Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet

The Women's skeet event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 12 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center.[1]

Women's skeet
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Aerial view of the National Shooting Center in Deodoro, where the women's skeet event took place.
VenueNational Shooting Center
Date12 August 2016
Competitors21 from 17 nations
Winning score15/16 (in the gold medal match)
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Diana Bacosi  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Chiara Cainero  Italy
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kim Rhode  United States
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Competition format

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The event consisted of three rounds: a qualifier, semifinal and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 3 sets of 25 shots in the set order of skeet shooting.

The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the semifinal round. There, they fired one additional round of 16. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie.

Records

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

Qualification records
World record   Diana Bacosi (ITA)
  Aleksandra Jarmolińska (POL)
  Chiara Cainero (ITA)
75 Baku, Azerbaijan
Gabala, Azerbaijan
Lonato, Italy
20 June 2015
8 August 2015
9 July 2016
Olympic record ISSF Rule changed on January 1, 2013

Results

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Qualification round

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Rank Athlete Country 1 2 3 Tie break Total Notes
1 Wei Meng   China 23 25 25 73 Q, OR
2 Kim Rhode   United States 23 25 24 72 Q
3 Diana Bacosi   Italy 25 23 24 72 Q
4 Chiara Cainero   Italy 24 22 24 70 Q
5 Amber Hill   Great Britain 23 24 23 70 Q
6 Morgan Craft   United States 24 24 21 +2 69 Q
7 Albina Shakirova   Russia 21 23 25 +1 69
8 Melisa Gil   Argentina 23 21 25 +1 69
9 Wei Ning   China 24 20 24 68
10 Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit   Thailand 23 22 23 68
11 Christine Wenzel   Germany 22 24 22 68
12 Aleksandra Jarmolińska   Poland 23 23 22 68
13 Chloe Tipple   New Zealand 21 23 23 67
14 Elena Allen   Great Britain 23 18 23 64
15 Andri Eleftheriou   Cyprus 21 21 22 64
16 Danka Barteková   Slovakia 22 20 22 64
17 Aislin Jones   Australia 21 20 22 63
18 Naoko Ishihara   Japan 18 20 24 62
19 Francisca Crovetto   Chile 21 22 19 62
20 Libuše Jahodová   Czech Republic 18 19 21 58
21 Daniela Carraro   Brazil 19 19 20 58

Semifinal

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Rank Athlete Country Total Tie break Notes
1 Chiara Cainero   Italy 16 Gold Medal Match
2 Diana Bacosi   Italy 15 Gold Medal Match
3 Wei Meng   China 14 +4 Bronze Medal Match
4 Kim Rhode   United States 14 +4 Bronze Medal Match
5 Morgan Craft   United States 14 +3
6 Amber Hill   Great Britain 13

Final (medal matches)

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Rank Athlete Country Total Tie break Notes
  Diana Bacosi   Italy 15
  Chiara Cainero   Italy 14
  Kim Rhode   United States 15 +7
4 Wei Meng   China 15 +6

References

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  1. ^ "Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.