Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol
| Women's 10 metre air pistol at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | |||||||
| Venue | Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre | ||||||
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| Date | August 15, 2004 | ||||||
| Competitors | 41 from 30 nations | ||||||
| Winning score | 483.3 | ||||||
| Medalists | |||||||
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| Shooting at the 2004 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 | women | ||
| Double trap | men | women | ||
| Skeet | men | women | ||
| Running target | ||||
| 10 m running target | men | |||
The women's 10 metre air pistol competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 15 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.
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.
19-year-old Ukrainian shooter Olena Kostevych came from behind to outplay Serbia and Montenegro's five-time Olympian Jasna Šekarić in a one-shot tiebreaker 10.2 to 9.4 for the gold medal in air pistol shooting, as a result of their draw in a 10-shot final round for first place with a score of 483.3 points.[1][2] Meanwhile, the bronze medal was awarded to Bulgaria's Mariya Grozdeva, who beat China's current world record holder Ren Jie in another shoot-off 10.4 to 9.8, after having been tied in the final at 482.3, just one point behind the two medalists.[1][3]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| Qualification records | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record |  Svetlana Smirnova (RUS) | 393 | Munich, Germany | 23 May 1998 |
| Olympic record |  Tao Luna (CHN) | 391 | Sydney, Australia | 17 September 2000 |
| Final records | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record | Ren Jie (CHN) | 493.5 (390+103.5) | Munich, Germany | 22 May 1999 |
| Olympic record | Olga Klochneva (RUS) | 490.1 (389+101.1) | Atlanta, United States | 21 July 1996 |
Qualification round
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Final
| Rank | Athlete | Qual | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final | Total | 5th place shoot-off |
Bronze shoot-off |
Gold shoot-off |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  Olena Kostevych (UKR) | 384 | 10.6 | 9.9 | 10.2 | 9.5 | 10.0 | 9.4 | 9.4 | 10.4 | 10.0 | 9.9 | 99.3 | 483.3 | 10.2 | ||
 |  Jasna Šekarić (SCG) | 387 | 10.3 | 8.6 | 9.1 | 8.7 | 8.9 | 10.1 | 9.8 | 10.1 | 10.6 | 10.1 | 96.3 | 483.3 | 9.4 | ||
 |  Mariya Grozdeva (BUL) | 386 | 9.5 | 8.2 | 9.9 | 9.8 | 9.8 | 10.1 | 9.3 | 9.7 | 9.1 | 10.9 | 96.3 | 482.3 | 10.4 | ||
| 4 | Ren Jie (CHN) | 384 | 8.9 | 8.2 | 10.7 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 10.5 | 9.0 | 9.4 | 10.1 | 98.3 | 482.3 | 9.7 | ||
| 5 | Natalia Paderina (RUS) | 386 | 9.1 | 9.5 | 10.1 | 9.5 | 10.6 | 10.1 | 9.2 | 8.1 | 10.0 | 9.7 | 95.9 | 481.9 | 10.0 | ||
| 6 |  Munkhbayar Dorjsuren (GER) | 385 | 10.1 | 10.6 | 9.7 | 9.5 | 9.0 | 10.1 | 9.7 | 9.3 | 9.5 | 9.4 | 96.9 | 481.9 | 9.3 | ||
| 7 |  Cornelia Frölich (SUI) | 384 | 10.3 | 9.7 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 10.4 | 8.6 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 97.5 | 481.5 | |||
| 8 |  Irada Ashumova (AZE) | 386 | 10.4 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 10.5 | 8.5 | 8.3 | 9.9 | 9.6 | 8.4 | 95.4 | 481.4 |
References
- 1 2 "Alipov wins trap gold medal". USA Today. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ↑ "Kostevych shoots to gold". Eurosport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ↑ "Bulgarian Shooting Bronze in Athens". Novinite. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 19 August 2015.