Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet
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The Women's skeet event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 12 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center.[1]
Date12 August 2016
Competitors21 from 17 nations
Winning score15/16 (in the gold medal match)
| Women's skeet at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Aerial view of the National Shooting Center in Deodoro, where the women's skeet event took place. | |||||||||||||
| Venue | National Shooting Center | ||||||||||||
| Date | 12 August 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 21 from 17 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 15/16 (in the gold medal match) | ||||||||||||
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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 1 January 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 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Diana Bacosi | Italy |
15 | ||
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Chiara Cainero | Italy |
14 | ||
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Kim Rhode | United States |
15 | +7 | |
| 4 | Wei Meng | China |
15 | +6 |