Shooting at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing Shooting Range Hall (rifle & pistol) Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field (shotgun)
Dates	9–17 August 2008
Competitors	390 from 103 nations

Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Qualification
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
Skeet	men	women

Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall (rifle and pistol events) and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field (shotgun events). Of the fifteen events, the host country won five.

Highlights included:

• Two rifle shooters, Czech Kateřina Kůrková and American Matthew Emmons, who met at the 2004 Olympics, married in 2007 and returned to the 2008 Games to win a gold and two silver medals between them.
  • Kateřina Emmons equalled the world record with a perfect 400 in the women's air rifle competition.
  • Matthew lost a large lead in the last shot of the men's three positions - just as he had in Athens four years earlier.
• Abhinav Bindra won India's first ever individual Olympic gold.
• Russian Natalia Paderina and Georgian Nino Salukvadze, whose countries were at war, won silver and bronze respectively in the 10m Air Pistol. They shared hugged and shook hands on the podium, which was seen as peaceful gesture.^[1][2]
• The eighth appearance at the Olympics for Latvian Afanasijs Kuzmins
• The seventh Olympic appearance for Slovenian Rajmond Debevec (who won bronze), making him only the fifth shooter to have ever competed in at least seven Olympic Games.
• The sixth Olympic appearance for eight shooters, raising to 22 the number of shooters who have competed in at least six Olympic Games:
  • Canadian Dr Susan Nattrass
  • Finn Juha Hirvi,
  • Italian Andrea Benelli
  • German Ralf Schumann, who won his fifth Olympic medal.
  • Bulgarian Tanyu Kiryakov
  • Monegasque Fabienne Diato-Pasetti,
  • Serbian Jasna Šekarić (competing under her fourth flag at the Olympics without ever having changed nationality),
  • Georgian Nino Salukvadze. She won bronze, completing the set twenty years after she won gold and silver at the 1988 Olympics.
• The fifth Olympic appearance for 16 shooters, raising to 80 the number of shooters who have competed in at least five Olympic Games: Mönkhbayar Dorjsurengiin, Svetlana Demina, María Pilar Fernández, Mariya Grozdeva, Michael Diamond, Franck Dumoulin, Thomas Farnik, Andrei Inešin, Harald Jensen, Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Russell Mark, Sergey Martynov, Giovanni Pellielo, Stevan Pletikošić, Iulian Raicea, Axel Wegner.

The sport also faced its first major doping case, when Kim Jong-su of North Korea was stripped of his medals in 50 metre pistol and 10 metre air pistol after testing positive for propranolol, a beta blocker that some performers use to reduce stage fright and some surgeons use to reduce hand tremors during operations.^[3]

Events

15 sets of medals were awarded in the following events:

A NOC may enter up to two athletes in all events except women's trap and skeet events where it can enter only one athlete. Only athletes who achieve the Minimum Qualification Score (MQS) can participate at the Olympics. One athlete can achieve only one quota place for his/her NOC in any event. If a quota place is won in a qualification event by a shooter who has already won a quota place in any event, the quota place will be granted to the NOC of the next ranking shooter.

Qualification

Quota places are as follows:

*Note - there will also be 10 invitation and 14 universality quota places

Event schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)*	5	2	1	8
2	United States (USA)	2	2	2	6
3	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	1	0	3
	Ukraine (UKR)	2	1	0	3
5	Italy (ITA)	1	2	0	3
6	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	0	2
7	Finland (FIN)	1	0	1	2
8	India (IND)	1	0	0	1
9	Russia (RUS)	0	2	2	4
10	Germany (GER)	0	1	3	4
11	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
14	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Georgia (GEO)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		15	15	15	45

Men's events

The medal winners in men's skeet. From left tor right: Tore Brovold, Vincent Hancock, Anthony Terras

