Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's double trap

The women's double trap competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 18 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece. This was the last Olympic competition in the event, before being removed from the program shortly after the Games.

Women's double trap
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
VenueMarkópoulo Olympic Shooting
Centre
DateAugust 18, 2004
Competitors15 from 12 nations
Winning score146
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kim Rhode  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Lee Bo-na  South Korea
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gao E  China
← 2000

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 3 sets of 40 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 40. The total score from all 160 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.

U.S. shooter and 1996 Olympic champion Kim Rhode rallied her way in the final rounds to reclaim the gold medal with a total record of 146.[1] South Korea's Lee Bo-na narrowly missed a shot for the Olympic title by a single bird, but secured the silver with a score of 145, while Chinese shooter and four-time Olympian Gao E beat her teammate Li Qingnian in a 2 to 1 shoot-off to take the bronze at 142 hits.[2][3]

Records edit

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

Qualification records
World record   Zhang Yafei (CHN) 115 Nicosia, Cyprus 20 October 2000
Olympic record   Pia Hansen (SWE) 112 Sydney, Australia 19 September 2000
Final records
World record   Zhang Yafei (CHN) 150 (115+35) Nicosia, Cyprus 20 October 2000
Olympic record   Pia Hansen (SWE) 148 (112+36) Sydney, Australia 19 September 2000

Qualification round edit

Rank Athlete Country A B C Total Notes
1 Kim Rhode   United States 36 36 38 110 Q
2 Lee Bo-na   South Korea 36 37 37 110 Q
3 Megumi Inoue   Japan 37 33 39 109 Q
4 Nadine Stanton   New Zealand 33 37 38 108 Q
5 Gao E   China 36 36 35 107 Q
6 Li Qingnian   China 37 35 35 107 Q
7 Susan Trindall   Australia 35 33 38 106
7 Lin Yi-chun   Chinese Taipei 36 33 37 106
9 Yelena Dudnik   Russia 33 36 36 105
9 Pia Hansen   Sweden 39 32 34 105
11 Susanne Kiermayer   Germany 34 36 31 101
11 Cynthia Meyer   Canada 35 32 34 101
13 Suzanne Balogh   Australia 34 33 30 97
13 María Quintanal   Spain 32 33 32 97
15 Susan Nattrass   Canada 30 33 25 88

Q Qualified for final

Final edit

Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Shoot-off
    Kim Rhode (USA) 110 36 146
    Lee Bo-na (KOR) 110 35 145
    Gao E (CHN) 107 35 142 2
4   Li Qingnian (CHN) 107 35 142 1
5   Megumi Inoue (JPN) 109 31 140
6   Nadine Stanton (NZL) 108 29 137

References edit

  1. ^ "Double trap gold for USA's Kim Rhode". USA Today. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Day Five Olympic Wrap Up". The Chosun Ilbo. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Chinese Shooter Takes Olympic Women's Double Trap Bronze". China Internet Information Center. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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