Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet explained

Event:	Men's skeet
Games:	2004 Summer
Venue:	Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre
Date:	August 21, 2004 August 22, 2004
Competitors:	41
Nations:	32
Gold:	Andrea Benelli
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silver:	Marko Kemppainen
Silvernoc:	FIN
Bronze:	Juan Miguel Rodríguez
Bronzenoc:	CUB
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	149
Prev:	2000
Next:	2008

The men's skeet shooting competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 21 and 22 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 5 sets of 25 shots in the set order of skeet shooting.

In this last Olympic skeet competition before rules were changed, Marko Kemppainen attained a perfect 125 to break the world and Olympic records in the qualification round, but missed one target in the final, allowing Andrea Benelli to catch him up with a score of 149 to force the gold medal shoot-off.^[1] Meanwhile, Cuba's Juan Miguel Rodríguez had shared a score of 147 targets with Qatar's Nasser Al-Attiyah and United States' Shawn Dulohery, until he fired a perfect ten in a three-way shoot-off to grab the bronze.^[2]

Records

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

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	Day 1	4	5	Total	SO 1	SO 2	Notes
1	Marko Kemppainen		25	25	25	75	25	25	125			Q, =WR
2	Andrea Benelli		24	25	25	74	25	25	124			Q
3	Shawn Dulohery		25	24	25	74	23	25		4		Q
4	Juan Miguel Rodríguez		23	25	25	73	25	24		4		Q
5	Nasser Al-Attiyah		24	24	25	73	25	24		4		Q
6	Harald Jensen		24	24	24	72	25	25		3	2	Q
7	Michael Nielsen		25	23	25	73	25	24		3	1
8	Erik Watndal		25	22	24	71	25	25	121
9	Georgios Achilleos		24	24	25	73	23	25	121
9	Abdullah Al-Rashidi		25	24	24	73	24	24	121
9	James Graves		25	25	23	73	24	24	121
9	Mykola Milchev		23	25	24	72	24	25	121
9	Jan Sychra		25	25	24	74	23	24	121
9	Anthony Terras		25	23	25	73	23	25	121
15	Sergey Aksyutin		25	24	25	74	23	23	120
15	Saied Al-Mutairi		24	25	25	74	24	22	120
15	Diego Duarte Delgado		24	24	25	73	23	24	120
15	Jin Di		24	25	24	73	25	22	120
15	Paul Rahman		25	23	24	72	24	24	120
15	Valeriy Shomin		25	25	25	75	22	23	120
21	Hennie Dompeling		23	24	24	71	23	25	119
21	Julio Elizardo Dujarric Lembcke		25	24	24	73	24	22	119
21	Ennio Falco		23	24	24	71	25	23	119
21	Andrzej Głyda		23	25	23	71	24	24	119
21	Andrei Inešin		24	25	24	73	23	23	119
21	Antonis Nikolaidis		23	24	25	72	23	24	119
21	Georgios Salavantakis		22	25	24	71	25	23	119
21	Guillermo Alfredo Torres		24	25	24	73	22	24	119
29	George Barton		25	23	24	72	23	23	118
29	Mostafa Hamdy		25	25	21	71	25	22	118
31	Jorge Atalah		24	24	23	71	24	22	117
31	Michael Maskell		23	23	23	69	23	25	117
31	Axel Wegner		23	25	24	72	22	23	117
34	Richard Brickell		23	24	23	70	21	24	115
34	Amr El-Gaiar		24	22	23	69	23	23	115
34	Jan-Cor van der Greef		24	23	24	71	20	24	115
37	Saeed Al Maktoum		23	24	23	70	22	22	114
37	Khurram Inam		24	24	24	72	20	22	114
37	Lee Suk-tae		22	24	22	68	23	23	114
40	Ricky Teh Chee Fei		24	22	23	69	21	23	113
41	Roger Dahi		24	18	23	65	20	21	106

=OR Equalled Olympic record – =WR Equalled World record – Q Qualified for final – SO 1 Shoot-off for third place – SO 2 Shoot-off for sixth place

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Bronze shoot-off	Gold shoot-off
		124	25			5
		125	24	149		4
			25		10
4			25		9
5			25	147	5
6		122	23	145

External links

• Official Results

Notes and References

1. News: Italy's Benelli edges out Kemppainen for skeet gold. Gulf News. 23 August 2004. 18 July 2015.
2. News: American Loses Lead and More With Misfire. Los Angeles Times. 23 August 2004. 18 July 2015.