The men's javelin throw competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 26–28 August.

Competition format 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.

Schedule All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2) Date Time RoundThursday, 26 August 2004 20:00QualificationSaturday, 28 August 2004 20:40Final

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world record, Olympic record, and world leading mark were as follows:

No new records were set during the competition.

Results

Qualifying round Rule: Qualifying standard 81.00 (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank Group Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes 1 A Breaux Greer 87.25 87.25 Q 2 A Sergey Makarov 86.08 86.08 Q 3 B Vadims Vasiļevskis 84.43 84.43 Q, PB 4 A Esko Mikkola 83.64 83.64 Q 5 A Andrus Värnik 83.25 83.25 Q 6 B Aleksandr Ivanov 82.18 82.18 Q 7 B Tero Pitkämäki 82.04 82.04 Q 8 B Andreas Thorkildsen 81.74 81.74 Q 9 B Jan Železný 81.18 81.18 Q 10 A Matti Närhi 81.06 81.06 Q 11 B Ēriks Rags 77.92 80.84 80.84 q 12 A Steve Backley 80.60 80.68 80.39 80.68 q 13 B Isbel Luaces 80.07 77.53 79.07 80.07 14 A Gerhardus Pienaar 79.95 74.69 79.56 79.95 15 B Li Rongxiang 79.73 79.94 79.94 16 A Christian Nicolay 79.77 78.50 79.77 17 A Voldemārs Lūsis 79.27 79.27 18 B Yukifumi Murakami 77.25 77.60 78.59 78.59 19 B Oliver Dziubak 77.21 78.53 75.57 78.53 20 B Peter Esenwein 75.18 73.76 78.41 78.41 21 A William Hamlyn-Harris 69.64 74.34 77.43 77.43 22 A Peter Zupanc 74.11 72.42 77.34 77.34 23 A Miroslav Guzdek 76.45 75.36 75.75 76.45 24 B Sergey Voynov 74.68 74.08 72.71 74.68 25 B Stuart Farquhar 74.24 73.07 74.63 74.63 26 A Gergely Horváth 73.45 73.95 72.05 73.95 27 A Ronny Nilsen 73.46 73.46 28 B Nick Nieland 68.86 71.31 72.79 72.79 29 B Park Jae-myong 63.01 67.60 72.70 72.70 30 A Manuel Fuenmayor 72.26 68.72 72.14 72.26 31 A David Brisseault 68.70 71.86 69.58 71.86 32 A Marián Bokor 68.21 71.74 67.73 71.74 33 B Edi Ponoš 66.73 71.43 71.43 B Boris Henry DNS

Final Rank Name Nationality 1 2 3 4 5 6 Result Notes Andreas Thorkildsen 84.82 86.50 80.96 86.50 PB Vadims Vasiļevskis 84.95 83.95 79.07 80.91 84.95 PB Sergey Makarov 84.84 77.59 78.00 82.51 84.32 84.84 4 Steve Backley 79.62 81.48 84.13 83.02 81.62 84.13 SB 5 Aleksandr Ivanov 83.31 82.76 81.36 80.28 78.07 79.99 83.31 6 Andrus Värnik 83.25 82.72 76.41 —83.25 7 Ēriks Rags 77.13 83.14 81.69 78.63 83.14 8 Tero Pitkämäki 80.38 83.01 81.19 83.01 9 Jan Železný 76.77 79.98 80.59 80.59 10 Matti Närhi 80.28 78.73 80.28 11 Esko Mikkola 76.20 79.43 76.23 79.43 12 Breaux Greer 74.36 74.36

References

External links Official Olympic Report