| Event: | Women's 10 metre air rifle |
| Games: | 2000 Summer |
| Date: | 16 September 2000 |
| Competitors: | 49 |
| Nations: | 35 |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silvernoc: | KOR |
| Bronzenoc: | CHN |
| Win Label: | Winning score |
| Win Value: | 497.7 |
| Next: | 2004 |
Following a recent tradition, the women's 10 metre air rifle competition was the first medal event concluded at the 2000 Summer Olympics. It was held on 16 September, the day after the opening ceremony, with the 40-shot qualification round between 09:00 and 10:15 Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10), and the final round of 10 additional shots at 11:00. Kang Cho-hyun equalled the Olympic record in the qualification round but lost her two-point pre-final lead to Nancy Johnson, who thus won the first Sydney gold medal for the United States.[1]
The existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Score | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kang Cho-hyun | 397 | Q EOR | ||
| 2 | Lioubov Galkina | 395 | Q | ||
| 3 | Sonja Pfeilschifter | 395 | Q | ||
| 4 | Choi Dae-young | 395 | Q | ||
| 5 | Nancy Johnson | 395 | Q | ||
| 6 | Jayme Dickman | 394 | Q | ||
| 7 | Anjali Vedpathak | 394 | Q | ||
| 8 | Gao Jing | 394 | Q | ||
| 9 | Lindy Hansen | 393 | |||
| 9 | Monika Haselsberger | 393 | |||
| 9 | Petra Horneber | 393 | |||
| 9 | Mladenka Maleniča | 393 | |||
| 9 | Olga Pogrebnyak | 393 | |||
| 9 | Zhao Yinghui | 393 | |||
| 15 | Aranka Binder | 392 | |||
| 15 | Lessia Leskiv | 392 | |||
| 15 | Renata Mauer | 392 | |||
| 15 | Sue McCready | 392 | |||
| 15 | Hiromi Misaki | 392 | |||
| 20 | Alyona Aksyonova | 391 | |||
| 20 | Batkhuyagyn Zorigt | 391 | |||
| 20 | Valérie Bellenoue | 391 | |||
| 20 | Anni Bisso | 391 | |||
| 20 | Olga Dovgun | 391 | |||
| 20 | Aleksandra Ivosev | 391 | |||
| 20 | Vessela Letcheva | 391 | |||
| 20 | Natalija Prednik | 391 | |||
| 28 | Gaby Bühlmann | 390 | |||
| 28 | Amelia Rosa Fournel | 390 | |||
| 28 | Yasmine Helmi | 390 | |||
| 28 | Natallia Kalnysh | 390 | |||
| 32 | Sharon Bowes | 389 | |||
| 32 | Tatiana Goldobina | 389 | |||
| 32 | Oksana Kovtonovich | 389 | −2p | ||
| 32 | Yuliya Shakhova | 389 | |||
| 36 | Eunice Caballero | 388 | |||
| 36 | Nonka Matova | 388 | |||
| 36 | Marina Pons | 388 | |||
| 36 | Oriana Scheuss | 388 | |||
| 36 | Lucie Valová | 388 | |||
| 41 | Lindy Imgrund | 387 | |||
| 41 | Fabienne Pasetti | 387 | |||
| 43 | Bhagawati Khatri | 386 | |||
| 44 | Rasheya Jasmin Luis | 384 | |||
| 44 | Divna Pešić | 384 | |||
| 46 | Sabrina Sultana | 383 | |||
| 47 | Malini Wickramasinghe | 382 | |||
| 48 | Cari Johnson | 381 | |||
| 49 | Marwa Sultan | 376 |
| Rank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total | Shoot-off | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 395 | 102.7 | 497.7 | ||||
| 397 | 100.5 | 497.5 | ||||
| 394 | 103.2 | 497.2 | ||||
| 4 | 101.7 | 496.7 | ||||
| 5 | 100.9 | 495.9 | ||||
| 6 | 101.4 | 495.4 | ||||
| 7 | 98.1 | 10.4 | ||||
| 8 | 99.1 | 493.1 | 9.8 |