Men
Records
| Standing records prior to the 2004 season in track and field | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Record |  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) |
86.74 m | August 30, 1986 |  Stuttgart, West Germany
|
2004 World Year Ranking
| Rank | Mark | Athlete | Venue | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 84.46 m |  Ivan Tikhon (BLR) |
Minsk, Belarus | 2004-05-07 | PB |
| 2 | 83.65 m |  Adrián Annus (HUN) |
Debrecen, Hungary | 2004-07-11 | |
| 3 | 83.30 m |  Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN) |
Lahti, Finland | 2004-07-14 | NR |
| 4 | 83.15 m |  Koji Murofushi (JPN) |
Yokohama, Japan | 2004-09-24 | |
| 5 | 82.91 m | Vadim Devyatovskiy (BLR) |
Minsk, Belarus | 2004-07-10 | PB |
| 6 | 82.23 m | Igor Astapkovich (BLR) |
Minsk, Belarus | 2004-07-10 | |
| 7 | 81.66 m |  Oleksandr Krykun (UKR) |
Kyiv, Ukraine | 2004-05-29 | PB |
| 8 | 81.33 m |  Miloslav Konopka (SVK) |
Banská Bystrica, Slovakia | 2004-05-29 | PB |
| 9 | 81.27 m |  Eşref Apak (TUR) |
Ankara, Turkey | 2004-08-03 | PB |
| 10 | 80.90 m | Krisztián Pars (HUN) |
Zalaegerszeg, Hungary | 2004-06-13 | PB |
| 11 | 80.44 m | Artem Rubanko (UKR) |
Kyiv, Ukraine | 2004-05-29 | PB |
| 12 | 80.37 m | Péter Botfa (HUN) |
Budapest, Hungary | 2004-02-28 | |
| 13 | 80.36 m |  Ilya Konovalov (RUS) |
Tula, Russia | 2004-06-24 | |
| 14 | 80.35 m |  Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE) |
Nikiti, Greece | 2004-08-01 | |
| 15 | 80.21 m |  Chris Harmse (RSA) |
Potchefstroom, South Africa | 2004-04-20 | PB |
| 16 | 79.84 m | Libor Charfreitag (SVK) |
Nikiti, Greece | 2004-08-01 | |
| 17 | 79.41 m |  Szymon Ziółkowski (POL) |
Warsaw, Poland | 2004-06-13 | |
| 18 | 79.36 m | Holger Klose (GER) |
Cercy-la-Tour | 2004-09-12 | |
| 19 | 79.34 m |  Primož Kozmus (SLO) |
Split, Croatia | 2004-08-02 | |
| 20 | 79.26 m |  A. G. Kruger (USA) |
Berea, Ohio, United States | 2004-08-05 | PB |
| 21 | 79.20 m | James Parker (USA) |
Provo, Utah, United States | 2004-06-24 | PB |
| 22 | 79.11 m | Karsten Kobs (GER) |
Nikiti, Greece | 2004-08-01 | |
| 23 | 79.01 m | Markus Esser (GER) |
Rehlingen, Germany | 2004-05-31 | PB |
| 24 | 78.87 m |  Vladimír Maška (CZE) |
Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic | 2004-09-15 | |
| 25 | 78.84 m | Sergey Kirmasov (RUS) |
Tula, Russia | 2004-07-31 |
