Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air pistol explained

The men's 10 metre air pistol event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 6 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center.^[1]

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualification and a final. In the qualification round, each shooter fired 60 shots with an air pistol at 10 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. The top-eight shooters in the qualification round advanced to the final round, where they fired an additional 20 shots. Scores for each shot were in increments of 0.1, with a maximum score of 10.9.

Vietnamese shooter Hoàng Xuân Vinh set an Olympic record based on ISSF Rule changed on 1 January 2013 in the final round with a score of 202.5 (again, an Olympic record), winning the first-ever gold medal for his country in the history of the Olympic Games.^[2]

The medals were presented by Mamadou Diagna Ndiaye, IOC member, Senegal and Franz Schreiber, Secretary General of the International Shooting Sport Federation.

Records

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

The following records were established during the competition:

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Inner 10s	Notes
1			97	98	99	98	99	99	590	27	Q
2	Jin Jong-oh		97	94	98	100	96	99	584	24	Q
3	Juraj Tužinský		96	97	98	97	98	96	582	23	Q
4			96	97	98	97	98	95	581	18	Q
5	Giuseppe Giordano		97	95	98	95	98	97	580	24	Q
6	Jitu Rai		96	96	98	96	96	98	580	22	Q
7			96	95	99	97	97	96	580	19	Q
8	Vladimir Gontcharov		96	96	99	98	94	97	580	17	Q
9	Dimitrije Grgić		96	96	97	97	96	97	579	20
10	Pablo Carrera		98	95	93	97	98	98	579	18
11	João Costa		98	97	96	96	94	97	578	21
12			95	98	97	95	96	96	577	23
13	Júlio Almeida		97	94	96	97	96	97	577	20
14			96	98	96	99	94	94	577	20
15			96	94	95	97	96	99	577	19
16	Pu Qifeng		97	97	94	95	98	96	577	19
17	Kim Song-guk		98	95	97	95	97	95	577	18
18	Jay Shi		97	95	95	98	97	95	577	17
19	Lee Dae-myung		98	96	95	95	97	96	577	12
20	Gurpreet Singh		94	96	93	99	99	95	576	21
21	Yusuf Dikeç		95	93	97	98	98	95	576	17
22	Tomoyuki Matsuda		92	95	96	98	97	98	576	14
23	Vladimir Issachenko		94	97	96	98	95	95	579	19
24	İsmail Keleş		99	93	93	98	94	98	575	18
25	Damir Mikec		98	97	95	97	92	96	575	18
26	Trần Quốc Cường		95	98	96	96	97	93	575	16
27	Kim Jong-su		95	95	95	96	96	98	575	15
28	Johnathan Wong		94	96	96	98	93	97	574	17
29	Tsotne Machavariani		96	97	95	97	95	94	574	16
30	Samy Abdel Razek		96	92	96	96	97	97	574	14
31	Vladimir Isakov		94	93	96	96	98	97	574	12
32	Atallah Al-Anazi		96	94	95	95	98	95	573	18
33	Ye Tun Naung		96	95	96	92	96	97	572	19
34	Samuil Donkov		96	98	97	94	94	93	572	19
35	Pavlo Korostylov		98	96	95	96	95	92	572	14
36	Blake Blackburn		91	97	95	96	96	95	570	10
37	Jorge Grau		95	94	96	94	94	96	569	16
38	Pavol Kopp		96	93	97	95	94	94	569	12
39	Rafael Lacayo		97	95	95	95	93	94	569	8
40	Rashid Yunusmetov		96	96	93	94	95	93	567	16
41	Piotr Daniluk		96	96	97	95	94	89	567	14
42	Miklós Tátrai		94	95	95	93	94	96	567	9
43	Marko Carrillo		94	92	97	96	92	95	566	11
44	Daniel Repacholi		91	97	97	95	96	89	565	13
45	Ahmed Mohamed		93	93	92	94	98	94	564	13
46	David Muñoz		88	98	97	94	91	95	563	15

Final

Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Final	Notes
		10.4	10.4	10.7	10	9.8	10.6	10.1	9.8	10.1	10.3	10.6	10.3	10.4	10	9.2	10.8	9.8	9.3	9.2	10.7	202.5
		10.5	10.3	10.4	10.5	10.7	10.1	9.9	9.4	9.5	10.2	10.4	9.3	10.4	9.6	10.1	10.7	10.0	9.8	10.2	10.1	202.1
		8.6	10.1	10.7	9.4	10.2	10.5	10.3	9.9	10.5	9.8	10.3	10.6	8.7	10.4	9.8	9.8	10.6	10.2	180.4
4		10.6	10.2	10.3	10.5	10.1	9.7	10.5	9.9	10.2	9	9.9	10.2	9.4	9.9	9.1	9.9	159.4
5		10.2	10.5	9.8	9.7	9.9	9.8	9.9	10.5	9.5	10.4	9.9	10	10.6	9.1	139.8
6		9.5	10.1	9.7	10.8	10.5	10.4	10.4	10.3	8.7	9.2	9.4	9.4	118.4
7		10.2	9.7	10.5	10.1	9.1	9.8	9.9	9.7	10.7	9.2	98.9
8		9.5	9.8	9.6	9.7	10.1	10.2	9.7	10.1	78.7

Notes and References

1. Web site: 10m Air Pistol Men. Rio2016.com. 7 August 2016. 20 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160820110531/https://www.rio2016.com/en/shooting-standings-sh-10m-air-pistol-men. dead.
2. News: Rio Olympics 2016: Vietnam win first ever Games gold. 7 August 2016. BBC Sport. 6 August 2016.