Shooting
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
VenueRoyal Artillery Barracks
Dates28 July – 6 August 2012

Shooting competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place from 28 July to 6 August at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich. Fifteen events were included with 390 athletes taking part.[1] The events were the same as in 2008.

The competitions were originally planned for the National Shooting Centre in Bisley, Surrey, and the temporary solution at the Royal Artillery Barracks (which is in the River Zone) was adopted later after the International Olympic Committee expressed concerns about the distance between London and Bisley.

Since the pistols used in the 25m and 50m shooting events were deemed by HM Government as prohibited[2] in England, Scotland and Wales after the Dunblane Massacre, special dispensation had to be granted by the UK Government and security criteria met by LOCOG to allow certain events to go ahead.

Qualification

The qualification system was similar to that used for previous Games, with a fixed number of quota places divided among the nations whose shooters place well at the top-level global and continental championships. However, due to new IOC regulations mandating that all qualification events take place during the last 24 months before the Olympics, no such quota places were awarded during the 2009 ISSF World Cup or the 2010 ISSF World Cup, leading to decreased interest in these competitions to the point where the 2010 competition planned for New Delhi had to be rescheduled and moved to Australia. The International Shooting Sport Federation announced that qualification would commence with the 2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Munich, which ended on 10 August, almost exactly two years before the Olympics.

Great Britain did not qualify spots through the World Championship, rather its places were guaranteed due to it being the host nation, however it could qualify shooters to the other events. Iran was the only country that did not send shooters to the 2008 Summer Olympics to have qualified a shooter for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[3]

Schedule

Legend
QQualificationFFinal
Event↓/Date →Sat 28Sun 29Mon 30Tue 31Wed 1Thu 2Fri 3Sat 4Sun 5Mon 6
Rifle
Men's 10 m air rifleQF
Men's 50 m rifle proneQF
Men's 50 m rifle 3 positionsQF
Women's 10 m air rifleQF
Women's 50 m rifle 3 positionsQF
Pistol
Men's 10 m air pistolQF
Men's 25 m rapid fire pistolQF
Men's 50 m pistolQF
Women's 10 m air pistolQF
Women's 25 m pistolQF
Shotgun
Men's trapQF
Men's double trapQF
Men's skeetQF
Women's trapQF
Women's skeetQF

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Great Britain)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 South Korea3205
2 United States3014
3 Italy2305
4 China2237
5 Belarus1001
 Croatia1001
 Cuba1001
 Great Britain*1001
 Romania1001
10 France0112
 India0112
 Serbia0112
 Slovakia0112
14 Belgium0101
 Denmark0101
 Poland0101
 Sweden0101
18 Ukraine0022
19 Czech Republic0011
 Kuwait0011
 Qatar0011
 Russia0011
 Slovenia0011
Totals (23 entries)15151545

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
10 m air rifle
Alin Moldoveanu
 Romania
Niccolò Campriani
 Italy
Gagan Narang
 India
50 m rifle prone
Sergei Martynov
 Belarus WR
Lionel Cox
 Belgium
Rajmond Debevec
 Slovenia
50 m rifle three positions
Niccolò Campriani
 Italy OR
Kim Jong-hyun
 South Korea
Matthew Emmons
 United States
10 m air pistol
Jin Jong-oh
 South Korea
Luca Tesconi
 Italy
Andrija Zlatić
 Serbia
25 m rapid fire pistol
Leuris Pupo
 Cuba
Vijay Kumar
 India
Ding Feng
 China
50 m pistol
Jin Jong-oh
 South Korea
Choi Young-rae
 South Korea
Wang Zhiwei
 China
Skeet
Vincent Hancock
 United States
Anders Golding
 Denmark
Nasser Al-Attiyah
 Qatar
Trap
Giovanni Cernogoraz
 Croatia
Massimo Fabbrizi
 Italy
Fehaid Al-Deehani
 Kuwait
Double trap
Peter Wilson
 Great Britain
Håkan Dahlby
 Sweden
Vasily Mosin
 Russia

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
10 m air rifle
Yi Siling
 China
Sylwia Bogacka
 Poland
Yu Dan
 China
50 m rifle three positions
Jamie Lynn Gray
 United States OR
Ivana Maksimović
 Serbia
Adéla Sýkorová
 Czech Republic
10 m air pistol
Guo Wenjun
 China
Céline Goberville
 France
Olena Kostevych
 Ukraine
25 m pistol
Kim Jang-mi
 South Korea
Chen Ying
 China
Olena Kostevych
 Ukraine
Skeet
Kim Rhode
 United States WR
Wei Ning
 China
Danka Barteková
 Slovakia
Trap
Jessica Rossi
 Italy WR
Zuzana Štefečeková
 Slovakia
Delphine Réau
 France

References

  1. "Shooting". 2011. Archived from the original on 1 September 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
  2. ""Firearms Act 1996 Section 5"". 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
  3. "Olympic Quota Places". International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 25 May 2011.

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