List of Olympic records in shooting - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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Olympic records are the best performances in a specific event in that event's history in either the Summer Olympic Games or the Winter Olympic Games...

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Shooting sports
A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...

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2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

Men's records

Event		Score	Name	Games	Date
50 m rifle three positions 50 metre rifle three positions 50 metre rifle three positions is an International Shooting Sport Federation event, a miniature version of 300 metre rifle three positions. It consists of the prone, standing and kneeling positions, fired in that order, with 3×40 shots for men and 3×20 shots for women...	Qual.	1177	Rajmond Debevec Rajmond Debevec Rajmond Debevec was born in Postojna, Slovenia, a part of the former Yugoslavia, on March 29, 1963. He became involved in shooting sports in 1971 and became a member of Junior national team in 1979. He won his first medal in 1980 by participating in Junior European Championship with air rifle...	2000 Sydney Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics The shooting competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics were carried out at the Sydney International Shooting Centre in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia during the first week of the Games, from Saturday 16 September 2000 to Saturday 23 September 2000....	2000-09-23
	Final	1275.1	Rajmond Debevec Rajmond Debevec Rajmond Debevec was born in Postojna, Slovenia, a part of the former Yugoslavia, on March 29, 1963. He became involved in shooting sports in 1971 and became a member of Junior national team in 1979. He won his first medal in 1980 by participating in Junior European Championship with air rifle...	2000 Sydney Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics The shooting competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics were carried out at the Sydney International Shooting Centre in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia during the first week of the Games, from Saturday 16 September 2000 to Saturday 23 September 2000....	2000-09-23
50 m rifle prone 50 metre rifle prone 50 metre rifle prone is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a .22 Long Rifle caliber rifle...	Qual.	600	Christian Klees Christian Klees Christian Klees is a German former sport shooter, the only shooter since the 1989 target change to have achieved the maximum score in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the Olympic Games. He did this in at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...	1996 Atlanta Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics The shooting competitions at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place at the Wolf Creek Shooting Complex near Atlanta, United States. Competitions were held in ten men's events and five women's events...	1996-07-25
	Final	704.8	Christian Klees Christian Klees Christian Klees is a German former sport shooter, the only shooter since the 1989 target change to have achieved the maximum score in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the Olympic Games. He did this in at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...	1996 Atlanta Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics The shooting competitions at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place at the Wolf Creek Shooting Complex near Atlanta, United States. Competitions were held in ten men's events and five women's events...	1996-07-25
10 m air rifle	Qual.	599	Zhu Qinan Zhu Qinan Zhu Qinan is a male Chinese sport shooter. He won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event and a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event. Zhu currently is studying at Zhejiang University.Zhu began shooting training at Wenzhou...	2004 Athens Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics In shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 390 competitors from 106 nations contested 17 events . The competition took place at the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, located in the east of the Greek region of Attica....	2004-08-16
10 m air rifle	Final	702.7	Zhu Qinan Zhu Qinan Zhu Qinan is a male Chinese sport shooter. He won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event and a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event. Zhu currently is studying at Zhejiang University.Zhu began shooting training at Wenzhou...	2004 Athens Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics In shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 390 competitors from 106 nations contested 17 events . The competition took place at the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, located in the east of the Greek region of Attica....	2004-08-16
50 m pistol	Qual.	581	Aleksandr Melentiev Aleksandr Melentiev Aleksandr Remmovich Melentyev is a former Soviet/Kyrgyz sport shooter who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics....	1980 Moscow Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at the Dynamo Shooting Range in Mytishchi between July 20 and July 26. 7 events were contested. All events were mixed, i.e...	1980-07-20
50 m pistol	Final	666.4	Boris Kokorev Boris Kokorev Boris Borisovich Kokorev is a Russian pistol shooter.- External links :*...	1996 Atlanta Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics The shooting competitions at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place at the Wolf Creek Shooting Complex near Atlanta, United States. Competitions were held in ten men's events and five women's events...	1996-07-23
