Following a recent 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.
Records The existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification round RankAthleteCountryScoreNotes1Kang Cho-hyun397Q EOR2Lioubov Galkina395Q3Sonja Pfeilschifter395Q4Choi Dae-young395Q5Nancy Johnson395Q6Jayme Dickman394Q7Anjali Vedpathak394Q8Gao Jing394Q9Lindy Hansen3939Monika Haselsberger3939Petra Horneber3939Mladenka Maleniča3939Olga Pogrebnyak3939Zhao Yinghui39315Aranka Binder39215Lessia Leskiv39215Renata Mauer39215Sue McCready39215Hiromi Misaki39220Alyona Aksyonova39120Batkhuyagyn Zorigt39120Valérie Bellenoue39120Anni Bisso39120Olga Dovgun39120Aleksandra Ivosev39120Vessela Letcheva39120Natalija Prednik39128Gaby Bühlmann39028Amelia Rosa Fournel39028Yasmine Helmi39028Natallia Kalnysh39032Sharon Bowes38932Tatiana Goldobina38932Oksana Kovtonovich389−2p32Yuliya Shakhova38936Eunice Caballero38836Nonka Matova38836Marina Pons38836Oriana Scheuss38836Lucie Valová38841Lindy Imgrund38741Fabienne Pasetti38743Bhagawati Khatri38644Rasheya Jasmin Luis38444Divna Pešić38446Sabrina Sultana38347Malini Wickramasinghe38248Cari Johnson38149Marwa Sultan376 −2p 2 points deducted (scoring protest turned down) – EOR Equalled Olympic record – Q Qualified for final
Final RankAthleteQualFinalTotalShoot-off395102.7497.7397100.5497.5394103.2497.24101.7496.75100.9495.96101.4495.47 98.110.48 99.1493.19.8
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