Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air rifle explained

Event:	Women's 10 metre air rifle
Games:	1996 Summer
Date:	20 July 1996
Competitors:	49
Nations:	31
Goldnoc:	POL
Silvernoc:	GER
Bronzenoc:	YUG
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	497.6
Next:	2000

Women's 10 metre air rifle was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Renata Mauer narrowly defeated Petra Horneber to win her first Olympic gold medal, as well as the first gold medal of the Atlanta games. Aleksandra Ivošev won the bronze medal; all three medalists finished within 0.4 points of each other.^[1]

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Petra Horneber		397	Q OR
2	Renata Mauer		395	Q
3	Valérie Bellenoue		395	Q
4	Marta Nedvedova		395	Q
5	Aleksandra Ivošev		395	Q
6	Olga Pogrebniak		394	Q
7	Lessia Leskiv		394	Q
8	Éva Joó		393	Q (4th: 100; 3rd: 100)
9	Aranka Binder		393	(4th: 100; 3rd: 98)
9	Irina Shilova		393	(4th: 99)
9	Jin Sun-ryeong		393	(4th: 98)
9	Xu Yanhua		393	(4th: 98)
13	Elizabeth Bourland		392
13	Gaby Bühlmann		392
13	Amelia Fournel		392
13	Sabina Fuchs		392
13	Marina Grigoryeva		392
13	Vessela Letcheva		392
19	Kim Jung-mi		391
20	Dagmar Bilkova		390
20	Mladenka Malenica		390
20	Anna Maloukhina		390
20	Nonka Matova		390
25	Cindy Bouque		389
25	Lindy Hansen		389
25	Pushpamali Ramanayake		389
25	Suzana Skoko		389
29	Jarintorn Dangpiam		388
29	Tetyana Nesterova		388
31	Sue Banks		387
31	Anni Bisso		387
31	Eva Forian		387
31	Masami Iwaki		387
31	Iris Kremer-Roseneck		387
36	Cristina Antolín		386
36	Bettina Knells		386
36	Nancy Napolski		386
39	Yoko Minamoto		385
39	Fabienne Pasetti		385
41	Carole Couesnon		384
41	Malgorzata Książkiewicz		384
43	Rhona Barry		382
44	Hanne Vataker		381
44	Malini Wickramasinghe		381
46	Lida Fariman		379
47	Sara Antunes		377
48	Carla Ribeiro		375
49	Bibhashwori Rai		359

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total
		395	102.6	497.6
		397	100.4	497.4
		395	102.2	497.2
4		395	101.6	496.6
5		394	102.4	496.4
6		395	100.1	495.1
7		393	101.5	494.5
8		394	100.2	494.2

Sources

• Book: Olympic Report Atlanta 1996 Volume III: The Competition Results . PDF . 10 September 2008.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Shooting at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Women's Air Rifle, 10 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418124814/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1996/SHO/womens-air-rifle-10-metres.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 1 March 2020.