Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's 10 metre air pistol

Infobox Olympic event
event = Women's 10 metre air pistol
games = 2008 Summer
venue = Beijing Shooting Range Hall
date = August 10, 2008
competitors = 44
nations = 30
gold = Guo Wenjun
goldNOC = CHN
silver = Natalia Paderina
silverNOC = RUS
bronze = Nino Salukvadze
bronzeNOC = GEO
win_label = Winning score
win_value = 492.3 (OR)
prev = 2004The 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. [citation
url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/aug/10/olympicsshooting.olympics2008?gusrc=rss&feed=sport
last=Gardner
first=Alan
title=Russian and Georgian medalists embrace on podium
publisher=The Guardian
publication-date=10 August 2008
accessdate=2008-08-10]

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.

Medalists

OR Olympic record

References