Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air pistol explained

Event:	Men's 10 metre air pistol
Games:	2000 Summer
Date:	16 September 2000
Competitors:	43
Nations:	30
Goldnoc:	FRA
Silvernoc:	CHN
Bronzenoc:	BLR
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	688.9 (OR)
Next:	2004

See main article: Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics. The men's 10 metre air pistol competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on 16 September, the day after the opening ceremony. Franck Dumoulin and Wang Yifu both reached 590 points in the qualification round of 60 shots, raising the Olympic record by three points. Although both shooters performed considerably worse in the final, their seven-point gap to the bronze medal was quite safe. Dumoulin outperformed Wang by two points, setting a new final Olympic record.^[1]

Records

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

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Wang Yifu		590	Q OR
2	Franck Dumoulin		590	Q OR
3	Mikhail Nestruyev		583	Q
4	Igor Basinski		583	Q
5	João Costa		581	Q
6	Roberto Di Donna		581	Q
7	Stéphane Gagne		581	Q
8	Tanyu Kiryakov		581	Q
9	Vladimir Gontcharov		579
9	Dilshod Mukhtarov		579
11	Sorin Babii		578
11	Jerzy Pietrzak		578
11	Tan Zongliang		578
11	Martin Tenk		578
15	Michael Douglass		577
15	Kanstantsin Lukashyk		577
17	Ján Fabo		576
17	Dionissios Georgakopoulos		576
17	Yuri Melentiev		576
20	Hans-Jürgen Bauer-Neumaier		575
20	Artur Gevorgjan		575
20	Paolo Ranno		575
23	William Demarest		574
23	Vladimir Guchsha		574
25	Masaru Nakashige		573
26	Boris Kokorev		572
27	Vigilio Fait		571
27	Tarek Riad		571
29	Lajos Pálinkás		570
30	Felipe Beuvrín		569
30	Iulian Raicea		569
32	David Moore		567
33	Norbelis Bárzaga		566
34	Friedhelm Sack		565
34	Sergio Werner Sanchez Gomez		565
36	Noriyuki Nishitani		564
37	Ricardo Chandeck		562
38	David Porter		561
39	Chris Rice		560
40	Christián Muñoz Ortega		559
41	Luis Méndez		556
42	István Jambrik		555
	Alexander Danilov			DQ

DQ Disqualified – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
		590	98.9	688.9	OR
		590	96.9	686.9
		583	99.7	682.7
4		583	99.3	682.3
5		581	101.0	682.0
6		581	99.5	680.5
7		581	98.4	679.4
8		581	95.8	676.8

OR Olympic record

Sources

• Book: Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad — Shooting . PDF . 6 September 2008.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Shooting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Air Pistol, 10 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418020722/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/SHO/mens-air-pistol-10-metres.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 2 March 2020.