Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 10 metre air pistol

Infobox Olympic event
event = Men's 10 metre air pistol
games = 2008 Summer
venue = Beijing Shooting Range Hall
date = August 9, 2008
competitors = 48
nations = 35
gold = Pang Wei
goldNOC = CHN
silver = Jin Jong-oh
silverNOC = KOR
bronze = Jason Turner
bronzeNOC = USA
win_label = Winning score
win_value = 688.2
prev = 2004The men's 10 metre air pistol event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 9 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall, and was won by the reigning World champion, Pang Wei of the host country, who thus became the first male gold medal winner of the Beijing Olympics.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with an air pistol at 10 metres distance. 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.

Medalists

DQ Disqualified – Q Qualified for final

cnote|1|Kim was third in the original official result list for the qualification round, but was disqualified several days after the final had taken place. In the final version of the document, Kim's result is removed and the third place is empty, indicating that no extra shooter had been allowed into the final.

Final

The final was held at 15:00 China Standard Time (UTC+8).

DQ Disqualified – SO Shoot-off for fourth place

References

External links

* [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/SH/RPT/SHM203901.shtml#SHM203901 Event Reports]