Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet

The men's skeet shooting competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics was the last shooting event of the Sydney Games, held on 22 and 23 September. Mykola Milchev of Ukraine became the first shooter to hit all 150 targets at an Olympic competition in skeet.[1]

Men's skeet
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
VenueSydney International Shooting Centre
Date22 September 2000
23 September 2000
Competitors49 from 36 nations
Winning score150 (=WR)
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Mykola Milchev  Ukraine
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Petr Málek  Czech Republic
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) James Graves  United States
← 1996
2004 →

Records edit

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

Qualification records
World record   Jan-Henrik Heinrich (GER) 125 Lonato, Italy 5 June 1996
Olympic record   Ennio Falco (ITA) 125 Atlanta, United States 27 July 1996
Final records
World record   Jan-Henrik Heinrich (GER) 150 (125+25) Lonato, Italy 5 June 1996
Olympic record   Ennio Falco (ITA) 149 Atlanta, United States 27 July 1996

Qualification round edit

The qualification round comprised 75 targets on day 1, and 50 targets on day 2.

Rank Athlete Country Day 1 Day 2 Total Shoot-off Notes
1 Mykola Milchev   Ukraine 75 50 125 Q EWR EOR
2 Petr Málek   Czech Republic 75 49 124 Q
3 James Graves   United States 73 50 123 Q
4 Hennie Dompeling   Netherlands 72 50 122 10 Q
5 Andrea Benelli   Italy 72 50 122 10 Q
6 Nasser Al-Attiyah   Qatar 74 48 122 9 Q
7 Sergey Yakshin   Kazakhstan 73 49 122 8
8 Antonakis Andreou   Cyprus 72 50 122 7
9 Saeed Al Maktoum   United Arab Emirates 74 48 122 3
9 Franck Durbesson   France 72 50 122 3
9 Marcelo Yarad   Chile 73 49 122 3
12 Boriss Timofejevs   Latvia 74 48 122 1
12 Gijs van Beek   Netherlands 75 47 122 1
14 Abdullah Al Rashidi   Kuwait 73 48 121
14 Clive Barton   Australia 71 50 121
14 Ennio Falco   Italy 72 49 121
14 Andrzej Głyda   Poland 72 49 121
14 Jan-Henrik Heinrich   Germany 71 50 121
19 Jason Caswell   Canada 73 47 120
19 John Davison   Great Britain 72 48 120
19 Andrei Inešin   Estonia 72 48 120
19 Geoffrey Jukes   New Zealand 71 49 120
23 Georgios Achilleos   Cyprus 71 48 119
23 Saeed Al-Mutairi   Saudi Arabia 73 46 119
23 Khurram Inam   Pakistan 72 47 119
23 Harald Jensen   Norway 72 47 119
23 Jeon Chan-sik   South Korea 74 45 119
23 Mohamed Khorshed   Egypt 73 46 119
23 Timo Laitinen   Finland 71 48 119
23 Michael Maskell   Barbados 71 48 119
23 Nikolai Teplyi   Russia 70 49 119
32 Bronislav Bechynsky   Czech Republic 71 47 118
32 Roberto Carlo Mendoza   Puerto Rico 70 48 118
32 Mostafa Hamdy   Egypt 70 48 118
35 Jean-François Dellac   France 69 48 117
35 Saud Habib   Kuwait 70 47 117
35 Juan Romero Arribas   Guatemala 70 47 117
35 Michael Schmidt, Jr.   United States 72 45 117
39 David Cunningham   Australia 68 48 116
39 Pietro Genga   Italy 70 46 116
39 Drew Harvey   Great Britain 68 48 116
39 Juan Miguel Rodríguez   Cuba 71 45 116
43 Tomas Johansson   Sweden 72 43 115
43 Guillermo Alfredo Torres   Cuba 70 45 115
45 Prince Abdul Hakeem Jefri Bolkiah   Brunei 69 45 114
46 Jin Di   China 69 44 113
47 Alfred Karl Alfredsson   Iceland 66 45 111
47 Brian Thomson   New Zealand 66 45 111
49 Juan Giha   Peru 67 43 110

EOR Equalled Olympic record – EWR Equalled World record – Q Qualified for final

Final edit

Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Shoot-off Notes
    Mykola Milchev (UKR) 125 25 150 EWR OR
    Petr Málek (CZE) 124 24 148
    James Graves (USA) 123 24 147
4   Hennie Dompeling (NED) 122 24 146 4
5   Andrea Benelli (ITA) 122 24 146 3
6   Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT) 122 23 145

EWR Equalled World record – OR Olympic record

References edit

  1. ^ "Shooting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Skeet". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.

Sources edit