Chile at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Chile at the 2004 Summer Olympics

IOC code	CHI
NOC	Chilean Olympic Committee
Website	www.coch.cl (in Spanish)
in Athens
Competitors	22 in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Kristel Köbrich^[1]
Medals Ranked 39th	Gold 2 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 3
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Chile competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004.

Chilean Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico de Chile, COCH) sent a total of 22 athletes to the Games, 16 men and 6 women, to compete in 11 sports; the nation's team size was roughly smaller from Sydney by almost half of the athletes, due to the absence of the men's football team. Six Chilean athletes had previously competed in Sydney, including tennis star and top medal favorite Nicolás Massú. Long-distance freestyle swimmer and Pan American Games bronze medalist Kristel Köbrich set a historic milestone as the nation's first ever female flag bearer in the opening ceremony, wearing and parading with a traditional Chilean costume.^[1]

Chile left Athens with a remarkable historic milestone from tennis players Nicolás Massú and Fernando González, as they picked up the grand slam Olympic title for the Chilean team in the men's doubles tournament.^[2]^[3] While Gonzalez collected a bronze in his match against U.S. tennis player Taylor Dent, Massu summoned his strength to defeat Dent's teammate Mardy Fish with a striking effort to complete the Chilean party on the Olympic tennis court, and most significantly, to snatch his second gold medal in the men's singles.^[4]^[5]

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Our priority as players was always playing in the singles, but we knew each other very well. Fernando and I grew up playing doubles together from a early age, and we had a particular style playing doubles, very different to other players. We use to play on the baseline, almost like a game of singles. The other players didn't like to go against us. You are worried about how the match is developing, you never know what can happen in a 5 set game. You can be the better pair one moment and then the worst pair. We won the first set, and then we lost the second set. Fernando had played nearly 4 hours before our game, but the key was to stay in the game. We knew we would have a chance of winning. Obviously it was not the nicest of things to have a team mate who had already played to his maximum four hours before, and then going against the German pair who had being preparing for this game for two days. We were not playing on a level field, but that was the game we had to play. There was no other way. We could not play three days later, that was it. This was probably the most important game in our lives, we could not get afford to get distracted We had to just play the game. My grandfather taught me that the game is not over, until you lose the final point in a match. When the referee says it's finished, or when you shake your opponents hand, that is when the game is over. We won the fourth set, and fifth set was a war. We could win or lose, but we would give 110% in this game. We may faint on the court, but we would not leave until we gave all we could give. We are level four all, in the fifth set. Advantage to us. Schüttler is serving, or Kiefer, I can't remember When we broke their serve, I positioned myself to hit the ball with my right hand and play the ball to Schüttler. We took the lead 5 - 4, then you get one minute break to sit down. Then Fernando is serving for the match. So we did not have time to think, If we are losing or we are winning. You don't have time to think, as an athlete you are not thinking on those things.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Nicolás Massú	Tennis	Men's singles	August 22
Gold	Fernando González Nicolás Massú	Tennis	Men's doubles	August 21
Bronze	Fernando González	Tennis	Men's singles	August 21

Athletics

Chilean 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).^[6]^[7]

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Men
Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Marco Antonio Verni	Shot put	NM	—	Did not advance

Women
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Érika Olivera	Marathon	2:57:14	58

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Carolina Torres	Pole vault	4.00	33	Did not advance

Canoeing

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jonnathan Tafra	Men's C-1 1000 m	4:04.402	5 q	4:22.644	8	Did not advance

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

Cycling

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Marcelo Arriagada	Men's road race	Did not finish

Track

Omnium

Athlete	Event	Points	Laps	Rank
Marco Arriagada	Men's points race	25	1	11

Mountain biking

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Cristóbal Silva	Men's cross-country	LAP (1 lap)	40

Fencing

Chile has qualified a single fencer.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Paris Inostroza	Individual épée	Bye	Thompson (USA) L 12–13	Did not advance

Judo

Chile has qualified a single judoka.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Gabriel Lama	Men's −90 kg	Olson (USA) L 0001–0120	Did not advance

Rowing

Chilean rowers qualified the following boats:

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Óscar Vásquez	Single sculls	7:38.04	5 R	7:06.51	3 SD/E	7:27.11	2 FD	7:10.75	23

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Soraya Jadué	Single sculls	7:58.28	3 R	7:37.60	2 SA/B	8:16.21	6 FB	7:42.76	11

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

Sailing

Chilean sailors have qualified one boat for each of the following events.

