The men's 10 metre air rifle competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on 16 August at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.
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 1, with a maximum score of 10.
The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 70 shots was used to determine final ranking.
China's Zhu Qinan stunned the entire worldwide audience as he came from nowhere to snatch the Olympic gold in air rifle shooting, smashing a new world record of 702.7 points. Zhu also enjoyed his teammate Li Jie taking home the silver medal with 702.7, as the Chinese marksmen led the medal haul in a blistering 1–2 finish. Slovakia's world number one Jozef Gönci came up with a steady feat in the final to claim the bronze on 697.4 points. Earlier in the prelims, Zhu set a junior world standard to grab the top seed in the six-man final, just one point short of the perfect grade 600 that had been successfully recorded by Thailand's Tevarit Majchacheeap in 2000.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification round RankAthleteCountry123456TotalNotes 1 Zhu Qinan 100 100 100 100 100 99 599 Q, 2 Li Jie 100 100 100 100 99 99 598 Q 3 Abhinav Bindra 99 100 99 100 100 99 597 Q 4 Jozef Gönci 99 98 100 100 100 99 596 Q 5 Cheon Min-ho 100 100 99 99 98 99 595 Q 6 Maik Eckhardt 98 100 100 99 100 98 595 Q 7 Jason Parker 100 99 98 98 99 100 594 Q 8 Je Seong-tae 98 98 99 100 100 99 594 Q 9 Matthew Emmons 99 98 100 99 99 99 594 9 Matej Mészáros 100 99 100 99 98 98 594 9 Masaru Yanagida 99 99 98 100 100 98 594 12 Thomas Farnik 99 98 100 99 98 99 593 12 Torsten Krebs 98 98 99 100 100 98 593 12 Gagan Narang 99 97 99 99 99 100 593 12 Georgios Petsanis 98 100 100 99 98 98 593 12 Christian Planer 98 99 99 99 98 100 593 12 Péter Sidi 99 98 100 99 99 98 593 18 Dick Boschman 96 99 99 99 99 100 592 18 Leif Steinar Rolland 100 99 99 98 100 97 592 18 Konstantinos Savorgiannakis 98 100 98 99 99 98 592 18 Vyacheslav Skoromnov 99 99 99 98 98 99 592 22 Artur Ayvazyan 99 97 99 100 98 98 591 22 Oliver Geissmann 97 100 100 99 97 98 591 24 Mohamed Abdellah 96 100 99 99 99 97 590 24 Vitali Bubnovich 99 99 99 99 97 97 590 24 Marco De Nicolo 94 99 99 100 99 99 590 24 Artem Khadjibekov 97 100 97 99 99 98 590 24 Yuriy Sukhorukov 99 99 99 96 98 99 590 29 Rajmond Debevec 96 100 99 96 98 100 589 29 Sven Haglund 97 98 99 99 99 97 589 29 Konstantin Prikhodtchenko 98 98 96 99 99 99 589 29 Peter Thuesen 99 98 99 98 98 97 589 33 Marcus Åkerholm 99 98 100 96 98 98 588 33 Aleksandr Babchenko 99 98 99 99 98 95 588 35 Nedžad Fazlija 99 96 97 100 98 97 587 35 Asif Hossain Khan 99 98 96 97 98 99 587 35 Timothy Lowndes 97 99 96 100 97 98 587 35 Tevarit Majchacheeap 98 99 96 98 100 96 587 39 Stevan Pletikosić 99 98 97 98 96 98 586 39 Ángel Velarte 97 96 99 98 97 99 586 41 Espen Berg-Knutsen 96 98 97 99 97 97 584 41 Matthew Inabinet 96 98 97 99 98 96 584 43 Pablo Álvarez 96 95 98 97 99 98 583 44 Roberto José Elias 96 96 98 98 99 95 582 45 Juha Hirvi 96 98 98 98 94 96 580 46 Tika Shrestha 97 94 96 95 98 99 579 47 Marcel Bürge 96 95 96 98 95 96 576
Final Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Shoot-off Notes 599 103.7 702.7 WR 598 103.3 701.3 596 101.4 697.4 4 101.6 696.6 5 595 101.3 10.6 6 594 102.3 696.3 10.4 7 597 97.6 694.6 8 100.5 694.5
References
External links Official Results