Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air pistol

Men's 10 metre air pistol
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Men's 10 metre air pistol; at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney International Shooting Centre
Date	16 September 2000
Competitors	43 from 30 nations
Winning score	688.9 (OR)
Medalists
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The men's 10 metre air pistol competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on 16 September, the day after the opening ceremony. Franck Dumoulin and Wang Yifu both reached 590 points in the qualification round of 60 shots, raising the Olympic record by three points. Although both shooters performed considerably worse in the final, their seven-point gap to the bronze medal was quite safe. Dumoulin outperformed Wang by two points, setting a new final Olympic record.^[1]

Records

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

Qualification records
World record	Sergei Pyzhianov (URS)	593	Munich, West Germany	13 October 1989
Olympic record	Wang Yifu (CHN)	587	Atlanta, United States	20 July 1996

Final records
World record	Sergei Pyzhianov (URS)	695.1 (593+102.1)	Munich, West Germany	13 October 1989
Olympic record	Wang Yifu (CHN)	684.8	Barcelona, Spain	28 July 1992

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Wang Yifu	China	590	Q OR
2	Franck Dumoulin	France	590	Q OR
3	Mikhail Nestruyev	Russia	583	Q
4	Igor Basinski	Belarus	583	Q
5	João Costa	Portugal	581	Q
6	Roberto Di Donna	Italy	581	Q
7	Stéphane Gagne	France	581	Q
8	Tanyu Kiryakov	Bulgaria	581	Q
9	Vladimir Gontcharov	Russia	579
9	Dilshod Mukhtarov	Uzbekistan	579
11	Sorin Babii	Romania	578
11	Jerzy Pietrzak	Poland	578
11	Tan Zongliang	China	578
11	Martin Tenk	Czech Republic	578
15	Michael Douglass	United States	577
15	Kanstantsin Lukashyk	Belarus	577
17	Ján Fabo	Slovakia	576
17	Dionissios Georgakopoulos	Greece	576
17	Yuri Melentiev	Kyrgyzstan	576
20	Hans-Jürgen Bauer-Neumaier	Germany	575
20	Artur Gevorgjan	Germany	575
20	Paolo Ranno	Italy	575
23	William Demarest	United States	574
23	Vladimir Guchsha	Kazakhstan	574
25	Masaru Nakashige	Japan	573
26	Boris Kokorev	Russia	572
27	Vigilio Fait	Italy	571
27	Tarek Riad	Egypt	571
29	Lajos Pálinkás	Hungary	570
30	Felipe Beuvrín	Venezuela	569
30	Iulian Raicea	Romania	569
32	David Moore	Australia	567
33	Norbelis Bárzaga	Cuba	566
34	Friedhelm Sack	Namibia	565
34	Sergio Werner Sanchez Gomez	Guatemala	565
36	Noriyuki Nishitani	Japan	564
37	Ricardo Chandeck	Panama	562
38	David Porter	Australia	561
39	Chris Rice	Virgin Islands	560
40	Christián Muñoz Ortega	Chile	559
41	Luis Méndez	Uruguay	556
42	István Jambrik	Hungary	555
	Alexander Danilov	Israel		DQ

DQ Disqualified – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
	Franck Dumoulin (FRA)	590	98.9	688.9	OR
	Wang Yifu (CHN)	590	96.9	686.9
	Igor Basinski (BLR)	583	99.7	682.7
4	Mikhail Nestruyev (RUS)	583	99.3	682.3
5	Stéphane Gagne (FRA)	581	101.0	682.0
6	Roberto Di Donna (ITA)	581	99.5	680.5
7	João Costa (POR)	581	98.4	679.4
8	Tanyu Kiryakov (BUL)	581	95.8	676.8