Kazakhstan competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. This was the nation's third appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan sent a total of 114 athletes to the Games, 71 men and 43 women, to compete in 17 sports. The nation's team size was roughly smaller by 16 athletes from Sydney, and had the third largest share of men in its Summer Olympic history. Water polo was the only team-based sport in which Kazakhstan had its representation in these Olympic games. Among the sports played by the athletes, Kazakhstan marked its official Olympic debut in rhythmic gymnastics.
Notable Kazakh athletes featured returning Olympic medalists Alexander Vinokourov in road cycling and Islam Bairamukov in men's freestyle wrestling. Grigoriy Yegorov made his official comeback for his second Olympic bid, since he won the bronze medal in the men's pole vault at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, representing the Soviet Union. Pistol shooter Galina Belyayeva was the oldest and most accomplished member of the team at age 55. Meanwhile, backstroke swimmer Anastassiya Prilepa set a historic milestone for the Kazakh team as the youngest ever athlete, aged 14, to compete at the Olympics.
Kazakhstan left Athens with a total of eight Olympic medals (one gold, four silver, and three bronze), finishing fortieth in the overall medal count. This was also the nation's poorest Olympic performance in history since the breakup of the Soviet Union, collecting only a single gold medal from welterweight boxer Bakhtiyar Artayev. Three of these medals were awarded each to the athletes in boxing and wrestling, including Artayev's illustrious gold, while Dmitriy Karpov added a second Olympic medal for Kazakhstan in track and field by claiming the bronze in men's decathlon.
Weightlifter Sergey Filimonov originally captured a bronze in the men's 77 kg class. On February 12, 2013, the International Olympic Committee stripped Russia's Oleg Perepetchenov of his 2004 Olympic medal after both probes were retested and showed traces of anabolic steroids, upgrading Filimonov's medal to silver.
Medalists
Medal Name Sport Event Date Boxing Men's welterweight Weightlifting Men's 77 kg Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg Boxing Men's middleweight Wrestling Men's freestyle 74 kg Athletics Men's decathlon Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg Boxing Men's lightweight
Archery
Two Kazakh archers qualified each for the men's and women's individual archery.
AthleteEventRanking roundRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / ScoreSeedOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankStanislav ZabrodskiyMen's individual65129W 145–141L 164 (19)–164 (20)Did not advanceViktoriya BeloslydtsevaWomen's individual62926W 150–145L 155–163Did not advanceOlga Pilipova61648L 128–139Did not advance
Athletics
Kazakh 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).
Men Track & road events AthleteEventHeatQuarterfinalSemifinalFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRankValeriy Borisov20 km walkcolspan=6 1:27:3927Gennadiy Chernovol100 m10.433 Q10.427Did not advanceMihail Kolganov800 m1:47.366colspan=2 Did not advanceSergey Korepanov50 km walkcolspan=6 3:59:3320Rustam Kuvatovcolspan=6 4:13:4037Yevgeniy Meleshenko400 m hurdles49.435 qcolspan=2 49.488Did not advance
Field events AthleteEventQualificationFinalDistancePositionDistancePositionRoman ValiyevTriple jump—Did not advanceGrigoriy YegorovPole vault—Did not advance
Combined events – Decathlon AthleteEvent 100 m 400 m 1500 mFinalRankDmitriy KarpovResult10.507.8115.932.0946.8113.9751.654.6055.544:38.118725 ASPoints9751012847887968978905790671692
Women Track & road events AthleteEventHeatQuarterfinalSemifinalFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRankSvetlana Bodritskaya400 m53.356colspan=2 Did not advanceViktoriya Koviyreva100 m11.625Did not advanceYelena Kuznetsova20 km walkcolspan=6 1:49:0850Tatyana Roslanova800 m2:06.396colspan=2 Did not advanceSvetlana Tolstaya20 km walkcolspan=6 1:34:4328Natalya Torshina-Alimzhanova400 m hurdles55.223 qcolspan=2 55.085Did not advance
Field events AthleteEventQualificationFinalDistancePositionDistancePositionMarina AitovaHigh jump1.85=31Did not advanceTatyana BocharovaTriple jump13.8125Did not advanceYelena KashcheyevaLong jump6.5711 q6.5311Iolanta UlyevaShot put14.8835Did not advance
Combined events – Heptathlon AthleteEvent 200 m 800 mFinalRankSvetlana KazaninaResult14.991.7012.3826.3139.92Points84385568677006660Irina NaumenkoResult14.161.7912.9524.886.1639.502:14.57600022Points956966724898899658899
Boxing
Kazakhstan sent eight boxers to the 2004 Olympics. Each of them won at least one bout, a feat that not even Cuba accomplished. Three of the Kazakhstani boxers won medals, one each of gold, silver, and bronze. This put Kazakhstan in a tie with Thailand for third place in the boxing medals count, behind only Cuba and Russia. Russia was a constant annoyance for the Kazakhs, as they lost four of the five matches they boxed against Russians. In contrast, Bakhtiyar Artayev won the only match Kazakhstan had against the almost-invincible Cubans. Two boxers were defeated in the round of 16. Three more fell in the quarterfinals, just missing medals. The combined record of the eight boxers was 17-7.
AthleteEventRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankMirzhan RakhimzhanovFlyweightW 42–23L 20–29Did not advanceGalib JafarovFeatherweightW W 40–22L 26–36Did not advanceSerik YeleuovLightweightW 28–16W 29–23L 26–40Did not advanceNurzhan KarimzhanovLight welterweightW 48–31W 33–13L 18–20Did not advanceBakhtiyar ArtayevWelterweightW W 33–23W W 20–18W 36–26Gennady GolovkinMiddleweightW 31–10W 31–20W 23–18L 18–28Beibut ShumenovLight heavyweightW 34–22L 19–27Did not advanceMukhtarkhan DildabekovSuper heavyweightW 28–18L 15–31Did not advance
Canoeing
Sprint Men AthleteEventHeatsSemifinalsFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankKaisar NurmaganbetovMen's C-1 500 m1:55.6366 q1:53.3335Did not advanceMen's C-1 1000 m4:00.4865 q3:57.8045Did not advanceNatalya SergeyevaWomen's K-1 500 mDid not advanceNatalya SergeyevaEllina UzhakhovaWomen's K-2 500 m1:46.7108 q1:46.2146Did not advance Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify to final; q = Qualify to semifinal
Cycling
Road AthleteEventTimeRankMaxim IglinskyMen's road raceDid not finishAndrey KashechkinMen's road race5:50:3570Men's time trialDid not finishAndrey MizurovMen's road race5:51:2873Alexander VinokourovMen's road race5:41:5635Men's time trial58:58.145Serguei YakovlevMen's road race5:48:4853
Track Pursuit AthleteEventQualificationSemifinalsFinalTimeRankOpponentResultsRankOpponentResultsRankYuriy YudaMen's individual pursuit4:29.67614Did not advance
Omnium AthleteEventPointsLapsRankAlexey KolessovMen's points race22115Ilya ChernyshovYuriy YudaMen's madison2−112
Gymnastics
Artistic Men AthleteEventQualificationFinalApparatusTotalRankApparatusTotalRankYernar YerimbetovAll-around9.6879.6759.3009.5379.7259.50057.4245 Q9.3128.9629.5379.6259.2259.73756.39814Parallel barscolspan=4 9.7259.725=8 Qcolspan=4 9.7379.7378
Rhythmic AthleteEventQualificationFinalHoopBallClubsRibbonTotalRankHoopBallClubsRibbonTotalRankAliya YussupovaIndividual25.80026.15025.72523.825101.5005 Q25.50026.60026.32525.550103.9754
Judo
Eight Kazakh judoka (five men and three women) qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Men AthleteEventPreliminaryRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsRepechage 1Repechage 2Repechage 3Final / OppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankBazarbek Donbay−60 kgW 1000–0000L 0000–0010Did not advanceL 0001–0200Did not advanceMuratbek Kipshakbayev−66 kgW 0100–0000W 0002–0001L 0001–0100Did not advanceL 0001–0010Did not advanceSagdat Sadykov−73 kgL 0000–1001Did not advanceAskhat Zhitkeyev−100 kgL 0010–1010Did not advanceW 0221–0001W 1000–0000L 0001–0021Did not advanceYeldos Ikhsangaliyev+100 kgW 1000–0000L 0001–1001Did not advance
Women AthleteEventRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsRepechage 1Repechage 2Repechage 3Final / OppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankTatyana Shishkina−48 kgW 0012–0011L 0000–1011Did not advanceL 0100–1000Did not advanceSholpan Kaliyeva−52 kgL 0000–1000Did not advanceVarvara Massyagina−78 kgL 0000–1000Did not advance
Modern pentathlon
Two Kazakh athletes qualified to compete in the modern pentathlon event through the Asian Modern Pentathlon Championships.
