The Women's skeet event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 14 at the Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field.
| Women's skeet at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field | ||||||||||||
| Date | August 14, 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 19 from 19 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 93 (OR) | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier 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 final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25. The total score from all 100 shots was used to determine final ranking. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie.
Records
editPrior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| Qualification records | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record |  Elena Little (GBR) Shi Hong Yan (CHN) Christine Brinker (GER) Zemfira Meftahatdinova (AZE) Erdzhanik Avetisyan (RUS) Christine Brinker (GER) Danka Barteková (SVK) |
74 | Belgrade, Serbia Qingyuan, China Qingyuan, China Cairo, Egypt Lonato, Italy Nicosia, Cyprus Nicosia, Cyprus |
17 July 2005 9 April 2006 9 April 2006 18 May 2006 13 June 2007 9 July 2008 9 July 2008 |
| Olympic record | ISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005 | – | – |
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| Final records | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record | Danka Barteková (SVK) |
99 (74+25) | Nicosia, Cyprus | 9 July 2008 |
| Olympic record | ISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005 | – | – |
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Qualification round
edit| Rank | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | Total | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chiara Cainero |  Italy
|
25 | 23 | 24 | 72 | Q OR |
| 2 | Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit |  Thailand
|
23 | 23 | 25 | 71 | Q |
| 3 | Kim Rhode |  United States
|
24 | 23 | 23 | 70 | Q |
| 4 | Christine Brinker |  Germany
|
25 | 22 | 23 | 70 | Q |
| 5 | Wei Ning |  China
|
25 | 23 | 22 | 70 | Q |
| 6 | Nathalie Larsson |  Sweden
|
23 | 23 | 23 | 69 | Q |
| 7 | Andri Eleftheriou |  Cyprus
|
22 | 23 | 22 | 67 | |
| 8 | Danka Barteková |  Slovakia
|
23 | 22 | 22 | 67 | |
| 9 | Pak Jong-ran |  North Korea
|
20 | 23 | 23 | 66 | |
| 10 | Lucia Mihalache |  Romania
|
23 | 20 | 23 | 66 | |
| 11 | Natalia Rahman |  Australia
|
22 | 23 | 21 | 66 | |
| 12 | Svetlana Demina |  Russia
|
22 | 23 | 21 | 66 | |
| 13 | Diána Igaly |  Hungary
|
22 | 23 | 21 | 66 | |
| 14 | Elena Little |  Great Britain
|
24 | 21 | 21 | 66 | |
| 15 | Zemfira Meftahatdinova |  Azerbaijan
|
22 | 21 | 20 | 63 | |
| 16 | Veronique Girardet |  France
|
22 | 22 | 19 | 63 | |
| 17 | Marjut Heinonen |  Finland
|
21 | 21 | 19 | 61 | |
| 18 | Kim Min-ji |  South Korea
|
21 | 18 | 16 | 55 | |
| 19 | Mona El-Hawary |  Egypt
|
18 | 16 | 16 | 50 |
OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final
Final
edit| Rank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total | 4th place shoot-off |
Gold shoot-off |
Silver shoot-off |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Chiara Cainero (ITA)
|
72 | 21 | 93 | 2 | OR | ||
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Kim Rhode (USA)
|
70 | 23 | 93 | 1 | 2 | OR | |
|
Christine Brinker (GER)
|
70 | 23 | 93 | 1 | 1 | OR | |
| 4 | Nathalie Larsson (SWE)
|
69 | 23 | 92 | 2 | |||
| 5 | Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit (THA)
|
71 | 21 | 92 | 1 | |||
| 6 | Wei Ning (CHN)
|
70 | 21 | 91 |
OR Olympic record