The men's 10 metre air pistol competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on 14 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 pistol at 10 metres distance. 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 0.1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 70 shots was used to determine final ranking.
2002 World champion Mikhail Nestruyev of Russia had attained a score of 591 to break a new Olympic record in the qualification round, until Chinese shooter and six-time Olympian Wang Yifu caught him up on the last shot to grab his second Olympic gold (the first being done in Barcelona 1992) in the event by an immensely thin 0.2-point margin, finishing with a total of 690.0 to 689.8. Nestruyev's countryman Vladimir Isakov, on the other hand, took the bronze medal with 684.3, edging out 1988 champion Tanyu Kiryakov of Bulgaria by almost a single point.
France's Franck Dumoulin, who eluded Wang for an Olympic gold in Sydney 2000, failed to reach the final round after slipping off from his title defense to share a twentieth place tie with four other shooters in the prelims.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification round RankAthleteCountry123456TotalNotes 1 Mikhail Nestruyev 99 99 98 100 97 98 591 Q, 2 Wang Yifu 99 98 96 99 99 99 590 Q 3 Vladimir Isakov 98 95 99 99 97 96 584 Q 4 Kim Hyon-ung 96 98 96 99 96 98 583 Q 5 Tanyu Kiryakov 97 95 100 97 96 98 583 Q 6 Norayr Bakhtamyan 98 98 96 95 96 99 582 Q 7 Jin Jong-oh 95 96 98 98 97 98 582 Q 8 Kim Jong-su 96 98 96 97 97 98 582 Q 9 Tan Zongliang 99 100 94 98 95 96 582 10 Sergey Babikov 93 97 95 99 99 98 581 11 Igor Basinski 96 98 96 96 98 96 580 11 Wojciech Knapik 96 94 98 98 98 96 580 13 Sorin Babii 100 97 93 98 97 94 579 13 Kanstantsin Lukashyk 97 97 95 96 98 96 579 13 Daryl Szarenski 97 96 98 95 98 95 579 13 Andrija Zlatić 97 94 98 97 94 99 579 17 Francesco Bruno 94 96 99 96 96 97 578 17 João Costa 97 95 99 95 97 95 578 17 Viktor Makarov 96 99 99 94 96 94 578 20 Alexander Danilov 96 96 100 95 95 95 577 20 Franck Dumoulin 98 91 98 98 95 97 577 20 Martin Tenk 93 97 96 98 98 95 577 23 Vigilio Fait 97 95 93 96 98 97 576 23 Vladimir Issachenko 93 98 98 96 97 94 576 23 Masaru Nakashige 96 94 96 99 97 94 576 23 Abdulla Ustaoglu 93 96 98 95 97 97 576 27 Roger Daniel 96 95 94 95 98 96 574 27 Lee Sang-do 95 94 96 96 96 97 574 27 David Moore 95 95 98 95 96 95 574 30 Norbelis Bárzaga 94 96 96 96 97 94 573 30 Artur Gevorgjan 96 96 94 96 95 96 573 30 Shuji Tazawa 93 97 97 95 92 99 573 33 José Antonio Colado 96 97 93 98 98 90 572 33 Dionissios Georgakopoulos 94 97 93 95 96 97 572 33 Friedhelm Sack 94 98 97 92 95 96 572 36 Jakkrit Panichpatikum 88 98 97 97 96 95 571 36 Daniel Repacholi 94 95 95 96 97 94 571 36 Jason Turner 96 92 95 97 94 97 571 39 Iulian Raicea 92 94 97 94 98 95 570 40 Chang Yi-ning 97 91 97 95 96 93 569 41 Nguyễn Mạnh Tường 93 92 92 99 97 95 568 42 Isidro Lorenzo 96 93 93 93 93 97 565 43 Attila Simon 90 94 95 97 92 94 562 44 Maximo Modesti 94 90 94 93 94 94 559 45 Khalid Mohamed 94 93 93 91 90 92 553 46 Chris Rice 88 88 93 94 91 97 551 47 Rudolf Knijnenburg 94 82 90 94 92 96 548 OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final
Final RankAthleteQual12345678910FinalTotalNotes 590 10.5 9.9 10.0 10.0 9.8 10.5 10.2 8.9 10.3 9.9 100.0 690.0 591 9.5 10.5 10.3 9.6 10.1 10.1 9.5 10.2 9.3 9.7 98.8 689.8 584 10.8 9.4 9.3 9.8 10.3 9.9 10.4 10.5 9.5 10.4 100.3 684.3 4 583 10.7 9.7 9.9 9.8 9.7 10.7 10.0 9.3 10.3 10.3 100.4 683.4 5 9.9 10.0 10.4 10.4 10.3 10.0 10.0 9.9 10.1 9.9 100.9 682.9 6 10.1 9.4 10.2 9.8 9.0 10.7 9.6 9.6 10.4 10.2 99.0 682.0 7 10.2 9.1 10.2 10.4 9.6 10.4 8.9 10.4 10.3 10.4 99.9 681.9 8 582 10.1 10.3 10.1 10.2 9.4 8.5 9.9 9.9 10.5 10.3 99.2 681.2
References
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