Olympic records at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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Archery
Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, Greece with ranking rounds on 12 August and regular competition held from 15 August to 21 August...

  • Men's Individual (70 m, 18 arrow): Korea
    South Korea
    The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

    's Park Kyung Mo, 173 points
previous record of 172 was set in 2000 by Jang Yong Ho
  • Women's Individual (70 m, 18 arrow): Korea's Yun Mi Jin, 173 points (tied record)
previous record of 173 was set in 2000 by Yun Mi Jin

Shooting
Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics
In shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 390 competitors from 106 nations contested 17 events . The competition took place at the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, located in the east of the Greek region of Attica....

  • Men's 10 m Air Rifle
    10 m Air Rifle
    10 metre air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation shooting event, shot over a distance of 10 metres from a standing position with a 4.5 mm calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of 5.5 kg...

     (Qualification): China
    People's Republic of China
    China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

    's Zhu Qinan
    Zhu Qinan
    Zhu Qinan is a male Chinese sport shooter. He won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event and a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event. Zhu currently is studying at Zhejiang University.Zhu began shooting training at Wenzhou...

    , 599 points
previous record of 596 was set in 1996 by Wolfram Waibel
  • Men's 10 m Air Rifle (Final): Zhu, 702.7 points
previous record of 696.4 was set in 2000 by Cai Yalin
Cai Yalin
Cai Yalin is a male Chinese sports shooter. He won the 10m air rifle at the 2000 Summer Olympics, in the process beating the Olympic record of 695.7pts with 696.4pts....

  • Men's 10 m Air Pistol
    10 m Air Pistol
    10 metre air pistol is an Olympic shooting event governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation . It is similar to 10 metre air rifle in that it is shot with 4.5 mm caliber air guns at a distance of 10 metres , and the programme consists of 60 shots within 105 minutes...

     (Qualification): Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    's Mikhail Nestruev
    Mikhail Nestruev
    Mikhail Valeryevich Nestruyev is a pistol shooter from Moscow, Russia. He is an all-round shooter, having achieved great successes in all five ISSF pistol events. He holds the 25 metre center-fire pistol world record of 594...

    , 591 points
previous record of 590 was set in 2000 by Franck Dumoulin
Franck Dumoulin
Franck Dumoulin is a pistol shooter from Bordeaux, France.- Olympic Games :- World Championships :* 1994 World Championships :** Gold Medal in 10 m Air Pistol** Bronze Medal in 50 m Pistol...

  • Men's 10 m Air Pistol (Final): China's Wang Yifu
    Wang Yifu
    Wang Yifu is a male Chinese pistol shooter, and in terms of Olympic medals one of the most successful sport shooters of all times. He specializes in the 50 m Pistol and 10 m Air Pistol events....

    , 690.0 points
previous record of 688.9 was set in 2000 by Dumoulin
  • Men's Trap
    Olympic Trap
    Officially referred to only as trap, and also known in the United States as international trap, bunker trap, trench or international clay pigeon, the single-target Olympic trap shooting event has a history over a hundred years old...

     (Qualification): Russia's Aleksei Alipov
    Aleksei Alipov
    Aleksei Aleksandrovich Alipov is a Russian Olympic Trap shooter. He is the 2004 Olympic champion in that discipline.Born in Moscow, he started the sport at age 13 and was eventually trained at the Russian Academy of Sport...

    , 124 hits (tied record)
previous record of 124 was set in 1996 by Michael Diamond
Michael Diamond (sport shooter)
Michael Constantine Diamond, OAM is a professional target shooter from Australia. Mastering the shotgun, Diamond succeeded in winning the Olympic gold medal for trap both in Atlanta and Sydney . He also holds the world record in double trap, and held the final world record in trap between 2007...

  • Men's Trap (Final): Alipov, 149 hits (tied record)
previous record of 149 was set in 1996 by Diamond
  • Men's Double Trap
    Double Trap
    Double trap is a clay pigeon shooting sport, one of the ISSF shooting events. Participants use a shotgun to attempt to break a clay disk flung away from the shooter at high speed....

