Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet

Men's skeet at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Left-right: Golding, Hancock, Al-Attiyah
Venue	Royal Artillery Barracks
Date	30 July 2012 31 July 2012
Competitors	36 from 26 nations
Winning score	148
Medalists
Vincent Hancock  United States Anders Golding  Denmark Nasser Al-Attiyah  Qatar

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 skeet event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 30 and 31 July 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks. 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. The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25. The total score from all 150 shots was used to determine the final ranking.^[1]

Records

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

Qualification records
World record	Vincent Hancock (USA)	125	Lonato, Italy	14 June 2007
Olympic record	Vincent Hancock (USA)	121	Beijing, China	16 August 2008

• Hancock improved his Olympic qualification record from the last Olympic with two points.

Final records
World record	Vincent Hancock (USA)	150 (125+25)	Lonato, Italy	14 June 2007
Olympic record	Vincent Hancock (USA)  Tore Brovold (NOR)	145 (121+24) 145 (120+25)	Beijing, China	16 August 2008

• Hancock improved his Olympic record from the last Olympic with three points.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	4	5	Total	Notes
1	Vincent Hancock	United States	25	24	25	24	25	123	Q, OR
2	Anders Golding	Denmark	24	23	25	25	25	122	Q
3	Valeriy Shomin	Russia	23	24	24	25	25	121	Q
4	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Qatar	25	23	24	24	25	121	Q
5	Luigi Lodde	Italy	21	25	24	25	25	120	Q
6	Jan Sychra	Czech Republic	23	23	25	24	25	120	Q
7	Marcus Svensson	Sweden	22	24	24	24	25	119
8	Frank Thompson	United States	24	23	24	23	25	119
9	Nikolaos Mavrommatis	Greece	23	25	23	24	24	119
10	Ralf Buchheim	Germany	23	21	24	25	25	118
11	Georgios Achilleos	Cyprus	23	22	24	24	25	118
12	Richard Brickell	Great Britain	24	22	23	25	24	118
13	Saeed Al-Maktoum	United Arab Emirates	21	24	25	24	24	118
14	Ennio Falco	Italy	24	23	24	23	24	118
15	Stefan Nilsson	Sweden	22	25	25	22	24	118
16	Rory Warlow	Great Britain	24	24	22	25	23	118
17	Anthony Terras	France	21	24	24	25	23	117
18	Mostafa Hamdy	Egypt	23	25	22	24	23	117
19	Jakub Tomeček	Czech Republic	24	23	23	25	22	117
20	Keith Ferguson	Australia	23	22	23	22	24	116
21	Abdullah Al-Rashidi	Kuwait	23	24	24	21	24	116
22	Antonakis Andreou	Cyprus	22	23	23	24	23	115
23	Juan José Aramburu	Spain	23	22	24	24	22	115
24	Javier Rodríguez	Mexico	23	22	23	22	24	114
25	Efthimios Mitas	Greece	22	24	23	22	23	114
26	Jesper Hansen	Denmark	22	22	24	24	21	113
27	Tore Brovold	Norway	22	25	22	24	20	113
28	Khurram Inam	Pakistan	21	23	23	20	25	112
29	Majed Al-Tamimi	Saudi Arabia	23	18	20	25	21	111
30	Guillermo Alfredo Torres	Cuba	20	21	25	22	22	110
31	Paul Brian Rosario	Philippines	22	19	25	22	24	109
32	Nicolas Pacheco Espinosa	Peru	21	21	21	22	24	109
33	Clive Barton	Australia	20	22	25	21	21	109
34	Fabio Ramella	Switzerland	21	23	22	23	20	109
35	Cho Yong-Seong	South Korea	24	21	23	22	19	109
36	Azmy Mehelba	Egypt	21	19	24	24	20	108

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Bronze shoot-off	Notes
	Vincent Hancock (USA)	123	25	148		OR
	Anders Golding (DEN)	122	24	146
	Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT)	121	23	144	6
4	Valeriy Shomin (RUS)	121	23	144	5
5	Luigi Lodde (ITA)	120	23	143
6	Jan Sychra (CZE)	120	23	143

References