# Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air rifle

The men's 10 metre air rifle competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on 16 August 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 60 shots with an air rifle at 10 metres distance from the standing position. 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 .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 70 shots was used to determine final ranking.
China's Zhu Qinan stunned the entire worldwide audience as he came from nowhere to snatch the Olympic gold in air rifle shooting, smashing a new world record of 702.7 points. Zhu also enjoyed his teammate Li Jie taking home the silver medal with 702.7, as the Chinese marksmen led the medal haul in a blistering 1–2 finish. Slovakia's world number one Jozef Gönci came up with a steady feat in the final to claim the bronze on 697.4 points. Earlier in the prelims, Zhu set a junior world standard to grab the top seed in the six-man final, just one point short of the perfect grade 600 that had been successfully recorded by Thailand's Tevarit Majchacheeap in 2000.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification records :
| World record | Tevarit Majchacheeap (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) | 702.5 (599+103.5) | Munich, Germany | 15 June 2003 |
| Olympic record | Cai Yalin (CHN) | 696.4 (594+102.4) | Sydney, Australia | 18 September 2000 |

## Qualification round

| Rank | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Total | Notes |
| 1 | Zhu Qinan | China | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 599 | Q, OR |
| 2 | Li Jie | China | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 598 | Q |
| 3 | Abhinav Bindra | India | 99 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 597 | Q |
| 4 | Jozef Gönci | Slovakia | 99 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 596 | Q |
| 5 | Cheon Min-ho | South Korea | 100 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 595 | Q |
| 6 | Maik Eckhardt | Germany | 98 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 595 | Q |
| 7 | Jason Parker | United States | 100 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 594 | Q |
| 8 | Je Seong-tae | South Korea | 98 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 594 | Q |
| 9 | Matthew Emmons | United States | 99 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 594 | |
| 9 | Matej Mészáros | Slovakia | 100 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 594 | |
| 9 | Masaru Yanagida | Japan | 99 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 594 | |
| 12 | Thomas Farnik | Austria | 99 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 593 | |
| 12 | Torsten Krebs | Germany | 98 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 593 | |
| 12 | Gagan Narang | India | 99 | 97 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 593 | |
| 12 | Georgios Petsanis | Greece | 98 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 593 | |
| 12 | Christian Planer | Austria | 98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 593 | |
| 12 | Péter Sidi | Hungary | 99 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 593 | |
| 18 | Dick Boschman | Netherlands | 96 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 592 | |
| 18 | Leif Steinar Rolland | Norway | 100 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 97 | 592 | |
| 18 | Konstantinos Savorgiannakis | Greece | 98 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 592 | |
| 18 | Vyacheslav Skoromnov | Uzbekistan | 99 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 592 | |
| 22 | Artur Ayvazyan | Ukraine | 99 | 97 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 98 | 591 | |
| 22 | Oliver Geissmann | Liechtenstein | 97 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 97 | 98 | 591 | |
| 24 | Mohamed Abdellah | Egypt | 96 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 97 | 590 | |
| 24 | Vitali Bubnovich | Belarus | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 97 | 97 | 590 | |
| 24 | Marco De Nicolo | Italy | 94 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 590 | |
| 24 | Artem Khadjibekov | Russia | 97 | 100 | 97 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 590 | |
| 24 | Yuriy Sukhorukov | Ukraine | 99 | 99 | 99 | 96 | 98 | 99 | 590 | |
| 29 | Rajmond Debevec | Slovenia | 96 | 100 | 99 | 96 | 98 | 100 | 589 | |
| 29 | Sven Haglund | Sweden | 97 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 97 | 589 | |
| 29 | Konstantin Prikhodtchenko | Russia | 98 | 98 | 96 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 589 | |
| 29 | Peter Thuesen | Denmark | 99 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 97 | 589 | |
| 33 | Marcus Åkerholm | Sweden | 99 | 98 | 100 | 96 | 98 | 98 | 588 | |
| 33 | Aleksandr Babchenko | Kyrgyzstan | 99 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 95 | 588 | |
| 35 | Nedžad Fazlija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 99 | 96 | 97 | 100 | 98 | 97 | 587 | |
| 35 | Asif Hossain Khan | Bangladesh | 99 | 98 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 587 | |
| 35 | Timothy Lowndes | Australia | 97 | 99 | 96 | 100 | 97 | 98 | 587 | |
| 35 | Tevarit Majchacheeap | Thailand | 98 | 99 | 96 | 98 | 100 | 96 | 587 | |
| 39 | Stevan Pletikosić | Serbia and Montenegro | 99 | 98 | 97 | 98 | 96 | 98 | 586 | |
| 39 | Ángel Velarte | Argentina | 97 | 96 | 99 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 586 | |
| 41 | Espen Berg-Knutsen | Norway | 96 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 97 | 97 | 584 | |
| 41 | Matthew Inabinet | Australia | 96 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 98 | 96 | 584 | |
| 43 | Pablo Álvarez | Argentina | 96 | 95 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 98 | 583 | |
| 44 | Roberto José Elias | Mexico | 96 | 96 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 95 | 582 | |
| 45 | Juha Hirvi | Finland | 96 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 94 | 96 | 580 | |
| 46 | Tika Shrestha | Nepal | 97 | 94 | 96 | 95 | 98 | 99 | 579 | |
| 47 | Marcel Bürge | Switzerland | 96 | 95 | 96 | 98 | 95 | 96 | 576 | |

## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total | Shoot-off | Notes |
| | Zhu Qinan (CHN) | 599 | 103.7 | 702.7 | | WR |
| | Li Jie (CHN) | 598 | 103.3 | 701.3 | | |
| | Jozef Gönci (SVK) | 596 | 101.4 | 697.4 | | |
| 4 | Cheon Min-ho (KOR) | 595 | 101.6 | 696.6 | | |
| 5 | Maik Eckhardt (GER) | 595 | 101.3 | 696.3 | 10.6 | |
| 6 | Je Sung-tae (KOR) | 594 | 102.3 | 696.3 | 10.4 | |
| 7 | Abhinav Bindra (IND) | 597 | 97.6 | 694.6 | | |
| 8 | Jason Parker (USA) | 594 | 100.5 | 694.5 | | |