Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's javelin throw

The men's javelin throw competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 25–27 August.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
Thursday, 26 August 2004	20:00	Qualification
Saturday, 28 August 2004	20:40	Final

Records

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

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
Template:Gold01	Andreas Thorkildsen	Template:FlagIOC	84.82	86.50	80.96	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	86.50	PB
Template:Silver02	Vadims Vasiļevskis	Template:FlagIOC	84.95	83.95	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	79.07	80.91	84.95	PB
Template:Bronze03	Sergey Makarov	Template:FlagIOC	84.84	Template:Sort	77.59	78.00	82.51	84.32	84.84
4	Steve Backley	Template:FlagIOC	79.62	81.48	84.13	83.02	Template:Sort	81.62	84.13	SB
5	Aleksandr Ivanov	Template:FlagIOC	83.31	82.76	81.36	80.28	78.07	79.99	83.31
6	Andrus Värnik	Template:FlagIOC	83.25	82.72	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	76.41	—	83.25
7	Ēriks Rags	Template:FlagIOC	77.13	83.14	81.69	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	78.63	83.14
8	Tero Pitkämäki	Template:FlagIOC	80.38	83.01	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	81.19	Template:Sort	83.01
9	Jan Železný	Template:FlagIOC	76.77	79.98	80.59				80.59
10	Matti Närhi	Template:FlagIOC	Template:Sort	80.28	78.73				80.28
11	Esko Mikkola	Template:FlagIOC	76.20	79.43	76.23				79.43
12	Breaux Greer	Template:FlagIOC	74.36	Template:Sort	Template:Sort				74.36

External links

• Official Olympic Report

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