The women's 10 metre air pistol competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 15 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.
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.
19-year-old Ukrainian shooter Olena Kostevych came from behind to outplay Serbia and Montenegro's five-time Olympian and a previous Olympic champion Jasna Šekarić in a one-shot tiebreaker 10.2 to 9.4 for the gold medal in air pistol shooting, as a result of their draw in a 10-shot final round for first place with a score of 483.3 points. Meanwhile, the bronze medal was awarded to Bulgaria's Mariya Grozdeva, who beat China's current world record holder Ren Jie in another shoot-off 10.4 to 9.8, after having been tied in the final at 482.3, just one point behind the two medalists.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification round RankAthleteCountry1234TotalNotes 1 Jasna Šekarić 96 97 96 98 387 Q 2 Irada Ashumova 97 94 97 98 386 Q 3 Natalia Paderina 96 97 96 97 386 Q 4 Mariya Grozdeva 96 97 96 97 386 Q 5 Munkhbayar Dorjsuren 96 98 94 97 385 Q 6 Ren Jie 95 96 96 97 384 Q 7 Cornelia Frölich 95 97 96 96 384 Q 8 Olena Kostevych 96 96 96 96 384 Q 9 Olga Kuznetsova 97 96 96 94 383 10 Ahn Soo-kyeong 98 93 94 97 382 10 Yuliya Alipava 96 97 94 95 382 10 Yoko Inada 93 95 98 96 382 10 Yuliya Korostylova 99 92 97 94 382 10 Nino Salukvadze 96 96 98 92 382 15 Mirela Skoko-Ćelić 95 97 94 95 381 16 Viktoria Chaika 96 92 97 95 380 16 Otryadyn Gündegmaa 93 96 96 95 380 16 Lenka Hyková 94 97 94 95 380 16 Rebecca Snyder 96 94 94 96 380 16 Claudia Verdicchio 92 95 98 95 380 21 Lalita Yauhleuskaya 92 97 94 96 379 21 Dorottya Erdős 95 95 94 95 379 21 Susanne Meyerhoff 94 97 93 95 379 21 Park Ah-young 93 96 98 92 379 25 Michiko Fukushima 92 97 95 94 378 26 Zsófia Csonka 96 91 96 94 377 26 Marina Karaflou 94 95 93 95 377 28 Nasim Hassanpour 94 94 94 94 376 28 Linda Ryan 94 97 91 94 376 30 Elizabeth Callahan 89 98 95 92 374 30 María Pilar Fernández 94 94 93 93 374 30 Brigitte Roy 95 91 94 94 374 33 Galina Belyayeva 96 91 93 93 373 34 Lo Ka Kay 92 95 94 90 371 35 Grettel Barboza 94 94 91 89 368 35 Amanda Mondol 91 93 93 91 368 35 Margarita Tarradell 91 94 92 91 368 38 Monika Rieder 91 92 91 92 366 38 Tao Luna 94 93 89 90 366 40 Carmen Malo 92 91 91 91 365 41 Francis Gorrin 91 90 89 88 358
Final RankAthleteQual12345678910FinalTotal5th placeshoot-offBronzeshoot-offGoldshoot-off 384 10.6 9.9 10.2 9.5 10.0 9.4 9.4 10.4 10.0 9.9 99.3 10.2 387 10.3 8.6 9.1 8.7 8.9 10.1 9.8 10.1 10.6 10.1 96.3 483.3 9.4 386 9.5 8.2 9.9 9.8 9.8 10.1 9.3 9.7 9.1 10.9 96.3 10.4 4 8.9 8.2 10.7 10.7 10.4 10.4 10.5 9.0 9.4 10.1 98.3 482.3 9.7 5 9.1 9.5 10.1 9.5 10.6 10.1 9.2 8.1 10.0 9.7 95.9 10.0 6 385 10.1 10.6 9.7 9.5 9.0 10.1 9.7 9.3 9.5 9.4 96.9 481.9 9.3 7 10.3 9.7 9.5 9.6 10.0 10.0 10.4 8.6 9.6 9.8 97.5 481.5 8 10.4 9.4 10.2 10.2 10.5 8.5 8.3 9.9 9.6 8.4 95.4 481.4
References
External links Official Results