Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air rifle

Following a recent^[when?] tradition, the women's 10 metre air rifle competition was the first medal event concluded at the 2000 Summer Olympics. It was held on 16 September, the day after the opening ceremony, with the 40-shot qualification round between 09:00 and 10:15 Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10), and the final round of 10 additional shots at 11:00. Kang Cho-hyun equalled the Olympic record in the qualification round but lost her two-point pre-final lead to Nancy Johnson, who thus won the first Sydney gold medal for the United States.^[1]

Women's 10 metre air rifle at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney International Shooting Centre
Date	16 September 2000
Competitors	49 from 35 nations
Winning score	497.7
Medalists
Nancy Johnson  United States Kang Cho-hyun  South Korea Gao Jing  China
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Records

The existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification records
World record	Valentina Cherkasova (URS)	399	Los Angeles, United States	23 March 1991
Olympic record	Petra Horneber (GER)	397	Atlanta, United States	20 July 1996

Final records
World record	Gaby Bühlmann (SUI)	503.5	Munich, Germany	24 May 1998
Olympic record	Yeo Kab-soon (KOR)	498.2	Barcelona, Spain	27 July 1992

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Kang Cho-hyun	South Korea	397	Q EOR
2	Lioubov Galkina	Russia	395	Q
3	Sonja Pfeilschifter	Germany	395	Q
4	Choi Dae-young	South Korea	395	Q
5	Nancy Johnson	United States	395	Q
6	Jayme Dickman	United States	394	Q
7	Anjali Vedpathak	India	394	Q
8	Gao Jing	China	394	Q
9	Lindy Hansen	Norway	393
9	Monika Haselsberger	Austria	393
9	Petra Horneber	Germany	393
9	Mladenka Maleniča	Croatia	393
9	Olga Pogrebnyak	Belarus	393
9	Zhao Yinghui	China	393
15	Aranka Binder	FR Yugoslavia	392
15	Lessia Leskiv	Ukraine	392
15	Renata Mauer	Poland	392
15	Sue McCready	Australia	392
15	Hiromi Misaki	Japan	392
20	Alyona Aksyonova	Uzbekistan	391
20	Batkhuyagyn Zorigt	Mongolia	391
20	Valérie Bellenoue	France	391
20	Anni Bisso	Denmark	391
20	Olga Dovgun	Kazakhstan	391
20	Aleksandra Ivosev	FR Yugoslavia	391
20	Vessela Letcheva	Bulgaria	391
20	Natalija Prednik	Slovenia	391
28	Gaby Bühlmann	Switzerland	390
28	Amelia Rosa Fournel	Argentina	390
28	Yasmine Helmi	Egypt	390
28	Natallia Kalnysh	Ukraine	390
32	Sharon Bowes	Canada	389
32	Tatiana Goldobina	Russia	389
32	Oksana Kovtonovich	Belarus	389	−2p
32	Yuliya Shakhova	Uzbekistan	389
36	Eunice Caballero	Cuba	388
36	Nonka Matova	Bulgaria	388
36	Marina Pons	Spain	388
36	Oriana Scheuss	Switzerland	388
36	Lucie Valová	Czech Republic	388
41	Lindy Imgrund	Australia	387
41	Fabienne Pasetti	Monaco	387
43	Bhagawati Khatri	Nepal	386
44	Rasheya Jasmin Luis	Philippines	384
44	Divna Pešić	Macedonia	384
46	Sabrina Sultana	Bangladesh	383
47	Malini Wickramasinghe	Sri Lanka	382
48	Cari Johnson	Canada	381
49	Marwa Sultan	Egypt	376

−2p 2 points deducted (scoring protest turned down) – EOR Equalled Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Shoot-off
	Nancy Johnson (USA)	395	102.7	497.7
	Kang Cho-hyun (KOR)	397	100.5	497.5
	Gao Jing (CHN)	394	103.2	497.2
4	Lioubov Galkina (RUS)	395	101.7	496.7
5	Sonja Pfeilschifter (GER)	395	100.9	495.9
6	Jayme Dickman (USA)	394	101.4	495.4
7	Choi Dae-young (KOR)	395	98.1	493.1	10.4
8	Anjali Vedpathak (IND)	394	99.1	493.1	9.8