Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet

The men's skeet shooting competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 21 and 22 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.

Men's skeet at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre
Date	August 21, 2004 August 22, 2004
Competitors	41 from 32 nations
Winning score	149
Medalists
Andrea Benelli  Italy Marko Kemppainen  Finland Juan Miguel Rodríguez  Cuba
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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.

In this last Olympic skeet competition before rules were changed, Marko Kemppainen attained a perfect 125 to break the world and Olympic records in the qualification round, but missed one target in the final, allowing Andrea Benelli to catch him up with a score of 149 to force the gold medal shoot-off.^[1] Meanwhile, Cuba's Juan Miguel Rodríguez had shared a score of 147 targets with Qatar's Nasser Al-Attiyah and United States' Shawn Dulohery, until he fired a perfect ten in a three-way shoot-off to grab the bronze.^[2]

Records

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

Qualification records
World record	Abdullah Al-Rashidi (KUW)	125	Bangkok, Thailand	9 July 2004
Olympic record	Mykola Milchev (UKR)	125	Sydney, Australia	23 September 2000

Final records
World record	Valeriy Shomin (RUS)	150 (125+25)	Granada, Spain	28 June 2003
Olympic record	Mykola Milchev (UKR)	150 (125+25)	Sydney, Australia	23 September 2000

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	Day 1	4	5	Total	SO 1	SO 2	Notes
1	Marko Kemppainen	Finland	25	25	25	75	25	25	125			Q, =WR
2	Andrea Benelli	Italy	24	25	25	74	25	25	124			Q
3	Shawn Dulohery	United States	25	24	25	74	23	25	122	4		Q
4	Juan Miguel Rodríguez	Cuba	23	25	25	73	25	24	122	4		Q
5	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Qatar	24	24	25	73	25	24	122	4		Q
6	Harald Jensen	Norway	24	24	24	72	25	25	122	3	2	Q
7	Michael Nielsen	Denmark	25	23	25	73	25	24	122	3	1
8	Erik Watndal	Norway	25	22	24	71	25	25	121
9	Georgios Achilleos	Cyprus	24	24	25	73	23	25	121
9	Abdullah Al-Rashidi	Kuwait	25	24	24	73	24	24	121
9	James Graves	United States	25	25	23	73	24	24	121
9	Mykola Milchev	Ukraine	23	25	24	72	24	25	121
9	Jan Sychra	Czech Republic	25	25	24	74	23	24	121
9	Anthony Terras	France	25	23	25	73	23	25	121
15	Sergey Aksyutin	Russia	25	24	25	74	23	23	120
15	Saied Al-Mutairi	Saudi Arabia	24	25	25	74	24	22	120
15	Diego Duarte Delgado	Colombia	24	24	25	73	23	24	120
15	Jin Di	China	24	25	24	73	25	22	120
15	Paul Rahman	Australia	25	23	24	72	24	24	120
15	Valeriy Shomin	Russia	25	25	25	75	22	23	120
21	Hennie Dompeling	Netherlands	23	24	24	71	23	25	119
21	Julio Elizardo Dujarric Lembcke	Dominican Republic	25	24	24	73	24	22	119
21	Ennio Falco	Italy	23	24	24	71	25	23	119
21	Andrzej Głyda	Poland	23	25	23	71	24	24	119
21	Andrei Inešin	Estonia	24	25	24	73	23	23	119
21	Antonis Nikolaidis	Cyprus	23	24	25	72	23	24	119
21	Georgios Salavantakis	Greece	22	25	24	71	25	23	119
21	Guillermo Alfredo Torres	Cuba	24	25	24	73	22	24	119
29	George Barton	Australia	25	23	24	72	23	23	118
29	Mostafa Hamdy	Egypt	25	25	21	71	25	22	118
31	Jorge Atalah	Chile	24	24	23	71	24	22	117
31	Michael Maskell	Barbados	23	23	23	69	23	25	117
31	Axel Wegner	Germany	23	25	24	72	22	23	117
34	Richard Brickell	Great Britain	23	24	23	70	21	24	115
34	Amr El-Gaiar	Egypt	24	22	23	69	23	23	115
34	Jan-Cor van der Greef	Netherlands	24	23	24	71	20	24	115
37	Saeed Al Maktoum	United Arab Emirates	23	24	23	70	22	22	114
37	Khurram Inam	Pakistan	24	24	24	72	20	22	114
37	Lee Suk-tae	South Korea	22	24	22	68	23	23	114
40	Ricky Teh Chee Fei	Malaysia	24	22	23	69	21	23	113
41	Roger Dahi	Syria	24	18	23	65	20	21	106

=OR Equalled Olympic record – =WR Equalled World record – Q Qualified for final – SO 1 Shoot-off for third place – SO 2 Shoot-off for sixth place

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Bronze shoot-off	Gold shoot-off
	Andrea Benelli (ITA)	124	25	149		5
	Marko Kemppainen (FIN)	125	24	149		4
	Juan Miguel Rodríguez (CUB)	122	25	147	10
4	Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT)	122	25	147	9
5	Shawn Dulohery (USA)	122	25	147	5
6	Harald Jensen (NOR)	122	23	145