     (Qualification): United Arab Emirates
    United Arab Emirates
    The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

    's Ahmed Al-Maktoum, 144 hits
previous record of 143 was set in 2000 by Russell Mark
Russell Mark
Russell Andrew Mark, OAM is an Australian Trap and Double Trap shooter and Olympic Champion. He won the Olympic gold medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won a silver Olympic medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...

  • Men's Double Trap (Final): Almaktoum, 189 hits (tied record)
previous record of 189 was set in 1996 by Mark
  • Men's Skeet
    Olympic Skeet
    Skeet is a variant of skeet shooting, and the specific variant used in the Olympic Games. Two throwing machines at different heights launch a series of 25 targets in a specific order, some as singles and some as doubles, with the shooter having a fixed position between them. Men's competitions...

     (Qualification): Finland
    Finland
    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

    's Marko Kemppainen
    Marko Kemppainen
    Marko Kemppainen is an athlete from Finland. He competes in skeet shooting.Kemppainen won a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championship in Cairo. He represented Finland at the 2004 Summer Olympics. By winning the silver medal in men's skeet event he took the first medal for Finland in the Athens...

    , 125 hits (tied record)
previous record of 125 was set in 1996 by Ennio Falco
Ennio Falco
Ennio Falco is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won Gold medal in Skeet Shooting in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta....

  • Men's 10 m Running Target
    10 m Running Target
    10 meter running target is one of the ISSF shooting events, shot with an airgun at a target that moves sideways. The target is pulled across a two meter wide aisle at the range of 10 metres from the firing point...

     (Qualification): Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

    's Manfred Kurzer
    Manfred Kurzer
    Manfred Kurzer is a German sports shooter and Olympic champion. He won gold medal in 10 metre running target at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He placed sixth at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Is currently training soldiers of the army and lives in Frankfurt..-References:...

    , 590 points
previous record of 585 was set in 1996 by Yang Ling
Yang Ling
Yang Ling is a male Chinese sports shooter. He won both the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Olympic Games in 10 metre running target, being the only shooter to successfully defend an Olympic title in that event.-Olympic results:...

  • Women's 50 m Rifle
    50 metre rifle three positions
    50 metre rifle three positions is an International Shooting Sport Federation event, a miniature version of 300 metre rifle three positions. It consists of the prone, standing and kneeling positions, fired in that order, with 3×40 shots for men and 3×20 shots for women...

     Three positions (Final): Russia's Lioubov Galkina
    Lioubov Galkina
    Lioubov Galkina is a Russian sports shooter and Olympic champion. She received two medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In her five Olympic starts, she has reached the final each time....

    , 688.4 points
previous record of 686.1 was set in 1996 by Aleksandra Ivosev
  • Women's 10 m Air Rifle
    10 m Air Rifle
    10 metre air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation shooting event, shot over a distance of 10 metres from a standing position with a 4.5 mm calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of 5.5 kg...

     (Qualification): Russia's Galkina, 399 points
previous record of 397 was set in 1996 by Petra Horneber
  • Women's 10 m Air Rifle (Final): China's Du Li
    Du Li
    Du Li is a female Chinese sport shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won the gold medal in the women's 10 metre air rifle competition. She has achieved the maximum 400 in this event twice...

    , 502.0 points
previous record of 498.2 was set in 1992 by Yeo Kab-Soon
  • Women's 25 m Pistol
    25 m Pistol
    25 metre pistol, formerly and unofficially still often known as sport pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It was devised as a women's event in the 1960s, based upon the rules of 25 metre center-fire pistol but shot with a .22-caliber sport pistol instead of the larger-caliber guns men used...

     (Final): Bulgaria
    Bulgaria
    Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

    's Mariya Grozdeva, 688.2 points
established new record after rule change
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