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.
| Women's 10 metre air pistol at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre | |||||||||
| Date | August 15, 2004 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 41 from 30 nations | |||||||||
| Winning score | 483.3 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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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 and a previous Olympic champion 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
editPrior 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
edit| 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
edit- ^ a b "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.