At the age of 41, rally driver Nasser Al-Attiyah was competing in his fifth consecutive Olympic Games. He automatically qualified for a quota spot into the men's skeet because he won the gold medal in the discipline at the 2012 Asian Shooting Championships. Al-Attiyah entered seven contests and visited several training camps to prepare himself for the Olympics. The qualification round of the men's skeet took place on 31 July. He came fourth out of thirty-six shooters with a score of 121 points. This score earned Al-Attiyah automatic qualification for the final that was held on the next day. He held the bronze medal position until he missed two of his targets and entered a shoot-out against Russia's Valeriy Shomin. Al-Attiyah won the shoot-out and the bronze medal after Shomin missed his sixth target. It was Qatar's third ever Olympic medal and its first since Said Saif Asaad's bronze in men's weightlifting at the 2000 Sydney Games.