Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet

The men's skeet shooting competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 21 and 22 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.

Men's skeet
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
VenueMarkópoulo Olympic Shooting
Centre
DateAugust 21, 2004
August 22, 2004
Competitors41 from 32 nations
Winning score149
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Andrea Benelli  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Marko Kemppainen  Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Juan Miguel Rodríguez  Cuba
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The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 5 sets of 25 shots in the set order of skeet shooting.

In this last Olympic skeet competition before rules were changed, Marko Kemppainen attained a perfect 125 to break the world and Olympic records in the qualification round, but missed one target in the final, allowing Andrea Benelli to catch him up with a score of 149 to force the gold medal shoot-off.[1] Meanwhile, Cuba's Juan Miguel Rodríguez had shared a score of 147 targets with Qatar's Nasser Al-Attiyah and United States' Shawn Dulohery, until he fired a perfect ten in a three-way shoot-off to grab the bronze.[2]

Records

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

Qualification records
World record   Abdullah Al-Rashidi (KUW) 125 Bangkok, Thailand 9 July 2004
Olympic record   Mykola Milchev (UKR) 125 Sydney, Australia 23 September 2000
Final records
World record   Valeriy Shomin (RUS) 150 (125+25) Granada, Spain 28 June 2003
Olympic record   Mykola Milchev (UKR) 150 (125+25) Sydney, Australia 23 September 2000

Qualification round

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Rank Athlete Country 1 2 3 Day 1 4 5 Total SO 1 SO 2 Notes
1 Marko Kemppainen   Finland 25 25 25 75 25 25 125 Q, =WR
2 Andrea Benelli   Italy 24 25 25 74 25 25 124 Q
3 Shawn Dulohery   United States 25 24 25 74 23 25 122 4 Q
4 Juan Miguel Rodríguez   Cuba 23 25 25 73 25 24 122 4 Q
5 Nasser Al-Attiyah   Qatar 24 24 25 73 25 24 122 4 Q
6 Harald Jensen   Norway 24 24 24 72 25 25 122 3 2 Q
7 Michael Nielsen   Denmark 25 23 25 73 25 24 122 3 1
8 Erik Watndal   Norway 25 22 24 71 25 25 121
9 Georgios Achilleos   Cyprus 24 24 25 73 23 25 121
9 Abdullah Al-Rashidi   Kuwait 25 24 24 73 24 24 121
9 James Graves   United States 25 25 23 73 24 24 121
9 Mykola Milchev   Ukraine 23 25 24 72 24 25 121
9 Jan Sychra   Czech Republic 25 25 24 74 23 24 121
9 Anthony Terras   France 25 23 25 73 23 25 121
15 Sergey Aksyutin   Russia 25 24 25 74 23 23 120
15 Saied Al-Mutairi   Saudi Arabia 24 25 25 74 24 22 120
15 Diego Duarte Delgado   Colombia 24 24 25 73 23 24 120
15 Jin Di   China 24 25 24 73 25 22 120
15 Paul Rahman   Australia 25 23 24 72 24 24 120
15 Valeriy Shomin   Russia 25 25 25 75 22 23 120
21 Hennie Dompeling   Netherlands 23 24 24 71 23 25 119
21 Julio Elizardo Dujarric Lembcke   Dominican Republic 25 24 24 73 24 22 119
21 Ennio Falco   Italy 23 24 24 71 25 23 119
21 Andrzej Głyda   Poland 23 25 23 71 24 24 119
21 Andrei Inešin   Estonia 24 25 24 73 23 23 119
21 Antonis Nikolaidis   Cyprus 23 24 25 72 23 24 119
21 Georgios Salavantakis   Greece 22 25 24 71 25 23 119
21 Guillermo Alfredo Torres   Cuba 24 25 24 73 22 24 119
29 George Barton   Australia 25 23 24 72 23 23 118
29 Mostafa Hamdy   Egypt 25 25 21 71 25 22 118
31 Jorge Atalah   Chile 24 24 23 71 24 22 117
31 Michael Maskell   Barbados 23 23 23 69 23 25 117
31 Axel Wegner   Germany 23 25 24 72 22 23 117
34 Richard Brickell   Great Britain 23 24 23 70 21 24 115
34 Amr El-Gaiar   Egypt 24 22 23 69 23 23 115
34 Jan-Cor van der Greef   Netherlands 24 23 24 71 20 24 115
37 Saeed Al Maktoum   United Arab Emirates 23 24 23 70 22 22 114
37 Khurram Inam   Pakistan 24 24 24 72 20 22 114
37 Lee Suk-tae   South Korea 22 24 22 68 23 23 114
40 Ricky Teh Chee Fei   Malaysia 24 22 23 69 21 23 113
41 Roger Dahi   Syria 24 18 23 65 20 21 106

=OR Equalled Olympic record – =WR Equalled World record – Q Qualified for final – SO 1 Shoot-off for third place – SO 2 Shoot-off for sixth place

Final

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Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Bronze
shoot-off
Gold
shoot-off
    Andrea Benelli (ITA) 124 25 149 5
    Marko Kemppainen (FIN) 125 24 149 4
    Juan Miguel Rodríguez (CUB) 122 25 147 10
4   Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT) 122 25 147 9
5   Shawn Dulohery (USA) 122 25 147 5
6   Harald Jensen (NOR) 122 23 145

References

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  1. ^ "Italy's Benelli edges out Kemppainen for skeet gold". Gulf News. 23 August 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  2. ^ "American Loses Lead and More With Misfire". Los Angeles Times. 23 August 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
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