The men's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 8 August 2016.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with an air rifle at 10 metres' distance from the standing position. Scores for each shot were in increments of 0.1, with a maximum score of 10.9.
The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 20 shots. These shots scored in increments of one point, with an additional point in the center ring that is scored in increments of 0.1. Therefore, the maximum score is 10.9 per shot. The maximum score that can be achieved during qualification is 654.0.
Niccolò Campriani of Italy won the gold medal, Ukraine's Serhiy Kulish won the silver medal while Russia's Vladimir Maslennikov won the bronze medal.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification round RankAthleteCountry1 23456TotalInner 10sNotes1 Niccolò Campriani 104.1 105.2 104.5 105.4 105.8 105.2 630.2 Q, 2 Vladimir Maslennikov 105.3 103.7 105.4 105.2 103.9 105.5 629.0 Q 3 Petar Gorša 104.7 105.0 104.8 104.7 104.7 104.1 628.0 Q 4 Serhiy Kulish 103.4 104.7 103.5 106.4 104.0 105.0 627.0 Q 5 Oleh Tsarkov 102.9 105.5 103.9 105.1 104.0 104.8 626.2 Q 6 Péter Sidi 103.8 104.5 104.5 105.4 102.1 105.6 625.9 Q 7 Abhinav Bindra 104.3 104.4 105.9 103.8 102.1 105.2 625.7 Q 8 Illia Charheika 105.2 104.5 104.9 103.2 103.1 104.6 625.5 Q 9 Cao Yifei 104.1 104.4 104.7 104.3 104.4 103.6 625.5 10 Are Hansen 101.5 104.5 103.8 103.9 105.1 105.6 624.4 11 Kim Hyeon-jun 103.1 104.0 104.9 106.0 104.4 102.0 624.4 12 Milutin Stefanović 104.1 104.8 103.2 103.7 104.0 104.5 624.3 13 István Péni 104.5 104.5 103.1 106.0 102.0 103.9 624.0 14 Sergey Richter 103.8 102.4 105.1 103.7 104.7 104.1 623.8 15 Alexander Schmirl 104.5 104.9 104.1 104.1 103.8 102.3 623.7 16 Sergey Kamenskiy 103.7 104.2 104.5 104.0 104.4 102.4 623.2 17 Vitali Bubnovich 101.9 104.2 102.6 103.9 106.1 104.2 622.9 18 Julian Justus 103.1 104.5 103.8 103.3 103.4 104.7 622.8 19 Alin Moldoveanu 102.3 103.3 104.6 104.1 105.0 103.4 622.7 20 Naoya Okada 104.7 105.2 100.7 104.0 103.8 104.2 622.6 21 Lucas Kozeniesky 104.1 103.9 103.3 104.1 103.3 103.6 622.3 22 Pouria Norouzian 102.8 103.5 104.1 103.6 103.9 104.3 622.2 23 Gagan Narang 105.3 104.5 102.1 103.4 101.6 104.8 621.7 24 Hrachik Babayan 103.7 102.1 104.0 105.5 104.3 101.9 621.5 25 Abdullah Hel Baki 103.8 104.0 105.4 103.6 100.6 103.8 621.2 26 Valérian Sauveplane 102.6 104.2 104.2 102.4 103.6 104.1 621.1 27 Jorge Díaz 103.3 102.4 103.2 104.3 104.3 103.4 620.9 28 Vadim Skorovarov 102.9 102.6 105.3 102.4 104.5 103.2 620.9 29 Michael Janker 101.0 103.7 104.5 104.4 104.0 103.2 620.8 30 Marco De Nicolo 105.0 103.0 102.9 102.9 102.1 104.6 620.5 31 Yang Haoran 101.6 103.3 103.9 104.0 103.9 103.8 620.5 32 Gernot Rumpler 103.7 102.6 101.2 104.6 103.8 104.5 620.4 33 Milenko Sebić 102.7 104.3 104.6 103.3 101.5 103.6 620.0 34 Daniel Lowe 102.5 105.0 104.0 104.4 102.0 102.1 620.0 35 Filip Nepejchal 104.0 104.9 104.3 103.1 101.4 102.2 619.9 36 Toshikazu Yamashita 103.8 104.6 102.7 104.7 100.1 103.6 619.5 37 Dane Sampson 101.2 103.9 103.4 103.1 104.2 103.5 619.3 38 Jérémy Monnier 103.5 103.5 102.7 102.0 103.3 103.5 618.5 39 Hamada Talat 102.4 103.7 102.7 103.4 103.0 103.0 618.2 40 Ole-Kristian Bryhn 103.1 103.3 103.4 102.9 103.0 102.2 617.9 41 Napis Tortungpanich 103.7 102.0 102.0 103.3 104.4 102.0 617.4 42 Anton Rizov 103.0 102.0 103.9 102.2 101.3 104.9 617.3 43 Jung Ji-geun 104.3 104.2 102.8 97.2 104.4 103.8 616.7 44 Yuriy Yurkov 101.3 102.4 104.1 101.6 102.9 103.0 615.3 45 Julio Iemma 101.7 102.5 101.3 99.9 104.2 103.1 612.7 46 Jack Rossiter 100.2 99.9 103.1 102.4 103.8 103.0 612.4 47 Chafik Bouaoud 100.4 101.2 103.0 101.6 104.2 101.7 612.1 48 Reinier Estpinan 101.9 101.2 100.6 102.4 101.2 102.7 610.0 49 Alexander Molerio 99.2 101.3 102.6 99.2 101.8 103.1 607.2 50 Mangala Samarakoon 97.1 100.9 97.7 99.1 98.1 96.7 589.6
Final The final was shot according to the ISSF regulations. The athletes shot 6 shots in 2×3 series before the lowest-ranked was eliminated every other shot.
RkAthlete1 23456789FinalNotes30.331.020.720.720.020.821.020.321.3206.130.830.021.321.021.219.619.920.620.2204.629.931.720.420.920.720.520.020.1colspan=1 184.2429.930.221.121.520.820.220.1colspan=2 163.8530.830.918.820.920.720.6colspan=3 142.7629.630.820.220.520.5colspan=4 121.6730.330.719.720.3colspan=5 101.0827.532.020.2colspan=6 79.7
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