# Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol

The women's 25 metre pistol competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 18 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a pistol at 25 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. The first 30 shots were in the precision stage, with series of 5 shots being shot within 5 minutes. The second set of 30 shots gave shooters 3 seconds to take each shot.
The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 20 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. They were fired in four sets of 5 rapid fire shots.
Bulgaria's Mariya Grozdeva smashed a new Olympic record at 688.2 to defend her title in sport pistol shooting, putting her ahead of 19-year-old eventual silver medalist Lenka Hyková of the Czech Republic (687.8) by just a 0.4-point lead. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan's Irada Ashumova, who had notched the first seed earlier in the prelims, claimed the bronze with 687.3 points.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification records :
| World record | Diana Iorgova (BUL) | 594 | Milan, Italy | 31 May 1994 |
| Olympic record | Tao Luna (CHN) | 590 | Sydney, Australia | 22 September 2000 |
Final records :
| World record | Tao Luna (CHN) | 695.9 (594+101.9) | Munich, Germany | 23 August 2002 |
| Olympic record | Mariya Grozdeva (BUL) | 690.3 (589+101.3) | Sydney, Australia | 22 September 2000 |

## Qualification round

| Rank | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | PR | 4 | 5 | 6 | RF | Total | Notes |
| 1 | Irada Ashumova | Azerbaijan | 99 | 96 | 96 | 291 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 297 | 588 | Q |
| 2 | Lenka Hyková | Czech Republic | 99 | 98 | 97 | 294 | 98 | 99 | 97 | 294 | 588 | Q |
| 3 | Mariya Grozdeva | Bulgaria | 96 | 99 | 99 | 294 | 97 | 97 | 97 | 291 | 585 | Q |
| 4 | Chen Ying | China | 95 | 94 | 98 | 287 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 297 | 584 | Q |
| 5 | Munkhbayar Dorjsuren | Germany | 97 | 95 | 94 | 286 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 297 | 583 | Q |
| 6 | Otryadyn Gündegmaa | Mongolia | 96 | 96 | 98 | 290 | 99 | 96 | 98 | 293 | 583 | Q |
| 7 | Seo Joo-hyung | South Korea | 95 | 95 | 98 | 288 | 99 | 97 | 98 | 294 | 582 | Q |
| 8 | Nino Salukvadze | Georgia | 96 | 95 | 95 | 286 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 294 | 580 | Q |
| 9 | Jasna Šekarić | Serbia and Montenegro | 96 | 96 | 98 | 290 | 99 | 97 | 93 | 289 | 579 | |
| 10 | Cao Ying | China | 95 | 97 | 98 | 290 | 93 | 96 | 99 | 288 | 578 | |
| 10 | Brigitte Roy | France | 95 | 100 | 97 | 292 | 95 | 94 | 97 | 286 | 578 | |
| 10 | Lalita Yauhleuskaya | Australia | 94 | 95 | 97 | 286 | 96 | 98 | 98 | 292 | 578 | |
| 13 | Ahn Soo-kyeong | South Korea | 94 | 96 | 96 | 286 | 96 | 98 | 97 | 291 | 577 | |
