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The German National Olympic Committee nominated 453 athletes (254 men, 199 women) for participation in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Germany does not participate in baseball, basketball, men's football, women's handball, softball, synchronized swimming, taekwondo, women's tennis, men's volleyball, and women's water polo.

Medals

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Germany	14	16	18	48

Gold:

• Canoeing - Men's K2 500 m, Ronald Rauhe , Tim Wieskötter
• Canoeing - Men's K1 500 m, Andreas Dittmer
• Canoeing - Men's K1 1000 m, Christian Gille , Tomasz Wylenzek
• Canoeing - Women's K4 500 m, Birgit Fischer, Malke Nollen , Katrin Wagner , Carolin Leonhart
• Cycling Track - Team Sprint, Jens Fieldler , Stefan Nimke , Rene Wolff
• Equestrian - Team Dressage, Heike Kemmer with Bonaparte, Hubertus Schmidt with Wansuela Suerte, Martin Schaudt with Weltall, and Ulla Salzberger with Rusty
• Equestrian - Team Jumping, Christian Ahlmann with Coster, Marco Kutscher with Montender, Otto Becker with Cento, and Ludger Beerbaum with Goldfever
• Trampoline - Anna Doganadze
• Hockey - Women's Hockey

• Judo - 57 kg, Yvonne Bönisch
• Rowing - Women's Single Sculls, Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski
• Rowing - Women's Quadruple Sculls, Kathrin Boron, Meike Evers , Manuela Lutze , Kerstin El Qalqili
• Shooting- 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol, Ralf Schumann
• Shooting - 10 m Running Target, Manfred Kurzer

Silver:

• Athletics - Shot Put, Nadine Kleinert
• Cycling Road - Road Race, Judith Arndt
• Canoe/Kayak Slalom - C2 Canoe Double, Marcus Becker , Stefan Henze
• Diving - Synchr 3 m Springboard, Tobias Schellenberg , Andreas Wels
• Fencing - Team Epee, Claudia Bokel , Imke Duplitzer , Britta Heidemann
• Rowing - Double Sculls, Peggy Waleska , Britta Oppelt
• Rowing - Women's Lt Dbl Sculls, Daniela Reimer , Claudia Blasberg
• Shooting - 50 m Rifle Prone, Christian Lusch
• Swimming - 4 x 100 m Medley Relay, Steffen Driesen , Jens Kruppa , Thomas Rupprath , Lars Conrad
• Tennis - Men's Doubles, Nicolas Kiefer, Rainer Schuettler

Bronze:

• Canoe/Kayak Slalom - C1 Canoe Single, Stefan Pfannmöller
• Cycling Track - 1 km Time Trial, Stefan Nimke
• Cycling Track - Sprint, Rene Wolff
• Cycling Track - Points Race, Guido Fulst
• Fencing - Team Epee,
• Trampoline - Henrik Stehlik
• Judo - 100 kg, Michael Jurack
• Judo - 48 kg, Julia Matijass
• Judo - 70 kg, Annett Böhm
• Swimming - Women's 200 m Backstroke, Antje Buschschulte
• Swimming - Women's 200 m Breaststroke, Anne Poleska
• Swimming - 4x200 m Freestyle Relay, Franziska van Almsick, Petra Dallmann , Antje Bushschulte , Hannah Stockbauer
• Swimming - 4x100 m Medley Relay, Antje Buschschulte , Sarah Poewe , Franziska Van Almsick, Daniela Gotz

Results by event

Archery

Men's individual:

• Michael Frankenberg - 21st place

Women's individual:

• Anja Hitzler - 21st place
• Cornelia Pfohl - 22nd place
• Wiebke Nulle - 48th place

Women's team:

• Anja Hitzler, Wiebke Nulle, and Cornelia Pfohl - 7th place

Athletics

Running

Men's 100 metres:

• Alexander Kosenkow - Round 1, 10.28 s (did not advance)

Women's 100 metres:

• Sina Schielke - Round 1, 11.46 s (did not advance)

Men's 110 metre hurdles:

• Mike Fenner - Round 2, 13.53 s (did not advance)
• Jerome Crews - Round 1, 13.83 s (did not advance)

