Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet explained

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 round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	Day 1	4	5	Total	Shoot-off	Notes
1	Vincent Hancock		25	24	24	73	24	24	121		Q OR
2	Tore Brovold		25	23	23	71	25	24	120		Q
3	Anthony Terras		24	24	24	72	25	23	120		Q
4	Antonis Nikolaidis		24	24	24	72	25	23	120		Q
5	Georgios Achilleos		23	24	23	70	25	24	119		Q
6	Qu Ridong		24	23	23	70	23	25		4	Q
7	Jin Di		24	22	24	70	24	24		3
8	Juan Jose Aramburu		22	25	23	70	24	24		3
9	Abdullah Al-Rashidi		25	23	24	72	22	24		3
10	Zaid Al-Mutairi		23	25	22	70	24	24		1
11	Randal McLelland		24	23	23	70	25	23		1
12	Harald Jensen		24	25	23	72	24	22		1
13	Tino Wenzel		23	22	23	68	25	24	117
14	Ennio Falco		23	23	24	70	24	23	117
15	Nasser Al-Attiyah		24	23	23	70	25	22	117
16	Jan Sychra		25	24	21	70	25	22	117
17	George Barton		23	24	24	71	21	24	116
18	Andrei Inešin		22	24	20	66	24	25	115
19	Valeriy Shomin		22	23	23	68	22	25	115
20	Axel Wegner		22	22	25	69	23	23	115
21	Mario Nunez		23	24	24	71	22	22	115
22	Saeed Al Maktoum		23	24	24	71	21	22	114
23	Konstantin Tsuranov		21	22	23	66	24	23	113
24	Andrea Benelli		22	24	22	68	23	22	113
25	Anders Golding		20	24	24	68	23	21	112
26	Juan Carlos Romero		24	21	23	68	21	22	111
27	Ariel Mauricio Flores		23	22	23	68	22	21	111
28	Jorge Atalah		22	22	24	68	23	20	111
29	Ziad Richa		24	22	23	69	23	19	111
30	Paul Rahman		22	23	19	64	25	21	110
31	Julio Elizardo Dujarric Lembcke		23	24	21	68	21	21	110
32	Mikola Milchev		20	23	21	64	22	23	109
33	Georgios Salavantakis		21	20	23	64	23	22	109
34	Andrei Gerachtchenko		21	22	25	68	23	18	109
35	Ioan Toman		21	19	23	63	22	23	108
36	Franco Donato		19	21	22	62	21	23	106
37	Rashid Hamad		22	22	18	62	22	22	106
38	Diego Duarte Delgado		21	23	21	65	22	19	106
39	Saied Al-Mutairi		21	20	22	63	22	19	104
40	Marco Matellini		17	19	15	51	22	22	95
41	Roger Dahi		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
		121	24			4	OR
			25			3	OR
			24		3
4		120	24		2
5		119	24	143
6		118	24	142

OR Olympic record