Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field. Of the fifteen events, the host country won five.
Highlights included:
- Two rifle shooters, Czech Kateřina Kůrková and American Matthew Emmons, who met at the 2004 Olympics, married in 2007 and returned to the 2008 Games to win a gold and two silver medals between them.
- *Kateřina Emmons equalled the world record with a perfect 400 in the women's air rifle competition.
- *Matthew lost a large lead in the very last shot of the men's three positions - just as he had in Athens four years earlier.
- Abhinav Bindra won India's first ever individual Olympic gold.
- Russian Natalia Paderina and Georgian Nino Salukvadze, whose countries were at war, won silver and bronze respectively in the 10m Air Pistol. They shared hugged and shook hands on the podium, which was seen as peaceful gesture.
- The eighth appearance at the Olympics for Latvian Afanasijs Kuzmins
- The seventh Olympic appearance for Slovenian Rajmond Debevec, making him only the fifth shooter to have ever competed in at least seven Olympic Games.
- The sixth Olympic appearance for eight shooters, raising to 22 the number of shooters who have competed in at least six Olympic Games:
- *Canadian Dr Susan Nattrass
- *Finn Juha Hirvi,
- *Italian Andrea Benelli
- *German Ralf Schumann, who won his fifth Olympic medal.
- *Bulgarian Tanyu Kiryakov
- *Monegasque Fabienne Diato-Pasetti,
- *Serbian Jasna Šekarić,
- *Georgian Nino Salukvadze. She won bronze, completing the set twenty years after she won gold and silver at the 1988 Olympics.
- The fifth Olympic appearance for 16 shooters, raising to 80 the number of shooters who have competed in at least five Olympic Games: Mönkhbayar Dorjsurengiin, Svetlana Demina, María del Pilar Fernández, Mariya Grozdeva, Michael Diamond, Franck Dumoulin, Thomas Farnik, Andrei Inešin, Harald Jensen, Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Russell Mark, Sergey Martynov, Giovanni Pellielo, Stevan Pletikošić, Iulian Raicea, Axel Wegner.
Events
15 sets of medals were awarded in the following events:| Discipline | Men | Women | |
| Rifle | 50 metre rifle prone | ✔ | |
| Rifle | 50 metre rifle three positions | ✔ | ✔ |
| Rifle | 10 metre air rifle | ✔ | ✔ |
| Pistol | 50 metre pistol | ✔ | |
| Pistol | 25 metre pistol | ✔ | |
| Pistol | 25 metre rapid fire pistol | ✔ | |
| Pistol | 10 metre air pistol | ✔ | ✔ |
| Shotgun | Skeet | ✔ | ✔ |
| Shotgun | Trap | ✔ | ✔ |
| Shotgun | Double Trap | ✔ |
A NOC may enter up to two athletes in all events except women's trap and skeet events where it can enter only one athlete. Only athletes who achieve the Minimum Qualification Score can participate at the Olympics. One athlete can achieve only one quota place for his/her NOC in any event. If a quota place is won in a qualification event by a shooter who has already won a quota place in any event, the quota place will be granted to the NOC of the next ranking shooter.
Qualification
Quota places are as follows:*Note - there will also be 10 invitation and 14 universality quota places
Event schedule
All times are China Standard TimeSaturday, August 9, 2008
| Time | Event | Round |
| 8:30-9:45 | Women's 10m Air Rifle | Qualification |
| 9:00-13:30 | Men's Trap | Qualification |
| 10:30-10:50 | Women's 10m Air Rifle | Final |
| 12:00-13:45 | Men's 10m Air Pistol | Qualification |
| 15:00-15:20 | Men's 10m Air Pistol | Final |
Sunday, August 10, 2008
| Time | Event | Round |
| 9:00-11:15 | Women's 10m Air Pistol | Qualification |
| 9:00-12:00 | Men's Trap | Qualification |
| 12:00-12:20 | Women's 10m Air Pistol | Final |
| 15:00-15:45 | Men's Trap | Final |
Monday, August 11, 2008
| Time | Event | Round |
| 8:00-10:45 | Men's 10m Air Rifle | Qualification |
| 9:00-13:30 | Women's Trap | Qualification |
| 12:00-12:20 | Men's 10m Air Rifle | Final |
| 15:00-15:45 | Women's Trap | Final |
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
| Time | Event | Round |
| 9:00-11:00 | Men's 50m Pistol | Qualification |
| 9:00-13:00 | Men's Double Trap | Qualification |
| 12:00-12:20 | Men's 50m Pistol | Final |
| 15:00-15:45 | Men's Double Trap | Final |
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
| Time | Event | Round |
| 9:00-14:00 | Women's 25m Pistol | Qualification |
| 15:00-15:20 | Women's 25m Pistol | Final |
Thursday, August 14, 2008
| Time | Event | Round |
| 9:00-11:15 | Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions | Qualification |
| 9:00-13:00 | Women's Skeet | Qualification |
| 12:30-12:50 | Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions | Final |
| 15:00-15:45 | Women's Skeet | Final |
Friday, August 15, 2008
| Time | Event | Round |
| 9:00-10:15 | Men's 50m Rifle Prone | Qualification |
| 9:00-13:30 | Men's Skeet | Qualification |
| 11:30-11:50 | Men's 50m Rifle Prone | Final |
| 13:00-15:00 | Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol | Qualification |
Saturday, August 16, 2008
| Time | Event | Round |
| 9:00-11:00 | Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol | Qualification |
| 9:00-12:00 | Men's Skeet | Qualification |
| 12:00-12:40 | Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol | Final |
| 15:00-15:45 | Men's Skeet | Final |
Sunday, August 17, 2008
| Time | Event | Round |
| 9:00-12:20 | Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions | Qualification |
| 13:30-13:50 | Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions | Final |