Women's 100 metre hurdles:

• Kirsten Bolm - Semifinal, DNF (did not advance)
• Juliane Sprenger-Afflerbach - Round 1, 13.28 s (did not advance)
• Nadine Hentschke - Round 1, 13.36 s (did not advance)

Men's 200 metres:

• Tobias Unger - Final, 20.64 s (7th place)
• Sebastian Ernst - Semifinal, 20.63 s (did not advance)
• Till Helmke - Round 2, 20.76 s (did not advance)

Men's 400 metres:

• Ingo Schultz - Semifinal, 46.23 s (did not advance)

Women's 400 metre hurdles:

• Ulrike Urbansky - Round 1: 55.15 s, Semifinal: 56.44 s
• Stephanie Kampf - Round 1: DNS

Men's 800 metres:

• Rene Herms - Semifinal, 1:47.7 (did not advance)

Women's 800 metres:

• Claudia Gesell - Round 1: 2:03.87

Men's 1500 metres:

• Wolfram Mueller - Round 1, 3:46.75 (did not advance)

Women's 5000 metres:

• Irina Mikitenko - Round 1: 15:02.16, Final: 15:03.36 (7th place)

Women's 10000 metres:

• Sabrina Mockenhaupt - 32:00.85 (15th place)

Men's 4x100 metre relay:

• Ronny Ostwald , Tobias Unger, Alexander Kosenkow, Till Helmke - Round 1, 0:38.64 (did not advance)

Women's 4x100 metre relay:

• Katja Wakan , Birgit Rockmeier , Marion Wagner , and Sina Schielke - Round 1: 43.64 s (12th place)

Men's 4x400 metre relay:

• Ingo Schultz, Kamghe Gaba , Ruwen Faller , and Bastian Swillims - Final, 3:02.22 (7th place)

Women's 4x400 metre relay:

• Claudia Hoffman , Claudia Marx , Jana Neubert , and Grit Breuer - Round 1: 3:27.75 (10th place)

Women's marathon:

• Luminita Zaituc - 2:36:45 (18th place)
• Ulrike Maisch - DNF

Men's 20 km walk:

• André Höhne - 1:21:56 (8th place)

Women's 20 km walk:

• Melanie Seeger - 1:29:52 (5th place)
• Sabine Zimmer - 1:31:59 (16th place)

Men's 50 km walk:

• André Höhne - DNF
• Andreas Erm - DQ

Jumping

Men's long jump:

• Nils Winter - Round 1, 7.51 metres (did not advance)

Women's long jump:

• Bianca Kappler - Round 1: 6.69 metres, Final: 6.66 metres (9th place)

Men's triple jump:

• Charles Michael Friedek - Round 1, no mark (did not advance)

Men's high jump:

• Roman Fricke - Round 1, 2.20 metres (did not advance)

Men's pole vault:

• Danny Ecker - Final, 5.75 metres (5th place)
• Lars Boergeling - Final, 5.75 metres (6th place)
• Tim Lobinger - Final, 5.55 metres (11th place)

Women's pole vault:

• Silke Spiegelburg - Round 1: 4.40 metres, Final: 4.20 metres (13th place)
• Caroline Hingst - Round 1: 4.30 metres
• Floe Kuehnert - Round 1: 4.15 metres

Throwing

Men's shot put:

• Ralf Bartels - Final, 20.26 metres (8th place)
• Peter Sack - Round 1, 19.09 metres (did not advance)
• Detlef Bock - Round 1, 18.89 metres (did not advance)

Women's shot put:

• Nadine Kleinert - Round 1: 18.65 metres, Final: 19.55 metres (silver medal)
• Astrid Kumbernuss - Round 1: 17.89 metres
• Nadine Beckel - Round 1: 17.11 metres

Men's discus:

• Lars Riedel - Final, 62.80 metres (7th place)
• Torsten Schmidt - Final, 61.18 metres (9th place)
• Michael Moellenbeck - Round 1, 59.79 metres (did not advance)

Women's discus:

• Franka Dietzsch - Round 1: 58.12 metres

Men's hammer:

