2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	39 athletes from 26 countries
Competition location	Ancient Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 18, 2004 (qualification and final)
Medalist Adam Nelson ( USA )   Joachim Olsen ( DEN )   Manuel Martínez ( ESP )

The shot put men at the 2004 Olympics in Athens , on 18 August 2004 at the ancient stadium of Olympia held. 39 athletes took part.

The American Adam Nelson became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Dane Joachim Olsen and the Spaniard Manuel Martínez .

With Ralf Bartels , Peter Sack and Detlef Bock, three German participants started. While Bartels finished seventh in the final, Sack and Bock were eliminated in qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein were not among the participants.

Current title holders

Olympic Champion 2000	Arsi Harju ( Finland )	21.29 m	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Andrej Michnewitsch ( Russia )	21.69 m	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Jurij Bilonoh ( Ukraine )	21.37 m	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Reese Hoffa ( USA )	20.95 m	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003	Yojer Medina ( Venezuela )	19.12 m	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Marco Antonio Verni ( Chile )	20.23 m	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian champion 2003	Bilal Saad Mubarak ( Qatar )	19.41 m	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Janus Robberts ( South Africa )	21.02 m	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Chris Mene ( Samoa )	14.22 m	Christchurch 2002

Existing records

World record	23.12 m	Randy Barnes ( USA )	Los Angeles , USA	May 20, 1990
Olympic record	22.52 m	Ryan Crouser ( United States )	Final of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil	18th August 2016

Remarks:

• All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

August 18, 2004, 10:00 a.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 20.40 m. Since only six athletes reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). Finally, 20.04 m had to be pushed to participate.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Adam Nelson	United States	x	21.15	-	21.15
2	Ralf Bartels	Germany	20.65	-	-	20.65
DOP	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	20.61	-	-	20.61	Result subsequently withdrawn due to doping
4th	Justin Anlezark	Australia	18.53	20.45	-	20.45
5	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus	20.10	20.11	20.09	20.11
6th	Petr Stehlík	Czech Republic	x	19.74	20.06	20.06
7th	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	19.02	19.28	19.69	19.69
8th	Gheorghe Guşet	Romania	19.42	19.26	19.68	19.68
9	Ivan Yushikov	Russia	19.15	19.42	19.67	19.67
10	Reese Hoffa	United States	19.88	x	19.40	19.40
11	Pavel Chumachenko	Russia	19.17	19.38	x	19.38
13	Ivan Emilianov	Moldova	18.83	18.92	19.25	19.25
13	Taavi Peetre	Estonia	19.14	18.97	x	19.14
14th	Antonin Zalsky	Czech Republic	18.93	19.09	x	19.09
15th	Nedžad Mulabegović	Croatia	x	18.86	19.07	19.07
16	Detlef Bock	Germany	18.40	18.89	x	18.89
17th	Roman Wirastyuk	Ukraine	18.12	18.40	18.52	18.52
18th	Galin Kostadinov	Bulgaria	17.75	17.51	17.47	17.75
ogV	Marco Antonio Verni	Italy	x	x	x		without space
	Bahadur Singh	India	x	x	x

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	20.78	-	-	20.78
2	John Godina	United States	19.73	20.53	-	20.53
3	Manuel Martínez	Spain	19.15	19.54	20.37	20.37
4th	Mikuláš Konopka	Slovakia	20.32	20.20	x	20.32
5	Yuri Below	Ukraine	x	x	20.06	20.06
6th	Miran Vodovnik	Slovenia	19.83	20.04	x	20.04
7th	Tepa Reinikainen	Finland	18.27	19.71	19.74	19.74	would have been eligible to participate in the final after Bilonoh's disqualification
8th	Pavel Lyschin	Belarus	x	x	19.60	19.60
9	Tomasz Majewski	Poland	19.55	19.07	x	19.55
10	Ville Tiisanoja	Finland	19.28	19.50	x	19.50
11	Bradley Snyder	Canada	19.36	19.46	x	19.46
13	Janus Robberts	South Africa	19.41	x	x	19.41
13	Zsolt Biber	Hungary	19.31	x	x	19.46
14th	Peter Sack	Germany	19.09	17.91	x	19.09
15th	Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi	Qatar	x	x	19.04	19.04
16	Pavel Sofjin	Russia	18.78	19.02	x	19.02
17th	Dragan Peric	Serbia	18.91	18.79	18.74	18.91
18th	Burger Lambrechts	South Africa	18.67	18.63	x	18.67
19th	Edis Elkasevic	Croatia	17.54	18.44	x	18.44

final

August 18, 2004, 5:30 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, six of them by qualifying distance and another six by their placements. Two Americans and two Belarusians were represented, as well as one participant each from Australia, Denmark, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, the Czech Republic and the Ukraine.

