gazol qualified for the spanish squad as a lone athlete in the men's pole vault at the 2004 summer olympics in athens. nearly a week before the games commenced, gazol improved his personal best and an olympic b-standard of 5.60 m to earn a spot on the spanish team at the national championships in almería. gazol successfully vaulted 5.30 m on his first attempt, but failed to raise the bar at a targeted height of 5.50 m after three straight misses, leaving him in a twenty-eighth place draw with czech republic's štěpán janáček and australia's steven hooker at the end of the qualifying round.