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

The men's 10 metre air rifle competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on 18 September.^[1]

Records

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

Rank	Athlete	Score	Notes
1	Cai Yalin	594	Q
2	Anatoli Klimenko	593	Q
3	Jason Parker	592	Q
4	Artur Ayvazyan	592	Q
5	Artem Khadjibekov	592	Q
6	Yevgeni Aleinikov	592	Q
7	Leif Steinar Rolland	592	Q
8	Nedžad Fazlija	591	Q (6th: 99)
9	Rajmond Debevec	591	(6th: 98)
9	Mario Knögler	591	(6th: 98)
11	Mohamed Abdel Ellah	590
11	Abhinav Bindra	590
11	Jozef Gönci	590
11	Lim Young-sueb	590
15	Norbert Ettner	589
15	Yuri Lomov	589
15	Péter Sidi	589
18	Jean-Pierre Amat	588
18	Thomas Farnik	588
18	Juha Hirvi	588
18	Lee Eun-chul	588
18	Tevarit Majchacheep	588
18	Oleg Mykhaylov	588
18	Georgy Nekhaev	588
18	Wayne Sorensen	588
18	Wolfram Waibel	588
27	Marco De Nicolo	587
27	Roger Hansson	587
27	Nemanja Mirosavljev	587
27	Robert Wieland	587
31	Pablo Álvarez	586
31	Franck Badiou	586
31	Dick Boschman	586
34	Václav Bečvář	585
34	Espen Berg-Knutsen	585
34	Masaru Yanagida	585
37	Ferdinand Stipberger	584
38	Roberto Jose Elias Orozco	583
38	Kenneth Johnson	583
38	Stevan Pletikosić	583
41	Oliver Geissmann	582
41	Timothy Lowndes	582
43	Radim Novák	581
44	Hilal Al Rasheedi	579
45	Varavut Majchacheep	575
46	Walter Martínez	571
	Jorge González		DNS
	Hou Yannan		DNS

DNS Did not start – Q Qualified for final

OR Olympic record

Web site: Shooting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Air Rifle, 10 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181321/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/SHO/mens-air-rifle-10-metres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 2 March 2020.