# Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol

Both stages of the women's 25 metre pistol competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics were held on 22 September, and the final was fired at 14:00 Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10). After having lost only one point in the precision stage, Tao Luna set a new Olympic record of 590 points in the qualification round, but lost the final to Mariya Grozdeva, who won on a new Olympic final record of 690.3.

## 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 | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Final records :
| World record | Diana Iorgova (BUL) | 696.2 (594+102.2) | Milan, Italy | 31 May 1994 |
| Olympic record | Li Duihong (CHN) | 687.9 | Atlanta, United States | 26 July 1996 |

## Qualification round

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Prec | Rapid | Total | Notes |
| 1 | Tao Luna | China | 299 | 291 | 590 | Q OR |
| 2 | Mariya Grozdeva | Bulgaria | 293 | 296 | 589 | Q |
| 3 | Michiko Fukushima | Japan | 290 | 295 | 585 | Q |
| 4 | Yulia Sinyak | Belarus | 292 | 292 | 584 | Q |
| 5 | Lalita Yauhleuskaya | Belarus | 291 | 292 | 583 | Q |
| 6 | Cai Yeqing | China | 292 | 290 | 582 | Q |
| 7 | Yoko Inada | Japan | 294 | 287 | 581 | Q |
| 8 | Otryadyn Gündegmaa | Mongolia | 288 | 293 | 581 | Q |
| 9 | Marina Logvinenko | Russia | 287 | 293 | 580 | |
| 9 | Rebecca Snyder | United States | 293 | 287 | 580 | |
| 11 | Yuliya Bondareva | Kazakhstan | 286 | 293 | 579 | |
| 11 | Djana Mata | Albania | 289 | 290 | 579 | |
| 11 | Linda Ryan | Australia | 290 | 289 | 579 | |
| 11 | Nino Salukvadze | Georgia | 290 | 289 | 579 | |
| 15 | Olga Kuznetsova | Russia | 291 | 287 | 578 | |
| 15 | Christine Trefry | Australia | 288 | 290 | 578 | |
| 17 | Jasna Šekarić | FR Yugoslavia | 286 | 291 | 577 | |
| 18 | Carmen Meininger | Germany | 284 | 292 | 576 | |
| 18 | Song Ji-yeong | South Korea | 294 | 282 | 576 | |
| 20 | Cao Ying | China | 280 | 295 | 575 | |
| 20 | Maria Pilar Fernandez | Spain | 291 | 284 | 575 | |
| 20 | Agathi Kassoumi | Greece | 285 | 290 | 575 | |
| 20 | Margarita Tarradell | Cuba | 283 | 292 | 575 | |
| 24 | Janine Bowman | United States | 291 | 283 | 574 | |
| 25 | Boo Soon-hee | South Korea | 286 | 287 | 573 | |
| 25 | Ayşe Kil | Turkey | 283 | 290 | 573 | |
| 25 | Dorjsürengiin Mönkhbayar | Mongolia | 279 | 294 | 573 | |
| 28 | Dina Aspandiyarova | Kazakhstan | 289 | 283 | 572 | |
| 28 | Karen Hansen | Denmark | 291 | 281 | 572 | |
| 28 | Diana Iorgova | Bulgaria | 282 | 290 | 572 | |
| 31 | Irada Ashumova | Azerbaijan | 285 | 284 | 569 | |
| 32 | Adriana Rendón | Colombia | 282 | 286 | 568 | |
| 33 | Monica Rundqvist | Sweden | 291 | 276 | 567 | |
| 33 | Nino Uchadze | Georgia | 282 | 285 | 567 | |
| 35 | Kim Eagles | Canada | 280 | 286 | 566 | |
| 36 | Irina Maharani | Malaysia | 280 | 284 | 564 | |
| 37 | Tania Corrigan | New Zealand | 280 | 283 | 563 | |
| 37 | María Gabriela Franco | Venezuela | 278 | 285 | 563 | |
| 39 | Susanne Meyerhoff | Denmark | 289 | 273 | 562 | |
| 39 | Anke Schumann | Germany | 285 | 277 | 562 | |
| 41 | Luisa Maida | El Salvador | 278 | 279 | 557 | |
| 42 | Ruwani Abeymanne | Sri Lanka | 284 | 269 | 553 | |
OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

## Final

The final consisted of ten precision shots, with a time limit of 75 seconds per shot.
| Rank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total | Notes |
| | Mariya Grozdeva (BUL) | 589 | 101.3 | 690.3 | OR |
| | Tao Luna (CHN) | 590 | 99.8 | 689.8 | |
| | Lalita Yauhleuskaya (BLR) | 583 | 103.0 | 686.0 | |
| 4 | Yulia Siniak (BLR) | 584 | 101.9 | 685.9 | |
| 5 | Michiko Fukushima (JPN) | 585 | 99.8 | 684.8 | |
| 6 | Otryadyn Gündegmaa (MGL) | 581 | 99.9 | 680.9 | |
| 7 | Yoko Inada (JPN) | 581 | 98.6 | 679.6 | |
| 8 | Cai Yeqing (CHN) | 582 | 96.8 | 678.8 | |
OR Olympic record