Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air rifle

Following a recent[when?] tradition, the women's 10 metre air rifle competition was the first medal event concluded at the 2000 Summer Olympics. It was held on 16 September, the day after the opening ceremony, with the 40-shot qualification round between 09:00 and 10:15 Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10), and the final round of 10 additional shots at 11:00. Kang Cho-hyun equalled the Olympic record in the qualification round but lost her two-point pre-final lead to Nancy Johnson, who thus won the first Sydney gold medal for the United States.[1]

Women's 10 metre air rifle
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
VenueSydney International Shooting Centre
Date16 September 2000
Competitors49 from 35 nations
Winning score497.7
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Nancy Johnson  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kang Cho-hyun  South Korea
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gao Jing  China
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Records edit

The existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification records
World record   Valentina Cherkasova (URS) 399 Los Angeles, United States 23 March 1991
Olympic record   Petra Horneber (GER) 397 Atlanta, United States 20 July 1996
Final records
World record   Gaby Bühlmann (SUI) 503.5 Munich, Germany 24 May 1998
Olympic record   Yeo Kab-soon (KOR) 498.2 Barcelona, Spain 27 July 1992

Qualification round edit

Rank Athlete Country Score Notes
1 Kang Cho-hyun   South Korea 397 Q EOR
2 Lioubov Galkina   Russia 395 Q
3 Sonja Pfeilschifter   Germany 395 Q
4 Choi Dae-young   South Korea 395 Q
5 Nancy Johnson   United States 395 Q
6 Jayme Dickman   United States 394 Q
7 Anjali Vedpathak   India 394 Q
8 Gao Jing   China 394 Q
9 Lindy Hansen   Norway 393
9 Monika Haselsberger   Austria 393
9 Petra Horneber   Germany 393
9 Mladenka Maleniča   Croatia 393
9 Olga Pogrebnyak   Belarus 393
9 Zhao Yinghui   China 393
15 Aranka Binder   FR Yugoslavia 392
15 Lessia Leskiv   Ukraine 392
15 Renata Mauer   Poland 392
15 Sue McCready   Australia 392
15 Hiromi Misaki   Japan 392
20 Alyona Aksyonova   Uzbekistan 391
20 Batkhuyagyn Zorigt   Mongolia 391
20 Valérie Bellenoue   France 391
20 Anni Bisso   Denmark 391
20 Olga Dovgun   Kazakhstan 391
20 Aleksandra Ivosev   FR Yugoslavia 391
20 Vessela Letcheva   Bulgaria 391
20 Natalija Prednik   Slovenia 391
28 Gaby Bühlmann   Switzerland 390
28 Amelia Rosa Fournel   Argentina 390
28 Yasmine Helmi   Egypt 390
28 Natallia Kalnysh   Ukraine 390
32 Sharon Bowes   Canada 389
32 Tatiana Goldobina   Russia 389
32 Oksana Kovtonovich   Belarus 389 −2p
32 Yuliya Shakhova   Uzbekistan 389
36 Eunice Caballero   Cuba 388
36 Nonka Matova   Bulgaria 388
36 Marina Pons   Spain 388
36 Oriana Scheuss   Switzerland 388
36 Lucie Valová   Czech Republic 388
41 Lindy Imgrund   Australia 387
41 Fabienne Pasetti   Monaco 387
43 Bhagawati Khatri   Nepal 386
44 Rasheya Jasmin Luis   Philippines 384
44 Divna Pešić   Macedonia 384
46 Sabrina Sultana   Bangladesh 383
47 Malini Wickramasinghe   Sri Lanka 382
48 Cari Johnson   Canada 381
49 Marwa Sultan   Egypt 376

−2p 2 points deducted (scoring protest turned down) – EOR Equalled Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final edit

Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Shoot-off
    Nancy Johnson (USA) 395 102.7 497.7
    Kang Cho-hyun (KOR) 397 100.5 497.5
    Gao Jing (CHN) 394 103.2 497.2
4   Lioubov Galkina (RUS) 395 101.7 496.7
5   Sonja Pfeilschifter (GER) 395 100.9 495.9
6   Jayme Dickman (USA) 394 101.4 495.4
7   Choi Dae-young (KOR) 395 98.1 493.1 10.4
8   Anjali Vedpathak (IND) 394 99.1 493.1 9.8

References edit

  1. ^ "Shooting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Women's Air Rifle, 10 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.

Sources edit