2008 Summer Olympics / Shooting

Shooting at the XXIX. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Beijing
Competition venue	Shooting Range Beijing Shijingshan Shooting Range
Nations	103
Athletes	390 (145 women, 245 men)
date	9-17 August 2008
decisions	15th
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At the XXIX. The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing hosted 15 shooting competitions, six for women and nine for men. The venues were the Beijing Shooting Range (rifle and pistol disciplines) and the Shijingshan shooting ranges (Skeet and Trap), both in the Shijingshan District . Compared to 2004, there were two fewer disciplines on the program.

Beijing shooting range

Shijingshan Firing Range

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	China	5	2	1	8th
2	United States	2	2	2	6th
3	Czech Republic	2	1	-	3
	Ukraine	2	1	-	3
5	Italy	1	2	-	3
6th	South Korea	1	1	-	2
7th	Finland	1	-	1	2
8th	India	1	-	-	1
9	Russia	-	2	2	4th
10	Germany	-	1	3	4th
11	Mongolia	-	1	-	1
	Norway	-	1	-	1
	Slovakia	-	1	-	1
14th	Australia	-	-	1	1
	Georgia	-	-	1	1
	France	-	-	1	1
	Croatia	-	-	1	1
	Cuba	-	-	1	1
	Slovenia	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze Small caliber three-position fight 50 m Qiu Jian Yuri Sukhorukov Rajmond Debevec Small bore, lying 50 m Artur Ajwasjan Matthew Emmons Warren Potent Air rifle 10 m Abhinav Bindra Zhu Qinan Henri Häkkinen Free pistol 50 m Jin Jong-oh Tan Zongliang Vladimir Issakov Rapid fire pistol 25 m Oleksandr Petriv Ralf Schumann Christian Reitz Air pistol 10 m Pang Wei Jin Jong-oh Jason Turner Skeet Vincent Hancock Tore Brovold Anthony Terras Trap David Kostelecký Giovanni Pellielo Alexei Alipov Double trap Walton Eller Francesco D'Aniello Hu Binyuan

Women competitor gold silver bronze Small caliber three-position fight 50 m You li Kateřina Emmons Eglys Cruz Air rifle 10 m Kateřina Emmons Lyubov Galkina Snježana Pejčić Sports pistol 25 m Chen Ying Otrjadyn Gündegmaa Munkhbayar Dorjsuren Air pistol 10 m Guo Wenjun Natalia Paderina Nino Salukvadze Skeet Chiara Cainero Kim Rhode Christine Wenzel Trap Satu Mäkelä-Nummela Zuzana Štefečeková Corey Cogdell

Results men

Small caliber three-position fight 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHN	Qiu Jian	1272.5
2	UKR	Yuri Sukhorukov	1272.4
3	SLO	Rajmond Debevec	1271.7
4th	United States	Matthew Emmons	1270.3
5	AUT	Thomas Farnik	1268.9
6th	AUT	Mario Knögler	1268.4
7th	FRA	Valérian Sauveplane	1267.1
8th	NOR	Vebjørn mountain	1266.5
10	GER	Maik Eckhardt	1169
17th	GER	Michael Winter	1166
21st	SUI	Beat Mueller	1164
35	SUI	Marcel Bürge	1155

Date: August 17th, 2008
49 participants from 31 countries

Matthew Emmons had a 3.3-point lead to the last shot. However, he awarded the safe medal with an unusual low 4.4. A repetition of the tragedy at the Summer Games in Athens , when he received a zero with the last shot (cross shot).

Small bore, lying 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	UKR	Artur Ajwasjan	702.7
2	United States	Matthew Emmons	701.7
3	OUT	Warren Potent	700.5
4th	NOR	Vebjørn mountain	699.1
5	RUS	Konstantin Prichodchenko	699.0
6th	FRA	Valérian Sauveplane	698.8
7th	FIN	Juha Hirvi	698.5
8th	BLR	Sjarhej Martynau	698.3
24	GER	Maik Eckhardt	592
30th	AUT	Mario Knögler	590
31	GER	Michael Winter	590
32	SUI	Marcel Bürge	590
41	AUT	Christian planner	588
48	SUI	Simon Beyeler	585

Date: August 15, 2008
56 participants from 36 countries

Air rifle 10 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	IND	Abhinav Bindra	700.5
2	CHN	Zhu Qinan	699.7
3	FIN	Henri Häkkinen	699.4
4th	ROU	Alin Moldoveanu	698.9
5	RUS	Konstantin Prichodchenko	698.4
6th	HUN	Peter Sidi	698.4
7th	SRB	Stevan Pletikosić	697.7
8th	RUS	Sergei Kruglow	697.4
10	AUT	Thomas Farnik	594
15th	GER	Tino Mohaupt	593
30th	AUT	Christian planner	589
34	LIE	Oliver Geissmann	588
36	GER	Michael Winter	588
45	SUI	Simon Beyeler	583

Date: August 11, 2008
51 participants from 37 countries

Abhinav Bindra and Henri Häkkinen were tied in first place before the last of the ten shots. While Bindra then scored a 10.8, Häkkinen only got 9.7 points and fell back to third place, behind the Chinese defending champion Zhu Qinan . For India it was the first gold medal in an individual competition in the history of the Olympic Games.

