Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet

The Women's skeet event at the 2008 Olympic Games happened on August 14 at the Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field. Skeet shooting is a fun sport where people shoot at flying clay targets. This event showed the skills of the world’s best shooters.

The competition had two main parts: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter took three sets of 25 shots, trying to hit as many targets as possible. The top six shooters from this round went to the final.

In the final round, these six shooters each took another set of 25 shots. Their total score from all 100 shots decided their final ranking. If two or more shooters had the same score, they had a special shoot-off to decide the winner, taking extra shots one at a time until someone was ahead.

Records

Before this competition, there were world and Olympic records for the Women's skeet event. These records stayed until the games began.

Qualification round

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	Total
1	Chiara Cainero	Italy	25	23	24	72
2	Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit	Thailand	23	23	25	71
3	Kim Rhode	United States	24	23	23	70
4	Christine Brinker	Germany	25	22	23	70
5	Wei Ning	China	25	23	22	70
6	Nathalie Larsson	Sweden	23	23	23	69
7	Andri Eleftheriou	Cyprus	22	23	22	67
8	Danka Barteková	Slovakia	23	22	22	67
9	Pak Jong-ran	North Korea	20	23	23	66
10	Lucia Mihalache	Romania	23	20	23	66
11	Natalia Rahman	Australia	22	23	21	66
12	Svetlana Demina	Russia	22	23	21	66
13	Diána Igaly	Hungary	22	23	21	66
14	Elena Little	Great Britain	24	21	21	66
15	Zemfira Meftahatdinova	Azerbaijan	22	21	20	63
16	Veronique Girardet	France	22	22	19	63
17	Marjut Heinonen	Finland	21	21	19	61
18	Kim Min-ji	South Korea	21	18	16	55
19	Mona El-Hawary	Egypt	18	16	16	50

Final

OR Olympic record

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	4th place shoot-off	Gold shoot-off	Silver shoot-off
	Chiara Cainero (ITA)	72	21	93		2
	Kim Rhode (USA)	70	23	93		1	2
	Christine Brinker (GER)	70	23	93		1	1
4	Nathalie Larsson (SWE)	69	23	92	2
5	Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit (THA)	71	21	92	1
6	Wei Ning (CHN)	70	21	91