Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air rifle

Men's 10 metre air rifle
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue Beijing Shooting Range Hall
Date August 11, 2008
Competitors 51 from 37 nations
Winning score 700.5
Medalists
  Abhinav Bindra   India
  Zhu Qinan   China
  Henri Häkkinen   Finland
«2004  
Shooting at the
2008 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
Skeet men women

The Men's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 11 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. Abhinav Bindra became the first ever individual Olympic champion of India.

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.

Records

The existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification records
World record  Tevarit Majchacheep (THA)
 Denis Sokolov (RUS)		 600 Langkawi, Malaysia
Winterthur, Switzerland		 27 January 2000
1 March 2008
Olympic record  Zhu Qinan (CHN) 599 Athens, Greece 16 August 2004
Final records
World record  Gagan Narang (IND) 703.5 (600+103.5) Bangkok, Thailand 5 November 2008
Olympic record  Zhu Qinan (CHN) 702.7 (599+103.7) Athens, Greece 16 August 2004

Qualification round

Rank Athlete Country 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total Notes
1 Henri Häkkinen Finland 100 100 99 100 100 99 598 Q
2 Zhu Qinan China 100 100 100 100 99 98 597 Q
3 Alin George Moldoveanu Romania 99 99 99 100 100 99 596 Q
4 Abhinav Bindra India 100 99 100 98 100 99 596 Q
5 Sergei Kruglov Russia 100 99 98 98 100 100 595 Q
6 Péter Sidi Hungary 98 99 100 99 99 100 595 Q
7 Konstantin Prikhodtchenko Russia 99 99 100 98 99 100 595 Q
8 Stevan Pletikosić Serbia 100 98 100 98 99 100 595 Q
9 Gagan Narang India 97 100 100 100 98 100 595
10 Thomas Farnik Austria 99 99 99 98 100 99 594
11 Oleksandr Lazeykin Ukraine 99 100 98 100 99 98 594
12 Niccolo Campriani Italy 99 100 100 98 99 98 594
13 Václav Haman Czech Republic 99 98 98 99 100 99 593
14 Cao Yifei China 98 99 99 99 99 99 593
15 Tino Mohaupt Germany 98 99 99 99 99 99 593
16 Park Bong-duk South Korea 98 100 98 99 99 99 593
17 Nemanja Mirosavljev Serbia 99 98 98 100 100 98 593
18 Vitali Bubnovich Belarus 97 99 99 99 99 99 592
19 Are Hansen Norway 98 99 98 99 99 99 592
20 Marco De Nicolo Italy 97 99 100 100 98 98 592
21 Artur Ayvazyan Ukraine 98 99 99 100 98 98 592
22 Vebjørn Berg Norway 99 99 100 100 96 98 592
23 Jason Parker United States 97 99 98 99 98 100 591
24 José Luis Sanchez Mexico 99 99 97 99 98 99 591
25 Roberto Elias Mexico 98 98 98 100 96 100 590
26 Han Jin-seop South Korea 100 95 98 98 100 99 590
27 Stephen Scherer United States 98 99 97 97 100 99 590
28 Toshikazu Yamashita Japan 98 99 99 98 98 98 590
29 Jonathan Hammond Great Britain 95 98 100 98 99 99 589
30 Christian Planer Austria 97 98 97 99 100 98 589
31 Rajmond Debevec Slovenia 96 97 100 99 99 98 589
32 Luis Martínez Spain 100 99 99 96 97 98 589
33 Robert Kraskowski Poland 99 99 97 99 98 97 589
34 Oliver Geissmann Liechtenstein 99 95 98 99 97 100 588
35 Nedžad Fazlija Bosnia and Herzegovina 98 99 98 98 96 99 588
36 Michael Winter Germany 97 99 95 100 99 98 588
37 Petar Gorša Croatia 98 99 97 97 99 98 588
38 Vitaliy Dovgun Kazakhstan 97 96 99 98 98 99 587
39 Ruslan Ismailov Kyrgyzstan 97 99 98 97 97 99 587
40 Josselin Henry France 97 97 97 99 99 98 587
41 Doron Egozi Israel 98 100 98 98 95 98 587
42 Yuriy Yurkov Kazakhstan 96 98 99 96 98 99 586
43 Mohamed Abdellah Egypt 97 100 97 96 100 96 586
44 Liecer Perez Cuba 95 97 98 99 97 99 585
45 Simon Beyerler Switzerland 95 98 96 99 97 98 583
46 Mohammad Hossain Bangladesh 95 98 96 97 95 100 581
47 Matthew Robert Inabinet Australia 97 94 98 96 98 96 579
48 Siddique Umer Pakistan 95 96 95 97 98 97 578
49 Benjamin Burge Australia 98 93 97 95 98 95 576
50 Walter Martínez Nicaragua 95 95 98 94 94 93 569
51 Saso Nestorov Macedonia 96 91 93 92 92 94 558

Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank Athlete Qual 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final Total Shoot-off
 Abhinav Bindra (IND) 596 10.7 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.6 10.0 10.2 10.8 104.5 700.5
 Zhu Qinan (CHN) 597 10.2 10.0 9.9 10.2 10.1 10.7 10.1 10.6 10.4 10.5 102.7 699.7
 Henri Häkkinen (FIN) 598 10.1 10.2 10.5 10.0 10.2 10.3 10.0 10.1 10.3 9.7 101.4 699.4
4  Alin George Moldoveanu (ROU) 596 10.2 9.8 10.2 10.1 10.4 10.4 10.7 10.4 10.3 10.6 102.9 698.9
5  Konstantin Prikhodtchenko (RUS) 595 10.1 9.4 10.5 10.3 10.6 10.6 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.7 103.4 698.4 10.0
6  Péter Sidi (HUN) 595 10.3 10.8 9.6 10.8 10.0 10.2 10.7 10.8 10.2 10.0 103.4 698.4 9.1
7  Stevan Pletikosić (SRB) 595 10.3 10.4 10.6 9.7 10.8 10.6 9.6 10.0 9.9 10.8 102.7 697.7
8  Sergei Kruglov (RUS) 595 9.2 10.4 10.0 10.7 9.7 10.6 10.5 10.5 10.2 10.2 102.0 697.0