The Men's skeet event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 15 and 16 at the Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 5 sets of 25 shots in the set order of skeet shooting.

The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25. The total score from all 150 shots determined the rankings, with shoot-offs used to break ties.

Vincent Hancock from the United States took a one-hit lead in the qualification round. In the final round, Norway's Tore Brovold, who was one of Hancock's main rivals, erased the deficit with a perfect score of 25 in the final, thus tying Hancock at the Olympic record score of 145 hits. Hancock came back to win the shoot-off for the gold medal. One hit behind the duo, Anthony Terras of France won the bronze medal shoot-off against Antonis Nikolaidis, denying Cyprus its first-ever Olympic medal.

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

Qualification round RankAthleteCountry1 23Day 145TotalShoot-offNotes1 Vincent Hancock 252424732424121Q OR2 Tore Brovold 252323712524120Q3 Anthony Terras 242424722523120Q4 Antonis Nikolaidis 242424722523120Q5 Georgios Achilleos 232423702524119Q6 Qu Ridong 2423237023254Q7 Jin Di 24222470242438 Juan Jose Aramburu 22252370242439 Abdullah Al-Rashidi 252324722224310 Zaid Al-Mutairi 232522702424111 Randal McLelland 242323702523112 Harald Jensen 242523722422113 Tino Wenzel 23222368252411714 Ennio Falco 23232470242311715 Nasser Al-Attiyah 24232370252211716 Jan Sychra 25242170252211717 George Barton 23242471212411618 Andrei Inešin 22242066242511519 Valeriy Shomin 22232368222511520 Axel Wegner 22222569232311521 Mario Nunez 23242471222211522 Saeed Al Maktoum 23242471212211423 Konstantin Tsuranov 21222366242311324 Andrea Benelli 22242268232211325 Anders Golding 20242468232111226 Juan Carlos Romero 24212368212211127 Ariel Mauricio Flores 23222368222111128 Jorge Atalah 22222468232011129 Ziad Richa 24222369231911130 Paul Rahman 22231964252111031 Julio Elizardo Dujarric Lembcke 23242168212111032 Mikola Milchev 20232164222310933 Georgios Salavantakis 21202364232210934 Andrei Gerachtchenko 21222568231810935 Ioan Toman 21192363222310836 Franco Donato 19212262212310637 Rashid Saleh Al-Athba 22221862222210638 Diego Duarte 21232165221910639 Saied Al-Mutairi 21202263221910440 Marco Matellini 1719155122229541 Roger Dahi 19211959112191

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final RankAthleteQualFinalTotalBronzeshoot-offGoldshoot-offNotes 121 24 4 OR 25 3 OR 24 3 4 120 24 2 5 119 24 143 6 118 24 142

OR Olympic record