Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre where 390 competitors contested 17 gold medals. This is situated in the city of Markópoulo, in the east of the Attica region in Greece.
Medal Table
Position | Country: | Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: | Total: |
1 | File:China flag large.png China | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
2 | File:Russia flag large.png Russia | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
3= | File:Australia flag large.png Australia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
3= | File:Bulgaria flag large.png Bulgaria | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
5= | File:Germany flag large.png Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
5= | File:Hungary flag large.png Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
5= | File:Ukraine flag large.png Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
5= | File:Uae flag large.png United Arab Emirates | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
5= | File:USA flag.png United States of America | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
10 | File:South korea flag large.png South Korea | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
11 | File:Czech flag.png Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
12= | India | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
12= | File:Italy flag large.png Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
12= | File:Serbia and montenegro flag large.png Serbia and Montenegro | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
12= | File:Spain flag large.png Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
12= | File:Finland flag large.png Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
17 | File:Azerbaijan flag large.png Azerbaijan | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
18 | North Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Men's shooting events
Men's 10 m Air Pistol (August 14)
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:China flag large.png Wang Yifu, CHN | File:Russia flag large.png Mikhail Nestruev, RUS | File:Russia flag large.png Vladimir Isakov, RUS |
Main article: Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 10 m Air Pistol
Russia's Mikhail Nestruev set a new Olympic record with 591 points in the qualification round, but still only had a one-point lead over Chinese veteran Wang Yifu. This would prove not to be enough.
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:Russia flag large.png Aleksei Alipov, RUS | File:Italy flag large.png Giovanni Pellielo, ITA | File:Australia flag large.png Adam Vella, AUS |
Men's 10 m Air Rifle (August 16)
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:China flag large.png Qinan Zhu, CHN | File:China flag large.png Jie Li, CHN | File:Slovakia flag large.png Jozef Gonci, SVK |
Men's 50 m Pistol (August 17)
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:Russia flag large.png Mikhail Nestruev, RUS | File:South korea flag large.png Jong Oh Jin, KOR | Jong Su Kim, PRK |
Men's Double Trap (August 17)
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:Uae flag large.png Ahmed Al Maktoum, UAE | Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, IND | File:China flag large.png Zheng Wang, CHN |
Men's 10 m Running Target (August 18 and August 19)
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:Germany flag large.png Manfred Kurzer, GER | File:Russia flag large.png Aleksander Blinov, RUS | File:Russia flag large.png Dimitri Lykin, RUS |
Main article: Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 10 m Running Target
In the last Olympic competition in running target before it was taken off the program, Manfred Kurzer set a new World record with 590 in the qualification round and though he did not perform a perfect final, he was never threatened.
Men's 50 m Rifle, Prone position (August 20)
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:USA flag.png Matthew Emmons, USA | File:Germany flag large.png Christian Lusch, GER | File:Belarus flag large.png Sergei Martynov, BLR |
Men's 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol (August 21)
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:Germany flag large.png Ralf Schumann, GER | File:Russia flag large.png Sergei Poliakov, RUS | File:Russia flag large.png Sergei Alifirenko, RUS |
Main article: Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol
Ralf Schumann has dominated this event since the late 1980s, and won the Olympic gold medals in 1992 and 1996, but failed to achieve his historic third gold in Sydney. In Athens, Schumann reached 592 in the qualification round along with two Russians, and the German's excellent final shooting was unstoppable.
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:Italy flag large.png Andrea Benelli, ITA | File:Finland flag large.png Marko Kemppainen, FIN | File:Cuba flag large.png Juan Miguel Rodríguez, CUB |
Men's 50 m Rifle, Three positions (August 22)
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:China flag large.png Jia Zhanbo, CHN | File:USA flag.png Michael Anti, USA | File:Austria flag large.png Christian Planer, AUT |
China's Zhanbo Jia won the gold medal with 1,264.5 points. U.S. Army Major Anti, a marksman in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program, took the silver medal with 1,263.1 points. Austria's Christian Planer claimed the bronze medal with a 1,262.8 total.
Women's shooting events
Women's 10 m Air Rifle (August 14)
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:China flag large.png Du Li, CHN | File:Russia flag large.png Lioubov Galkina, RUS | File:Czech flag.png Katerina Kurkova, CZE |
Main article: Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 10 m Air Rifle
The first gold medal went to China and Du Li after a new Olympic record.
Women's 10 m Air Pistol (August 15)
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:Ukraine flag large.png Olena Kostevych, UKR | File:Serbia and montenegro flag large.png Jasna Sekaric, SCG | File:Bulgaria flag large.png Maria Grozdeva, BUL |
Main article: Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 10 m Air Pistol
The women's air pistol competition was extremely close. Olena Kostevych (Ukraine) qualified as 8th and last competitor to the final, and started out three points behind leading Jasna Sekaric (Serbia and Montenegro), but managed to eliminate the gap. After forty qualification shots and ten final shots, an eleventh was required to break the tie – Kostevych won this by 10.2 to 9.4.
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:Australia flag large.png Suzanne Balogh, AUS | File:Spain flag large.png Maria Quintanal, ESP | File:South korea flag large.png Bo Na Lee, KOR |
Women's 25 m Pistol (August 18)
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:Bulgaria flag large.png Maria Grozdeva, BUL | File:Czech flag.png Lenka Hykova, CZE | File:Azerbaijan flag large.png Irada Ashumova, AZE |
Main article: Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 25 m Pistol
With a strong final, Bulgaria's Maria Grozdeva went from three points behind to the gold medal.
Women's Double Trap (August 18)
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:USA flag.png Kimberly Rhode, USA | File:South korea flag large.png Bo Na Lee, KOR | File:China flag large.png E Gao, CHN |
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:Hungary flag large.png Diana Igaly, HUN | File:China flag large.png Ning Wei, CHN | File:Azerbaijan flag large.png Zemfira Meftakhetdinova, AZE |
Women's 50 m Rifle, Three positions (August 20)
Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:Russia flag large.png Lioubov Galkina, RUS | File:Italy flag large.png Valentina Turisini, ITA | File:China flag large.png Chengyi Wang, CHN |