Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol

The Women's 10 metre air pistol event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 10 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. Natalia Paderina of Russia set a new Olympic record in the qualification round with 391 points out of 400, but entering the final Guo Wenjun was only one point behind and through the last ten shots emerged as the winner. After the competition, Paderina (silver) and Georgian veteran Nino Salukvadze (bronze) posed together; Salukvadze took the opportunity to take a stand for a peaceful solution.[1]

Women's 10 metre air pistol
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
VenueBeijing Shooting Range Hall
DateAugust 10, 2008
Competitors44 from 30 nations
Winning score492.3 (OR)
Medalists
Guo Wenjun  China
Natalia Paderina  Russia
Nino Salukvadze  Georgia

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 40 shots with an air pistol at 10 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10.[2]

The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 50 shots was used to determine final ranking.[3][4]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification records
World record Svetlana Smirnova (RUS)393Munich, Germany23 May 1998
Olympic record Marina Logvinenko (RUS)
 Tao Luna (CHN)
390Atlanta, United States
Athens, Greece
21 July 1996
17 August 2004
Final records
World record Ren Jie (CHN)493.5 (390+103.5)Munich, Germany22 May 1999
Olympic record Olga Klochneva (RUS)490.1 (389+101.1)Atlanta, United States21 July 1996

Both Olympic records were broken during the competition: the qualification record was raised to 391 by Natalia Paderina and the final record to 492.3 (390+102.3) by Guo Wenjun.

Qualification round

Rank Athlete Country 1 2 3 4 Total Notes
1 Natalia Paderina  Russia 97989898391 Q OR
2 Guo Wenjun  China 96989997390 Q
3 Tsogbadrakhyn Mönkhzul  Mongolia 96959799387 Q
4 Nino Salukvadze  Georgia 97969697386 Q
5 Viktoria Chaika  Belarus 97949697384 Q
6 Jasna Šekarić  Serbia 96949896384 Q
7 Mirosława Sagun-Lewandowska  Poland 95969796384 Q
8 Mira Nevansuu  Finland 99959595384 Q
9 Svetlana Smirnova  Russia 96959498383
10 Claudia Verdicchio  Germany 93989696383
11 Mariya Grozdeva  Bulgaria 96939598382
12 Otryadyn Gündegmaa  Mongolia 97939597382
13 Zauresh Baibussinova  Kazakhstan 94949896382
14 Sonia Franquet  Spain 93979696382
15 Jo Yong-Suk  North Korea 98969395382
16 Kim Yun-Mi  South Korea 96959794382
17 Cornelia Frölich  Switzerland 96969495381
18 Lalita Yauhleuskaya  Australia 97959693381
19 Ren Jie  China 97969593381
20 Tanyaporn Prucksakorn  Thailand 95959397380
21 Lee Ho-lim  South Korea 92979596380
22 Huang Yi-ling  Chinese Taipei 96939496379
23 Brigitte Roy  France 93949795379
24 Munkhbayar Dorjsuren  Germany 95939794379
25 Maria Pilar Fernandez  Spain 93979693379
26 Lenka Marušková  Czech Republic 96969493379
27 Sandra Kolly  Switzerland 94929795378
28 Maura Genovesi  Italy 94949595378
29 Zsófia Csonka  Hungary 94939794378
30 Sławomira Szpek  Poland 95959494378
31 Olena Kostevych  Ukraine 98939493378
32 Irena Tanova  Bulgaria 96939593377
33 Stephanie Tirode  France 96949493377
34 Luisa Maida  El Salvador 94939395375
35 Michaela Musilová  Czech Republic 95949393375
36 Dina Aspandiyarova  Australia 96969489375
37 Brenda Shinn  United States 89989393373
38 Michiko Fukushima  Japan 91949791373
39 Avianna Chao  Canada 89939494370
40 Lindita Kodra  Albania 92939392370
41 Rebecca Snyder  United States 93929491370
42 Zhanna Shapialevich  Belarus 91929590368
43 Carolina Lozado  Uruguay 93929290367
44 Patricia Wilka  Paraguay 909127208DNF

DNF Did not finish – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank Athlete Qual 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final Total Notes
 Guo Wenjun (CHN) 390 10.0 10.5 10.4 10.4 10.1 10.3 9.4 10.7 10.8 9.7 102.3 492.3 OR
 Natalia Paderina (RUS) 391 10.0 8.5 10.0 10.2 10.6 10.5 9.8 9.7 9.5 9.3 98.1 489.1
 Nino Salukvadze (GEO) 386 9.8 10.3 10.0 9.5 10.2 10.7 10.4 10.6 9.1 10.8 101.4 487.4
4  Viktoria Chaika (BLR) 384 9.3 9.4 10.4 10.1 10.2 10.5 9.2 10.5 9.8 8.6 98.0 482.0
5  Mirosława Sagun-Lewandowska (POL) 384 8.1 10.3 9.2 9.9 9.8 10.4 9.9 9.4 10.7 9.6 97.3 481.3
6  Jasna Šekarić (SRB) 384 10.2 9.6 9.9 9.9 9.3 9.1 9.7 10.0 9.3 9.9 96.9 480.9
7  Mira Nevansuu (FIN) 384 8.7 9.3 9.2 10.3 9.8 10.0 9.7 9.9 9.9 9.7 96.5 480.5
8  Tsogbadrakhyn Mönkhzul (MGL) 387 9.3 10.0 8.7 8.3 9.2 9.5 8.5 10.7 9.2 9.2 92.6 479.6

OR Olympic record

References

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