25 m rapid fire pistol	Qual.	583	Keith Sanderson Keith Sanderson (sport shooter) Keith Sanderson is an American sport shooter and holds the Olympic record for the qualification round of 25 meter rapid fire pistol . After winning the qualification round of the rapid fire pistol competition in the 2008 Olympics, he fell back during the final and finished fifth, the same position...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-16
25 m rapid fire pistol	Final	780.2	Oleksandr Petriv Oleksandr Petriv Oleksandr Petriv is an Olympic shooter from Ukraine. He was born in Lviv. He won a gold medal in the Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.- Links :*...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-16
10 m air pistol	Qual.	591	Mikhail Nestruyev	2004 Athens Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics In shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 390 competitors from 106 nations contested 17 events . The competition took place at the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, located in the east of the Greek region of Attica....	2004-08-14
10 m air pistol	Final	690.0	Wang Yifu Wang Yifu Wang Yifu is a male Chinese pistol shooter, and in terms of Olympic medals one of the most successful sport shooters of all times. He specializes in the 50 m Pistol and 10 m Air Pistol events....	2004 Athens Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics In shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 390 competitors from 106 nations contested 17 events . The competition took place at the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, located in the east of the Greek region of Attica....	2004-08-14
Trap Olympic Trap Officially referred to only as trap, and also known in the United States as international trap, bunker trap, trench or international clay pigeon, the single-target Olympic trap shooting event has a history over a hundred years old...	Qual.	124	Michael Diamond Michael Diamond (sport shooter) Michael Constantine Diamond, OAM is a professional target shooter from Australia. Mastering the shotgun, Diamond succeeded in winning the Olympic gold medal for trap both in Atlanta and Sydney . He also holds the world record in double trap, and held the final world record in trap between 2007... Aleksei Alipov Aleksei Alipov Aleksei Aleksandrovich Alipov is a Russian Olympic Trap shooter. He is the 2004 Olympic champion in that discipline.Born in Moscow, he started the sport at age 13 and was eventually trained at the Russian Academy of Sport...	1996 Atlanta Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics The shooting competitions at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place at the Wolf Creek Shooting Complex near Atlanta, United States. Competitions were held in ten men's events and five women's events... 2004 Athens Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics In shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 390 competitors from 106 nations contested 17 events . The competition took place at the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, located in the east of the Greek region of Attica....	1996-07-21 2004-08-15
	Final	146	David Kostelecký David Kostelecký David Kostelecký is a male Czech sports shooter. He won the gold medal in the Men's Trap event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He also finished second in the 2006 ISSF World Cup final.-Olympic results:...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-10
Double trap Double Trap Double trap is a clay pigeon shooting sport, one of the ISSF shooting events. Participants use a shotgun to attempt to break a clay disk flung away from the shooter at high speed....	Qual.	145	Walton Eller Walton Eller Walton "Glenn" Eller is an American trap shooter and three-time U.S. Olympic athlete . At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in men's double trap setting both an Olympic Record and a Final Olympic Record.In 1996, Glenn was the first American to win the British Open Sporting Clay...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-12
	Final	190	Walton Eller Walton Eller Walton "Glenn" Eller is an American trap shooter and three-time U.S. Olympic athlete . At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in men's double trap setting both an Olympic Record and a Final Olympic Record.In 1996, Glenn was the first American to win the British Open Sporting Clay...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-12
Skeet Olympic Skeet Skeet is a variant of skeet shooting, and the specific variant used in the Olympic Games. Two throwing machines at different heights launch a series of 25 targets in a specific order, some as singles and some as doubles, with the shooter having a fixed position between them. Men's competitions...	Qual.	121	Vincent Hancock Vincent Hancock Vincent Hancock is an American shooter and Olympic athlete who won the gold medal in the men's skeet at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-16
	Final	145	Vincent Hancock Vincent Hancock Vincent Hancock is an American shooter and Olympic athlete who won the gold medal in the men's skeet at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing... Tore Brovold Tore Brovold Tore Brovold is a Norwegian sport shooter competing in Skeet. Brovold is one of the Norwegian athletes competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he won a silver medal. Later the same year, he won the 2008 ISSF World Cup Final.Brovold started shooting in 1977, when he was only 7...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-16

