Women's 10 metre air rifle was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Renata Mauer narrowly defeated Petra Horneber to win her first Olympic gold medal, as well as the first gold medal of the Atlanta games. Aleksandra Ivošev won the bronze medal; all three medalists finished within 0.4 points of each other.
Qualification round RankAthleteCountryScoreNotes1Petra Horneber397Q OR2Renata Mauer395Q3Valérie Bellenoue395Q4Marta Nedvedova395Q5Aleksandra Ivošev395Q6Olga Pogrebniak394Q7Lessia Leskiv394Q8Éva Joó393Q (4th: 100; 3rd: 100)9Aranka Binder393(4th: 100; 3rd: 98)9Irina Shilova393(4th: 99)9Jin Sun-ryeong393(4th: 98)9Xu Yanhua393(4th: 98)13Elizabeth Bourland39213Gaby Bühlmann39213Amelia Fournel39213Sabina Fuchs39213Marina Grigoryeva39213Vessela Letcheva39219Kim Jung-mi39120Dagmar Bilkova39020Mladenka Malenica39020Anna Maloukhina39020Nonka Matova39025Cindy Bouque38925Lindy Hansen38925Pushpamali Ramanayake38925Suzana Skoko38929Jarintorn Dangpiam38829Tetyana Nesterova38831Sue Banks38731Anni Bisso38731Eva Forian38731Masami Iwaki38731Iris Kremer-Roseneck38736Cristina Antolín38636Bettina Knells38636Nancy Napolski38639Yoko Minamoto38539Fabienne Pasetti38541Carole Couesnon38441Malgorzata Książkiewicz38443Rhona Barry38244Hanne Vataker38144Malini Wickramasinghe38146Lida Fariman37947Sara Antunes37748Carla Ribeiro37549Bibhashwori Rai359 OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final
Final RankAthleteQualFinalTotal395102.6497.6397100.4497.4395102.2497.24395101.6496.65394102.4496.46395100.1495.17393101.5494.58394100.2494.2
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