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

The javelin throw event at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, Greece, on August 26 and August 28.

Records

Medalists

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Qualifying

Q denotes automatic qualification.
q denotes qualification by rank.
DNS denotes did not start.
AR denotes area record
NR denotes national record.
PB denotes personal best.
SB denotes season best.

Heat 1

# 87.25m Q
# 86.08m Q
# 8.64m Q
# 83.25m Q
# , Finland 81.06m Q
# 80.68m q
# 79.95m
# 79.77m
# 79.27m
# 77.43m
# 77.34m
# 76.45m
# 73.95m
# 73.46m
# 72.26m
# 71.86m
# 71.74m

Heat 2

# , Russia 82.18m Q
# , Finland 82.04m Q
# , Norway 81.74m Q
# , Czech Republic 81.18m Q
# , Latvia 80.84m q
# 80.07m
# 79.94m
# 78.59m
# , Australia 78.53m
# , Germany 78.41m
# 74.68m
# 74.63m
# , Great Britain 72.79m
# 72.70m
# 71.43m
* , Germany DNS

Final

#Andreas Thorkildsen, Norway 86.50m PB
#Vadims Vasiļevskis, Latvia 84.95m PB
#Sergey Makarov, Russia 84.84m
#Steve Backley, Great Britain 84.13m SB
#Alexandr Ivanov, Russia 83.31m
#Andrus Värnik, Estonia 83.25m
#Ēriks Rags, Latvia 83.14m
#Tero Pitkämäki, Finland 83.01m
#Jan Železný, Czech Republic 80.59m
#Matti Närhi, Finland 80.28m
#Esko Mikkola, Finland 79.43m
#Breaux Greer, United States 74.36m