Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air rifle
The Men's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 11 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. Abhinav Bindra became the first ever individual Olympic champion of India.
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| Venue | Beijing Shooting Range Hall | ||||||||||||
| Date | August 11, 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 51 from 37 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 700.5 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Qualification | ||
| Rifle | ||
| 50 m rifle three positions | men | women |
| 50 m rifle prone | men | |
| 10 m air rifle | men | women |
| Pistol | ||
| 50 m pistol | men | |
| 25 m pistol | women | |
| 25 m rapid fire pistol | men | |
| 10 m air pistol | men | women |
| Shotgun | ||
| Trap | men | women |
| Double trap | men | |
| Skeet | men | women |
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with an air rifle at 10 metres distance from the standing position. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10.
The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 70 shots was used to determine final ranking.
Records
The existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| Qualification records | ||||
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| World record |  Tevarit Majchacheep (THA) Denis Sokolov (RUS) | 600 | Langkawi, Malaysia Winterthur, Switzerland | 27 January 2000 1 March 2008 |
| Olympic record |  Zhu Qinan (CHN) | 599 | Athens, Greece | 16 August 2004 |
| Final records | ||||
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| World record |  Thomas Farnik (AUT) | 703.1 (599+104.1) | Granada, Spain | 4 October 2006 |
| Olympic record | Zhu Qinan (CHN) | 702.7 (599+103.7) | Athens, Greece | 16 August 2004 |
Qualification round
| Rank | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Total | Notes |
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| 1 | Henri Häkkinen |  Finland |
100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 598 | Q |
| 2 | Zhu Qinan | China |
100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 597 | Q |
| 3 | Alin George Moldoveanu |  Romania |
99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 596 | Q |
| 4 | Abhinav Bindra |  India |
100 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 596 | Q |
| 5 | Sergei Kruglov | Russia |
100 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 595 | Q |
| 6 | Péter Sidi |  Hungary |
98 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 595 | Q |
| 7 | Konstantin Prikhodtchenko | Russia |
99 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 595 | Q |
| 8 | Stevan Pletikosić | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Serbia |
100 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 595 | Q |
| 9 | Gagan Narang | India |
97 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 595 | |
| 10 | Thomas Farnik | Austria |
99 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 594 | |
| 11 | Oleksandr Lazeykin |  Ukraine |
99 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 594 | |
| 12 | Niccolo Campriani |  Italy |
99 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 594 | |
| 13 | Václav Haman |  Czech Republic |
99 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 593 | |
| 14 | Cao Yifei | China |
98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 593 | |
| 15 | Tino Mohaupt |  Germany |
98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 593 | |
| 16 | Park Bong-duk | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} South Korea |
98 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 593 | |
| 17 | Nemanja Mirosavljev | Serbia |
99 | 98 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 593 | |
| 18 | Vitali Bubnovich | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Belarus |
97 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 592 | |
| 19 | Are Hansen |  Norway |
98 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 592 | |
| 20 | Marco De Nicolo | Italy |
97 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 98 | 592 | |
| 21 | Artur Ayvazyan | Ukraine |
98 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 98 | 592 | |
| 22 | Vebjørn Berg | Norway |
