Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol
| Women's 10 metre air pistol at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | ||||||||||
| Venue | Beijing Shooting Range Hall | |||||||||
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| Date | August 10, 2008 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 44 from 30 nations | |||||||||
| Winning score | 492.3 (OR) | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics  | ||||
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| Rifle | ||||
| 50 m rifle three positions | men | women | ||
| 50 m rifle prone | men | |||
| 10 m air rifle | men | women | ||
| Pistol | ||||
| 50 m pistol | men | |||
| 25 m pistol | women | |||
| 25 m rapid fire pistol | men | |||
| 10 m air pistol | men | women | ||
| Shotgun | ||||
| Trap | men | women | ||
| Double trap | men | |||
| Skeet | men | women | ||
The Women's 10 metre air pistol event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 10 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. Natalia Paderina of Russia set a new Olympic record in the qualification round with 391 points out of 400, but entering the final Guo Wenjun was only one point behind and through the last ten shots emerged as the winner. After the competition, Paderina (silver) and Georgian veteran Nino Salukvadze (bronze) posed together, showing the world that their friendship was unaffected by the newly broken-out war in South Ossetia, which only a day earlier had threatened Salukvadze's participation in the Olympics; Salukvadze took the opportunity to take a stand for a peaceful solution.[1]
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.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| Qualification records | ||||
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| World record |  Svetlana Smirnova (RUS) | 393 | Munich, Germany | 23 May 1998 |
| Olympic record | Marina Logvinenko (RUS) Tao Luna (CHN) | 390 | Atlanta, United States Athens, Greece | 21 July 1996 17 August 2004 |
| Final records | ||||
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| World record | Ren Jie (CHN) | 493.5 (390+103.5) | Munich, Germany | 22 May 1999 |
| Olympic record | Olga Klochneva (RUS) | 490.1 (389+101.1) | Atlanta, United States | 21 July 1996 |
Both Olympic records were broken during the competition: the qualification record was raised to 391 by Natalia Paderina and the final record to 492.3 (390+102.3) by Guo Wenjun.
Qualification round
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DNF Did not finish – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final
Final
| Rank | Athlete | Qual | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final | Total | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Guo Wenjun (CHN) |
390 | 10.0 | 10.5 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 10.1 | 10.3 | 9.4 | 10.7 | 10.8 | 9.7 | 102.3 | 492.3 | OR |
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Natalia Paderina (RUS) |
391 | 10.0 | 8.5 | 10.0 | 10.2 | 10.6 | 10.5 | 9.8 | 9.7 | 9.5 | 9.3 | 98.1 | 489.1 | |
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 Nino Salukvadze (GEO) |
386 | 9.8 | 10.3 | 10.0 | 9.5 | 10.2 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 10.6 | 9.1 | 10.8 | 101.4 | 487.4 | |
| 4 | .svg.png){kind=small} Viktoria Chaika (BLR) |
384 | 9.3 | 9.4 | 10.4 | 10.1 | 10.2 | 10.5 | 9.2 | 10.5 | 9.8 | 8.6 | 98.0 | 482.0 | |
| 5 |  Mirosława Sagun-Lewandowska (POL) |
384 | 8.1 | 10.3 | 9.2 | 9.9 | 9.8 | 10.4 | 9.9 | 9.4 | 10.7 | 9.6 | 97.3 | 481.3 | |
| 6 | .svg.png){kind=small} Jasna Šekarić (SRB) |
384 | 10.2 | 9.6 | 9.9 | 9.9 | 9.3 | 9.1 | 9.7 | 10.0 | 9.3 | 9.9 | 96.9 | 480.9 | |
| 7 |  Mira Nevansuu (FIN) |
384 | 8.7 | 9.3 | 9.2 | 10.3 | 9.8 | 10.0 | 9.7 | 9.9 | 9.9 | 9.7 | 96.5 | 480.5 | |
| 8 |  Tsogbadrakhyn Mönkhzul (MGL) |
387 | 9.3 | 10.0 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 9.2 | 9.5 | 8.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 9.2 | 92.6 | 479.6 |
OR Olympic record
References
- ↑ Gardner, Alan (10 August 2008), Russian and Georgian medalists embrace on podium, The Guardian, retrieved 2008-08-10