The women's 50 metre rifle three positions competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 20 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a .22 Long Rifle at 50 metres distance. 20 shots were fired each from the standing, kneeling, and prone positions. 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, all from the standing position. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 70 shots was used to determine final ranking.
Russia's Lioubov Galkina fired an outstanding 101.4 for the gold in the rifle three positions finale, demolishing a new Olympic record score of 689.4. Italy's Valentina Turisini took the silver with a score of 685.9, while China's Wang Chengyi rounded out the podium with a bronze at 685.4. Kazakhstan's Olga Dovgun, who had led the field with a qualifying score of 588 earlier in the prelims, one point adrift of Galkina, slipped out of the medals with the most disastrous round of any of the eight finalists, getting just 96.9 points for a total of 684.9 to end up fourth.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification round RankAthleteCountry1 2PR34ST56KNTotalNotes1Olga Dovgun100100200 97 96193 96 99195588 Q2Lioubov Galkina 99100199 94 97191 98 99197587 Q3Valentina Turisini 98 99197 96 97193100 95195585 Q4Wang Chengyi 99 97196 97 98195 96 97193584 Q5Lee Hye-jin 99 97196 98 99197 96 95191584 Q6Sonja Pfeilschifter 99 99198 98 94192 95 97192582 Q7Barbara Lechner 99 98197 93 96189 99 95194580 Q8Natallia Kalnysh 96 98194 95 92187 99 99198579 Q9Laurence Brize 97 99196 97 98195 96 911875789Tatiana Goldobina 99100199 95 94189 94 961905789Wu Liuxi 97 98195 95 96191 96 9619257812Morgan Hicks 98 99197 94 95189 96 9519157713Anjali Bhagwat 97 96193 97 96193 92 9718957513Gaby Bühlmann 98 96194 95 94189 98 9419257513Lessia Leskiv 97 95192 94 96190 98 9519357516Valérie Bellenoue 98100198 92 96188 96 9218857417Sylwia Bogacka 97 96193 95 95190 98 9219057317Renata Mauer-Różańska 98 98196 92 95187 96 9419057319Deepali Deshpande 97 97194 94 95189 94 9518957220Sarah Blakeslee 98 99197 93 92185 94 9518957120Eglis Yaima Cruz 96 98194 90 95185 95 9719257120Marjo Yli-Kiikka 98 98196 93 98191 91 9318457123Éva Joó 96 99195 93 94187 96 9218857024Hiromi Misaki 97 98195 95 90185 99 9018956925Susan McCready 95 99194 95 92187 93 9318656725Pushpamali Ramanayake 98 97195 91 90181 97 9419156727Kateřina Kůrková 99100199 91 90181 95 9018556528Svitlana Kashchenko 95 94189 89 94183 95 9619156329Alyona Aksyonova 96 97193 87 92179 96 9419056230Kim Jung-mi 96 95191 88 91179 95 9619156131Beáta Krzyzewsky 97 98195 88 90178 93 9418756032Kim Frazer 97 95192 88 91179 91 9318455532Divna Pešić 94 94188 95 87182 95 90185555 KN — Kneeling position; PR — Prone position; ST — Standing position
Final RankAthleteQual1 2345678910FinalTotalNotes58710.410.98.29.99.810.410.410.610.210.6101.4688.4 5859.88.89.510.410.110.510.710.210.710.2100.9685.9 10.110.310.610.310.410.610.29.89.29.9101.4685.4 45887.910.59.89.610.610.28.79.410.110.196.9684.9 55849.69.78.010.210.710.39.49.49.310.497.0681.0 6 58210.69.29.69.19.88.410.210.810.39.697.6679.6 7 5808.99.410.410.69.89.010.410.59.19.597.6677.6 8 57910.48.89.510.39.79.210.210.110.29.898.2677.2
References
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