99 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 96 | 98 | 592 | |
| 23 | Jason Parker |  United States |
97 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 591 | |
| 24 | José Luis Sánchez |  Mexico |
99 | 99 | 97 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 591 | |
| 25 | Roberto José Elias | Mexico |
98 | 98 | 98 | 100 | 96 | 100 | 590 | |
| 26 | Han Jin-seop | South Korea |
100 | 95 | 98 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 590 | |
| 27 | Stephen Scherer | United States |
98 | 99 | 97 | 97 | 100 | 99 | 590 | |
| 28 | Toshikazu Yamashita |  Japan |
98 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 590 | |
| 29 | Jonathan Hammond |  Great Britain |
95 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 589 | |
| 30 | Christian Planer | Austria |
97 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 589 | |
| 31 | Rajmond Debevec |  Slovenia |
96 | 97 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 589 | |
| 32 | Luis Martínez |  Spain |
100 | 99 | 99 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 589 | |
| 33 | Robert Kraskowski |  Poland |
99 | 99 | 97 | 99 | 98 | 97 | 589 | |
| 34 | Oliver Geissmann |  Liechtenstein |
99 | 95 | 98 | 99 | 97 | 100 | 588 | |
| 35 | Nedžad Fazlija |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
98 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 96 | 99 | 588 | |
| 36 | Michael Winter | Germany |
97 | 99 | 95 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 588 | |
| 37 | Petar Gorša |  Croatia |
98 | 99 | 97 | 97 | 99 | 98 | 588 | |
| 38 | Vitaliy Dovgun |  Kazakhstan |
97 | 96 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 587 | |
| 39 | Ruslan Ismailov |  Kyrgyzstan |
97 | 99 | 98 | 97 | 97 | 99 | 587 | |
| 40 | Josselin Henry |  France |
97 | 97 | 97 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 587 | |
| 41 | Doron Egozi |  Israel |
98 | 100 | 98 | 98 | 95 | 98 | 587 | |
| 42 | Yuriy Yurkov | Kazakhstan |
96 | 98 | 99 | 96 | 98 | 99 | 586 | |
| 43 | Mohamed Abdellah |  Egypt |
97 | 100 | 97 | 96 | 100 | 96 | 586 | |
| 44 | Liecer Perez |  Cuba |
95 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 97 | 99 | 585 | |
| 45 | Simon Beyeler |  Switzerland |
95 | 98 | 96 | 99 | 97 | 98 | 583 | |
| 46 | Mohammad Hossain |  Bangladesh |
95 | 98 | 96 | 97 | 95 | 100 | 581 | |
| 47 | Matthew Robert Inabinet |  Australia |
97 | 94 | 98 | 96 | 98 | 96 | 579 | |
| 48 | Siddique Umer |  Pakistan |
95 | 96 | 95 | 97 | 98 | 97 | 578 | |
| 49 | Benjamin Burge | Australia |
98 | 93 | 97 | 95 | 98 | 95 | 576 | |
| 50 | Walter Martínez |  Nicaragua |
95 | 95 | 98 | 94 | 94 | 93 | 569 | |
| 51 | Saso Nestorov |  Macedonia |
96 | 91 | 93 | 92 | 92 | 94 | 558 |
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Final
| Rank | Athlete | Qual | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final | Total | Shoot-off |
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Abhinav Bindra (IND) |
596 | 10.7 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.5 | 10.5 | 10.5 | 10.6 | 10.0 | 10.2 | 10.8 | 104.5 | 700.5 | |
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Zhu Qinan (CHN) |
597 | 10.2 | 10.0 | 9.9 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 10.7 | 10.1 | 10.6 | 10.4 | 10.5 | 102.7 | 699.7 | |
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Henri Häkkinen (FIN) |
598 | 10.1 | 10.2 | 10.5 | 10.0 | 10.2 | 10.3 | 10.0 | 10.1 | 10.3 | 9.7 | 101.4 | 699.4 | |
| 4 | Alin George Moldoveanu (ROU) |
596 | 10.2 | 9.8 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 10.3 | 10.6 | 102.9 | 698.9 | |
| 5 | Konstantin Prikhodtchenko (RUS) |
595 | 10.1 | 9.4 | 10.5 | 10.3 | 10.6 | 10.6 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.5 | 10.7 | 103.4 | 698.4 | 10.0 |
| 6 | Péter Sidi (HUN) |
595 | 10.3 | 10.8 | 9.6 | 10.8 | 10.0 | 10.2 | 10.7 | 10.8 | 10.2 | 10.0 | 103.4 | 698.4 | 9.1 |
| 7 | Stevan Pletikosić (SRB) |
595 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.6 | 9.7 | 10.8 | 10.6 | 9.6 | 10.0 | 9.9 | 10.8 | 102.7 | 697.7 | |
| 8 | Sergei Kruglov (RUS) |
595 | 9.2 | 10.4 | 10.0 | 10.7 | 9.7 | 10.6 | 10.5 | 10.5 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 102.0 | 697.0 |
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