Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet
The Men's skeet event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 30 and 31 July 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks. 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.[1]
| Men's skeet at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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 Left-right: Golding, Hancock, Al-Attiyah | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Royal Artillery Barracks | ||||||||||||
| Date | 30 July 2012 31 July 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 36 from 26 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 148 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Shooting at the 2012 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 |
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| Qualification records | ||||
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| World record |  Vincent Hancock (USA) | 125 | Lonato, Italy | 14 June 2007 |
| Olympic record | Vincent Hancock (USA) | 121 | Beijing, China | 16 August 2008 |
- Hancock improved his Olympic qualification record from the last Olympic with two points.
| Final records | ||||
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| World record | Vincent Hancock (USA) | 150 (125+25) | Lonato, Italy | 14 June 2007 |
| Olympic record | Vincent Hancock (USA) Tore Brovold (NOR) | 145 (121+24) 145 (120+25) | Beijing, China | 16 August 2008 |
- Hancock improved his Olympic record from the last Olympic with three points.
Qualification round
Final
| Rank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total | Bronze shoot-off |
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Vincent Hancock (USA) |
123 | 25 | 148 | OR | |
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 Anders Golding (DEN) |
122 | 24 | 146 | ||
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 Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT) |
121 | 23 | 144 | 6 | |
| 4 |  Valeriy Shomin (RUS) |
121 | 23 | 144 | 5 | |
| 5 |  Luigi Lodde (ITA) |
120 | 23 | 143 | ||
| 6 |  Jan Sychra (CZE) |
120 | 23 | 143 |
References
- Shooting at the 2012 London Summer Games: Men's Skeet. sports-reference.com
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1 From 1972 until 1992, the event was open to women as well as men. Zhang is the only woman to have won it. |
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