Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet

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Men's skeet
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue Markópoulo Olympic Shooting
Centre
DateAugust 21, 2004
August 22, 2004
Competitors41 from 32 nations
Winning score149
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Andrea Benelli Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy
Silver medal icon.svg Marko Kemppainen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
Bronze medal icon.svg Juan Miguel Rodríguez Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba
  2000
2008  

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.

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

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

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

Qualification round

RankAthleteCountry123Day 145TotalSO 1SO 2Notes
1 Marko Kemppainen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 252525752525125Q, =WR
2 Andrea Benelli Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy 242525742525124Q
3 Shawn Dulohery Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2524257423251224Q
4 Juan Miguel Rodríguez Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 2325257325241224Q
5 Nasser Al-Attiyah Flag of Qatar (3-2).svg  Qatar 2424257325241224Q
6 Harald Jensen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 24242472252512232Q
7 Michael Nielsen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 25232573252412231
8 Erik Watndal Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 252224712525121
9 Georgios Achilleos Flag of Cyprus (1960-2006).svg  Cyprus 242425732325121
9 Abdullah Al-Rashidi Flag of Kuwait (3-2).svg  Kuwait 252424732424121
9 James Graves Flag of the United States.svg  United States 252523732424121
9 Mykola Milchev Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 232524722425121
9 Jan Sychra Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 252524742324121
9 Anthony Terras Flag of France.svg  France 252325732325121
15 Sergey Aksyutin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 252425742323120
15 Saied Al-Mutairi Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia 242525742422120
15 Diego Duarte Delgado Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 242425732324120
15 Jin Di Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 242524732522120
15 Paul Rahman Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 252324722424120
15 Valeriy Shomin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 252525752223120
21 Hennie Dompeling Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 232424712325119
21 Julio Elizardo Dujarric Lembcke Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic 252424732422119
21 Ennio Falco Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy 232424712523119
21 Andrzej Głyda Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 232523712424119
21 Andrei Inešin Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 242524732323119
21 Antonis Nikolaidis Flag of Cyprus (1960-2006).svg  Cyprus 232425722324119
21 Georgios Salavantakis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 222524712523119
21 Guillermo Alfredo Torres Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 242524732224119
29 George Barton Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 252324722323118
29 Mostafa Hamdy Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 252521712522118
31 Jorge Atalah Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 242423712422117
31 Michael Maskell Flag of Barbados.svg  Barbados 232323692325117
31 Axel Wegner Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 232524722223117
34 Richard Brickell Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 232423702124115
34 Amr El-Gaiar Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 242223692323115
34 Jan-Cor van der Greef Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 242324712024115
37 Saeed Al Maktoum Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg  United Arab Emirates 232423702222114
37 Khurram Inam Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 242424722022114
37 Lee Suk-tae Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea 222422682323114
40 Ricky Teh Chee Fei Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 242223692123113
41 Roger Dahi Flag of Syria.svg  Syria 241823652021106

=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

RankAthleteQualFinalTotalBronze
shoot-off
Gold
shoot-off
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Andrea Benelli  (ITA)124251495
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Finland.svg  Marko Kemppainen  (FIN)125241494
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Juan Miguel Rodríguez  (CUB)1222514710
4Flag of Qatar (3-2).svg  Nasser Al-Attiyah  (QAT)122251479
5Flag of the United States.svg  Shawn Dulohery  (USA)122251475
6Flag of Norway.svg  Harald Jensen  (NOR)12223145

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