| Event: | Women's skeet |
| Games: | 2016 Summer |
| Venue: | National Shooting Center |
| Date: | 12 August 2016 |
| Competitors: | 21 |
| Nations: | 17 |
| Win Label: | Winning score |
| Win Value: | 15/16 (in the gold medal match) |
| Gold: | Diana Bacosi |
| Goldnoc: | ITA |
| Silver: | Chiara Cainero |
| Silvernoc: | ITA |
| Bronze: | Kim Rhode |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Prev: | 2012 |
| Next: | 2020 |
The Women's skeet event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 12 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center.[1]
The event consisted of three rounds: a qualifier, semifinal and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 3 sets of 25 shots in the set order of skeet shooting.
The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the semifinal round. There, they fired one additional round of 16. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| Rank | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | Tie break | Total | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wei Meng | 23 | 25 | 25 | 73 | Q, | |||
| 2 | Kim Rhode | 23 | 25 | 24 | 72 | Q | |||
| 3 | Diana Bacosi | 25 | 23 | 24 | 72 | Q | |||
| 4 | Chiara Cainero | 24 | 22 | 24 | 70 | Q | |||
| 5 | Amber Hill | 23 | 24 | 23 | 70 | Q | |||
| 6 | Morgan Craft | 24 | 24 | 21 | +2 | 69 | Q | ||
| 7 | Albina Shakirova | 21 | 23 | 25 | +1 | 69 | |||
| 8 | Melisa Gil | 23 | 21 | 25 | +1 | 69 | |||
| 9 | Wei Ning | 24 | 20 | 24 | 68 | ||||
| 10 | Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit | 23 | 22 | 23 | 68 | ||||
| 11 | Christine Wenzel | 22 | 24 | 22 | 68 | ||||
| 12 | Aleksandra Jarmolińska | 23 | 23 | 22 | 68 | ||||
| 13 | Chloe Tipple | 21 | 23 | 23 | 67 | ||||
| 14 | Elena Allen | 23 | 18 | 23 | 64 | ||||
| 15 | Andri Eleftheriou | 21 | 21 | 22 | 64 | ||||
| 16 | Danka Barteková | 22 | 20 | 22 | 64 | ||||
| 17 | Aislin Jones | 21 | 20 | 22 | 63 | ||||
| 18 | Naoko Ishihara | 18 | 20 | 24 | 62 | ||||
| 19 | Francisca Crovetto | 21 | 22 | 19 | 62 | ||||
| 20 | Libuše Jahodová | 18 | 19 | 21 | 58 | ||||
| 21 | Daniela Carraro | 19 | 19 | 20 | 58 |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Total | Tie break | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chiara Cainero | 16 | Gold Medal Match | |||
| 2 | Diana Bacosi | 15 | Gold Medal Match | |||
| 3 | Wei Meng | 14 | +4 | Bronze Medal Match | ||
| 4 | Kim Rhode | 14 | +4 | Bronze Medal Match | ||
| 5 | Morgan Craft | 14 | +3 | |||
| 6 | Amber Hill | 13 |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Total | Tie break | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diana Bacosi | 15 | |||||
| Chiara Cainero | 14 | |||||
| Kim Rhode | 15 | +7 | ||||
| 4 | Wei Meng | 15 | +6 |