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competitions at the

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were held from August 9 to August 17, at the

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(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

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, married in 2007 and returned to the 2008 Games to win a gold and two silver medals between them. **

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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 Nino Salukvadze ( ka, ნინო სალუქვაძე; born 1 February 1969, in Tbilisi) is a Georgian sport shooter. She is a ten-time Olympian, the record for appearances by a female athlete and tying Canadian showjumper Ian Millar ...

, 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 * The seventh Olympic appearance for Slovenian Rajmond Debevec (who won

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), 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

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(competing under her fourth flag at the Olympics without ever having changed nationality), **Georgian

. 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, Svetlana Demina, María Pilar Fernández,

Mariya Grozdeva Maria Zdravkova Grozdeva-Grigorova (; born on 23 June 1972) is a Bulgarian retired sport shooter, who competed in 25 metre pistol and 10 metre air pistol. She is the only woman to have successfully defended the 25 metre pistol title at the O ...

, Michael Diamond, Franck Dumoulin, Thomas Farnik, Andrei Inešin, Harald Jensen, Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Russell Mark, Sergey Martynov, Giovanni Pellielo, Stevan Pletikošić, Iulian Raicea, Axel Wegner. The sport also faced its first major doping 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

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Events

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

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

Women's events

New records

References

External links

International Shooting Sport FederationShooting – Official Results Book
{{Shooting at the Summer Olympics Events at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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