AthleteEventShooting(10 m air pistol)Fencing(épée one touch)Swimming(200 m freestyle)Riding(show jumping)Running(3000 m)Total pointsFinal rankPointsRankMP PointsResultsRankMP pointsTimeRankMP pointsPenaltiesRankMP pointsTimeRankMP PointsLada JiyenbalanovaWomen's1582783217–14=78602:18.4971260568114411:25.4521980507614Lyudmila Shumilova170169767–24325682:27.2222115616822103211:43.4125908464030
Shooting
Four Kazakh shooters qualified to compete in the following events:
Men AthleteEventQualificationFinalPointsRankPointsRankAndrey Gurov10 m running target56216Did not advanceVladimir Issachenko10 m air pistol576=23Did not advance50 m pistol5617 Q654.56
Women AthleteEventQualificationFinalPointsRankPointsRankGalina Belyayeva10 m air pistol37333Did not advance25 m pistol577=13Did not advanceOlga Dovgun10 m air rifle395=12Did not advance50 m rifle 3 positions5881 Q684.94
Swimming
Kazakh 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 AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankVitaliy Khan200 m freestyle1:56.1155Did not advanceRustam Khudiyev100 m butterfly55.0341Did not advanceStanislav Osinsky100 m backstroke59.9241Did not advanceVladislav Polyakov100 m breaststroke1:01.16 NR7 Q1:01.368 Q1:01.345200 m breaststroke2:12.966 Q2:12.19 NR7 Q2:11.76 NR5Yevgeniy Ryzhkov200 m individual medleyDid not advanceOleg Shteynikov50 m freestyle23.8855Did not advanceVyacheslav Titarenko100 m freestyle52.0951Did not advance
Women AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankMarina Mulyayeva200 m individual medley2:24.2528Did not advanceAnastassiya Prilepa100 m backstroke1:07.5538Did not advanceYuliya Rissik200 m freestyle2:09.9341Did not advanceYelena Skalinskaya50 m freestyle27.0439Did not advance100 m freestyle58.5641Did not advance
Synchronized swimming
Two Kazakh synchronized swimmers qualified a spot in the women's duet.
AthleteEventTechnical routineFree routine (preliminary)Free routine (final)PointsRankPointsTotal (technical + free)RankPointsTotal (technical + free)RankAliya KarimovaArna ToktaganDuet42.2501842.66784.91718Did not advance
Taekwondo
Kazakhstan has sent one taekwondo jin to compete.
AthleteEventRound of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsRepechage 1Repechage 2Final / OppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankAdilkhan SagindykovMen's +80 kgL 2–7Did not advanceW 5–5 L 2–2 Did not advance5
Triathlon
Four Kazakh triathletes qualified for the following events.
AthleteEventSwim (1.5 km)Trans 1Bike (40 km)Trans 2Run (10 km)Total TimeRankDmitriy GaagMen's18:290:171:05:230:1932:361:56:28.9725Daniil Sapunov18:140:191:02:410:2033:381:54:33.1517Yekaterina ShatnayaWomen's22:000:221:16:500:2540:362:19:26.7541
Water polo
Men's tournament
Roster
Group play
9th-12th Place Semifinal
11th-12th Place Final
Women's tournament
Roster
Group play
7th-8th Place Final
Weightlifting
Three Kazakh weightlifters qualified for the following events: