Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

Men's 50 metre pistol at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre
Date	August 17, 2004
Competitors	42 from 31 nations
Winning score	663.3
Medalists
Mikhail Nestruyev   Russia   Jin Jong-oh   South Korea   Kim Jong-su   North Korea

Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions		men		women
50 m rifle prone		men
10 m air rifle		men		women
Pistol
50 m pistol		men
25 m pistol				women
25 m rapid fire pistol		men
10 m air pistol		men		women
Shotgun
Trap		men		women
Double trap		men		women
Skeet		men		women
Running target
10 m running target		men

The men's 50 metre pistol competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 17 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 a pistol at 50 metres distance. 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.

Russia's Mikhail Nestruyev rebounded from his painful air pistol defeat to take the gold medal in the event with a total of 663.3, just two points adrift of South Korea's Jin Jong-oh, who left only with the silver on 661.5.^[1][2] Meanwhile, North Korean shooter Kim Jong-su fired a total of 657.7 points to steadily round out the podium with a bronze.^[3]

Records

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

Qualification records
World record	Aleksandr Melentiev (URS)	581	Moscow, Soviet Union	20 July 1980
Olympic record	Aleksandr Melentiev (URS)	581	Moscow, Soviet Union	20 July 1980

Final records
World record	William Demarest (USA)	676.2 (577+99.2)	Milan, Italy	4 June 2000
Olympic record	Boris Kokorev (RUS)	666.4 (570+96.4)	Atlanta, United States	23 July 1996

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Notes
1	Jin Jong-oh	South Korea	94	94	93	96	95	95	567	Q
2	Mikhail Nestruyev	Russia	92	92	94	93	98	96	565	Q
3	Kim Jong-su	North Korea	92	95	91	97	94	95	564	Q
4	Norayr Bakhtamyan	Armenia	91	96	94	96	93	94	564	Q
5	Isidro Lorenzo	Spain	95	93	90	92	98	94	562	Q
6	Tanyu Kiryakov	Bulgaria	92	96	95	93	94	92	562	Q
7	Vladimir Issachenko	Kazakhstan	96	92	93	92	95	93	561	Q
8	Boris Kokorev	Russia	94	92	90	95	93	96	560	Q
9	Martin Tenk	Czech Republic	91	96	92	92	95	93	559
10	Viktor Makarov	Ukraine	95	94	94	92	91	92	558
10	Tan Zongliang	China	96	90	94	92	96	90	558
12	Francesco Bruno	Italy	94	91	97	91	93	90	556
12	João Costa	Portugal	97	90	90	94	91	94	556
12	Vigilio Fait	Italy	94	88	92	92	96	94	556
15	Igor Basinski	Belarus	91	90	96	96	91	90	554
15	Alexander Danilov	Israel	90	91	90	95	92	96	554
15	Daryl Szarenski	United States	90	93	89	97	94	91	554
18	Sorin Babii	Romania	91	92	95	93	89	93	553
18	Kim Hyon-ung	North Korea	91	96	90	91	90	95	553
18	Frank Seeger	Germany	91	92	97	88	94	91	553
18	Jason Turner	United States	93	92	93	91	91	93	553
18	Xu Dan	China	92	90	97	93	91	90	553
23	Daniel Repacholi	Australia	97	91	93	93	87	90	551
24	Franck Dumoulin	France	88	91	92	94	93	92	550
24	Lee Sang-do	South Korea	92	91	96	90	88	93	550
24	David Moore	Australia	86	95	86	92	96	95	550
24	Abdulla Ustaoglu	Germany	93	93	96	91	85	92	550
28	Dionissios Georgakopoulos	Greece	97	91	91	87	90	93	549
28	Jakkrit Panichpatikum	Thailand	93	91	92	92	86	95	549
30	Chang Yi-ning	Chinese Taipei	91	90	91	92	91	93	548
30	Maximo Modesti	Argentina	92	88	91	90	92	95	548
32	Andrija Zlatić	Serbia and Montenegro	90	92	91	92	89	92	546
33	Roger Daniel	Trinidad and Tobago	92	91	91	89	93	89	545
34	Norbelis Bárzaga	Cuba	90	86	90	93	88	95	542
34	José Antonio Colado	Spain	90	88	90	92	91	91	542
36	Attila Simon	Hungary	89	90	92	92	89	89	541
37	Kanstantsin Lukashyk	Belarus	88	86	93	94	89	89	539
38	Masaru Nakashige	Japan	90	86	94	89	87	91	537
39	Wojciech Knapik	Poland	92	86	89	91	88	90	536
40	Arseny Borrero	Cuba	87	90	89	90	91	88	535
41	Chris Rice	Virgin Islands	88	86	93	90	88	84	529
41	Friedhelm Sack	Namibia	86	86	88	92	87	90	529

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final	Total
	Mikhail Nestruyev (RUS)	565	10.4	9.9	9.3	10.4	10.0	9.7	8.9	9.8	9.3	10.6	98.3	663.3
	Jin Jong-oh (KOR)	567	9.8	10.5	7.6	9.9	10.1	10.4	6.9	9.8	9.7	9.8	94.5	661.5
	Kim Jong-su (PRK)	564	9.0	10.9	9.0	8.4	9.6	9.8	9.2	9.4	8.7	9.7	93.7	657.7
4	Norayr Bakhtamyan (ARM)	564	9.4	10.0	8.4	10.6	8.9	9.2	7.7	7.1	10.0	9.5	90.8	654.8
5	Boris Kokorev (RUS)	560	10.8	9.1	9.2	9.9	9.3	10.4	10.0	7.9	8.9	9.1	94.6	654.6
6	Vladimir Issachenko (KAZ)	561	8.9	8.9	8.8	9.9	9.9	7.8	8.6	9.9	10.6	10.2	93.5	654.5
7	Tanyu Kiryakov (BUL)	562	9.4	9.4	10.6	7.8	9.9	8.7	9.5	8.7	8.5	9.8	92.3	654.3
8	Isidro Lorenzo (ESP)	562	10.7	7.0	10.3	9.2	9.5	8.9	7.7	8.6	9.3	8.8	90.0	652.0

References

1. "Nestruev takes men's pistol gold". Rediff.com. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
2. "Russia's Nestruev takes Olympic men's 50m pistol gold". People's Daily. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
3. "Gold for Nestruev in pistol shooting". ABC News Australia. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2015.

External links

• Official Results