Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air rifle

Men's 10 metre air rifle at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney International Shooting Centre
Date	18 September 2000
Competitors	46 from 33 nations
Winning score	696.4 (OR)
Medalists
Cai Yalin  China Artem Khadjibekov  Russia Yevgeni Aleinikov  Russia

Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions		men		women
50 m rifle prone		men
10 m air rifle		men		women
Pistol
50 m pistol		men
25 m pistol				women
25 m rapid fire pistol		men
10 m air pistol		men		women
Shotgun
Trap		men		women
Double trap		men		women
Skeet		men		women
Running target
10 m running target		men

The men's 10 metre air rifle competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on 18 September.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification records
World record	Tevarit Majchacheep (THA)	600	Langkawi, Malaysia	27 January 2000
Olympic record	Wolfram Waibel (AUT)	596	Atlanta, United States	22 July 1996

Final records
World record	Jason Parker (USA)	700.6	Munich, Germany	23 May 1998
Olympic record	Artem Khadjibekov (RUS)	695.7	Atlanta, United States	22 July 1996

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Cai Yalin	China	594	Q
2	Anatoli Klimenko	Belarus	593	Q
3	Jason Parker	United States	592	Q
4	Artur Ayvazyan	Ukraine	592	Q
5	Artem Khadjibekov	Russia	592	Q
6	Yevgeni Aleinikov	Russia	592	Q
7	Leif Steinar Rolland	Norway	592	Q
8	Nedžad Fazlija	Bosnia and Herzegovina	591	Q (6th: 99)
9	Rajmond Debevec	Slovenia	591	(6th: 98)
9	Mario Knögler	Austria	591	(6th: 98)
11	Mohamed Abdel Ellah	Egypt	590
11	Abhinav Bindra	India	590
11	Jozef Gönci	Slovakia	590
11	Lim Young-sueb	23x15px South Korea	590
15	Norbert Ettner	Germany	589
15	Yuri Lomov	Kyrgyzstan	589
15	Péter Sidi	Hungary	589
18	Jean-Pierre Amat	France	588
18	Thomas Farnik	Austria	588
18	Juha Hirvi	Finland	588
18	Lee Eun-chul	23x15px South Korea	588
18	Tevarit Majchacheep	Thailand	588
18	Oleg Mykhaylov	Ukraine	588
18	Georgy Nekhaev	Belarus	588
18	Wayne Sorensen	Canada	588
18	Wolfram Waibel	Austria	588
27	Marco De Nicolo	Italy	587
27	Roger Hansson	Sweden	587
27	Nemanja Mirosavljev	23x15px Yugoslavia	587
27	Robert Wieland	Australia	587
31	Pablo Álvarez	Argentina	586
31	Franck Badiou	France	586
31	Dick Boschman	Netherlands	586
34	Václav Bečvář	Czech Republic	585
34	Espen Berg-Knutsen	Norway	585
34	Masaru Yanagida	Japan	585
37	Ferdinand Stipberger	Germany	584
38	Roberto Jose Elias Orozco	Mexico	583
38	Kenneth Johnson	United States	583
38	Stevan Pletikosić	23x15px Yugoslavia	583
41	Oliver Geissmann	Liechtenstein	582
41	Timothy Lowndes	Australia	582
43	Radim Novak	Czech Republic	581
44	Hilal Al Rasheedi	Oman	579
45	Varavut Majchacheep	Thailand	575
46	Walter Martínez	Nicaragua	571
	Jorge González	Spain		DNS
	Hou Yannan	China		DNS

DNS Did not start – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
	Cai Yalin (CHN)	594	102.4	696.4	OR
	Artem Khadjibekov (RUS)	592	103.1	695.1
	Yevgeni Aleinikov (RUS)	592	101.8	693.8
4	Anatoli Klimenko (BLR)	593	100.4	693.4
5	Jason Parker (USA)	592	101.1	693.1
6	Nedžad Fazlija (BIH)	591	101.7	692.7
7	Leif Steinar Rolland (NOR)	592	100.2	692.2
8	Artur Ayvazyan (UKR)	592	100.0	692.0

OR Olympic record