Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre running target

The men's skeet shooting competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics was the last shooting event of the Sydney Games, held on 22 and 23 September. Yang Ling successfully defended his title, a tenth of a point ahead of Oleg Moldovan.^[1]

Men's 10 metre running target at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney International Shooting Centre
Date	21 September 2000 (slow) 22 September 2000 (fast)
Competitors	18 from 12 nations
Winning score	681.1
Medalists
Yang Ling  China Oleg Moldovan  Moldova Niu Zhiyuan  China
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Records

The existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification records
World record	Manfred Kurzer (GER)	587	Zürich, Switzerland	16 October 1998
Olympic record	Yang Ling (CHN)	585	Atlanta, United States	26 July 1996

Final records
World record	Yang Ling (CHN)	687.9	Milan, Italy	6 June 1996
Olympic record	Yang Ling (CHN)	686.8 (585+101.8)	Atlanta, United States	26 July 1996

Qualification round

The slow runs were fired on Thursday and the fast runs on Friday.

Rank	Athlete	Country	Slow	Fast	Total	Notes
1	Yang Ling	China	293	288	581	Q
2	Oleg Moldovan	Moldova	293	287	580	Q
3	Niu Zhiyuan	China	286	292	578	Q
4	Igor Kolessov	Russia	293	283	576	Q
5	Pasi Wedman	Finland	287	288	575	Q
6	Miroslav Januš	Czech Republic	293	282	575	Q
7	Manfred Kurzer	Germany	287	286	573	Q (6th: 99)
8	Dimitri Lykin	Russia	292	281	573	Q (6th: 96)
9	Andrés Felipe Torres	Colombia	292	281	573	(6th: 91)
10	Attila Solti	Guatemala	290	282	572
11	József Sike	Hungary	290	281	571
12	József Ángyán	Hungary	286	284	570
12	Michael Jakosits	Germany	290	280	570
12	Adam Saathoff	United States	289	281	570
15	Oleksandr Zinenko	Ukraine	293	276	569
16	David Jones	Australia	288	274	562
17	Adam Gitsham	Australia	285	271	556
18	Lance Dement	United States	269	272	541

Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total
	Yang Ling (CHN)	581	100.1	681.1
	Oleg Moldovan (MDA)	580	101.0	681.0
	Niu Zhiyuan (CHN)	578	99.4	677.4
4	Pasi Wedman (FIN)	575	97.1	672.1
5	Dimitri Lykin (RUS)	573	98.7	671.7
6	Manfred Kurzer (GER)	573	98.3	671.3
7	Igor Kolessov (RUS)	576	91.5	667.5
8	Miroslav Januš (CZE)	575	91.8	666.8