# Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air rifle

Following a recent tradition, the women's 10 metre air rifle competition was the first medal event concluded at the 2000 Summer Olympics. It was held on 16 September, the day after the opening ceremony, with the 40-shot qualification round between 09:00 and 10:15 Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10), and the final round of 10 additional shots at 11:00. Kang Cho-hyun equalled the Olympic record in the qualification round but lost her two-point pre-final lead to Nancy Johnson, who thus won the first Sydney gold medal for the United States.

## Records

The existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification records :
| World record | Valentina Cherkasova (URS) | 399 | Los Angeles, United States | 23 March 1991 |
| Olympic record | Petra Horneber (GER) | 397 | Atlanta, United States | 20 July 1996 |
Final records :
| World record | Gaby Bühlmann (SUI) | 503.5 | Munich, Germany | 24 May 1998 |
| Olympic record | Yeo Kab-soon (KOR) | 498.2 | Barcelona, Spain | 27 July 1992 |

## Qualification round

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Score | Notes |
| 1 | Kang Cho-hyun | South Korea | 397 | Q EOR |
| 2 | Lioubov Galkina | Russia | 395 | Q |
| 3 | Sonja Pfeilschifter | Germany | 395 | Q |
| 4 | Choi Dae-young | South Korea | 395 | Q |
| 5 | Nancy Johnson | United States | 395 | Q |
| 6 | Jayme Dickman | United States | 394 | Q |
| 7 | Anjali Vedpathak | India | 394 | Q |
| 8 | Gao Jing | China | 394 | Q |
| 9 | Lindy Hansen | Norway | 393 | |
| 9 | Monika Haselsberger | Austria | 393 | |
| 9 | Petra Horneber | Germany | 393 | |
| 9 | Mladenka Maleniča | Croatia | 393 | |
| 9 | Olga Pogrebnyak | Belarus | 393 | |
| 9 | Zhao Yinghui | China | 393 | |
| 15 | Aranka Binder | FR Yugoslavia | 392 | |
| 15 | Lessia Leskiv | Ukraine | 392 | |
| 15 | Renata Mauer | Poland | 392 | |
| 15 | Sue McCready | Australia | 392 | |
| 15 | Hiromi Misaki | Japan | 392 | |
| 20 | Alyona Aksyonova | Uzbekistan | 391 | |
| 20 | Batkhuyagyn Zorigt | Mongolia | 391 | |
| 20 | Valérie Bellenoue | France | 391 | |
| 20 | Anni Bisso | Denmark | 391 | |
| 20 | Olga Dovgun | Kazakhstan | 391 | |
| 20 | Aleksandra Ivosev | FR Yugoslavia | 391 | |
| 20 | Vessela Letcheva | Bulgaria | 391 | |
| 20 | Natalija Prednik | Slovenia | 391 | |
| 28 | Gaby Bühlmann | Switzerland | 390 | |
| 28 | Amelia Rosa Fournel | Argentina | 390 | |
| 28 | Yasmine Helmi | Egypt | 390 | |
| 28 | Natallia Kalnysh | Ukraine | 390 | |
| 32 | Sharon Bowes | Canada | 389 | |
| 32 | Tatiana Goldobina | Russia | 389 | |
| 32 | Oksana Kovtonovich | Belarus | 389 | −2p |
| 32 | Yuliya Shakhova | Uzbekistan | 389 | |
| 36 | Eunice Caballero | Cuba | 388 | |
| 36 | Nonka Matova | Bulgaria | 388 | |
| 36 | Marina Pons | Spain | 388 | |
| 36 | Oriana Scheuss | Switzerland | 388 | |
| 36 | Lucie Valová | Czech Republic | 388 | |
| 41 | Lindy Imgrund | Australia | 387 | |
| 41 | Fabienne Pasetti | Monaco | 387 | |
| 43 | Bhagawati Khatri | Nepal | 386 | |
| 44 | Rasheya Jasmin Luis | Philippines | 384 | |
| 44 | Divna Pešić | Macedonia | 384 | |
| 46 | Sabrina Sultana | Bangladesh | 383 | |
| 47 | Malini Wickramasinghe | Sri Lanka | 382 | |
| 48 | Cari Johnson | Canada | 381 | |
| 49 | Marwa Sultan | Egypt | 376 | |
−2p 2 points deducted (scoring protest turned down) – EOR Equalled Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total | Shoot-off |
| | Nancy Johnson (USA) | 395 | 102.7 | 497.7 | |
| | Kang Cho-hyun (KOR) | 397 | 100.5 | 497.5 | |
| | Gao Jing (CHN) | 394 | 103.2 | 497.2 | |
| 4 | Lioubov Galkina (RUS) | 395 | 101.7 | 496.7 | |
| 5 | Sonja Pfeilschifter (GER) | 395 | 100.9 | 495.9 | |
| 6 | Jayme Dickman (USA) | 394 | 101.4 | 495.4 | |
| 7 | Choi Dae-young (KOR) | 395 | 98.1 | 493.1 | 10.4 |
| 8 | Anjali Vedpathak (IND) | 394 | 99.1 | 493.1 | 9.8 |