Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol


The Women's 25 metre pistol event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 13 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. It was won by the reigning World champion, Chen Ying of the host nation, while Otryadyn Gündegmaa won Mongolia's second Olympic medal in shooting ahead of Munkhbayar Dorjsuren who won its first, 16 years earlier, but now competes for Germany.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a pistol at 25 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. The first 30 shots were in the precision stage, with series of 5 shots being shot within 5 minutes. The second set of 30 shots gave shooters 3 seconds to take each shot.
The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 20 shots. These shots scored in increments of.1, with a maximum score of 10.9. They were fired in four sets of 5 rapid fire shots. The total score from all 80 shots was used to determine final ranking.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification round

The precision stage was fired at 09:00 China Standard Time, with all participants fitting into a single relay. In this stage, the time limit for each five-shot string is five minutes. Sonia Franquet of Spain took a two-point lead.
The rapid fire stage was fired at 12:00, with all participants fitting into a single relay. In this stage, the shooter must fire one shot each within three-second time frames, and the arm must be held at a 45 degree angle until the lights turn green, signalling the beginning of these time frames. To compensate for the shorter time, the score zones are larger than in the precision round. Mongolia's Otryadyn Gündegmaa shot 29 tens and only 1 nine, taking the overall lead and equalling the Olympic record for the qualification round that Tao Luna had set in Sydney.
RankAthleteCountry123PR456RFTotalNotes
1Otryadyn Gündegmaa97969829110010099299590Q EOR
2Munkhbayar Dorjsuren979798292989899295587Q
3Chen Ying9695100291989898294585Q
4Jo Yong-suk989497289989998295584Q
5Mariya Grozdeva9795952871009799296583Q
6Luisa Maida999697292969797290582Q
7Fei Fengji959998292979697290582Q
8Tanyaporn Prucksakorn989697291979995291582Q
9Sonia Franquet979899294979695288582
10Michiko Fukushima959697288979799293581
11Ahn Soo-kyeong979596288979898293581
12Tsogbadrakhyn Mönkhzul959897290979698291581
13Viktoria Chaika979996292969598289581
14Lalita Yauhleuskaya979697290989895291581
15Brigitte Roy969796289959799291580
16Nino Salukvadze969898292959598288580
17Lee Ho-lim989596289989796291580
18Yuliya Alipava979694287989599292579
19Natalia Paderina969799292979496287579
20Lenka Marušková979792286949999292578
21Jasna Šekarić969594285999896293578
22Stephanie Tirode989697291949597286577
23Stefanie Thurmann959799291949398285576
24Maura Genovesi979693286969797290576
25Elizabeth Callahan979793287949698288575
26Olena Kostevych9510093288949598287575
27Sławomira Szpek969394283989896292575
28Rebecca Snyder969695287989496288575
29Sandra Kolly989497289949695285574
30Mirosława Sagun Lewandowska969597288959992286574
31Zauresh Baibussinova929594281979796290571
32Zsófia Csonka959597287959396284571
33Dina Aspandiyarova959996290939494281571
34Michaela Musilová969795288979492283571
35Lindita Kodra929497283989792287570
36Maria Pilar Fernandez9796982918395100278569
37Irena Tanova979390280949798289569
38Zhanna Shapialevich949697287929595282569
39Huang Yi-ling919595281949791282563
40Carmen Malo949394281909296278559
41Avianna Chao949588277969283281558

EOR Equalled Olympic record – PR Precision stage – Q Qualified for final – RF Rapid fire stage

Final

The final round consisted of four additional five-shot rapid fire strings. As the final rules had changed since 2004, the winner was guaranteed to establish a new Olympic record.
RankAthleteQual1234FinalTotalNotes
58552.553.152.550.3208.4793.4OR
59051.151.149.051.0202.2792.2
58748.750.052.650.9202.2789.2
452.451.350.851.4205.9787.9
558349.249.952.552.0203.6786.6
658449.950.349.549.7199.4783.4
749.547.649.649.0195.7777.7
847.846.051.746.5192.0774.0

OR Olympic record