The men's individual road race was a cycling event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. It was held on 14 August 2004. There were 144 competitors from 43 nations.
Serbia and Montenegro made its debut in the men's individual road race. Great Britain made its 17th appearance in the event, the only nation to have competed in each appearance to date.
Competition format and course
The mass-start race was on a 211.2 kilometre course in Athens' Plateia Kozia. Using a city-streets course, "[r]ather than riding in the hilly country outside of Athens", resulted in a "relatively flat course" that did not challenge the professional peloton.
|align=left| Tyler Hamilton ||align=left|
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|align=left| Jan Ullrich ||align=left|
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|align=left| Thomas Voeckler ||align=left|
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|align=left| Serhiy Honchar ||align=left|
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|align=left| Georg Totschnig ||align=left|
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|align=left| Kyrylo Pospyeyev ||align=left|
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