The Women's 10 metre air pistol event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 10 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. Natalia Paderina of Russia set a new Olympic record in the qualification round with 391 points out of 400, but entering the final Guo Wenjun was only one point behind and through the last ten shots emerged as the winner. After the competition, Paderina (silver) and Georgian veteran Nino Salukvadze (bronze) posed together; Salukvadze took the opportunity to take a stand for a peaceful solution.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 40 shots with an air pistol at 10 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10.

The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 50 shots was used to determine final ranking.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Both Olympic records were broken during the competition: the qualification record was raised to 391 by Natalia Paderina and the final record to 492.3 (390+102.3) by Guo Wenjun.

Qualification round RankAthleteCountry1 234TotalNotes 1Natalia Paderina 97 98 98 98 391 Q OR 2Guo Wenjun 96 98 99 97 390 Q 3Tsogbadrakhyn Mönkhzul 96 95 97 99 387 Q 4Nino Salukvadze 97 96 96 97 386 Q 5Viktoria Chaika 97 94 96 97 384 Q 6Jasna Šekarić 96 94 98 96 384 Q 7Mirosława Sagun-Lewandowska 95 96 97 96 384 Q 8Mira Nevansuu 99 95 95 95 384 Q 9Svetlana Smirnova 96 95 94 98 383 10Claudia Verdicchio 93 98 96 96 383 11Mariya Grozdeva 96 93 95 98 382 12Otryadyn Gündegmaa 97 93 95 97 382 13Zauresh Baibussinova 94 94 98 96 382 14Sonia Franquet 93 97 96 96 382 15Jo Yong-Suk 98 96 93 95 382 16Kim Yun-Mi 96 95 97 94 382 17Cornelia Frölich 96 96 94 95 381 18Lalita Yauhleuskaya 97 95 96 93 381 19Ren Jie 97 96 95 93 381 20Tanyaporn Prucksakorn 95 95 93 97 380 21Lee Ho-lim 92 97 95 96 380 22Huang Yi-ling 96 93 94 96 379 23Brigitte Roy 93 94 97 95 379 24Munkhbayar Dorjsuren 95 93 97 94 379 25Maria Pilar Fernandez 93 97 96 93 379 26Lenka Marušková 96 96 94 93 379 27Sandra Kolly 94 92 97 95 378 28Maura Genovesi 94 94 95 95 378 29Zsófia Csonka 94 93 97 94 378 30Sławomira Szpek 95 95 94 94 378 31Olena Kostevych 98 93 94 93 378 32Irena Tanova 96 93 95 93 377 33Stéphanie Tirode 96 94 94 93 377 34Luisa Maida 94 93 93 95 375 35Michaela Musilová 95 94 93 93 375 36Dina Aspandiyarova 96 96 94 89 375 37Brenda Shinn 89 98 93 93 373 38Michiko Fukushima 91 94 97 91 373 39Avianna Chao 89 93 94 94 370 40Lindita Kodra 92 93 93 92 370 41Rebecca Snyder 93 92 94 91 370 42Zhanna Shapialevich 91 92 95 90 368 43Carolina Lozado 93 92 92 90 367 44Patricia Wilka 90 91 27 208 DNF

DNF Did not finish – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final RankAthleteQual1 2345678910FinalTotalNotes39010.010.510.410.410.110.39.410.710.89.7102.3492.3OR39110.08.510.010.210.610.59.89.79.59.398.1489.13869.810.310.09.510.210.710.410.69.110.8101.4487.449.39.410.410.110.210.59.210.59.88.698.0482.058.110.39.29.99.810.49.99.410.79.697.3481.3610.29.69.99.99.39.19.710.09.39.996.9480.973848.79.39.210.39.810.09.79.99.99.796.5480.583879.310.08.78.39.29.58.510.79.29.292.6479.6

OR Olympic record

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