• Karsten Kobs - Final, 76.30 metres (8th place)
• Markus Esser - Final, 72.51 metres (11th place)

Men's javelin:

• Christian Nicolay - Round 1, 79.77 metres (did not advance)
• Peter Esenwein - Round 1, 78.41 metres (did not advance)
• Boris Henry - Round 1, DNS

Women's javelin:

• Steffi Nerius - Round 1: 62.14 metres, Final: 65.82 metres (silver medal)
• Christina Obergfoell - Round 1: 60.41 metres
• Annika Suthe - Round 1: 58.70 metres

Women's hammer:

• Betty Heidler - Round 1: 69.81 metres, Final: 72.73 metres (NR) (4th place)
• Andrea Bunjes - Round 1: 70.73 metres, Final: 68.40 metres (11th place)
• Susanne Keil - Round 1: 66.35 metres

Combined

Men's decathlon:

• Florian Schoenbeck - 8077 points (12th place)
• Stefan Drews - 7926 points (19th place)
• Dennis Leyckes - DNF

Women's heptathlon:

• Sonja Kesselschlager - 6287 points (6th place)
• Claudia Tonn - 6155 points (12th place)
• Karin Ertl - 6095 points (17th place)

Badminton

Men's singles:

• Björn Joppien - defeated in round of 16

Women's singles:

• Juliane Schenk - defeated in round of 32
• Huaiwen Xu - defeated in round of 32

Women's doubles:

• Nicole Grether and Juliane Schenk - defeated in round of 16

Mixed doubles:

• Bjoern Siegemund and Nicol Pitro - defeated in round of 16

Boxing

Germany sent two boxers to the 2004 Olympics. They won two bronze medals as the team went for a combined record of 6-4. Germany was in a four-way tie for 12th place in the boxing medals scoreboard.

Flyweight (51kg)

• Rustamhodza Rahimov - bronze medal
  1. Round of 32 - Bye
  2. Round of 16 - Defeated Oscar Escandon Berrio of Colombia, 25-15
  3. Quarterfinal - Defeated Paulus Ambunda of Namibia, 28-15
  4. Semifinal - Lost to Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano of Cuba, 20-11

Featherweight (57kg)

• Vitali Tajbert - bronze medal
  1. Round of 32 - Defeated Daniel Brizuela of Argentina, outscored
  2. Round of 16 - Defeated Khedafi Djelkhir of France, 40-26
  3. Quarterfinal - Defeated Luis Franco Vazquez of Cuba, 34-26
  4. Semifinal - Lost to Song Guk Kim of DPR Korea, 29-24

Middleweight (75kg)

• Lukas Wilaschek
  1. Round of 32 - Defeated Jamie Pittman, Australia , 24-23
  2. Round of 16 - Lost to Oleg Maskin of Ukraine, 34-24

Super Heavyweight (over 91kg)

• Sebastian Koeber
  1. Round of 16 - Lost to Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov of Kazakhstan, 28-18

Canoeing

Germany entered 19 canoes in the canoeing competition in 2004. 18 qualified for semifinals, 17 qualified for finals, and 16 placed in the top 8. 9 won medals, including 4 gold, 4 silver, and 1 bronze. This made Germany the most successful nation in the Athens canoeing competition.

Flatwater canoe

Flatwater men's C1 500m:

• Andreas Dittmer - gold medal
  1. Heat - 1:49.146
  2. Final - 1:46.383

Flatwater men's C1 1000m:

• Andreas Dittmer - silver medal
  1. Heat - 3:52.922
  2. Final - 3:46.721

Flatwater men's C2 500m:

• Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek - 5th place
  1. Heat - 1:40.128
  2. Final - 1:40.802

Flatwater men's C2 1000m:

• Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek - gold medal
  1. Heat - 3:30.059
  2. Final - 3:41.802

Flatwater kayak

Flatwater men's K1 500m:

• Lutz Altepost - 6th place
  1. Heat - 1:38.859
  2. Semifinal - 1:39.643
  3. Final - 1:39.647

Flatwater women's K1 500m:

• Katrin Wagner - 4th place
  1. Heat - 1:53.234
  2. Semifinal - 1:52.630
  3. Final - 1:52.557