| 13 | Galina Belyayeva | Kazakhstan | 96 | 98 | 98 | 292 | 96 | 94 | 95 | 285 | 577 | |
| 13 | María Pilar Fernández | Spain | 96 | 97 | 96 | 289 | 97 | 92 | 99 | 288 | 577 | |
| 13 | Michiko Fukushima | Japan | 96 | 95 | 98 | 289 | 98 | 96 | 94 | 288 | 577 | |
| 13 | Amanda Mondol | Colombia | 97 | 97 | 99 | 293 | 94 | 97 | 93 | 284 | 577 | |
| 18 | Annette Woodward | Australia | 94 | 95 | 95 | 284 | 98 | 95 | 99 | 292 | 576 | |
| 19 | Elizabeth Callahan | United States | 95 | 97 | 94 | 286 | 95 | 98 | 96 | 289 | 575 | |
| 19 | Yukari Konishi | Japan | 94 | 96 | 93 | 283 | 96 | 98 | 98 | 292 | 575 | |
| 21 | Agathi Kassoumi | Greece | 92 | 96 | 95 | 283 | 98 | 95 | 98 | 291 | 574 | |
| 21 | Rebecca Snyder | United States | 97 | 96 | 99 | 292 | 89 | 96 | 97 | 282 | 574 | |
| 23 | Natalia Paderina | Russia | 97 | 97 | 94 | 288 | 96 | 96 | 92 | 284 | 572 | |
| 23 | Claudia Verdicchio | Germany | 97 | 96 | 95 | 288 | 95 | 91 | 98 | 284 | 572 | |
| 25 | Yuliya Alipava | Belarus | 99 | 93 | 94 | 286 | 91 | 96 | 98 | 285 | 571 | |
| 26 | Yuliya Korostylova | Ukraine | 96 | 95 | 92 | 283 | 91 | 97 | 99 | 287 | 570 | |
| 27 | Olena Kostevych | Ukraine | 97 | 92 | 93 | 282 | 95 | 98 | 94 | 287 | 569 | |
| 27 | Mirela Skoko-Ćelić | Croatia | 96 | 97 | 96 | 289 | 95 | 93 | 92 | 280 | 569 | |
| 29 | Monika Rieder | Switzerland | 95 | 99 | 99 | 293 | 88 | 93 | 94 | 275 | 568 | |
| 30 | Zsófia Csonka | Hungary | 95 | 95 | 94 | 284 | 93 | 95 | 95 | 283 | 567 | |
| 31 | Galina Belyayeva | Russia | 96 | 95 | 96 | 287 | 96 | 86 | 97 | 279 | 566 | |
| 32 | Viktoria Chaika | Belarus | 94 | 93 | 98 | 285 | 89 | 94 | 97 | 280 | 565 | |
| 33 | Margarita Tarradell | Cuba | 94 | 93 | 95 | 282 | 93 | 93 | 97 | 283 | 565 | |
| 34 | Dorottya Erdős | Hungary | 93 | 91 | 94 | 278 | 94 | 92 | 93 | 279 | 557 | |
| 34 | Cornelia Frölich | Switzerland | 96 | 93 | 93 | 282 | 96 | 86 | 93 | 275 | 557 | |
| 36 | Carmen Malo | Ecuador | 89 | 91 | 89 | 269 | 95 | 85 | 87 | 267 | 536 | |
| 37 | Francis Gorrin | Venezuela | 93 | 89 | 89 | 271 | 87 | 88 | 88 | 263 | 534 | |
PR — Precision stage; RF — Rapid fire stage

## Final

In 2001, 25 metre pistol final shooting switched to rapid fire style. During this single Olympiad, only two rapid fire series were fired in the finals.
| Rank | Athlete | Qual | 1 | 2 | Final | Total | Notes |
| | Mariya Grozdeva (BUL) | 585 | 51.0 | 52.2 | 103.2 | 688.2 | OR |
| | Lenka Hyková (CZE) | 588 | 48.2 | 51.6 | 99.8 | 687.8 | |
| | Irada Ashumova (AZE) | 588 | 51.0 | 48.3 | 99.3 | 687.3 | |
| 4 | Chen Ying (CHN) | 584 | 50.9 | 51.3 | 102.2 | 686.2 | |
| 5 | Munkhbayar Dorjsuren (GER) | 583 | 51.0 | 50.6 | 101.6 | 684.6 | |
| 6 | Otryadyn Gündegmaa (MGL) | 583 | 51.3 | 49.1 | 100.4 | 683.4 | |
| 7 | Seo Joo-hyung (KOR) | 582 | 47.0 | 51.8 | 98.8 | 680.8 | |
| 8 | Nino Salukvadze (GEO) | 580 | 49.6 | 48.7 | 98.3 | 678.3 | |