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A typical 4.5 mm (.177 in) 10 m air rifle match pellet. For the 10-meter air rifle and air pistol disciplines, match-grade diabolo pellets are used. These pellets are wadcutter, meaning the pellet head is nearly completely flat. This leaves smooth-edged round holes in paper targets and allows easy gauging for scoring. Match pellets are offered ...
Electronic scoring system used at the 2016 Summer Olympics 10 meter air rifle competition. Electronic targets are used for all types of sport shooting, from airguns through to large calibre rifle shooting.
Score Nation/record Shooter Date Place Ref 594 World record: Jin Jong-oh 12 April 2009: Changwon, South Korea [3] 594 Asian record: Jin Jong-oh 12 April 2009: Changwon, South Korea [3] 594 South Korea: Jin Jong-oh: 12 April 2009: Changwon [3] 593 European record: Sergei Pyzhianov 13 October 1989: Munich, West Germany [4] 592 Germany: Uwe Potteck
The 10 metre air pistol is an Olympic shooting event governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). It is similar to 10 metre air rifle in that it is shot with 4.5 mm (or .177) caliber air guns at a distance of 10 metres (11 yards), and that the match consists of a qualification round of 60 competition shots within 75 minutes.
The European 10m Championships are special shooting sport championships for ISSF 10metre air rifle and pistol disciplines. They have been organised by the European Shooting Confederation (ESC) since 1971.
The final consists of 24 shots in the 10 metre air rifle and 10 metre air pistol events, 45 shots across all three positions in the 50 metre rifle three positions event, 20 shots (four five-shot series) in the 25 metre events, and two series in the shotgun events (that is, 50 targets in trap and skeet.) [5] [6] In rifle and pistol finals, the ...
Gun - 4.5 mm Calibre Rifle Maximum 5.5 kg Bullet - 4.5 mm Pellets BullsEye - 0.55 mm Time for Each Shot - 75 seconds Alin Moldoveanu of Romania won the gold medal by scoring 702.1. Gagan Narang won the Bronze Medal in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle Event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with a final score of 701.1. [ 1 ]
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with an air rifle at 10 metres distance from the standing position. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. Abhinav Bindra became the 1st Individual Olympic Gold Medalist from India. [2]