Flatwater women's K1 1000m:

• Bjoern Goldschmidt - 8th place
  1. Heat - 3:31.310
  2. Semifinal - 3:29.561
  3. Final - 3:34.381

Flatwater men's K2 500m:

• Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter - gold medal
  1. Heat - 1:28.866
  2. Final - 1:27.040

Flatwater women's K2 500m:

• Birgit Fischer and Carolin Leonhardt - silver medal
  1. Heat - 1:39.588
  2. Final - 1:39.533

Flatwater men's K2 1000m:

• Jan Schaefer and Marco Herszel - 6th place
  1. Heat - 3:11.627
  2. Final - 3:20.548

Flatwater women's K4 500m:

• Birgit Fischer, Maike Nollen , Katrin Vagner , Carolin Leonhardt - gold medal
  1. Heat - 1:31.606
  2. Final - 1:34.340

Flatwater men's K4 1000m:

• Andreas Ihle , Mark Zabel , Björn Bach , Stefan Ulm - silver medal
  1. Heat - 2:52.678
  2. Final - 2:58.659

Slalom

Slalom men's C1:

• Stefan Pfannmöller - bronze medal
  1. Heat - 205.88
     • Run 1 - 104.34
     • Run 2 - 101.54
  2. Total - 191.56
     • Semifinal - 96.99
     1. Final - 94.57

Slalom men's C2:

• Marcus Becker and Stefan Henze - silver medal
  1. Heat - 215.56
     • Run 1 - 108.35
     • Run 2 - 107.21
  2. Total - 210.98
     • Semifinal - 106.32
     • Final - 104.66
• Christian Bahmann and Michael Senft - 4th place
  1. Heat - 230.59
     • Run 1 - 116.01
     • Run 2 - 114.58
  2. Total - 213.45
     • Semifinal - 107.01
     • Final - 106.44

Slalom men's K1:

• Thomas Schmidt - 5th place
  1. Heat - 190.64
     • Run 1 - 93.28
     • Run - 97.36
  2. Total - 192.93
     • Semifinal - 95.11
     • Final - 97.82
• Jens Ewald - 25th place
  1. Heat - 250.09
     • Run 1 - 150.69
     • Run 2 - 99.40
  2. Total - Did not qualify for semifinal

Slalom women's K1:

• Jennifer Bongardt - 9th place
  1. Heat - 212.20
     • Run 1 - 102.96
     • Run 2 - 109.24
  2. Total - 237.66
     • Semifinal - 107.36
     • Final - 130.30
• Mandy Planert - 14th place
  1. Heat - 225.77
     • Run 1 - 114.90
     • Run 2 - 110.87
  2. Total - DNF (did not qualify for final)
     • Semifinal - 122.61
     • Final - Did not qualify

Diving

Men's 3 metre springboard:

• Andreas Wels - Prelim: 378.93 (23rd place)
• Tobias Schellenberg - Prelim: 371.85 (27th place)

Women's 3 metre springboard:

• Ditte Kotzian - Prelim: 299.50, Semifinal: 221.20, Final: 288.42 (11th place)
• Heike Fischer - Prelim: 199.71 (31st place)

Fencing

Men's épée individual:

• Daniel Strigel - defeated in quarterfinals
• Sven Schmid - defeated in round of 16
• Joerg Fiedler - defeated in round of 32

Women's épée individual:

• Imke Duplitzer - defeated in quarterfinals
• Claudia Bokel - defeated in round of 16
• Britta Heidemann - defeated in round of 16

Men's foil individual:

• Peter Joppich - defeated in quarterfinals
• Ralf Bissdorf - defeated in round of 32
• Andre Wessels - defeated in round of 32

Women's foil individual:

• Simone Bauer - defeated in round of 16

Women's sabre individual:

• Susanne Koenig - defeated in round of 32

Men's épée team:

• Sven Schmid, Joerg Fiedler, and Daniel Strigel - bronze medal

Women's épée team:

• Imke Duplitzer, Britta Heidemann, and Claudia Bokel - silver medal

Men's foil team:

• Andre Wessels, Peter Joppich, and Simon Senft - 6th place

Football (Soccer)

