Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet

The Women's skeet event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 14 at the Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field.

Women's skeet at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field
Date	August 14, 2008
Competitors	19 from 19 nations
Winning score	93 (OR)
Medalists
Chiara Cainero  Italy Kim Rhode  United States Christine Brinker  Germany

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 3 sets of 25 shots in the set order of skeet shooting.

The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25. The total score from all 100 shots was used to determine final ranking. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification records
World record	Elena Little (GBR)  Shi Hong Yan (CHN)  Christine Brinker (GER)  Zemfira Meftahatdinova (AZE)  Erdzhanik Avetisyan (RUS)  Christine Brinker (GER)  Danka Barteková (SVK)	74	Belgrade, Serbia Qingyuan, China Qingyuan, China Cairo, Egypt Lonato, Italy Nicosia, Cyprus Nicosia, Cyprus	17 July 2005 9 April 2006 9 April 2006 18 May 2006 13 June 2007 9 July 2008 9 July 2008
Olympic record	ISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005	–	–	–

Final records
World record	Danka Barteková (SVK)	99 (74+25)	Nicosia, Cyprus	9 July 2008
Olympic record	ISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005	–	–	–

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	Total	Notes
1	Chiara Cainero	Italy	25	23	24	72	Q OR
2	Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit	Thailand	23	23	25	71	Q
3	Kim Rhode	United States	24	23	23	70	Q
4	Christine Brinker	Germany	25	22	23	70	Q
5	Wei Ning	China	25	23	22	70	Q
6	Nathalie Larsson	Sweden	23	23	23	69	Q
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

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

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

OR Olympic record