The men's skeet shooting competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 21 and 22 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.

In this last Olympic skeet competition before rules were changed, Marko Kemppainen attained a perfect 125 to break the world and Olympic records in the qualification round, but missed one target in the final, allowing Andrea Benelli to catch him up with a score of 149 to force the gold medal shoot-off.

[1] Meanwhile, Cuba's Juan Miguel Rodríguez had shared a score of 147 targets with Qatar's Nasser Al-Attiyah and United States' Shawn Dulohery, until he fired a perfect ten in a three-way shoot-off to grab the bronze.

[2] Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

=OR Equalled Olympic record – =WR Equalled World record – Q Qualified for final – SO 1 Shoot-off for third place – SO 2 Shoot-off for sixth place 1 From 1972 until 1992, the event was open to women as well as men.