Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet

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Women's skeet
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue Royal Artillery Barracks
Date29 July 2012
Competitors17 from 17 nations
Winning Score99
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Kim Rhode Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Wei Ning Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Bronze medal icon.svg Danka Barteková Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia
  2008
2016  

The Women's skeet 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 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 States.svg  Kim Rhode  (USA)75 Tucson, United States 25 March 2012
Olympic recordFlag of Italy.svg  Chiara Cainero  (ITA)72 Beijing, China 14 August 2008
Final records
World recordFlag of Slovakia.svg  Danka Barteková  (SVK)99 (74+25) Nicosia, Cyprus 9 July 2008
Olympic recordFlag of Italy.svg  Chiara Cainero  (ITA)
Flag of the United States.svg  Kim Rhode  (USA)
Flag of Germany.svg  Christine Brinker  (GER)
93 (72+21)
93 (70+23)
93 (70+23)
Beijing, China 14 August 2008

Qualification round

RankAthleteCountry123Tie BreakTotalNotes
1 Kim Rhode Flag of the United States.svg  United States 25252474Q, OR
2 Danka Barteková Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 25222370Q
3 Marina Belikova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 24232269Q
4 Wei Ning Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 24192568Q
5 Christine Wenzel Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 22232368Q
6 Chiara Cainero Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 222124267Q
7 Therese Lundqvist Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 222223167
8 Francisca Crovetto Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 22222266
9 Angelina Michshuk Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 22222266
10 Veronique Girardet Flag of France.svg  France 22232166
11 Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 20232265
12 Lucia Liliana Mihalache Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 25202065
13 Çiğdem Özyaman Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 23202063
14 Elena Allen Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 20202060
15 Lauryn Mark Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 17222059
16 Panagiota Andreou Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 15222057
17 Mona El-Hawary Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 14201751

Final

RankAthleteCountryQFFinalTotalBronze Medal
Tie Break
Notes
Gold medal icon.svg Kim Rhode Flag of the United States.svg  United States 742599=WR, OR
Silver medal icon.svg Wei Ning Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 682391
Bronze medal icon.svg Danka Barteková Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 7020904
4 Marina Belikova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 6921903
5 Chiara Cainero Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 672289
6 Christine Wenzel Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 682189

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