Free pistol 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	COR	Jin Jong-oh	660.4
2	CHN	Tan Zongliang	659.5
3	RUS	Vladimir Issakov	658.9
4th	UKR	Oleh Omelchuk	658.9
5	SVK	Pavol Kopp	657.6
6th	BUL	Tanju Kirjakov	656.8
7th	SRB	Damir Mikec	655.8
8th	JPN	Tomoyuki Matsuda	558
13	GER	Hans-Jörg Meyer	557
29	GER	Florian Schmidt	549
40	SUI	Christoph Schmid	540

Date: August 12, 2008
45 participants from 32 countries

The North Korean Kim Jong-su took second place, but got stuck in the doping control with a positive test for the beta blocker propranolol . He had to return his medals immediately on August 15th.

Rapid fire pistol 25 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	UKR	Oleksandr Petriv	780.2 ( OR )
2	GER	Ralf Schumann	779.5
3	GER	Christian Reitz	779.3
4th	RUS	Leonid Ekimov	778.2
5	United States	Keith Sanderson	776.6
6th	UKR	Roman Bondaruk	774.7
7th	CUB	Leuris Pupo	578
8th	RUS	Alexei Klimov	577

Date: August 15 and 16, 2008
19 participants from 14 countries

The Germans Ralf Schumann and Christian Reitz qualified for the final and had to shoot first. They achieved a slightly better performance than the fourth-placed Ukrainian Oleksandr Petriw , but he stayed in the lead because he had one point ahead of Schumann and Reitz from qualifying. The three leaders after qualifying showed consistently poor performances and could not maintain their lead, so that none of them won a medal.

Air pistol 10 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHN	Pang Wei	688.2
2	COR	Jin Jong-oh	684.5
3	United States	Jason Turner	682.0
4th	United States	Brian Beaman	682.0
5	RUS	Leonid Ekimov	680.5
6th	FRA	Walter Lapeyre	680.3
7th	THA	Jakkrit Panichpatikum	679.0
8th	ITA	Vigilio Fait	580
20th	GER	Hans-Jörg Meyer	577
32	SUI	Christoph Schmid	573
37	GER	Florian Schmidt	571

Date: August 9, 2008
48 participants from 35 countries

In the final, the Chinese Pang Wei won, clearly distancing the South Korean Jin Jong-oh and the North Korean Kim Jong-su . The latter was convicted of doping with the beta blocker propranolol six days later, on August 15, and had to return his medals immediately.

Skeet

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Vincent Hancock	145 ( OR )
2	NOR	Tore Brovold	145 ( OR )
3	FRA	Anthony Terras	144
4th	CYP	Andonis Nikolaidis	144
5	CYP	Georgios Achilleos	143
6th	CHN	Qu Ridong	142
7th	CHN	Jin Di	118
8th	ESP	Juan José Aramburu	118
13	GER	Tino Wenzel	117
20th	GER	Axel Wegner	115

The medalists v. l .: Tore Brovold (Norway), Vincent Hancock (USA) and Anthony Terras (France)

Date: August 15 and 16, 2008
41 participants from 30 countries

Trap

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CZE	David Kostelecký	146 ( OR )
2	ITA	Giovanni Pellielo	143
3	RUS	Alexei Alipov	142
4th	OUT	Michael Diamond	142
5	CRO	Josip Glasnović	140
6th	ITA	Erminio Frasca	140
7th	GER	Karsten Bindrich	119
8th	IND	Mansher Singh	117
24	GER	Stefan Rüttgeroth	113

Date: August 9th and 10th, 2008
35 participants from 25 countries

David Kostelecký made no mistakes in the final and was able to prevail against Alexei Alipow , who was tied with Kostelecký after qualifying.

