Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...
competed at the
2004 Summer Paralympics
)
, nations = 136
, athletes = 3,806
, events = 519 in 19 sports
, opening = 17 September
, closing = 28 September
, opened_by = President Costis Stephanopoulos
, cauldron = Georgios Toptsis
, stadium = Olympi ...
in
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
,
Greece
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. The team included 84 athletes—49 men and 35 women. Russian competitors won forty-one medals, sixteen gold, eight silver and seventeen bronze, to finish eleventh in the
medal table
The Olympic medal table is a method of sorting the medal placements of countries in the modern-day
Olympics and Paralympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not officially recognize a ranking of participating countries at the Olympic ...
.
Medallists
Sports
Athletics
Men's track
Men's field
Women's track
Women's field
Equestrian
Football 7-a-side
The men's football 7-a-side team won a bronze medal after defeating
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
.
Players
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Pavel Borisov
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Evgeny Chubko Yevgeni, Yevgeny, Yevgenii or Yevgeniy (russian: Евгений), also transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeny, Evgenii or Evgeniy, is the Russian form of the masculine given name Eugene. People with the name include:
:''Note: Occasionally, a person may b ...
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Marat Fatiakhdinov
Marat may refer to:
People
*Marat (given name)
*Marat (surname)
**Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), French political theorist, physician and scientist
Arts, entertainment, and media
*''Marat/Sade'', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss
* ''Marat/Sade'' (fil ...
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Alexander Frolov
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Aleksandr Glushonok
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Anton Kalachev
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Andrey Kuvaev
Andrey Kuvaev (russian: Андрей Куваев; born 8 June 1983, in Dzerzhinsk) is a Russian Paralympic footballer who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games in China
China, officially the People's Republic of Chin ...
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Andrey Lozhechnikov
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Lasha Murvanidze
Lasha, meaning ''fissure'' is a place apparently east of the Dead Sea
The Dead Sea ( he, יַם הַמֶּלַח, ''Yam hamMelaḥ''; ar, اَلْبَحْرُ الْمَيْتُ, ''Āl-Baḥrū l-Maytū''), also known by other names, is ...
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Ivan Potekhin
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Oleg Smirnov
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Alexei Tchesmine
Tournament
Judo
Men
Women
Powerlifting
Men
Women
Sailing
Shooting
Men
Women
Swimming
Men
Women
Table tennis
Men
Women
Wheelchair tennis
See also
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Russia at the Paralympics
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Russia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
References
{{NPCin2004SummerParalympics
Nations at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
2004
Summer Paralympics