Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air pistol

The men's 10 metre air pistol competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on 16 September, the day after the opening ceremony. Franck Dumoulin and Wang Yifu both reached 590 points in the qualification round of 60 shots, raising the Olympic record by three points. Although both shooters performed considerably worse in the final, their seven-point gap to the bronze medal was quite safe. Dumoulin outperformed Wang by two points, setting a new final Olympic record.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification round RankAthleteCountryScoreNotes1Wang Yifu590Q OR2Franck Dumoulin590Q OR3Mikhail Nestruyev583Q4Igor Basinski583Q5João Costa581Q6Roberto Di Donna581Q7Stéphane Gagne581Q8Tanyu Kiryakov581Q9Vladimir Gontcharov5799Dilshod Mukhtarov57911Sorin Babii57811Jerzy Pietrzak57811Tan Zongliang57811Martin Tenk57815Michael Douglass57715Kanstantsin Lukashyk57717Ján Fabo57617Dionissios Georgakopoulos57617Yuri Melentiev57620Hans-Jürgen Bauer-Neumaier57520Artur Gevorgjan57520Paolo Ranno57523William Demarest57423Vladimir Guchsha57425Masaru Nakashige57326Boris Kokorev57227Vigilio Fait57127Tarek Riad57129Lajos Pálinkás57030Felipe Beuvrín56930Iulian Raicea56932David Moore56733Norbelis Bárzaga56634Friedhelm Sack56534Sergio Werner Sanchez Gomez56536Noriyuki Nishitani56437Ricardo Chandeck56238David Porter56139Chris Rice56040Christián Muñoz Ortega55941Luis Méndez55642István Jambrik555Alexander DanilovDQ DQ Disqualified – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final RankAthleteQualFinalTotalNotes590 98.9688.9OR590 96.9686.9583 99.7682.74583 99.3682.35581101.0682.06581 99.5680.57581 98.4679.48581 95.8676.8 OR Olympic record

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