Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Main article: 2000 Summer Olympics

The shooting competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics were carried out at the Sydney International Shooting Centre in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia during the first week of the Games, from Saturday 16 September 2000 to Saturday 23 September 2000. ^[1]

While the rifle, pistol and running target rules were largely unchanged from the Atlanta Games, two new events were added, raising the number of individual Olympic shooting events to an all-time high of seventeen.

Medal summary

Women's 10 metre air rifle: Nancy Johnson (center), Kang Cho-hyun (left), and Gao Jing (right) won the first medals of the 2000 Olympic Games.

Men's skeet: Mykola Milchev (center), Petr Málek (left) and James Graves (right) won the last Sydney shooting medals.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	3	2	3	8
2	Bulgaria	2	0	0	2
	Sweden	2	0	0	2
4	Russia	1	3	2	6
5	Australia	1	1	1	3
6	France	1	1	0	2
	Great Britain	1	1	0	2
8	United States	1	0	2	3
9	Azerbaijan	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
	Poland	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
14	Belarus	0	1	3	4
15	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
	Italy	0	1	1	2
17	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	FR Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
	Finland	0	1	0	1
	Moldova	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
23	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		17	17	17	51

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 metre rifle three positions details	Rajmond Debevec   Slovenia	Juha Hirvi   Finland	Harald Stenvaag   Norway
50 metre rifle prone details	Jonas Edman   Sweden	Torben Grimmel   Denmark	Sergei Martynov   Belarus
10 metre air rifle details	Cai Yalin   China	Artem Khadjibekov   Russia	Yevgeni Aleinikov   Russia
50 metre pistol details	Tanyu Kiryakov   Bulgaria	Igor Basinski   Belarus	Martin Tenk   Czech Republic
25 metre rapid fire pistol details	Sergei Alifirenko   Russia	Michel Ansermet   Switzerland	Iulian Raicea   Romania
10 metre air pistol details	Franck Dumoulin   France	Wang Yifu   China	Igor Basinski   Belarus
Trap details	Michael Diamond   Australia	Ian Peel   Great Britain	Giovanni Pellielo   Italy
Double trap details	Richard Faulds   Great Britain	Russell Mark   Australia	Fehaid Al Deehani   Kuwait
Skeet details	Mykola Milchev   Ukraine	Petr Málek   Czech Republic	James Graves   United States
10 metre running target details	Yang Ling   China	Oleg Moldovan   Moldova	Niu Zhiyuan   China

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 metre rifle three positions details	Renata Mauer   Poland	Tatiana Goldobina   Russia	Maria Feklistova   Russia
10 metre air rifle details	Nancy Johnson   United States	Kang Cho-hyun   South Korea	Gao Jing   China
25 metre pistol details	Mariya Grozdeva   Bulgaria	Tao Luna   China	Lalita Yauhleuskaya   Belarus
10 metre air pistol details	Tao Luna   China	Jasna Šekarić   FR Yugoslavia	Annemarie Forder   Australia
Trap details	Daina Gudzinevičiūtė   Lithuania	Delphine Racinet   France	Gao E   China
Double trap details	Pia Hansen   Sweden	Deborah Gelisio   Italy	Kim Rhode   United States
Skeet details	Zemfira Meftahatdinova   Azerbaijan	Svetlana Demina   Russia	Diána Igaly   Hungary

Participating nations

A total of 408 shooters, 262 men and 146 women, from 103 nations competed at the Sydney Games: ^[1]

Albania  (1)   Andorra  (1)   Angola  (1)   Argentina  (4)   Armenia  (1)   Australia  (23)   Austria  (4)   Azerbaijan  (2)   Bangladesh  (1)   Barbados  (1)   Belarus  (12)   Belgium  (1)   Bosnia and Herzegovina  (2)   Brunei  (1)   Bulgaria  (6)   Canada  (9)   Chile  (2)   China  (21)   Chinese Taipei  (1)   Colombia  (3)   Croatia  (2)

Cuba  (6)   Cyprus  (3)   Czech Republic  (9)   Denmark  (4)   Ecuador  (1)   Egypt  (8)   El Salvador  (1)   Estonia  (1)   Finland  (7)   France  (12)   Georgia  (2)   Germany  (20)   Great Britain  (6)   Greece  (2)   Guatemala  (3)   Hong Kong  (1)   Hungary  (7)   Iceland  (1)   India  (3)   Iran  (1)

Ireland  (3)   Israel  (2)   Italy  (15)   Japan  (9)   Jordan  (1)   Kazakhstan  (6)   Kuwait  (5)   Kyrgyzstan  (2)   Latvia  (2)   Lebanon  (1)   Liechtenstein  (1)   Lithuania  (1)   Macedonia  (1)   Malaysia  (1)   Malta  (1)   Mexico  (1)   Moldova  (1)   Monaco  (1)   Mongolia  (3)   Namibia  (1)   Nepal  (1)

Netherlands  (3)   Netherlands Antilles  (1)   New Zealand  (7)   Nicaragua  (1)   North Korea  (1)   Norway  (5)   Oman  (1)   Pakistan  (1)   Panama  (1)   Peru  (2)   Philippines  (1)   Poland  (5)   Portugal  (3)   Puerto Rico  (2)   Qatar  (1)   Romania  (3)   Russia  (21)   San Marino  (2)   Saudi Arabia  (1)   FR Yugoslavia  (6)

Singapore  (1)   Slovakia  (3)   Slovenia  (3)   South Africa  (3)   South Korea  (8)   Spain  (4)   Sri Lanka  (2)   Sweden  (6)   Switzerland  (3)   Syria  (1)   Thailand  (2)   Turkey  (2)   Turkmenistan  (1)   Ukraine  (6)   United Arab Emirates  (2)   United States  (28)   Virgin Islands  (2)   Uruguay  (1)   Uzbekistan  (3)   Venezuela  (2)   Vietnam  (1)

References

1. "Shooting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.

External links

• Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad – Shooting (PDF). Retrieved 6 September 2008.