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 m air rifle	Abhinav Bindra  India	Zhu Qinan  China	Henri Häkkinen  Finland
50 m rifle prone	Artur Ayvazyan  Ukraine	Matthew Emmons  United States	Warren Potent  Australia
50 m rifle three positions	Qiu Jian  China	Jury Sukhorukov  Ukraine	Rajmond Debevec  Slovenia
10 m air pistol	Pang Wei  China	Jin Jong-oh  South Korea	Jason Turner  United States
25 m rapid fire pistol	Oleksandr Petriv  Ukraine	Ralf Schumann  Germany	Christian Reitz  Germany
50 m pistol	Jin Jong-oh  South Korea	Tan Zongliang  China	Vladimir Isakov  Russia
Skeet	Vincent Hancock  United States	Tore Brovold  Norway	Anthony Terras  France
Trap	David Kostelecký  Czech Republic	Giovanni Pellielo  Italy	Aleksei Alipov  Russia
Double trap	Walton Eller  United States	Francesco D'Aniello  Italy	Hu Binyuan  China

Kim Jong-su of North Korea originally won the silver medal in the 50 metre pistol and bronze in the 10 metre air pistol, but was disqualified after he tested positive for propranolol.

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 m air rifle	Kateřina Emmons  Czech Republic	Lioubov Galkina  Russia	Snježana Pejčić  Croatia
50 m rifle three positions	Du Li  China	Kateřina Emmons  Czech Republic	Eglis Yaima Cruz  Cuba
10 m air pistol	Guo Wenjun  China	Natalia Paderina  Russia	Nino Salukvadze  Georgia
25 m pistol	Chen Ying  China	Otryadyn Gündegmaa  Mongolia	Munkhbayar Dorjsuren  Germany
Skeet	Chiara Cainero  Italy	Kimberly Rhode  United States	Christine Brinker  Germany
Trap	Satu Mäkelä-Nummela  Finland	Zuzana Štefečeková  Slovakia	Corey Cogdell  United States

New records

Vincent Hancock in the finals for men's skeet, in which he earned the gold medal and set records both in the qualifying and finals.

Date	Event	Round	Score	Athlete	Previous record
World records equalled
August 9, 2008	Women's 10 m air rifle	Qual.	400	Kateřina Emmons (CZE)	400 by Seo Sun-hwa (2002), equalled 12 times
Olympic records broken
August 9, 2008	Women's 10 m air rifle	Qual.	400	Kateřina Emmons (CZE)	399 by Lioubov Galkina (2004)
August 9, 2008	Women's 10 m air rifle	Final	503.5	Kateřina Emmons (CZE)	502.0 by Du Li (2004)
August 10, 2008	Women's 10 m air pistol	Qual.	391	Natalia Paderina (RUS)	390 by Marina Logvinenko (1996) and Tao Luna (2004)
August 10, 2008	Women's 10 m air pistol	Final	492.3	Guo Wenjun (CHN)	490.1 by Olga Klochneva (1996)
August 12, 2008	Men's double trap	Qual.	145	Walton Eller (USA)	144 by Ahmed Al Maktoum (2004)
August 12, 2008	Men's double trap	Final	190	Walton Eller (USA)	189 by Russell Mark (1996) and Ahmed Al Maktoum (2004)
August 14, 2008	Women's 50 m rifle 3 pos	Final	690.3	Du Li (CHN)	688.4 by Lioubov Galkina (2004)
Olympic records equalled
August 13, 2008	Women's 25 m pistol	Qual.	590	Otryadyn Gündegmaa (MGL)	590 by Tao Luna (2000)
August 14, 2008	Women's 50 m rifle 3 pos	Qual.	589	Du Li (CHN)	589 by Renata Mauer (1996)
Olympic records established after rule changes
August 10, 2008	Men's trap	Final	146	David Kostelecký (CZE)
August 11, 2008	Women's trap	Final	91	Satu Mäkelä-Nummela (FIN)
August 13, 2008	Women's 25 m pistol	Final	793.4	Chen Ying (CHN)
August 14, 2008	Women's skeet	Qual.	72	Chiara Cainero (ITA)
August 14, 2008	Women's skeet	Final	93	Chiara Cainero (ITA)  Kim Rhode (USA)  Christine Brinker (GER)
August 16, 2008	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol	Qual.	583	Keith Sanderson (USA)
August 16, 2008	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol	Final	780.2	Oleksandr Petriv (UKR)
August 16, 2008	Men's skeet	Qual.	121	Vincent Hancock (USA)
August 16, 2008	Men's skeet	Final	145	Vincent Hancock (USA)  Tore Brovold (NOR)

See also

• Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

• International Shooting Sport Federation
• Shooting – Official Results Book