Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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

The shooting competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics were carried out at the Sydney International Shooting Centre in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia during the first week of the Games, from Saturday 16 September 2000 to Saturday 23 September 2000.^[1]

While the rifle, pistol and running target rules were largely unchanged from the Atlanta Games, two new shotgun events were added (women's trap and women's skeet), raising the number of individual Olympic shooting events to an all-time high of seventeen.

Medal summary

Women's 10 metre air rifle: Nancy Johnson (center), Kang Cho-hyun (left), and Gao Jing (right) won the first medals of the 2000 Olympic Games.

Men's skeet: Mykola Milchev (center), Petr Málek (left) and James Graves (right) won the last Sydney shooting medals.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	3	2	3	8
2	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	0	0	2
	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
4	Russia (RUS)	1	3	2	6
5	Australia (AUS)	1	1	1	3
6	France (FRA)	1	1	0	2
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	0	2
8	United States (USA)	1	0	2	3
9	Azerbaijan (AZE)	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	1	0	0	1
	Poland (POL)	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
14	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	3	4
15	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
17	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	0	1
23	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait (KUW)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Total		17	17	17	51

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 metre rifle three positions	Rajmond Debevec  Slovenia	Juha Hirvi  Finland	Harald Stenvaag  Norway
50 metre rifle prone	Jonas Edman  Sweden	Torben Grimmel  Denmark	Sergei Martynov  Belarus
10 metre air rifle	Cai Yalin  China	Artem Khadjibekov  Russia	Yevgeni Aleinikov  Russia
50 metre pistol	Tanyu Kiryakov  Bulgaria	Igor Basinski  Belarus	Martin Tenk  Czech Republic
25 metre rapid fire pistol	Sergei Alifirenko  Russia	Michel Ansermet  Switzerland	Iulian Raicea  Romania
10 metre air pistol	Franck Dumoulin  France	Wang Yifu  China	Igor Basinski  Belarus
Trap	Michael Diamond  Australia	Ian Peel  Great Britain	Giovanni Pellielo  Italy
Double trap	Richard Faulds  Great Britain	Russell Mark  Australia	Fehaid Al Deehani  Kuwait
Skeet	Mykola Milchev  Ukraine	Petr Málek  Czech Republic	James Graves  United States
10 metre running target	Yang Ling  China	Oleg Moldovan  Moldova	Niu Zhiyuan  China

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 metre rifle three positions	Renata Mauer  Poland	Tatiana Goldobina  Russia	Maria Feklistova  Russia
10 metre air rifle	Nancy Johnson  United States	Kang Cho-hyun  South Korea	Gao Jing  China
25 metre pistol	Mariya Grozdeva  Bulgaria	Tao Luna  China	Lalita Yauhleuskaya  Belarus
10 metre air pistol	Tao Luna  China	Jasna Šekarić  Yugoslavia	Annemarie Forder  Australia
Trap	Daina Gudzinevičiūtė  Lithuania	Delphine Racinet  France	Gao E  China
Double trap	Pia Hansen  Sweden	Deborah Gelisio  Italy	Kim Rhode  United States
Skeet	Zemfira Meftahatdinova  Azerbaijan	Svetlana Demina  Russia	Diána Igaly  Hungary

Participating nations

A total of 408 shooters, 262 men and 146 women, from 103 nations competed at the Sydney Games:^[1]

References

External links

• Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad – Shooting (PDF). Retrieved 2008-09-06.