Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air pistol explained

Event:	Men's 10 metre air pistol
Games:	2004 Summer
Venue:	Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre
Date:	14 August 2004
Competitors:	47
Nations:	35
Gold:	Wang Yifu
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silver:	Mikhail Nestruyev
Silvernoc:	RUS
Bronze:	Vladimir Isakov
Bronzenoc:	RUS
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	690.0
Prev:	2000
Next:	2008

The men's 10 metre air pistol competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on 14 August at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.^[1]

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with an air pistol at 10 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10.

The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots scored in increments of 0.1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 70 shots was used to determine final ranking.

2002 World champion Mikhail Nestruyev of Russia had attained a score of 591 to break a new Olympic record in the qualification round, until Chinese shooter and six-time Olympian Wang Yifu caught him up on the last shot to grab his second Olympic gold (the first being done in Barcelona 1992) in the event by an immensely thin 0.2-point margin, finishing with a total of 690.0 to 689.8.^[2] ^[3] Nestruyev's countryman Vladimir Isakov, on the other hand, took the bronze medal with 684.3, edging out 1988 champion Tanyu Kiryakov of Bulgaria by almost a single point.^[4] ^[5]

France's Franck Dumoulin, who eluded Wang for an Olympic gold in Sydney 2000, failed to reach the final round after slipping off from his title defense to share a twentieth place tie with four other shooters in the prelims.^[6]

Records

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

Qualification round

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Notes
1	99	99	98	100	97	98	591	Q,
2	99	98	96	99	99	99	590	Q
3	98	95	99	99	97	96	584	Q
4	96	98	96	99	96	98	583	Q
5	97	95	100	97	96	98	583	Q
6	98	98	96	95	96	99	582	Q
7	95	96	98	98	97	98	582	Q
8	96	98	96	97	97	98	582	Q
9	99	100	94	98	95	96	582
10	93	97	95	99	99	98	581
11	96	98	96	96	98	96	580
11	96	94	98	98	98	96	580
13	100	97	93	98	97	94	579
13	97	97	95	96	98	96	579
13	97	96	98	95	98	95	579
13	97	94	98	97	94	99	579
17	94	96	99	96	96	97	578
17	97	95	99	95	97	95	578
17	96	99	99	94	96	94	578
20	96	96	100	95	95	95	577
20	98	91	98	98	95	97	577
20	93	97	96	98	98	95	577
23	97	95	93	96	98	97	576
23	93	98	98	96	97	94	576
23	96	94	96	99	97	94	576
23	93	96	98	95	97	97	576
27	96	95	94	95	98	96	574
27	95	94	96	96	96	97	574
27	95	95	98	95	96	95	574
30	94	96	96	96	97	94	573
30	96	96	94	96	95	96	573
30	93	97	97	95	92	99	573
33	96	97	93	98	98	90	572
33	94	97	93	95	96	97	572
33	94	98	97	92	95	96	572
36	88	98	97	97	96	95	571
36	94	95	95	96	97	94	571
36	96	92	95	97	94	97	571
39	92	94	97	94	98	95	570
40	97	91	97	95	96	93	569
41	93	92	92	99	97	95	568
42	96	93	93	93	93	97	565
43	90	94	95	97	92	94	562
44	94	90	94	93	94	94	559
45	94	93	93	91	90	92	553
46	88	88	93	94	91	97	551
47	94	82	90	94	92	96	548

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Qual	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final	Total
	590	10.5	9.9	10.0	10.0	9.8	10.5	10.2	8.9	10.3	9.9	100.0	690.0
	591	9.5	10.5	10.3	9.6	10.1	10.1	9.5	10.2	9.3	9.7	98.8	689.8
	584	10.8	9.4	9.3	9.8	10.3	9.9	10.4	10.5	9.5	10.4	100.3	684.3
4	583	10.7	9.7	9.9	9.8	9.7	10.7	10.0	9.3	10.3	10.3	100.4	683.4
5		9.9	10.0	10.4	10.4	10.3	10.0	10.0	9.9	10.1	9.9	100.9	682.9
6		10.1	9.4	10.2	9.8	9.0	10.7	9.6	9.6	10.4	10.2	99.0	682.0
7		10.2	9.1	10.2	10.4	9.6	10.4	8.9	10.4	10.3	10.4	99.9	681.9
8	582	10.1	10.3	10.1	10.2	9.4	8.5	9.9	9.9	10.5	10.3	99.2	681.2

External links

Official Results

Notes and References

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News: Wang Yifu Notches a Second Shooting Gold for China. China Internet Information Center. 14 August 2004. 19 August 2015.
News: Erik. Kirschbaum. Yifu shoots second gold for China. Rediff.com. 14 August 2004. 18 July 2015.
News: China wins 4 golds at Athens Olympics. China Daily. 14 August 2004. 19 August 2015.
News: Bulgarian Shooter 4th in Athens. Novinite. 14 August 2004. 19 August 2015.
News: Wang Yifu wins 2nd gold for China at Athens Olympics. https://web.archive.org/web/20040815033408/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-08/14/content_1784514.htm. dead. 15 August 2004. Xinhua. 14 August 2004. 19 August 2015.