Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air pistol

Men's 10 metre air pistol
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Men's 10 metre air pistol; at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Wolf Creek Shooting Complex
Competitors	50 from 31 nations
Winning score	684.2
Medalists
	← 1992 2000 →

Men's 10 metre air pistol was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. The defending champion, Wang Yifu, set an Olympic record of 587 points in the qualification round, taking a two-point lead. His lead increased during the final up to the last shot, where he scored a mere 6.5, and then fainted. He still won his fourth Olympic medal but lost the gold to Roberto Di Donna by the closest possible margin, 0.1 point. Medical staff of the Atlanta Games connected the incident to the heat, around 99 °F (37 °C) outside (although the final hall was air-conditioned).^[1]^[2]

Qualification round edit

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Wang Yifu	China	587	Q OR
2	Jerzy Pietrzak	Poland	585	Q
3	Roberto Di Donna	Italy	585	Q
4	Tanyu Kiryakov	Bulgaria	584	Q
5	Friedhelm Sack	Namibia	583	Q
6	Sergei Pyzhianov	Russia	583	Q
7	Igor Basinski	Belarus	582	Q
8	Tan Zongliang	China	581	Q
9	Artur Gevorgjan	Germany	580
9	Kanstantsin Lukashyk	Belarus	580
9	Hans-Jürgen Bauer-Neumaier	Germany	580
12	Gérard Fernandez	France	579
12	Vladimir Isakov	Russia	579
12	Kim Sung-joon	South Korea	579
12	Viktor Makarov	Ukraine	579
12	Yuri Melentiev	Kyrgyzstan	579
17	Vigilio Fait	Italy	578
17	Constantin Tărloiu	Romania	578
19	Shukhrat Akhmedov	Uzbekistan	577
19	Oleksandr Blizniuchenko	Ukraine	577
19	Zoltán Papanitz	Hungary	577
19	Bernardo Tobar	Colombia	577
23	Lennart Andersson	Sweden	576
23	Zsolt Karacs	Hungary	576
23	Martin Tenk	Czech Republic	576
26	Sorin Babii	Romania	575
26	Pål Hembre	Norway	575
26	Ragnar Skanåker	Sweden	575
29	Phillip Adams	Australia	574
29	Tomohiro Kida	Japan	574
29	Afanasijs Kuzmins	Latvia	574
29	Marek Nowak	Poland	574
29	Jakkrit Panichpatikum	Thailand	574
29	Jaspal Rana	India	574
29	Bengt Sandstrom	Australia	574
36	Franck Dumoulin	France	573
36	Kim Sung-joon	South Korea	573
36	Sergio Sanchez	Guatemala	573
39	Stanislav Jirkal	Czech Republic	572
39	Alex Tripolski	Israel	572
41	Neal Caloia	United States	571
41	Tu Tai Hsing	Chinese Taipei	571
43	Roman Špirelja	Croatia	570
44	Ben Amonette	United States	569
44	Jan Fabo	Slovakia	569
44	Hassan Hassan	Iraq	569
47	Kolyo Zakhariev	Bulgaria	568
48	Masaru Nakashige	Japan	567
49	Soe Myint	Myanmar	555
50	Surin Klomjai	Thailand	547

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final edit

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total
	Roberto Di Donna (ITA)	585	99.2	684.2
	Wang Yifu (CHN)	587	97.1	684.1
	Tanyu Kiryakov (BUL)	584	99.8	683.8
4	Sergei Pyzhianov (RUS)	583	100.5	683.5
5	Jerzy Pietrzak (POL)	585	97.7	682.7
6	Tan Zongliang (CHN)	581	101.0	682.0
7	Igor Basinski (BLR)	582	99.8	681.8
8	Friedhelm Sack (NAM)	583	97.2	680.2

References edit

^ Reuters (22 July 1996). "ATLANTA: DAY 3 -- NOTEBOOK;Heat Got to Shooter". New York Times. New York. Retrieved 11 September 2008. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
^ "Shooting at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's Air Pistol, 10 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2020.

Sources edit

Olympic Report Atlanta 1996 Volume III: The Competition Results (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2008.

[1] Reuters (22 July 1996). "ATLANTA: DAY 3 -- NOTEBOOK;Heat Got to Shooter". New York Times. New York. Retrieved 11 September 2008. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)

[SR-2] "Shooting at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's Air Pistol, 10 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2020.

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