2014. dead. https://archive.today/20140422061522/http://old.cubahora.cu/index.php?tpl=buscar/ver-not_buscar.tpl.html&newsid_obj_id=1001142. 22 April 2014.
2. News: Kindelan dashes Khan's title hopes. CNN. 29 August 2004. 22 April 2014.
3. News: Menendez wins with record. BBC Sport. 27 August 2004. 22 April 2014.
4. News: Shot champ stripped of gold. BBC Sport. 23 August 2004. 8 April 2014.
5. Web site: iaaf.org – Top Lists. IAAF. June 4, 2011.
6. Web site: IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – Athens 2004 Entry Standards. IAAF. 4 June 2011.
7. News: Korzhanenko faces lifetime ban from sport. ESPN. 23 August 2004. 20 April 2014.