Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet

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Women's skeet
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Aerial view of the National Shooting Center in Deodoro, where the women's skeet event took place.
Venue National Shooting Center
Date 12 August 2016
Competitors 21 from 17 nations
Winning score 15/16 (in the gold medal match)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Diana Bacosi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Silver medal icon.svg Chiara Cainero Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Bronze medal icon.svg Kim Rhode Flag of the United States.svg  United States
  2012
2020  

The Women's skeet event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 12 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center. [1]

National Shooting Center

The National Shooting Center, known as the Olympic Shooting Centre during the 2016 Summer Olympics, is a firing range in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The range was opened in 2007 and was upgraded to host the sports shooting events for the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

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Competition format

The event consisted of three rounds: a qualifier, semifinal 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 semifinal round. There, they fired one additional round of 16. 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 Italy.svg  Diana Bacosi  (ITA)
Flag of Poland.svg  Aleksandra Jarmolińska  (POL)
Flag of Italy.svg  Chiara Cainero  (ITA)
75 Baku, Azerbaijan
Gabala, Azerbaijan
Lonato, Italy
20 June 2015
8 August 2015
9 July 2016
Olympic recordISSF Rule changed on January 1, 2013

Results

Qualification round

RankAthleteCountry123Tie breakTotalNotes
1 Wei Meng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 23252573Q, OR
2 Kim Rhode Flag of the United States.svg  United States 23252472Q
3 Diana Bacosi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 25232472Q
4 Chiara Cainero Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 24222470Q
5 Amber Hill Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 23242370Q
6 Morgan Craft Flag of the United States.svg  United States 242421+269Q
7 Albina Shakirova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 212325+169
8 Melisa Gil Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 232125+169
9 Wei Ning Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 24202468
10 Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 23222368
11 Christine Wenzel Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 22242268
12 Aleksandra Jarmolińska Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 23232268
13 Chloe Tipple Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 21232367
14 Elena Allen Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 23182364
15 Andri Eleftheriou Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 21212264
16 Danka Barteková Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 22202264
17 Aislin Jones Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 21202263
18 Naoko Ishihara Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 18202462
19 Francisca Crovetto Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 21221962
20 Libuše Jahodová Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 18192158
21 Daniela Carraro Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 19192058

Semifinal

RankAthleteCountryTotalTie breakNotes
1 Chiara Cainero Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 16Gold Medal Match
2 Diana Bacosi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 15Gold Medal Match
3 Wei Meng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 14+4Bronze Medal Match
4 Kim Rhode Flag of the United States.svg  United States 14+4Bronze Medal Match
5 Morgan Craft Flag of the United States.svg  United States 14+3
6 Amber Hill Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 13

Final (medal matches)

RankAthleteCountryTotalTie breakNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Diana Bacosi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 15
Silver medal icon.svg Chiara Cainero Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 14
Bronze medal icon.svg Kim Rhode Flag of the United States.svg  United States 15+7
4 Wei Meng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 15+6

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References

  1. "Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.