The Discus throw at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program will be held at the Athens Olympic Stadium. It was originally planned to hold the discus throw at the Ancient Olympia Stadium, 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 to move the discus throw and to hold the shot put at the ancient stadium, despite the fact that the shot put was not contested at the Ancient Olympic Games.

Records

World Record	74.08	Jurgen Schult	GDR	Neubrandenburg(GDR)	6 June, 1986
Olympic Record	69.89	Virgilijus Alekna	LTU	Athens, GRE	23 August, 2004

Results

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Virgilijus Alekna, Lithuania	Zoltan Kovago, Hungary	Aleksander Tammert, Estonia

Robert Fazekas of Hungary had initially finished first but was disqualified after being caught tampering with his drug test results.

Qualifying

To qualify automatically, athletes needed to throw 64.50 metres. As twelve athletes did not reach the automatic qualifying mark, those who did were joined in the final by the nine competitors who had thrown the next best distances to give a final line-up of twelve competitors.

Q denotes qualified for final automatically
q denotes qualified for final as best losers
NM denotes no distance recorded
medallists in bold
All distances shown are in metres.

Group A
August 21, 09:00

Position	Name	Nation	Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Best Throw
1	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	X	63.80	67.79	67.79 Q
2	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	65.70			65.70 Q
3	Hannes Hopley	South Africa	62.71	62.50	63.89	63.89 q
4	Gabor Mate	Hungary	57.40	62.43	63.41	63.41 q
5	Torsten Schmidt	Germany	56.86	60.63	63.40	63.40 q
6	Libor Malina	Czech Republic	60.54	X	62.12	62.12 q
7	Jarred Rome	United States	59.35	X	61.55	61.55
8	Jason Tunks	Canada	61.21	60.02	60.34	61.21
9	Frank Casanas	Cuba	60.15	60.60	57.27	60.60
10	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	X	60.05	X	60.05
11	Ian Waltz	United States	58.97	58.55	57.52	58.97
12	Emeka Udechuku	Great Britain	X	58.41	55.79	58.41
13	Leonid Cherevko	Belarus	57.98	X	57.89	57.89
14	Marcelo Pugliese	Argentina	X	56.06	54.45	56.06
15	Vadim Hranovschi	Moldova	53.77	52.30	55.64	55.64
16	Dragan Mustapic	Croatia	54.66	X	X	54.66
17	Jaroslav Žitňanský	Slovakia	53.30	X	51.87	53.30
NM	Anil Kumar	India
NM	Dmitriy Shevchenko	Russia

Group B
August 21, 10:45

Position	Name	Nation	Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Best
1	Robert Fazekas	Hungary	63.88	68.10		68.10 Q
2	Lars Riedel	Germany	64.20			64.20 q
3	Casey Malone	United States	59.99	63.27	61.83	63.27 q
4	Vasiliy Kaptyukh	Belarus	63.04	X	62.93	63.04 q
5	Frantz Kruger	South Africa	60.91	62.32	X	62.32 q
6	Zoltan Kovago	Hungary	X	61.91	60.77	61.91 q
7	Mario Pestano	Spain	X	X	61.69	61.89
8	Vikas Shive Gowda	India	61.35	61.39	59.87	61.39
9	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	X	61.11	X	61.11
10	Tao Wu	China	48.96	X	60.60	60.60
11	Michael Moellenbeck	Germany	56.42	59.79	X	59.79
12	Savvas Panavoglou	Greece	57.26	58.47	57.62	58.47
13	Aleksandr Malashevich	Belarus	X	57.67	58.45	58.45
14	Aleksandr Borichevskiy	Russia	58.12	58.19	57.86	58.19
15	Ercument Olgundeniz	Turkey	57.13	58.17	X	58.17
16	Abbas Samimi	Iran	57.57	X	56.24	57.57
17	Lois Maikel Martinez	Cuba	57.18	57.10	X	57.18
18	Igor Primc	Slovenia	55.70	56.33	55.43	56.33
19	Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly	Egypt	X	55.53	55.27	55.53
20	Shaka Sola	Samoa	50.36	51.10	50.97	51.10

Final

DNQ = did not qualify for final 3 throws
DSQ = disqualified
August 23 20:20

Position	Name	Nation	Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Rd. 5	Rd. 6	Best	Notes
DSQ	Robert Fazekas	Hungary								DSQ (doping test non-compliance)
1	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	69.89	x	x	x	69.49	x	69.89
2	Zoltan Kovago	Hungary	57.31	66.40	66.03	67.04	58.25	x	67.04
3	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	66.66	x	64.28	63.95	64.04	x	66.66
4	Vasiliy Kaptyukh	Belarus	65.10	59.82	62.88	63.44	64.89	63.63	65.10
5	Frantz Kruger	South Africa	64.34	x	61.01	62.53	x	60.73	64.34
6	Casey Malone	United States	62.80	60.34	x	64.33	62.73	63.65	64.33
7	Lars Riedel	Germany	x	62.80	x	-	-	-	62.80
8	Hannes Hopley	South Africa	60.18	61.99	62.58				62.58
9	Torsten Schmidt	Germany	x	61.18	61.10				61.18
10	Libor Malina	Czech Republic	57.39	x	58.78				58.78
11	Gabor Mate	Hungary	57.02	x	57.84				57.84