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


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, now went all the way to a gold medal, after becoming the first shooter ever to achieve maximum qualification score 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, with all shooters fitting into a single relay. It was the first competition event after the opening ceremony.
RankAthleteCountry1234TotalNotes
1Kateřina Emmons100100100100400Q EWR OR
2Lioubov Galkina99100100100399Q
3Snježana Pejčić99100100100399Q
4Du Li10010010099399Q
5Jamie Beyerle9899100100397Q
6Olga Dovgun9899100100397Q
7Sylwia Bogacka9899100100397Q
8Marie Laure Gigon999998100396Q
9Daniela Pešková1009898100396
10Kim Chan-mi989910099396
11Eglis Yaima Cruz1009810098396
12Sonja Pfeilschifter1001009898396
13Kim Yeo-oul981009899395
14Kristina Vestveit99999899395
15Emily Caruso9810010097395
16Irene Beyeler991009997395
17Barbara Lechner989710099394
18Olga Desyatskaya97999999394
19Laurence Brize99989899394
20Lidija Mihajlović999710099394
21Hanna Etula98999998394
22Zorigtyn Batkhuyag989910097394
23Shimaa Hashad969899100393
24Yosheefin Prasasti979898100393
25Agnieszka Staroń99969999393
26Desislava Balabanova99979899393
27Natallia Kalnysh971009898393
28Valentina Turisini99999798393
29Anjali Bhagwat99999798393
30Suzana Cimbal Špirelja99999996393
31Pavla Kalná979798100392
32Elena Kuznetsova98999997392
33Annik Marguet979698100391
34Gyda Olssen97989799391
35Anita Toth96999798390
36Sasithorn Hongprasert99979797390
37Zhao Yinghui96989798389
38Marjo Yli-Kiikka98989697389
39Avneet Sidhu981009695389
40Thanyalak Chotphibunsin98979796388
41Fabienne Pasetti94989897387
42Susan McCready97949699386
43Diliana Mendez94979897386
44Robyn van Nus94969797384
45Dariya Sharipova97969794384
46Phool Maya Kyapchhaki93969794380
47Yekaterina Arabova93949495376

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

Final

The final was held at 10:30 China Standard Time, and about 20 minutes later the first medalists of the Games were known.
RankAthleteQual12345678910FinalTotalNotes
40010.610.79.710.910.210.410.610.310.29.9103.5503.5OR
10.710.39.510.210.110.710.310.610.710.0103.1502.1
10.610.510.610.010.59.810.39.79.810.1101.9500.9
410.69.610.310.410.010.79.910.410.810.1102.8499.8
59.810.010.110.410.110.09.710.010.410.1100.6499.6
610.210.19.810.610.09.710.510.69.99.8101.1498.1
739610.39.610.410.710.79.910.510.29.89.2101.3497.3
810.19.89.79.69.910.39.89.910.39.298.7495.7

OR Olympic record