Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air rifle

Women's 10 metre air rifle
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue Sydney International Shooting Centre
Date 16 September 2000
Competitors 49 from 35 nations
Winning score 497.7
Medalists
  Nancy Johnson   United States
  Kang Cho-hyun   South Korea
  Gao Jing   China
«1996 2004»
Shooting at the
2000 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions men women
50 m rifle prone men
10 m air rifle   men   women
Pistol
50 m pistol men
25 m pistol women
25 m rapid fire pistol men
10 m air pistol men women
Shotgun
Trap men women
Double trap men women
Skeet men women
Running target
10 m running target men

Following a recent tradition, the women's 10 metre air rifle competition was the first medal event concluded at the 2000 Summer Olympics. It was held on 16 September, the day after the opening ceremony, with the 40-shot qualification round between 09:00 and 10:15 Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10), and the final round of 10 additional shots at 11:00. Kang Cho-hyun equalled the Olympic record in the qualification round but lost her two-point pre-final lead to Nancy Johnson, who thus won the first Sydney gold medal for the United States.

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Records

The existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification records
World record  Valentina Tcherkasova (URS) 399 Los Angeles, United States 23 March 1991
Olympic record  Petra Horneber (GER) 397 Atlanta, United States 20 July 1996
Final records
World record  Gaby Bühlmann (SUI) 503.5 Munich, Germany 24 May 1998
Olympic record  Yeo Kab-soon (KOR) 498.2 Barcelona, Spain 27 July 1992

Qualification round

Rank Athlete Country Score Notes
1 Kang Cho-hyun South Korea 397 Q EOR
2 Lioubov Galkina Russia 395 Q
3 Sonja Pfeilschifter Germany 395 Q
4 Choi Dae-young South Korea 395 Q
5 Nancy Johnson United States 395 Q
6 Jayme Dickman United States 394 Q
7 Anjali Vedpathak India 394 Q
8 Gao Jing China 394 Q
9 Lindy Hansen Norway 393
9 Monika Haselsberger Austria 393
9 Petra Horneber Germany 393
9 Mladenka Malenica Croatia 393
9 Olga Pogrebnyak Belarus 393
9 Zhao Yinghui China 393
15 Aranka Binder Yugoslavia 392
15 Lesya Leskiv Ukraine 392
15 Renata Mauer Poland 392
15 Sue McCready Australia 392
15 Hiromi Misaki Japan 392
20 Alyona Aksyonova Uzbekistan 391
20 Batkhuyagyn Zorigt Mongolia 391
20 Valerie Bellenoue France 391
20 Anni Bisso Denmark 391
20 Olga Dovgun Kazakhstan 391
20 Aleksandra Ivosev Yugoslavia 391
20 Vessela Letcheva Bulgaria 391
20 Natalija Prednik Slovenia 391
28 Gaby Bühlmann Switzerland 390
28 Amelia Rosa Fournel Argentina 390
28 Yasmine Helmi Egypt 390
28 Natalia Kalnysh Ukraine 390
32 Sharon Bowes Canada 389
32 Tatiana Goldobina Russia 389
32 Oksana Kovtonovich Belarus 389 −2p
32 Yuliya Shakhova Uzbekistan 389
36 Eunice Caballero Cuba 388
36 Nonka Matova Bulgaria 388
36 Marina Pons Spain 388
36 Oriana Scheuss Switzerland 388
36 Lucie Valova Czech Republic 388
41 Lindy Imgrund Australia 387
41 Fabienne Pasetti Monaco 387
43 Bhagawati Khatri Nepal 386
44 Rasheya Jasmin Luis Philippines 384
44 Divna Pesik Macedonia 384
46 Sabrina Sultana Bangladesh 383
47 Malini Wickramasinghe Sri Lanka 382
48 Cari Johnson Canada 381
49 Marwa Sultan Egypt 376

−2p 2 points deducted (scoring protest turned down) – EOR Equalled Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Shoot-off
 Nancy Johnson (USA) 395 102.7 497.7
 Kang Cho-hyun (KOR) 397 100.5 497.5
 Gao Jing (CHN) 394 103.2 497.2
4  Lioubov Galkina (RUS) 395 101.7 496.7
5  Sonja Pfeilschifter (GER) 395 100.9 495.9
6  Jayme Dickman (USA) 394 101.4 495.4
7  Choi Dae-young (KOR) 395 98.1 493.1 10.4
8  Anjali Vedpathak (IND) 394 99.1 493.1 9.8

References