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Air Rifle, 10 metres, Men

Date25 July 2021
StatusOlympic
LocationAsaka Shooting Range, Nerima, Tokyo
Participants47 from 32 countries

The men’s 10 m air rifle was held for the 10th consecutive time at the Olympics. In Tokyo it was again the second shooting event for men and the first of now only two rifle events for men. The format of the qualification round was unchanged, but the format of the final round was also changed to the new format of a maximum of 24 shots for the final two shooters. The three medallists Sergey Kamensky (gold), Petar Gorša (silver), and Miran Maricić (bronze) from the 2018 World Championships all competed in Tokyo, but none of them reached the final. Also, the world record holders for the qualification rounds Péter Sidi and for the final round, Yu Haonan (CHN), did not compete in Tokyo. While Yu did not qualify for the Games, Sidi was suspended by the Hungarian shooting federation related to a doping violation.

In the qualification round, Yang Haoran set an Olympic record with 632.7, missing the standing world record only by 0.8. He was followed by Lucas Kozeniesky and Will Shaner both representing the United States, while his compatriot Sheng Lihao finished eighth to qualify for the final just 0.1 ahead of Mahyar Sedaghat who finished ninth. In the final Shaner took the lead after the eighth shot and held onto that position until the end, to win the first rifle gold medal for the United States since Matt Emmons won the 50 m small-bore rifle prone event in 2004. Sheng won silver and Yang settled for bronze.

Silver medallist Sheng Lihao, born on 4 December 2004, was not only the youngest male shooting competitor in Tokyo but became the youngest ever Olympic medallist in shooting aged 16 years 233 days, surpassing the record previously held by Ulrike Holmer who was 16-301 when winning a silver medal back in 1984. Also participating in this event were the first ever shooters for Kosovo Drilon Ibrahimi and Afghanistan Mahdi Yovari.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCQualifyingFinal
12129Will ShanerUSA630.8 (3)251.6 (1)Gold
21219Sheng LihaoCHN629.2 (8)250.9 (2)Silver
31220Yang HaoranCHN632.7 (1)229.4 (3)Bronze
42081Ömer AkgünTUR629.8 (5)207.3 (4)
51454István PéniHUN629.4 (7)186.5 (5)
62124Lucas KozenieskyUSA631.5 (2)165.0 (6)
72024Patrik JánySVK630.5 (4)143.7 (7)
81916Vladimir MaslennikovROC629.8 (6)123.0 (8)
91496Mahyar SedaghatIRI629.1 (9)
101915Sergey KamenskyROC628.7 (10)
111804Henrik LarsenNOR627.4 (11)
121624Nam Tae-YunKOR627.2 (12)
131082Martin StrempflAUT627.0 (13)
141277Jiří PřívratskýCZE626.8 (14)
151143Yury ShcherbatsevichBLR626.6 (15)
161243Petar GoršaCRO626.5 (16)
172064Lu Shao-ChuanTPE626.3 (17)
181724Edson RamírezMEX625.9 (18)
191273David HrčkulákCZE625.7 (19)
201580Naoya OkadaJPN625.7 (20)
211071Alex HobergAUS625.6 (21)
221803Jon-Hermann HeggNOR625.5 (22)
231865Tomasz BartnikPOL625.4 (23)
241622Kim Sang-DoKOR625.1 (24)
251244Miran MaričićCRO625.0 (25)
261480Deepak KumarIND624.7 (26)
271531Sergey RichterISR624.5 (27)
281681Karolis GirulisLTU624.3 (28)
292104Serhiy KulishUKR623.5 (29)
301074Dane SampsonAUS623.5 (30)
311986Milenko SebićSRB623.2 (31)
321481Divyansh Singh PanwarIND622.8 (32)
331033Alexis EberhardtARG622.6 (33)
341546Lorenzo BacciITA622.2 (34)
351554Marco SuppiniITA622.1 (35)
361593Yury YurkovKAZ621.9 (36)
371579Takayuki MatsumotoJPN621.7 (37)
381987Milutin StefanovićSRB621.3 (38)
391453Zalán PeklerHUN621.1 (39)
402106Oleh TsarkovUKR621.0 (40)
411101Abdullah Hel BakiBAN619.8 (41)
421316Osama El-SaeidEGY618.8 (42)
432151Julio IemmaVEN618.3 (43)
441851Jayson ValdezPHI612.6 (44)
451318Youssef MakkarEGY612.0 (45)
461631Drilon IbrahimiKOS608.8 (46)
471001Mahdi YovariAFG601.4 (47)

Qualifying Round

Date25 July 2021 — 13:00
Format10 metres. Six rounds of 10 shots each. Top eight from preliminary round advanced to the final round.
PosNumberCompetitorNOCPoints
11220Yang HaoranCHN632.7Q
22124Lucas KozenieskyUSA631.5Q
32129Will ShanerUSA630.8Q
42024Patrik JánySVK630.5Q
52081Ömer AkgünTUR629.8Q
61916Vladimir MaslennikovROC629.8Q
71454István PéniHUN629.4Q
81219Sheng LihaoCHN629.2Q
91496Mahyar SedaghatIRI629.1
101915Sergey KamenskyROC628.7
111804Henrik LarsenNOR627.4
121624Nam Tae-YunKOR627.2
131082Martin StrempflAUT627.0
141277Jiří PřívratskýCZE626.8
151143Yury ShcherbatsevichBLR626.6
161243Petar GoršaCRO626.5
172064Lu Shao-ChuanTPE626.3
181724Edson RamírezMEX625.9
191273David HrčkulákCZE625.7
201580Naoya OkadaJPN625.7
211071Alex HobergAUS625.6
221803Jon-Hermann HeggNOR625.5
231865Tomasz BartnikPOL625.4
241622Kim Sang-DoKOR625.1
251244Miran MaričićCRO625.0
261480Deepak KumarIND624.7
271531Sergey RichterISR624.5
281681Karolis GirulisLTU624.3
292104Serhiy KulishUKR623.5
301074Dane SampsonAUS623.5
311986Milenko SebićSRB623.2
321481Divyansh Singh PanwarIND622.8
331033Alexis EberhardtARG622.6
341546Lorenzo BacciITA622.2
351554Marco SuppiniITA622.1
361593Yury YurkovKAZ621.9
371579Takayuki MatsumotoJPN621.7
381987Milutin StefanovićSRB621.3
391453Zalán PeklerHUN621.1
402106Oleh TsarkovUKR621.0
411101Abdullah Hel BakiBAN619.8
421316Osama El-SaeidEGY618.8
432151Julio IemmaVEN618.3
441851Jayson ValdezPHI612.6
451318Youssef MakkarEGY612.0
461631Drilon IbrahimiKOS608.8
471001Mahdi YovariAFG601.4

Final Round

Date25 July 2021 — 15:30
FormatTwo rounds of 5 shots, then 1 round of 2 shots, with lowest shooter eliminated. Six rounds of 2 shots with lowest shooter eliminated after each round.
PosNumberCompetitorNOCPoints
12129Will ShanerUSA251.6
21219Sheng LihaoCHN250.9
31220Yang HaoranCHN229.4
42081Ömer AkgünTUR207.3
51454István PéniHUN186.5
62124Lucas KozenieskyUSA165.0
72024Patrik JánySVK143.7
81916Vladimir MaslennikovROC123.0