Men's
skeet
Skeet may refer to:
* Skeet shooting, a discipline of competitive clay pigeon shooting
** ISSF Olympic skeet, a variant used at the Olympic Games
People
* Skeet Childress (born 1979), American guitar player in the band Look What I Did
* Skeet Q ...
was one of the fifteen shooting events at the
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
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Ennio Falco
Ennio Falco (born 3 January 1968) is a former Italian sport shooter and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in skeet shooting in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of ...
shot a perfect 125 in the qualification round and a 24 in the final, winning ahead of
Mirosław Rzepkowski and
Andrea Benelli
Andrea Benelli (born 28 June 1960) is a retired Italian skeet shooter. He competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics, and won a gold medal in 2004 and a bronze in 1996. In 2004, he and Marko Kemppainen
Marko Kemppainen (b ...
, who won the bronze-medal shoot-off against
Ole Riber Rasmussen
Ole Riber Rasmussen (28 September 1955 – 11 February 2017) was a Danish sport shooter. He won the silver medal in Skeet shooting in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and represented his country in three other Summer Olympics in 1988 ...
.
Qualification round
OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final
Final
OR Olympic record
References
Sources
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Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Men's events at the 1996 Summer Olympics