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
1 !	Zhu Qinan (CHN)	599	103.7	702.7		WR OR
2 !	Li Jie (CHN)	598	103.3	701.3
3 !	Jozef Gönci (SVK)	596	101.4	697.4
4	Cheon Min-ho (KOR)	595.1 !595	101.6	696.6
5	Maik Eckhardt (GER)	595	101.3	696.31 !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)	594.1 !594	100.5	694.5

OR Olympic record – WR World record

References

• Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad (PDF). Volume 2: The Games. Athens 2004 Organising Committee for the Olympic Games S.A. November 2005. pp. 386–393. ISBN 960-88101-8-3. Retrieved 2008-01-23. 
• "Athens 2004 Olympics, Shooting - Shooting Results". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 2008-01-23. 
• "Olympics 2004 | Shooting | Results | Men's 10m air rifle (60 shots) results". BBC Sport. 2004-08-12. Retrieved 2008-01-24. 
• "Olympics - Schedule & Results". SI.com. Retrieved 2008-01-24.