Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air rifle explained

Event:	Women's 10 metre air rifle
Games:	1992 Summer
Competitors:	45
Nations:	28
Goldnoc:	KOR
Silvernoc:	BUL
Bronzenoc:	IOP
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	498.2 (OR)
Next:	1996

Women's 10 metre air rifle was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. It was the first Olympic competition after the introduction of the new target in 1989, and thus two Olympic records were set. Vesela Letcheva and Yeo Kab-soon shared the pre-final lead with 396 points, and Yeo outperformed Letcheva by almost three points in the final.^[1]

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Vesela Letcheva		396	Q OR
2	Yeo Kab-soon		396	Q OR
3	Valentina Cherkasova		394	Q
4	Dagmar Bilková		393	Q
5	Aranka Binder		393	Q
6	Mirjana Horvat		393	Q
7	Eva Forian		392	Q (4th: 99)
8	Lee Eun-ju		392	Q (4th: 98; 3rd: 99)
9	Silvia Sperber		392	(4th: 98; 3rd: 98)
10	Anitsa Valkova		392	(4th: 97)
11	Anna Maloukhina		391
11	Launi Meili		391
11	Debra Sinclair		391
11	Xu Yanhua		391
15	Jasminka Francki		390
15	Éva Joó		390
17	Christine Bontemps		389
17	Sabina Fuchs		389
17	Lenka Koloušková		389
17	Renata Mauer		389
17	Lidija Mihajlović		389
17	Jolande Swinkels		389
23	Malgorzata Książkiewicz		388
23	Suzana Skoko		388
23	Hanne Vataker		388
26	Sharon Bowes		387
26	Gaby Bühlmann		387
26	Nieves Fernandez Mata		387
26	Carla Cristina Ribeiro		387
30	Sonja Pfeilschifter		386
31	Christina Ashcroft		385
31	Karin Biva		385
31	Zhang Qiuping		385
34	Annette Sattel		384
35	Soma Dutta		383
35	Aikaterini Kotroni		383
37	Noriko Kosai		382
37	Pushpamali Ramanayake		382
39	Cristina Fernández		381
39	Yoko Minamoto		381
39	Fabienne Pasetti		381
42	Pirjo Peltola		380
43	Shahana Parveen		379
44	Lindy Hansen		377
45	Anita Shrestha		374

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
		396	102.2	498.2	OR
		396	99.3	495.3
		393	102.1	495.1
4		393	101.9	494.9
5		394	100.6	494.6
6		392	100.6	492.6
7		392	100.4	492.4
8		393	98.6	491.6

OR Olympic record

Sources

• Book: Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992: The results . PDF . 10 September 2008.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Shooting at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Women's Air Rifle, 10 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418124616/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1992/SHO/womens-air-rifle-10-metres.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 27 February 2020.