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
Vincent Hancock  United States
Tore Brovold  Norway
Anthony Terras  France
Shooting at the
2008 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Rifle
50 m rifle three positionsmenwomen
50 m rifle pronemen
10 m air riflemenwomen
Pistol
50 m pistolmen
25 m pistolwomen
25 m rapid fire pistolmen
10 m air pistolmenwomen
Shotgun
Trapmenwomen
Double trapmen
Skeetmenwomen

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 records
World record Vincent Hancock (USA)
 Tore Brovold (NOR)		125Lonato, Italy
Nicosia, Cyprus		14 June 2007
13 July 2008
Olympic recordISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005–
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Final records
World record Vincent Hancock (USA)
 Tore Brovold (NOR)		150 (125+25)Lonato, Italy
Nicosia, Cyprus		14 June 2007
13 July 2008
Olympic recordISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005–
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Qualification round
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
Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Bronze
shoot-off		 Gold
shoot-off		 Notes
 Vincent Hancock (USA) 121241454OR
 Tore Brovold (NOR) 120251453OR
 Anthony Terras (FRA) 120241443
4  Antonis Nikolaidis (CYP) 120241442
5  Georgios Achilleos (CYP) 11924143
6  Qu Ridong (CHN) 11824142

OR Olympic record

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