Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Shooting at the XIII Paralympic Games
Paralympic Shooting
Venue	Beijing Shooting Range Hall
Dates	7–12 September 2008
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Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics consisted of twelve events. The competition was held in the Beijing Shooting Range Hall from 7 September to 12 September.

Classification

Paralympic shooters are classified according to the extent of their disability. The classification system allows shooters to compete against others with a similar level of function.

Shooting classifications are:

• SH1 - competitors who do not need a shooting stand
• SH2 - competitors who use a shooting stand to support the firearm's weight.

Events

For each of the events below, medals were contested for one or more of the above classifications. After each classification is given the date that the event was contested.

• Men's 10 m air pistol
  • SH1 - 7 September
• Men's 10 m air rifle standing
  • SH1 - 8 September
• Men's 50 m free rifle 3×40
  • SH1 - 10 September
• Women's 10 m air pistol
  • SH1 - 8 September
• Women's 10 m air rifle standing
  • SH1 - 7 September
• Women's 50 m sport rifle 3×20
  • SH1 - 9 September
• Mixed 25 m sport pistol
  • SH1 - 10 September
• Mixed 50 m free pistol
  • SH1 - 12 September
• Mixed 10 m air rifle prone
  • SH1 - 11 September
  • SH2 - 9 September
• Mixed 10 m air rifle standing
  • SH2 - 11 September
• Mixed 50 m free rifle prone
  • SH1 - 12 September

Participating countries

There were 140 athletes (96 male, 44 female) from 44 nations taking part in this sport.

•   Australia  (4)
•   Austria  (3)
•   Azerbaijan  (1)
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina  (1)
•   Brazil  (1)
•   Canada  (2)
•   China  (13)
•   Chinese Taipei  (2)
•   Croatia  (3)
•   Cyprus  (1)
•   Czech Republic  (1)
•   Denmark  (3)
•   Estonia  (1)
•   Finland  (4)
•   France  (7)
•   Germany  (10)
•   Great Britain  (4)
•   Greece  (3)
•   Hong Kong  (1)
•   Hungary  (1)
•   India  (1)
•   Iran  (3)
•   Israel  (1)
•   Italy  (5)
•   Japan  (5)
•   Macedonia  (2)
•   Mongolia  (1)
•   New Zealand  (1)
•   Norway  (1)
•   Poland  (5)
•   Puerto Rico  (1)
•   Russia  (6)
•   Serbia  (4)
•   Slovakia  (3)
•   Slovenia  (2)
•   South Korea  (12)
•   Spain  (3)
•   Sweden  (5)
•   Switzerland  (1)
•   Thailand  (1)
•   Turkey  (4)
•   Ukraine  (4)
•   United Arab Emirates  (1)
•   United States  (2)

Medal summary

Medal table

This ranking sorts countries by the number of gold medals earned by their shooters (in this context a nation is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea  (KOR)	4	3	2	9
2	Sweden  (SWE)	3	0	1	4
3	Russia  (RUS)	2	1	3	6
4	China  (CHN)	1	3	3	7
5	Great Britain  (GBR)	1	0	0	1
	Slovakia  (SVK)	1	0	0	1
7	France  (FRA)	0	2	0	2
	Germany  (GER)	0	2	0	2
9	Israel  (ISR)	0	1	0	1
10	New Zealand  (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico  (PUR)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia  (SLO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		12	12	12	36

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 10 m air pistol SH1 details	Valeriy Ponomarenko   Russia	Sergey Malyshev   Russia	Lee Ju-Hee   South Korea
Men's 10 m air rifle standing SH1 details	Jonas Jacobsson   Sweden	Norbert Gau   Germany	Franc Pinter   Slovenia
Men's 50 m rifle 3×40 details	Jonas Jacobsson   Sweden	Doron Shaziri   Israel	Dong Chao   China
Women's 10 m air pistol SH1 details	Lin Haiyan   China	Moon Aee-Kyung   South Korea	Natalia Dalekova   Russia
Women's 10 m air rifle standing SH1 details	Veronika Vadovicova   Slovakia	Manuela Schmermund   Germany	Nilda Gomez Lopez   Puerto Rico
Women's 50 m rifle 3×20 SH1 details	Lee Yun-Ri   South Korea	Kim In-Yeon   South Korea	Zhang Cuiping   China
Mixed 25 m pistol SH1 details	Andrey Lebedinskiy   Russia	Li Jianfei   China	Valeriy Ponomarenko   Russia
Mixed 50 m pistol SH1 details	Park Sea-Kyun   South Korea	Lee Ju-Hee   South Korea	Valeriy Ponomarenko   Russia
Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH1 details	Matt Skelhon   Great Britain	Zhang Cuiping   China	Sim Jae-Yong   South Korea
Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH2 details	Lee Ji-Seok   South Korea	Raphael Voltz   France	Viktoria Wedin   Sweden
Mixed 10 m air rifle standing SH2 details	Lee Ji-Seok   South Korea	Raphael Voltz   France	Michael Johnson   New Zealand
Mixed 50 m rifle prone SH1 details	Jonas Jacobsson   Sweden	Zhang Cuiping   China	Dong Chao   China

References

• "Schedules and Results - Shooting". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2008-09-08.

External links

• Official Site of the 2008 Summer Paralympics