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 | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre | ||||||||||||
| Date | August 21, 2004 August 22, 2004 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 41 from 32 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 149 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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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
editPrior 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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=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
edit| 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
edit- ↑ "Italy's Benelli edges out Kemppainen for skeet gold". Gulf News. 23 August 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
- ↑ "American Loses Lead and More With Misfire". Los Angeles Times. 23 August 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2015.