Shooting at the XV Paralympic Games | |
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Venue | National Shooting Center |
Dates | 8–14 September 2016 |
Competitors | 140 |
Shooting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics consisted of twelve events, eight for rifle and 4 for pistol, across a range of men's, women's and mixed events.
Paralympic shooters were also 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:
There were 140 athletes (100 male, 40 female) taking part in this sport. Any athlete awarded a qualification slot in one event is permitted to enter other eligible event if they have a minimum qualification score. Therefore, fields in each event are likely to be significantly larger than the qualification quotas below.
Qualification slots will be allocated as follows: [1]
° : Bipartite invitation of named athlete.
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 |
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1 | ![]() | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
3 | ![]() | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
5 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
6 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
9 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
11 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (14 entries) | 12 | 12 | 12 | 36 |
Event | Class | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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P1 10 m air pistol | SH1 | Yang Chao ![]() | Lee Ju-hee ![]() | Server Ibragimov ![]() |
R1 10 m air rifle standing | Dong Chao ![]() | Abdullah Sultan Alaryani ![]() | Kim Su Wan ![]() | |
R7 50 m rifle 3 positions | Laslo Šuranji ![]() | Abdullah Sultan Alaryani ![]() | Doron Shaziri ![]() |
Event | Class | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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P2 10 m air pistol | SH1 | Sareh Javanmardi ![]() | Olga Kovalchuk ![]() | Ayşegül Pehlivanlar ![]() |
R2 10 m air rifle standing | Veronika Vadovičová ![]() | Zhang Cuiping ![]() | Yan Yaping ![]() | |
R8 50 m rifle 3 positions | Zhang Cuiping ![]() | Veronika Vadovičová ![]() | Lee Yun-ri ![]() |
Event | Class | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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P3 25 m pistol | SH1 | Huang Xing ![]() | Joackim Norberg ![]() | Lee Ju-hee ![]() |
P4 50 m pistol | Sareh Javanmardi ![]() | Yang Chao ![]() | Oleksii Denysiuk ![]() | |
R3 10 m air rifle prone | Veronika Vadovičová ![]() | Natascha Hiltrop ![]() | Lee Jang-ho ![]() | |
R6 50 m rifle prone | Zhang Cuiping ![]() | Abdullah Sultan Alaryani ![]() | Laslo Šuranji ![]() | |
R5 10 m air rifle prone | SH2 | Vasyl Kovalchuk ![]() | Kim Geun-soo ![]() | McKenna Dahl ![]() |
R4 10 m air rifle standing | Veselka Pevec ![]() | Franček Gorazd Tiršek ![]() | Kim Geun-soo ![]() |
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