Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol explained

Event:	Women's 25 metre pistol
Games:	2000 Summer
Date:	22 September 2000
Competitors:	42
Nations:	28
Goldnoc:	BUL
Silvernoc:	CHN
Bronzenoc:	BLR
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	690.3 (OR)
Next:	2004

Both stages of the women's 25 metre pistol competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics were held on 22 September, and the final was fired at 14:00 Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10). After having lost only one point in the precision stage, Tao Luna set a new Olympic record of 590 points in the qualification round, but lost the final to Mariya Grozdeva, who won on a new Olympic final record of 690.3.^[1]

Records

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

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Prec	Rapid	Total	Notes
1	Tao Luna		299	291	590	Q OR
2	Mariya Grozdeva		293	296	589	Q
3	Michiko Fukushima		290	295	585	Q
4	Yulia Sinyak		292	292	584	Q
5	Lalita Yauhleuskaya		291	292	583	Q
6	Cai Yeqing		292	290	582	Q
7	Yoko Inada		294	287	581	Q
8	Otryadyn Gündegmaa		288	293	581	Q
9	Marina Logvinenko		287	293	580
9	Rebecca Snyder		293	287	580
11	Yuliya Bondareva		286	293	579
11	Djana Mata		289	290	579
11	Linda Ryan		290	289	579
11	Nino Salukvadze		290	289	579
15	Olga Kuznetsova		291	287	578
15	Christine Trefry		288	290	578
17	Jasna Šekarić		286	291	577
18	Carmen Meininger		284	292	576
18	Song Ji-yeong		294	282	576
20	Cao Ying		280	295	575
20	Maria Pilar Fernandez		291	284	575
20	Agathi Kassoumi		285	290	575
20	Margarita Tarradell		283	292	575
24	Janine Bowman		291	283	574
25	Boo Soon-hee		286	287	573
25	Ayşe Kil		283	290	573
25	Dorjsürengiin Mönkhbayar		279	294	573
28	Dina Aspandiyarova		289	283	572
28	Karen Hansen		291	281	572
28	Diana Iorgova		282	290	572
31	Irada Ashumova		285	284	569
32	Adriana Rendón		282	286	568
33	Monica Rundqvist		291	276	567
33	Nino Uchadze		282	285	567
35	Kim Eagles		280	286	566
36	Irina Maharani		280	284	564
37	Tania Corrigan		280	283	563
37	María Gabriela Franco		278	285	563
39	Susanne Meyerhoff		289	273	562
39	Anke Schumann		285	277	562
41	Luisa Maida		278	279	557
42	Ruwani Abeymanne		284	269	553

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

The final consisted of ten precision shots, with a time limit of 75 seconds per shot.

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
		589	101.3	690.3	OR
		590	99.8	689.8
		583	103.0	686.0
4		584	101.9	685.9
5		585	99.8	684.8
6		581	99.9	680.9
7			98.6	679.6
8		582	96.8	678.8

OR Olympic record

Sources

• Book: Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad — Shooting . PDF . 6 September 2008.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Shooting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Women's Sporting Pistol, 25 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418030645/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/SHO/womens-sporting-pistol-25-metres.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 3 March 2020.