General introduction
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Updated: 2004-07-29 10:37

Shooting is considered one of the most popular sports internationally. It requires good physical and psychological condition, as well as technical perfection. It is open to men, women and children of all ages for recreation. On the championship level, it is the only sport where you will see a great difference in age between competitors. For instance, Konstantin Lukashyk, a 17 year old competitor representing the Commonwealth of Independent States, won the gold medal in the Men’s 50m Pistol event at the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992. The runner-up was the 58 year old Swedish competitor, Ragnar Skanaker, who had won the gold at the 1972 Munich Games and silver medals at the Los Angeles and Seoul Games (1984, 1988).

ATHENS 2004 Shooting

All Shooting events in the ATHENS 2004 Games will take place in the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, on the following ranges:

The 10-metre Shooting range (with eighty firing points for air gun events and four Running target stands).

The 25-metre Shooting range (with ten stands of five targets each).

The 50-metre Shooting range (with eighty firing points).

The indoor Shooting range where the finals will be held (with ten airgun Shooting points; six Running target stands; twenty Shooting points for the 50-metre events; and six stands of five targets each for the 25-metre events).

Four Clay Target Shooting ranges, three for the qualification round and one for the finals.

The competition programme spans nine days, from 14 to 22 August. There will be 390 men and women competitors taking part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.