Women's records

Event		Score	Name	Games	Date
50 m rifle three positions 50 metre rifle three positions 50 metre rifle three positions is an International Shooting Sport Federation event, a miniature version of 300 metre rifle three positions. It consists of the prone, standing and kneeling positions, fired in that order, with 3×40 shots for men and 3×20 shots for women...	Qual.	589	Renata Mauer Renata Mauer Renata Mauer-Różańska is a Polish sports shooter. She is two times Olympic Champion, from the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as well as having an Olympic bronze medal.... Du Li Du Li Du Li is a female Chinese sport shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won the gold medal in the women's 10 metre air rifle competition. She has achieved the maximum 400 in this event twice...	1996 Atlanta Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics The shooting competitions at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place at the Wolf Creek Shooting Complex near Atlanta, United States. Competitions were held in ten men's events and five women's events... 2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	1996-07-24 2008-08-14
	Final	690.3	Du Li Du Li Du Li is a female Chinese sport shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won the gold medal in the women's 10 metre air rifle competition. She has achieved the maximum 400 in this event twice...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-14
10 m air rifle	Qual.	400	Kateřina Emmons Katerina Emmons Kateřina Emmons, née Kůrková is a female Czech sport shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal, and the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won her first gold medal in the women's 10 metre air rifle competition, and the very first gold medal of that particular...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-09
10 m air rifle	Final	503.5	Kateřina Emmons Katerina Emmons Kateřina Emmons, née Kůrková is a female Czech sport shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal, and the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won her first gold medal in the women's 10 metre air rifle competition, and the very first gold medal of that particular...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-09
25 m pistol	Qual.	590	Tao Luna Tao Luna Tao Luna is a female Chinese sports shooter who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2000 she won the gold medal in the women's 10 metre air pistol competition and the silver medal in the women's 25 metre pistol competition.-Olympic results:-Records:-External... Otryadyn Gündegmaa Otryadyn Gündegmaa Otryadyn Gündegmaa , is an Olympic athlete who competes in sports shooting. She was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Gündegmaa competed in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics, with her best finish being fifth place in the 1996 Games in 25m sporting pistol. In 2008 she won a silver medal for Mongolia...	2000 Sydney Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics The shooting competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics were carried out at the Sydney International Shooting Centre in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia during the first week of the Games, from Saturday 16 September 2000 to Saturday 23 September 2000.... 2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2000-09-22 2008-08-13
25 m pistol	Final	793.4	Chen Ying Chen Ying (sport shooter) Chen Ying is a female Chinese sports shooter who won the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships in 25 m Pistol.In the 2004 Summer Olympics she finished fourth in the women's 25 metre pistol competition.-External links:*...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-13
10 m air pistol	Qual.	391	Natalia Paderina Natalia Paderina Natalia Paderina is a Russian sport shooter. She won the silver medal in Women's 10m air pistol at the 2008 Summer Olympics. At that event, she shared the podium with bronze medalist Nino Salukvadze of Georgia. Georgia and Russia were at war at the time...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-10
10 m air pistol	Final	492.3	Guo Wenjun Guo Wenjun Guo Wenjun is a female Chinese sport shooter who won three of the four gold medals in women's pistol shooting during the European part of the 2008 ISSF World Cup. She won gold in the women's 10 metre air pistol at the 2008 Summer Olympics....	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-10
Trap Olympic Trap Officially referred to only as trap, and also known in the United States as international trap, bunker trap, trench or international clay pigeon, the single-target Olympic trap shooting event has a history over a hundred years old...	Qual.	71	Daina Gudzinevičiūtė Daina Gudzineviciute Daina Gudzinevičiūtė is an Olympic shooting champion from Lithuania.Trap shooting for women was first introduced in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Gudzinevičiūtė scored 71 hits in the qualifying round and then hit 22 out of 25 targets in the final. It came out to be 1 more than Delphine...	2000 Sydney Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics The shooting competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics were carried out at the Sydney International Shooting Centre in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia during the first week of the Games, from Saturday 16 September 2000 to Saturday 23 September 2000....	2000-09-18
	Final	91	Satu Mäkelä-Nummela Satu Mäkelä-Nummela Satu Mäkelä-Nummela is a female Finnish sports shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women's Trap event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She has also won bronze medals in Women's Trap event in 1995 and 2009 at ISSF World Shotgun Championships. Her club is OSU .-Records:-References:...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-11
Skeet Olympic Skeet Skeet is a variant of skeet shooting, and the specific variant used in the Olympic Games. Two throwing machines at different heights launch a series of 25 targets in a specific order, some as singles and some as doubles, with the shooter having a fixed position between them. Men's competitions...	Qual.	72	Chiara Cainero Chiara Cainero Chiara Cainero is an Italian sport shooter who won a gold medal in Skeet at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-References:...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-14
	Final	93	Chiara Cainero Chiara Cainero Chiara Cainero is an Italian sport shooter who won a gold medal in Skeet at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-References:... Kim Rhode Kim Rhode Kimberly "Kim" Susan Rhode is an American double trap and skeet shooter. A California native, she is a two-time Olympic gold medal winner and six-time national champion in double trap. She was the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia... Christine Brinker Christine Brinker Christine Brinker is a German skeet shooter. She started shooting in 2000 and is competing for German club SSC Schale under the guidance of Wilhelm Metelmann.- References :* *...	2008 Beijing Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field...	2008-08-14

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