The women's skeet shooting competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 19 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 3 sets of 25 shots in the set order of skeet shooting.
The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25. The total score from all 100 shots was used to determine the final ranking. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie.
Hungarian shooter and 2000 Olympic bronze medalist Diána Igaly set a perfect 25 to claim the gold medal in the final, finishing with a total score of 97. China's Wei Ning had shared a total score of 93 birds with defending Olympic champion Zemfira Meftahatdinova of Azerbaijan, until she chased her rival in a 2 to 1 shoot-off to grab the silver, leaving Meftahatdinova with a bronze.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification round RankAthleteCountry123TotalSO 1SO 2Notes 1 Diána Igaly 23 24 25 72 Q 2 Zemfira Meftahatdinova 25242271 Q 3 Wei Ning 22242470 Q 4 Lauryn Mark 24222369 Q 5 Connie Smotek 242222 2 Q 6 Kim Rhode 242024 1 2 Q 7 Ri Hyon-ok 24222268 1 1 8 Chiara Cainero 24192467 9 Svetlana Demina 23212367 9 Kim Yeun-hee 24212267 9 Maarit Lepomäki 23222267 12 Andrea Stranovská 23222166 Q Qualified for final — SO 1 Shoot-off for fifth place — SO 2 Shoot-off for sixth place
Final RankAthleteQualFinalTotalShoot-off 72 25 97 70 23 2 71 22 93 1 4 69 23 92 5 68 23 91 6 22 90
References
External links Official Results