Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air rifle
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The Women's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 9 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. It was the first medal awarded at the 2008 Olympic Games. Kateřina Emmons, who won a bronze medal in Athens four years earlier (then known by her maiden name Kůrková), now went all the way to a gold medal, after becoming the first shooter ever to achieve maximum qualification score (400) in an Olympic air rifle competition.
Women's 10 metre air rifle at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Beijing Shooting Range Hall | ||||||||||||
Date | August 9, 2008 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 47 from 31 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning score | 503.5 (OR) | ||||||||||||
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The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 40 shots with an air rifle at 10 metres distance from the standing position. 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.