Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol explained

Event:	Women's 25 metre pistol
Games:	2012 Summer
Date:	29 July 2012
Competitors:	39
Nations:	28
Goldnoc:	KOR
Silvernoc:	CHN
Bronzenoc:	UKR
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	792.4
Next:	2016

The Women's 25 metre pistol event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 1 August 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks.

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.The event was won by Kim Jang-Mi.^[1]

Records

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

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	PR	4	5	6	RF	Total	Notes
1	Kim Jang-Mi		98	100	100	298	98	97	98	293	591	Q, OR
2	Tanyaporn Prucksakorn		100	97	98	295	98	97	96	291	586	Q
3	Chen Ying		97	95	96	288	98	99	100	297	585	Q
4	Kira Mozgalova		93	99	97	289	99	99	98	296	585	Q
5	Olena Kostevych		98	96	99	293	100	95	97	292	585	Q
6	Zsófia Csonka		98	96	97	291	99	98	96	293	584	Q
7	Jo Yong-Suk		94	97	97	288	98	98	99	295	583 (50)	Q
8	Zorana Arunović		97	99	97	293	96	95	99	290	583 (49)	Q
9	Maria Grozdeva		100	94	90	284	100	100	99	299	583 (48)
10	Antoaneta Boneva		97	96	96	289	97	99	99	293	582
11	Kim Kyeong-Ae		95	95	96	286	99	100	97	296	582
12	Munkhbayar Dorjsuren		97	99	98	294	96	98	94	288	582
13	Lenka Marušková		97	98	97	292	97	96	97	290	582
14	Stéphanie Tirode		99	97	96	292	96	97	97	290	582
15	Nino Salukvadze		97	98	94	289	96	96	100	289	581
16	Tien Chia-chen		95	96	98	289	98	97	96	291	580
17	Lalita Yauhleuskaya		96	95	97	288	98	99	95	292	580
18	Jasna Šekarić		95	93	96	284	99	99	97	295	579
19	Rahi Sarnobot		97	98	96	291	96	96	96	288	579
20	Yuan Jing		95	96	97	288	96	99	96	291	579
21	Celine Goberville		97	98	98	293	98	93	95	286	579
22	Sonia Franquet		97	98	98	293	92	98	96	286	579
23	Irada Ashumova		97	96	94	287	100	95	96	291	578
24	Anna Mastyanina		92	98	96	286	96	98	98	292	578
25	Viktoria Chaika		97	96	96	289	98	94	97	289	578
26			96	96	97	289	97	97	95	289	578
27	Gundegmaa Otryad		93	95	96	284	99	99	95	293	577
28	Sandra Uptagrafft		95	94	97	286	98	98	94	290	576
29	Heidi Diethelm Gerber		95	98	96	289	97	97	95	286	575
30	Annu Raj Singh		96	94	96	286	96	96	97	289	575
31	Yukari Konishi		95	96	91	282	100	96	96	292	574
32	Le Thi Hoang Ngoc		95	96	98	289	92	93	100	285	574
33	Joana Castelão		97	92	94	283	93	97	98	288	571
34	Hayley Chapman		93	92	93	278	97	96	97	290	568
35	Beata Bartków-Kwiatkowska		95	96	96	287	91	95	94	280	567
36	Naphaswan Yangpaiboon		93	95	95	283	97	93	93	283	566
37	Georgina Geikie		94	95	95	284	94	94	90	278	562
38	Maribel Pineda		96	99	93	288	90	90	92	272	560
39	Ana Luiza Souza Lima		94	92	94	280	94	89	97	280	560

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	3	4	Final	Total	Notes
		591	51.2	49.1	49.3	51.8	201.4	792.4
		585	52.0	51.6	52.8	50.0	206.4	791.4
		585	51.2	51.3	48.9	52.2	203.6	788.6
4		583	50.9	51.8	51.6	50.0	204.3	787.3
5		585	49.2	49.7	51.7	51.3	201.9	786.9
6		584	51.3	50.6	48.4	49.7	200.0	784.0
7		583	48.1	50.3	50.0	50.9	199.3	782.3
8		586	50.1	46.8	49.2	46.3	192.4	778.4

Notes and References

1. Web site: South Korea's Kim Jangmi wins women's 25m pistol. 1 August 2012. BBC Sport. 4 July 2013 .