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Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Shot Put events at the 2004 Summer Olympics were 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.

From the qualifying rounds the top twelve competitors progressed to the final where the previous rounds distances were ignored and they were given a further three throws. After that the top eight went on to have a further three attempts to decide the gold medallist.

Adam Nelson (USA) had placed second at the last three major meets – the 2000 Olympics, and the 2001 and 2003 World Championships – and he hoped to improve on that. He opened with 21.16 metres (69-5¼) in round one, which led. It would be his best throw, and in fact, his only fair throw, as he followed with five fouls. In second after the first round was Ukraine’s Yuriy Bilonoh with 21.15 metres (69-4¾), only one centimeter back.

He repeated that mark in round two but could do no better, and still trailed Nelson until the final round. In the final round Nelson had a marginal foul of around 21.30 metres (69-10¾), and had to settle for his opening mark. Bilonoh then threw 21.16 metres (69-5¼) in the final round to tie Nelson, but his next best mark was better than Nelson’s, who had no next best mark. Thus Nelson was again in second place. Finally in 2005, he would stop that trend, winning the World Championships.

Medalists

Gold	Yuriy Bilonog Ukraine (UKR)
Silver	Adam Nelson United States (USA)
Bronze	Joachim Olsen Denmark (DEN)

Schedule

• All times are Eastern European Time (UTC+2)

Abbreviations

Records

Standing records prior to the 2004 Summer Olympics
World Record	Randy Barnes (USA)	23.12 m	May 20, 1990	Los Angeles, United States
Olympic Record	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	22.47 m	September 23, 1988	Seoul, South Korea

Results

Qualifying

q = qualified for final
medallists in bold August 18, 10:00
Group A

1. Adam Nelson, United States 21.15 q
2. Ralf Bartels, Germany 20.65 q
3. Yuriy Bilonog, Ukraine 20.61 q
4. Justin Anlezark, Australia 20.45 q
5. Andrey Mikhnevich, Belarus 20.11 q
6. Petr Stehlik, Czech Republic 20.06 q
7. Rutger Smith, Netherlands 19.69
8. Gheorghe Guset, Romania 19.68
9. Ivan Yushkov, Russia 19.67
10. Reese Hoffa, United States 19.40
11. Pavel Chumachenko, Russia 19.38
12. Ivan Emelianov, Republic of Moldova 19.25
13. Taavi Peetre, Estonia 19.14
14. Antonin Zalsky, Czech Republic 19.09
15. Nedzad Mulabegovic, Croatia 19.07
16. Detlef Bock, Germany 18.89
17. Roman Virastyuk, Ukraine 18.52
18. Galin Kostadinov, Bulgaria 17.75

NM Marco Antonio Verni, Chile
NM Bahadur Singh Sagoo, India

Group B

1. Joachim Olsen, Denmark 20.78 q
2. John Godina, United States 20.53 q
3. Manuel Martinez, Spain 20.37 q
4. Mikulas Konopka, Slovakia 20.32 q
5. Yuriy Belov, Belarus 20.06 q
6. Miran Vodovnik, Slovenia 20.04 q
7. Tepa Reinikainen, Finland 19.74
8. Pavel Lyzhyn, Belarus 19.60
9. Tomasz Majewski, Poland 19.55
10. Ville Tiisanoja, Finland 19.50
11. Bradley Snyder, Canada 19.46
12. Janus Robberts, South Africa 19.41
13. Zsolt Biber, Hungary 19.31
14. Peter Sack, Germany 19.09
15. Khaled Habash M. Al Suwaidi, Qatar 19.04
16. Pavel Sofin, Russia 19.02
17. Dragan Peric, Serbia and Montenegro 18.91
18. Burger Lambrechts, South Africa 18.67
19. Edis Elkasevic, Croatia 18.44

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
1 	Yuriy Bilonog (UKR)	21.15	21.15	21.07	x	x	21.16	21.16 m
2 	Adam Nelson (USA)	21.16	x	x	x	x	x	21.16 m
3 	Joachim Olsen (DEN)	20.47	20.48	21.07	20.78	x	x	21.07 m
4	Manuel Martinez (ESP)	20.70	20.21	20.48	20.78	20.84	x	20.84 m
5	Andrey Mikhnevich (BLR)	19.41	20.51	x	x	20.60	x	20.60 m
6	Yuriy Belov (BLR)	20.34	20.33	x	x	x	19.88	20.34 m
7	Justin Anlezark (AUS)	20.07	x	20.31	x	x	x	20.31 m
8	Ralf Bartels (GER)	20.26	x	x	20.07	x	20.00	20.26 m
9	John Godina (USA)	x	x	20.19				20.19 m
10	Mikuláš Konopka (SVK)	x	19.92	19.91				19.92 m
11	Miran Vodovnik (SLO)	19.34	18.93	x				19.34 m
12	Petr Stehlík (CZE)	18.72	x	19.21				19.21 m

References

• Official Olympic Report
• 2004 Olympic Results