# Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air rifle

The men's 10 metre air rifle competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on 18 September.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification records :
| World record | Tevarit Majchacheep (THA) | 600 | Langkawi, Malaysia | 27 January 2000 |
| Olympic record | Wolfram Waibel (AUT) | 596 | Atlanta, United States | 22 July 1996 |
Final records :
| World record | Jason Parker (USA) | 700.6 | Munich, Germany | 23 May 1998 |
| Olympic record | Artem Khadjibekov (RUS) | 695.7 | Atlanta, United States | 22 July 1996 |

## Qualification round

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Score | Notes |
| 1 | Cai Yalin | China | 594 | Q |
| 2 | Anatoli Klimenko | Belarus | 593 | Q |
| 3 | Jason Parker | United States | 592 | Q |
| 4 | Artur Ayvazyan | Ukraine | 592 | Q |
| 5 | Artem Khadjibekov | Russia | 592 | Q |
| 6 | Yevgeni Aleinikov | Russia | 592 | Q |
| 7 | Leif Steinar Rolland | Norway | 592 | Q |
| 8 | Nedžad Fazlija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 591 | Q (6th: 99) |
| 9 | Rajmond Debevec | Slovenia | 591 | (6th: 98) |
| 9 | Mario Knögler | Austria | 591 | (6th: 98) |
| 11 | Mohamed Abdel Ellah | Egypt | 590 | |
| 11 | Abhinav Bindra | India | 590 | |
| 11 | Jozef Gönci | Slovakia | 590 | |
| 11 | Lim Young-sueb | South Korea | 590 | |
| 15 | Norbert Ettner | Germany | 589 | |
| 15 | Yuri Lomov | Kyrgyzstan | 589 | |
| 15 | Péter Sidi | Hungary | 589 | |
| 18 | Jean-Pierre Amat | France | 588 | |
| 18 | Thomas Farnik | Austria | 588 | |
| 18 | Juha Hirvi | Finland | 588 | |
| 18 | Lee Eun-chul | South Korea | 588 | |
| 18 | Tevarit Majchacheep | Thailand | 588 | |
| 18 | Oleg Mykhaylov | Ukraine | 588 | |
| 18 | Georgy Nekhaev | Belarus | 588 | |
| 18 | Wayne Sorensen | Canada | 588 | |
| 18 | Wolfram Waibel | Austria | 588 | |
| 27 | Marco De Nicolo | Italy | 587 | |
| 27 | Roger Hansson | Sweden | 587 | |
| 27 | Nemanja Mirosavljev | FR Yugoslavia | 587 | |
| 27 | Robert Wieland | Australia | 587 | |
| 31 | Pablo Álvarez | Argentina | 586 | |
| 31 | Franck Badiou | France | 586 | |
| 31 | Dick Boschman | Netherlands | 586 | |
| 34 | Václav Bečvář | Czech Republic | 585 | |
| 34 | Espen Berg-Knutsen | Norway | 585 | |
| 34 | Masaru Yanagida | Japan | 585 | |
| 37 | Ferdinand Stipberger | Germany | 584 | |
| 38 | Roberto Jose Elias Orozco | Mexico | 583 | |
| 38 | Kenneth Johnson | United States | 583 | |
| 38 | Stevan Pletikosić | FR Yugoslavia | 583 | |
| 41 | Oliver Geissmann | Liechtenstein | 582 | |
| 41 | Timothy Lowndes | Australia | 582 | |
| 43 | Radim Novák | Czech Republic | 581 | |
| 44 | Hilal Al Rasheedi | Oman | 579 | |
| 45 | Varavut Majchacheep | Thailand | 575 | |
| 46 | Walter Martínez | Nicaragua | 571 | |
| | Jorge González | Spain | | DNS |
| | Hou Yannan | China | | DNS |
DNS Did not start – Q Qualified for final

## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total | Notes |
| | Cai Yalin (CHN) | 594 | 102.4 | 696.4 | OR |
| | Artem Khadjibekov (RUS) | 592 | 103.1 | 695.1 | |
| | Yevgeni Aleinikov (RUS) | 592 | 101.8 | 693.8 | |
| 4 | Anatoli Klimenko (BLR) | 593 | 100.4 | 693.4 | |
| 5 | Jason Parker (USA) | 592 | 101.1 | 693.1 | |
| 6 | Nedžad Fazlija (BIH) | 591 | 101.7 | 692.7 | |
| 7 | Leif Steinar Rolland (NOR) | 592 | 100.2 | 692.2 | |
| 8 | Artur Ayvazyan (UKR) | 592 | 100.0 | 692.0 | |
OR Olympic record