Open

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*	Net points	Final rank
Matías del Solar	Laser	39	38	6	38	16	15	18	11	27	31	16	216	23

M = Medal race; OCS = On course side of the starting line; DSQ = Disqualified; DNF = Did not finish; DNS= Did not start; RDG = Redress given

Shooting

Chile has qualified a single shooter.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Jorge Atalah	Skeet	117	=31	Did not advance

Swimming

Chilean 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

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Max Schnettler	100 m freestyle	51.91	49	Did not advance
Giancarlo Zolezzi	200 m freestyle	1:53.18	39	Did not advance
	400 m freestyle	3:56.52	25	—		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	16:00.52	30	—		Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Kristel Köbrich	400 m freestyle	4:18.68	26	Did not advance
Kristel Köbrich	800 m freestyle	8:40.41	15	Did not advance

Table tennis

Four Chilean table tennis players qualified for the following events.

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Juan Papic	Men's singles	Lupulesku (USA) L 0–4	Did not advance
Juan Papic Alejandro Rodríguez	Men's doubles	—	Akinlabi / Nosiru (NGR) L 1–4	Did not advance
Berta Rodríguez	Women's singles	Oshonaike (NGR) L 0–4	Did not advance
Berta Rodríguez Maria Paulina Vega	Women's doubles	Perez / Ramos (VEN) L 3–4	Did not advance

Tennis

Chile nominated two male tennis players to compete in the tournament.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Fernando González	Men's singles	Economidis (GRE) W 7–6^(8–6), 6–2	Lee H-T (KOR) W 7–5, 6–2	Roddick (USA) W 6–4, 6–4	Grosjean (FRA) W 6–2, 2–6, 6–4	Fish (USA) L 6–3, 3–6, 4–6	Dent (USA) W 6–4, 2–6, 16–14
Nicolas Massú	Men's singles	Kuerten (BRA) W 6–3, 5–7, 6–4	Spadea (USA) W 7–6^(7–3), 6–2	Andreev (RUS) W 6–3, 6–7^(4–7), 6–4	Moyà (ESP) W 6–2, 7–5	Dent (USA) W 7–6^(7–5), 6–1	Fish (USA) W 6–3, 3–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4
Fernando González Nicolas Massú	Men's doubles	—	Knowles / Merklein (BAH) W 7–5, 6–4	Etlis / Rodríguez (ARG) W 6–3, 7–6^(7–2)	B Bryan / M Bryan (USA) W 7–5, 6–4	Ančić / Ljubičić (CRO) W 7–5, 4–6, 6–4	Kiefer / Schüttler (GER) W 6–2, 4–6, 3–6, 7–6^(9–7), 6–4

References

^ ^a ^b "Nadadora Kristel Köbrich será abanderada de Chile en Atenas" [Swimmer Kristel Köbrich will be Chile's flag bearer in Athens] (in Spanish). La Nación. 1 July 2004. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
^ Dillman, Lisa (23 August 2004). "A Lasting Gold Image for Chileans". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
^ Porteous, Clinton (22 August 2004). "Chile cheers Olympic first". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
^ "Massu gets second gold medal of Games". ESPN. 30 August 2004. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
^ "Massu seals golden double". BBC Sport. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
^ "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
^ "IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – Athens 2004 Entry Standards". IAAF. Retrieved 4 June 2011.

External links

Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad
Chilean Olympic Committee (in Spanish)

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