Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet

The Women's skeet event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 14 at the Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field.

Women's skeet
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
VenueBeijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field
DateAugust 14, 2008
Competitors19 from 19 nations
Winning score93 (OR)
Medalists
Chiara Cainero  Italy
Kim Rhode  United States
Christine Brinker  Germany

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier 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 final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25. The total score from all 100 shots was used to determine final ranking. 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 record Elena Little (GBR)
 Shi Hong Yan (CHN)
 Christine Brinker (GER)
 Zemfira Meftahatdinova (AZE)
 Erdzhanik Avetisyan (RUS)
 Christine Brinker (GER)
 Danka Barteková (SVK)
74Belgrade, Serbia
Qingyuan, China
Qingyuan, China
Cairo, Egypt
Lonato, Italy
Nicosia, Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus
17 July 2005
9 April 2006
9 April 2006
18 May 2006
13 June 2007
9 July 2008
9 July 2008
Olympic recordISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005
Final records
World record Danka Barteková (SVK)99 (74+25)Nicosia, Cyprus9 July 2008
Olympic recordISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005

Qualification round

Rank Athlete Country 1 2 3 Total Notes
1 Chiara Cainero  Italy 25232472Q OR
2 Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit  Thailand 23232571Q
3 Kim Rhode  United States 24232370Q
4 Christine Brinker  Germany 25222370Q
5 Wei Ning  China 25232270Q
6 Nathalie Larsson  Sweden 23232369Q
7 Andri Eleftheriou  Cyprus 22232267
8 Danka Barteková  Slovakia 23222267
9 Pak Jong-ran  North Korea 20232366
10 Lucia Mihalache  Romania 23202366
11 Natalia Rahman  Australia 22232166
12 Svetlana Demina  Russia 22232166
13 Diána Igaly  Hungary 22232166
14 Elena Little  Great Britain 24212166
15 Zemfira Meftahatdinova  Azerbaijan 22212063
16 Veronique Girardet  France 22221963
17 Marjut Heinonen  Finland 21211961
18 Kim Min-ji  South Korea 21181655
19 Mona El-Hawary  Egypt 18161650

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank Athlete Qual Final Total 4th place
shoot-off
Gold
shoot-off
Silver
shoot-off
Notes
 Chiara Cainero (ITA) 7221932OR
 Kim Rhode (USA) 70239312OR
 Christine Brinker (GER) 70239311OR
4  Nathalie Larsson (SWE) 6923922
5  Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit (THA) 7121921
6  Wei Ning (CHN) 702191

OR Olympic record

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