The women's 10 metre air rifle competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 14 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece. Following a relatively new Olympic tradition, it was the first event to be concluded at these Games.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 40 shots with an air rifle at 10 metres distance from the standing position. 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.
China's world record holder Du Li outscored a host of elite markswomen in the air rifle shooting final to notch the first gold medal at these Games, smashing a new Olympic record score of 502.0 points. Russia's Lioubov Galkina, who led the field by a full point into the final with 399, had to settle for the silver with a total score of 501.5 points, while Czech Republic's Kateřina Kůrková held off a daunting challenge from Zhao Yinghui (500.8) to rule out the Chinese supremacy in the medal haul for a bronze at 501.1, falling Zhao to a disappointing fourth by a 0.3-point deficit.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification round RankAthleteCountry1234TotalNotes 1 Lioubov Galkina 99 100 100 100 399 Q, 2 Du Li 99 100 99 100 398 Q 3 Kateřina Kůrková 100 99 99 100 398 Q 4 Zhao Yinghui 100 99 100 99 398 Q 5 Tatiana Goldobina 99 100 98 100 397 Q 6 Sonja Pfeilschifter 98 99 100 99 396 Q 7 Suma Shirur 99 98 100 99 396 Q 8 Laurence Brize 98 100 99 99 396 Q 9 Monika Haselsberger 99 99 99 99 396 9 Renata Mauer-Różańska 99 99 100 98 396 9 Emily Caruso 100 99 100 97 396 12 Olga Dovgun 100 98 100 97 395 12 Valentina Turisini 99 99 98 99 395 14 Cho Eun-young 99 99 98 98 394 14 Hattie Johnson 99 99 97 99 394 14 Éva Joó 99 100 96 99 394 14 Natallia Kalnysh 98 100 99 97 394 14 Lessia Leskiv 97 98 100 99 394 14 Agnieszka Staroń 98 99 98 99 394 20 Anjali Bhagwat 96 100 98 99 393 20 Patricia Rivas 97 98 100 98 393 22 Dorothee Bauer 99 98 99 96 392 22 Valérie Bellenoue 96 99 99 98 392 22 Hiromi Misaki 99 96 100 97 392 22 Yosheefin Prasasti 100 97 99 96 392 22 Marjo Yli-Kiikka 98 99 98 97 392 27 Gaby Bühlmann 100 97 96 98 391 27 Dina Hosny 99 96 98 98 391 27 Susan McCready 97 98 97 99 391 27 Seo Sun-hwa 98 99 96 98 391 27 Alexia Smirli 99 97 98 97 391 32 Sabrina Sena 99 97 97 97 390 33 Shaimaa Abdel-Latif 97 96 95 100 388 33 Daisy de Bock 95 96 99 98 388 33 Maria Faka 97 97 95 97 388 33 Ann Spejlsgaard 96 97 98 97 388 37 Beáta Krzyzewsky 95 97 97 98 387 38 Pushpamali Ramanayake 97 96 98 95 386 39 Eglis Yaima Cruz 95 98 98 94 385 40 Alyona Aksyonova 96 92 99 97 384 41 Svitlana Kashchenko 96 94 98 95 383 41 Dawn Kobayashi 98 93 97 95 383 43 Fabienne Pasetti 95 98 96 93 382 44 Divna Pešić 91 95 94 88 368
Final RankAthlete Qual 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final Total Notes 9.4 10.6 10.7 10.4 10.4 10.1 10.2 10.8 10.8 10.6 104.0 502.0 399 10.2 10.1 10.1 10.0 10.2 10.8 10.8 10.0 10.6 9.7 102.5 501.5 9.6 10.3 10.5 10.7 10.2 10.2 10.2 10.1 10.6 10.7 103.1 501.1 4 398 9.7 10.4 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.4 10.2 10.6 10.6 10.6 102.8 500.8 5 397 10.5 10.0 10.7 10.5 9.7 10.4 10.1 10.6 10.2 9.8 102.5 499.5 6 10.3 9.8 10.5 9.1 10.8 10.8 10.8 10.4 10.1 10.1 102.7 498.7 7 396 9.7 10.4 10.0 10.5 10.6 9.5 10.4 10.4 10.3 10.1 101.9 497.9 8 9.8 10.1 10.4 10.2 10.2 9.2 10.6 10.3 10.1 10.3 101.2 497.2
References
External links Official Results