# Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol

The women's 10 metre air pistol competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 15 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 40 shots with an air pistol at 10 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10.
The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 50 shots was used to determine final ranking.
19-year-old Ukrainian shooter Olena Kostevych came from behind to outplay Serbia and Montenegro's five-time Olympian and a previous Olympic champion Jasna Šekarić in a one-shot tiebreaker 10.2 to 9.4 for the gold medal in air pistol shooting, as a result of their draw in a 10-shot final round for first place with a score of 483.3 points. Meanwhile, the bronze medal was awarded to Bulgaria's Mariya Grozdeva, who beat China's current world record holder Ren Jie in another shoot-off 10.4 to 9.8, after having been tied in the final at 482.3, just one point behind the two medalists.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification records :
| World record | Svetlana Smirnova (RUS) | 393 | Munich, Germany | 23 May 1998 |
| Olympic record | Tao Luna (CHN) | 391 | Sydney, Australia | 17 September 2000 |
Final records :
| World record | Ren Jie (CHN) | 493.5 (390+103.5) | Munich, Germany | 22 May 1999 |
| Olympic record | Olga Klochneva (RUS) | 490.1 (389+101.1) | Atlanta, United States | 21 July 1996 |

## Qualification round

| Rank | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | Notes |
| 1 | Jasna Šekarić | Serbia and Montenegro | 96 | 97 | 96 | 98 | 387 | Q |
| 2 | Irada Ashumova | Azerbaijan | 97 | 94 | 97 | 98 | 386 | Q |
| 3 | Natalia Paderina | Russia | 96 | 97 | 96 | 97 | 386 | Q |
| 4 | Mariya Grozdeva | Bulgaria | 96 | 97 | 96 | 97 | 386 | Q |
| 5 | Munkhbayar Dorjsuren | Germany | 96 | 98 | 94 | 97 | 385 | Q |
| 6 | Ren Jie | China | 95 | 96 | 96 | 97 | 384 | Q |
| 7 | Cornelia Frölich | Switzerland | 95 | 97 | 96 | 96 | 384 | Q |
| 8 | Olena Kostevych | Ukraine | 96 | 96 | 96 | 96 | 384 | Q |
| 9 | Olga Kuznetsova | Russia | 97 | 96 | 96 | 94 | 383 | |
| 10 | Ahn Soo-kyeong | South Korea | 98 | 93 | 94 | 97 | 382 | |
| 10 | Yuliya Alipava | Belarus | 96 | 97 | 94 | 95 | 382 | |
| 10 | Yoko Inada | Japan | 93 | 95 | 98 | 96 | 382 | |
| 10 | Yuliya Korostylova | Ukraine | 99 | 92 | 97 | 94 | 382 | |
| 10 | Nino Salukvadze | Georgia | 96 | 96 | 98 | 92 | 382 | |
| 15 | Mirela Skoko-Ćelić | Croatia | 95 | 97 | 94 | 95 | 381 | |
| 16 | Viktoria Chaika | Belarus | 96 | 92 | 97 | 95 | 380 | |
| 16 | Otryadyn Gündegmaa | Mongolia | 93 | 96 | 96 | 95 | 380 | |
| 16 | Lenka Hyková | Czech Republic | 94 | 97 | 94 | 95 | 380 | |
| 16 | Rebecca Snyder | United States | 96 | 94 | 94 | 96 | 380 | |
| 16 | Claudia Verdicchio | Germany | 92 | 95 | 98 | 95 | 380 | |
| 21 | Lalita Yauhleuskaya | Australia | 92 | 97 | 94 | 96 | 379 | |
| 21 | Dorottya Erdős | Hungary | 95 | 95 | 94 | 95 | 379 | |
| 21 | Susanne Meyerhoff | Denmark | 94 | 97 | 93 | 95 | 379 | |
| 21 | Park Ah-young | South Korea | 93 | 96 | 98 | 92 | 379 | |
| 25 | Michiko Fukushima | Japan | 92 | 97 | 95 | 94 | 378 | |
| 26 | Zsófia Csonka | Hungary | 96 | 91 | 96 | 94 | 377 | |
| 26 | Marina Karaflou | Greece | 94 | 95 | 93 | 95 | 377 | |
| 28 | Nasim Hassanpour | Iran | 94 | 94 | 94 | 94 | 376 | |
| 28 | Linda Ryan | Australia | 94 | 97 | 91 | 94 | 376 | |
| 30 | Elizabeth Callahan | United States | 89 | 98 | 95 | 92 | 374 | |
| 30 | María Pilar Fernández | Spain | 94 | 94 | 93 | 93 | 374 | |
| 30 | Brigitte Roy | France | 95 | 91 | 94 | 94 | 374 | |
| 33 | Galina Belyayeva | Kazakhstan | 96 | 91 | 93 | 93 | 373 | |
| 34 | Lo Ka Kay | Hong Kong | 92 | 95 | 94 | 90 | 371 | |
| 35 | Grettel Barboza | Costa Rica | 94 | 94 | 91 | 89 | 368 | |
| 35 | Amanda Mondol | Colombia | 91 | 93 | 93 | 91 | 368 | |
| 35 | Margarita Tarradell | Cuba | 91 | 94 | 92 | 91 | 368 | |
| 38 | Monika Rieder | Switzerland | 91 | 92 | 91 | 92 | 366 | |
| 38 | Tao Luna | China | 94 | 93 | 89 | 90 | 366 | |
| 40 | Carmen Malo | Ecuador | 92 | 91 | 91 | 91 | 365 | |
| 41 | Francis Gorrin | Venezuela | 91 | 90 | 89 | 88 | 358 | |

## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Qual | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final | Total | 5th place shoot-off | Bronze shoot-off | Gold shoot-off |
| | Olena Kostevych (UKR) | 384 | 10.6 | 9.9 | 10.2 | 9.5 | 10.0 | 9.4 | 9.4 | 10.4 | 10.0 | 9.9 | 99.3 | 483.3 | | | 10.2 |
| | Jasna Šekarić (SCG) | 387 | 10.3 | 8.6 | 9.1 | 8.7 | 8.9 | 10.1 | 9.8 | 10.1 | 10.6 | 10.1 | 96.3 | 483.3 | | | 9.4 |
| | Mariya Grozdeva (BUL) | 386 | 9.5 | 8.2 | 9.9 | 9.8 | 9.8 | 10.1 | 9.3 | 9.7 | 9.1 | 10.9 | 96.3 | 482.3 | | 10.4 | |
| 4 | Ren Jie (CHN) | 384 | 8.9 | 8.2 | 10.7 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 10.5 | 9.0 | 9.4 | 10.1 | 98.3 | 482.3 | | 9.7 | |
| 5 | Natalia Paderina (RUS) | 386 | 9.1 | 9.5 | 10.1 | 9.5 | 10.6 | 10.1 | 9.2 | 8.1 | 10.0 | 9.7 | 95.9 | 481.9 | 10.0 | | |
| 6 | Munkhbayar Dorjsuren (GER) | 385 | 10.1 | 10.6 | 9.7 | 9.5 | 9.0 | 10.1 | 9.7 | 9.3 | 9.5 | 9.4 | 96.9 | 481.9 | 9.3 | | |
| 7 | Cornelia Frölich (SUI) | 384 | 10.3 | 9.7 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 10.4 | 8.6 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 97.5 | 481.5 | | | |
| 8 | Irada Ashumova (AZE) | 386 | 10.4 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 10.5 | 8.5 | 8.3 | 9.9 | 9.6 | 8.4 | 95.4 | 481.4 | | | |