Shooting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Shooting at the XV Paralympic Games | |
Venue | National Shooting Center |
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Dates | 8–14 September 2016 |
Competitors | 140 |
Shooting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics shall consisted of twelve events, eight for rifle and 4 for pistol, across a range of men's, women's and mixed events.
Paralympic shooters were also classified according to the extent of their disability. The classification system allows shooters to compete against others with a similar level of function.
Shooting classifications are:
- SH1 - competitors who do not need a shooting stand
- SH2 - competitors who use a shooting stand to support the firearm's weight
Qualification
There were 140 athletes (100 male, 40 female) taking part in this sport. Any athlete awarded a qualification slot in one event is permitted to enter other eligible event if they have a minimum qualification score. Therefore, fields in each event are likely to be significantly larger than the qualification quotas below.
Qualification slots will be allocated as follows:[1]
° : Bipartite invitation of named athlete.
Medal summary
Medal table
This ranking sorts countries by the number of gold medals earned by their shooters (in this context a nation is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.
Rank | NPC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | China (CHN) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
2 | Slovakia (SVK) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
3 | Iran (IRI) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
4 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
5 | Slovenia (SLO) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
6 | Serbia (SRB) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
7 | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
8 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
9 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Germany (GER) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
11 | Turkey (TUR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Uzbekistan (UZB) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Israel (ISR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
United States (USA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Total (14 NPCs) | 12 | 12 | 12 | 36 |
Medalists
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's 10m air pistol SH1 |
Yang Chao China |
Lee Ju-hee South Korea |
Server Ibragimov Uzbekistan |
Men's 10m air rifle standing SH1 |
Dong Chao China |
Abdullah Sultan Alaryani United Arab Emirates |
Kim Su-wan South Korea |
Men's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 |
Laslo Šuranji Serbia |
Abdullah Sultan Alaryani United Arab Emirates |
Doron Shaziri Israel |
Women's 10m air pistol SH1 |
Sareh Javanmardi Iran |
Olga Kovalchuk Ukraine |
Aysegul Pehlivanlar Turkey |
Women's 10m air rifle standing SH1 |
Veronika Vadovicova Slovakia |
Zhang Cuiping China |
Yan Yaping China |
Women's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 |
Zhang Cuiping China |
Veronika Vadovicova Slovakia |
Lee Yun-Ri South Korea |
Mixed 25m pistol SH1 |
Huang Xing China |
Joackim Norberg Sweden |
Lee Ju-hee South Korea |
Mixed 50m pistol SH1 |
Sareh Javanmardi Iran |
Yang Chao China |
Oleksii Denysiuk Ukraine |
Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1 |
Veronika Vadovicova Slovakia |
Natascha Hiltrop Germany |
Lee Jang-ho South Korea |
Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH2 |
Vasyl Kovalchuk Ukraine |
Kim Geun-soo South Korea |
McKenna Dahl United States |
Mixed 10m air rifle standing SH2 |
Veselka Pevec Slovenia |
Franček Gorazd Tiršek Slovenia |
Kim Geun-soo South Korea |
Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 |
Zhang Cuiping China |
Abdullah Sultan Alaryani United Arab Emirates |
Laslo Šuranji Serbia |