Shooting At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 Metre Air Rifle

Men's 10 metre air rifle at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre
Date	16 August 2004
Competitors	47 from 33 nations
Winning score	702.7 WR
Medalists
Zhu Qinan  China Li Jie  China Jozef Gönci  Slovakia
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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.

China's Zhu Qinan stunned the entire worldwide audience as he came from nowhere to snatch the Olympic gold in air rifle shooting, smashing a new world record of 702.7 points. Zhu also enjoyed his teammate Li Jie taking home the silver medal with 702.7, as the Chinese marksmen led the medal haul in a blistering 1–2 finish. Slovakia's world number one Jozef Gönci came up with a steady feat in the final to claim the bronze on 697.4 points. Earlier in the prelims, Zhu set a junior world standard to grab the top seed in the six-man final, just one point short of the perfect grade 600 that had been successfully recorded by Thailand's Tevarit Majchacheeap in 2000.

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	Wolfram Waibel (AUT)	596	Atlanta, United States	22 July 1996

Final records
World record	Jason Parker (USA)	702.5 (599+103.5)	Munich, Germany	15 June 2003
Olympic record	Cai Yalin (CHN)	696.4 (594+102.4)	Sydney, Australia	18 September 2000