Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet

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Women's skeet
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field
DateAugust 14, 2008
Competitors19 from 19 nations
Winning score93 (OR)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Chiara Cainero Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Silver medal icon.svg Kim Rhode Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg Christine Brinker Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
  2004
2012  

The Women's skeet event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 14 at the Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field.

Contents

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier 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 final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25. The total score from all 100 shots was used to determine final ranking. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie.

Records

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

Qualification records
World recordFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Elena Little  (GBR)
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Shi Hong Yan  (CHN)
Flag of Germany.svg  Christine Brinker  (GER)
Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Zemfira Meftahatdinova  (AZE)
Flag of Russia.svg  Erdzhanik Avetisyan  (RUS)
Flag of Germany.svg  Christine Brinker  (GER)
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Danka Barteková  (SVK)
74 Belgrade, Serbia
Qingyuan, China
Qingyuan, China
Cairo, Egypt
Lonato, Italy
Nicosia, Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus
17 July 2005
9 April 2006
9 April 2006
18 May 2006
13 June 2007
9 July 2008
9 July 2008
Olympic recordISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005
Final records
World recordFlag of Slovakia.svg  Danka Barteková  (SVK)99 (74+25) Nicosia, Cyprus 9 July 2008
Olympic recordISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005

Qualification round

RankAthleteCountry123TotalNotes
1 Chiara Cainero Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 25232472Q OR
2 Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 23232571Q
3 Kim Rhode Flag of the United States.svg  United States 24232370Q
4 Christine Brinker Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 25222370Q
5 Wei Ning Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 25232270Q
6 Nathalie Larsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 23232369Q
7 Andri Eleftheriou Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 22232267
8 Danka Barteková Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 23222267
9 Pak Jong-ran Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea 20232366
10 Lucia Mihalache Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 23202366
11 Natalia Rahman Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 22232166
12 Svetlana Demina Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 22232166
13 Diána Igaly Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 22232166
14 Elena Little Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 24212166
15 Zemfira Meftahatdinova Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 22212063
16 Veronique Girardet Flag of France.svg  France 22221963
17 Marjut Heinonen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 21211961
18 Kim Min-ji Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea 21181655
19 Mona El-Hawary Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 18161650

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

RankAthleteQualFinalTotal4th place
shoot-off
Gold
shoot-off
Silver
shoot-off
Notes
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Italy.svg  Chiara Cainero  (ITA)7221932 OR
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of the United States.svg  Kim Rhode  (USA)70239312 OR
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Germany.svg  Christine Brinker  (GER)70239311 OR
4Flag of Sweden.svg  Nathalie Larsson  (SWE)6923922
5Flag of Thailand.svg  Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit  (THA)7121921
6Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Wei Ning  (CHN)702191

OR Olympic record

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