Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air rifle
Rank Athlete Country 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
1 Zhu Qinan China 100 100 100 100 100 99 599
2 Li Jie China 100 100 100 100 99 99 598
3 Abhinav Bindra India 99 100 99 100 100 99 597
4 Jozef Gönci Slovakia 99 98 100 100 100 99 596
5 Cheon Min-ho South Korea 100 100 99 99 98 99 595
6 Maik Eckhardt Germany 98 100 100 99 100 98 595
7 Jason Parker United States 100 99 98 98 99 100 594
8 Je Seong-tae South Korea 98 98 99 100 100 99 594
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
Qualification round
The men's 10 metre air rifle competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 16 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.