Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet

Men's skeet at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Medal winners, from left: Brovold, Hancock, Terras
Venue	Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field
Date	August 15, 2008 August 16, 2008
Competitors	41 from 30 nations
Winning score	145 (OR)
Medalists
Vincent Hancock   United States   Tore Brovold   Norway   Anthony Terras   France

Shooting at the 2008 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 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 15 and 16 at the Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field.

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.

Vincent Hancock from the United States took a one-hit lead in the qualification round. In the final round, Norway's Tore Brovold, who already shared the world record with Hancock, eliminated this gap by means of a perfect 25, thus also sharing the Olympic final record of 145 hits with him. Hancock came back to win the shoot-off for the gold medal. One hit behind the duo, Anthony Terras of France won the bronze medal shoot-off against Antonis Nikolaidis, denying Cyprus its first-ever Olympic medal.

Records

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

Qualification records
World record	Vincent Hancock (USA)  Tore Brovold (NOR)	125	Lonato, Italy Nicosia, Cyprus	14 June 2007 13 July 2008
Olympic record	ISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005	–	–	–

Final records
World record	Vincent Hancock (USA)  Tore Brovold (NOR)	150 (125+25)	Lonato, Italy Nicosia, Cyprus	14 June 2007 13 July 2008
Olympic record	ISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005	–	–	–

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	Day 1	4	5	Total	Shoot-off	Notes
1	Vincent Hancock	United States	25	24	24	73	24	24	121		Q OR
2	Tore Brovold	Norway	25	23	23	71	25	24	120		Q
3	Anthony Terras	France	24	24	24	72	25	23	120		Q
4	Antonis Nikolaidis	Cyprus	24	24	24	72	25	23	120		Q
5	Georgios Achilleos	Cyprus	23	24	23	70	25	24	119		Q
6	Qu Ridong	China	24	23	23	70	23	25	118	4	Q
7	Jin Di	China	24	22	24	70	24	24	118	3
8	Juan Jose Aramburu	Spain	22	25	23	70	24	24	118	3
9	Abdullah Al-Rashidi	Kuwait	25	23	24	72	22	24	118	3
10	Zaid Al-Mutairi	Kuwait	23	25	22	70	24	24	118	1
11	Randal McLelland	United States	24	23	23	70	25	23	118	1
12	Harald Jensen	Norway	24	25	23	72	24	22	118	1
13	Tino Wenzel	Germany	23	22	23	68	25	24	117
14	Ennio Falco	Italy	23	23	24	70	24	23	117
15	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Qatar	24	23	23	70	25	22	117
16	Jan Sychra	Czech Republic	25	24	21	70	25	22	117
17	George Barton	Australia	23	24	24	71	21	24	116
18	Andrei Inešin	Estonia	22	24	20	66	24	25	115
19	Valeriy Shomin	Russia	22	23	23	68	22	25	115
20	Axel Wegner	Germany	22	22	25	69	23	23	115
21	Mario Nunez	Spain	23	24	24	71	22	22	115
22	Saeed Al Maktoum	United Arab Emirates	23	24	24	71	21	22	114
23	Konstantin Tsuranov	Russia	21	22	23	66	24	23	113
24	Andrea Benelli	Italy	22	24	22	68	23	22	113
25	Anders Golding	Denmark	20	24	24	68	23	21	112
26	Juan Carlos Romero	Guatemala	24	21	23	68	21	22	111
27	Ariel Mauricio Flores	Mexico	23	22	23	68	22	21	111
28	Jorge Atalah	Chile	22	22	24	68	23	20	111
29	Ziad Richa	Lebanon	24	22	23	69	23	19	111
30	Paul Rahman	Australia	22	23	19	64	25	21	110
31	Julio Elizardo Dujarric Lembcke	Dominican Republic	23	24	21	68	21	21	110
32	Mikola Milchev	Ukraine	20	23	21	64	22	23	109
33	Georgios Salavantakis	Greece	21	20	23	64	23	22	109
34	Andrei Gerachtchenko	Belarus	21	22	25	68	23	18	109
35	Ioan Toman	Romania	21	19	23	63	22	23	108
36	Franco Donato	Egypt	19	21	22	62	21	23	106
37	Rashid Hamad	Qatar	22	22	18	62	22	22	106
38	Diego Duarte Delgado	Colombia	21	23	21	65	22	19	106
39	Saied Al-Mutairi	Saudi Arabia	21	20	22	63	22	19	104
40	Marco Matellini	Peru	17	19	15	51	22	22	95
41	Roger Dahi	Syria	19	21	19	59	11	21	91

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Bronze shoot-off	Gold shoot-off	Notes
	Vincent Hancock (USA)	121	24	145		4	OR
	Tore Brovold (NOR)	120	25	145		3	OR
	Anthony Terras (FRA)	120	24	144	3
4	Antonis Nikolaidis (CYP)	120	24	144	2
5	Georgios Achilleos (CYP)	119	24	143
6	Qu Ridong (CHN)	118	24	142

OR Olympic record