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

Men's 10 metre air rifle at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing Shooting Range Hall
Date	August 11, 2008
Competitors	51 from 37 nations
Winning score	700.5
Medalists
Abhinav Bindra   India   Zhu Qinan   China   Henri Häkkinen   Finland

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 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.

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)	600	Langkawi, Malaysia Winterthur, Switzerland	27 January 2000 1 March 2008
Olympic record	Zhu Qinan (CHN)	599	Athens, Greece	16 August 2004

Final records
World record	Thomas Farnik (AUT)	703.1 (599+104.1)	Granada, Spain	4 October 2006
Olympic record	Zhu Qinan (CHN)	702.7 (599+103.7)	Athens, Greece	16 August 2004

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Notes
1	Henri Häkkinen	Finland	100	100	99	100	100	99	598	Q
2	Zhu Qinan	China	100	100	100	100	99	98	597	Q
3	Alin George Moldoveanu	Romania	99	99	99	100	100	99	596	Q
4	Abhinav Bindra	India	100	99	100	98	100	99	596	Q
5	Sergei Kruglov	Russia	100	99	98	98	100	100	595	Q
6	Péter Sidi	Hungary	98	99	100	99	99	100	595	Q
7	Konstantin Prikhodtchenko	Russia	99	99	100	98	99	100	595	Q
8	Stevan Pletikosić	Serbia	100	98	100	98	99	100	595	Q
9	Gagan Narang	India	97	100	100	100	98	100	595
10	Thomas Farnik	Austria	99	99	99	98	100	99	594
11	Oleksandr Lazeykin	Ukraine	99	100	98	100	99	98	594
12	Niccolo Campriani	Italy	99	100	100	98	99	98	594
13	Václav Haman	Czech Republic	99	98	98	99	100	99	593
14	Cao Yifei	China	98	99	99	99	99	99	593
15	Tino Mohaupt	Germany	98	99	99	99	99	99	593
16	Park Bong-duk	South Korea	98	100	98	99	99	99	593
17	Nemanja Mirosavljev	Serbia	99	98	98	100	100	98	593
18	Vitali Bubnovich	Belarus	97	99	99	99	99	99	592
19	Are Hansen	Norway	98	99	98	99	99	99	592
20	Marco De Nicolo	Italy	97	99	100	100	98	98	592
21	Artur Ayvazyan	Ukraine	98	99	99	100	98	98	592
22	Vebjørn Berg	Norway	99	99	100	100	96	98	592
23	Jason Parker	United States	97	99	98	99	98	100	591
24	José Luis Sánchez	Mexico	99	99	97	99	98	99	591
25	Roberto José Elias	Mexico	98	98	98	100	96	100	590
26	Han Jin-seop	South Korea	100	95	98	98	100	99	590
27	Stephen Scherer	United States	98	99	97	97	100	99	590
28	Toshikazu Yamashita	Japan	98	99	99	98	98	98	590
29	Jonathan Hammond	Great Britain	95	98	100	98	99	99	589
30	Christian Planer	Austria	97	98	97	99	100	98	589
31	Rajmond Debevec	Slovenia	96	97	100	99	99	98	589
32	Luis Martínez	Spain	100	99	99	96	97	98	589
33	Robert Kraskowski	Poland	99	99	97	99	98	97	589
34	Oliver Geissmann	Liechtenstein	99	95	98	99	97	100	588
35	Nedžad Fazlija	Bosnia and Herzegovina	98	99	98	98	96	99	588
36	Michael Winter	Germany	97	99	95	100	99	98	588
37	Petar Gorša	Croatia	98	99	97	97	99	98	588
38	Vitaliy Dovgun	Kazakhstan	97	96	99	98	98	99	587
39	Ruslan Ismailov	Kyrgyzstan	97	99	98	97	97	99	587
40	Josselin Henry	France	97	97	97	99	99	98	587
41	Doron Egozi	Israel	98	100	98	98	95	98	587
42	Yuriy Yurkov	Kazakhstan	96	98	99	96	98	99	586
43	Mohamed Abdellah	Egypt	97	100	97	96	100	96	586
44	Liecer Perez	Cuba	95	97	98	99	97	99	585
45	Simon Beyeler	Switzerland	95	98	96	99	97	98	583
46	Mohammad Hossain	Bangladesh	95	98	96	97	95	100	581
47	Matthew Robert Inabinet	Australia	97	94	98	96	98	96	579
48	Siddique Umer	Pakistan	95	96	95	97	98	97	578
49	Benjamin Burge	Australia	98	93	97	95	98	95	576
50	Walter Martínez	Nicaragua	95	95	98	94	94	93	569
51	Saso Nestorov	Macedonia	96	91	93	92	92	94	558

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