Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon
The men's decathlon competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 23–24 August.
Competition format
The decathlon consists of ten track and field events, with a points system that awards higher scores for better results in each of the ten components. The athletes all compete in one competition with no elimination rounds.At the end of competition, if two athletes are tied, the athlete who has received more points in the greater number of events is the winner.
Schedule
All times are Greece Standard Time| Date | Time | Round |
| Monday, 23 August 2004 | 09:15 10:15 13:15 18:30 19:20 | 100 metres Long jump Shot put High jump 400 metres |
| Tuesday, 24 August 2004 | 09:00 10:05 13:45 19:30 21:00 | 110 metres hurdles Discus throw Pole vault Javelin throw 1500 metres |
Records
, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Result | Record |
| 24 August | Final | Roman Šebrle | 8893 |
Overall results
The final results of the event are in the following table.;Key:
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Overall points | 100 m | LJ | SP | HJ | 400 m | 110 m H | DT | PV | JT | 1500 m |
| Roman Šebrle | 8893 | ||||||||||||
| Bryan Clay | 8820 | ||||||||||||
| Dmitriy Karpov | 8725 | ||||||||||||
| Dean Macey | 8414 | ||||||||||||
| Chiel Warners | 8343 | ||||||||||||
| Attila Zsivoczky | 8287 | ||||||||||||
| Laurent Hernu | 8237 | ||||||||||||
| Erki Nool | 8235 | ||||||||||||
| Claston Bernard | 8225 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | Roland Schwarzl | 8102 | |||||||||||
| 11 | Aleksandr Pogorelov | 8084 | |||||||||||
| 12 | Florian Schönbeck | 8077 | |||||||||||
| 13 | Romain Barras | 8067 | |||||||||||
| 14 | Maurice Smith | 8023 | |||||||||||
| 15 | Nikolay Averyanov | 8021 | |||||||||||
| 16 | Jaakko Ojaniemi | 8006 | |||||||||||
| 17 | Vitaliy Smirnov | 7993 | |||||||||||
| 18 | Qi Haifeng | 7934 | |||||||||||
| 19 | Stefan Drews | 7924 | |||||||||||
| 20 | Aliaksandr Parkhomenka | 7918 | |||||||||||
| 21 | Paul Terek | 7893 | |||||||||||
| 22 | David Gómez | 7865 | |||||||||||
| 23 | Indrek Turi | 7708 | |||||||||||
| 24 | Santiago Lorenzo | 7592 | |||||||||||
| 25 | Jānis Karlivāns | 7583 | |||||||||||
| 26 | Prodromos Korkizoglou | 7573 | |||||||||||
| 27 | Hans Olav Uldal | 7495 | |||||||||||
| 28 | Paolo Casarsa | 7404 | |||||||||||
| 29 | Eugène Martineau | 7185 | |||||||||||
| 30 | Victor Covalenco | 6543 | |||||||||||
| Pavel Andreev | |||||||||||||
| Tom Pappas | |||||||||||||
| Luiggy Llanos | |||||||||||||
| Ahmad Hassan Moussa | |||||||||||||
| Dennis Leyckes | |||||||||||||
| Jón Arnar Magnússon | |||||||||||||
| Kristjan Rahnu | |||||||||||||
| Lev Lobodin | |||||||||||||
| Tomáš Dvořák |