Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet

The Women's skeet event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 29 July 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks.

Women's skeet
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
VenueRoyal Artillery Barracks
Date29 July 2012
Competitors17 from 17 nations
Winning Score99
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kim Rhode  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Wei Ning  China
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Danka Barteková  Slovakia
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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 final ranking. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie.

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification records
World record   Kim Rhode (USA) 75 Tucson, United States 25 March 2012
Olympic record   Chiara Cainero (ITA) 72 Beijing, China 14 August 2008
Final records
World record   Danka Barteková (SVK) 99 (74+25) Nicosia, Cyprus 9 July 2008
Olympic record   Chiara Cainero (ITA)
  Kim Rhode (USA)
  Christine Brinker (GER)
93 (72+21)
93 (70+23)
93 (70+23)
Beijing, China 14 August 2008

Qualification round

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Rank Athlete Country 1 2 3 Tie Break Total Notes
1 Kim Rhode   United States 25 25 24 74 Q, OR
2 Danka Barteková   Slovakia 25 22 23 70 Q
3 Marina Belikova   Russia 24 23 22 69 Q
4 Wei Ning   China 24 19 25 68 Q
5 Christine Wenzel   Germany 22 23 23 68 Q
6 Chiara Cainero   Italy 22 21 24 2 67 Q
7 Therese Lundqvist   Sweden 22 22 23 1 67
8 Francisca Crovetto   Chile 22 22 22 66
9 Angelina Michshuk   Kazakhstan 22 22 22 66
10 Veronique Girardet   France 22 23 21 66
11 Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit   Thailand 20 23 22 65
12 Lucia Liliana Mihalache   Romania 25 20 20 65
13 Çiğdem Özyaman   Turkey 23 20 20 63
14 Elena Allen   Great Britain 20 20 20 60
15 Lauryn Mark   Australia 17 22 20 59
16 Panagiota Andreou   Cyprus 15 22 20 57
17 Mona El-Hawary   Egypt 14 20 17 51

Final

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Rank Athlete Country QF Final Total Bronze Medal
Tie Break
Notes
  Kim Rhode   United States 74 25 99 =WR, OR
  Wei Ning   China 68 23 91
  Danka Barteková   Slovakia 70 20 90 4
4 Marina Belikova   Russia 69 21 90 3
5 Chiara Cainero   Italy 67 22 89
6 Christine Wenzel   Germany 68 21 89

References

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