Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put
The men's shot put at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held on 18 August 2004 at the Ancient Olympia Stadium. It was originally planned to hold the discus throw at this venue, but it was discovered that the field was not large enough to accommodate the range of modern discus throwers, and would have posed a danger to spectators. As such, it was decided instead to hold the shot put at the site, despite the fact that the shot put was not contested at the Ancient Olympic Games. All distances are given in metres.
Ukrainian shot putter Yuriy Bilonoh was stripped of his gold medal on 5 December 2012 after drug re-testings of his samples were found positive. After the announcement of the disqualification, there was a new distribution of medals on 5 March 2013. According to a statement from the IOC, sent to the Spanish Olympic Committee, the gold medal went to silver medalist Adam Nelson of the United States, the silver to Joachim Olsen of Denmark, and the bronze to Manuel Martínez of Spain.
Competition format
Each athlete receives three throws in the qualifying round. All who achieve the qualifying distance progress to the final. If less than twelve athletes achieve this mark, then the twelve furthest throwing athletes reach the final. Each finalist is allowed three throws in last round, with the top eight athletes after that point being given three further attempts.Schedule
All times are Greece Standard Time| Date | Time | Round |
| Wednesday, 18 August 2004 | 10:00 17:30 | Qualification Final |
Records
, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.No new records were set during the competition.
Results
Qualifying round
Rule: Qualifying standard 20.40 or at least 12 best qualified.| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
| 1 | A | Adam Nelson | 21.15 | 21.15 | Q | |||
| 2 | B | Joachim Olsen | 20.78 | 20.78 | Q | |||
| 3 | A | Ralf Bartels | 20.65 | 20.65 | Q | |||
| 4 | A | Yuriy Bilonoh | 20.61 | 20.61 | Q | |||
| 5 | B | John Godina | 19.73 | 20.53 | 20.53 | Q | ||
| 6 | A | Justin Anlezark | 18.53 | 20.45 | 20.45 | Q | ||
| 7 | B | Manuel Martínez | 19.15 | 19.54 | 20.37 | 20.37 | q | |
| 8 | B | Mikuláš Konopka | 20.32 | 20.20 | 20.32 | q | ||
| 9 | A | Andrei Mikhnevich | 20.10 | 20.11 | 20.09 | 20.11 | q | |
| 10 | A | Petr Stehlík | 19.74 | 20.06 | 20.06 | q | ||
| 11 | B | Yury Bialou | 20.06 | 20.06 | q | |||
| 12 | B | Miran Vodovnik | 18.83 | 20.04 | 20.04 | q | ||
| 13 | B | Tepa Reinikainen | 18.27 | 19.71 | 19.74 | 19.74 | ||
| 14 | A | Rutger Smith | 19.02 | 19.28 | 19.69 | 19.69 | ||
| 15 | A | Gheorghe Guşet | 19.42 | 19.26 | 19.68 | 19.68 | ||
| 16 | A | Ivan Yushkov | 19.15 | 19.42 | 19.67 | 19.67 | ||
| 17 | B | Pavel Lyzhyn | 19.60 | 19.60 | ||||
| 18 | B | Tomasz Majewski | 19.55 | 19.07 | 19.55 | |||
| 19 | B | Ville Tiisanoja | 19.28 | 19.50 | 19.50 | |||
| 20 | B | Bradley Snyder | 19.36 | 19.46 | 19.46 | |||
| 21 | B | Janus Robberts | 19.41 | 19.41 | ||||
| 22 | A | Reese Hoffa | 18.88 | 19.40 | 19.40 | |||
| 23 | A | Pavel Chumachenko | 19.17 | 19.38 | 19.38 | |||
| 24 | B | Zsolt Bíber | 19.31 | 19.31 | ||||
| 25 | A | Ivan Emilianov | 18.83 | 18.92 | 19.25 | 19.25 | ||
| 26 | A | Taavi Peetre | 19.14 | 18.97 | 19.14 | |||
| 27 | A | Antonín Žalský | 18.93 | 19.09 | 19.09 | |||
| 28 | B | Peter Sack | 19.09 | 17.91 | 19.09 | |||
| 29 | A | Nedžad Mulabegović | 18.86 | 19.07 | 19.07 | |||
| 30 | B | Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi | 19.04 | 19.04 | ||||
| 31 | B | Pavel Sofin | 18.78 | 19.02 | 19.02 | |||
| 32 | B | Dragan Perić | 18.91 | 18.79 | 18.74 | 18.91 | ||
| 33 | A | Detlef Bock | 18.40 | 18.89 | 18.89 | |||
| 34 | B | Burger Lambrechts | 18.67 | 18.63 | 18.67 | |||
| 35 | A | Roman Virastyuk | 18.12 | 18.40 | 18.52 | 18.52 | ||
| 36 | B | Edis Elkasević | 17.54 | 18.44 | 18.44 | |||
| 37 | A | Galin Kostadinov | 17.75 | 17.51 | 17.47 | 17.75 | ||
| A | Marco Antonio Verni | ' | ||||||
| A | Bahadur Singh Sagoo | ' |