The men's 10 metre air rifle competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

was held on August 16 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre

Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre

The Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre was the site of the shooting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The venue is located in Markópoulo, on the outskirts of the eastern suburbs of Athens. It has a seating capacity of 4,000, though a public capacity of only 2,330 for the Olympics...

 near Athens

Athens

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, Greece

Greece

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. The two Chinese

China at the 2004 Summer Olympics

China competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.The team won 32 gold medals and 63 medals in total ....

 shooters in the event, Zhu Qinan

Zhu Qinan

Zhu Qinan is a male Chinese sport shooter. He won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event and a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event. Zhu currently is studying at Zhejiang University.Zhu began shooting training at Wenzhou...

 and Li Jie

Li Jie (rifle shooter)

Li Jie is a male Chinese sports shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal in the men's 10 metre air rifle competition. He lives in Xi'an, Shaanxi.-Career:...

, secured a double victory with Slovakia

Slovakia at the 2004 Summer Olympics

-Gold:* Elena Kaliská — Canoeing, Women's K1 Slalom*Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner — Canoeing, Men's C2 Slalom-Silver:*Michal Martikán — Canoeing, Men's C1 Slalom* Jozef Krnáč — Judo, Judo - Men's 66 kg...

's Jozef Gönci

Jozef Gönci

Jozef Gönci is a Slovak sport shooter, specialising in the 50 m Rifle and 10 m Air Rifle. Gönci won independent Slovakia's first ever Olympic Medal, a bronze in Atlanta in 1996. He won another bronze medal eight years later at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.- External links :*...

 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 Zhu Qinan Zhu Qinan is a male Chinese sport shooter. He won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event and a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event. Zhu currently is studying at Zhejiang University.Zhu began shooting training at Wenzhou...		599	Q OR EJWR
2	Li Jie Li Jie (rifle shooter) Li Jie is a male Chinese sports shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal in the men's 10 metre air rifle competition. He lives in Xi'an, Shaanxi.-Career:...		598	Q
3	Abhinav Bindra Abhinav Bindra Abhinav Singh Bindra is an Indian shooter from Zirakpur, Mohali, Punjab and is the current World and Olympic champion in the 10 m Air Rifle event...		597	Q
4	Jozef Gönci Jozef Gönci Jozef Gönci is a Slovak sport shooter, specialising in the 50 m Rifle and 10 m Air Rifle. Gönci won independent Slovakia's first ever Olympic Medal, a bronze in Atlanta in 1996. He won another bronze medal eight years later at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.- External links :*...		596	Q
5	Cheon Min-ho Cheon Min-ho Cheon Min-ho is a Korean sport shooter.He was born in Gyeongsangbuk, South Korea. He competed in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, in Men's Air Rifle, 10 metres, coming in fourth....		595	Q
6	Maik Eckhardt		595	Q
7	Jason Parker		594	Q (6th: 100)
8	Je Sung-tae		594	Q (6th: 99; 5th: 100)
9	Matthew Emmons Matthew Emmons Matthew D. Emmons is an American sport shooter.-Careers:Emmons started out as a successful junior and has been a holder of the junior world record in 50 metre rifle three positions...		594	(6th: 99; 5th: 99)
9	Masaru Yanagida		594	(6th: 98)
9	Matej Meszaros		594	(6th: 98)
12	Thomas Farnik Thomas Farnik Thomas Farnik, born 6 January 1967 in Vienna, is an Austrian rifle shooter.He was twelve years old when his father introduced him to shooting. He started with a rifle, and his father remained involved with his early training....		593
12	Torsten Krebs		593
12	Gagan Narang Gagan Narang Gagan Narang is an ace Indian shooter, especially in Air rifle shooting, supported by the Olympic Gold Quest. He is the first Indian to qualify for the London Olympics.-Career:...		593
12	Georgios Petsanis		593
12	Christian Planer		593
12	Péter Sidi		593
18	Dick Boschman		592
18	Leif Steinar Rolland		592
18	Konstantinos Savorgianakis		592
18	Vyacheslav Skoromnov		592
22	Artur Ayvazyan		591
22	Oliver Geissmann Oliver Geissmann Oliver Geissmann is a Liechtensteiner sport shooter, specializing in the 10 metre air rifle. Geissmann has represented his country at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2008...		591
24	Mohamed Abdellah		590
24	Vitali Bubnovich		590
24	Marco De Nicolo		590
24	Artem Khadjibekov Artem Khadjibekov Artem Aleksandrovich Khadjibekov is a Russian sport shooter, specializing in the rifles event. He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games and silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in the 10 metre air rifle event.He also competed at 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.-Olympic...		590
24	Jury Sukhorukov Jury Sukhorukov Jury Sukhorukov is an Olympic shooter from Ukraine. He won a silver medal in the Men's 50 metre rifle three positions event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.-References:...		590
29	Rajmond Debevec Rajmond Debevec Rajmond Debevec was born in Postojna, Slovenia, a part of the former Yugoslavia, on March 29, 1963. He became involved in shooting sports in 1971 and became a member of Junior national team in 1979. He won his first medal in 1980 by participating in Junior European Championship with air rifle...		589
29	Sven Haglund		589
29	Konstantin Prikhodtchenko		589
29	Peter Thuesen		589
33	Marcus Åkerholm		588
33	Alexander Babchenko		588
35	Nedžad Fazlija Nedžad Fazlija Nedžad Fazlija is a Bosnian Olympic sports shooter. He was born in Foča, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia.So far the only male shooter to represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Olympics, he was a part of the Bosnian Olympic team at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004...		587
35	Asif Hossain Khan Asif Hossain Khan Asif Hossain Khan is a Bangladeshi shooter. He won the gold medal at 2002 Commonwealth Games in 10 m Air Rifle and repeated his success in the 2004 SAF games by winning gold in the same event. On October 2, 2006 he was brutally beaten by the local police of Bangladesh, injuring both of his arms...		587
35	Timothy Lowndes		587
35	Tevarit Majchacheep		587
39	Stevan Pletikosić Stevan Pletikosic Stevan Pletikosić is a sport shooter from Serbia. While still a junior, he won a bronze medal in Men's 50 m Rifle Prone in the 1992 Summer Olympics...		586
39	Angel Rosendo Velarte		586
41	Espen Berg-Knutsen		584
41	Matthew Robert Inabinet		584
43	Pablo Damian Alvarez		583
44	Roberto Elias		582
45	Juha Hirvi Juha Hirvi Juha Hirvi is a Finnish sport shooter. He won the silver medal in men's 50 metre rifle three positions at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He has also won two silver medals in ISSF World Shooting Championships...		580
46	Tika Shrestha		579
47	Marcel Bürge		576

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

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Shoot-off	Notes
		599	103.7	702.7		WR OR
		598	103.3	701.3
		596	101.4	697.4
4			101.6	696.6
5		595	101.3		10.6
6		594	102.3	696.3	10.4
7		597	97.6	694.6
8			100.5	694.5

OR Olympic record – WR World record