Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's skeet

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...

was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

. 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....

shot a perfect 125 in the qualification round and a 24 in the final, winning ahead of Mirosław Rzepkowski and Andrea Benelli

Andrea Benelli

|Andrea Benelli in ItalyAndrea Benelli is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won the gold medal in Skeet Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and also obtained a bronze medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.Benelli is two times World Champion in Skeet Shooting,...

, who won the bronze-medal shoot-off against Ole Riber Rasmussen.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Day 1	Day 2	Total	Notes
1	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....	75	50	125	Q OR
2	Andrea Benelli Andrea Benelli \|Andrea Benelli in ItalyAndrea Benelli is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won the gold medal in Skeet Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and also obtained a bronze medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.Benelli is two times World Champion in Skeet Shooting,...	74	49	123	Q
3	Mirosław Rzepkowski	75	48	123	Q
4	Ole Riber Rasmussen	73	49	122	Q
5	Nikolai Tiopliy	73	49	122	Q
6	Boriss Timofejevs	74	48	122	Q
7	Antonis Andreou	72	49	121
7	Chen Dongjie	72	49	121
7	Franck Durbesson	73	48	121
7	Tamaz Imnaishvili	72	49	121
7	Andrei Inešin	73	48	121
7	Juan Miguel Rodríguez Juan Miguel Rodríguez Juan Miguel Rodriguez is a Cuban sports shooter and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal in Skeet Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:...	72	49	121
7	Bill Roy	72	49	121
7	Zhang Xindong	73	48	121
15	Nasser Al Attiya	71	49	120
15	Hennie Dompeling	72	48	120
15	Todd Graves	73	47	120
15	Soichiro Ito	72	48	120
15	Jan Sychra	72	48	120
20	David Cunningham	73	46	119
20	Bernhard Hochwald	72	47	119
20	Craig Meuleman	69	50	119
20	Clayton Miller	73	46	119
20	Bruno Rossetti	71	48	119
20	Alfredo Torres Alfredo Torres Alfredo Torres is a Mexican football forward who played for Mexico in the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Club Atlas.-External links:*...	71	48	119
26	Jan-Henrik Heinrich	70	48	118
26	Harald Jensen Harald Jensen Harald Jensen is a Norwegian sport shooter competing in Skeet. Jensen won the gold medal at both the ISSF World Shooting Championships and the ISSF European Shooting Championships in 2002. He finished as number six at the 2004 Summer Olympics.-References:...	72	46	118
26	Antonis Nikolaidis	69	49	118
26	George Quigley	70	48	118
26	Juan Carlos Romero	75	43	118
26	Axel Wegner Axel Wegner Axel Wegner is a German sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won Gold medal in skeet shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.-References:...	71	47	118
32	Saaid Al Motery	69	48	117
32	Bronislav Bechynsky	69	48	117
32	Leos Hlavacek	70	47	117
32	Christos Kourtellas	69	48	117
32	Eric Swinkels Eric Swinkels Eric Swinkels is a Dutch sports shooter and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal in Skeet Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He competed in six different Olympic competitions, beginning in 1972 and ending in 1996.-References:...	71	46	117
32	Ion Toman	71	46	117
38	Esteban Boza	71	45	116
38	Servando Puldon	71	45	116
38	Tadeusz Szamrej	70	46	116
38	Valeri Timokhin	68	48	116
42	Abdullah Al Rashidi	68	47	115
42	Pascal Colomer	67	48	115
42	Juan Giha Juan Giha Juan Jorge Giha Yarur is a nationalized Peruvian sports shooter and Olympic medalist. A six-time Olympian he received a silver medal in Skeet Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, second after gold-winner Zhang Shan.-Biography:Born in Santiago de Chile, Chile, he is the son of Juan...	72	43	115
45	Marcelo Gil	65	48	113
45	Mel Hains	68	45	113
45	Mohamed Khorshed Mohamed Khorshed Mohamed Khorshed, born 29 October 1950, is an Egyptian skeet shooter who competed at five Olympics from 1984 to 2000. He is the first Egyptian to compete at five Olympics. He is also the first African to compete at five Olympics.He won the gold medal in skeet at the 1995 All-Africa Games in...	67	46	113
45	Francisco Romero Arribas	68	45	113
49	Mohammad Al Qasem	70	42	112
49	Prince Abdul Hakeem	67	45	112
49	Moustafa Hamdy	66	46	112
49	Michael Maskell	67	45	112
53	Jason Caswell	66	45	111
54	Kaw Fun Ying	67	43	110

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Qual	Final	Total	Shoot-off	Notes
	125	24	149		OR
	123	25	148
	123	24	147	6
4	122	25	147	5
5	122	24	146
6	122	23	145

OR Olympic record

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