Women's: bronze medal

• Preliminary round: 2-0-0
• Quarterfinal: defeated Nigeria, 2-1
• Semifinal: lost to United States, 2-1
• Bronze medal match: defeated Sweden, 1-0

Handball

Men's: silver medal

• Preliminary round: 3-0-2
• Quarterfinal: defeated Spain, 32-30
• Semifinal: defeated Russia, 21-15
• Gold medal match: lost to Croatia, 26-25

Hockey

Men's: bronze medal

• Preliminary round: 3-2-0
• Semifinal: lost to Netherlands, 3-2
• Bronze medal match: defeated Spain, 4-3

Women's: gold medal

• Preliminary round: 2-0-2
• Semifinal: defeated China, 4-3
• Gold medal match: defeated Netherlands, 2-1

Tennis

Men's Single:

• Nicolas Kiefer
  • Round 1: Nicolas Kiefer - Vladimir Voltchkov , 6:2, 6:4
  • Round 2: Nicolas Kiefer - Marcos Baghdatis, 6:2, 3:6, 6:3
  • Round 3: Mikhail Youzhny - Nicolas Kiefer, 6:2, 3:6, 6:2
• Tommy Haas
  • Round 1: Tommy Haas - Mario Ancic, 6:1, 7:5
  • Round 2: Andy Roddick - Tommy Haas, 4:6, 6:3, 9:7
• Florian Mayer
  • Round 1: Tomas Berdych - Florian Mayer, 6:3, 7:5
• Rainer Schuettler
  • Round 1: Igor Andreev - Rainer Schuettler, 6:7, 7:6, 6:3

Men's Doubles:

• Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schuettler: silver medal
  • Round 1: Kiefer/Schuettler - Hanescu/Pavel, 7:5, 7:6
  • Round 2: Kiefer/Schuettler - Arthurs/Woodbridge, 7:6, 6:3
  • Quarterfinal: Kiefer/Schuettler - Erlich/Ram, 2:6, 6:2, 6:2
  • Semifinal: Kiefer/Schuettler - Bhupathi/Paes, 6:2, 6:3
  • Final: Gonzalez/Massu - Kiefer/Schuettler, 6:2, 4:6, 3:6, 7:6, 6:4

Triathlon

Germany's five triathletes in 2004 included three veterans, but the defending silver medallist was not among them. Each of the three improved upon their ranking from four years earlier, while the two rookie men also had solid races. Germany earned no medals in the 2004 triathlons, but did have a top eight finisher.

Women's:

• Anja Dittmer - 2:07:25.07 (11th place)
• Joelle Franzmann - 2:08:18.33 (16th place)

Men's:

• Andreas Raelert - 1:52:35.62 (6th place)
• Maik Petzold - 1:54:50.92 (19th place)
• Sebastian Dehmer - 1:57:02.88 (26th place)

Volleyball

Men's beach:

• Andreas Scheuerpflug and Christoph Dieckmann
  • Prelims: 3-0
  • Round of 16: Won 2-0 against Andrew Schacht and Joshua Slack , Australia
  • Quarterfinal: Defeated 2-1 by Julien Prosser and Mark Williams, Australia
• Markus Dieckmann and Jonas Reckermann
  • Prelims: 2-1
  • Round of 16: Defeated 2-1 by Daxton Holdren and Stein Metzger , United States

Women's beach:

• Okka Rau and Stephanie Pohl
  • Prelims: 2-1
  • Round of 16: Won 2-1 against Vasiliki Arvaniti and Efthalia Koutroumanidou , Greece
  • Quarterfinal: Defeated 2-0 by Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs , United States
• Susanne Lahme and Danja Musch
  • Prelims: 2-1
  • Round of 16: Defeated 2-1 by Daniela Gattelli and Lucilla Perrotta , Italy

Women's:

• Prelims: 2-3
• Quarterfinal: Did not qualify

Water polo

Men's: 5th place

• Preliminary round: 3-1-1
• Quarterfinal: Lost to Russia, 12-5
• Classification 5/6: Defeated Spain, 6-4

Officials

• President: Klaus Steinbach
• Secretary General: Bernhard Schwank