Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet explained

Event:	Men's skeet
Games:	2012 Summer
Date:	30 July 2012 31 July 2012
Competitors:	36
Nations:	26
Goldnoc:	USA
Silvernoc:	DEN
Bronzenoc:	QAT
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	148
Next:	2016

The Men's skeet event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 30 and 31 July 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks. 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. The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25. The total score from all 150 shots was used to determine the final ranking.^[1]

Records

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

• Hancock improved his Olympic qualification record from the last Olympic with two points.

• Hancock improved his Olympic record from the last Olympic with three points.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	4	5	Total	Notes
1	Vincent Hancock		25	24	25	24	25	123	Q, OR
2	Anders Golding		24	23	25	25	25	122	Q
3	Valeriy Shomin		23	24	24	25	25	121	Q
4	Nasser Al-Attiyah		25	23	24	24	25	121	Q
5	Luigi Lodde		21	25	24	25	25	120	Q
6	Jan Sychra		23	23	25	24	25	120	Q
7	Marcus Svensson		22	24	24	24	25	119
8	Frank Thompson		24	23	24	23	25	119
9	Nikolaos Mavrommatis		23	25	23	24	24	119
10	Ralf Buchheim		23	21	24	25	25	118
11	Georgios Achilleos		23	22	24	24	25	118
12	Richard Brickell		24	22	23	25	24	118
13	Saeed Al-Maktoum		21	24	25	24	24	118
14	Ennio Falco		24	23	24	23	24	118
15	Stefan Nilsson		22	25	25	22	24	118
16	Rory Warlow		24	24	22	25	23	118
17	Anthony Terras		21	24	24	25	23	117
18	Mostafa Hamdy		23	25	22	24	23	117
19	Jakub Tomeček		24	23	23	25	22	117
20	Keith Ferguson		23	22	23	22	24	116
21	Abdullah Al-Rashidi		23	24	24	21	24	116
22	Antonakis Andreou		22	23	23	24	23	115
23	Juan José Aramburu		23	22	24	24	22	115
24	Javier Rodríguez		23	22	23	22	24	114
25	Efthimios Mitas		22	24	23	22	23	114
26	Jesper Hansen		22	22	24	24	21	113
27	Tore Brovold		22	25	22	24	20	113
28	Khurram Inam		21	23	23	20	25	112
29	Majed Al-Tamimi		23	18	20	25	21	111
30	Guillermo Alfredo Torres		20	21	25	22	22	110
31	Paul Brian Rosario		22	19	25	22	24	109
32	Nicolás Pacheco		21	21	21	22	24	109
33	Clive Barton		20	22	25	21	21	109
34	Fabio Ramella		21	23	22	23	20	109
35	Cho Yong-Seong		24	21	23	22	19	109
36	Azmy Mehelba		21	19	24	24	20	108

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Bronze shoot-off	Notes
		123	25	148		OR
		122	24	146
		121	23	144	6
4		121	23	144	5
5		120	23	143
6		120	23	143

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132159/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2012/SHO/mens-skeet.html Shooting at the 2012 London Summer Games: Men's Skeet