Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air rifle

Men's 10 metre air rifle at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Royal Artillery Barracks
Date	30 July 2012
Competitors	47 from 33 nations
Winning score	702.1
Medalists
Alin Moldoveanu  Romania Niccolo Campriani  Italy Gagan Narang  India

The Men's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 30 July 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks.

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. Defending gold medalist Abhinav Bindra failed to qualify for final.

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.

Gun - 4.5 mm Calibre Rifle Maximum 5.5 Kg Bullet - 4.5 mm Pellets BullsEye - 0.55 mm Time for Each Shot - 75 seconds

Alin Moldoveanu of Romania won the gold medal by scoring 702.1. Gagan Narang won the Bronze Medal in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle Event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with a final score of 701.1.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification records
World record	Tevarit Majchacheep (THA)	600	Langkawi, Malaysia	27 January 2000
Olympic record	Zhu Qinan (CHN)	599	Athens, Greece	16 August 2004

Final records
World record	Zhu Qinan (CHN)	703.8 (600+103.8)	Wroclaw, Poland	22 August 2011
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	Niccolo Campriani	Italy	100	100	100	99	100	100	599	Q
2	Alin Moldoveanu	Romania	100	100	100	100	99	100	599	Q
3	Gagan Narang	India	100	100	98	100	100	100	598	Q
4	Wang Tao	China	99	100	100	100	100	99	598	Q
5	Illia Charheika	Belarus	100	100	100	100	99	98	597	Q
6	Ole Magnus Bakken	Norway	100	100	100	100	100	97	597	Q
7	Peter Hellenbrand	Netherlands	97	99	100	100	100	100	596	Q
8	Pierre Edmond Piasecki	France	100	99	100	100	98	99	596	Q
9	Sergy Rikhter	Israel	99	98	98	100	100	100	595
10	Zhu Qinan	China	99	99	99	100	100	98	595
11	Vitali Bubnovich	Belarus	100	100	99	100	98	98	595
12	Julian Justus	Germany	99	100	100	98	100	98	595
13	Péter Sidi	Hungary	99	98	100	100	99	98	594
14	Are Hansen	Norway	97	100	99	99	100	99	594
15	Alexei Kamenski	Russia	99	100	100	99	96	100	594
16	Abhinav Bindra	India	99	99	100	100	99	97	594
17	Kim Jong-Hyun	South Korea	98	100	99	99	98	99	593
18	Serhiy Kulish	Ukraine	99	99	100	100	97	98	593
19	Artur Ayvazyan	Ukraine	99	99	100	100	99	96	593
20	Alexandre Sokolov	Russia	99	100	96	99	100	99	593
21	Ruslan Ismailov	Kyrgyzstan	100	99	97	99	99	99	593
22	Anton Rizov	Bulgaria	99	99	100	100	97	98	593
23	Bayaraa Nyantai	Mongolia	100	96	99	100	98	100	593
24	James Charles Huckle	Great Britain	99	98	100	100	98	98	593
25	Tino Mohaupt	Germany	100	99	98	96	99	100	592
26	Jeremy Monnier	France	98	99	99	99	99	98	592
27	Jonathan Hall	United States	100	98	100	96	99	99	592
28	Thomas Farnik	Austria	97	99	100	98	98	99	591
29	Amgad Hosen	Egypt	100	98	99	97	98	99	591
30	Nemanja Mirosavljev	Serbia	100	98	98	97	100	98	591
31	Jozef Gönci	Slovakia	99	98	96	99	99	100	591
32	Han Jin-Seop	South Korea	97	100	98	99	100	96	590
33	Václav Haman	Czech Republic	97	97	97	100	99	100	590
34	Marco De Nicolo	Italy	99	99	98	97	99	98	590
35	Matthew Emmons	United States	97	98	100	99	99	97	590
36	Bojan Durković	Croatia	97	100	100	99	97	97	590
37	Pascal Lorentan	Switzerland	99	100	99	99	94	98	589
38	Midori Yajima	Japan	97	98	99	98	99	99	589
39	Simon Beyeler	Switzerland	95	99	100	98	98	98	588
40	William Godward	Australia	99	99	98	99	98	95	588
41	Javier López	Spain	97	97	99	99	98	98	588
42	Dane Sampson	Australia	98	98	99	97	97	98	587
43	Petar Gorša	Croatia	98	98	96	99	99	96	586
44	Nedžad Fazlija	Bosnia and Herzegovina	96	97	96	99	98	99	585
45	Mangala Samarakoon	Sri Lanka	97	97	99	97	97	96	583
46	Cory Niefer	Canada	94	97	98	99	97	96	581
47	Rudi Lausarot	Uruguay	99	94	97	96	93	96	575

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final	Total
	Alin Moldoveanu (ROU)	599	10.3	10.5	10.1	10.3	10.6	9.9	10.3	10.3	10.5	10.3	103.1	702.1
	Niccolo Campriani (ITA)	599	9.7	10.2	10.7	10.2	10.4	10.8	10.8	9.9	9.4	10.4	102.5	701.5
	Gagan Narang (IND)	598	10.7	9.6	10.6	10.7	10.4	10.6	9.9	9.5	10.3	10.7	103.1	701.1
4	Wang Tao (CHN)	598	10.6	10.6	9.3	10.7	10.4	10.4	10.8	9.2	10.0	10.4	102.4	700.4
5	Peter Hellenbrand (NED)	596	10.4	10.7	10.1	9.8	10.6	10.6	10.4	10.9	10.6	9.7	103.8	699.8
6	Pierre Edmond Piasecki (FRA)	596	10.7	10.6	10.7	9.9	10.4	10.5	9.9	10.6	9.8	10.0	103.1	699.1
7	Illia Charheika (BLR)	597	9.9	9.9	10.4	10.2	10.7	10.5	9.7	9.9	10.1	10.3	101.6	698.6
8	Ole Magnus Bakken (NOR)	597	9.7	9.4	9.0	6.6	10.2	10.4	9.9	10.2	9.7	9.4	94.5	691.5