Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet

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.

Men's skeet
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Medal winners, from left:
Brovold, Hancock, Terras
VenueBeijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field
DateAugust 15, 2008
August 16, 2008
Competitors41 from 30 nations
Winning score145 (OR)
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Vincent Hancock  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tore Brovold  Norway
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Anthony Terras  France
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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

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

Qualification records
World record   Vincent Hancock (USA)
  Tore Brovold (NOR)
125 Lonato, Italy
Nicosia, Cyprus
14 June 2007
13 July 2008
Olympic record ISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005
Final records
World record   Vincent Hancock (USA)
  Tore Brovold (NOR)
150 (125+25) Lonato, Italy
Nicosia, Cyprus
14 June 2007
13 July 2008
Olympic record ISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005

Qualification round

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Rank Athlete Country 1 2 3 Day 1 4 5 Total Shoot-off Notes
1 Vincent Hancock   United States 25 24 24 73 24 24 121 Q OR
2 Tore Brovold   Norway 25 23 23 71 25 24 120 Q
3 Anthony Terras   France 24 24 24 72 25 23 120 Q
4 Antonis Nikolaidis   Cyprus 24 24 24 72 25 23 120 Q
5 Georgios Achilleos   Cyprus 23 24 23 70 25 24 119 Q
6 Qu Ridong   China 24 23 23 70 23 25 118 4 Q
7 Jin Di   China 24 22 24 70 24 24 118 3
8 Juan Jose Aramburu   Spain 22 25 23 70 24 24 118 3
9 Abdullah Al-Rashidi   Kuwait 25 23 24 72 22 24 118 3
10 Zaid Al-Mutairi   Kuwait 23 25 22 70 24 24 118 1
11 Randal McLelland   United States 24 23 23 70 25 23 118 1
12 Harald Jensen   Norway 24 25 23 72 24 22 118 1
13 Tino Wenzel   Germany 23 22 23 68 25 24 117
14 Ennio Falco   Italy 23 23 24 70 24 23 117
15 Nasser Al-Attiyah   Qatar 24 23 23 70 25 22 117
16 Jan Sychra   Czech Republic 25 24 21 70 25 22 117
17 George Barton   Australia 23 24 24 71 21 24 116
18 Andrei Inešin   Estonia 22 24 20 66 24 25 115
19 Valeriy Shomin   Russia 22 23 23 68 22 25 115
20 Axel Wegner   Germany 22 22 25 69 23 23 115
21 Mario Nunez   Spain 23 24 24 71 22 22 115
22 Saeed Al Maktoum   United Arab Emirates 23 24 24 71 21 22 114
23 Konstantin Tsuranov   Russia 21 22 23 66 24 23 113
24 Andrea Benelli   Italy 22 24 22 68 23 22 113
25 Anders Golding   Denmark 20 24 24 68 23 21 112
26 Juan Carlos Romero   Guatemala 24 21 23 68 21 22 111
27 Ariel Mauricio Flores   Mexico 23 22 23 68 22 21 111
28 Jorge Atalah   Chile 22 22 24 68 23 20 111
29 Ziad Richa   Lebanon 24 22 23 69 23 19 111
30 Paul Rahman   Australia 22 23 19 64 25 21 110
31 Julio Elizardo Dujarric Lembcke   Dominican Republic 23 24 21 68 21 21 110
32 Mikola Milchev   Ukraine 20 23 21 64 22 23 109
33 Georgios Salavantakis   Greece 21 20 23 64 23 22 109
34 Andrei Gerachtchenko   Belarus 21 22 25 68 23 18 109
35 Ioan Toman   Romania 21 19 23 63 22 23 108
36 Franco Donato   Egypt 19 21 22 62 21 23 106
37 Rashid Hamad   Qatar 22 22 18 62 22 22 106
38 Diego Duarte Delgado   Colombia 21 23 21 65 22 19 106
39 Saied Al-Mutairi   Saudi Arabia 21 20 22 63 22 19 104
40 Marco Matellini   Peru 17 19 15 51 22 22 95
41 Roger Dahi   Syria 19 21 19 59 11 21 91

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

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Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Bronze
shoot-off
Gold
shoot-off
Notes
    Vincent Hancock (USA) 121 24 145 4 OR
    Tore Brovold (NOR) 120 25 145 3 OR
    Anthony Terras (FRA) 120 24 144 3
4   Antonis Nikolaidis (CYP) 120 24 144 2
5   Georgios Achilleos (CYP) 119 24 143
6   Qu Ridong (CHN) 118 24 142

OR Olympic record