The men's 10 metre running target competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on 18 and 19 August at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece. Along with the women's double trap, this was the last Olympic competition in the event, before being removed from the program shortly after the Games.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a running target at 10 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. The first 30 shots were in the slow-running stage, with series of 30 runs being shot within 5 seconds. The second set of 30 runs gave shooters 2.5 seconds to take each shot.
The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 20 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. They were fired in four series of 5 fast-running shots.
Despite a poor performance in the final, Germany's Manfred Kurzer held off a strenuous challenge from the Russian duo Aleksandr Blinov and 2002 World champion Dimitri Lykin to capture the gold medal with 682.4 points in a historic running target finale. Earlier, Kurzer set a new world record of 590, which had been added to the final score for an overall total, to grab a top seed in the prelims, augmenting two points from a global standard set by China's double Olympic champion Yang Ling in 2002. Meanwhile, Blinov took the silver at 678.0, while his fellow marksman Lykin locked the medal haul for the Russians in a 2–3 finish with a bronze-medal score of 677.1.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification round Rank Athlete Country123Slow456Fast Total Notes 1 Manfred Kurzer 98 99 99 296 97 99 98 294 590 Q, WR 2 Dimitri Lykin 99 99 95 293 98 94 99 291 584 Q 3 Li Jie 95 94 99 288 98 96 97 291 579 Q 4 Emil Martinsson 95 100 97 292 94 96 96 286 578 Q 5 Aleksandr Blinov 97 100 96 293 95 94 96 285 578 Q 6 Michael Jakosits 97 99 98 294 95 94 95 284 578 Q 7 Vladyslav Prianishnikov 97 97 99 293 93 93 96 282 575 8 Adam Saathoff 99 98 97 294 96 90 95 281 575 9 Andrei Kazak 97 96 99 292 96 94 93 283 575 10 Attila Solti 96 96 94 284 93 97 99 289 573 11 Geng Hongbin 95 97 97 289 93 96 94 283 572 12 Niklas Bergström 92 95 99 286 99 96 90 285 571 13 Andrei Vasilyeu 95 97 97 287 93 96 94 282 569 14 Oleg Moldovan 96 98 96 290 90 97 91 278 568 15 Miroslav Januš 95 97 91 283 95 96 90 281 564 16 Andrey Gurov 94 95 94 283 94 94 91 279 562 17 Tomáš Caknakis 88 96 100 284 90 92 94 276 560 18 Koby Holland 97 93 91 281 86 93 91 270 551 19 Bryan Wilson 93 87 95 275 92 86 91 269 544
Final Rank Athlete Qual Final Total 590 92.4 682.4 100.0 678.0 584 93.1 677.1 4 98.8 676.8 5 578 98.7 676.7 6 579 96.8 675.8
References
External links Official Results