Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air pistol

Men's 10 metre air pistol at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre
Date	August 14, 2004
Competitors	47 from 35 nations
Winning score	690.0 OR
Medalists
01 ! Wang Yifu  China 02 ! Mikhail Nestruyev  Russia 03 ! Vladimir Isakov  Russia
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01 !		Wang Yifu	China
02 !		Mikhail Nestruyev	Russia
03 !		Vladimir Isakov	Russia

The men's 10 metre air pistol competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 14 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with an air pistol at 10 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10.

The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots scored in increments of 0.1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 70 shots was used to determine final ranking.

2002 World champion Mikhail Nestruyev of Russia had attained a score of 591 to break a new Olympic record in the qualification round, until Chinese shooter and six-time Olympian Wang Yifu caught him up on the last shot to grab his second Olympic gold (the first being done in Barcelona 1992) in the event by an immensely thin 0.2-point margin, finishing with a total of 690.0 to 689.8. Nestruyev's countryman Vladimir Isakov, on the other hand, took the bronze medal with 684.3, edging out Bulgaria's Tanyu Kiryakov by almost a single point.

France's Franck Dumoulin, who eluded Wang for an Olympic gold in Sydney 2000, failed to reach the final round after slipping off from his title defense to share a twentieth place tie with four other shooters in the prelims.

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

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final