Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air rifle

Men's 10 metre air rifle
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre
Date August 16, 2004
Competitors 47 from 33 nations
Winning score 702.7 (WR)
Medalists
  Zhu Qinan   China
  Li Jie   China
  Jozef Gönci   Slovakia
«2000 2008»
Shooting at the
2004 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions men women
50 m rifle prone men
10 m air rifle   men   women
Pistol
50 m pistol men
25 m pistol women
25 m rapid fire pistol men
10 m air pistol men women
Shotgun
Trap men women
Double trap men women
Skeet men women
Running target
10 m running target men

The men's 10 metre air rifle competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 16 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece. The two Chinese shooters in the event, Zhu Qinan and Li Jie, secured a double victory with Slovakia's Jozef Gönci claiming the bronze. Still a junior, Zhu equalled the junior world record in the qualification round, one point short of the perfect 600, and then went on to set a new final world record of 702.7 points.

Qualification round

Rank Athlete Country Score Notes
1 Zhu Qinan China 599 Q OR EJWR
2 Li Jie China 598 Q
3 Abhinav Bindra India 597 Q
4 Jozef Gönci Slovakia 596 Q
5 Cheon Min-ho South Korea 595 Q
6 Maik Eckhardt Germany 595 Q
7 Jason Parker United States 594 Q (6th: 100)
8 Je Sung-tae South Korea 594 Q (6th: 99; 5th: 100)
9 Matthew Emmons United States 594 (6th: 99; 5th: 99)
9 Masaru Yanagida Japan 594 (6th: 98)
9 Matej Meszaros Slovakia 594 (6th: 98)
12 Thomas Farnik Austria 593
12 Torsten Krebs Germany 593
12 Gagan Narang India 593
12 Georgios Petsanis Greece 593
12 Christian Planer Austria 593
12 Péter Sidi Hungary 593
18 Dick Boschman Netherlands 592
18 Leif Steinar Rolland Norway 592
18 Konstantinos Savorgianakis Greece 592
18 Vyacheslav Skoromnov Uzbekistan 592
22 Artur Ayvazyan Ukraine 591
22 Oliver Geissmann Liechtenstein 591
24 Mohamed Abdellah Egypt 590
24 Vitali Bubnovich Belarus 590
24 Marco De Nicolo Italy 590
24 Artem Khadjibekov Russia 590
24 Jury Sukhorukov Ukraine 590
29 Rajmond Debevec Slovenia 589
29 Sven Haglund Sweden 589
29 Konstantin Prikhodtchenko Russia 589
29 Peter Thuesen Denmark 589
33 Marcus Åkerholm Sweden 588
33 Alexander Babchenko Kyrgyzstan 588
35 Nedžad Fazlija Bosnia and Herzegovina 587
35 Asif Hossain Khan Bangladesh 587
35 Timothy Lowndes Australia 587
35 Tevarit Majchacheep Thailand 587
39 Stevan Pletikosić Serbia and Montenegro 586
39 Angel Rosendo Velarte Argentina 586
41 Espen Berg-Knutsen Norway 584
41 Matthew Robert Inabinet Australia 584
43 Pablo Damian Alvarez Argentina 583
44 Roberto Elias Mexico 582
45 Juha Hirvi Finland 580
46 Tika Shrestha Nepal 579
47 Marcel Bürge Switzerland 576

EJWR Equalled junior World record – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Shoot-off Notes
 Zhu Qinan (CHN) 599 103.7 702.7 WR OR
 Li Jie (CHN) 598 103.3 701.3
 Jozef Gönci (SVK) 596 101.4 697.4
4  Cheon Min-ho (KOR) 595 101.6 696.6
5  Maik Eckhardt (GER) 595 101.3 696.3 10.6
6  Je Sung-tae (KOR) 594 102.3 696.3 10.4
7  Abhinav Bindra (IND) 597 97.6 694.6
8  Jason Parker (USA) 594 100.5 694.5

OR Olympic record – WR World record

References