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

Event:	Women's 10 metre air rifle
Games:	2008 Summer
Date:	August 9, 2008
Competitors:	47
Nations:	31
Goldnoc:	CZE
Silvernoc:	RUS
Bronzenoc:	CRO
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	503.5 (OR)
Next:	2012

The Women's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 9 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. It was the first medal awarded at the 2008 Olympic Games. Kateřina Emmons, who won a bronze medal in Athens four years earlier (then known by her maiden name Kůrková), now went all the way to a gold medal, after becoming the first shooter ever to achieve maximum qualification score (400) in an Olympic air rifle competition.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 40 shots with an air rifle at 10 metres distance from the standing position. 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. 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.

Records

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

During the competition, Kateřina Emmons equalled the world record for the qualification round, setting a new Olympic record of maximum 400 points, and then raised the Olympic final record by 1.5 points to 503.5. Silver medalist Lioubov Galkina also surpassed the old Olympic final record.

Qualification round

The qualification round was held between 08:30 and 09:45 China Standard Time (UTC+8), with all shooters fitting into a single relay. It was the first competition event after the opening ceremony (although some football matches had been played before it).

Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	Total	Notes
1	Kateřina Emmons	100	100	100	100	400	Q EWR OR
2	Lioubov Galkina	99	100	100	100	399	Q
3	Snježana Pejčić	99	100	100	100	399	Q
4	Du Li	100	100	100	99	399	Q
5	Jamie Beyerle	98	99	100	100	397	Q
6	Olga Dovgun	98	99	100	100	397	Q
7	Sylwia Bogacka	98	99	100	100	397	Q
8	Marie Laure Gigon	99	99	98	100	396	Q
9	Daniela Pešková	100	98	98	100	396
10	Kim Chan-mi	98	99	100	99	396
11		100	98	100	98	396
12		100	100	98	98	396
13	Kim Yeo-oul	98	100	98	99	395
14	Kristina Vestveit	99	99	98	99	395
15	Emily Caruso	98	100	100	97	395
16	Irene Beyeler	99	100	99	97	395
17	Barbara Lechner	98	97	100	99	394
18	Olga Desyatskaya	97	99	99	99	394
19	Laurence Brize	99	98	98	99	394
20	Lidija Mihajlović	99	97	100	99	394
21	Hanna Etula	98	99	99	98	394
22	Zorigtyn Batkhuyag	98	99	100	97	394
23	Shimaa Hashad	96	98	99	100	393
24	Yosheefin Prasasti	97	98	98	100	393
25	Agnieszka Staroń	99	96	99	99	393
26	Desislava Balabanova	99	97	98	99	393
27	Natallia Kalnysh	97	100	98	98	393
28	Valentina Turisini	99	99	97	98	393
29	Anjali Bhagwat	99	99	97	98	393
30	Suzana Cimbal Špirelja	99	99	99	96	393
31	Pavla Kalná	97	97	98	100	392
32	Elena Kuznetsova	98	99	99	97	392
33	Annik Marguet	97	96	98	100	391
34	Gyda Olssen	97	98	97	99	391
35	Anita Toth	96	99	97	98	390
36	Sasithorn Hongprasert	99	97	97	97	390
37	Zhao Yinghui	96	98	97	98	389
38	Marjo Yli-Kiikka	98	98	96	97	389
39	Avneet Sidhu	98	100	96	95	389
40	Thanyalak Chotphibunsin	98	97	97	96	388
41	Fabienne Pasetti	94	98	98	97	387
42	Susan McCready	97	94	96	99	386
43	Diliana Méndez	94	97	98	97	386
44	Robyn van Nus	94	96	97	97	384
45	Dariya Sharipova	97	96	97	94	384
46	Phool Maya Kyapchhaki	93	96	97	94	380
47	Yekaterina Arabova	93	94	94	95	376

EWR Equalled world record – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

The final was held at 10:30 China Standard Time (UTC+8), and about 20 minutes later the first medalists of the Games were known.

Rank	Qual	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final	Total	Notes
	400	10.6	10.7	9.7	10.9	10.2	10.4	10.6	10.3	10.2	9.9	103.5	503.5	OR
		10.7	10.3	9.5	10.2	10.1	10.7	10.3	10.6	10.7	10.0	103.1	502.1
		10.6	10.5	10.6	10.0	10.5	9.8	10.3	9.7	9.8	10.1	101.9	500.9
4		10.6	9.6	10.3	10.4	10.0	10.7	9.9	10.4	10.8	10.1	102.8	499.8
5		9.8	10.0	10.1	10.4	10.1	10.0	9.7	10.0	10.4	10.1	100.6	499.6
6		10.2	10.1	9.8	10.6	10.0	9.7	10.5	10.6	9.9	9.8	101.1	498.1
7	396	10.3	9.6	10.4	10.7	10.7	9.9	10.5	10.2	9.8	9.2	101.3	497.3
8		10.1	9.8	9.7	9.6	9.9	10.3	9.8	9.9	10.3	9.2	98.7	495.7

OR Olympic record

External links

Official results