Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air rifle

Men's 10 metre air rifle at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Royal Artillery Barracks
Date	30 July 2012
Competitors	47 from 33 nations
Winning score	702.1
Medalists
Alin Moldoveanu   Romania   Niccolò Campriani   Italy   Gagan Narang   India

Shooting at the 2012 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
Skeet		men		women

The Men's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 30 July 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with an air rifle at 10 metres distance from the standing position. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. Defending gold medalist Abhinav Bindra failed to qualify for the final.

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.

Gun - 4.5 mm Calibre Rifle Maximum 5.5 kg Bullet - 4.5 mm Pellets BullsEye - 0.55 mm Time for Each Shot - 75 seconds

Alin Moldoveanu of Romania won the gold medal by scoring 702.1. Gagan Narang won the Bronze Medal in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle Event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with a final score of 701.1.^[1]

Records

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

Qualification records
World record	Tevarit Majchacheeap (THA)	600	Langkawi, Malaysia	27 January 2000
Olympic record	Zhu Qinan (CHN)	599	Athens, Greece	16 August 2004

Final records
World record	Zhu Qinan (CHN)	703.8 (600+103.8)	Wroclaw, Poland	22 August 2011
Olympic record	Zhu Qinan (CHN)	702.7 (599+103.7)	Athens, Greece	16 August 2004

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Inner 10s	Notes
1	Niccolò Campriani	Italy	100	100	100	99	100	100	599	56	Q
2	Alin Moldoveanu	Romania	100	100	100	100	99	100	599	53	Q
3	Gagan Narang	India	100	100	98	100	100	100	598	53	Q
4	Wang Tao	China	99	100	100	100	100	99	598	52	Q
5	Illia Charheika	Belarus	100	100	100	100	99	98	597	52	Q
6	Ole Magnus Bakken	Norway	100	100	100	100	100	97	597	47	Q
7	Peter Hellenbrand	Netherlands	97	99	100	100	100	100	596	51	Q
8	Pierre Edmond Piasecki	France	100	99	100	100	98	99	596	50	Q
9	Sergy Rikhter	Israel	99	98	98	100	100	100	595	50
10	Zhu Qinan	China	99	99	99	100	100	98	595	50
11	Vitali Bubnovich	Belarus	100	100	99	100	98	98	595	46
12	Julian Justus	Germany	99	100	100	98	100	98	595	44
13	Péter Sidi	Hungary	99	98	100	100	99	98	594	52
14	Are Hansen	Norway	97	100	99	99	100	99	594	51
15	Alexei Kamenski	Russia	99	100	100	99	96	100	594	46
16	Abhinav Bindra	India	99	99	100	100	99	97	594	45
17	Kim Jong-Hyun	South Korea	98	100	99	99	98	99	593	46
18	Serhiy Kulish	Ukraine	99	99	100	100	97	98	593	45
19	Artur Ayvazyan	Ukraine	99	99	100	100	99	96	593	45
20	Alexandre Sokolov	Russia	99	100	96	99	100	99	593	44
21	Ruslan Ismailov	Kyrgyzstan	100	99	97	99	99	99	593	43
22	Anton Rizov	Bulgaria	99	99	100	100	97	98	593	43
23	Nyantain Bayaraa	Mongolia	100	96	99	100	98	100	593	42
24	James Huckle	Great Britain	99	98	100	100	98	98	593	42
25	Tino Mohaupt	Germany	100	99	98	96	99	100	592	50
26	Jeremy Monnier	France	98	99	99	99	99	98	592	46
27	Jonathan Hall	United States	100	98	100	96	99	99	592	42
28	Thomas Farnik	Austria	97	99	100	98	98	99	591	47
29	Amgad Hosen	Egypt	100	98	99	97	98	99	591	45
30	Nemanja Mirosavljev	Serbia	100	98	98	97	100	98	591	43
31	Jozef Gönci	Slovakia	99	98	96	99	99	100	591	41
32	Han Jin-Seop	South Korea	97	100	98	99	100	96	590	46
33	Václav Haman	Czech Republic	97	97	97	100	99	100	590	45
34	Marco De Nicolo	Italy	99	99	98	97	99	98	590	44
35	Matthew Emmons	United States	97	98	100	99	99	97	590	42
36	Bojan Durković	Croatia	97	100	100	99	97	97	590	42
37	Pascal Lorentan	Switzerland	99	100	99	99	94	98	589	43
38	Midori Yajima	Japan	97	98	99	98	99	99	589	37
39	Simon Beyeler	Switzerland	95	99	100	98	98	98	588	44
40	William Godward	Australia	99	99	98	99	98	95	588	44
41	Javier López	Spain	97	97	99	99	98	98	588	38
42	Dane Sampson	Australia	98	98	99	97	97	98	587	40
43	Petar Gorša	Croatia	98	98	96	99	99	96	586	38
44	Nedžad Fazlija	Bosnia and Herzegovina	96	97	96	99	98	99	585	36
45	Mangala Samarakoon	Sri Lanka	97	97	99	97	97	96	583	31
46	Cory Niefer	Canada	94	97	98	99	97	96	581	31
47	Rudi Lausarot	Uruguay	99	94	97	96	93	96	575	28

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final	Total
01 !	Alin Moldoveanu (ROU)	599	10.3	10.5	10.1	10.3	10.6	9.9	10.3	10.3	10.5	10.3	103.1	702.1
02 !	Niccolò Campriani (ITA)	599	9.7	10.2	10.7	10.2	10.4	10.8	10.8	9.9	9.4	10.4	102.5	701.5
03 !	Gagan Narang (IND)	598	10.7	9.6	10.6	10.7	10.4	10.6	9.9	9.5	10.3	10.7	103.1	701.1
4	Wang Tao (CHN)	598	10.6	10.6	9.3	10.7	10.4	10.4	10.8	9.2	10.0	10.4	102.4	700.4
5	Peter Hellenbrand (NED)	596	10.4	10.7	10.1	9.8	10.6	10.6	10.4	10.9	10.6	9.7	103.8	699.8
6	Pierre Edmond Piasecki (FRA)	596	10.7	10.6	10.7	9.9	10.4	10.5	9.9	10.6	9.8	10.0	103.1	699.1
7	Illia Charheika (BLR)	597	9.9	9.9	10.4	10.2	10.7	10.5	9.7	9.9	10.1	10.3	101.6	698.6
8	Ole Magnus Bakken (NOR)	597	9.7	9.4	9.0	6.6	10.2	10.4	9.9	10.2	9.7	9.4	94.5	691.5

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