Nauru competed at the
2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens
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,
Greece
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, from 13 to 29 August 2004.
Background
The
Nauru Olympic Committee
Nauru Olympic Committee (IOC code: NRU) is the National Olympic Committee representing Nauru. It represents and organises the Olympic movement on the island. The NNOC was founded in 1991 and was recognised by the International Olympic Committee ...
was recognized by the
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
on 1 January 1994.
Weightlifting
All three of Nauru's athletes at the Games were weightlifters, including
2002 Commonwealth champion
Reanna Maricha Solomon
Reanna Solomon (16 December 1981 – 1 July 2022) was a Nauruan weightlifter. She was the first female Nauruan athlete to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal, and remains one of the only three Nauruans ever to have won a Commonwealth Games gold, ...
. The best finish came from Peter, who beat out four other lifters to place 8th. Both male athletes were the youngest in their respective classes.
See also
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Nauru at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Nauru was represented at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester by a team consisting solely of weight-lifters. Marcus Stephen, who became President of Nauru five years later, competed for the fourth and last time. The 2002 Games were the first ...
References
External links
Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad
Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004
2004 in Nauruan sport
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