Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre running target explained

Event:	Men's 10 metre running target
Games:	2004 Summer
Venue:	Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre
Date:	18 August 2004 (slow) 19 August 2004 (fast)
Competitors:	19
Nations:	12
Gold:	Manfred Kurzer
Goldnoc:	GER
Silver:	Aleksandr Blinov
Silvernoc:	RUS
Bronze:	Dimitri Lykin
Bronzenoc:	RUS
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	682.4
Prev:	2000

The men's 10 metre running target competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on 18 and 19 August at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece. Along with the women's double trap, this was the last Olympic competition in the event, before being removed from the program shortly after the Games.^[1]

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a running target at 10 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. The first 30 shots were in the slow-running stage, with series of 30 runs being shot within 5 seconds. The second set of 30 runs gave shooters 2.5 seconds to take each shot.

The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 20 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. They were fired in four series of 5 fast-running shots.

Despite a poor performance in the final, Germany's Manfred Kurzer held off a strenuous challenge from the Russian duo Aleksandr Blinov and 2002 World champion Dimitri Lykin to capture the gold medal with 682.4 points in a historic running target finale.^[2] ^[3] Earlier, Kurzer set a new world record of 590, which had been added to the final score for an overall total, to grab a top seed in the prelims, augmenting two points from a global standard set by China's double Olympic champion Yang Ling in 2002. Meanwhile, Blinov took the silver at 678.0, while his fellow marksman Lykin locked the medal haul for the Russians in a 2–3 finish with a bronze-medal score of 677.1.^[4]

Records

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

Qualification round

Rank	1	2	3	Slow	4	5	6	Fast	Total	Notes
1	98	99	99	296	97	99	98	294	590	Q, WR
2	99	99	95	293	98	94	99	291	584	Q
3	95	94	99	288	98	96	97	291	579	Q
4	95	100	97	292	94	96	96	286	578	Q
5	97	100	96	293	95	94	96	285	578	Q
6	97	99	98	294	95	94	95	284	578	Q
7	97	97	99	293	93	93	96	282	575
8	99	98	97	294	96	90	95	281	575
9	97	96	99	292	96	94	93	283	575
10	96	96	94	284	93	97	99	289	573
11	95	97	97	289	93	96	94	283	572
12	92	95	99	286	99	96	90	285	571
13	95	97	97	287	93	96	94	282	569
14	96	98	96	290	90	97	91	278	568
15	95	97	91	283	95	96	90	281	564
16	94	95	94	283	94	94	91	279	562
17	88	96	100	284	90	92	94	276	560
18	97	93	91	281	86	93	91	270	551
19	93	87	95	275	92	86	91	269	544

Final

Rank	Qual	Final	Total
	590	92.4	682.4
		100.0	678.0
	584	93.1	677.1
4		98.8	676.8
5	578	98.7	676.7
6	579	96.8	675.8

External links

Official Results

Notes and References

Web site: Shooting at the 2004 Athens Summer Games: Men's Running Target, 10 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418130706/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2004/SHO/mens-running-target-10-metres.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 3 March 2020.
News: Kurzer, Hungary's Igaly claim golds. ESPN. 20 August 2004. 21 July 2015.
News: Kurzer wins target gold. BBC Sport. 19 August 2004. 21 July 2015.
News: Germany's Kurzer wins gold despite poor final. Times of Malta. 19 August 2004. 21 August 2015.