Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air rifle

Women's 10 metre air rifle at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Wolf Creek Shooting Complex
Competitors	49 from 31 nations
Winning score	497.6
Medalists
Renata Mauer   Poland   Petra Horneber   Germany   Aleksandra Ivošev   Yugoslavia

Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics
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
Double trap		men		women
Skeet		men
Running target
10 m running target		men

Women's 10 metre air rifle was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Renata Mauer narrowly defeated Petra Horneber to win her first Olympic gold medal, as well as the first gold medal of the Atlanta games. Aleksandra Ivošev won the bronze medal; all three medalists finished within 0.4 points of each other.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Petra Horneber	Germany	397	Q OR
2	Renata Mauer	Poland	395	Q
3	Valérie Bellenoue	France	395	Q
4	Marta Nedvedova	Czech Republic	395	Q
5	Aleksandra Ivošev	Yugoslavia	395	Q
6	Olga Pogrebniak	Belarus	394	Q
7	Lessia Leskiv	Ukraine	394	Q
8	Éva Joó	Hungary	393	Q (4th: 100; 3rd: 100)
9	Aranka Binder	Yugoslavia	393	(4th: 100; 3rd: 98)
9	Irina Shilova	Belarus	393	(4th: 99)
9	Jin Soon-young	South Korea	393	(4th: 98)
9	Xu Yanhua	China	393	(4th: 98)
13	Elizabeth Bourland	United States	392
13	Gaby Bühlmann	Switzerland	392
13	Amelia Fournel	Argentina	392
13	Sabina Fuchs	Switzerland	392
13	Marina Grigorieva	Russia	392
13	Vessela Letcheva	Bulgaria	392
19	Kim Jung-mi	South Korea	391
20	Dagmar Bilkova	Czech Republic	390
20	Mladenka Malenica	Croatia	390
20	Anna Maloukhina	Russia	390
20	Nonka Matova	Bulgaria	390
25	Cindy Bouque	Belgium	389
25	Lindy Hansen	Norway	389
25	Pushpamali Ramanayake	Sri Lanka	389
25	Suzana Skoko	Croatia	389
29	Jarintorn Dangpiam	Thailand	388
29	Tetyana Nesterova	Ukraine	388
31	Sue Banks	Australia	387
31	Anni Bisso	Denmark	387
31	Eva Forian	Hungary	387
31	Masami Iwaki	Japan	387
31	Iris Kremer-Roseneck	Luxembourg	387
36	Cristina Antolin	Spain	386
36	Bettina Knells	Germany	386
36	Nancy Napolski	United States	386
39	Yoko Minamoto	Japan	385
39	Fabienne Pasetti	Monaco	385
41	Carole Couesnon	France	384
41	Malgorzata Ksiazkiewicz	Poland	384
43	Rhona Barry	Ireland	382
44	Hanne Vataker	Norway	381
44	Malini Wickramasinghe	Sri Lanka	381
46	Lida Fariman	Iran	379
47	Sara Antunes	Portugal	377
48	Carla Ribeiro	Portugal	375
49	Bivaswari Rai	Nepal	359

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total
	Renata Mauer (POL)	395	102.6	497.6
	Petra Horneber (GER)	397	100.4	497.4
	Aleksandra Ivošev (YUG)	395	102.2	497.2
4	Valérie Bellenoue (FRA)	395	101.6	496.6
5	Olga Pogrebniak (BLR)	394	102.4	496.4
6	Marta Nedvedova (CZE)	395	100.1	495.1
7	Éva Joó (HUN)	393	101.5	494.5
8	Lessia Leskiv (UKR)	394	100.2	494.2

References

• Olympic Report Atlanta 1996 Volume III: The Competition Results (PDF). Retrieved 2008-09-10.