Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air pistol explained

Event:	Men's 10 metre air pistol
Games:	1996 Summer
Date:	20 July 1996
Competitors:	50
Nations:	31
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silvernoc:	CHN
Bronzenoc:	BUL
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	684.2
Next:	2000

Men's 10 metre air pistol was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. The defending champion, Wang Yifu, set an Olympic record of 587 points in the qualification round, taking a two-point lead. His lead increased during the final up to the last shot, where he scored a mere 6.5, and then fainted. He still won his fourth Olympic medal but lost the gold to Roberto Di Donna by the closest possible margin, 0.1 point. Medical staff of the Atlanta Games connected the incident to the heat, around 99°F outside (although the final hall was air-conditioned).^{[1] [2]}

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Wang Yifu		587	Q OR
2	Jerzy Pietrzak		585	Q
3	Roberto Di Donna		585	Q
4	Tanyu Kiryakov		584	Q
5	Friedhelm Sack		583	Q
6	Sergei Pyzhianov		583	Q
7	Igor Basinski		582	Q
8	Tan Zongliang		581	Q
9	Artur Gevorgjan		580
9	Kanstantsin Lukashyk		580
9	Hans-Jürgen Bauer-Neumaier		580
12	Gérard Fernandez		579
12	Vladimir Isakov		579
12	Kim Sung-joon		579
12	Viktor Makarov		579
12	Yuri Melentiev		579
17	Vigilio Fait		578
17	Constantin Tărloiu		578
19	Shukhrat Akhmedov		577
19	Oleksandr Blizniuchenko		577
19	Zoltán Papanitz		577
19	Bernardo Tobar		577
23	Lennart Andersson		576
23	Zsolt Karacs		576
23	Martin Tenk		576
26	Sorin Babii		575
26	Pål Hembre		575
26	Ragnar Skanåker		575
29	Phillip Adams		574
29	Tomohiro Kida		574
29	Afanasijs Kuzmins		574
29	Marek Nowak		574
29	Jakkrit Panichpatikum		574
29	Jaspal Rana		574
29	Bengt Sandstrom		574
36	Franck Dumoulin		573
36	Kim Sung-joon		573
36	Sergio Sanchez		573
39	Stanislav Jirkal		572
39	Alex Tripolski		572
41	Neal Caloia		571
41	Tu Tai Hsing		571
43	Roman Špirelja		570
44	Ben Amonette		569
44	Ján Fabo		569
44	Hassan Hassan		569
47	Kolyo Zakhariev		568
48	Masaru Nakashige		567
49	Soe Myint		555
50	Surin Klomjai		547

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total
		585	99.2	684.2
		587	97.1	684.1
		584	99.8	683.8
4		583	100.5	683.5
5		585	97.7	682.7
6		581	101.0	682.0
7		582	99.8	681.8
8		583	97.2	680.2

Sources

• Book: Olympic Report Atlanta 1996 Volume III: The Competition Results . PDF . 10 September 2008.

Notes and References

1. News: ATLANTA: DAY 3 -- NOTEBOOK;Heat Got to Shooter . Reuters . Reuters . . New York . 22 July 1996 . 11 September 2008.
2. Web site: Shooting at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's Air Pistol, 10 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418124814/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1996/SHO/mens-air-pistol-10-metres.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 27 February 2020.