Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol
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The men's ISSF 25 meter rapid fire pistol competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on 21 August at the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece. This was the last Olympic competition before the major rule changes that took place on 1 January 2005, and which lowered the results of the event.[1] There were 17 competitors from 14 nations.[2]
Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre | ||||||||||||
Date | 21 August 2004 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 17 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning score | 694.9 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Germany's world number one shooter Ralf Schumann produced the highest final round ever with 102.9 to easily get the best aggregate score of 694.9 and his third Olympic gold medal in rapid fire pistol shooting, becoming the first in the event's history to do so.[3][4] Russia's Sergei Polyakov took the silver with 692.7, while he enjoyed his countryman and defending Olympic champion Sergei Alifirenko (692.3) rounding out the podium with a bronze in a remarkable 2–3 finish. Earlier in the prelims, the top three were all tied for the first seed at 592 points.[5]
Schumann's third win was Germany's fourth victory in the event (Cornelius van Oyen had won in 1936), most of any nation even not counting East Germany's one win in 1976. Indeed, Schumann personally matched the success of the next-best nation, the United States, at three golds and a silver. Alifirenko was the 11th man to win multiple medals in the event.