Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre rifle three positions explained

Event:	Women's 50 metre rifle three positions
Games:	2004 Summer
Venue:	Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre
Date:	August 20, 2004
Competitors:	32
Nations:	22
Gold:	Lioubov Galkina
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Valentina Turisini
Silvernoc:	ITA
Bronze:	Wang Chengyi
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	689.4
Prev:	2000
Next:	2008

The women's 50 metre rifle three positions competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 20 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a .22 Long Rifle at 50 metres distance. 20 shots were fired each from the standing, kneeling, and prone positions. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10.

The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots, all from the standing position. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 70 shots was used to determine final ranking.

Russia's Lioubov Galkina fired an outstanding 101.4 for the gold in the rifle three positions finale, demolishing a new Olympic record score of 689.4.^[1] Italy's Valentina Turisini took the silver with a score of 685.9, while China's Wang Chengyi rounded out the podium with a bronze at 685.4. Kazakhstan's Olga Dovgun, who had led the field with a qualifying score of 588 earlier in the prelims, one point adrift of Galkina, slipped out of the medals with the most disastrous round of any of the eight finalists, getting just 96.9 points for a total of 684.9 to end up fourth.^[2]

Records

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

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	PR	3	4	ST	5	6	KN	Total	Notes
1	Olga Dovgun		100	100	200	97	96	193	96	99	195	588	Q
2	Lioubov Galkina		99	100	199	94	97	191	98	99	197	587	Q
3	Valentina Turisini		98	99	197	96	97	193	100	95	195	585	Q
4	Wang Chengyi		99	97	196	97	98	195	96	97	193	584	Q
5	Lee Hye-jin		99	97	196	98	99	197	96	95	191	584	Q
6	Sonja Pfeilschifter		99	99	198	98	94	192	95	97	192	582	Q
7	Barbara Lechner		99	98	197	93	96	189	99	95	194	580	Q
8	Natallia Kalnysh		96	98	194	95	92	187	99	99	198	579	Q
9	Laurence Brize		97	99	196	97	98	195	96	91	187	578
9	Tatiana Goldobina		99	100	199	95	94	189	94	96	190	578
9	Wu Liuxi		97	98	195	95	96	191	96	96	192	578
12	Morgan Hicks		98	99	197	94	95	189	96	95	191	577
13	Anjali Bhagwat		97	96	193	97	96	193	92	97	189	575
13	Gaby Bühlmann		98	96	194	95	94	189	98	94	192	575
13	Lessia Leskiv		97	95	192	94	96	190	98	95	193	575
16	Valérie Bellenoue		98	100	198	92	96	188	96	92	188	574
17	Sylwia Bogacka		97	96	193	95	95	190	98	92	190	573
17	Renata Mauer-Różańska		98	98	196	92	95	187	96	94	190	573
19	Deepali Deshpande		97	97	194	94	95	189	94	95	189	572
20	Sarah Blakeslee		98	99	197	93	92	185	94	95	189	571
20	Eglis Yaima Cruz		96	98	194	90	95	185	95	97	192	571
20	Marjo Yli-Kiikka		98	98	196	93	98	191	91	93	184	571
23	Éva Joó		96	99	195	93	94	187	96	92	188	570
24	Hiromi Misaki		97	98	195	95	90	185	99	90	189	569
25	Susan McCready		95	99	194	95	92	187	93	93	186	567
25	Pushpamali Ramanayake		98	97	195	91	90	181	97	94	191	567
27	Kateřina Kůrková		99	100	199	91	90	181	95	90	185	565
28	Svitlana Kashchenko		95	94	189	89	94	183	95	96	191	563
29	Alyona Aksyonova		96	97	193	87	92	179	96	94	190	562
30	Kim Jung-mi		96	95	191	88	91	179	95	96	191	561
31	Beáta Krzyzewsky		97	98	195	88	90	178	93	94	187	560
32	Kim Frazer		97	95	192	88	91	179	91	93	184	555
32	Divna Pešić		94	94	188	95	87	182	95	90	185	555

KN — Kneeling position; PR — Prone position; ST — Standing position

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final	Total	Notes
		587	10.4	10.9	8.2	9.9	9.8	10.4	10.4	10.6	10.2	10.6	101.4	688.4
		585	9.8	8.8	9.5	10.4	10.1	10.5	10.7	10.2	10.7	10.2	100.9	685.9
			10.1	10.3	10.6	10.3	10.4	10.6	10.2	9.8	9.2	9.9	101.4	685.4
4		588	7.9	10.5	9.8	9.6	10.6	10.2	8.7	9.4	10.1	10.1	96.9	684.9
5		584	9.6	9.7	8.0	10.2	10.7	10.3	9.4	9.4	9.3	10.4	97.0	681.0
6		582	10.6	9.2	9.6	9.1	9.8	8.4	10.2	10.8	10.3	9.6	97.6	679.6
7		580	8.9	9.4	10.4	10.6	9.8	9.0	10.4	10.5	9.1	9.5	97.6	677.6
8		579	10.4	8.8	9.5	10.3	9.7	9.2	10.2	10.1	10.2	9.8	98.2	677.2

External links

• Official Results

Notes and References

1. News: Galkina takes shooting gold. BBC Sport. 20 August 2004. 21 August 2015.
2. News: Emmons tames Lusch for hard-fought gold. Gulf News. 21 August 2004. 19 August 2015.