Athletics at the Friendship Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's shot put event at the Friendship Games was held on 17 August 1984 at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Sergey Kasnauskas	Soviet Union	20.90	20.80	21.64	21.41	x	21.31	21.64
	Udo Beyer	East Germany	20.74	x	21.18	21.29	21.60	x	21.60
	Vladimir Kiselyov	Soviet Union	20.90	x	21.26	21.37	21.15	21.58	21.58
4	Jānis Bojārs	Soviet Union							21.48
5	Helmut Krieger	Poland							21.03
6	Remigius Machura	Czechoslovakia							20.82
7	Edward Sarul	Poland							20.34
8	Georgi Todorov	Bulgaria							19.56
9	Josef Kubeš	Czechoslovakia							19.19
10	Janusz Gassowski	Poland							19.03
11	Vladislav Kočický	Czechoslovakia							17.79
12	Aulis Toivonen	Finland							17.68
13	F. Sidibe	Guinea							9.91

• Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

• Żemantowski, Jacek (October 1984). "Moskwa '84". Lekkoatletyka 10 (84) (in Polish). p. 12.