Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet explained

Event:	Men's skeet
Games:	2000 Summer
Date:	22 September 2000 23 September 2000
Competitors:	49
Nations:	36
Goldnoc:	UKR
Silvernoc:	CZE
Bronzenoc:	USA
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	150 (=WR)
Next:	2004

The men's skeet shooting competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics was the last shooting event of the Sydney Games, held on 22 and 23 September. Mykola Milchev of Ukraine became the first shooter to hit all 150 targets at an Olympic competition in skeet.^[1]

Records

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

Qualification round

The qualification round comprised 75 targets on day 1, and 50 targets on day 2.

Rank	Athlete	Country	Day 1	Day 2	Total	Shoot-off	Notes
1	Mykola Milchev		75	50	125		Q EWR EOR
2	Petr Málek		75	49	124		Q
3	James Graves		73	50	123		Q
4	Hennie Dompeling		72	50	122	10	Q
5	Andrea Benelli		72	50	122	10	Q
6	Nasser Al-Attiyah		74	48	122	9	Q
7	Sergey Yakshin		73	49	122	8
8	Antonakis Andreou		72	50	122	7
9	Saeed Al Maktoum		74	48	122	3
9	Franck Durbesson		72	50	122	3
9	Marcelo Yarad		73	49	122	3
12	Boriss Timofejevs		74	48	122	1
12	Gijs van Beek		75	47	122	1
14	Abdullah Al Rashidi		73	48	121
14	Clive Barton		71	50	121
14	Ennio Falco		72	49	121
14	Andrzej Głyda		72	49	121
14	Jan-Henrik Heinrich		71	50	121
19	Jason Caswell		73	47	120
19	John Davison		72	48	120
19	Andrei Inešin		72	48	120
19	Geoffrey Jukes		71	49	120
23	Georgios Achilleos		71	48	119
23	Saeed Al-Mutairi		73	46	119
23	Khurram Inam		72	47	119
23	Harald Jensen		72	47	119
23	Jeon Chan-sik		74	45	119
23	Mohamed Khorshed		73	46	119
23	Timo Laitinen		71	48	119
23	Michael Maskell		71	48	119
23	Nikolai Teplyi		70	49	119
32	Bronislav Bechynsky		71	47	118
32	Roberto Carlo Mendoza		70	48	118
32	Mostafa Hamdy		70	48	118
35	Jean-François Dellac		69	48	117
35	Saud Habib		70	47	117
35	Juan Romero Arribas		70	47	117
35	Michael Schmidt, Jr.		72	45	117
39	David Cunningham		68	48	116
39	Pietro Genga		70	46	116
39	Drew Harvey		68	48	116
39	Juan Miguel Rodríguez		71	45	116
43	Tomas Johansson		72	43	115
43	Guillermo Alfredo Torres		70	45	115
45	Prince Abdul Hakeem Jefri Bolkiah		69	45	114
46	Jin Di		69	44	113
47	Alfred Karl Alfredsson		66	45	111
47	Brian Thomson		66	45	111
49	Juan Giha		67	43	110

EOR Equalled Olympic record – EWR Equalled World record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Shoot-off	Notes
		125	25	150		EWR OR
		124	24	148
		123	24	147
4		122	24	146	4
5		122	24	146	3
6		122	23	145

EWR Equalled World record – 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 Skeet . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418001338/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/SHO/mens-skeet.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 2 March 2020.