Among the favorites for this competition were the reigning world champion Andrej Michnewitsch from Belarus, the 2001 world champion John Godina from the United States, his compatriot, the two-time vice world champion Adam Nelson, as well as the Ukrainian European champion and World Cup third from 2003 Jurij Bilonoh, who was subsequently convicted of the doping offense in this competition and disqualified in December 2012. His attempts are therefore not mentioned in the further description. However, this also means that the placements and medal ranks described below were all not rated as described at the time the competition was concluded, which was associated with corresponding disappointments and other consequences for those concerned. The correction only took place after more than eight years.

There were a number of other athletes who were among an expanded circle of contenders for the top places. I.a. These were the Danish Vice European Champion Joachim Olsen, the German European Championship third and World Cup fifth Ralf Bartels and the Spanish World Cup fourth from 2001 Manuel Martínez.

In the final, not for the first time at the Olympic Games, the really great performances were missing. First, Nelson took the lead with a stroke of 21.16 m. Behind him were Martínez with 20.70 m and Olsen with 20.47 m. In the second round, Olsen improved by one centimeter, but fell back one place, because Michnewitsch moved up to third with his 20.51 m. The Dane countered on lap three. With 21.07 m he also passed Martínez and was now second. The Spaniard improved to 20.84 m in the next two laps, but remained in third place. Michnewitsch came a little closer with his 20.60 m in the fifth attempt. He was still fourth. In the final round there were only three valid hits. At first there was also the decisive attempt for the Olympic victory. Bilonoh improved by one centimeter to 21.16 m and was initially the front runner - until his disqualification in 2012. Joachim Olsen won the silver medal. Only the first two winners in this competition exceeded the 21-meter mark. Manuel Martínez won bronze in front of the two Belarusians Andrej Michnewitsch and Juri Below. The Australian Justin Anlezark came in sixth, Ralf Bartels came in seventh.

The shot put in Athens was a discipline with a rather questionable character in terms of doping issues. Two of the participating athletes were convicted of taking banned substances at the previous Olympic Games . It was the South African Burger Lambrechts - here eliminated in the qualification - and the Slovak Mikuláš Konopka - here in the final tenth. Konopka's compatriot Milan Haborák had already traveled to the Athens Games, but was then not allowed to participate because of hormone doping and left again. The German participants also complained that they themselves had been repeatedly checked during the Olympic season, which all too often was not the case with athletes from other nations. The two Belarusians Andrej Michnewitsch - who previously tested positive - and Juri Below and the Ukrainian Jurij Bilonoh had only competed once in the pre-Olympic months and were in hiding for the rest of the time.

The crown then withdrew the gold medal for doping for the originally first-placed Ukrainian Jurij Bilonoh on December 5, 2013. All participants moved up one rank so that the sequence described above came about. In addition, with his cheating, Bilonoh had taken the finals from the Finn Tepa Reinikainen and the American Godina the chance for three more shots in the final of the best eight.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Adam Nelson	United States	21.16	x	x	x	x	x	21.16
2	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	20.47	20.48	21.07	20.78	x	x	21.07
3	Manuel Martínez	Spain	20.70	20.21	20.49	20.78	20.84	x	20.84
4th	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus	20.41	20.51	x	x	20.60	x	20.60
5	Yuri Below	Belarus	20.34	20.33	x	x	x	19.88	20.34
6th	Justin Anlezark	Australia	20.07	x	20.31	x	x	x	20.31
7th	Ralf Bartels	Germany	20.26	x	x	20.07	x	20.00	20.26
8th	John Godina	United States	x	x	20.19	not in the final of the eight best athletes			20.19	actually entitled to 3 more hits
9	Mikuláš Konopka	Slovakia	x	19.92	19.91				19.92
10	Miran Vodovnik	Slovenia	19.34	18.93	x				19.34
11	Petr Stehlík	Czech Republic	18.72	x	19.21				19.21
DOP	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	21.15	21.15	21.07	x	x	21.16	21.16

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  Gold medalist Adam Nelson from the USA in 2010

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  Silver medalist Joachim Olsen, Denmark

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  The Spanish Olympic third party Manuel Martínez

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  The Belarusian Andrei Michnewitsch finished fourth in the final

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  The German Ralf Bartels was Olympic seventh

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed April 30, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed April 30, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics (PDF, 3054 kB), accessed on April 30, 2018 (English / French)

Videos

• 2004 Athens Olympics- Men's Shot Put Final part 1 , published December 31, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed April 30, 2018
• 2004 Athens Olympic- Men's Shot Put Final part 2 , published December 31, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed April 30, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pan American Games on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 30, 2018
2. ↑ Central American and Caribbean Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 30, 2018
3. ^ South American Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 30, 2018
4. ↑ Asian Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 30, 2018
5. ↑ African Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 30, 2018
6. ↑ Oceania Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 30, 2018
7. ↑ IAAF World Records, Men's Shot Put , accessed April 30, 2018
8. ↑ ^{a b c} IOC Media Relations Team: IOC disqualifies four medallists from Athens 2004 following further analysis of stored samples ( English ) International Olympic Committee. December 5, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
9. ↑ Athens 2004. Shot put in Olympia: Sinner Discipline in the Sacred Grove. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. August 16, 2004, accessed April 30, 2018.