Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol explained

Event:	Women's 25 metre pistol
Games:	2008 Summer
Date:	August 13, 2008
Competitors:	41
Nations:	28
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silvernoc:	MGL
Bronzenoc:	GER
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	793.4 (OR)
Next:	2012

The Women's 25 metre pistol event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 13 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. It was won by the reigning World champion, Chen Ying of the host nation, while Otryadyn Gündegmaa won Mongolia's second Olympic medal in shooting ahead of Munkhbayar Dorjsuren who won its first, 16 years earlier, but now competes for Germany.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a pistol at 25 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. The first 30 shots were in the precision stage, with series of 5 shots being shot within 5 minutes. The second set of 30 shots gave shooters 3 seconds to take each shot.

The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 20 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. They were fired in four sets of 5 rapid fire shots. The total score from all 80 shots was used to determine final ranking.

Records

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

Qualification round

The precision stage was fired at 09:00 China Standard Time (UTC+8), with all participants fitting into a single relay. In this stage, the time limit for each five-shot string is five minutes. Sonia Franquet of Spain took a two-point lead.

The rapid fire stage was fired at 12:00, with all participants fitting into a single relay. In this stage, the shooter must fire one shot each within three-second time frames, and the arm must be held at a 45-degree angle until the lights turn green, signalling the beginning of these time frames. To compensate for the shorter time, the score zones are larger than in the precision round. Mongolia's Otryadyn Gündegmaa shot 29 tens and only 1 nine, taking the overall lead and equalling the Olympic record for the qualification round that Tao Luna had set in Sydney (as opposed to Gündegmaa's 291+299, Tao had shot her record 299+291).

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	PR	4	5	6	RF	Total	Notes
1	Otryadyn Gündegmaa		97	96	98	291	100	100	99	299	590	Q EOR
2	Munkhbayar Dorjsuren		97	97	98	292	98	98	99	295	587	Q
3	Chen Ying		96	95	100	291	98	98	98	294	585	Q
4	Jo Yong-suk		98	94	97	289	98	99	98	295	584	Q
5	Mariya Grozdeva		97	95	95	287	100	97	99	296	583	Q
6	Luisa Maida		99	96	97	292	96	97	97	290	582	Q
7	Fei Fengji		95	99	98	292	97	96	97	290	582	Q
8	Tanyaporn Prucksakorn		98	96	97	291	97	99	95	291	582	Q
9	Sonia Franquet		97	98	99	294	97	96	95	288	582
10	Michiko Fukushima		95	96	97	288	97	97	99	293	581
11	Ahn Soo-kyeong		97	95	96	288	97	98	98	293	581
12	Tsogbadrakhyn Mönkhzul		95	98	97	290	97	96	98	291	581
13	Viktoria Chaika		97	99	96	292	96	95	98	289	581
14	Lalita Yauhleuskaya		97	96	97	290	98	98	95	291	581
15	Brigitte Roy		96	97	96	289	95	97	99	291	580
16	Nino Salukvadze		96	98	98	292	95	95	98	288	580
17	Lee Ho-lim		98	95	96	289	98	97	96	291	580
18	Yuliya Alipava		97	96	94	287	98	95	99	292	579
19	Natalia Paderina		96	97	99	292	97	94	96	287	579
20	Lenka Marušková		97	97	92	286	94	99	99	292	578
21	Jasna Šekarić		96	95	94	285	99	98	96	293	578
22	Stéphanie Tirode		98	96	97	291	94	95	97	286	577
23	Stefanie Thurmann		95	97	99	291	94	93	98	285	576
24	Maura Genovesi		97	96	93	286	96	97	97	290	576
25	Elizabeth Callahan		97	97	93	287	94	96	98	288	575
26	Olena Kostevych		95	100	93	288	94	95	98	287	575
27	Sławomira Szpek		96	93	94	283	98	98	96	292	575
28	Rebecca Snyder		96	96	95	287	98	94	96	288	575
29	Sandra Kolly		98	94	97	289	94	96	95	285	574
30	Mirosława Sagun Lewandowska		96	95	97	288	95	99	92	286	574
31	Zauresh Baibussinova		92	95	94	281	97	97	96	290	571
32	Zsófia Csonka		95	95	97	287	95	93	96	284	571
33	Dina Aspandiyarova		95	99	96	290	93	94	94	281	571
34	Michaela Musilová		96	97	95	288	97	94	92	283	571
35	Lindita Kodra		92	94	97	283	98	97	92	287	570
36	Maria Pilar Fernandez		97	96	98	291	83	95	100	278	569
37	Irena Tanova		97	93	90	280	94	97	98	289	569
38	Zhanna Shapialevich		94	96	97	287	92	95	95	282	569
39	Huang Yi-ling		91	95	95	281	94	97	91	282	563
40	Carmen Malo		94	93	94	281	90	92	96	278	559
41	Avianna Chao		94	95	88	277	96	92	83	281	558

EOR Equalled Olympic record – PR Precision stage – Q Qualified for final – RF Rapid fire stage

Final

The final round consisted of four additional five-shot rapid fire strings. As the final rules had changed since 2004, the winner was guaranteed to establish a new Olympic record.

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	3	4	Final	Total	Notes
		585	52.5	53.1	52.5	50.3	208.4	793.4	OR
		590	51.1	51.1	49.0	51.0	202.2	792.2
		587	48.7	50.0	52.6	50.9	202.2	789.2
4			52.4	51.3	50.8	51.4	205.9	787.9
5		583	49.2	49.9	52.5	52.0	203.6	786.6
6		584	49.9	50.3	49.5	49.7	199.4	783.4
7			49.5	47.6	49.6	49.0	195.7	777.7
8			47.8	46.0	51.7	46.5	192.0	774.0

OR Olympic record