| Event: | Men's javelin throw |
| Games: | 2004 Summer |
| Venue: | Olympic Stadium |
| Dates: | 26–28 August |
| Competitors: | 34 |
| Nations: | 23 |
| Gold: | Andreas Thorkildsen |
| Goldnoc: | NOR |
| Silver: | Vadims Vasiļevskis |
| Silvernoc: | LAT |
| Bronze: | Sergey Makarov |
| Bronzenoc: | RUS |
| Longnames: | yes |
| Win Label: | Winning distance |
| Win Value: | 86.50 |
| Prev: | 2000 |
| Next: | 2008 |
The men's javelin throw competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 25–27 August.[1]
In the qualifying round, each athlete receives three throws. 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.[2]
All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)
| Date | Time | Round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, 26 August 2004 | 20:00 | Qualification | |||
| style=background:lemonchiffon | Saturday, 28 August 2004 | style=background:lemonchiffon | 20:40 | style=background:lemonchiffon | Final |
, the existing world record, Olympic record, and world leading mark were as follows:
No new records were set during the competition.
Rule: Qualifying standard 81.00 (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).
| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality |
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| Result | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | 87.25 | 87.25 | Q | ||||||
| 2 | A | 86.08 | 86.08 | Q | ||||||
| 3 | B | 84.43 | 84.43 | Q, PB | ||||||
| 4 | A | 83.64 | 83.64 | Q | ||||||
| 5 | A | 83.25 | 83.25 | Q | ||||||
| 6 | B | 82.18 | 82.18 | Q | ||||||
| 7 | B | 82.04 | 82.04 | Q | ||||||
| 8 | B | 81.74 | 81.74 | Q | ||||||
| 9 | B | 81.18 | 81.18 | Q | ||||||
| 10 | A | 81.06 | 81.06 | Q | ||||||
| 11 | B | 77.92 | 80.84 | 80.84 | q | |||||
| 12 | A | 80.60 | 80.68 | 80.39 | 80.68 | q | ||||
| 13 | B | 80.07 | 77.53 | 79.07 | 80.07 | |||||
| 14 | A | 79.95 | 74.69 | 79.56 | 79.95 | |||||
| 15 | B | 79.73 | 79.94 | 79.94 | ||||||
| 16 | A | 79.77 | 78.50 | 79.77 | ||||||
| 17 | A | 79.27 | 79.27 | |||||||
| 18 | B | 77.25 | 77.60 | 78.59 | 78.59 | |||||
| 19 | B | 77.21 | 78.53 | 75.57 | 78.53 | |||||
| 20 | B | 75.18 | 73.76 | 78.41 | 78.41 | |||||
| 21 | A | 69.64 | 74.34 | 77.43 | 77.43 | |||||
| 22 | A | 74.11 | 72.42 | 77.34 | 77.34 | |||||
| 23 | A | 76.45 | 75.36 | 75.75 | 76.45 | |||||
| 24 | B | 74.68 | 74.08 | 72.71 | 74.68 | |||||
| 25 | B | 74.24 | 73.07 | 74.63 | 74.63 | |||||
| 26 | A | 73.45 | 73.95 | 72.05 | 73.95 | |||||
| 27 | A | 73.46 | 73.46 | |||||||
| 28 | B | 68.86 | 71.31 | 72.79 | 72.79 | |||||
| 29 | B | 63.01 | 67.60 | 72.70 | 72.70 | |||||
| 30 | A | 72.26 | 68.72 | 72.14 | 72.26 | |||||
| 31 | A | 68.70 | 71.86 | 69.58 | 71.86 | |||||
| 32 | A | 68.21 | 71.74 | 67.73 | 71.74 | |||||
| 33 | A | 68.39 | 70.25 | 69.10 |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Result | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84.82 | 86.50 | 80.96 | 86.50 | PB | |||||||
| 84.95 | 83.95 | 79.07 | 80.91 | 84.95 | PB | ||||||
| 84.84 | 77.59 | 78.00 | 82.51 | 84.32 | 84.84 | ||||||
| 4 | 79.62 | 81.48 | 84.13 | 83.02 | 81.62 | 84.13 | SB | ||||
| 5 | 83.31 | 82.76 | 81.36 | 80.28 | 78.07 | 79.99 | 83.31 | ||||
| 6 | 83.25 | 82.72 | 76.41 | - | 83.25 | ||||||
| 7 | 77.13 | 83.14 | 81.69 | 78.63 | 83.14 | ||||||
| 8 | 80.38 | 83.01 | 81.19 | 83.01 | |||||||
| 9 | 76.77 | 79.98 | 80.59 | 80.59 | |||||||
| 10 | 80.28 | 78.73 | 80.28 | ||||||||
| 11 | 76.20 | 79.43 | 76.23 | 79.43 | |||||||
| 12 | 74.36 | 74.36 |