Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet
| Men's skeet at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | ||||||||||
| Venue | Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre | |||||||||
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| Date | August 21, 2004 August 22, 2004 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 41 from 32 nations | |||||||||
| Winning score | 149 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics  | ||||
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| 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 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 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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Final
| Rank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total | Bronze shoot-off |
Gold shoot-off |
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 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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
- ↑ "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.