2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's shot put

The Men's shot put event at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 6–7.

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Christian Cantwell United States	Reese Hoffa United States	Joachim Olsen Denmark

Qualifying performance 20.50 (Q) or 8 best performers (q) advanced to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	Yuriy Bilonoh	Ukraine	20.79			20.79	Q, SB
2	A	Christian Cantwell	United States	X	20.41	20.77	20.77	Q
3	B	Manuel Martínez	Spain	20.59			20.59	Q
4	A	Carl Myerscough	Great Britain	19.20	19.74	20.41	20.41	q
5	A	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus	19.69	20.41	X	20.41	q
6	B	Reese Hoffa	United States	19.70	20.28	20.13	20.28	q
7	A	Tomasz Majewski	Poland	20.28	X	20.04	20.28	q, PB
8	B	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	19.90	20.28	X	20.28	q
9	B	Zsolt Bíber	Hungary	19.92	20.24	20.19	20.24
10	B	Ville Tiisanoja	Finland	20.13	20.09	20.21	20.21
11	A	Ralf Bartels	Germany	X	19.62	19.93	19.93
12	B	Miran Vodovnik	Slovenia	19.40	X	19.83	19.83
13	B	Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi	Qatar	19.25	19.82	X	19.82
14	A	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	X	X	19.67	19.67
15	A	Marco Antonio Verni	Chile	19.61	X	X	19.61	SB
16	A	Ivan Yushkov	Russia	18.78	19.34	19.55	19.55
17	B	Janus Robberts	South Africa	19.41	X	X	19.41
18	B	Pavel Sofin	Russia	19.02	X	X	19.02
19	B	Dzimitry Hancharuk	Belarus	18.24	X	X	18.24
20	A	Ivan Emilianov	Moldova	X	17.47	17.29	17.47	SB
	A	Alexis Paumier	Cuba	X	X	X	NM
	B	Gheorghe Guset	Romania	X	X	X	NM

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Christian Cantwell	United States	20.96	21.49	20.81	20.62	X	–	21.49
	Reese Hoffa	United States	21.07	X	20.36	20.52	20.82	X	21.07	PB
	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	20.27	20.95	20.33	20.99	20.72	20.39	20.99
4	Tomasz Majewski	Poland	19.92	X	X	19.98	20.83	X	20.83	NR
5	Manuel Martínez	Spain	X	20.79	20.60	X	X	20.33	20.79	SB
6	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus	20.22	20.50	20.27	20.27	19.97	20.23	20.50
7	Carl Myerscough	Great Britain	19.69	X	19.76	19.90	X	20.47	20.47
8	Yuriy Bilonoh	Ukraine	X	20.26	X	X	20.02	X	20.26