Double trap

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Walton Eller	190 ( OR )
2	ITA	Francesco D'Aniello	187
3	CHN	Hu Binyuan	184
4th	United States	Jeffrey Holguin	182
5	OUT	Russell Mark	181
6th	GBR	Richard Faulds	180
7th	UAE	Ahmed Al Maktum	136
8th	MLT	William Chetcuti	136

Date: August 12, 2008
19 participants from 14 countries

Results women

Small caliber three-position fight 50 m

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	CHN	You li	690.3 ( OR )
2	CZE	Kateřina Emmons	687.7
3	CUB	Eglys Cruz	687.6
4th	RUS	Lyubov Galkina	687.4
5	United States	Jamie Lynn Beyerle	686.6
6th	KAZ	Olga Dowgun	686.3
7th	CRO	Lidija Mihajlović	686.0
8th	CHN	Wu Liuxi	685.9
9	GER	Barbara Lechner	582
17th	GER	Sonja Pfeilschifter	578
23	SUI	Irene Beyeler	577
25th	SUI	Annik Marguet	577

Date: August 14, 2008
43 participants from 28 countries

Air rifle 10 m

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	CZE	Kateřina Emmons	503.5 ( OR )
2	RUS	Lyubov Galkina	502.1
3	CRO	Snježana Pejčić	500.9
4th	United States	Jamie Lynn Beyerle	499.8
5	CHN	You li	499.6
6th	KAZ	Olga Dowgun	498.1
7th	FRA	Marie-Laure Gigon	497.3
8th	POLE	Sylwia Bogacka	495.7
12	GER	Sonja Pfeilschifter	396
16	SUI	Irene Beyeler	395
17th	GER	Barbara Lechner	394
33	SUI	Annik Marguet	391

Date: August 9, 2008
47 participants from 31 countries

Sports pistol 25 m

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	CHN	Chen Ying	793.4 ( OR )
2	MGL	Otrjadyn Gündegmaa	792.2
3	GER	Munkhbayar Dorjsuren	789.2
4th	CHN	Fei Fengji	787.9
5	BUL	Maria Grosdeva	786.6
6th	PRK	Yong Suk Jo	783.4
7th	THA	Tanyaporn Prucksakorn	777.7
8th	ESA	Luisa Maida	774.0
23	GER	Stefanie Thurmann	576
29	SUI	Sandra Kolly	574

Date: August 13, 2008
41 participants from 28 countries

Air pistol 10 m

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	CHN	Guo Wenjun	492.7 ( OR )
2	RUS	Natalia Paderina	489.1
3	GEO	Nino Salukvadze	487.4
4th	BLR	Viktoria Chayka	482.0
5	POLE	Mirosława Sagun-Lewandowska	481.3
6th	SRB	Jasna Šekarić	480.9
7th	FIN	Mira Nevansuu	480.5
8th	MGL	Tsogbadrachyn monk dsul	479.6
10	GER	Claudia Verdicchio	383
17th	SUI	Cornelia Frölich	381
24	GER	Munkhbayar Dorjsuren	379
27	SUI	Sandra Kolly	378

Date: August 10, 2008
44 participants from 30 countries

Skeet

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	ITA	Chiara Cainero	93 ( OR )
2	United States	Kim Rhode	93
3	GER	Christine Brinker	93
4th	SWE	Nathalie Larsson	92
5	THA	Sutiya Jiewchaloemnit	92
6th	CHN	Wei Ning	91
7th	CYP	Andri Eleftheriou	67
8th	SVK	Danka Barteková	67

Date: August 14, 2008
19 participants from 19 countries

In the extremely close final, there were only two hits between first and sixth place, so that a playoff between three shooters had to decide for the gold medal and one with two for fourth place. In the jump-off for gold, both the American Kim Rhode and the German Christine Brinker made a mistake, in contrast to the Italian Chiara Cainero , who won. For the silver medal there was a playoff between Rhode and Brinker, which the American won with two hits. After Chiara Cainero had already achieved an Olympic record in qualifying with 72 hits , the top trio was able to improve the Olympic record again in the final with 93 hits.

Trap

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	FIN	Satu Mäkelä-Nummela	91 ( OR )
2	SVK	Zuzana Štefečeková	89
3	United States	Corey Cogdell	86
4th	JPN	Yukie Nakayama	86
5	LTU	Daina Gudzinevičiūtė	86
6th	KAZ	Elena Struchayeva	86
7th	ITA	Deborah Gelisio	66
8th	GER	Susanne Kiermayer	65

Date: August 11, 2008
20 participants from 20 countries

In the final, Satu Mäkelä-Nummela was able to distance the Slovakian Zuzana Štefečeková, who was still tied after qualifying, by two points and win the first gold of these games for the Finnish team. Bronze in the jump-off went to American Corey Cogdell .

Web links

Commons : Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 2008 Summer Olympics (PDF, 27.3 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ How much bad luck can a person have? T-Online, August 17, 2008, accessed November 29, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Medalist Kim tested positive. Spiegel Online , August 15, 2008, accessed November 29, 2018 .