Summer Olympic Athens 2004

Many sports featured at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2004 in Athens. Officially there were 28 sports as swimming, diving, synchronised swimming and water polo which are classified by the IOC as disciplines within the sport of aquatics and wheelchair racing was a demonstration sport. For the first time, the wrestling category featured women wrestling and in the fencing competition women competed in the sabre. American Kristin Heaston, who led off the qualifying round of women shotput became the first woman to compete at the ancient site of Olympia but Cuban Yumileidi Cumba became the first woman to win a gold medal there.