Shooting competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were originally scheduled from 25 July to 3 August 2020, due to the postponement of the Summer Olympics to 2021, the rescheduled dates were on 24 July to 2 August 2021 at the Asaka Shooting Range. Unlike in 2016, the number of shooters competing across fifteen events at these Games had been reduced from 390 to 360, with an equal distribution between men and women. Furthermore, several significant changes were instituted in the Olympic shooting program, including the substitution of three male-only events (rifle prone, free pistol, and double trap), with the mixed team competitions.

Competition format On 9 June 2017, the International Shooting Sport Federation welcomed the decision of the International Olympic Committee to approve the changes to the Olympic shooting program in achieving gender equality and to enhance the sport's popularity and worldwide appeal. One of the significant changes in the program was to replace the three men-only events, namely 50 m rifle prone, 50 m pistol, and double trap, with the mixed team competitions (rifle, pistol, and trap), as a means of ensuring gender equality. Other ratified changes included the same number of shots for both men and women and the progressive elimination finals for both the women's sport pistol and the shotgun events.

Similar to the 2016 format, all shooters who advanced to the Olympic finals of their individual events must start from scratch and compete against each other in a series of elimination rounds. The stage continues until the competition leaves with only two shooters battling out in a duel to decide the gold and silver medals.

Qualification

In February 2018, the International Shooting Sport Federation agreed to change the rules on the allocation of the Olympic quota places, as it aims to attain gender equality. As a result, a total of 360 quota places, an equal distribution between men and women, will be awarded at the top-level global and continental championships.

As per the guidelines from the International Shooting Sport Federation, the qualification period commences with the 2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Changwon, South Korea, which concludes on 15 September 2018, less than two years before the Olympics. There, forty-eight individual and twelve mixed team quota places will be assigned. Throughout the process, quota places will be 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).

After the qualification period concludes and all NOCs receive the official list of quota places, the ISSF will check the World Ranking list in each of the individual shooting events. The highest-ranked shooter, who has not qualified in any event and whose NOC does not have a berth in a specific event, will obtain a direct Olympic quota place.

Unlike the previous Games, host nation Japan is guaranteed twelve quota places, with one in each of the individual shooting events.

Schedule

Event ↓ / Date → Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 31 Sun 1 Mon 2 RifleMen's 10 m air rifle Q F Men's 50 m rifle 3 positions Q F Women's 10 m air rifle Q F Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions Q F Mixed 10 m air rifle team Q F PistolMen's 10 m air pistol Q F Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol Q F Women's 10 m air pistol Q F Women's 25 m pistol Q Q F Mixed 10 m air pistol team Q F ShotgunMen's trap Q Q F Men's skeet Q Q F Women's trap Q Q F Women's skeet Q Q F Mixed trap team Q F

Medal summary

Medal table

Men's events 10 metre air pistol 25 metre rapid fire pistol 10 metre air rifle 50 metre rifle three positions Skeet Trap

Women's events 10 metre air pistol 25 metre pistol 10 metre air rifle 50 metre rifle three positions Skeet Trap

Mixed events 10 metre air pistol team Jiang RanxinPang Wei Vitalina BatsarashkinaArtem Chernousov Olena KostevychOleh Omelchuk 10 metre air rifle team Yang QianYang Haoran Mary TuckerLucas Kozeniesky Yulia KarimovaSergey Kamenskiy Trap team Alberto FernándezFátima Gálvez Gian Marco BertiAlessandra Perilli Brian BurrowsMadelynn Bernau

Records broken

EventRoundNameNationScoreDateRecord Women's 10 metre air rifle Qualification Jeanette Hegg Duestad 632.9 24 July Women's 10 metre air rifle Final Yang Qian 251.8 24 July Men's 10 metre air pistol Final Javad Foroughi 244.8 24 July Women's 10 metre air pistol Qualification Jiang Ranxin 587 25 July = Women's 10 metre air pistol Final Vitalina Batsarashkina 240.3 25 July Men's 10 metre air rifle Qualification Yang Haoran 632.7 25 July Men's 10 metre air rifle Final William Shaner 251.6 25 July Women's skeet Qualification Wei Meng 124 26 July =Men's skeet Qualification Éric Delaunay 124 26 July Tammaro Cassandro Women's skeet Final Amber English 56 26 July Men's skeet Final Vincent Hancock 59 26 July Mixed 10 metre air pistol team Qualification Manu BhakerSaurabh Chaudhary 582 27 July Mixed 10 metre air rifle team Qualification Yang QianYang Haoran 633.2 27 July Women's trap Qualification Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková 125 29 July Women's trap Final Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková 43 29 July Men's trap Final Jiří Lipták 43 29 July David Kostelecký Women's 25 metre pistol Final Vitalina Batsarashkina 38 30 July Kim Min-jung Mixed trap team Qualification Fátima GálvezAlberto Fernández 148 31 July Alessandra PerilliGian Marco Berti Women's 50 metre rifle three positions Qualification Yulia Zykova 1182 31 July Women's 50 metre rifle three positions Final Nina Christen 463.9 31 July Men's 50 metre rifle three positions Final Zhang Changhong 466.0 2 August

See also Shooting at the 2018 Asian Games Shooting at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Shooting at the 2019 European Games Shooting at the 2019 Pan American Games Shooting at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

References

External links Results book