Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle prone
The men's 50 metre rifle prone competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 20 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.[1]
Men's 50 metre rifle prone at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre | ||||||||||||
Date | August 20, 2004 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 46 from 34 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning score | 703.3 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a .22 Long Rifle at 50 metres distance from the prone 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.
23-year-old U.S. shooter Matthew Emmons maintained a single-point lead from the rest of the field in the qualifying round to finish with 703.3 for the rifle prone gold and his first Olympic medal.[2] Germany's Christian Lusch, who had gradually come close on Emmons in an attempt to steal his lead with only two rounds left, ended up taking the silver at 702.2.[2][3] Meanwhile, Belarus' Sergei Martynov, who had the highest score in the final, shot 105.6 to vault himself from fifth at the start to a bronze-medal position with a total of 701.6, repeating his feat from Sydney 2000.[4]
Sweden's Jonas Edman missed his Olympic title defense after finishing in a distant thirty-second from the prelims with 590 points, while 2000 silver medalist Torben Grimmel also fell short of the finale by just a single point from the cutoff score of 595, relegating to a ninth-place draw with six other shooters.[3]
Records
editPrior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification records | ||||
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World record | Wolfram Waibel (AUT) | 600 | Sydney, Australia | 3 March 2004 |
Olympic record | Christian Klees (GER) | 600 | Atlanta, United States | 25 July 1996 |
Final records | ||||
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World record | Christian Klees (GER) | 704.8 (600+104.8) | Atlanta, United States | 25 July 1996 |
Olympic record | Christian Klees (GER) | 704.8 (600+104.8) | Atlanta, United States | 25 July 1996 |
Qualification round
editRank | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Total | Notes |
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1 | Matthew Emmons | United States | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 599 | Q |
2 | Christian Lusch | Germany | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 598 | Q |
3 | Jozef Gönci | Slovakia | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 598 | Q |
4 | Maik Eckhardt | Germany | 100 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 596 | Q |
5 | Sergei Martynov | Belarus | 99 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 596 | Q |
6 | Michael Babb | Great Britain | 98 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 595 | Q |
7 | Jia Zhanbo | China | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 97 | 99 | 595 | Q |
8 | Marco De Nicolo | Italy | 98 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 595 | Q |
9 | Artur Ayvazyan | Ukraine | 99 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 97 | 594 | |
9 | Marcel Bürge | Switzerland | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 594 | |
9 | Rajmond Debevec | Slovenia | 98 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 594 | |
9 | Torben Grimmel | Denmark | 99 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 594 | |
9 | Juha Hirvi | Finland | 98 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 594 | |
9 | Artem Khadjibekov | Russia | 98 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 594 | |
9 | Igor Pirekeev | Turkmenistan | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 594 | |
16 | Václav Bečvář | Czech Republic | 99 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 592 | |
16 | Espen Berg-Knutsen | Norway | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 97 | 98 | 592 | |
16 | Mario Knögler | Austria | 98 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 592 | |
16 | Sergei Kovalenko | Russia | 100 | 99 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 592 | |
16 | Timothy Lowndes | Australia | 98 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 97 | 99 | 592 | |
16 | Guy Starik | Israel | 99 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 592 | |
16 | Harald Stenvaag | Norway | 99 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 97 | 592 | |
16 | Wolfram Waibel Jr. | Austria | 99 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 592 | |
24 | Michael Anti | United States | 98 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 591 | |
24 | Aleksandr Babchenko | Kyrgyzstan | 99 | 99 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 591 | |
24 | Tomáš Jeřábek | Czech Republic | 98 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 97 | 591 | |
24 | Park Bong-duk | South Korea | 98 | 100 | 99 | 96 | 99 | 99 | 591 | |
24 | Yury Shcherbatsevich | Belarus | 97 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 100 | 591 | |
24 | Péter Sidi | Hungary | 97 | 99 | 97 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 591 | |
24 | Vyacheslav Skoromnov | Uzbekistan | 96 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 591 | |
24 | Masaru Yanagida | Japan | 100 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 97 | 97 | 591 | |
32 | Jonas Edman | Sweden | 100 | 99 | 99 | 95 | 98 | 99 | 590 | |
32 | Roger Hansson | Sweden | 99 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 590 | |
32 | Yuriy Sukhorukov | Ukraine | 99 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 95 | 99 | 590 | |
32 | Yao Ye | China | 100 | 96 | 98 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 590 | |
36 | Evangelos Liogris | Greece | 98 | 96 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 589 | |
36 | Tevarit Majchacheeap | Thailand | 98 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 589 | |
36 | Ryan Taylor | New Zealand | 97 | 96 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 589 | |
39 | Martin Senore | South Africa | 97 | 99 | 97 | 100 | 96 | 99 | 588 | |
40 | Pablo Álvarez | Argentina | 96 | 100 | 100 | 97 | 97 | 97 | 587 | |
40 | Dick Boschman | Netherlands | 95 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 587 | |
42 | Stevan Pletikosić | Serbia and Montenegro | 98 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 94 | 99 | 586 | |
42 | Warren Potent | Australia | 97 | 94 | 97 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 586 | |
44 | Nedžad Fazlija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 97 | 98 | 96 | 99 | 99 | 96 | 585 | |
45 | Ángel Velarte | Argentina | 96 | 98 | 96 | 99 | 97 | 98 | 584 | |
46 | Reinier Estpinan | Cuba | 98 | 97 | 97 | 97 | 95 | 97 | 581 |
Final
editRank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total |
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Matthew Emmons (USA) | 599 | 104.3 | 703.3 | |
Christian Lusch (GER) | 598 | 104.2 | 702.2 | |
Sergei Martynov (BLR) | 596 | 105.6 | 701.6 | |
4 | Jozef Gönci (SVK) | 598 | 102.5 | 700.5 |
5 | Marco De Nicolo (ITA) | 595 | 104.7 | 699.7 |
6 | Maik Eckhardt (GER) | 596 | 101.6 | 697.6 |
7 | Michael Babb (GBR) | 595 | 101.8 | 696.8 |
8 | Jia Zhanbo (CHN) | 595 | 101.6 | 696.6 |
References
edit- ^ "Shooting at the 2004 Athens Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ a b "No one can sabotage Emmons' shot at gold". Philadelphia Inquirer. 21 August 2004. Archived from the original on October 17, 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ a b "Emmons tames Lusch for hard-fought gold". Gulf News. 21 August 2004. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ "Galkina takes shooting gold". BBC Sport. 21 August 2004. Retrieved 19 August 2015.