Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Shooting at the Games of the Olympiad
Venue	Royal Artillery Barracks
Dates	28 July – 6 August

Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions		men		women
50 m rifle prone		men
10 m air rifle		men		women
Pistol
50 m pistol		men
25 m pistol				women
25 m rapid fire pistol		men
10 m air pistol		men		women
Shotgun
Trap		men		women
Double trap		men
Skeet		men		women

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]

Competition schedule

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	3	2	0	5
2	United States	3	0	1	4
3	Italy	2	3	0	5
4	China	2	2	3	7
5	Belarus	1	0	0	1
	Croatia	1	0	0	1
	Cuba	1	0	0	1
	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
	Romania	1	0	0	1
10	France	0	1	1	2
	India	0	1	1	2
	Serbia	0	1	1	2
	Slovakia	0	1	1	2
14	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
18	Ukraine	0	0	2	2
19	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
Total		15	15	15	45

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 metre air pistol	Jin Jong-oh  South Korea	Luca Tesconi  Italy	Andrija Zlatić  Serbia
10 metre air rifle	Alin Moldoveanu  Romania	Niccolo Campriani  Italy	Gagan Narang  India
25 metre rapid fire pistol	Leuris Pupo  Cuba	Vijay Kumar  India	Ding Feng  China
50 metre pistol	Jin Jong-oh  South Korea	Choi Young-rae  South Korea	Wang Zhiwei  China
50 metre rifle prone	Sergei Martynov  Belarus WR	Lionel Cox  Belgium	Rajmond Debevec  Slovenia
50 metre rifle three positions	Niccolo Campriani  Italy OR	Kim Jong-hyun  South Korea	Matthew Emmons  United States
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 metre air pistol	Guo Wenjun  China	Céline Goberville  France	Olena Kostevych  Ukraine
10 metre air rifle	Yi Siling  China	Sylwia Bogacka  Poland	Yu Dan  China
25 metre pistol	Kim Jang-mi  South Korea	Chen Ying  China	Olena Kostevych  Ukraine
50 metre rifle three positions	Jamie Lynn Gray  United States OR	Ivana Maksimović  Serbia	Adéla Sýkorová  Czech Republic
Skeet	Kim Rhode  United States WR	Wei Ning  China	Danka Barteková  Slovakia
Trap	Jessica Rossi  Italy WR	Zuzana Štefečeková  Slovakia	Delphine Réau  France

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