Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet

The Women's skeet event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 12 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center.[1]

Women's skeet
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Aerial view of the National Shooting Center in Deodoro, where the women's skeet event took place.
VenueNational Shooting Center
Date12 August 2016
Competitors21 from 17 nations
Winning score15/16 (in the gold medal match)
Medalists
Diana Bacosi  Italy
Chiara Cainero  Italy
Kim Rhode  United States

Competition format

The event consisted of three rounds: a qualifier, semifinal 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 semifinal round. There, they fired one additional round of 16. 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 Diana Bacosi (ITA)
 Aleksandra Jarmolińska (POL)
 Chiara Cainero (ITA)
75Baku, Azerbaijan
Gabala, Azerbaijan
Lonato, Italy
20 June 2015
8 August 2015
9 July 2016
Olympic recordISSF Rule changed on January 1, 2013

Results

Qualification round

Rank Athlete Country 1 2 3 Tie break Total Notes
1 Wei Meng  China 23252573Q, OR
2 Kim Rhode  United States 23252472Q
3 Diana Bacosi  Italy 25232472Q
4 Chiara Cainero  Italy 24222470Q
5 Amber Hill  Great Britain 23242370Q
6 Morgan Craft  United States 242421+269Q
7 Albina Shakirova  Russia 212325+169
8 Melisa Gil  Argentina 232125+169
9 Wei Ning  China 24202468
10 Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit  Thailand 23222368
11 Christine Wenzel  Germany 22242268
12 Aleksandra Jarmolińska  Poland 23232268
13 Chloe Tipple  New Zealand 21232367
14 Elena Allen  Great Britain 23182364
15 Andri Eleftheriou  Cyprus 21212264
16 Danka Barteková  Slovakia 22202264
17 Aislin Jones  Australia 21202263
18 Naoko Ishihara  Japan 18202462
19 Francisca Crovetto  Chile 21221962
20 Libuše Jahodová  Czech Republic 18192158
21 Daniela Carraro  Brazil 19192058

Semifinal

Rank Athlete Country Total Tie break Notes
1 Chiara Cainero  Italy 16Gold Medal Match
2 Diana Bacosi  Italy 15Gold Medal Match
3 Wei Meng  China 14+4Bronze Medal Match
4 Kim Rhode  United States 14+4Bronze Medal Match
5 Morgan Craft  United States 14+3
6 Amber Hill  Great Britain 13

Final (medal matches)

Rank Athlete Country Total Tie break Notes
Diana Bacosi  Italy 15
Chiara Cainero  Italy 14
Kim Rhode  United States 15+7
4 Wei Meng  China 15+6

References

  1. "Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
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