Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol

Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre
Date	August 21, 2004
Competitors	17 from 14 nations
Winning score	694.9
Medalists
Ralf Schumann  Germany Sergei Polyakov  Russia Sergei Alifirenko  Russia

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 25 metre rapid fire pistol competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 21 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece. This was the last Olympic competition before the major rule changes that took place on January 1, 2005, and which lowered the results of the event.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a pistol at 25 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. Targets were presented in series of 5. Each shooter was presented with 12 series, and had a sharply limited time to complete each. Four of the series had to be completed in 8 seconds apiece, four more within 6 seconds, and four within 4 seconds.

The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 40 shots. They were presented in eight series of 5 shots each, with each series being limited to 4 seconds to make all five shots.

Germany's world number one shooter Ralf Schumann produced the highest final round ever with 102.9 to easily get the best aggregate score of 694.9 and his third Olympic gold medal in rapid fire pistol shooting, becoming the first in the event's history to do so.^[1][2] Russia's Sergei Polyakov took the silver with 692.7, while he enjoyed his countryman and defending Olympic champion Sergei Alifirenko (692.3) rounding out the podium with a bronze in a remarkable 2–3 finish. Earlier in the prelims, the top three were all tied for the first seed at 592 points.^[3]

Records

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

Qualification records
World record	Ralf Schumann (GER)	597	Munich, Germany	14 June 1995
Olympic record	Ralf Schumann (GER)	596	Atlanta, United States	25 July 1996

Final records
World record	Ralf Schumann (GER)	699.7 (596+103.7)	Barcelona, Spain	8 June 1994
Olympic record	Ralf Schumann (GER)	698.0 (596+102.0)	Atlanta, United States	25 July 1996

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	8	6	4	ST1	8	6	4	ST2	Total	Notes
1	Sergei Alifirenko	Russia	98	99	97	294	100	99	99	298	592	Q
2	Sergei Polyakov	Russia	99	99	98	296	100	99	97	296	592	Q
3	Ralf Schumann	Germany	99	99	99	297	99	99	97	295	592	Q
4	Iulian Raicea	Romania	99	96	99	294	100	99	95	294	588	Q
5	Oleg Tkachov	Ukraine	99	99	99	297	99	99	92	290	587	Q
6	Chen Yongqiang	China	100	95	94	289	100	100	97	297	586	Q
7	Zhang Penghui	China	98	97	96	291	96	100	98	294	585
8	Leuris Pupo	Cuba	98	98	93	289	100	98	98	296	585
9	Emil Milev	Bulgaria	96	98	94	288	100	98	96	294	582
10	Marco Spangenberg	Germany	99	98	95	292	97	99	93	289	581
11	Kang Hyung-chul	South Korea	96	98	93	287	98	99	96	293	580
12	Niki Marty	Switzerland	98	97	94	289	98	99	91	288	577
12	Lajos Pálinkás	Hungary	100	96	91	287	96	98	96	290	577
14	Afanasijs Kuzmins	Latvia	94	90	98	282	100	96	96	292	574
15	Shuji Tazawa	Japan	95	96	96	287	99	93	94	286	573
16	Kim Hyon-ung	North Korea	97	97	88	282	98	98	94	290	572
17	Bruce Quick	Australia	97	97	89	283	98	99	91	288	571

ST1 Stage 1 – ST2 Stage 2

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	Final	Total
	Ralf Schumann (GER)	592	51.4	51.5	102.9	694.9
	Sergei Polyakov (RUS)	592	51.7	49.0	100.7	692.7
	Sergei Alifirenko (RUS)	592	49.9	50.4	100.3	692.3
4	Oleg Tkachov (UKR)	587	50.6	51.1	101.7	688.7
5	Iulian Raicea (ROU)	588	49.4	50.2	99.6	687.6
6	Chen Yongqiang (CHN)	586	46.9	50.9	97.8	683.8

References

External links

• Official Results