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.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 5 sets of 25 shots in the set order of skeet shooting.
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. 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.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification round RankAthleteCountry123Day 145TotalSO 1SO 2Notes1Marko Kemppainen252525752525125 Q, =WR 2Andrea Benelli242525742525124 Q3Shawn Dulohery2524257423254 Q4Juan Miguel Rodríguez2325257325244 Q5Nasser Al-Attiyah2424257325244 Q6Harald Jensen24242472252532 Q7Michael Nielsen252325732524318Erik Watndal252224712525121 9Georgios Achilleos242425732325121 9Abdullah Al-Rashidi252424732424121 9James Graves252523732424121 9Mykola Milchev232524722425121 9Jan Sychra252524742324121 9Anthony Terras252325732325121 15Sergey Aksyutin252425742323120 15Saied Al-Mutairi242525742422120 15Diego Duarte242425732324120 15Jin Di242524732522120 15Paul Rahman252324722424120 15Valeriy Shomin252525752223120 21Hennie Dompeling232424712325119 21Julio Elizardo Dujarric Lembcke252424732422119 21Ennio Falco232424712523119 21Andrzej Głyda232523712424119 21Andrei Inešin242524732323119 21Antonis Nikolaidis232425722324119 21Georgios Salavantakis222524712523119 21Guillermo Alfredo Torres242524732224119 29George Barton252324722323118 29Mostafa Hamdy252521712522118 31Jorge Atalah242423712422117 31Michael Maskell232323692325117 31Axel Wegner232524722223117 34Richard Brickell232423702124115 34Amr El-Gaiar242223692323115 34Jan-Cor van der Greef242324712024115 37Saeed Al Maktoum232423702222114 37Khurram Inam242424722022114 37Lee Suk-tae222422682323114 40Ricky Teh Chee Fei242223692123113 41Roger Dahi241823652021106 =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
Final RankAthleteQualFinalTotalBronzeshoot-offGoldshoot-off12425 512524149 4251042595251475612223145
References
External links Official Results