Shooting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall (rifle and pistol events) and Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field (shotgun events). Of the fifteen events, the host country won five. Highlights included: * Two rifle shooters, Czech Kateřina Kůrková and American Matthew Emmons, who met at the 2004 Olympics, married in 2007 and returned to the 2008 Games to win a gold and two silver medals between them. ** Kateřina Emmons equalled the world record with a perfect 400 in the women's air rifle competition. ** Matthew lost a large lead in the last shot of the men's three positions - just as he had in Athens four years earlier. * Abhinav Bindra won

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's first ever individual Olympic gold. * Russian Natalia Paderina and Georgian Nino Salukvadze, whose countries were at war, won silver and bronze respectively in the 10m Air Pistol. They shared hugged and shook hands on the podium, which was seen as peaceful gesture."Olympic shooters hug as their countries do battle"
CNN, August 10, 2008 * The eighth appearance at the Olympics for Latvian

Afanasijs Kuzmins Afanasijs Kuzmins (born 22 March 1947) is a Latvian shooter who won two Olympic medals in the 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol event; gold at the 1988 for the USSR and silver at the 1992 Summer Olympics for Latvia. He also won the 1986 World Championship ...

* The seventh Olympic appearance for Slovenian

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(who won bronze), making him only the fifth shooter to have ever competed in at least seven Olympic Games. * The sixth Olympic appearance for eight shooters, raising to 22 the number of shooters who have competed in at least six Olympic Games: **Canadian Dr Susan Nattrass **Finn Juha Hirvi, **Italian Andrea Benelli **German Ralf Schumann, who won his fifth Olympic medal. **Bulgarian Tanyu Kiryakov **Monegasque Fabienne Diato-Pasetti, **Serbian Jasna Šekarić (competing under her fourth flag at the Olympics without ever having changed nationality), **Georgian Nino Salukvadze. She won bronze, completing the set twenty years after she won gold and silver at the 1988 Olympics. * The fifth Olympic appearance for 16 shooters, raising to 80 the number of shooters who have competed in at least five Olympic Games:

Mönkhbayar Dorjsurengiin Munkhbayar Dorjsuren (born Dorjsürengiin Mönkhbayar, mn, Доржсүрэнгийн Мөнхбаяр; born July 9, 1969) is a Mongolian-German sport shooter. She was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, but moved to Germany and became a German cit ...

Svetlana Demina Svetlana Aleksandrovna Demina (russian: Светлана Александровна Демина; born April 18, 1961 in Vologda Oblast) is a Russian sport shooter, specializing in the skeet shootings event. She won the silver medal ...

María Pilar Fernández María del Pilar Fernández Julián (born December 28, 1962 in Madrid) is a Spanish sport shooter. Fernandez had won a total of nine medals (one gold, four silver and four bronze) in both air and sport pistol at the ISSF World Cup series. Fernan ...

, Mariya Grozdeva, Michael Diamond, Franck Dumoulin, Thomas Farnik, Andrei Inešin, Harald Jensen, Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Russell Mark, Sergey Martynov,

Giovanni Pellielo Giovanni Pellielo (born 11 January 1970) is an Italian sport shooter. He won the silver medal in Men's trap at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and also earned a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and a silver medal in the 2004 Summer ...

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Iulian Raicea Iulian Raicea (born 4 March 1973) is a Romanian sport shooter who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics, in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, in the 2004 Summer Olympics, and in the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summ ...

Axel Wegner Axel Wegner (born 3 June 1963 in Demmin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a German sport shooter and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as th ...

. The sport also faced its first major

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case, when Kim Jong-su of

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was stripped of his medals in

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and 10 metre air pistol after testing positive for propranolol, a

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that some performers use to reduce stage fright and some surgeons use to reduce hand tremors during operations.

Events

15 sets of medals were awarded in the following events: A

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may enter up to two athletes in all events except women's trap and skeet events where it can enter only one athlete. Only athletes who achieve the Minimum Qualification Score (MQS) can participate at the Olympics. One athlete can achieve only one quota place for his/her NOC in any event. If a quota place is won in a qualification event by a shooter who has already won a quota place in any event, the quota place will be granted to the NOC of the next ranking shooter.

Qualification

Quota places are as follows: ''*Note - there will also be 10 invitation and 14 universality quota places''

Event schedule

All times are

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( UTC+8)

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Monday, August 11, 2008

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Friday, August 15, 2008

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Medal summary

Medal table

Men's events

Kim Jong-su of North Korea originally won the silver medal in the 50 metre pistol and bronze in the 10 metre air pistol, but was disqualified after he tested positive for propranolol.

Women's events

New records

References

External links

International Shooting Sport FederationShooting – Official Results Book
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Shooting competitions in China