Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet
# 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.

## Competition format

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

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

### Qualification round

| 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

| 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)

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