Athens 2004 Official Report - LA84 Foundation

Men's Skeet
Andrea BENELLI (ITA) claimed the gold medal
in the Men's Skeet, after winning a shoot-off
with Marko KEMPPAINEN (FIN). After the final,
the result for both competitors was 149/150.
KEMPPAINEN had equalled the world and
Olympic record for Men's Skeet qualifying
round with a maximum score of 125/125.
He had led after the qualifying round, but shot
24/25 in the final, allowing BENELLI, who shot
25/25 to go with a qualifying round score of
I24/I25, to catch him. BENELLI then won the
shoot-off to add a gold medal to the bronze,
he won in the same event, eight years ago in
Atlanta. Juan Miguel RODRIGUEZ (CUB) won
a three-shooter shoot-off for the bronze medal,
defeating Nasser AL-ATTIYA (QAT), who took
fourth place, and Shawn DULOHERY (USA),
who finished fifth. The bronze medal
contenders had been at 147/150 clay targets,
after the final round.
Women's Events
Women's 10m Air Rifle
The Women's 10m Air Rifle provided a
remarkable start to the programme with two
Olympic records set, one during the
qualification round by Lioubov GALKINA
(RUS) and one during the final by Li DU
(CHN). DU, 22, went on to win gold after
entering the final in second position, and
finishing with an Olympic record of 502.0.
Second place went to GALKINA, 31. The threetime
world record holder set an Olympic
record of 399 after the qualification round and
entered the final in first place, before losing to
Men's Skeet
Name
NOC
Gold BENELLI Andrea ITA
Silver KEMPPAINEN Marko FIN
Bronze RODRIGUEZ Juan Miguel CUB
4th AL-ATTIYA Nasser QAT
5th
6th
7th
8th
DULOHERY Shawn
JENSEN Harald
NIELSEN Michael
WATN DAL Erik
USA
NOR
DEN
NOR
Women's 10m Air Pistol
Name
NOC
Gold KOSTEVYCH Olena UKR
Silver SEKARIC Jasna
SCG
Bronze GROZDEVA Maria BUL
4th REN Jie
CHN
5th PADERINA Natalia RUS
6th DORJSUREN Munkhbayar GER
7th FROELICH Cornelia SUI
8th ASHUMOVA Irada AZE
Points
149
149
147
147
147
145
122
121
Points
483.3
483.3
482.3
482.3
481.9
481.9
481.5
481.4
DU with her last shot of 9.7. Bronze went to
22-year-old Katerina KURKOVA (CZE).
Women's 10m Air Pistol
The Women's 10m Air Pistol event kept
everyone in suspense until the last shot. Olena
KOSTEVYCH (UKR), l9, was in incredible form
during the final after making her way from
eighth position after the qualification round to a
tied first place with favourite Jasna SEKARIC, 38,
from Serbia and Montenegro. KOSTEVYCH,
concentrating on her shots during the final and
not following her steady progress, was
absolutely stunned after finding herself in a
shoot-off with her opponent SEKARIC. With a
shoot-off shot of 10.2, KOSTEVYCH won gold
medal. Jasna SEKARICH who had started the
final on position one and then lost the shoot-off
against KOSTEVYCH with a 9.4 won the
Olympic silver medal. The Olympic bronze
medal went to Maria GROZDEVA (BUL).
Women's Trap
The 31-year-old Australian Suzanne BALOGH,
showed her talent after starting the final with a
one clay target lead to her competitors and
finishing four clay targets ahead despite the
extreme winds during the Women's Trap. In
second place was Maria QUINTANAL, 34, from
Spain. She finished the final with a total of 84
clay targets. The fight for the bronze was neck
and neck. Bo Na LEE (KOR), 23, shot extremely
well after starting in position six after the
qualification round. The Korean athlete missed
only two targets in outdoing all other
competitors to beat Whitly LOPER (USA).
Women's 10m Air Rifle
Name
Gold DU Li
Silver GALKINA Lioubov
Bronze KURKOVA Katerina
4th ZHAO Yinghui
5th GOLDOBINA Tatiana
6th PFEILSCHIFTER Sonja
7th BRIZE Laurence
8th SHIRUR Suma
Women's Trap
Name
Gold BALOGH Suzanne
Silver QUINTANAL Maria
Bronze LEE Bo Na
4th LOPER Whitly
5th KIERMAYER Susanne
6th NATTRASS Susan
7th FELICI Emanuela
8th TAKEBA Taeko
NOC
CHN
RUS
CZE
CHN
RUS
GER
FRA
IND
NOC
AUS
ESP
KOR
USA
GER
CAN
SMR
JPN
Points
502.0
501.5
501.1
500.8
499.5
498.7
497.9
497.2
Points
88
84
83
82
79
76
60
59
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