Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air rifle
# Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air rifle

The women's 10 metre air rifle competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 14 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece. Following a relatively new Olympic tradition, it was the first event to be concluded at these Games.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 40 shots with an air rifle at 10 metres distance from the standing position. 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.

China's world record holder Du Li outscored a host of elite markswomen in the air rifle shooting final to notch the first gold medal at these Games, smashing a new Olympic record score of 502.0 points. Russia's Lioubov Galkina, who led the field by a full point into the final with 399, had to settle for the silver with a total score of 501.5 points, while Czech Republic's Kateřina Kůrková held off a daunting challenge from Zhao Yinghui (500.8) to rule out the Chinese supremacy in the medal haul for a bronze at 501.1, falling Zhao to a disappointing fourth by a 0.3-point deficit.

## Records

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

Qualification records :

| World record | Monika Haselsberger (AUT) | 400 | Athens, Greece | 22 April 2004 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Olympic record | Kang Cho-hyun (KOR) | 397 | Sydney, Australia | 16 September 2000 |

Final records :

| World record | Du Li (CHN) | 504.9 (400+104.9) | Zagreb, Croatia | 4 June 2003 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Olympic record | Yeo Kab-soon (KOR) | 498.2 (396+102.2) | Barcelona, Spain | 26 July 1992 |

## Qualification round

| Rank | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Lioubov Galkina | Russia | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 399 | Q, OR |
| 2 | Du Li | China | 99 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 398 | Q |
| 3 | Kateřina Kůrková | Czech Republic | 100 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 398 | Q |
| 4 | Zhao Yinghui | China | 100 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 398 | Q |
| 5 | Tatiana Goldobina | Russia | 99 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 397 | Q |
| 6 | Sonja Pfeilschifter | Germany | 98 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 396 | Q |
| 7 | Suma Shirur | India | 99 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 396 | Q |
| 8 | Laurence Brize | France | 98 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 396 | Q |
| 9 | Monika Haselsberger | Austria | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 396 | |
| 9 | Renata Mauer-Różańska | Poland | 99 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 396 | |
| 9 | Emily Caruso | United States | 100 | 99 | 100 | 97 | 396 | |
| 12 | Olga Dovgun | Kazakhstan | 100 | 98 | 100 | 97 | 395 | |
| 12 | Valentina Turisini | Italy | 99 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 395 | |
| 14 | Cho Eun-young | South Korea | 99 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 394 | |
| 14 | Hattie Johnson | United States | 99 | 99 | 97 | 99 | 394 | |
| 14 | Éva Joó | Hungary | 99 | 100 | 96 | 99 | 394 | |
| 14 | Natallia Kalnysh | Ukraine | 98 | 100 | 99 | 97 | 394 | |
| 14 | Lessia Leskiv | Ukraine | 97 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 394 | |
| 14 | Agnieszka Staroń | Poland | 98 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 394 | |
| 20 | Anjali Bhagwat | India | 96 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 393 | |
| 20 | Patricia Rivas | El Salvador | 97 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 393 | |
| 22 | Dorothee Bauer | Germany | 99 | 98 | 99 | 96 | 392 | |
| 22 | Valérie Bellenoue | France | 96 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 392 | |
| 22 | Hiromi Misaki | Japan | 99 | 96 | 100 | 97 | 392 | |
| 22 | Yosheefin Prasasti | Indonesia | 100 | 97 | 99 | 96 | 392 | |
| 22 | Marjo Yli-Kiikka | Finland | 98 | 99 | 98 | 97 | 392 | |
| 27 | Gaby Bühlmann | Switzerland | 100 | 97 | 96 | 98 | 391 | |
| 27 | Dina Hosny | Egypt | 99 | 96 | 98 | 98 | 391 | |
| 27 | Susan McCready | Australia | 97 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 391 | |
| 27 | Seo Sun-hwa | South Korea | 98 | 99 | 96 | 98 | 391 | |
| 27 | Alexia Smirli | Greece | 99 | 97 | 98 | 97 | 391 | |
| 32 | Sabrina Sena | Italy | 99 | 97 | 97 | 97 | 390 | |
| 33 | Shaimaa Abdel-Latif | Egypt | 97 | 96 | 95 | 100 | 388 | |
| 33 | Daisy de Bock | Belgium | 95 | 96 | 99 | 98 | 388 | |
| 33 | Maria Faka | Greece | 97 | 97 | 95 | 97 | 388 | |
| 33 | Ann Spejlsgaard | Denmark | 96 | 97 | 98 | 97 | 388 | |
| 37 | Beáta Krzyzewsky | Hungary | 95 | 97 | 97 | 98 | 387 | |
| 38 | Pushpamali Ramanayake | Sri Lanka | 97 | 96 | 98 | 95 | 386 | |
| 39 | Eglis Yaima Cruz | Cuba | 95 | 98 | 98 | 94 | 385 | |
| 40 | Alyona Aksyonova | Uzbekistan | 96 | 92 | 99 | 97 | 384 | |
| 41 | Svitlana Kashchenko | Nicaragua | 96 | 94 | 98 | 95 | 383 | |
| 41 | Dawn Kobayashi | Jamaica | 98 | 93 | 97 | 95 | 383 | |
| 43 | Fabienne Pasetti | Monaco | 95 | 98 | 96 | 93 | 382 | |
| 44 | Divna Pešić | Macedonia | 91 | 95 | 94 | 88 | 368 | |

## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Qual | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final | Total | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Du Li (CHN) | 398 | 9.4 | 10.6 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 10.1 | 10.2 | 10.8 | 10.8 | 10.6 | 104.0 | 502.0 | OR |
| | Lioubov Galkina (RUS) | 399 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 10.1 | 10.0 | 10.2 | 10.8 | 10.8 | 10.0 | 10.6 | 9.7 | 102.5 | 501.5 | |
| | Kateřina Kůrková (CZE) | 398 | 9.6 | 10.3 | 10.5 | 10.7 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 10.6 | 10.7 | 103.1 | 501.1 | |
| 4 | Zhao Yinghui (CHN) | 398 | 9.7 | 10.4 | 10.0 | 10.1 | 10.2 | 10.4 | 10.2 | 10.6 | 10.6 | 10.6 | 102.8 | 500.8 | |
| 5 | Tatiana Goldobina (RUS) | 397 | 10.5 | 10.0 | 10.7 | 10.5 | 9.7 | 10.4 | 10.1 | 10.6 | 10.2 | 9.8 | 102.5 | 499.5 | |
| 6 | Sonja Pfeilschifter (GER) | 396 | 10.3 | 9.8 | 10.5 | 9.1 | 10.8 | 10.8 | 10.8 | 10.4 | 10.1 | 10.1 | 102.7 | 498.7 | |
| 7 | Laurence Brize (FRA) | 396 | 9.7 | 10.4 | 10.0 | 10.5 | 10.6 | 9.5 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 10.3 | 10.1 | 101.9 | 497.9 | |
| 8 | Suma Shirur (IND) | 396 | 9.8 | 10.1 | 10.4 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 9.2 | 10.6 | 10.3 | 10.1 | 10.3 | 101.2 | 497.2 | |
