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Colombia at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Colombia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
IOC code	COL
NOC	Colombian Olympic Committee
Website	www.olimpicocol.co (in Spanish)
inAthens
Competitors	53 in 15 sports
Flag bearer	Carmenza Delgado
Medals Ranked 68th	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 2 Total 2
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Colombia competed at the 2004 Summer OlympicsinAthens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. This was the nation's sixteenth appearance at the Olympics, except the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Comité Olímpico Colombiano sent the nation's largest delegation to the Games since 1972. A total of 53 athletes, 32 men and 21 women, took part in 18 sports. Ten Colombian athletes had previously competed in Sydney, including tennis player Fabiola Zuluaga in the women's singles, road cyclist Víctor Hugo Peña, and weightlifter Carmenza Delgado, who became the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.^[1]

Colombia left Athens with a total of two Olympic bronze medals, which were both awarded to weightlifter Mabel Mosquera, and track cyclist María Luisa Calle in the women's points race.^[2] Originally, Calle finished in the bronze medal position, but was later disqualified under a strict liability rule after she had been tested positive for the banned stimulant heptaminol, handing the medal over to U.S. cyclist Erin Mirabella. As a result of the International Olympic Committee's decision on November 23, 2005, the bronze medal was officially reinstated to Calle after this had been proven to be a false positive due to isometheptene presence in an analgesic prescribed during the competition.^[3][4]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Mabel Mosquera	Weightlifting	Women's 53 kg	August 15
Bronze	María Luisa Calle	Cycling	Women's points race	August 25

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Cycling	0	0	1	1
Weightlifting	0	0	1	1
Total	0	0	2	2

Medals by gender
Gender				Total	Percentage
Female	0	0	2	2	100%
Male	0	0	0	0	0%
Mixed	0	0	0	0	0%
Total	0	0	2	2	100%

Colombian 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]

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

Track & road events

Women

Track & road events

Field events

Colombia sent five boxers to Athens. Three lost their first matches, while two won once before being defeated. Juan Camilo Novoa was the most successful, as he made it to the quarterfinals after having a bye in his first round and winning his bout in the round of 16.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Carlos Tamara	Light flyweight	Bouchtouk (MAR) W 48–25	Pinto (ITA) L 35–49	Did not advance
Óscar Escandón	Flyweight	Bye	Rahimov (GER) L 15–25	Did not advance
Likar Ramos Concha	Featherweight	Biarnadski (BLR) L 18–32	Did not advance
José David Mosquera	Lightweight	Escobedo (USA) L RSC	Did not advance
Juan Camilo Novoa	Welterweight	Bye	Balog (HUN) W 33–24	Kim J-J (KOR) L 23–25	Did not advance

Pursuit

Time trial

Omnium

Athlete	Event	Points	Laps	Rank
María Luisa Calle	Women's points race	12	0
Leonardo Duque José Serpa	Men's madison	3	−2	16

Colombian divers qualified for two individual spots at the 2004 Olympic Games.

Men

Colombia has qualified a single fencer.

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ángela María Espinosa	Individual épée	Tychler (RSA) W 15–8	Heidemann (GER) L 3–15	Did not advance

Men

Three Colombian judoka (two males and one female) qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mario Valles	Men's −81 kg	Canto (BRA) L 0000–1000	Did not advance
Sergio Camacho	Men's +100 kg	Pepic (AUS) L 0000–1000	Did not advance
Lisseth Orozco	Women's −48 kg	Shishkina (KAZ) L 0011–0012	Did not advance

Three Colombian shooters (two men and one woman) qualified to compete in the following events:

Men

Women

Colombian 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

Three Colombian taekwondo jin qualified for the following events.

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Julian Rojas	Men's +80 kg	Nikolaidis (GRE) L 3–7	Did not advance		Zrouri (MAR) L 2–6	Did not advance		7
Gladys Mora	Women's −49 kg	Putri (INA) W 2–2 SUP	Chen S-H (TPE) L 0–1	Did not advance	Baidya (NEP) W 5–(−1)	Carías (GUA) W 2–0	Boorapolchai (THA) L 1–2	4
Paola Delgado	Women's −57 kg	Salazar (MEX) L 2–5	Did not advance

Two Colombian tennis players qualified for the following events.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Catalina Castaño	Women's singles	Daniilidou (GRE) L 2–6, 1–6	Did not advance
Fabiola Zuluaga		Janković (SCG) W 6–4, 6–1	Suárez (ARG) W 4–6, 7–6(7–1), 6–1	Schiavone (ITA) L 7–6(7–5), 1–6, 3–6	Did not advance
Catalina Castaño Fabiola Zuluaga	Women's doubles	—	Kremer / Schaul (LUX) W 7–6(9–7), 2–6, 9–7	Molik / Stubbs (AUS) L 4–6, 2–6	Did not advance

Colombia has qualified a single triathlete.

Nine Colombian weightlifters qualified for the following events:

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Mabel Mosquera	−53 kg	87.5	=3	110	3	197.5
Ubaldina Valoyes	−69 kg	105	=6	127.5	8	232.5	8
Tulia Medina	−75 kg	112.5	=7	132.5	9	245	8
Carmenza Delgado	+75 kg	120	9	150	=8	270	9

Key

• VT - Victory by Fall.
• PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
• PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Luis Izquierdo	−66 kg	Vardanyan (UKR) L 0–4 ST	Eroğlu (TUR) L 0–4 ST	Kvirkvelia (GEO) W 5–0 EV	3	Did not advance			10

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

• Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad
• Comité Olímpico Colombiano Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)