Shooting at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	National Shooting Center
Dates	6–14 August
No. of events	15
Competitors	390

Shooting at the 2016 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 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 14 August at the National Shooting Center in Deodoro.^[1] A maximum of 390 athletes were able to compete in the fifteen events across these Games. The event format was similar to 2012, although there were significant changes to the rules and guidelines of the competition.

Format changes

On 23 November 2012, the International Shooting Sport Federation instituted new rules to the competition format designed to enhance the sport's appeal to youth, to make it more spectator and media friendly, and to keep the competitions fair and transparent. The most significant change to the rules was the new final format for all Olympic events, where all finalists must start from scratch. Furthermore, all finals featured an elimination stage, until the competition ended up with duels between the two shooters to decide the gold and silver medals. Other ratified changes included decimal scoring for both air rifle and rifle prone, separate sighting and match firing periods, limited use of performance-enhancing rifle clothing and equipment, target throwing distance in skeet shooting, and adjustment of targets in the double trap.^[2]

Qualification

The qualification system was similar to that used for previous Games, with a fixed number of quota places divided among the nations whose shooters place well at top-level global and continental championships. As per the guidelines from the International Shooting Sport Federation, qualification commenced with the 2014 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Granada, Spain, which concluded on 19 September 2014, two years before the Olympics.^[3][4] Throughout the process, quota places were generally awarded when a shooter earns a gold medal in an ISSF World Cup series or posts a top finish at the ISSF World Championships or the continental championships (Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas).

Brazil did not qualify through the World Championships, rather its nine places were guaranteed due to it being the host nation.^[5]

Schedule

Participation

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	4	3	0	7
2	Germany	3	1	0	4
3	China	1	2	4	7
4	South Korea	1	1	0	2
	Vietnam	1	1	0	2
6	United States	1	0	2	3
7	Greece	1	0	1	2
	Independent Olympic Athletes	1	0	1	2
9	Australia	1	0	0	1
	Croatia	1	0	0	1
11	Russia	0	2	2	4
12	France	0	1	1	2
13	Brazil*	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
17	Great Britain	0	0	2	2
18	North Korea	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		15	15	15	45

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 meter air pistol	Hoàng Xuân Vinh  Vietnam OR	Felipe Almeida Wu  Brazil	Pang Wei  China
25 meter rapid fire pistol	Christian Reitz  Germany	Jean Quiquampoix  France	Li Yuehong  China
50 meter pistol	Jin Jong-oh  South Korea OR	Hoàng Xuân Vinh  Vietnam	Kim Song-guk  North Korea
10 meter air rifle	Niccolò Campriani  Italy OR	Serhiy Kulish  Ukraine	Vladimir Maslennikov  Russia
50 meter rifle prone	Henri Junghänel  Germany OR	Kim Jong-hyun  South Korea	Kirill Grigoryan  Russia
50 meter rifle three positions	Niccolò Campriani  Italy OR	Sergey Kamenskiy  Russia	Alexis Raynaud  France
Skeet	Gabriele Rossetti  Italy	Marcus Svensson  Sweden	Abdullah Al-Rashidi  Independent Olympic Athletes
Trap	Josip Glasnović  Croatia	Giovanni Pellielo  Italy	Edward Ling  Great Britain
Double trap	Fehaid Al-Deehani  Independent Olympic Athletes	Marco Innocenti  Italy	Steven Scott  Great Britain

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 meter air pistol	Zhang Mengxue  China OR	Vitalina Batsarashkina  Russia	Anna Korakaki  Greece
25 meter pistol	Anna Korakaki  Greece	Monika Karsch  Germany	Heidi Diethelm Gerber  Switzerland
10 meter air rifle	Virginia Thrasher  United States OR	Du Li  China	Yi Siling  China
50 meter rifle three positions	Barbara Engleder  Germany	Zhang Binbin  China	Du Li  China
Skeet	Diana Bacosi  Italy	Chiara Cainero  Italy	Kim Rhode  United States
Trap	Catherine Skinner  Australia	Natalie Rooney  New Zealand	Corey Cogdell  United States

See also

• Shooting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

• "Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com)". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)
• Results Book – Shooting