Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol explained

Event:	Women's 10 metre air pistol
Games:	2008 Summer
Date:	August 10, 2008
Competitors:	44
Nations:	30
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silvernoc:	RUS
Bronzenoc:	GEO
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	492.3 (OR)
Next:	2012

The Women's 10 metre air pistol event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 10 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. Natalia Paderina of Russia set a new Olympic record in the qualification round with 391 points out of 400, but entering the final Guo Wenjun was only one point behind and through the last ten shots emerged as the winner. After the competition, Paderina (silver) and Georgian veteran Nino Salukvadze (bronze) posed together; Salukvadze took the opportunity to take a stand for a peaceful solution.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 40 shots with an air pistol at 10 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10.^[1]

The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 50 shots was used to determine final ranking.^[2] ^[3]

Records

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

Both Olympic records were broken during the competition: the qualification record was raised to 391 by Natalia Paderina and the final record to 492.3 (390+102.3) by Guo Wenjun.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	Total	Notes
1	Natalia Paderina	97	98	98	98	391	Q OR
2	Guo Wenjun	96	98	99	97	390	Q
3	Tsogbadrakhyn Mönkhzul	96	95	97	99	387	Q
4	Nino Salukvadze	97	96	96	97	386	Q
5	Viktoria Chaika	97	94	96	97	384	Q
6	Jasna Šekarić	96	94	98	96	384	Q
7	Mirosława Sagun-Lewandowska	95	96	97	96	384	Q
8	Mira Nevansuu	99	95	95	95	384	Q
9	Svetlana Smirnova	96	95	94	98	383
10	Claudia Verdicchio	93	98	96	96	383
11	Mariya Grozdeva	96	93	95	98	382
12	Otryadyn Gündegmaa	97	93	95	97	382
13	Zauresh Baibussinova	94	94	98	96	382
14	Sonia Franquet	93	97	96	96	382
15	Jo Yong-Suk	98	96	93	95	382
16	Kim Yun-Mi	96	95	97	94	382
17	Cornelia Frölich	96	96	94	95	381
18	Lalita Yauhleuskaya	97	95	96	93	381
19	Ren Jie	97	96	95	93	381
20	Tanyaporn Prucksakorn	95	95	93	97	380
21	Lee Ho-lim	92	97	95	96	380
22	Huang Yi-ling	96	93	94	96	379
23	Brigitte Roy	93	94	97	95	379
24	Munkhbayar Dorjsuren	95	93	97	94	379
25	Maria Pilar Fernandez	93	97	96	93	379
26	Lenka Marušková	96	96	94	93	379
27	Sandra Kolly	94	92	97	95	378
28	Maura Genovesi	94	94	95	95	378
29	Zsófia Csonka	94	93	97	94	378
30	Sławomira Szpek	95	95	94	94	378
31	Olena Kostevych	98	93	94	93	378
32	Irena Tanova	96	93	95	93	377
33	Stéphanie Tirode	96	94	94	93	377
34	Luisa Maida	94	93	93	95	375
35	Michaela Musilová	95	94	93	93	375
36	Dina Aspandiyarova	96	96	94	89	375
37	Brenda Shinn	89	98	93	93	373
38	Michiko Fukushima	91	94	97	91	373
39	Avianna Chao	89	93	94	94	370
40	Lindita Kodra	92	93	93	92	370
41	Rebecca Snyder	93	92	94	91	370
42	Zhanna Shapialevich	91	92	95	90	368
43	Carolina Lozado	93	92	92	90	367
44	Patricia Wilka	90	91	27		208	DNF

DNF Did not finish – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Qual	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final	Total	Notes
	390	10.0	10.5	10.4	10.4	10.1	10.3	9.4	10.7	10.8	9.7	102.3	492.3	OR
	391	10.0	8.5	10.0	10.2	10.6	10.5	9.8	9.7	9.5	9.3	98.1	489.1
	386	9.8	10.3	10.0	9.5	10.2	10.7	10.4	10.6	9.1	10.8	101.4	487.4
4		9.3	9.4	10.4	10.1	10.2	10.5	9.2	10.5	9.8	8.6	98.0	482.0
5		8.1	10.3	9.2	9.9	9.8	10.4	9.9	9.4	10.7	9.6	97.3	481.3
6		10.2	9.6	9.9	9.9	9.3	9.1	9.7	10.0	9.3	9.9	96.9	480.9
7	384	8.7	9.3	9.2	10.3	9.8	10.0	9.7	9.9	9.9	9.7	96.5	480.5
8	387	9.3	10.0	8.7	8.3	9.2	9.5	8.5	10.7	9.2	9.2	92.6	479.6

OR Olympic record

Notes and References

Web site: Olympics 2008: Shooting | Sport | the Guardian.
Web site: Beijing 2008 Shooting - Olympic Results by Discipline.
Web site: 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting Results - Beijing, China - ESPN.