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2004 Summer Olympic Games gold medallists

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2004 Summer Olympic Games gold medallists

ATHLETICS	Men	Country	Women	Country
Track events
100 metres	Justin Gatlin	USA	Yuliya Nesterenko	Belarus
200 metres	Shawn Crawford	USA	Veronica Campbell	Jamaica
400 metres	Jeremy Wariner	USA	Tonique Williams-Darling	Bahamas
800 metres	Yuriy Borzakovskiy	Russia	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain
1,500 metres	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain
5,000 metres	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia
10,000 metres	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	Huina Xing	China
Marathon	Stefano Baldini	Italy	Mizuki Noguchi	Japan
100m hurdles	--	--	Joanna Hayes	USA
110m hurdles	Xiang Liu	China	--	--
400m hurdles	Felix Sanchez	Dominica	Fani Halkia	Greece
3,000m steeple	Ezekiel Kemboi	Kenya	--	--
20km walk	Ivano Brugnetti	Italy	Athanasia Tsoumeleka	Greece
50km walk	Robert Korzeniowski	Poland	--	--
4 × 100m relay	Gardener/ Campbell/ Devonish/ Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	Lawrence/ Simpson/ Bailey/ Campbell	Jamaica
4 × 400m relay	Harris/ Brew/ Wariner/ Williamson	USA	Trotter/ Henderson/ Richards/ Hennagan	USA
Field events
High jump	Stefan Holm	Sweden	Yelena Slesarenko	Russia
Long jump	Dwight Phillips	USA	Tatyana Lebedeva	Russia
Triple jump	Christian Olsson	Sweden	Francoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon
Pole vault	Timothy Mack	USA	Yelena Isinbayeva*	Russia
Javelin	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway	Osleidys Menendez	Cuba
Shot put	Yuriy Bilonog	Ukraine	Irina Korzhanenko	Russia
Discus	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	Natalya Sadova	Russia
Hammer	Koji Murofushi	Japan	Olga Kuzenkova	Russia
Multi-discipline
Heptathlon	--	--	Carolina Kluft	Sweden
Decathlon	Roman Sebrle	Czech R.	--	--
SWIMMING	Men	Country	Women	Country
50m freestyle	Gary Hall	USA	Inge de Bruijn	Netherlands
100m freestyle	P. van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	Jodie Henry	Australia
200m freestyle	Ian Thorpe	Australia	Camelia Potec	Romania
400m freestyle	Ian Thorpe	Australia	Laure Manaudou	France
800m freestyle	--	--	Ai Shibata	Japan
1500m freestyle	Grant Hackett	Australia	--	--
100m breaststroke	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	Xuejuan Luo	China
200m breaststroke	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	Amanda Beard	USA
100m backstroke	Aaron Peirsol	USA	Natalie Coughlin	USA
200m backstroke	Aaron Peirsol	USA	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe
100m butterfly	Michael Phelps	USA	Petria Thomas	Australia
200m butterfly	Michael Phelps	USA	Otylia Jedrzejczak	Poland
200m medley	Michael Phelps	USA	Yana Klochkova	Ukraine
400m medley	Michael Phelps	USA	Yana Klochkova	Ukraine
4x100m freestyle relay	Schoeman/ Ferns/ Townsend/ Neethling*	South Africa	Mills/ Lenton/ Thomas/ Henry*	Australia
4x200m freestyle relay	Phelps/ Lochte/ Vanderkaay/ Keller	Australia	Coughlin/ Piper/ Vollmer/ Sandeno*	USA
4x100m medley relay	Peirsol/ Hansen/ Crocker/ Lezak*	USA	Rooney/ Jones/ Thomas/ Henry*	Australia
DIVING	Men	Country	Women	Country
3m springboard	Bo Peng	China	Jingjing Guo	China
10m platform	Jia Hu	China	Chantelle Newbery	Australia
3m synchronized	Nikolaos Siranidis, Thomas Bimis	Greece	Minxia Wu, Jingjing Guo	China
10m synchronized	Liang Tian, Jinghui Yang	China	Lishi Lao, Ting Li	China
GYMNASTICS	Men	Country	Women	Country
All-round	Paul Hamm	USA	Carly Patterson	USA
Floor exercise	Kyle Shewfelt	Canada	Catalina Ponor	Romania
Balance beam	--	--	Catalina Ponor	Romania
Assymetrical bars	--	--	Emilie Lepennec	France
Rings	Dimosthenis Tampakos	Greece	--	--
Parallel bars	Valeri Goncharov	Ukraine	--	--
Horizontal bar	Igor Cassina	Italy	--	--
Pommel horse	Marius Daniel Urzica	Romania	--	--
Vault	Gervasio Deferr	Spain	Monica Rosu	Romania
Team event	Kashima/ Mizutori/ Nakano/ Tomita/ Tsukahara/ Yoneda	Japan	Ban/ Eremia/ Ponor/ Rosu/ Sofronie/ Stroescu	Romania
*New world record

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Paul Valéry

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Paul Valéry , 1871–1945, French poet and critic. A follower of the symbolists , Valéry was one of the greatest French poets of the 20th cent. He was encouraged by Pierry Loüys and by Mallarmé to publish a few poems in several small reviews, but he soon turned from poetry to prose with La Soirée avec M. Teste (1896; tr. An Evening with Mr. Teste, 1925). In 1912, Gide and other admirers urged him to publish a collection of his early poems. A brief valedictory to poetry, which he had planned to add to the collection, grew into his masterpiece, La Jeune Parque (1917). It is a long and somewhat obscure poem, which, together with Le Cimetière marin (1920; tr. The Graveyard by the Sea, 1932), offers the best example of Valéry's poetics. In 1920 appeared Odes and Album de vers anciens, followed in 1922 by Charmes. His prose works include five collections of essays, all called Variété (1924–44; partial tr. Variety, 1927, 1938), and four dialogues on subjects ranging from the arts to mathematics and the sciences. He succeeded Anatole France in the French Academy in 1925. Between the world wars Valéry was a member of the Committee of Letters and Arts of the League of Nations, serving as its president in the 1930s. Valéry held the chair of poetry at the Collège de France. A recipient of many honors, he was accorded a state funeral at his death. Publication (in English) of a projected 15-volume edition of The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, edited by Jackson Mathews, was begun in 1956.

Bibliography: See studies by H. A. Grubbs (1968), W. N. Ince (2d ed. 1970), and C. M. Crow (1972); bibliography by A. J. Arnold (1970).

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Valéry, Paul

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Valéry, Paul (1871–1945) French poet and critic. Influenced by symbolism and Stephane Mallarmé in particular, Valéry's masterpiece is La Jeune Parque (1917). Other works, such as Le Cimetière marin (1920) and Charmes (1922), cemented his lyrical, abstract style. Valéry's Cahiers (1957–60) record his thoughts on a wide range of issues. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1925.