Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air rifle

The Men's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 11 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. Abhinav Bindra became the first ever individual Olympic champion of India.

Men's 10 metre air rifle
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
VenueBeijing Shooting Range Hall
DateAugust 11, 2008
Competitors51 from 37 nations
Winning score700.5
Medalists
Abhinav Bindra  India
Zhu Qinan  China
Henri Häkkinen  Finland

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.

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.

Records

The existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification records
World record Tevarit Majchacheep (THA)
 Denis Sokolov (RUS)
600Langkawi, Malaysia
Winterthur, Switzerland
27 January 2000
1 March 2008
Olympic record Zhu Qinan (CHN)599Athens, Greece16 August 2004
Final records
World record Thomas Farnik (AUT)703.1 (599+104.1)Granada, Spain4 October 2006
Olympic record Zhu Qinan (CHN)702.7 (599+103.7)Athens, Greece16 August 2004

Qualification round

Rank Athlete Country 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total Notes
1 Henri Häkkinen  Finland 1001009910010099598Q
2 Zhu Qinan  China 1001001001009998597Q
3 Alin George Moldoveanu  Romania 99999910010099596Q
4 Abhinav Bindra  India 100991009810099596Q
5 Sergei Kruglov  Russia 100999898100100595Q
6 Péter Sidi  Hungary 98991009999100595Q
7 Konstantin Prikhodtchenko  Russia 99991009899100595Q
8 Stevan Pletikosić  Serbia 100981009899100595Q
9 Gagan Narang  India 9710010010098100595
10 Thomas Farnik  Austria 9999999810099594
11 Oleksandr Lazeykin  Ukraine 99100981009998594
12 Niccolo Campriani  Italy 99100100989998594
13 Václav Haman  Czech Republic 9998989910099593
14 Cao Yifei  China 989999999999593
15 Tino Mohaupt  Germany 989999999999593
16 Park Bong-duk  South Korea 9810098999999593
17 Nemanja Mirosavljev  Serbia 99989810010098593
18 Vitali Bubnovich  Belarus 979999999999592
19 Are Hansen  Norway 989998999999592
20 Marco De Nicolo  Italy 97991001009898592
21 Artur Ayvazyan  Ukraine 9899991009898592
22 Vebjørn Berg  Norway 99991001009698592
23 Jason Parker  United States 9799989998100591
24 José Luis Sánchez  Mexico 999997999899591
25 Roberto José Elias  Mexico 98989810096100590
26 Han Jin-seop  South Korea 10095989810099590
27 Stephen Scherer  United States 9899979710099590
28 Toshikazu Yamashita  Japan 989999989898590
29 Jonathan Hammond  Great Britain 9598100989999589
30 Christian Planer  Austria 9798979910098589
31 Rajmond Debevec  Slovenia 9697100999998589
32 Luis Martínez  Spain 1009999969798589
33 Robert Kraskowski  Poland 999997999897589
34 Oliver Geissmann  Liechtenstein 9995989997100588
35 Nedžad Fazlija  Bosnia and Herzegovina 989998989699588
36 Michael Winter  Germany 9799951009998588
37 Petar Gorša  Croatia 989997979998588
38 Vitaliy Dovgun  Kazakhstan 979699989899587
39 Ruslan Ismailov  Kyrgyzstan 979998979799587
40 Josselin Henry  France 979797999998587
41 Doron Egozi  Israel 9810098989598587
42 Yuriy Yurkov  Kazakhstan 969899969899586
43 Mohamed Abdellah  Egypt 97100979610096586
44 Liecer Perez  Cuba 959798999799585
45 Simon Beyeler  Switzerland 959896999798583
46 Mohammad Hossain  Bangladesh 9598969795100581
47 Matthew Robert Inabinet  Australia 979498969896579
48 Siddique Umer  Pakistan 959695979897578
49 Benjamin Burge  Australia 989397959895576
50 Walter Martínez  Nicaragua 959598949493569
51 Saso Nestorov  Macedonia 969193929294558

Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank Athlete Qual 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final Total Shoot-off
 Abhinav Bindra (IND) 596 10.7 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.6 10.0 10.2 10.8 104.5 700.5
 Zhu Qinan (CHN) 597 10.2 10.0 9.9 10.2 10.1 10.7 10.1 10.6 10.4 10.5 102.7 699.7
 Henri Häkkinen (FIN) 598 10.1 10.2 10.5 10.0 10.2 10.3 10.0 10.1 10.3 9.7 101.4 699.4
4  Alin George Moldoveanu (ROU) 596 10.2 9.8 10.2 10.1 10.4 10.4 10.7 10.4 10.3 10.6 102.9 698.9
5  Konstantin Prikhodtchenko (RUS) 595 10.1 9.4 10.5 10.3 10.6 10.6 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.7 103.4 698.4 10.0
6  Péter Sidi (HUN) 595 10.3 10.8 9.6 10.8 10.0 10.2 10.7 10.8 10.2 10.0 103.4 698.4 9.1
7  Stevan Pletikosić (SRB) 595 10.3 10.4 10.6 9.7 10.8 10.6 9.6 10.0 9.9 10.8 102.7 697.7
8  Sergei Kruglov (RUS) 595 9.2 10.4 10.0 10.7 9.7 10.6 10.5 10.5 10.2 10.2 102.0 697.0
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