Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol

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Women's 10 metre air pistol
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue Royal Artillery Barracks
Date29 July 2012
Competitors49 from 38 nations
Winning score488.1
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Guo Wenjun Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Silver medal icon.svg Celine Goberville Flag of France.svg  France
Bronze medal icon.svg Olena Kostevych Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
  2008
2016  

The Women's 10 metre air pistol event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 29 July 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks.

Contents

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 40 shots with an air pistol at 10 metres distance. 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.

Qualification records
World recordFlag of Russia.svg  Svetlana Smirnova  (RUS)393 Munich, Germany 23 May 1998
Olympic recordFlag of Russia.svg  Natalia Paderina  (RUS)391 Beijing, China 10 August 2008
Final records
World recordFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Ren Jie  (CHN)493.5 (390+103.5) Munich, Germany 22 May 1999
Olympic recordFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Guo Wenjun  (CHN)492.3 (390+102.3) Beijing, China 10 August 2008

Qualification round

RankAthleteCountry1234TotalNotes
1 Guo Wenjun Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 98989894388Q
2 Olena Kostevych Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 97959798387Q
3 Céline Goberville Flag of France.svg  France 96989697387Q
4 Su Yuling Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 97969697386Q
5 Zorana Arunović Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 94989697385Q
6 Viktoria Chaika Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 96969895385Q
7 Lenka Marušková Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 95979697385Q
8 Liubov Yaskevich Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 96969499385Q
9 Antoaneta Boneva Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 95979696384
10 Jo Yong-Suk Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea 97969596384
11 Tanyaporn Prucksakorn Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 93989894384
12 Heena Sidhu Flag of India.svg  India 93979795382
13 Kim Jang-Mi Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 97979593382
14 Dina Aspandiyarova Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 96949894382
15 Joana Castelão Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 95989692381
16 Zsófia Csonka Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 98969493381
17 Kim Byung-Hee Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 96959397381
18 Otryadyn Gündegmaa Flag of Mongolia.svg  Mongolia 95949497380
19 Alejandra Zavala Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 97959494380
20 Claudia Verdicchio-Krause Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 95939795380
21 Le Thi Hoang Ngoc Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 97959493379
22 Bobana Veličković Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 93929896379
23 Annu Raj Singh Flag of India.svg  India 94969791378
24 Maria Grozdeva Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 95949495378
25 Munkhbayar Dorjsuren Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 95949495378
26 Sonia Franquet Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 93959199378
27 Tien Chia-chen Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 94969395378
28 Sandra Uptagraft Flag of the United States.svg  United States 94919697378
29 Marina Zgurscaia Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova 91929797377
30 Noura Nasri Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 96939395377
31 Yukari Konishi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 93959495377
32 Mira Suhonen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 95999489377
33 Nino Salukvadze Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 93959296376
34 Dorothy Ludwig Flag of Canada.svg  Canada 94969195376
35 Heidi Diethelm Gerber Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 91919796375
36 Yu Ai-wen Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 92949594375
37 Natalia Paderina Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 93949593375
38 Stéphanie Tirode Flag of France.svg  France 95929593375
39 Irada Ashumova Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 96939093372
40 Lalita Yauhleskaya Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 95909492371
41 Naphaswan Yangpaiboon Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 91929295370
42 Athina Douka Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 92919393369
43 Ana Luiza Souza Lima Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 91959091367
44 Beata Bartków-Kwiatkowska Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 92978790366
45 Maribel Pineda Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 89919392365
46 Noor Al-Ameri Flag of Iraq.svg  Iraq 91918791360
47 Georgina Geikie Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 90898892359
48 Claudia Fajardo Rodriguez Flag of Honduras.svg  Honduras 83918490348
49 Ip Pui Yi Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 89898088346

Final

RankAthleteQual12345678910FinalTotalSilver
shoot-off
Notes
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Guo Wenjun  (CHN)3888.010.89.310.510.110.110.39.810.410.8100.1488.1
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of France.svg  Celine Goberville  (FRA)3879.810.09.49.610.810.610.110.410.18.899.6486.610.6
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Ukraine.svg  Olena Kostevych  (UKR)38710.19.79.110.69.910.610.19.89.210.599.6486.69.7
4Flag of Russia.svg  Liubov Yaskevich  (RUS)38510.89.79.110.110.09.89.810.510.510.7101.0486.0
5Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Viktoria Chaika  (BLR)3859.49.610.210.69.810.29.510.210.710.0100.2485.2
6Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Su Yuling  (CHN)3868.79.49.910.310.49.910.19.410.310.298.6484.6
7Flag of Serbia.svg  Zorana Arunović  (SRB)3859.89.39.410.310.09.410.49.610.49.998.5483.5
8Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Lenka Marušková  (CZE)38510.58.810.610.59.510.29.410.28.89.397.6482.6

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